Emma
Summary: Five years after the events of Breaking Dawn, the Cullens and Jacob Black move to Alaska to start high school over again. One freshman at Anchorage High is fascinated by the mysterious family of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, supposedly from Phoenix. The girl's name: Emma Lake, and she would do anything to hide her dark and secretive past.
That is my official summary for this story. While I was bored recently (and not doing my Christology homework), I was inspired with a story idea that I have improved upon now. Here's my story.
Bella's POV:
Snow. Ugg.
Despite having been a vampire for five years, I still disliked snow. Sure, it wasn't like it was cold to me anymore, but it didn't look natural at all, large white flakes falling from the sky.
Of course, everything in Alaska was covered in snow already. Though Edward was driving at over 120 miles an hour I was able to see everything clearly. There were few trees and other plants but there would be some animals scurrying across the frosty covering on the bare ground.
I took my eyes off the cold environment of Alaska and sat back, the only thing left was to wait. We were moving for the first time since I had become a vampire, and were going to be living in Anchorage, Alaska.
Nessie (yes, I now call her that) had grown up pretty quickly, stopping at the physical age of 17ish. She was excited to be starting high school especially because Jacob had come along with some of the other werewolves. The pack had kept on growing, even after all the vampires had left, so Jacob had enough people in his pack so he could bring some along to Alaska and the others could stay at our Forks residence. Seth and Leah had decided to stay, while Embry and some new werewolves (Alex, Alison, and Nathan- Alex and Alison were both sisters while Nathan was their younger brother) had decided to come with Jacob. They all thought that Alaska could use some protection from vampires that actually drank human blood.
Nessie and Jacob had grown quite close over the years, and, I was sure, ready to officially start dating. I was fine with it but Edward absolutely hated the idea.
We had the whole school thing arranged already- Nathan was an 8th grader at Arctic MS, Nessie, Alex, and Alison were freshmen, Edward, Jacob, Alice, and I were sophomores, and Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie were juniors. Carlisle had already found a position for a doctor at the local hospital- which was larger than Fork's- and Esme was still staying at home. The high school we were going to wasn't that great- Anchorage High, home of the Polar Bears. An original mascot (unless that was common in Alaska), but not such a great name.
Edward turned for a moment to look at me with a sympathetic expression before once again fixing his attention on the road. He knew how much I disliked the snow- when it had snowed after I was turned the Volturi had come, which had only made me hate it even more- and so didn't bother me about it. I had been the only one against coming here to Alaska since Nessie loved snow, Jacob loved what Nessie loved, the other Cullens had lived here for quite a bit and had liked it, and the young werewolves really didn't care much.
I was pondering these things, barely noting lumps of snow and houses pass by the speeding car- I had reluctantly let up on that point since I knew all of our reflexes were amazing- when I recognized that we had slowed down significantly, at least compared to the empty highway. I noticed that there were suddenly more houses, an old sidewalk that looked like the locals had cleared off recently of snow, and a couple of small stores. Decent sized, but not too large of a place.
We drove through the town before reaching a long driveway that lead to our new home. When we had actually reached the house I was pleased. There weren't many trees but no houses were anywhere in sight, and the house was very large. I could see that upstairs had a large window but the rest of the house had only normal sized windows. It was a light brown which immediately lifted my mood; brown was a warm color for me. A huge garage was connected to the left side of it.
The car stopped, the others already getting out of their cars. I had refused to drive my red Ferrari (I still didn't like that noticeable of a car) and Jacob had been all too willing to drive it. Everyone else had driven their own cars here and weren't hesitating to get them into the garage. Jacob and Nessie, however, were standing by the side of my car staring in awe and shock at the huge house. It was even larger than the one in Forks and it was obvious that Jacob and Nessie were amazed.
"What, did you think that we wouldn't want our own rooms?" Emmett said jokingly as we passed by the twosome who were still gawking at the house. They stared for a moment more before Nessie slipped her hand into Jacob's and she led him along behind her to our new house, starting to speed up into a sprint.
"Come on Jake, we've got to hurry!" She said, not stopping for a moment while the rest of us watched in amusement. "Do you want to have the worst room? We've got to get there as quickly as we can!"
