Urgh, so sorry that I didn't update for a while guys! I'm busy busy busy, but I'll try to write more this week, I promise! Love you guys, as usual!
The rest of the evening went ridiculously fast. They say that time flies when you're having fun, but when you're having the time of your life, it doesn't just fly; it evaporates. We said goodbye quietly and thoughtfully with a few lovely kisses thrown in. As we parted, I rested in his arms and breathed in his scent, as per usual and then said goodbye.
I went to bed after my shower with an almost sense of innate serenity. I had had a wonderful day, and tomorrow would be the last day of the week that I'd have to see Nicole. Well, at least until after the weekend. Still, I'd take what I could get. I went into my room, and shut the door like always. I went to bed and snuggled beneath the covers, wrapping them around myself. I felt myself quickly drifting to sleep, and felt secure and safe, feeling arms around me, as usual. I awoke earlier than usual in the morning, and I sat up in my bed, and rubbed my eyes and looked around the room until I saw something peculiar. My door was open.
I shook my head, uncertain as to why it was open, seeing as I closed it every night, and I had been positive that I had shut it. The Cullens never disturbed me at night, besides Alice's intrusions in the mornings to ready me for the schoolday. But she was nowhere to be seen; which was odd for her. I heard slight noise coming from downstairs, and I crept as silently as possible from my room. I could hear the voice of Esme and Carlisle slightly scolding someone, but as I strained to listen, I crept further down the hall. I hit a creaky floorboard and winced.
The only reason that they must have not heard me moving was probably just because they were caught up in whatever they were discussing. However, even if that had been overlooked, a squeak was not likely to be. However, the speaking from downstairs didn't seem to have stopped at all, so I relaxed slightly. Alice's door opened, and I saw her standing in the doorway, with her arms folded. She ran over to me silently, avoiding the cursed floorboard. She motioned to go back into my room with her. When we got inside and shut the door, I tried to speak, but she merely put a finger to her lips, and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and began writing on it on my night table.
'Eavesdropping isn't a nice habit for young ladies to have.' She wrote with a smirk, offering the pen to me.
'Oh please.' I wrote. 'Like you or I abide to that rule. What are they talking about?' She hesitated and bit her lip and grudgingly took the pen from me.
'Something that he did' I rolled my eyes.
'I gathered. Anything in particular?' I wrote sarcastically. She hesitated yet again.
'Mom and Dad caught him doing something and they're reprimanding him about it. Don't worry.' She wrote, trying to close the subject without telling me exactly what was going on. That didn't work so well for me. I sent her a look and crossed my arms. She sighed. 'Don't worry about it, seriously.' She wrote. 'Its fine.' I rolled my eyes but let it drop. If she was going to tell me, she would have already. As we finished writing, she then took the paper, and crumpled it up into a ball and threw it into small glass bowl in my room. She tossed a lit match in the glass bowl and let the paper burn. Obviously there was more going on than I was supposed to know. I sighed, and as the paper slowly burned to ashes, Alice began picking out my clothes.
In the end, I was wearing pink. Yes, that's right, pink. I wore a baby pink blouse with flouncy short sleeves and long blue jeans and baby pink ballet flats. I doubted that there was ever a time where I had felt more like a Barbie than right now. If that wasn't enough, she did my hair to a cute slightly pulled up hairdo that still had a lot of my hair down, and did my makeup. I grimaced. It was so…pink. She laughed as I complained and when we finally finished, we went to school with Edward driving in silence. Alice chattered the ride away as usual, but I noted there was a tone of uncomfortableness in the air.
When we arrived, we shuffled into the school and chatted normally until the bell rang for the first class. This morning, Edward decided to walk me to class, where Nicole awaited. I groaned at the thought of going to class.
"Ugh, I just don't want to deal with her today," I complained to Edward as we walked to first period. He laughed softly. "It's not funny" I whined, "She's annoying." His laughter grew louder.
"If you hate it that much, why don't you skip school for today?" he asked gently. I scoffed.
"And do what?" I asked, "Go play in Forks unprotected?" He rolled his eyes.
"We could go driving or something. I'm sure missing a day of Biology won't be the end of the world." I stopped in the hall.
"Seriously?" I asked. "You wouldn't mind?" He gave me a sarcastic glance.
"It's not like I haven't learned it all before," He reminded me. "Plus, if I minded, would I be offering?" I thought about that for a second.
"Okay," I said. "Let's do it then. Besides, it's Friday. We're due for a day off." He nodded and laughed. We turned around and went straight to the Volvo. As we drove out of the school parking lot, he randomly went on the highway.
"So. Where to?" He asked, turning to me, his eyes completely off of the road. It was still a bit scary for me to be in the same car as someone who didn't need to see in order to drive.
"Well, you know this place better than I," I said truthfully. "So it's up to you I guess." He nodded.
"Let's see where we feel like going." As it turned out, we felt like going to the movie theater in Port Angeles. We grabbed tickets for the newest horror flick, not really caring what it was about. As we took our seats in the empty theater, the movie started. The first scene? A vampire lunging for his newest victim, which just happened to be a pretty blond girl. I turned to Edward and laughed.
"I don't bite, I swear." He whispered, and I laughed. The movie was horrible. We spent most of it making fun of the characters and just making fun of the plotline in general. As we got out of the movie, I was in tears because I was laughing so hard. Edward kept making jokes that were accurate and blindingly funny. He actually had to help me stand up because I was laughing so hard that I couldn't stand up properly. As we made our way into the Volvo, he and I stopped chortling long enough to decide on our next destination.
"Where to next?" He asked.
"How about some food?" I asked. I was slightly hungry, after that ridiculous feat of a movie.
"Excellent idea," he said, starting the car. "I know just the place." He backed out of his parking space and we began to drive off again. We ended up at a little Italian restaurant called La Bella Italia. It looked small and cozy, which was perfect. I wasn't in the mood for any over the top food, but I wasn't exactly in the mood for fast food either. We walked in, and were quickly seated.