B.P.O.V
Within 2 minutes I was entering the classroom and getting myself settled for 4th period Drama with Ms Goldstein.
"Today we are going to begin working on scenes from the classic romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Cullen. Swan. I'd like the two of you to come up the front and give an example of a cold reading to the rest of the class."
I had to stop myself from choking. Could this day get any worse?
Maybe Ms Goldstein will choose a scene that can explore the realm of cross gendering in acting and hopefully allowing me to kill whomever Edward's character is. If Only.
"I'd like you to play traditional gender roles, so Edward you will take on the role of Romeo and Isabella you will play Juliet'
Urgh. That's right, how could I forget about Ms Goldstein's adamant use of my full first name.
"Here are photocopies of the scene. I would like you to read from the top of Romeo's monologue"
"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"
Of course, it didn't come as much of a surprise that Edward was unbelievable good at acting, even during a cold reading, it was practically impossible not to get sucked into the words spoken from his mouth and the depth in his eyes as he portrayed the script. He was a tool, a major one at that, but unfortunately he was a tool who was talented.
"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"
I could see it happening in slow motion, but there was nothing I could do because before I knew it Edward captured my lips with his own soft ones and strangely, only a very small part of me wanted to push him away. The rest was enjoying his embrace was too much, soaking in the sparks flying between our bodies.
Come on Bella! Get a grip! Is this not the arrogant self-centred player that you have always loathed? Just because he has mesmerising emerald green eyes, or bronze tousled hair that can look like spun gold in the sunlight or absolutely flawless skin or a figure that looks like it's been chisel….. WAIT! STOP!
After what would be have to be my most conflicted 10 seconds in my entire life, Edward pulled away I found myself staring into his eyes that seemed to sparkle with the amusement his crooked smile portrayed.
"Ay Me!" I whispered.
RINNNNNG!
Quickly gathering my stuff and avoiding everyone in the room, especially Edward Cullen, I rushed out of the nearest exit knowing that I just HAD to talk to Alice and Rose about this newest development.
I was so engulfed in my own thoughts that when an arm grabbed on to my shoulder, halting my progress to our meeting spot, I had to keep myself from jumping a foot into the air.
Turning around I was face to face with Edward. I could always run away, but unfortunately I know the annoying bastard would just follow me.
"Enjoy; Bella?" He said smugly
"I've had better" I stiffly responded
The smug smile was instantly wiped from his face as his eyes opened wide in shock.
"What could you mean by that? What could possibly be better than locking lips with me; the one and only Edward Cullen?"
This is where I really wish I could do that eyebrow raising trick.
"Well. Let's see. I guess locking lips with a toad would be. Although when I really think about it, there's not much difference" I ended with a snigger and continued on to the picnic table that Alice, Rose and I had nominated as our meeting spot.
Eyes popped open and Jaws dropped when I spilt the goss to my sisters and absolute best friends. Unfortunately the Bell seems to have this uncanny ability to have absolutely shocking timing and before anything more could be said we were off to our last class of the day, History.
**! I halted in my stride. History is shared with all of the Cullen's. Triple Urgh! I resumed my stride when I reminded myself that I at least had Rose and Alice by my side and that we would be going through it together.
The whole lesson was torture. I don't know what the Cullen boy's had eaten for breakfast or whatever, but they've all suddenly decided it would be fun to annoyingly flirt with Rose, Alice and I. Edward felt the need to keep poking me with his pencil all lesson with a se…. irritating smirk plastered on his face; Jasper kept turning around a talking to Alice and telling her all these weird facts about the subject we were currently studying, The American Civil war. Emmet had decided to go with the tactic of constantly kicking Rose playfully. Where were we? Kindergarten?
Finally the bell released us from this Hell and we took no time in rushing to our cars and speeding home as quickly as possible in order to get as far from those jerks as we could, although some part of me seems to like being around Edward; weird and creepy, I know.
Jan 26th, 11:45pm
NEXT DAY
After another long and tiring day of school it was finally about 9.00 pm and I was heading downstairs, after having changed into my silky Pj's that had been made specifically for was, when I saw Alice and Rose seated on the couch absolutely fuming. I was wondering what could have gotten them so angry when I notice the other occupants in the room.
What the hell were the Cullen's doing in OUR lounge room?
"What are they doing here?" I turned around asking my Dad.
"Sit Down" was all he said and I as I went to, I saw Carlisle and instantly knew that whatever it was that was going on could not be good.
"Well…?" I said to break the silence
Charlie and Carlisle shared a look, obviously deciding that Charlie will be the one to break the news.
"You've all been engaged since birth" he blurted out.
I sat there blinking, frozen speechless.
"WHAT!" We all shouted
Carlisle had to yell at us to shut up as we had all begun talking over each other at how we could not be engaged to the other and all the reasons why.
"You see Charlie and I thought that we should bring our companies together" Carlisle explained
"To make us more powerful" Dad finished.
I called Charlie over to me and started furiously whispering how unfair this situation was and how unbelievable he was for bringing this on us. He just gave me an apologetic face and said 'Sorry' with a finality that meant there would be no convincing him this was a bad idea.
Seeing I was finished with my little tirade, Carlisle spoke up.
"Boys, you get to choose will be your fiancé"
The grins plastered on their faces made me feel sick.
After inspecting each of us, which made me feel even MORE nauseous, if that's even possible, Emmet spoke up.
"I choose Rosalie"
Alice and I looked at her with sympathetic expressions as she stiffened up like a statue
Then Jasper decided to pick Alice who had to pick her jaw up after it dropped to the floor, leaving with me with the seemingly pleased Edward.
Now when I say pleased, I mean he had that whole 'Cat ate the Canary' expression adhered to his face.
"Ok… so it's settled then." Charlie said, breaking the tension in the room.
"Now that you have your prospective partners you will be given 3 months alone time to get to know each other and this time the girls will get to choose"
I could feel the smile growing on my face, identical to Alice and Rose's. It was only fair. They got to choose
who they wanted to be partnered with so we get to decide which destination the 3 month torture session will take place in.
Piping up I decided to ask a rather important question.
"When do we leave?"
"Tomorrow, 9:00 am sharp" was the reply I got from Charlie.
We all groaned in response. Not only do we have to spend three long hellish months with these boys, but we have to get up early on a weekend to do so?
Not. Fair.
"Charlie, let's give them some alone time"
With that, Charlie and Carlisle left the room so the rest of us could come to terms with the horrible news that had been thrown onto us like a bucket of ice cold water.
"Aren't you guys happy with your impeccably handsome and completely awesome new fiancés?" Edward queried in a
cocky voice, as if the idea was completely absurd.
It seemed that was the last little detail to push me completely off the edge regarding this whole situation. I moved over to where he stood, placed my hands on his chest and watched his smirk fall off his face as I pushed him so hard that he fell backwards onto the couch. Spinning on my heel I stormed out of the room letting out a shouted groan of frustration.
"Who would want a toad like YOU for a fiancé?"
I heard Edward chuckle before I slammed the door to my room shut.
It was 10 minutes before Rose and Alice came and knocked on my bedroom door, letting their selves in.
It seems I wasn't the only one fuming with anger.
An hour later we had managed to come up with a plan and had chosen our destination; Hawaii. We were going to make the most out of this awful situation our Daddy Dearest got us into.
This is going to be a HELL of a lot of fun.