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Chapter One

Jade scowled and muttered to herself as she climbed out of the green Honda Accord her grandparents had 'loaned' her. It had finally happened. Her parents had gotten sick of putting up with her increasingly surly attitude and sent her to finish high school while living with her grandparents in Forks freakin Washington. She'd suspected it might happen, especially after her parents had pulled her out of Hollywood arts after the accident, but it had still caught her off guard.

She walked into the office and went straight for the secretary. "Yeah, hi. My name's Jade West, I'm new, and I'm here to pick up my schedule."

"Ah yes." The secretary, a middle aged woman, said, shuffling through a stack of papers. "I tried to call your grandparents an hour ago actually. There's a problem with the schedule your parents sent." She handed Jade a sheet of paper. "I'm afraid we don't offer most of these classes." Jade looked down at the paper and mentally swore. Of course her parents had sent Forks High her course list from Hollywood Arts instead of something a public school could actually use.

"Well that's just great. What am I supposed to do now? It's the first day of school and I don't have a schedule."

"I'm not sure dear, let me think." the woman said, frowning thoughtfully. Jade resisted the urge to snap. She'd resolved not to get angry at other people for her parents' stupidity, only their own. Suddenly, the woman brightened. "I know! Alice! Alice dear, could you come over here please?" A short girl with light brown hair cut into something a little longer than a pixie cut who'd just entered the office walked over.

"Yes?" She asked pleasantly, looking from the secretary to Jade and back again. Jade raised an eyebrow. The girl's eyes were amber. She wasn't exactly in any position to judge or comment on a person's fashion choices, but that was a weird color for contact lenses.

"Jade here is new, and there are a few problems with the class information her parents sent in, but she is in your grade. Would you mind if I just gave her your schedule so you can show her around and she can start her classes on time?" Jade blinked. It had been a long time since she'd gone to a public school, so she knew next to nothing about how their credit system worked, but she doubted she had the same number of class credits as this Alice girl. Whatever. Anything to get this over with would be fine.

"Sure." Alice said, shrugging. "I mean, if that's okay with Jade."

"Yeah sure, whatever." Jade said impatiently. Classes would be starting soon, and she didn't want to be known as the new girl who was late on the first day. Not because she wanted to make a good first impression or anything, but because she didn't want to have to deal with all the staring and whispers. She was sure that in a small school like this, news of the new girl would spread quickly. That would be obnoxious enough, but she didn't think she could handle them whispering about her being a 'bad student' and crap without snapping or beating someone.

"You're lucky." Alice said as she and Jade left the office.

"Why's that?" Jade asked dryly, fully prepared to hear a speech about how awesome Alice, or her schedule, was.

"There's another new girl starting today, so you'll only have to deal with half the gossip you would normally. Unless, of course, people find out that you went to a performing arts school in Hollywood. Then they'll never leave you alone." Jade looked at her, startled.

"How the hell do you know about that?" She demanded. Alice grinned up at her.

"I saw the transcript on the secretary's desk. Don't worry though, I won't say anything until you do." Jade smirked. She liked this Alice girl.

"Deal." She said. "Now, which class do we have first?

Four hours later- Cafeteria

"I hope you don't mind, but I always sit with my family." Alice pointed at a table where three people were sitting-a gorgeous blonde girl, an extremely muscled boy that said blonde was sitting uncomfortably close to for a sister, and a somewhat handsome boy who was sitting a bit away from the other two. Jade shrugged.

"Go ahead." She said. She liked Alice, the girl was calm and reserved, a far cry from the way Can and Tori had been, but she hadn't expected her to sit with her at lunch. Jade had brought a salad and filled the biggest thermos she could find with coffee for lunch. So long as she could find an empty table so she could sit by herself she'd be good. Alice walked off, and Jade scanned the room, her eyes eventually falling on an empty table on the opposite side of the cafeteria.

Five minutes after she'd sat down, a boy walked up and sat down. Jade looked up at him incredulously. How stupid was he? She'd clearly sat down ant an empty table on purpose, and there was no way he didn't have any friends to sit with. For the love of hell, there were people, besides Sinjin, who were willing to sit next to Trina, so he had to have some friends. She hated when people couldn't take the hint when she sat alone. At least Tori had always had the decency to bring food so that she had a reason besides Jade to be sitting there. This kid didn't even have that.

"I see you've got a salad." He said after Jade refused to acknowledge him. Oh how she missed Hollywood Arts, where a single no from her could scare everyone but Tori away. "You're not on a diet are you?" Jade barely held back a growl. Why did people always say that? She just liked salad! She liked food that required her to stab something repeatedly with a sharp instrument. "Is that because you think you're fat? Because you're not. You could drink whole milk if you wanted to." Jade's head snapped up, and she glared death at him. Had he really just tried to use a quote from Napoleon Dynamite, one of the worst movies ever made, as a pick up line on her? She'd done her best to hold her temper in check, but that was it. She'd held it in when she had to answer the exact same questions in the bast four classes, and everyone stared at her tattoo, and those that didn't stare at it stared at her like she was some kind of zoo animal because they'd never seen a goth before. But this idiot? He'd pushed her last button.

"Jade reached into her bag and pulled out her Scissoring scissors and set them on the table, then unscrewed the lid of her thermos. She'd put it in the thermos when it was practically boiling, so now it was nice and merely steaming. "Tell me, which do you think would hurt more, this thermos of coffee to the face, being stabbed in the arm with my scissors?" The boy stared at her in confusion, and Jade sighed. Either he was deaf, or he was so stupid her threats didn't register. "Leave before I hurt you." She snapped. He scurried away, and Jade smirked. That should keep the idiots off.

Alice caught up to Jade as the lunch period ended. "I heard you freaked Tyler out pretty badly." She said with a smile.

"The idiot tried to use a Napoleon Dynamite quote as a pick up line. I should have stabbed him regardless of whether or not he left." Jade growled.

"So you would have accepted his flirting if he'd quoted The Scissoring?" Alice asked, still smiling.

"No, but I wouldn't have threatened to waste perfectly good coffee on him." Jade said with a smirk.

Three days later-English class

Jade scowled and resisted the urge to bang her head against the desk. She'd been tricked. Alice was not, in fact, calm and reserved, but was instead a weird mixture of Tori and Cat, with a fashion obsession tossed in for good measure. If she had been as shallow as Trina as well, then Jade would have killed her. She'd have had no choice. As it was, Jade just wanted to beat her. At least she'd been able to get Cat to shut up occasionally and Tori didn't have all the same classes as her. Alice was just as determinedly happy as Tori had been, and she was there for practically every single hour of school! Tori might have been able to work her way into Jade's life and good graces, but there was no way Alice would be allowed to do the same.

The only bright side was that none of the boys were like Tori. They'd taken the hint after one snap, and now they were flocking to the other new girl, some chick named Bella Swan whom Jade hadn't even talked to yet. Jade mentally sighed. She felt a little bad about negatively comparing everything to Tori. She'd felt a lot of things for Tori, but hate had never been one of them. Just the opposite really.

"Jade? Are you okay?" Alice asked with genuine innocence.

"Peachy." Jade growled, glaring down at her assignment. Alice stared into space for a moment, then sighed and went back to work, shaking her head.

Author's Notes

Hey guys, thanks for reading!

Just to clarify, I'd like to state that no, Jasper does not exist in this story. Or at the very least, he's not a Cullen and isn't in Forks at this point. The reason? Jasper is pointless up until Eclipse! I'm not sure that he actually even had any dialogue up to the third book. Quite frankly, I'm pretty sure that Stephanie Meyer just made him so that she could claim that Alice wasn't gay.

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