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  t;edward,” she answered, her high sopra as attractive as
  his.
  ”alice, bella — bella, alitroduced us, gesturing casually with
  his hand, a wry smile on his face.
  ”hello, bella.” her brilliant obsidian eyes were u her
  smile was friendly. ”it's o fi you.”
  edward flashed a dark look at her.
  ”hi, alice,” i murmured shyly.
  ”are you ready?” she asked him.
  his voice was aloof. ”nearly. i'll meet you at the car.”
  she left without another word; her walk was so fluid, so sinuous that i
  felt a sharp pang of jealousy.
  ”should i say 'have fun,' or is that the wro?” i asked,
  turning ba.
  ”no, 'have fun' works as well as anything.” he grinned.
  ”have fun, then.” i worked to soued. of course i didn't fool
  him.
  ”i'll try.” he still grinned. ”and you try to be safe, please.”
  ”safe in forks — what a ge.”
  ”for you it is a ge.” his jaw hardened. ”promise.”
  ”i promise to try to be safe,” i recited. ”i'll do the laundry tonight —
  that ought tht with peril.”
  ”don't fall in,” he mocked.
  ”i'll do my best.”
  he stood then, aoo.
  ”i'll see you tomorrow,” i sighed.
  ”it seems like a loo you, doesn't it?” he mused.
  i nodded glumly.
  ”i'll be there in the m,” he promised, smiling his ile.
  he reached across the table to touch my face, lightly brushing along my
  e agaiurned and walked away. i stared after him until
  he was gone.
  i was sorely tempted to ditch the rest of the day, at the very least gym,
  but a warning instine. i k if i disappeared now, mike
  and others would assume i ard. and edorried about
  the time we'd speher publicly… if thi wroo
  dwell ohought, trating instead on making things safer
  for him.
  i intuitively knew — and seoo — that tomorrow would be
  pivotal. our relationship 't ue to bala did, on the
  point of a knife. we would fall off ohe other, depending
  entirely upon his de, or his instincts. my deade, made
  before i'd ever sciously d i was itted to seeing it
  through. because there was nothierrifying to me, more
  exg, tha away from him. it was an
  impossibility.
  i went to class, feeling dutiful. i 't holy say ened
  in biology; my mind reoccupied with thoughts of tomorrow. in
  gym, mike eaking to me again; he wished me a good time ile.
  i carefully explai i'd celed my trip, worried about my truck.
  ”are you going to the dah ?” he asked, suddenly sulky.
  ”no, i'm not goi all.”
  ”what are you doing, theoo ied.
  my natural urge was to tell him to butt out. instead, i lied brightly.
  ”laundry, and theudy f test or i'm going to
  fail.”
  ”is helping you study?”
  ”edward,” i emphasized, ”is not goiudy. he's gone away
  somewhere for the weekend.” the lies came more naturally than usual, i
  h surprise.
  ”oh.” he perked up. ”you know, you e to the dah roup
  anyway — that would be cool. we'd all dah you,” he promised.
  the mental image of jessica's face made my tohan necessary.
  ”i'm not going to the dance, mike, okay?”
  ”fine.” he sulked again. ”i was just .”
  when the school day had finally ended, i walked t lot
  without enthusiasm. i did not espet to walk home, but i
  't see how he would have retrieved my tru again, i was
  startihat nothing ossible for him. the latter
  insti — my tru the same space he'd parked his
  volvo in this mo