The second chapter of If You Only Knew is going up tomorrow night (a bit later as I need to polish it off after I get home from work), but I wanted to give everyone a Christmas treat in the form of a teaser from the chapter ...
“Who is that?” Rosalie whispered as Edward walked by. Her expression was a mixture of disgust and surprise, and Jasper suddenly felt bad for his brother. He knew without having to ask that Edward had just been cast into the group of students Rosalie put her “mean girl” attitude on for.
“That’s Jasper’s brother,” Alice said matter-of-factly. Emmett turned around and looked at Jasper.
“That’s your brother? You two don’t even look related.” Emmett glanced over at Edward. “He’s so-“
“Grungy.” Rosalie said, finishing Emmett’s sentence. Emmett laughed and nodded in agreement.
“We definitely won’t be seeing him in the court after class I’m guessing.”
“What’s the court?” Jasper inquired. He’d heard it mentioned in a few of his other classes, but hadn’t taken the time to ask about it.
“The patio area behind the school,” Rosalie explained. “It’s where everyone eats lunch.”
“Everyone who Rose doesn’t chase away, that is,” Alice quipped. Rosalie reached over to swat Alice again but stopped when she noticed the stern look Mr. Molina was directing at her. She turned around and resumed her lab work, whispering something in Emmett’s ear that made him look over his shoulder at Edward and laugh.
Jasper scrawled a few final notes in the workbook and helped Alice clean up the supplies from their experiment. He glanced at his brother with concern. Bella was sitting at the far side of the lab table, putting as much distance between her and Edward as was possible given the small space. She was trying to maintain the chemical mixture in front of her while furiously writing notes in the workbook. Her expression was one of anger and embarrassment. Edward, in the meantime, was spinning his pen around on his fingers and starring at the oversized poster of the Periodic Table of Elements with boredom.
“Poor Swan. She’s doing all the work and her lab partner is a social leper.” Rosalie shook her head in disgust and clicked her tongue. Emmett got a wicked smile on his face and stood up. He walked over to Bella’s lab table and pulled up a stool, taking a seat right between her and Edward.
If you found any humor in that segment, just wait until everyone heads to the court for lunch. Plenty of angst awaits!
Happy Thursday (in approximately 35 minutes) and I hope you enjoy the full chapter when it's posted tomorrow!
xoxo
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