A/N: Chapter 4, enjoy :)

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Chapter Four

BPOV

Eventually, it's Monday, and I don't see Alice all day until lunch. She sits with us as usual, and I try not to let Saturday's realization too obvious to everyone. It's hard though, since all I want to do is kiss her and declare my love for her.

Okay maybe not love, but I definitely have a thing for her. I try to look out for signs that she might possibly feel the same way for me, but I have no idea how someone can tell such things.

Angela keeps giving me suggestive looks and then a smirk whenever I'd blush in response, and I see Alice watching us silently a few times. I eventually have to kick Angela's shin under the table to make her stop with the looks.

When lunch ends, Alice looks irritated and doesn't speak to Angela or me the whole way to my Biology class.

"See ya later babes," Angela says, smacking my behind as she walks past us to her French class.

"Bye," I reply with a smile that drops when I hear something like growling coming from Alice. I glance at her but she keeps her glaring eyes trained on Angela's back. "See you in Gym Ali," I say in an attempt to get her attention.

She gives me a kurt nod without looking at me and goes to her class which is next to mine.

Everyone is chatting when I enter the room, some tossing balls of paper back and forth between each other and I move to sit next to Ben who has his nose stuck in a comic book. When did all these people get here? The bell signaling the end of lunch rang just two minutes ago.

When Mr. Banner enters the room, everyone scrambles to take a seat. He just shakes his head and goes to his desk, setting his briefcase down on the desk before moving to the front of the class.

"Today, I'll be moving people around, mostly to reduce the noise level, but also for a few of you who need help from their peers with certain topics or in-class assignments. If I call your name, you sit at the seat that I show you..." There are a few groans at having assigned seating, but no one says anything out right. I drown out the names of the other people, until I realize that I would be sitting next to Edward.

"…Stevens, you sit next to Crowley. Swan, you sit here next to Cullen. Stanley, you'll sit..." I stop listening again, catching my new lab partner's eye briefly. Alice spoke about him every now and then, but never really told me much. He seems like a nice enough guy and like every other member of Alice's family, he's very beautiful, er…handsome. Alice still takes the cake though.

I move to the seat Mr. Banner pointed out then turn to face Edward who has also sat down, only to find him glaring at me with frustration. I cringe back, facing the front of the room. I can still feel his eyes burning a hole into the side of my head.

The class takes forever, and that is probably thanks to Edward. I'm a little more than confused the whole time, not to mention creeped out. When the bell finally rings, I'm prepared to make a mad dash out of the classroom, but he beats me to the punch. Well, good riddance.

Even though the following classes pass by in blur, I can't get Edward's creepy black eyes out of my mind. Wait, black? I thought his eyes were golden, like the rest of his family. In fact, I have seen his eyes before, and they were golden. Maybe they all wear contacts so they can better pass for siblings? But then what's the point of that if they are going to say they're adopted?

I'm so far into my musings that I don't notice that there's someone in front of me until I bump into them. Whoever it is has a rock-hard body. I feel like I rammed into a wall...a tiny wall.

"Hi Bella!"

"Hello, Alice," I say with a smile. Her mood seems to have lifted significantly.

"Ready for Gym?"

"No."

"Aw, come on. I thought you were going to work on your phobia of balls."

"That's what she said."

"Ugh, Bella! I didn't mean it like that. Get your mind out of the gutter." I laugh at her disgusted face.

"Sorry Ali. And when did I say I'd 'work on' anything?"

"I assumed you would after last class's dodge ball game."

We are playing badminton today though, one of the lesser evils because the little birdie can't really hurt me unless someone smashes it toward me. Whenever someone does, Alice steps in and hits it over the net. The one time I try to hit it, the racket flies out of my hand and hits Alice on the shoulder. She doesn't even look like she notices.

"Are you okay Ali?"

"Of course, why?"

"My racket just flew at you."

"Oh, I noticed but didn't want to stop the game. Come to think of it, it does hurt a bit. I think I'm going to sit down for a while." I nod and go back to the game.

It. Is. Hell.

