Chapter 2

Don't Botch It Up

Football practice didn't go so well. Needless to say Coach was giving me an ear full about not listening to his little pep talk at lunch time. "Sorry Coach," I mumbled through my mouth guard.

"Dude, you were really off your game today," Emmett said as we headed towards the locker room.

"Yeah Edward, what's the deal? You usually don't need an excuse to tackle Newton," Jasper said trying to get me to answer him.

"Don't worry about it. My mind was just somewhere else today. Em, are you hanging out with Rosalie tonight or do you wanna hang out?" I said trying to change the subject.

"Man I wish, she has cheer practice tonight, so I guess I'm all yours Eddie. Jazz, you gonna come over? Maybe we can finally get Edward to talk about what happened at lunch," Emmett yelled into the shower.

"Yeah, I'll be over a little later. I need to pick something up for Alice around 6:30 in town, so I'll meet you there; tell Esme I'll probably stay for dinner. Oh, you mean that thing about him coming to Bella's rescue.  Yeah what was with that Edward?" Jazz shouted back.

I pretended not to hear them. As I stood under the stream of water I couldn't help but wish I could wash away this afternoon too. Sometimes I had this way of making people feel like I was making fun of them when I wasn't, and today was no exception. Man I had really pissed Bella off. I wondered if I would be too much of a stalker if I called her house. I mean her dad's the police chief, so it wouldn't be hard to find out her phone number. No, that would be too strange. I'll just get to school early tomorrow and set this straight. We were after all going to be good friends, so I couldn't well have her not talking to me. I'll have to ask Alice if she had seen Bella anytime after Biology today. I must be grabbing at straws here; maybe I'm just tired of being the odd man out. At least if Bella was around I would have someone else to talk to, and she really did seem interesting. Not too mention that she wasn't too bad on the eyes. Her milky skin made her soft brown eyes stand out, and she had the fullest, pink lips. I could definitely handle having her around more often. Enough; I better stop thinking about Bella before I have some explaining to do to the guys.