Disappointment flooded through me as my eyes unerringly focused on his table. The other four were there, but he was absent. Had he gone home? I followed the still-babbling Jessica through the line, crushed. I'd lost my appetite — I bought nothing but a bottle of lemonade. I just wanted to go sit down and sulk.
"Edward Cullen is staring at you again," Jessica said, finally breaking through my abstraction with his name. "I wonder why he's sitting alone today." My head snapped up. I followed her gaze to see Edward, smiling crookedly, staring at me from an empty table across the cafeteria from where he usually sat. Once he'd caught my eye, he raised one hand and motioned with his index finger for me to join him. As I stared in disbelief, he winked.
"Does he mean you?" Jessica asked with insulting astonishment in her voice.
"Maybe he needs help with his Biology homework," I muttered for her benefit. "Um, I'd better go see what he wants." I could feel her staring after me as I walked away.
When I reached his table, I stood behind the chair across from him, unsure.
"Why don't you sit with me today?" he asked, smiling.
I sat down automatically, watching him with caution. He was still smiling. It was hard to believe that someone so beautiful could be real.
I was afraid that he might disappear in a sudden puff of smoke, and I would wake up.
He seemed to be waiting for me to say something.
"This is different," I finally managed.
Unerringly 正確地
Abstraction 抽象
當我的目光準確地投向他的桌子時，失望吞沒了我。另外四個人都在，只有他不在那裡。他已經回家了嗎？我跟著嘴巴一直沒停過的傑西卡穿過人群，只覺整個身心都被碾碎了一樣。我完全沒有了胃口——我什麼吃的都沒買，只要了一瓶檸檬水。我只想快點走開坐下，獨自咀嚼心中的失落。
“愛德華?卡倫又在盯著你看了。”傑西卡說著，最終打破了我對他的名字的抽象感。“我想知道他今天為什麼會一個人坐。”
我猛地抬起頭。追隨著她的目光，我看見了愛德華。他嘴角彎彎地笑著，正盯著我看。他現在坐著的那張空桌子，與他通常坐的位置分別處在自助餐廳的兩頭。他一對上我的視線，就舉起一隻手，用食指示意我過去和他一起坐。我不敢相信地盯著他，他只好衝我使了個眼色。
“他是在叫你嗎？”傑西卡問道，聲音裡透著近乎無禮的驚訝。
“也許他需要有人幫助他做生物作業。”為了讓她覺得好受點，我低聲含糊地說道。“嗯，我最好過去看看他想幹嘛。”
當我走過去的時候，我能感覺到她的眼睛始終釘在我的背上。
我走到他的桌子旁，不太確定地站在他對面的椅子後。
“你今天為什麼不和我一起坐呢？”他微笑著問道。
我機械地坐下來，警惕地盯著他。他依然微笑著。很難相信這樣美麗的人居然存在在現實之中。我真怕他會忽然消失在一陣輕煙中，然後我驚醒過來，發覺這只是一場夢。
他似乎在等著我說點什麼。
“今天有點不太一樣。”最終，我成功地擠出了幾個字。
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