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  jessica was sitting
  in the baearly boung off her seat in agitatioly
  went to sit by her, trying to yself it would be better to get
  it over with as soon as possible.
  ”tell me everything!” she anded before i was i.
  ”what do you want to know?” i hedged.
  ”e night?”
  ”he bought me dihen he drove me home.”
  she glared at me, her expression stiff with skepticism. ”how did you get
  home so fast?”
  ”he drives like a maniac. it was terrifying.” i hoped he heard that.
  ”was it like a date — did you tell him to meet you there?”
  i hadn't thought of that. ”no — i was very surprised to see him there.”
  her lips pu disappoihe tray in my
  voice.
  ”but he picked you up for school today?” she probed.
  ”yes — that rise, too. he noti't have a jacket last
  night,” i explained.
  ”soing out again?”
  ”he offered to drive me to seattle saturday because he thinks toy truck
  isn't up to it — does that t?”
  ”yes.” she nodded.
  ”well, then, yes.”
  ”w-o-w.” she exaggerated the word into three syllables. ”edward .”
  ”i know,” i agreed. ”wow” didn't eve.
  ”wait!” her hands flew up, palms toward me like she ing traffic.
  ”has he kissed you?”
  ”no,” i mumbled. ”it's .”
  she looked disappointed. i'm sure i did, too.
  ”do you think saturday… ?” she raised her eyebrows.
  ”i really doubt it.” the dis my voice uised.
  ”what did you talk about?” she pushed for more information in a whisper.
  class had started but mr. varner wasn't payiion and we
  weren't the oalking.
  ”i don't ks of stuff,” i whispered back. ”we talked about
  the english essay a little.” a very, very little. i thiio
  in passing.
  ”please, bella,” she begged. ”give me some details.”
  ”well… okay, i've got one. you should have seeress flirting
  with him — it was over the top. but he didn't pay ao her at
  all.” let him make what he could of that.
  ”that's a good sign,” she nodded. ”retty?”
  ”very — and probably wenty.”
  ”eveer. he must like you.”
  ”i think so, but it's hard to tell. he's always so cryptic,” i threw in
  for his be, sighing.
  ”i don't know how you're brave enough to be aloh him,” she breathed.
  ”why?” i was shocked, but she didn't uaion.
  ”he's so… intimidating. i wouldn't know what to say to him.” she made a
  faembering this mht, wheurned
  the force of his eyes on her.
  ”i do have some trouble with in i'm around him,” i admitted.
  ”oh well. he is unbelievably geous.” jessica shrugged as if this
  exy flaws. whi her book, it probably did.
  ”there's a lot more to him than that.”
  ”really? like what?”
  i wished i had let it go. almost as much as i ing he'd been
  kidding about listening in.
  ”i 't explain it right… but he's even more unbelievable behind the
  face.” the vampire who wao be good — who ran around saving people's
  lives so he woulder… i stared toward the front of the room.
  ”is that possible?” she giggled.
  i igrying to look like i ayio mr. varner.
  ”so you like him, then?” she wasn't about to give up.
  ”yes,” i said curtly.
  ”i mean, do you really like him?” she urged.
  ”yes,” i said again, blushi detail woulder in
  her thoughts.
  she'd had enough with the single syllable answers. ”how much do you like
  him?”