I heard Edward chuckle from where he was walking by my side. "Alice is thinking right now that they're never going to beat her; she's going to run at full speed once they reach the stairs."
I chuckled too and heard the others laughing also, the werewolves' most noticeable. It was pretty funny considering that Nessie had no chance of beating Alice anyways to the room with the largest closet or the largest room period. Alice had actually had one of the lightest packs of stuff because she had been planning on getting an entirely new wardrobe once we got here, and she had almost disposed of my favorite outfits before Edward had warned me and I had hidden them and guarded them until we were on the road. I would not let her buy me a whole wardrobe. Unluckily, Nessie hadn't gotten away from her in time for her clothes to be saved.
Since I had changed and Nessie was born, my daughter had become a sort of replacement as Alice's personal life-sized Barbie doll since I had outright refused to let Alice dress me up. At first as a young child Nessie had loved the attention and the outfits, but then she appeared to gain my dislike of being dressed up and had always tried as hard as she could to get away from the little pixie. Unluckily for her, Alice knew where she ran, and she would always be waiting for her when she returned from the Black's house whether she was with or without Jacob. He stood no chance against Alice when she was determined.
We had just stepped in when we heard a triumphant cry from Alice as she dashed for the stairs at full vampire speed. Nessie, who had actually been unaware of Alice's plan, was staring in exasperation at the little vampire, knowing full well that she could never beat her.
The rest of us calmly found rooms we liked, everyone being satisfied in the end. Alice and Jasper ended up with a normal sized room with a HUGE closet (it was even larger than the one that she had in Forks), Rosalie and Emmett had a bedroom with a large bed that seemed steel-enforced (I doubt that that would help that much), Carlisle and Esme had the largest room with a study attached to it, Nessie had her own small room while Jake and Embry's even smaller room was right next door, Alex and Alison's was about the same size as Nessie's and on the other side of it, Nathan had the attic, and Edward and I had a room that looked amazingly like our room that was in our little cottage back in Forks.
Everyone spent the first couple of hours upon arriving at the house to unpack their stuff and to decorate their rooms. Alice could be seen bouncing energetically through the halls while Jake was in Nessie's room helping her unpack. Emmett and Rosalie didn't take long- it was only an hour later when we heard… disturbing noises from upstairs (Our room was on the ground floor of the three floor house, not including the attic or basement) and we saw Jasper not much later making his escape from the house.
Three hours later Carlisle called for a family meeting in the living room. Edward gave me one last kiss (yes, we had been kissing) before he grabbed my hand and we rushed into the room. Everyone else was either there (the vampires) or were trudging in quickly (the werewolves) or staring at everything and everywhere (Nessie and Jacob). The room was quite large, with several tall floor lamps at the ends of three black leather couches side by side while across from them were two other couches. At one end in-between the sets of couches was a big screen TV with Emmett and Jasper's game consoles already set up while the kitchen and dining room was on the other side. The werewolves and Nessie were sitting on the set of two couches while the others were sitting on the three other couches. Edward and I sat down cautiously by Rosalie and Emmett (who were making out) and Carlisle only paused for a moment longer while the rest of the werewolves sat down before starting the meeting.
"Since you're all settled in, it's time to hand out your school schedules." He was holding a whole bunch of papers in his right hand, which he promptly handed out to all of us. We all eagerly pored over our papers, genuinely interested what classes they had with the others. We all chatted with one another. We all had 8 classes total, which every other day it would switch from the first four to the last four. Since I was a sophomore, I had Geometry, Theatre (I had decided to try out acting), Chemistry, World History, English 10, Intro to Music, Spanish 2 (I had known a little bit of Spanish due to living in Arizona and having a beginners Spanish class in my freshman year), and PE (Luckily I'm not clumsy anymore). I had luckily gotten all my classes with Edward; I had Chemistry, World History, English 10, and Spanish 2 with Jacob; and Geometry, Theatre, English 10, Intro to Music, and PE with Alice.
We talked for a little bit longer before Carlisle spoke up again. "We have to be less noticed here as well as we were in Forks, so use the less ostentatious cars please when driving to school. I suggest using Edward's Volvo and Emmett's Jeep, but discuss it among you because the Quileutes need rides to school too."
