The Cullens were notoriously known for being cold and the opposite of friendly. Edward Cullen especially. Maybe that was because he was only one of his siblings that didn’t have a partner—Rosalie was with Emmett and Alice was with jasper—so he got a lot of girls coming up to him, asking him on dates or bringing him thoughtless gifts to impress him.

Or at least it was like that in the beginning of high school, but it rarely happened anymore; everybody knew now that Edward thought no one was good enough for him.

But he was gorgeous—it was no wonder all the girls had been all over him two years ago and why they still whispered about his good looks between themselves—and the girl’s choice spring dance was coming up, and you still had no one to go with.

Not out of lack of trying, though. It just seemed every single girl at Forks High School had managed to ask someone already.

That’s what led you to deciding to ask Edward Cullen. You’d already been rejected a few times, so being rejected by him wouldn’t be more embarrassing than your other failed attempts at getting a date, and best case scenario—though that was very unlikely—you wouldn’t have to go to the dance alone.

Even though you knew you were basically setting yourself up for rejection and possibly a string of insults—you didn’t know if they were truly mean or just antisocial, but you were assuming the worst—the cold, piercing gazes of all the Cullens glued to you as you walk up to the table they always sat at still made you feel impossibly insecure and too inadequate to even look at them, let alone for what you were about to do.

Edward’s gaze was the most sharp whereas the others’ were more ’what do you want?’.

He doesn’t say anything though, just waiting for you to say what you were trying to say.