The Facts↠ Edward Cullen

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Edward watched from afar like he always did during the hours of the school day. Though, like every day, if he was human, he was sure his heart would sink more with every time his eyes found her.

Margo sat in the same spot she did every day, at the lunch table in the corner of the room, her carrot sticks and dip sitting in the same place she always had them. Every day, her thoughts impressed him. Sometimes it was the same ideas in different ways, or the other times new ideas and thoughts that blew him away. Edward watched as she flipped a page in her book, today it was the copy of "The Brief History of Time".

The Cullen Siblings , the ones sitting at the table, watched as he looked at her intently. Not failing to notice the way his lips curved ever so slightly as Margo took her yellow highlighter to the book, before using her blue BIC pen to add her own thoughts or ideas.

"Why don't you just go talk to her?"Alice asked from her spot next to Jasper, snapping the Cullen out of his thoughts before taking away his gaze on the girl across the room to his sister.

"Because I'll scare her"Edward said, a frown placing his lips as he looked back at her for a brief second. He knew it was true- because everyone scared her.

"I don't think you will, she's your mate" Rose told him in a whisper, holding a certain amount of sincerity in her eyes, but they didn't know her, not the way Edward has taken the time too.

"We have a problem" Kian sighed as he dropped into the chair in between Emmett and Edward.

"Its the new girl, isn't it? Bella was it?"Alice smirked, making Kian roll his eyes at her before he nods, of course, she knew.

"You didn't think, that maybe, just maybe, it would have been nice of you to even give me the cliff note version this morning? Or do you just like to let me suffer?"Kian said, his British accent still somewhat audible.

"Where's the fun in that brother?"Alice laughed, making Jasper look at her with love in his eyes as Rose and Emmett chuckled along with her. The Cullen Siblings all watched as Edward's eyes snapped back to Margo's table as three girls made their way over to her. They watched as a frown became placed heavily on his lips as his 'breathing' stopped.

"Hey Margo" Tiffany said as she took a seat across from the girl, her voice was dripping with fake friendliness- but of course Margo didn't catch on to that. Edward could hear her breath stop as her mind became filled with anxiety, her eyes moving every which way to avoid eye contact with them.

"Um, h-hi?"

" What are you reading?"She asked, her tone anything but pleasant and the question, to anyone else, was obviously rhetorical, but it wasn't to Margo, and it made Edwards skin crawl.

"Oh, um, A brief hist-"

"Save it, we came over here to-"

Edward stood up abruptly, turning a few heads as he walked as fastly as humanly possible over to her table. He refused to stand by and watch them be rude to her, he refused to watch them take advantage of her simply because this was the one area she didn't comprehend. The boy felt anger pulse through him with every step he took, watching as they smirked at each other, making small comments that went past her.

It angered him, the fact that people were so oblivious to disorders that did not touch their lives, that they were so closed minded- so obnoxious to notice it's okay to be different.

Edward placed his hands down on the table, loud and quick, making Margo jump as she looked at him, but for the first time; his eyes weren't focused on her.

"Hey Eddie"

"Actually, his name is Edward"Margo pointed out, making Tiffany roll her eyes as she opened her mouth, but Edward put his finger up in front of her face.

"Don't you dare start that sentance. I don't know where your parents went so wrong with you that you feel the need to pick on or be rude to anyone who isn't you or your little cult of witches. She's a better person than you'd ever dream of being, so why don't you go back to whatever shit hole you came from and leave her alone" Margo sat shaking behind him as Edward yelled at the girls, her ears even more sensitive and hurting than usual.

"Of course the cute guy likes the freak"Tiffany spat, making Edward grip the ends of the table with all his might, which didn't go unnoticed by Margo.

The three girls didn't say anything else as they got up and left, dramatic tears in Tiffany's eyes causing everyone in the cafeteria looked at them, their eyes mostly on Margo, who sat shaking as her eyes were locked with her lap.

It took a few seconds before everyone went back to what they were doing and Edward's eyes went back to the girl as he sat down next to her.

"T-that was mean, what you said"Margo's voice held no judgement or rudeness, it was almost monotone. Margo couldn't help but notice how close he sat to her, the coldness of his skin radiating on her. It confused her greatly.

"What she was saying to you was mean too, Margo," Edward said, his voice soft and quiet, the way she preferred.

"Was it?"She asked, looking up to meet his eyes very quickly before she moved her eyes back down to her book.

"Yes, and you don't deserve that"He told her, making her nod.

"But if I don't, doesn't that mean they don't?" Edward didn't have a reply, he just smiled down at her. Never had he met someone as kind and innocent as Margo Baker. The girl looked down at her watch, her brown eyes going wide as she saw the time. She was going to be late. Paying no mind to the boy beside her, she began packing up her half eaten lunch and putting her containers from biggest to smallest into her lunch bag.

"You have honours Chemistry next, right?"Edward asked, watching as she nodded her head as she picked up her lunch bag.

"Could I walk you?"Margo stopped what she was doing, meeting his eyes only for another second before scanning the rest of her body, trying to pick up on the social cues and the proper way to answer the question, but like most times she was lost, and it was incredibly frustrating.

Margo could answer a mathematical problem right away, which the formula for said problem had more than a 98% probability of being in her brain. But there was no formula for people. Every tone, every situation called for something different, and it was incredibly upsetting to the girl; who's emotions just mixed until an unknown weight in her stomach- it was just the one thing she couldn't understand. Margo had tried, she read books, watched ted talks. Sometimes it really felt as if she was missing something, but besides her brother, she wasn't sure she needed anything else, not when humans were so unreliable.

"No thanks, bye Edward" Margo waved awkwardly before picking up her yellow backpack and walking away from him. He couldn't help but smile at him as he watched her walk away.

Edward spent the rest of his day happier than he'd been in months. Somehow he knew, that this wouldn't be the end of him and Margo Baker.

published/edited: 02/27/2019