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“So, Edweirdo, what do you plan on telling Bella when she starts questioning you?” I asked, turning around to face Edward in the bus.
“It’s obvious she’s not going to give this up,” Kennedy added. Alice laughed, knowing our plan to hound Edward on the way to the field trip. We figured he can’t exactly jump out the bus window. Well, he could, but that might cause a bit of a scene. And unfortunately for him, he’d caused enough scenes in the past few days, and he can’t get away with any more.
“Don’t worry my chaos twins, we have googled a plan,” Emmett said from across the aisle from Edward.
“And that plan would be what, exactly?” Kennedy asked.
“An adrenaline rush!” Kennedy and I shared a look.
“What the hell were you searching, anyway--‘How To Convince Your Friend You Don’t Actually Have Superpowers?’ Did you just go with the first thing google gave you?”
“It’s a thing!”
“Oh, I’m sure,” I said. “That will totally convince Bella after you not so subtly told her in the hospital that you’re ‘not normal.’” I said the last part in a terrible, dramatic impression of Edward’s voice. “Really, you would have an easier time convincing her you were a mermaid.”
“Wait, do mermaids exist?” Kennedy muttered, mostly to herself.
“Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy?” Emmett responded. We never should have introduced him to Vine.
The bus pulled up to the greenhouse, cutting our conversation short. It wasn’t long after we gathered inside and did roll call that Bella made her way over to Edweirdo.
“Good luck, adrenaline boy.” I muttered, joining Rosalie and Kennedy.
The teacher decided to go straight into droning on and on about “plants” and “bugs” and “compost”, and probably some other words that I tuned out immediately. I wasn’t really paying attention to anything until he mentioned the “compost tea.” “Hey Tyler, I’ll give you 20 bucks if you drink it,” I said, pointing to the brown sludge. Tyler’s face lit up as he grabbed the mug out of the teachers hand. He had just put the stuff to his mouth when the teacher yelled at him, which quickly became a lecture that I once again tuned out.
“I swear, Edward better stop giving Bella his time of day.” Rose mumbled under her breath, watching the two talk a few feet in front of us.
“Why? They’re practically perfect for each other. Absolutely no brain cells between the two of them!” I said.
“She needs to back off and stop being so… so... snoopy.”
“Snoopy? Like the dog?”
“Don’t make me hate you, too.”
“Hasn’t Alice seen visions of Bella being with Edward? I think she even said she got turned in some of them.” I looked at Kennedy.
“Yes!” Alice piped up from behind us, “But my visions are subjective. However, these visions have come on and off since they met.”
“So...What about us? You’ve had visions about our future, right?” Kennedy asked.
“Yes, but a lady doesn’t kiss and tell, Kennedy.”
“So you can tell me, then?” I asked.
“No.”
“She’d better not get turned,” Rose said. “She brings us enough trouble as it is, and I do not want to babysit a newborn vampire.”
“How come you hate Bella so much, but not us?” I asked.
“Because you don’t pry and we love you.”
By this point Kennedy and I are close enough to overhear Edward and Bella’s extremely awkward conversation.
“Yeah, it was an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.”
“Not the googling again,” Kennedy whispered to me.
“Jesus Christ, does the Spanish flu impair your mental capacity or something?” Edward flipped us off from behind.
“Bella may literally have no thoughts, but it looks like even she isn’t buying this,” Kennedy said. “That’s a low blow, Edward.”
Jasper walked in between us and slung an arm around each of us. “Now, what am I going to do with you two gossipers? This is school, not tea with Esme.”
“I can’t help it! Biology is the worst science and this is much more interesting,” Kennedy said.
“Hey! I happen to like biology. It’s just too cold for my brain to think right now,” I argue.
“Seriously, how is the girl from Arizona handling the weather better than you?” Kennedy asked as we walked out of the greenhouse.
“Hey Sophie!” Tyler called, “You owe me 20!”
“I don’t owe you shit if you didn’t drink it!” I yelled back.
“It touched my tongue!”
“Licking does not equal drinking!”
I spotted Eric, who was currently bugging Bella with a worm on a stick. I walked up to him and asked to borrow it. “I know another way you can earn 20 bucks!” I yell before charging at him with the worm. Eric and Kennedy soon found more worms and sticks and followed suit. The Cullens laughed at us from the distance, Emmett finding his own worm as well and dangling it in Edwards face.