A/N Hey! I know this had taken me a while but Christmas break is soon so ill be off for just over two weeks so updates should come quicker, Hopefully but I do have some inspiration for the next chapter so all is good! also this ones longer than the last two so i hope you enjoy!
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It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Dragonflies out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when the day is done
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
Muse – Feeling good
BPOV
I walked into the auditorium head held high and full of determination I would do this, and for once I wouldn't let any one stop me from doing what I wanted to do. No matter how scary it seems right at this moment. I smiled as I strode to the row where, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper sat deep in conversation. I took a seat on the end of the row, face forward and my knee bouncing rapidly as I watch Ms Murphy walking on stage and stop in the centre with a flare and grinned at us.
"Right!" she clapped her hands and rubbed them together. "We are all going to start by reading through the play from the start to the end, just to familiarize ourselves with it. So, I need you all up here on stage and to grab some chairs and make a big circle. We all shuffled up to the stage and grabbed chairs, pulling them into an uneven circle. She passed round a set of scripts telling us not to lose them, as they would be our only ones for the next couple of months. The threat just went over every ones heads, it wasn't unusual for teachers to make requests like this, but they nearly always went back on their word anyway.
Jessica started by reading the prologue, it had always been one of my favourite parts of the play it had an air to it when read right. Jessica stumbled over the old English words as she read, pausing every now and again to take a breath, squint at the page and stutter round the next word. It took about two minutes more than needed for her to finish reading it. Then we got off to a flying start we read through smoothly with minor hiccups here and there when someone couldn't pronounce a word. We even managed to skirt passed the ball scene with minor incident.
I had my head held up, my gaze down and at my script, gripping the pages tightly knowing if I looked up I wouldn't be able to look away. I wouldn't be able to look at him without remembering that kiss, the way his lips felt on mine, the way they moved...
"Bella!" Alice hissed at me nudging my side cocking her head down, I looked to my lap, my hands had squeezed the script had almost crushing it entirely. I smoothed it out putting on my lap then placed my hands together, twisting them trying to keep them busy; I looked up and listened again. We had just got to the scene were Romeo and Mercutio where talking, just before the balcony scene.
"He jests at scars that never make a wound." My eyes stayed down but I listened intently to the monologue flowing out of Edward's mouth. He sounded sincere in his words, almost frustrated with himself, he made an interesting Romeo, he was a good actor I'd give him that. "Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!"
"Aye me..." I sighed looking up quickly, then back down careful not to catch his eyes , he continued to talk I looked up his eyes looking into mine then I would look down then I would look up and he would catch my eye. The exchange carried on this way for a while as we both read our lines.
"Wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?" I looked up meeting his eyes square on but this time not looking away.
"What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?" I breathed; my heart was beating hard in my chest.
"Th'exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine." He spoke as if he was trying out the words on his tongue like the words he was speaking were foreign on his lips. My heart fluttered stupidly in my chest. It's not real. Its acting, I'm Juliet, he's Romeo, were going to die at the end of the play anyway. This still didn't discourage me from want to shout yes at the top of my lungs and throw myself across the room into his arms. I restrained myself, but he didn't make it easy. I'm too young to get married anyway.
It's one of the things that always baffled me about Romeo and Juliet, I understand they love each other, but why get married a couple of days after they've first met. I mean runaway together, exchange promise rings, something like that, but was marriage really necessary? I don't think so, but I suppose it was a different period of time, I'm not against marriage, not really I just think if you're in love when you're young cant it wait for a few years? If you're so in love then it should last right?
"I gave thee mine before thou didst request it! And yet I would it were to give again." I breathed the words softly, my eyes still locked with his. He cocked his head to the side his expression curious.
"Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose love?"
"But to be frank and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have, my bounty as boundless as the sea my love as deep, the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. I hear some noise within. Dear love adieu!" The words felt strange falling from my lips I twisted my fingers in my lap. I looked around the circle to see all eyes trained on me and Lauren shooting me daggers from across the circle.
I watched her as she grabbed Edwards hand in hers and with the other run her hand up his arm possessively smiling at me maliciously. I just looked at her resisting the urge to snort, would she like to piss on him while she's at it? Coming to the end of the balcony scene we worked our way through the play. Then we came to the scene were peter comes in , yeah there was only two lines but just watching Lauren spit them out was highly amusing.
"Peter!" Alice spluttered turning towards Lauren, she bit her lip as Lauren sat with her arms cross glaring daggers at her as she brought a hand up to her mouth rubbing her mouth to try and hold in laughter. "Peter?" Alice asked again raising an eyebrow.
