Betrayal

Chapter 2

CHAPTER 2

It's been 4 days since Alice and I came back. We mainly spent it by catching up with each other. My birthday plans came up once or twice. Ok it came up A LOT. I try to wriggle my way out of that conversation but of course Alice is so good on manipulating me so guess what? I'm having a party thrown by my overactive best friend. Yay. Not. Oh well I might as well let her have her fun.

Tomorrow everyone are due to be back so the campus will pretty much be packed. Alice and I are currently enjoying the serenity of the campus and having it practically to ourselves. There was only about 5 students who came back early so it's been pretty good spending last week of vacation with Alice.

"I can't wait to see everyone back! I've got a feeling this is going to be the best year yet!" She kept bouncing up and down while saying this; I can't help but believe her. Alice has got a freakish way of knowing the future, kinda. Once we were in the dining hall, she was already sat down and I went to get my food. I came back with my lunch and told me to bin it because it's not healthy. I told her she's being ridiculous, how could potato salad be unhealthy? Since she never listens to me anyway, she took my food and took the liberty wasting the $3 I spent on my lunch. I was annoyed to say the least but a day after about a quarter of students were ill due to food poisoning. Apparently something was added on the potato salad accidentally. The lunch lady responsible was of course fired. Nobody was proper harmed though just a really bad case of stomach ache and flu. I asked her how she knew and why didn't she say anything? And she said she didn't know but she had a bad feeling about it. Of course she can't exactly go around throwing people's lunch and who would've believed her anyway? Since then I've learnt to rely on Alice's weird 'premonitions'.

"You mean you can't wait to see a certain blonde hair, blue-eyed jock that goes by the name of Jasper?" I teased her. Alice, despite her protests, is absolutely smitten with the guy. She might fool others but I know better. Everytime he's in the same room or close proximity as her she gets this dreamy look on her face. It's really sweet and cute! But Alice the stubborn girl that she is won't act on her feelings. God knows why not! I mean it's not like there's even a remote chance of her getting turned down by the guy. He's smart so he should be able to see how wonderful Alice is!

Alice and I aren't exactly Miss Popularity. I mean if she wants to be then she can easily be since she's gorgeous, smart and rich and all but she doesn't enjoy all the attention which is probably one of the few things we have in common. We prefer to blend in with the crowd. Now Jasper Whitlock is Mr. Hotshot number 2 (I'll tell you who number 1 is in a minute) and one of the most popular and sought after guy in our school. I can see why since he's very good-looking, smart and pretty darn rich. He's not my type though. The blonde hair/blue-eyes combination doesn't really work for me. From what I can see and this is from 3 years worth of observing (not in stalker kind of way by the way, but it's hard not to notice when we are in the same class) about the guy is he's the, uhm shall we say more tolerable and decent out of the two. I'm talking about his best friend, none other than Edward Cullen aka Mr. Hotshot number 1. Now, Edward prides himself with the title and of course lives up to the expectation. I'd be the first one to admit that he's drop dead gorgeous, I am not a hypocrite. The majority of girls from our school, and I don't take the term lightly, literally falls on his feet. And the jerk loves it, every week he's sucking faces with a different girl. It's revolting and nauseous if your unfortunate enough (like me) to walk in on them doing it! The guy might look like a Greek God but he's got the personality of a teapot. He's very intelligent though, I don't know how he always seem to ace a test when he doesn't even pick up a book. Seriously, he's captain of the basketball and track team, student body president and has a different girl every week. I don't know how he manages to do all this and still maintain an A average in all his class! I guess that's why he's so popular and him being extremely wealthy doesn't hurt either. His father is a well-known doctor and his mother is a famous architect.