Bella sauntered into her statistics class and chose a lecture seat near the back corner. She pulled out a notebook, a pen, and then her phone. A few emails had come in and she checked them and replied to one before finally looking up for the first time since entering the room.

This lecture hall was kind of empty. That wasn't really surprising considering it was a summer semester math class. There were maybe thirteen other students scattered throughout the room and Bella scanned the crowd and then finally looked to the front of the room.

There, in front of the lecture hall, was a curly blonde with pale skin. She was writing her name on the board and then turned around and moved out of the way so Bella could read what she had written. 'Ms. Denali' was written in an elegant script. Bella finally slid her eyes to the woman to see her looking right back at her with golden eyes.

"Shit," She said under her breath, though she knew the woman at the front of the room heard her.

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Bella stood after the class was over and slowly made her way to the front. It had ended early being that it was the first day and her professor really just went over the syllabus and introduced herself to the class. Apparently, this was Tanya Denali. Bella knew of her family from a brief mention several years ago from a time in her life that she didn't think about any more.

The brunette made it to the front of the classroom, being the farthest back in the room, she was the last one left in the room with the professor. Her dark brown eyes met the gold ones in front of her as she handed over her signed syllabus.

She smirked as the eyes in front of her darkened just slightly, "Thank you. See you tomorrow, Ms. Denali," She said with just a hint of teasing in her tone. She watched the face in front of her for only a second before a smirk was also gracing the vampire's lips.

"Likewise, Ms. Swan."

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The next day of class found Bella sitting on the second row of the classroom. Ms. Denali had insisted that they all move forward to the front of the room being that there were so few of them. Bella had a feeling it was solely because of her, she was the only one who had sat any farther back than the third row after all.

Throughout her lesson, the teacher kept almost direct eye contact with Bella. The brunette noticed, of course she noticed. She didn't think that anyone else did though. They were all busy taking notes and not really looking at the teacher but instead what she wrote on the board in front of them.

However, Bella couldn't help but notice and couldn't help but stare back. She was sure she missed about half of the lecture being that she couldn't really focus, but she couldn't break her eyes away except for the few times that Ms. Denali turned to write something or flipped a slide on her PowerPoint. Bella would then look down long enough to jot a few things down, only to be pulled back into her intense stare.

At the end of class, they had a quiz and Bella finished quickly. She stood after completing the relatively easy two question quiz and walked it up to her professor. As she handed it over, her fingers brushed against the cold ones that belonged to the vampire and she could have sworn she heard Ms. Denali gasp.

"Thank you, Ms. Swan," Ms. Denali said quietly without breaking eye contact with the girl in front of her, "These are the practice problems for Monday's class," She said as she handed over a handout from her desk with the weekend's homework on it.

Bella smirked and nodded as she took the paper and then left. She could have sworn she saw the woman pout slightly as she turned to leave, but who was she to really know?