Bella's Point Of View

I felt nervous by their presence, but I didn’t understand why. Angela, the sweetest of the girls who had befriended me, must have felt my uncomfortable breathing and shot a reassuring smile at me from across the table. I leant over and nodded towards the table sharing my thoughts with her. I finally got up the courage to find out more about them on my own.

“Are they quite new here?”

“What? The Cullens, no Bella they’ve been here for a couple of years. They don’t really talk much or anything. They’re not that sociable that’s why they sit alone; I think they have a hard time because they’re all adopted.”

“Adopted?” I pressed Angela for further details.

“Yeah, by Dr Cullen and his wife, I’m not sure why, I guess they’re all orphans. I think they’ve had a lot of tragedy in their lives but no-one really knows. There are two girls Alice and Rosalie,” Angela continued sensing that I was intrigued and needed more information.

“Rosalie’s the blonde one and the smaller girl’s Alice. The fair haired boy on her left is Jasper and across from him is Emmett – most people are afraid of him” she added “He looks like he could take out a bear. The other one’s Edward, on the end with the brown hair.” I didn’t see the brown haired boy, I saw the man from Biology with their back to me and strangely bronze coloured hair. I was watching them all carefully thinking about what Angela had said, my eyes deviating away from the one named Edward never more than a few inches. Angela saw this.

“He never smiles, so don’t take it personally if he isn’t exactly friendly towards you.” As if on cue he turned around to face us, showing a magnificent set of teeth in a heart-breaking smile and my breath caught in my throat, my heart stopping. I don’t know what it was about him but I was lost in him. He twisted back sharply and I forced myself to breath again, but it wasn’t easy, he had me mesmerised.

No.

Dazzled.

Had I not been in school in view of the rest of the school, I may have started hyper-ventilating. It wasn’t just his beauty, although he was simply the most divine, godly creature I had ever laid eyes on – there was something else about him, something deeper…