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Chapter 2: Introductions

When I went to school the next day, things were okay. School continued on like it normally did, but when it came time for Biology, Edward wasn't there. It was like that for a while; I sat alone in Biology without a partner. And every day at lunch, I'd glance over at the Cullen table to see if he came back. I felt some desire to talk to him, confront him, but he was never at school.

The next week, things changed. People were talking and gossiping more that I'd seen them before. I sat down at lunch with Mike, Tyler, Lauren, Jessica, and Angela and took slight nibbles of the food off my tray. I looked over at the Cullen table like I've done for a while now, but what I saw was not what I had expected. Instead of four at the table, there were five. Edward had come back. He turned and looked me in the eyes; I turned and looked away.

"Edward Cullen is staring at you," Jessica whispered in my ear.

"Stop looking at him," I hissed at her.

She snickered at me before looking away and turning her attention to Mike. I just sat there eating, until the bell rang. I headed off to Biology.

I sat down in my seat as Mr. Banner was walking around the room, passing out equipment to each table. I heard the chair next to me move, but I focused on doodling in my notebook.

"Hello," said a musical voice coming from my left.

I looked up from my doodling. I was surprised that he was speaking to me, especially because doing so was testing his control over his bloodlust.

"My name is Edward Cullen," he continued. "I didn't have a chance to introduce myself last week. You must be Bella Swan."

"How do you know my name?" I asked him. I knew he had super-hearing and all, but I was curious to know what his answer would be.

"Oh, I think everyone here knows your name. The entire town has been waiting for you to come."

"No," I said. I knew he wasn't completely answering my question. "I meant why did you call be Bella?"

"Do you prefer Isabella?"

"No, Bella's fine," I said as I looked away. He kept dodging the question. I knew he wasn't going to give me a true answer. Luckily, Mr. Banner started class at that moment and explained the assignment. We started working on the lab with our partners.

"Ladies first, partner?" Edward asked. "Or I could start if you want."

"No," I answered. "I'll go first."

"Prophase," I said, completely confident. Although I hadn't been to muggle school before, I did study quite a bit before my trip. I mentally reminded myself to thank Hermione for all those lessons.

"Do you mind if I look?" he asked. He took a look. I began to wonder if he doubted my intelligence.

"Prophase," he agreed, writing the answer down on the worksheet. He switched the slides.

"Anaphase," he said as he wrote it down.

"Can I take a look?" I asked. I knew he probably was right and all; he's probably been to school enough times already. I took a look anyway. He was right.

"Can you hand me slide three?" I asked, not bothering to look up. He gave me the slide and I could feel his cold hand brush against mine; it shocked me. I guess it's a vampire thing.

"Interphase," I said after a quick peek at the microscope. We continued like this until we finished the worksheet. I looked around the classroom. We were the first ones finished. That may have to do with the fact that my partner was a vampire, but I ignored that fact. I took a quick look at Edward. His eyes were a bright gold. They were nothing like the coal-black eyes that I had seen last week. Weren't vampires supposed to have red eyes?

"Did you get contacts?" I asked. That was the only explanation I had for his strange eye color. Contacts, I mused, as if vampires ever needed them with their perfect eyesight.

"No," he answered. He seemed puzzled by my question.

"Oh. I thought there was something different about your eyes today," I whispered. He was either lying, or there was something else that caused his strange eye color. Before I could ask any more questions, Mr. Banner came to our table to see why we weren't working on the lab. He looked over and saw our completed worksheet, then checked the answers.

"Edward, didn't you think Isabella should get a chance to use the microscope?" Mr. Banner asked. How dare he think that I didn't do anything!

"Bella," Edward corrected. "She identified three of the five."

Mr. Banner looked at me and asked. "Have you done this lab before?"

"Yes, but not with onion root," I answered. I'd done the lab before with Hermione.

Mr. Banner nodded and left.

"It's too bad about the snow isn't it?" I heard Edward ask. I looked at him. Was he trying to make a conversation?

"Are you really asking me about the weather?" I asked.

"I guess I am."

"Well, I guess not really. I mean I'm fine with the cold and wet, but there's too much of it here at Forks."

"Forks must be a difficult place for you to live." He had no idea.

"It is."

"Then why'd you come here?" No one asked me that yet. I wasn't expecting anyone to ask that.

"My family back home thought that I should spend some time with Charlie."

"So they sent you here?"

"I guess that's pretty much it. So that's all," I said, irrated. Where all vampires this nosy?

"Am I annoying you?"

"No. I'm more annoyed with myself. My family says that I so easy to read. I'm an open book."

"On the contrary, I find you very hard to read."

"You must be a good reader then, Edward."

"Usually," he said. Before I could respond, the bell rang. I headed off to gym. Nothing particularly interesting happened then, unless you count a pestering little dog by the name of Mike Newton as interesting. When gym was over, I headed to my car and drove home. I went home, did my homework, made dinner, ate, and left some food in the microwave for Charlie. I went up to my bed and soon I was asleep.