Bella, what are those?

9

"So, how'd it go?"

Angela blushed, as I sat next to her in English. I'd asked her the day before but didn't get an answer. Apparently her little brother broke her phone.

"Great. What about-"

"Angela."

Angela laughed, looking at me. I wrote something down, and looked around. It was sunny, so none of the Cullens were there.

"Fine. But, it went great. I told her that I'd never dated a girl before, and she was fine with it."

I smiled as she said that, I knew she would be. Alice was fine with me being different, so I knew that wouldn't bother Bret.

"Of course she is."

"Yeah. Did you know Alice has a Porsche?"

I nodded, remembering seeing it outside my house. I didn't pay much attention, I was nervous about seeing her.

"I know. It's yellow. Why?"

"Bret wanted to borrow it, but Alice wouldn't let her. On Saturday."

I knew why, but couldn't tell Angela that. I shrugged, looking at her.

"Maybe she was busy, and needed it?"

Angela shook her head, thinking.

The rest of the day was fairly quiet. Seth wanted to come over after school and we spent a little while talking.

"So, how's school?"

"Fine, I guess. There's a new girl who wants to be friends. She's really nice. but people are giving her trouble for talking to me. Jessica told her about me, and she doesn't care. She wants to be friends with me."

Seth was happy about that, and smiled at me.

"There's nothing wrong with being different, Bella. Angela and I don't care. You're still you. No matter how much you want to strangle Angela."

"We're not that bad."

Seth just looked at me, and we both laughed.

"I know. You two are really close. She said something about a date?"

Seth lived on the reservation, so we didn't get to see him as often as we would like.

"Yeah, she went on a date with a Bret on Saturday. She's one of the new girls at school. There's three girls and three guys. The Cullens."

Seth nodded, but something about his behaviour was ..................... Different.

"Yeah. I heard it went well. I'm sorry, Bella, but I gotta go. I have to pick up my sister."

He left, and I sat in my room confused. Why would he react that way about the Cullens? I didn't say anything I shouldn't have. It wasn't my secret to tell, and I wouldn't do that to them. I sighed, and started my homework.

The next day, they were back. I smiled at Alice, as I sat next to her in biology.

"Hey."

She turned to me, and I noticed her eyes were much brighter.

"Hey, how's Angela?"

That made me laugh.

"Fine. When I can get her to talk about something other than Bret. Apparently Bret wanted to borrow your car?"

"Yeah. But, I had somewhere important I needed to be."