"Anon." Lauren muttered, she uncrossed her arms and squeezed her fists at her sides, I coughed round a laugh. Her face grew an interesting shade of red as she squeezed her hands at her sides, hard. Catching my lip in my teeth I bit down on it hard to stop the round of laughter threatening to pill out. She sat with a sour look on her face throughout the entire scene, speaking through gritted teeth.
"I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a good quarrel, and the law on my side." She ground out, her jaw was clench, I just couldn't help it I burst out laughing, Alice following shortly behind.
"Alright, alright c'mon girls don't be cruel! That's enough." the teacher scolded, her tone was angry but her eyes and the smile fighting its way to the surface as she scratched the side of her mouth, told a different story. "Let's take a five minute break then we can restart, I think I would like to skip a head slightly too when Paris and Juliet first speak okay? I need to talk to Edward and Bella at the end of the lesson about the previous scene, off you go be back in your seats in five" She turned and left the room to go to the lighting booth in the back.
Alice and rose turned towards me in their seats;
"You're doing great Bella." Alice cocked her head and looked pensive then grinned "I have to say, I think I prefer Lauren as a guy, she more valiant, she said she'd protect me, by getting her weapon out." Alice wiggled her eyebrows at me, I snorted, that girl could turn anything into innuendo, I can't talk being around Alice so much has made me just as bad; Rosalie nudged Alice in the side.
"Alice!" She laughed, Alice merely grinned shamelessly.
"Well! She did." The three of us fell into easy conversation for the rest of the break. Towards the end I looked over the room and my eyes landed on Edward, intentionally or otherwise, Lauren was draped across Edwards lap her hands round his neck buried in the hair at the base. Her lips where firmly planted on his, the kiss getting pretty heated and getting worryingly close to dry humping. I turned away in disgust. Thankfully the teacher walked back in at that moment and cleared her throat as she walked passed.
"In your seats everyone! And Miss Mallory, Mr Mason please refrains from getting intimate on the schools furniture, now take your seats again and we shall begin." I sniggered at the two as they walked up looking extremely ruffled. Lauren brought her hands up to her head and smoothed her hair, then her clothes Edward followed suit, but forgot the bright red lipstick that was smeared across his mouth. He took a seat and against my better judgement I pointed it out.
I looked at Edward "Edward?" Edward looked over to me puzzled his expression caught between scowling and intrigued.
"What?" He spoke harshly, I just couldn't take him seriously with his joker look all he needed was green hair dye and he was good to go.
I motioned to my mouth, his eyes followed my hand his eyebrows shooting up "That's not your colour" Then it dawned on him, Edwards hand flew to his mouth as he attempted wiped away the lipstick that Lauren had managed to get all around his mouth, whilst everyone else sniggered. Even after wiping his lip still had a shiny red tint to them. He glared back at me and I couldn't help but laugh, because I could of sworn I saw the tips of his ears go pink.
"Okay, okay settle down, settle down, Tyler I'd like you to start at the top of act four scene one." Tyler nodded took a deep breath and began, he wasn't too bad I at acting when he wasn't trying to seduce Rosalie against her will. Then I looked over at Jacob who had just started talking, his jet black hair russet skin and warm dark eyes stood out among our classmates, he wasn't the only person of the reservation in la push to go forks high, but he had a calm, warm demeanour that gave him a presence in a room, he was generally quiet. His acting surprised me though, he was good.
My dad knew his, Billy black, from way back, but surprisingly me and Jacob never really got close, we met a few times but not so many times that much came out of it. Our dads never really forced a friendship between the two of us and when we grew up we just had our own life and freinds and never really went when our parents visited the other.
He's good looking I have to admit, around six foot four with a grey t shirt fitting snugly across his chest, a really nice smile and great hands there aren't many guys with nice hands. I don't like hands particularly but I like a guy with nice hands, its weird, I'm weird, but, it's just one of those things. I have to say Edward has nice hands also, nice long slender fingers, god it makes me wonder what he could do with them, don't judge me, I'm a sexually deprived, hormonal teenager. Plus when your freinds with Alice, you can pretty much change anything into innuendo, it's hard not to have dirty thoughts now and again.
"Happily met, my lady and my wife!" Jacob spoke, breaking out of my naughty hand related thoughts. He smiled at me as I spoke.
"That may be, sir, when I may be a wife." I said raising a brow, he grinned.
