I woke up to the sound of Charlie's police cruiser leaving at around 7 am. I looked around. Edward was gone, probably home to change his clothes and get his car. I smiled. Remembering the last night.
He said 'soon'.
I jumped in the shower, and then got dressed, throwing on some old jeans and a flannel shirt. I stumbled down the stairs into the kitchen. Grabbing a granola bar and a glass of orange juice, I sat down at the table waiting for Edward to come pick me up for school.
Just then the doorbell rang. I skipped over to the door, struggling with the deadbolt for a moment. I opened the door to see Edwards's perfection smiling at me.
"Hi," I breathed. He took my hand and we walked over to his car.
I got into the front seat. Edward looked at me, smiling.
"You know how you hate Trig?" he asked once we were on the road.
"Yeah?" I said suspiciously.
"Well how would you feel if I could have us both transferred into a Differentiation class instead?" he said raising an eyebrow.
"No way!" I exclaimed... "That would be awesome! How?"
"Well I pulled a few strings… so are you up for it?"
"Eh yeah?" I said, rolling my eyes. "When do I get to change?"
"Today, if you want? Just go pick up a timetable at the front office and tell them you're exchanging. They already know." he grinned.
He pulled up into the student lot. Alice, of course, was waiting for us.
"Hi guys!" she said excitedly. "Excited about your new class? Called and transferred as soon as I saw you were moving! It's going to be so cool to be in class with you and Edward!"
"Um yeah, I can't wait," I slowly. I spotted Mr. Varner walking from his car. I decided that I should probably inform him that I was leaving his class.
"Good idea," said Alice approvingly. "He would have been wondering where you were today!"
"I'll come too, since I'm moving as well!" said Edward.
"Fine I'll come too, if you're going to insist…" Alice said again.
God, I don't know how I'm going to stand it spending a whole eternity with the fortune teller and the mind reader having all of these weird half conversations all of the time…
I walked up to Varner. I told him, and he seemed surprisingly happy to hear my news. I was a bit insulted, actually. When he left, Alice burst out laughing.
"Il était de bonne humeur. Sa femme lui avait probablement donné quelques preuves d'amour la nuit précédente*!" she said, and dissolved into giggles again. Edward raised his eyebrows.
"Bang on, Alice, you're actually right!" and he burst out laughing as well.
"Erm, hello? Care to share your little joke?" I said, annoyed. "Not everyone here is fluent in Flemish, you know!"
"Bella, Bella, Bella, firstly, it's French, and secondly it's not suitable for your virgin ears!" Alice said. I knew she was joking when she laughed again, but I blushed anyway.
"But you told Edward, and last I checked…" I began mumbling, but I was cut off by the sound of Jasper's howling laughter behind us. I glanced over at Edward. He wasn't smiling anymore… he was glaring at Jasper, who wound his arm around Alice's slender frame. I didn't even want to know what either of them was thinking.
"Anyways, Edward, I have to go get my schedule. I'll see you in class?" I said, changing the subject. Edward's expression softened.
"Okay, love, I'll see you then," he said, kissing my head, and then walked away with Alice and Jasper.
I walked into the office to get my new timetable. As I pushed open the door, I was stunned to see who was standing at the desk chatting to the receptionist. I picked up in the gist of the conversation.
"…so your first class is History. You take a left turn at the main building, and continue on until you see the…"
Leah Clearwater was a new student at Forks High? I would recognise her tall, muscular body, her dark russet shin and long silky black hair even from behind. Why was she transferring from the school on the Rez? She was in her final year, what's the point of changing schools this late in the term?
After the initial shock of seeing Leah here of all people, I started to notice that she looked funny.
She wasn't wearing her typical Leah attire… she wore a long white t-shirt dress clenched with a wide belt at the waist, and black leggings instead of her usual jeans-and-t-shirt combo. Wow, she must be re-inventing herself, I thought. Good for her. It must be hard for her, with the recent death of her father and being the only female werewolf in her pack…
Suddenly she turned around. I gasped when I saw her face.
"Oh and Vivian?" Ms. Cope said to the girl who was obviously not Leah. "Give my best luck to your family!"
"Thank you, miss, I will." The tall girl said.
She had the native-American looks, but her face was different to Leah's.
Her expression was harsh. She had high cheekbones, and a strong jaw line. She had all of the typical Native American features, dark skin, dark hair, defined bone structure… but not the dark eyes. Her eyes were a really weird colour… almost black at the edge of the iris, and then just at the pupil they were a really light green, almost white. It struck me as odd; her eyes reminded me of chocolate-chip mint ice-cream.
She glanced over in my direction and strode past me out of the office building.
I walked up to the desk.
"I'm here to pick up my new timetable, and to inform you that I'm changing from Trig to Differentiation?" I said to Ms Cope. She smiled warmly at me.
"Here you go, dear. And I already have you registered. Mr. Hanley knows you're joining his class this afternoon. Have you met our newest students? The Romulans?" she asked kindly. I shook my head. "Well they seem like a lovely bunch of kids. A bit rowdy, mind…" she trailed off, checking something on her computer. "Well, I hope you enjoy your new class, honey. Have a nice day!"
I walked out to building four, where I had my first class, biology. I took a seat beside Edward, as usual.
"Edward, I just thought one of the new kids was Leah Clearwater!" I whispered. "I was about to say hi, but then I was like not her! That could have been embarrassing!"
"That must be the Native American Romulan girl. Alice thought it was Leah, too, when she saw her in a vision, but then she remembered that she couldn't see wolves," he rolled his eyes. "Typical fluffy headed Alice,"
I noticed that a new student was talking to Mr. Banner at his desk. He was obviously signing the slip that had to be signed by every teacher on a new students first day. I remembered my first day, in this very class, when I first saw Edward. Sure, he was fighting the urge not to rip my throat out, but it was still the day that my life changed forever. I smiled fondly at Edward. He grinned back at me, and leaned in to whisper in my ear.
