Edward Cullen's Stalking Class 101

Chapter 4 - Internet Stalking

"So what's on the agenda today Eddie?" Emmett asked taking a seat at his desk. After the last class, Emmett kept trying to get me to have another stalking field trip. I said no, considering the last one was a bit of a disaster, not to mention that the school found out and I had to sit through an after school training session on what is appropriate and what is not. Taking your class out for an impromptu field trip to the mall is definitely not appropriate, who knew?

"I don't know. Why did you have something in mind?" I asked taking another look at Emmett's list.

"No, I just want to know."

"Well, I think I'm going to go with internet stalking. It's easiest, I mean we are talking about teenagers after all."

"Sounds cool but I don't really have any internet accounts."

"Well then how come I've been able to find you on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, IMVU and any other major social networking site."

"All right fine! I was just pretending to be one of your students. Also what is IMVU?"

"That thing you use with the avatar person to chat up innocent human girls? Your username is Em_Bear."

"Oh that. First of all, I don't chat up girls that's creepy and second, what's wrong with Em_Bear? I thought that it was pretty cool."

"No, not really."

"Well it's better than Sparkly_Guy1901. Where the hell did you get that?"

"I don't know. Alice picked it."

"Wait...why do you even have one?"

"I don't know, Alice just barged in saying something about needing 'credits' and that she wasn't using real money for it."

"I guess that makes sense...I do that too. Do you use it?"

"No and I'm ending this discussion."

"Does that mean you secretly do use it and don't want to admit it?" Emmett raised an eyebrow.

"No, it means class is starting soon and I'd rather not encourage the pupils to look me up on social media."

Once everyone had settled into their seats I thought about what I was going to say today. It's not every day that I got to teach other students something. But I wanted to start with something that most students have on their minds. They were all thinking similar thoughts: Hey, I wonder if Edward's gonna lecture us because we bailed on that thing yesterday. Or, I wonder what Edward is going to teach us today.

"Good morning class," I said standing up. "I just wanted to say that everyone did pretty well yesterday and I have no doubt that you are capable of stalking. Although for some of you, who didn't even do the task I have concerns about you. Do you have what it takes to be a stalker? After all that was the lesson. I guess I'll have to find out how well your stalking is from your homework assignments."

"Wait, Edward, how can you give homework on stalking?" Asked Mike.

"It's easy, I'll explain at the end of the class. Anyway let's get on with today's lesson." I sat down at my desk and turned on the overhead projector. On the screen I had an internet browser open with several tabs open. Each was a social networking site: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.

"Internet stalking," I said as I clicked on the Facebook tab. I didn't want them to know that I had Facebook so I was using Emmett's page as an example. "This is probably one of the safest ways to stalk someone and they wouldn't even know."