"That 'may be' must be, love, on Thursday next." He smiled and winked, I smiled a shook my head, is it just me or is he flirtier now than he was as a kid. The lines went on like that more banter than exchange between a heartbroken women and a man exited for a so called wedding it was fun I had to admit. I caught Edwards eye once or twice during the scene he looked frustrated and a bit puzzled, he looked fruzzled.
"Okay class I think we done enough for today don't you?" she announced after finishing the scene, there were many grunts, groans, sighs and hell yes's in agreement. "Also I'd like to remind Edward and Bella to just stay behind for five minutes now; I promise I won't keep you long." She looked over at me then to Edward and nodded as everyone began to back away, the buzz of chatter filling the room.
Walking off the stage with Alice, a hand shot out and grabbed my shoulder, long nails digging into the flesh. I hissed and swivelled round to see Lauren levelling me with a cool stare. "I want you to remember one thing swan, alright?" I raised an eyebrow expectantly. "Edward is my boyfriend, don't step one foot out of line swan otherwise." She paused looking at me, trying to gather some kind of dramatic effect. "You won't know what hit you." I rolled my eyes as she turned away.
"Yes sir..." I muttered, Lauren froze, I could hear her take in a big breath, her body tensed, he turned to look at me her gaze cold and calculating, I tensed waiting for the verbal attack, and maybe physical one, that was bound to occur. It never did, the side of her lip just twitched up in a secretive smirk. I watch warily as she turned around and walked out of the auditorium. My eyebrows darted up into my hairline, well that was defiantly unexpected. Alice turned to me;
"What was that all about?"
"I have no idea. Doesn't matter, I'm hungry now though, you go get a table with the others whilst I talk to Miss Murphy alright?" She nodded. "I wonder what she wants." I muttered as an afterthought. I walked to where Edward was stood on the stage, next to Ms Murphy on the stage; she greeted us both with a smile.
"I would just like to speak to you regarding the scene were Romeo and Juliet..." she trailed off looking for the right word. "Consummate there love." My head snapped up, what was she getting at? "I would like to place this into the play I don't want to completely gloss over it, but I want it to be tasteful, no words need to be spoken that's why I think this will be a great way to see some real chemistry between the two of you." My eyes widened, was she asking us to have pretend sex on stage? Edward spluttered next to me obviously caught off guard as much as I was. "Don't worry!" she added hastily, seeing both our expressions. "It's not as bad as it sounds a lot of professional acting troops do this sort of thing when performing these sort of scenes, you won't need to remove all of your clothing." All... All so what? I need to dry hump Edward, on a stage, half dressed?
"I'll go through it with you at some point, so we can sort it out the two of you won't go far intimacy wise ill start it from when Romeo climbs in her window and we will end it when the two of you are lying down, alright?" She nodded, I still couldn't figure out what to say. "the two of you have such wonderful chemistry I think this is exactly what the two of you need to broaden your acting horizons, plus your both 17 so it should all be okay, oh I will have to get you to, once we have gone over it in rehearsal, to do a trial run in front of your class mates."
"Excuse me?" I asked incredulously, I am not going to dry hump Edward, on a stage, half dressed, in front of the entire class, there's no way.
"It'll be okay, I'll make sure both of you are comfortable if you are really extremely uncomfortable we will try a different approach." She nodded, I just sat there and stared at he, I think she needs to go to see a doctor, then if some nice men with a nice big net come and get her then I would be surprised. "Okay I'll see you next lesson" We both turned around silently to leave; she called out to us just before we climbed off the stage.
"Oh! before I forget, you two will have extra rehearsals, either during lunch or after school, I may even request some of your periods for study hall but that may only be if entirely necessary. I'll have to work with you two more than the others. I'll work on the love scene with you then" I immediately opened my mouth to protest, but Edward beat me to the punch.
"Do I have to? I have things to do, you know," sighed Edward petulantly running a hand through his hair tugging at it in frustration.
I looked at him in disbelief as Ms. Murphy replied icily, "You do if you want to pass. Both of you are dismissed."
Edward immediately raced out of the auditorium, I sighed and walked out, feeling dejected, I didn't want to spend time after school rehearsing either, but was spending time with me that bad? He made it seem like the end of the world. If he was going to be an asshole the rehearsals wouldn't be much fun for me either. I started to make my way to the canteen when I remembered I needed to grab my psychology folder out of my locker. So I sighed turned around and walked in the opposite direction as my stomach growled in protest.
