Rosalie felt her heart drop when she walked into art and saw Bella's frown when she made eye contact with her. Rosalie had hoped that Bella would be happy to see her but it seemed she wasn't very happy to have Rosalie there at all. Knowing there was nothing to be done about it she gave her slip to the teacher and made her way to the back of the room to take the seat next to Bella. When a boy she didn't know took the seat instead she glared at him until he gulped and moved to another seat on the opposite side of the room. Looking at Bella once again Rosalie noticed the furrowed eyebrows as Bella looked at the boy. She hoped her mate wasn't upset with having to sit next to her. "Hi Bella."
"Hello Rosalie." Bella wasn't sure what was going on but it seemed that Rosalie and her family had switched classes as she had Alice in her first period and Emmett in her last one. Now that Rosalie was in this class she wondered if the other two were going to be in any of the rest of the classes she had that day.
"How is your day going?" Rosalie asked.
"It's going fine, yours?" Bella replied.
"It's going well." Rosalie wasn't sure how to prolong the conversation and as the bell rang and the teacher began explaining what the class was working on she tried to figure out how to get Bella to talk to her.
Bella tried to pay attention to what the teacher was talking about but it was hard when she could feel Rosalie's eyes on her the entire time. She wasn't sure what she had done to garner so much attention from the blond and she wasn't exactly sure how she felt about it. It should have been creeping her out but in the back of her mind Bella found a small part of her liked having Rosalie so focused on her.
"Do you think I could have been a good nude model?" Ralph asked.
"I don't think you should be asking a 17 yr old girl if you would look good naked." Bella whispered as she pulled her sketchbook out of her bag and got started drawing the pile of random things in the middle of the room.
"Well it's not like I'm actually going to get naked. I just wondered if I would be a good model…. With my clothes off." Ralph added at the end.
"I don't want to think about you naked." Bella told him.
"I would like to see this blond naked." Ralph stood next to Rosalie. "There is no way this girl is a high school student. Ask her how old she is."
"I'm not going to ask Rosalie how old she is so you can feel better about yourself for wanting to see her naked." Bella wasn't going to get involved with Ralph's random nonsense.
Rosalie furrowed her brows as she listened to Bella whisper to herself. She wasn't exactly sure what her mate was talking about but the comment about wanting to see her naked intrigued her. Why was Bella talking about seeing her naked? Rosalie hoped it was because the human was attracted to her but knew it wouldn't be appropriate to ask. Sighing to herself knowing she wouldn't be getting any answers anytime soon Rosalie went back to sketching while listening to what Bella was saying. Maybe the girl would slip and Rosalie could figure out how her gift worked.
"Are you saying you don't want to see her naked?" Ralph asked.
Bella blushed at the thought."Shut up."
"I knew it." Ralph laughed. "Bella Swan loves the ladies."
"It's none of your business who I love but it definitely isn't you. As a matter of fact why are you bothering me? Don't you have things to do like surveillance on the people we think killed you?" Bella asked.
Ralph shrugged. "I could be doing that but I would rather stay with you. Beside I'm keeping the others away."
"What others?" Bella asked knowing she wouldn't like the answer.
"The others who want to talk to you. Who you are and what you have been doing to help us has gotten around and now you have a fan club." Ralph told her.
"How did they find out about me?" Bella asked.
Hearing that someone found out about Bella had Rosalie instantly on alert. She didn't know who knew about her mate but it wouldn't be good if someone did. Rosalie had to force herself to stay in her seat to keep herself from grabbing Bella and running as far away from Forks as she could to keep the girl safe. She needed more information though. If she could figure out who knew about the human then she could eliminate them if she had to. Rosalie probably wouldn't enjoy it but if it guaranteed her mate's safety she would kill off the entire human population.
"Like I said word of mouth." Ralph said invasively.
Bella wanted to push but knew Ralph wouldn't tell her. "So you're saying that you are keeping all the others from bothering me?"
"Yup." Ralph said.
"You aren't doing this out of the goodness of your heart though are you?" Bella knew Ralph wasn't the type to go out of his way to help someone if he didn't get something out of it.
"Would you believe me if I said I was?" Bella shook her head causing Ralph to huff. "Fine I'm doing it because if everyone else gets to you I won't get my case solved and I won't be able to find out who killed me."
"I knew it." Bella grumbled.
"Anyway now that you have the info on where my body is when are you going to tip off the police?" Ralph asked.
"I need to get a burner phone first before I call them. I'll have to steal it if I don't want them tracking it to me." Bella wasn't excited that she would have to commit a crime to solve a crime but it would keep her out of the looney bin so she would do it.
"Cool I'll go with you so I can be the look out." Ralph seemed excited by the prospect.
"Fine now will you leave me alone. I haven't even started on my work yet because you keep bothering me." Bella needed to get Ralph to leave her alone at least long enough to be able to learn something.
"Yeah, I'll leave you be and don't worry no one else will bother you. I'll make sure of it." Ralph said as he disappeared.
"I'll believe it when I see it." Bella didn't have any hope of being left alone.
Rosalie wasn't sure what she had just listened to but it seemed like whatever Bella was doing with her gift was done because the human didn't say anything else for the rest of class. Rosalie had thought of numerous ways to start a conversation but held herself back. She wanted to make sure Bella wasn't distracted incase her gift revealed who was after her. Emmett had class with Bella next so she would have him ask Bella to sit with them at lunch. Emmett said he hadn't heard or seen anything weird from Bella but he also didn't get a chance to talk to her other than to introduce brother was the least threatening out of all of the Cullens and could easily put others at ease. Hopefully that would be the case with Bella because as the bell rang and Rosalie watched her mate leave the room Rosalie knew they would need to get Bella to talk to them soon so they could protect her from whatever threat was coming Bella's way.
