Twilight OC Rewrite

Chapter Five: Blood Type

We made our way to English, but Bella seemed out of it. We were late and when we walked in, class had already started.

"Thank you for joining us," Mr. Mason said in a disparaging tone.

I flushed and hurried us to our seats.

It wasn't until class ended that I realized Mike hadn't glued himself to Bella's side and Eric seemed a little distant. But they met us at the door as usual, so I figured we weren't totally unforgiven. Mike became more himself as we walked, talking about the beach trip and the weather with Bella. Since it wasn't a conversation I was invited to, I tuned him out mostly.

The rest of the morning passed in a blur, besides Bella telling me about what happened before class. Christian was right. When I didn't seem in total shock, I filled her in on what he had told me.

My sister seemed impatient as we entered the cafeteria with Jessica. Anxiously looking towards the Cullen's table, disappointment took hold of her face when we noticed only four people sitting down. Edward wasn't there.

"Edward Cullen is staring at you again," Jessica said, snapping Bella out of her own head, "I wonder why he's sitting alone today."

I followed her gaze and saw Edward, smiling crookedly at my sister across the cafeteria from where he usually sat. He raised an index finger and motioned for her to join him. I turned back to Bella in disbelief.

"Are you gonna go?" I asked her.

"Maybe he needs help with the Biology homework," she muttered towards Jessica. "I better go see what he wants." And just like that, she took off with only a lemonade in her hands.

Jessica gave me a look of suspicion, but I dodged it and grabbed a tray of food, walking with her to our table. When we sat down, the seat next to mine was empty. No one tried to fill it and for that I was thankful. Mike's mood had again dropped considerably; I watched him as he glared towards the table Bella and Edward were sitting at.

"There's still one missing," Eric said, glancing over to the Cullen/Hale table.

As if summoned by that sentence, a tall figure plopped down in the seat next to me. "Yes, indeed. He's right here."

Not wanting to look, I already knew who had taken my twin's spot. Eric, who at first looked surprised, changed his features to something that could only be described as burning contempt. I wondered if he had seen Christian's arm around me this morning. I ducked my head in embarrassment.

When I looked up again, everyone was awkwardly glancing at each other, obviously not sure what to make of the Hale cousin at our table.

"Oh, don't mind me guys, I'm just here to see Alex." He said, throwing his arm around my shoulders for the second time today.

"It's Alexandra." I corrected as I shrugged him off.

Jessica threw me a look as if to say that I would have some explaining to do later and I resigned to stare at my tray, picking at the food that I'd grabbed without looking.

"Do you want some of mine? Yours doesn't look too appetizing." Christian started to switch our trays when I put a hand out to stop him, flinching slightly at the cold.

"I'm fine."

And lunch continued like this, awkwardly, until it was finally time to go.

"I won't be in class today," Christian called out as I was walking to catch up to Bella.

I didn't spare him a second glance as I continued to storm off.

When I caught up to my sister, she was half-running to class. We were definitely almost late. I hurriedly told her about what happened at our lunch table. She took time to tell me that Edward was also ditching class and to point out it had stopped raining.