"This new guy is pretty nervous. His sister was supposed to be in this class with him, but she's sick today, so he has to face it alone. He's dreading this, he hates biology,"
It was always nice to have Edward around, to give me an in-depth reading of a person's inner workings. From the looks of this boy, I would have never guessed that he was nervous. He had a certain dominant air about him; the way he held his tall body said it all. He had longish, flicky dark blonde hair, and a face that would be considered handsome by anyone's standards. Anyone's but mine, of course, no one would ever compare to Edward for me. I glanced over to where Lauren was sitting. She was re-applying a thick, sludgy lip-gloss, and I could see her in my mind rushing off to the bathrooms after class to stuff her bra with toilet paper. Edward looked over as well, and grinned, so she must be thinking something absurd.
"Students," Mr Banner said, while stacking a pile of papers. "This is Dexter Romulan. You can take a seat right here, Dexter, and open your textbook to page 94." he said gesturing to a desk in the middle of the room.
The class passed uneventfully.
Soon it was time for lunch. I walked to the cafeteria with Edward and Alice. Alice was chatting animatedly about a makeover that she was planning for me. I was half listening, half obsessing over Edward's soon.
I was still stunned... it was so unlike Edward...
As soon as I walked into the cafeteria, I had extreme déjà vu of my first day at Forks High, in the cafeteria.
There we four of them this time. No way nearly as stunning as the Cullen's had been that first day, but they were attractive enough.
The Romulans.
I recognised Vivian, the tall Native American girl, and Dexter, the blonde floppy haired guy from biology. The other two were also boys, although they looked a collage-going age. One was tall, dark, and Latino. His jet-black hair hung loosely around his face. His muscles were visible under his tight grey t-shirt, and he was eating an apple while saying something to Gala, who was smiling and nodding. The other boy was tall, and also muscular, yet lanky. He had dark brown hair which was hanging in front of his eyes. He had a very light natural tan and, was looking very bored, like the concept of school bored him to death. He raked his fingers through his hair and looked up at the roof of the cafeteria. I noticed his eyes were very dark in colour, and menacing.
"Oh the new kids!" Alice squealed. "Look! Everyone has something new to stare at!"
It was true. Everyone in the room was gawking at the four newcomers, instead of at the beautiful vampires.
"Lauren and Jessica are going to approach them in thirty seconds. Let's sit down and get front row seats to the show!" Alice squeaked. She skidded off towards our table. Edward rolled his eyes.
"Nothing interesting is going to happen, Bella. Alice is just excited that there's a new family in town with as many adopted children as us, so we'll seem more normal. And I don't think they appreciate being stared at; the brown haired boy especially; he's very paranoid at the moment!" he chuckled and placed items of food on my tray.
We went back to sit at our table. As usual, Rosalie was ignoring me, Emmett was playing with his food, and Jasper was looking at Alice with utter devotion.
Edward was chatting to Emmett about a new hunting spot while I ate. I had that feeling that someone was watching me.
I glanced behind me, to see Dexter Romulan looking at me with the most penetrating eyes that I had ever seen. They were so light that they looked nearly white, but must have been a light grey. Vivian was staring at me as well, with her strange chocolate-chip mint ice-cream eyes. When they saw me looking, Vivian looked at Dexter and said something, and he smiled and returned to looking at his food.
I looked over at Edward. He looking was at me with a soft expression.
"What was she saying to Dexter?" I asked. Why was he laughing at me?
"He was thinking that you had nice hair, and then when you looked at him that you had beautiful eyes. The girl told him to stop staring or I might beat him up," he chuckled.
"Wait, which ones were the ones who were arrested by Charlie?" I asked.
"The brown haired boy and the Latino boy," Alice piped up. "They were fighting. Someone called the cops. They got off with a warning,"
"Oh," I said, and returned to eating my pizza. My mind wandered to my conversation with Edward last night… and how I was going to make a special effort to look good tonight, so hopefully his soon will become a now. I smiled happily when the bell went, and walked off to class with Edward in a daze, planning out exactly what I was going to try tonight.
I wasn't watching where I was going, so it came as an utter shock to me when I bumped into someone, and not only dropped all of my books, but also knocked all of theirs. If it wasn't for Edward catching me, I would have fallen flat on my ass. I looked up to see a very bewildered looking Christian Batons.
"I'm… I'm so sorry!" I stuttered, blushing violently. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going, and I…"
"It's okay," he said with a slight Californian accent. "I should have been watching where I was going,"
I looked at him. His eyes weren't grey as I had thought earlier, but light baby blue speckled with the same mint-ice cream colour as Vivian. A very unusual colour, almost hypnotising...
Edward bent down to pick up my books, and so did Dexter, breaking his spell over me. Edward had my books stacked in a neat pile before Dexter even reached the ground. He stacked his own books sloppily and grabbed them. He stood up.
"Dexter Romulan," he said, reaching his hand out to me to shake, smiling hugely. Wow, he had a big mouth, but not in an unattractive way. Just a friendly way.
"Bella Swan," I replied, taking his hand. "and this is Edward Cullen, my boyfriend." I added the last part to reassure Edward.
"Nice to meet you both. Well I have to run off to class, I wouldn't want no tardy slips on my first day now, would I, darlin?" he said, and sauntered down the hallways.
Edward looked at me and grinned. "I like him," he said. "He's the only male in this school that decided to not hit on you, love!"
"Why? What do the other boys think?" I asked. What the hell were they thinking?
"Never mind, love, let's get to class," he dodged.
We arrived in English, but all through the class I couldn't concentrate. All I could think about was about tonight, and how I might just finally get what I want…