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Edward and I quickly made our way to Biology. After his previous comment in the car, I didn't exactly know how to talk to him. So instead, I just kept my eyes to the ground, and I moved quickly to Mr. Banner's classroom. As soon as I entered, I groaned. It was a lab day. Which mean that I would have to talk to Edward during the entire period. Un-fricking-believable.

Mr. Banner quickly explained the purpose of the lab. We were identifying different parts of a frog. Luckily, it was just a diagram of the internal organs, so we didn't actually have to cut into any frogs. I think Mr. Banner was taking precautions after my last reaction.

Unfortunately, I would have to talk to Edward for the entire class period, since we were lab partners. And after the most awkward conversation…

Thankfully, we did the lab quickly, as we usually did, and we spoke as little as possible. However, at the end of the lab, we still had a large amount of time left, and since no one else in the room was done just yet, we were able to talk.

"Bella?" Edward said, quietly, looking at the tabletop. I raised my head

"Yes?" I was kind of dreading the conversation with him. I didn't do well with awkward.

"When I said you were special, I meant it in a way that may have been different than you had originally thought." One of my eyebrows rose. What did he mean? "You see, you are definitely special, especially because of the fact that you are the sole person whose mind I cannot read." My eyes widened. He couldn't read my mind?

"Wait, what? I thought you could read everyone's minds." He nervously ran a hand through his hair.

"So did I. Until I met you. You see, I'm able to figure people out somewhat easily, so that helps me, but since I can't read your mind, a lot of the time, I'm confused about you. You're very unpredictable. Like how you kept my secret after I saved you from the crash. Not many humans would have been so true to their word." I thought that over. He was probably right about that. Some people didn't stick to what they said. "But there's more to it than that, Bella." I sensed awkwardness approaching. "You've become a real friend to my family and I, something that would almost seem impossible, especially since you're dating that dog." My eyes narrowed. Edward noticed. "Sorry. Force of habit. The point I'm trying to make is that you do things, regardless of peoples' opinions. It takes a very strong person to do that." He leaned closer. "A very strong person." I shivered. He was close enough that the icy temperature of his skin gave me a chill. Thankfully I wasn't colder for much longer.

"Bella, I have no clue how you finish Banner's labs so fast! It takes me at least two thirds of the period." Usually I needed someone to save me from Mike. Today Mike was saving me by popping in. While Mike's words were directed at me, he was glaring at Edward, his arms crossed. Edward was trying not to smirk, but was glaring coolly back at Mike. "Cullen." Mike said, acknowledging Edward

"Newton." Edward responded. There were a few seconds of silence before Mike took a stool nearby and sat down next to me. He scooted close to me, and before I knew it, Edward was sitting closer to me too. Great. Hopefully I could prevent the imminent bloodshed that was likely to occur if Mike and Edward exchanged more words.

"So Bella," Mike said, ignoring Edward completely. "What did you think of the lab? I had a lot of problems with it. How about you?" Edward rolled his eyes

"Obviously we didn't have that much of a problem with it seeing as we finished first." Came Edward's snotty reply. Mike shot him a glance. I just shook my head. There was fifteen minutes left. I really hoped that they wouldn't start a mini war before the period ended. They bickered slightly, and I just calmed them down whenever they started getting a little bit over the top. Finally the period ended, and Mike stormed off to Gym, while Edward snorted at his retreating figure.

"Idiot. He didn't even wait to walk with you to Gym." I rolled my eyes.

"I can't imagine why." Edward shrugged.

"No matter. I'll walk you there myself. Since your guard dog didn't." Lovely. We walked in the general vicinity of the Gym, and suddenly he stopped. "Bella, you really are special you know. In more ways than you think." He reached to push a strand of hair out of my face. He glanced down at me and then turned around and walked away, a smirk on his face. It was the smirk that did it. I stalked off to Gym, infuriated. I was suddenly good at sports again. We were playing Tennis today, so each ball was Edward's head. Again.

Who was he to touch me like I was his own little trophy? And who was he to think that he could do whatever he wanted? Well he couldn't. Since Jake might overreact, I would go to Alice about it. Maybe she could help Edward learn to keep his hands to himself. Directly after Gym, Alice was waiting for me outside the doorway. I looked at her, confused as to why she was already there.

"I had a vision. You wanted to talk?" I nodded.

"Please tell me that Edward is not getting social tips from Emmett still." She grimaced, I groaned. "Alice, he acts like a total pig when he takes Emmett's advice. As his 'sister', can't you do anything to prevent him from doing that?" She tapped a finger to her chin.

"Actually, I probably could talk to him about that. He's getting annoying at home a bit too." I smiled; less irritated at him I reached to give her a hug.

"Thanks Alice." She smiled

"No problem Bella! After all, what are friends for?" I smiled. She hugged me tighter, and then let go. "But Bella, I have to get going. Ride home, you know the drill. I nodded and waved off to her as I went out to my own truck. When I got home, I just sat down and did all my homework. Then I checked my email, and wrote back to my awaiting mother. I was still a bit tired from the bonfire though, even though I had gotten so much extra sleep. I set my alarm to go off in an hour, so I could go over to the Blacks and make dinner, or they could come over, and I wouldn't be asleep.

The alarm clock went off before I knew it, and I called Charlie. He told me that Billy and Jake were coming over here tonight, so I just made some fish from the mountain we had acquired in the past weeks. I was wondering if we should just open up a fish market. Billy and Charlie would be reeling the money in. I had just started to cook the potatoes for mashed potatoes when the doorbell rang, which was peculiar. Billy always came in, rather than knocking. He was family, so there really was no need to knock in the first place. So. I had no clue who was at the door. I went to it quickly, and couldn't believe what I saw.