EPOV

It was just another ordinary and boring day of school...or is purgatory the right word? If there were ever away to pay off my sins, this ought to count for something. I stared at the wall, imagining cracks and lines that didn't actually exist to pass the time. This was my form of sleep - if sleep is defined as inert state between active periods.

'Vampires!'Screeched the thoughts of an unknown female, she hissed the 's' in her mind. My body tensed, preparing for attack and my head shot up in search of it's owner. Oddly enough it's 'voice' terrified me, but I wasn't a coward! I was also agitated, defensive, protective and wary. I looked towards the soars of the thought only to see the little new girl - Isabella Swan, but I heard nothing from her and she wasn't even look at us. At the same time, her frail little hands were tightly clenched as she held herself slightly rigid and appeared to be choking on something or holding her breath. She was looking at the spot in front of her. A annoying girl named Jessica Stanley erged the girl forward and pointed to a table. Isabella obeyed, but showed no true sign of lisoning or responding. She was sluggish and stiff as she moved...yet oddly graceful.

"Edward?! What the hell is it!?"Jasper called me back to reality. I could taste my own emotions from him and was surprised to find fascination, I was fascinated by Isabella. I pointed to the girl. "Yes Edward, what about here?"He tapped his foot annoyed.

"I think she knows about us, but I can't read her mind anymore - actually, I'm not even sure it's her mind that screeched 'Vampires',"I explained. The girl turned back to me, her eyes dilated in a strange way and a nearly red brown flowed into them. She looked...hungry in a way and extremely terrified, also...sad? Yes sad.

"Wait, she knows about us!?"Rosalie screeched and I instantly noticed her murderous plan - I turned to growl at her and to my surprise, defend the girl. Rose was shocked.

"Were not killing the girl! Besides, it might not even be her that knows!"I hissed and faced the girl once more. Her eyes had shifted into a beautiful warm chocolate brown and were no longer strangely dilated. They were now filled with warmth, love, compassion, care, trust and thanks, as well as curiosity and nerves - they were so communicative, yet her mind was closed off! I hadn't really seen the girl, besides her strange glorious eyes and position - I'd also seen her in other minds, but not with my own, so I quickly looked her over. She had dark wavy mahogany brown hair surrounding a pale heart shaped face with sharp angler cheek bones. Set in that heart shaped face was her decent dark brown eye brawls place perfectly over her wide, strange and communicative chocolate brown eyes - they were strange because of their depth and light color, normally brown eyes were dark. Under those beautiful orbs was a perfect tiny nose and lovely, plump pink lips that caught my gaze for a few seconds before I continued my examination. She had a medium sized neck, with a delicate, beautiful and bony collar bone, small, but graceful and strong shoulders and thin, short, but well toned arms and legs. She was very thin, extremely and I found my self slightly concerned. She was also very muscular for a teenage girl, yet she appeared very fragile. Everything about her screamed breakable! I conducted my examination within less than a second, but as I looked back up to her face I realized she had somehow noticed because her head was slightly tilted and a beautiful pink blush covered her face, I could see the blood swirling through her nearly translucent skin. I redirected my thoughts away from her blood - I didn't need temptation. My eyes found hers and I saw embarrassment, curiosity, disbelief and questions - she appeared to be holding back a giggle to.

"Who else could it of been?! Hmm?"Rosalie inquired and drew me back again to reality, I turned away from the girl.

"I don't know Rose, but like I said, I'm not sure the thought was hers,"I pointed out for the second time, but I was pretty sure it was hers.

"Edward, get your freaking emotions checked and priorities straight, you don't even know the girl. Now is she a threat or not!"Jasper hissed. This only partially surprised me, Jasper was normally the calm and collected one, but he also became aggressive when there was any possible 'threat' around Alice. I had been to distracted by the girl to notice the direction of his thoughts, but now that I had I realized to things, he was right about me needing to get my priorities straight and I would not let any harm come to the girl! I let out a feral growl and so did Jasper.

"Jasper, settle down. Can you read Isabella's emotions?"Alice patted his arm before he could stand. I instantly saw where her thoughts were heading, apparently she couldn't see Isabella, but if she worked hard enough she could see around her, but her visions kept wavering.

"No,"He replied darkly and crossed his arms. He wanted to wait and see what Alice's point was and access the situation further. He was calm again, calm and protective.

