“Well Bella, don’t you think it’s a little rude of you to judge them completely on the basis or their color?” Jessica was being overly sensitive again. Her thoughts were equally sacred and boring ‘The Cullens are such nice people; I think Bella should look at how beautiful they are from the inside’. She went on praising my family in her thoughts – such a boring person to listen to. She probably should consider joining a church. School was not the right place for children like her. So I decided to shift to Angela’s thoughts. Angela – One of the most frank people that I’ve ever come across, her mind is way above all the trivial issues that would otherwise bother a teenage girl like her.
‘Urgh! There she goes again. Can Jessica ever NOT be such a goody-goody all the time? Why does she even bother? Hmm… I wonder if she has a secret crush on one of the Cullens’ Angela’s mind was as straightforward as my newly found love.
It was then, that it struck me. What was going on in Bella’s mind? Did she notice me sitting here with my siblings? Did she notice my golden brown eyes or my bronze red hair? Oh! How I wish she did.
I tried to focus my attention towards her head - hoping to read her thoughts. But nothing! Nothing at all. How could that be possible? Throughout my years as a vampire, never had I encountered any human whose mind I couldn’t read. Then why was I devoid of her thoughts? Was she a robot? Or even worse, was she an alien? That idea sent shivers down my spine. So I tried harder to read her mind, focusing my complete attention towards her, but every effort turned out to be futile.
‘You’ll be late for your Biology class Edward!’ Alice almost screamed in her thoughts, maybe she had tried calling me in a lower tone before, but my focus was somewhere else, somewhere far beyond the mere teenage humans around me with their trivial issues and insecurities. My focus was at the outstandingly marvelous beauty that sat a few tables away from me, close enough for me to hear her fluent and velvet voice and yet not close enough.
I pulled myself out, from falling back into the trend of thoughts that revolved around Bella. The thought of her name in my mind fascinated me beyond explanations.
“Lets go Alice” I reluctantly pushed the words out of my mouth, knowing that every cell on my body ached to stay close to Bella. I did not want to leave her alone here, with such boring people as Jessica. I felt the urge to protect Bella from her. I craved to put myself between the two of them so that Jessica could never reach Bella.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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