Needless to say, I hit myself with the racket more than once, and I have more than a few bruises by the end of it. Alice looks super concerned the whole time, and keeps glaring daggers at the other team. When the game finally ends, she rushes up to me and throws her arms around me, hugging me tightly.

"Are you okay? I'm so sorry, I should have just kept playing."

"Hey, it's not your fault." I say, loving the hug.

"Yeah it is," she mumbles softly.

"No it's not! You couldn't have done anything, and it's not like you knew this was going to happen." She looks away, biting her lip. "Did you bribe those other guys to give it to me good or something? Because if this is about the time I dumped my juice on you, I'm sorry. And you know that was a mistake anyway."

I stop talking when I notice that she has zoned out again. I wait patiently for her to come out of whatever trance she is in, and when she does, she looks at me apologetically and runs to the changing rooms. I follow after her but when I get to the door, Alice comes running out. I hear her mumble something like "Victoria" into her phone as she goes, and I try not to assume the worst. Does she already have a girlfriend? She didn't even say goodbye.

I sigh and go to change, then find Angela waiting for me outside the changing rooms when I'm done.

"Hey, you okay?" she asks immediately.

"Yeah," I mumble back. "Something's up with Alice, that's all. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"

"Sure Bella. Call me if anything happens."

I nod. "Bye."

I look at the parking lot and see Alice speaking with the rest of her siblings and decide to just walk home instead of hovering around her until they are done talking. I walk for a while before it starts raining. I curse my bad luck and begin to walk faster with my head down.

I can begin to see my house when I notice Alice's Porsche drive past me so fast that I get splashed with a small puddle of muddy water that has formed because of the rain. I sigh and try to get some of the mud off my face. I wonder what's gotten into her.

I keep walking and eventually make it home, now starting to feel cold. Charlie's cruiser is not in the driveway, and I just walk on into the house. I start making supper while my books are hung all over the living room with the heater turned on so they can dry.

"Goodness, it's hot in here," Charlie says when he walks in. He takes off his jacket and hangs it on the back of one of the mis-matched chairs in the kitchen. "What are trying to do, make a sauna out of my house?"

"Yeah, sure," I mumble distractedly. It doesn't take him too long to figure out that I'm upset.

"What happened?" he asks while taking a glass from the cupboard.

I sigh. "You know Alice, right?"

"Your little girlfriend? Yeah."

My eyes widen and I spin around to face him. "Excuse me?" Charlie knows about my preference, but how did he come to the conclusion that Alice is my girlfriend?

"Yes, well. She's always hanging around you. Whenever she comes over, you guys are like this," he twists his index and middle finger together. "And you should see the way you look at her Bells. I'd be stupid not to notice."

"She's not my girlfriend dad."

"Oh. So you haven't asked her yet?"

"I don't even think she likes me that way. She seemed pretty upset after school, and she didn't offer me a ride home like she usually does."

"Oh, that's why the living room looks like that. Did you ask her for a ride?"

"Dad, this is the twenty-first century. Had I asked her for a ride, I would have sounded needy, and unable to take care of myself."

"That's why you chose to walk in the rain?" he asks incredulously.

"You wouldn't understand."

He holds up his hands in surrender before shaking his head.

"Why is there mud all over my floor?"

I sigh heavily. "I got sprayed by Alice's car when she drove past me."

"Hmm, doesn't sound like her. She's such a sweet girl, doesn't seem to have a mean bone in her body. Are you sure she was the one driving? The windows on her car are pretty dark."

I blush. "I hadn't thought about that."

Charlie grins. "You young folk overlook the obvious too much sometimes. It's embarrassing really."

"Sorry to be such an inconvenience," I grumble sarcastically.

"You know I'm only kidding squirt." He ruffles my hair and then leaves the kitchen to hang up his gun and keys before going to sit in the living room. I had known to leave his chair unoccupied by my books because, knowing Charlie, he'd sit right on them and say I should have known better.

I finish fixing supper, and after a not-so-eventful dinner with Charlie, I go and get my books from the living room then try to do as much homework as possible with semi-ruined books.

By the time I'm done with everything, it's pretty late and I'm super tired. I make quick work of getting ready for bed, and am out cold as soon as my head hits the pillow.

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