Bickering immediately broke out, mainly about what car to use for the werewolves. Everyone with a not-so-ostentatious car did not like the idea of werewolf being stuck in their car. They finally agreed on switching every other week between Emmett's Jeep and Edward's Volvo.
After that we discussed fine details like what time to be at school and other issues before everyone went to their bedrooms. Edward and I settled onto our bed and resumed from where we left off.
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When we got up out of bed in the morning the January sun was barely rising. We changed into our outfits, which mine was a simple black t-shirt and dark blue jeans with my hair pulled up into a ponytail. Edward looked stunning as usual in also a black t-shirt and blue jeans. We took our time gathering our supplies, kissing each other quite a bit, and headed out to the garage when it was time to leave.
We were the last other than Emmett and Rosalie (Figures) so we got into the Volvo along with the werewolves (It was the Volvo's week) and drove to school. We got there with plenty of time and ahead of the others, so we first stopped by the front office to get a quick layout of the school.
The school itself was one building with only two floors. It was relatively small lengthwise also. It didn't take too long to memorize the map and where our lockers were. We had Advocates also, which I shared the same one with Nessie and Emmett (they were mixed grades). Our Advo teacher was some lady named Ms. Smith.
By the time all of us had figured things out and had walked around the school (we had to walk at human speed) our first class was about to start. Edward and I headed to Geometry hand in hand. We were officially "boyfriend and girlfriend" because 16 year olds were not married.
The class was pretty boring. All Edward, Alice and I had to do was stand up from our different spots (thankfully I was seated next to my "boyfriend") as Mr. Koar said our names quickly to introduce us to the class. The class passed quickly (Geometry was easy) and the next class was Advo. Ms. Smith insisted on us calling her Jane (A/N: Hehe, couldn't resist; she's not like Volturi Jane though) and had Nessie, Emmett and I introduce ourselves to the whole group, which Emmett managed to get them all to crack up laughing. He could do that pretty well to people when he wanted to.
All we did in Advo was talk about how school was and other teenager-like things. Theatre luckily was entertaining, starting with Mrs. Hall also insisting on us calling her by her first name, but she seemed like a warmer person that actually understood us compared to Jane.
Everyone (even the werewolves) met at the same table for lunch. The tables were long and rectangular so we were all able to fit with our trays of food. I held Edward's hand while we first listened to Nessie. She and Alex had met several nice people, one who was really talkative and the other who seemed to keep to herself mostly. Most of the other freshmen seemed to ignore them. The others had been ignored like they wanted, so they were happy. Nessie, meanwhile, made sure to point out the two girls that had paid attention to her and Alex. The talkative girl looked like a younger Jessica, while the quiet one had long red hair that reached to her waist with a white ski type hat on and mint green eyes that were staring indifferently at her tray of food.
"What are the two girls thinking?" I whispered quickly to my husband. I was curious to see what the only two girls who were friendly to my daughter were thinking.
"Well, the Jessica imitator" he smiled a bit at that, "is thinking about what good gossip might be, while the other one… she's hard to read. I can't tell why, but it's like trying to wade through a thick wall of fog. I can't really tell what she's thinking except for bits and pieces." He was frowning. "How strange."
After that we didn't broach on the subject, and my last two classes of the day passed by quickly, with Advo in-between them. We went home without much of a difference except for I couldn't keep my mind off of that mysterious girl. For some reason I knew that she was hiding something. Now, just to find out. I thought this as I and Edward started to kiss each other passionately again after we had completed the little homework we had, and I still couldn't keep my mind off of it all night long.
Wow. How interesting. :) Next chapter will be the girl's POV, which you can probably guess what her name is from the title of the fan fic. :) I will be working on this stuff, but it may take awhile as I will have to study next week for finals. When it's summer I'll probably be able to get out a chapter for one or the other of my fics every week. Please review! I want to make sure that people really enjoy this fic. I also have a poll up for my other fic Seth's Chance about whether people want more Kathleen, more Seth, or both about equal. Please vote! Thank you for reading my stories and please review.