"I can't see her either, but I can see around her,"She paused,"If we don't approach or attack her we will be fine, but there are still lots of blanks, especially around Edward,"She gave me a pointed look, irritation and curiosity evident on her face and in her thoughts.

"If we do attack her?"Emmett was the first one to ask surprisingly, but I could see his motives - he was wondering what she was, if she really was a threat and could defeat him, he wanted to battle her. Idiot!

"If we try to attack her, Edward defends her and when we beat and restrain him, then hunt the girl, are future goes blank - forever, minus Edward, Carlisle and Esme who would never attack the human girl. After a while, Edwards starts going blank again."Alice explained. She had lied about one thing, her future didn't go blank at first - she wouldn't fight Isabella until her mate's future disappeared.

"What do you mean are futures go blank?"Rosalie questioned Alice.

"I can't see people around her, unless you decided to forever be by her side, she must of killed you."Alice replied with a roll of her eyes"I don't know how because I couldn't see it,"

"What about Edwards future disappearing act?"Emmett wondered.

"I suppose he likes to visit her for some reason and can't stay away,"Alice laughed and I growled at her, but she was probably right and that was annoying as hell! Emmett joined her, but Rose and Jasper were angry.

"So, we simply avoid the girl and nothing happens?"He demanded.

"Basically,"Alice shrugged.

"Okay, what about Edward?"He glared at me.

"Jazz, just let the guy be,"Emmett chuckled.

"Let's go,"Rose grumbled and so we went, but I cast one last glance at the girl who was now grinning at me - I was embarrassed, surprised and curios- what is she? How did she here all that? What happened to her eyes earlier? Why did none of are powers work on her? I'd been thinking of her when she walked in. I was instantly worried as I noticed her rigid posture, fisted hands, clenched teeth and held breath, but I was terrified when I met her glare. Her once warm kind chocolate brown eyes were once again dilated oddly, but this time I saw the whole picture. Her pupil had become the shape of an oval like diamond and the chocolate brown had darken and was mixed with a bit of red making them a sort of two layers rufous colors for the most part with specks of pure dark, mahogany, amber and chocolate brown in them, they were shockingly gorgeous, wild and...cat like! They were the most beautiful things I'd ever seen, but also frightening, yet the emotions within them were not exactly fearsome.

Through the glare I saw the fear, no terror glittering in her eyes! I could see dispare, gloom and defeat! On top of that, in her wide cat like eyes that showed little to no white, I could see natural hatred, instinct and anger, it ran through the red patterns in her eyes, but those were not her true feelings. Her heart was quick with the fear, but as I first noticed, she provided it very little air. She was very nervous too. Underneath the instinctive layer, I could see her true feelings and the plea for me to understand - I did. Her eyes could expose her! It didn't matter what she was, or who she was in that moment, all that mattered was that she was safe, secret and hidden. As soon as she saw my understanding she looked down and hung her head - hiding her eyes. All this happened within thirty seconds - no one noticed and the ones that did, didn't think much of it.

Isabella went past the heater and I nearly lost it - her scent was to good! And she had to sit right next to me! The whole time I was imagining ways to kill her and drink her blood, but I didn't. I sat with my hands clenched at my side and tried not to look at her, but when I did I noticed something, her finger nails had turned into shiny white cat like claws! And she was sinking them deep into the chair! Holding herself rigidly and unnaturally still to it. Her heart beat was strong steady and unbearably slow, it wasn't human - more like a hibernating bear and she had held her breath for thirty minutes straight before taking another one and holding it! I also noticed two tears fall from her eyes and hit her lap - I couldn't wonder why or worry about that right then though. And she was up right before the bell rang and took of before I could - a little to inhumanly fast! Luckily, no one seemed to notice. I looked at the deep holes drilled into the chair by her claws and tried to cover them up - no exposure! After that I took of to my car - I really needed to think!

