Astrid shook off the feeling and got up for school. She went to her bathroom to take a shower and get ready. Once she was ready she made her way downstairs and had a bowl of cereal for breakfast. She wasn't in the mood to make breakfast and wanted to leave as soon as possible. The last thing she wanted to see was Bella's stupid puppy dog face.
As soon as Astrid finished she went back upstairs to grab her bookbag and brush her teeth. She called Emmett to see if he could pick her up early.
"Yeah, no problem I'll be there in 10 minutes."
Astrid waited in her room until Emmett showed up. When she went downstairs she heard Bella in the shower. She went outside and greeted Emmett, "Hey, Em."
"Hey, Astrid, so why do you want to get to school so early?"
"Because the last thing I want to see is Bella and your stupid brother."
Emmett nodded, "Okay, then let's go."
They get to school and hang out for a while talking about their anatomy homework. People are slowly trickling into the parking lot and staring at them as they make their way towards the school. But with the death glare from Astrid, they quickly turn away. When Jessica, Angela, Mike, and Eric Jessica starts waving Astrid over. Astrid rolls her eyes and looks up at Emmett.
"Oh shit, I can only imagine what she wants."
Emmett chuckles, "Are you going to talk to her?"
"Yeah, why not. Hey, I'll see you later, okay?"
"Yeah, my siblings just got here I'm going to go talk with them."
Astrid nods then make her way over to Jessica and the others. The minute Astrid gets there Jessica grabs her arm, "Oh my god, are you like going out with Emmett Cullen?"
Astrid scoffs, "No, he and I are just friends."
"Yeah, okay."
Astrid glares at Jessica, "Are you calling me a liar? If I say we're just friends then that's what we are."
Jessica begins to stutter, "N-no, of course, I'm not calling you a liar. And yeah I can totally see that you guys are just friends." Then she smirks, "But does the same thing apply for your sister and Edward Cullen?"
Astrid turns around and sees Bella walking with Edward's arm around her shoulder. She rolls her eyes, "I don't know what the fuck is going on with her and that asshole," She says loud enough for Edward to hear.
Edward's smile falls as his head whips around to look at Astrid who raises an eyebrow at him in a challenge. Bella turns to see what Edward is looking at and glares at her sister.
"Whoa, what was that about," Eric asks.
"Nothing, just Bella being stupid," Astrid says and walks off making her way towards school. She walks right past Bella and Edward and hears Edward commenting about what people are thinking. She rolls her eyes and makes a face, "Freak." She says and walks off, how the hell does he know what people are thinking?
As Edward and Bella were approaching her locker when they see that Astrid is still there getting her stuff. Edward pauses and Bella looks at him confused, "Maybe I should let you go to your locker by yourself."
"Why," Bella asks.
Edward motions with his head, "Your sister is still there and I don't want to cause any more conflict between the two of you."
Bella smiled, "Don't worry, she'll accept us eventually."
Edward highly doubted that. He had seen how stubborn Astrid was and was pretty well convinced that she would never accept his and Bella's relationship. In all honesty, he didn't care, as long as he got what he wanted. But that didn't mean that he wasn't going try to get along with Astrid for Bella's sake.
Edward turns towards Bella, "No, I think you should go by yourself. I'll meet you at my locker after, okay?"
Bella nods, "Okay."
Edward gives her a smile and walks away. Bella stands there for a minute then looks at her sister who is loading her books into her bookbag. She sighs and makes her way over, "Hey."
Astrid looks up at her sister, "Hey."
"Listen I want to apolo-"
"You know what, I don't have time for this. I'll see you in gym class," Astrid tells her sister and walks off.
Bella watches her sister walk away feeling a little hurt. She sighs and goes to her locker to get her things for class.
Astrid gets to English class and plops down in her seat next to Alice. Alice smiles at her, "Good morning, Astrid."
"Morning, Al."
Alice blinks, and smiles, "I like that. How are you this morning?"
"Eh, could be better."
"Did you hear about Edward and Bella?"
"Yeah, why do you think things could be better?"
"You don't like the idea of them being together?"
"Nope."
"Why?"
"Because they're supposedly in love."
"Do you have something against that?"
"Against love, no. What I'm against is two people supposedly falling in love after knowing each other for a few weeks. That is not love that's infatuation maybe even borderline obsession."
"Well, what about you and Emmett?"
"What is it with everyone asking that? Emmett and I are not in love. We barely know each other. How could we possibly be in love? He and I are just friends."
