Cold Grey Light

Ready Or Not

Bella POV

The clunk of plaster knocking against the ground with footsteps echoed in the hallway as I hobbled to class. Edward was always there to help me get around, except today. His class after third period was on the complete opposite of the school from mine. There was no time to walk me to my class without being tardy to his. He could get to class on time, no problem at all for a vampire; but running at that speed might raise some questions from the teachers and other students in the halls.

Edward had been late to his class for the past three weeks and his teacher was threatening him with a month's detention. After-school detention cut pretty severely into my time with Edward.

So in a whispered conversation in third period, I managed to convince him to let me just walk, well stagger, to class on my own.

"Edward, just go. I'm not going to die from walking to one class alone. You can't be tardy again."

"Okay, so maybe you won't die, but what if you got hurt. What if you trip, or run into someone, or get hit my and opening door or... ugh." he said.

"I would still come over at night. I always do."

"Yeah but I'm asleep for most of that."

He contemplated for a moment.

"What if I carried you to you math class? You'd be safe and we'd both get to class on time. Problem solved!"

"Edward you're not carrying me to class!" I said much louder than I should have. Most of the kids looked over at our table and the teacher stopped his lecture and gave the two of us a strange look.

"Mr. Cullen, Ms. Swan, is their something wrong?"

With my face bright red I just slid down into my seat.

"No Mr. O'Brien, everything is fine" Edward replied smoothly.

The bell rang, thank god, excusing us from any further questioning. We got our things together and left the room.

"Go to class Edward."

He pursed his lips, "Fine. Just please, for my sake don't have a Bella moment."

I frowned at him, slightly annoyed. "I'll see what I can do!"

I got to math class without a problem. Well I was almost run over by a freshman with a tuba who was racing to get to the music room before the bell. I stumbled when I was trying to get out of his path and fell right into the arms of Mike Newton. He gave me a creepy smile that I think was supposed to be seductive. Mike? Seductive? Just the thought of it made me want to laugh.

Math class was as boring as usual. Mr. Varner droned on and on while most kids either doodled on their notebooks or stared into space.

I longed for something interesting in this monotonous class.

About twenty minutes into class, my wish was answered in the form of an over muscled, dark haired vampire.

"Mr. Varner, just in case you don't know me I'm Emmett Cullen. I was assigned to be your teacher assistant for this period" he handed the teacher a small pink slip from the office.

Mr. Varner looked confused as he read over the paper. He just shrugged it off.

"Alrighty then Mr. Cullen just find a seat and if I have anything for you to do I'll let you know. A seat towards the back would be preferable; I think kids may have a hard time seeing over you."

Emmett just smirked and looked back at what seat choices he had. There were only two options; next to me or Eric. The blood drained from Eric's face when he thought of having to share his desk with the biggest, most menacing (in his eyes) Cullen.