What was Isabella? I'd never seen anything like her, then again, I only knew of three super natural species, vampires, shape shifting wolfs and children of the moon. I began to compare her to each. Well, her...shifting doesn't appear to be time related, but maybe...maybe it's triggered by danger - me! I remembered the screech and his of that one thought, but I hadn't seen her eyes yet - she'd been hiding them! When I did see them, they were dilated until I defended her - she felt safe because of me? Hard to believe. Then, she was in danger again, because of me and couldn't control her instincts completely - I endangered and nearly exposed her! That thought filled me with dread! I hated hurting her or endangering her in anyway. But it was just a theory. What else could possibly be the trigger? I couldn't think of anything, but one unbelievable idea - what if she was a vampire hunter like the wolfs? It was completely insane, unbelievable! Though it did fit.

Anyways, that's three possible triggers, one that seems impossible and one that doesn't fit and one that seem perfect. Now, what is she? She has claws and cat eyes so maybe she's like a cat version of the moon children? But not exactly the same. Does she transform further? Could she became a full cat, like a shape shifter? She was living so she wasn't a vampire, but did she eat meat, drink blood or simple human food? I hadn't really been paying attention. She was faster and more graceful than a ordinary human from what I've seen and must have vampire like hearing at least, probably other sense to. I think she has powers to, a mental shield and physical shield to keep me and Jasper and Alice out.

'Hey' a mental voice called.

"What do you want Alice?"I grumbled, she broke my train of thought.

'What you doing out here?'She wondered.

"That one girl, Isabella, I'm trying to figure out what she is."I replied.

'What she is?'Alice was confused'I thought she was a human,'

"No, she's not, but I've never seen another creature like her before."I sighed "She has claws, like a cat and her eyes shift to cat like eyes when she's around danger or something - I haven't completely figured that one out."Another sigh.

'Well, be careful Edward, your future disappeared completely three times earlier - I got worried, but then it came back,'Alice warned me, but she was desperate to find out what the girl was. She also feared the girl.

"My future completely disappeared three times, Alice?" I wondered, but before she could say a thing we heard a gasp. We both turned to see Isabella with her hand over her mouth and she looked like she was going to cry - her eyes were normal. She had been lisoning in front of the office - she was sneaky, I added that to the list. She hurried into the office. Me and Alice were silent as we lisoned to her talk to Mrs. Cope. She said her day had been good, but she was filling a bit ill. She asked to switch Biology hours, 'fearing that it would make her sick to have it after lunch'. Mrs. Cope said there were no other times available and Isabella couldn't get out of it, but if she was getting squeamish, to tell Mr. Banner. Isabella nodded and slowly walked back out defeatedly and hung her head. She looked back up, to glare at me again - her eyes transforming and claws following. Once again I could see the red pattern that carried the instinctual rage, hate and anger, but I could also see past it, I could see the sadness in her eyes - so much sadness! She held one hand out towards us, palm flat facing us like a stop sign and a complex tattoo began to appear. It was basically a copy of her cat eyes, but a slight different design and black curly designs formed a circle around it. Once the gorgeous tattoo had fully formed she waved her palm once and put it down, then hissed, revealing two large top fangs and two smaller bottom fangs. After that she mouthed stay away and disappeared - ran so fast I could only see a blur!

"That was a threat?!"Alice hissed.

"No, it was a warning,"I breathed, still stunned.

"You two look like you just saw a ghost!"Emmett chuckled and me and Alice both jumped, hissing, then glanced at each other.

'Should we...warn them?' I shook my head, that would only put as all against each other again. Me and Alice played it cool and didn't manage to talk till we were out hunting, but we had to bring Jasper with us because he caught on to our emotions. Jasper hated Isabella at this point and was ready to go off hunting her, but me and Alice both knew that would end with him dead. I explained my theory - I'd settled on the unbelievable because all the evidence leaned towards it. Isabella was some sort of cat like creature that was naturally enemies with vampire, like the wolfs, but she wouldn't attack us unprovocte. I assumed she was like a newly faced wolf, unstable and not completely in control yet because the way she acted. Alice said she didn't not see Isabella in biology or lunch, but she did see me, so we guessed she would be absent. We continued with the original plan.

Alice was right, 'Bella' Isabella's nick name, was absent, pretending to be sick I believe - the vile Mike Newton was bragging about how Bella had only told him she felt bad, but I'm pretty sure that was just because she knew he would spread the news best. I was anxious to see her! Yet all that week she never showed and I swear it was all because of me! My family was sick of my bad mood and finally kicked me out Sunday - I decided to hunt. I hadn't expected to come across her scent, but I did.