"I know..."I sighed patting my stomach as I pulled to a stop in front of my locker, I turned the dial ad pulled my stuff out as fast as I could, making half of the contents spill out onto the floor. "Shit!" I grabbed the papers of the floor trying to file them awkwardly away in their respective folders shoving my other texts books back in and closing it. I moved to walk, or run, to the canteen when chatter stopped me. I pooped my head around the corner to look down the next hall and there at the end stood Lauren and Edward.
They looked like they were having a heated conversation; I tried to strain my ears to hear but I could only here muffled, muddled words and sentences. I watch as Lauren put her hand on his shoulder and spoke to him her face soft conspiratorial, she was smiling her free hand out as if asking something. Edward shook his head vehemently and pulled his shoulder from her grasp, she carried on talking her she seemed to be getting frustrated, pleading, the her posture straightened and a smile slid across her face, it wasn't a comforting or kind smile, it was a nasty, mischievous smile.
He turned away from her to walk away, but then she said something and he stopped dead in tracks and turned his head slightly. I couldn't see his face, his whole body was tense his fists where tensed at his side, she had him, whatever she wanted from him she had him, judging by the creepy Cheshire cat smile on her face she knew it. She raised a brow in question even though I could tell she knew there wasn't one, it was like watching a black widow reel in her prey.
Edward turned all the way around, the anger and frustration evident on his face; I couldn't help but wonder what she said to him? What could she have said to get to him that much? He walked towards her, and backed her into the lockers, the smile never left her face, she was loving this, she was baiting him. She spoke, delicately stroking her hand down his cheek, his face becoming blank, there body's flush.
Then he nodded. It was a quick movement, I almost missed it, but at this movement Laurens smile grew impossibly wider, she place her hand flat and pecked his lips, his face stoic as she did. She slipped from his arms and practically skipped down the corridor, towards me, fuck! I quickly flattened myself against a break in the lockers, squeezing my eyes shut, and listened as her heels clacked against the floor becoming more distant I peeked my head out slowly opening one eye then the other.
Cautiously I walked back to look down the hallway and Edward was still there his forehead in his hands lent against the lockers, he turned so his back was against the lockers and he his hands through his hair, he growled low in his chest, and quickly he pushed himself away from the lockers, swerved and smashed his fist into the locker in front of him with a loud groan.
"Fuck!" He cursed loudly, the sound echoing all the way down the corridor, he muttered something under his breath and began to walk away towards the front entrance. For some reason unknown to me I followed him, he strode down the corner, tugging at his hair as he went, I stayed close behind him and tried to keep my footsteps quiet. He stopped and ever so slightly cocked his head listening out, my breathing hitched.
Don't turn around... Don't turn around...
I had nowhere to duck into this time, if he turned I would defiantly be caught, I held my breath as I watch him shake his head and take in a deep breath and let it out. Then he carried on walking, I loudly let out the breath I had been holding, I froze, hoping he hadn't heard, he didn't turn he just kept on walk seemingly absorbed in his thoughts. We reached the front entrance he walked out pushing both doors letting them fly backwards. I stepped quickly out of the way and stopping peeking my head round the door and watch him walk towards a sleek black motorcycle.
It had a classic yet modern style it had no logos on it or anything, it was highly sexy, Edward grabbed the black helmet off the back zipped up his leather jacket half way and climbed on. He kicked away the kick stand and revved the bike the purr of the bike going straight threw me, what can I say? I really like motorbikes; I've had many an argument with Charlie about getting me one he says there far too dangerous, for me and for anyone else on the road, which I highly resent. Jasper agrees with him, Rose is a bit more understanding about it although she shares my love of motorbikes.
He then raised his head once I couldn't see his eyes threw the tint of the helmet but I could feel his eyes on me. He'd caught me. I couldn't move it felt like an eternity until he looked down and tore out of the parking lot the engine purring as he sped away. I rested my back against the wall breathing heavily, my chest rising and falling with each breath. What was all that about?
My stomach growled loudly reminding me of what I had set out to do in the first place; I turned and made my way to the cafeteria. I made my way over to Alice, Rose, Jasper and Emmett and sending me questioning looks.
"What took you so long?" Rose asked, I took a deep breathy and told them about the conversation I had just had with ms Murphy, which they all found hilarious. Then I went on to explain about what I saw go on between Edward and Lauren, He Looked so angry with her, whatever she had said had hit a sore spot and she knew it.
"It was just the weirdest thing, he looked so angry when he left." I sighed, frowning. "I just wish I could have known what she said to him."
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