Alice gets this sad look on her face. She thought that something more was happening with Astrid and Emmett seeing as how happy Emmett was but she was wrong.
"So then you don't believe in love at first sight?" Alice asked
Astrid laughed, "Of course not, that's ridiculous. Love is not some fairy tale that just happens. It takes work and is something you nurture. Or else it dies just like anything else."
Alice nods then drops the subject as class was about to start.
After class, Alice and Astrid walked to History together. As soon as Alice sat down next to Jasper she started babbling about how happy she was for Edward and Bella. Astrid just tuned her out and began doodling in her notebook until class started. She noticed that Jasper pretty much kept quiet, letting Alice do all the talking.
Once History was over and Jasper said goodbye to Alice he and Astrid made their way to Art class. Astrid looked at Jasper out of the corner of her eye, "You don't like it either, do you?"
"What?"
"The whole Bella, Edward fiasco."
"I'm not saying anything."
"Of course you're not."
They walked into class and sat down. A little while later Rosalie comes in with a sour look on her face. She looked at Astrid and scowled, "Before you say anything about how happy you are that your sister is with my brother, don't."
"I'm not happy they're together. I think it's the stupidest thing ever."
"You do?"
"Yes."
"Oh thank god. All I've heard all morning is how cute they are together."
"So have I. It makes me want to puke," Astrid tells her. Causing Rosalie to smile.
"Maybe you and I aren't so different," Rosalie says.
"No, we are. We just happen to agree on this part," Astrid tells her causing Jasper to chuckle.
By the time Astrid knew it Art class was over. She groaned at the thought of going to gym class and having to talk to Bella. Astrid went to her locker to drop off her books then started walking towards the gym. She slowed down when she noticed that Edward was walking Bella to class. She rolled her eyes and kept walking. The happy couple was so enthralled with each other they didn't even notice when Astrid walked right passed them.
Astrid goes into the locker room changes and heads into the gym. A few moments later Bella joins her. They stand there in awkward silence until Bella finally breaks the silence.
"So today at lunch I'm going to sit with Edward."
Astrid lolls her head to the side and stares at her sister. Bella clears her throat and starts shuffling her feet feeling uncomfortable at the bored look that Astrid is giving her, "Um, I hope you don't mind?"
"Does it look like I give a shit? Look I already told you that you're being stupid for supposedly falling in love with that weirdo. But you don't want to listen to me. Fine so do whatever you want. Just leave me out of it."
Bella's eyes begin to fill with tears, "I thought you would be supportive."
"Well, you thought wrong."
Bella is about to say something but the bell rings and class starts. As soon as class ends, Bella rushes off to the locker room to change and get away from Astrid. By the time Astrid gets to the locker room Bella has already left and is talking to Edward. Astrid ignores them and goes into the locker room.
When Astrid comes out of the locker room she is not in the least bit surprised to see Edward waiting for her. Astrid walks right past him, Edward jogs to catch up to her. Astrid doesn't even acknowledge his presence.
"Why are you acting like this?" Edward says after they have been walking in silence for a while. Astrid says nothing.
"Don't you want her to be happy?" Astrid rolls her eyes but keeps walking.
"How can you be so cruel?"
At that, Astrid finally turns to face Edward, "Look, I think what my sister is doing is incredibly stupid and I'm going to tell her. I do want her to be happy but you're not going to make her happy. You're just going to screw up her life. And I am not being cruel I'm being honest. I don't like you, Edward, I will never like you. I think it's too soon for you and Bella to be 'in love.' It's already obvious to anyone with a brain that this so-called relationship is going to be something toxic. You think I'm stupid, you think I don't hear you sneaking into my sister's room every night. Who in their right mind does that? You've been doing that for a long time now. What are you doing, sitting there watching her sleep and beating off or what?"
Edward gave her a horrified look. Astrid only smirked at him.
"So, either you cut that shit out and stop sneaking into her room or I tell my dad. I haven't done it yet because I was just waiting for your self-righteous ass to come say something to me. Now that you know that I know quit it."
Astrid then walked past him slamming her shoulder into his and goes into the cafeteria. She goes gets her food and sits down at an empty table so that she could read her Greek mythology in peace. As she's eating she looks up and notices Bella and Edward walking to an empty table. Edward glances over at Astrid who raises an eyebrow, he quickly turns away. She chuckles and goes back to eating and reading her book.