A/N And…we're off!

EPOV

Where am I again? Oh yeah I'm back in Forks, Washington…again. It's been sixty years since our family was last here, Alice and Jasper weren't with us then. They didn't miss much, the place is still just as dreary and boring as it has always been. Nothing interesting ever happens in Forks.

It just goes to show how bored I have been lately to have forgotten where I even am, I don't usually forget anything. My mind is so numb from boredom recently that I hardly notice what's going on around me anymore. I know Carlisle is worried about me, he thinks I may be depressed. Can vampires get depressed?

Maybe I should make more of an effort with my family, but they are all paired off and I often feel like a spare wheel when I am around them. I don't want to bring down their mood with my 'moping' as Emmet said the other day.

So I pretty much just keep to myself. I can't even bring myself to play my beloved piano anymore-much to Esme's dismay-because all that comes out of me are sad, depressing notes and on occasion I indulge in angry, hateful playing that just pisses everyone off. Rosalie especially, although it can sometimes bring a smile to my lips to hear her mental tirade before she stomps out the door in a tantrum.

So here we are, first day of school in Forks, we have only been here for a few hours and the other students are already annoying the crap out of me. God, these girls are so shallow, all they think about is how they look and how popular they are, and don't get me started on the boys. They spend more time watching the girls strut around than paying attention to their classes.

Alice and I have English together just before lunch so we head to the cafeteria together. Alice is unusually quiet but she is looking ahead to see how Jasper is going to handle today, we had to leave our last home because of a very close call that started a few whispers about our behaviour.

I step in the cafeteria door and the noise - both mental and audible - hits me full on, swiftly followed by the scent of so many humans gathered together in one place. It is quite potent.

"Oh, poor Jasper he's really suffering, I better go over to him" Alice frets. He is already sitting at a table on the far side of the canteen looking like a man in some serious pain. Emmet and Rosalie are there too. Alice quickly grabs some food without looking at it and rushes over to him, thinking about distracting him for a while.

I fill my tray idly while listening to a few people in the queue, I know a few names already from those kids who were in my classes this morning.

That new guy is yummy, I have got to get me some of that – Jessica Stanley is staring at the back of my head behind me in the queue, Jeez I hope she doesn't keep this up because that crap gets old, fast.

Beside her is another girl thinking lewd thoughts, Lauren Mallory I think her name is I wonder which one I'll go for first mmm those four look cosy together at their table, what the hell is up with that. Maybe I'll try my luck with this Edward guy. I tuned out as she started planning what outfit she was going to wear tomorrow to catch my attention. Pathetic.

The boy's thoughts were full of envy as they saw the girls paying us so much attention. They wouldn't be so envious if they knew the truth about what Jasper was thinking right now!

I take a seat at the end of our table and notice that the tables around us are almost empty, no surprise there. People are wary of what we are even if they don't realise it. The only person sitting near us is a slight, brown haired girl at the table next to us.

The girl has her nose stuck in a book as she nibbles on some food. She doesn't look up at all to see us sitting here. Weird, usually people can sense on some level when we are near but she just carries on reading as if she is alone in the room. No one comes to sit with her.

As I am staring at her I see from the corner of my eye some food flying through the air towards the girl. I can't stop it as I would have to move at vampire speed and I don't feel like moving house again so soon because of rumours. The food, it looks like pizza or some other disgusting thing these humans eat, lands on her hair and slides messily down her hidden face landing on her book.

She doesn't even look up as a table full of students erupt into roars of laughter, jumping around and high fiving each other. "Great shot Mike" Jessica laughs.

What the hell? That girl is sitting there not bothering anyone and they decide to humiliate her. While the laughter continues the girl takes tissues from her bag and starts to clean cheese out of her hair. This only makes those obnoxious idiots laugh louder. She puts all the discarded food onto her tray and stands to put it in the trash. She still has not acknowledged the table of idiots.

I don't know why but this makes me extremely angry. The girl is so timid and tiny, frail looking walking with her shoulders hunched. She turns to leave the room and I get my first look at her face, I see that she is embarrassed and I can also see tears in her eyes. But more importantly than any of this I see that she is beautiful. Where did that come from? I never notice girls so why am I sitting here admiring this meek little human?

Jasper brings me out of my inner debate. "Edward what's going on? I can feel….something different from you" He darts his eyes around our table not wanting to give too much away, Jasper is very discrete but Alice will probably get it out of him later. "I'm not sure" I sigh, "Did you see what they did to that girl? It makes me angry"

"Foolish girl should learn to stand up for herself" Rosalie scoffs. "Want me to scare the crap out of those kids" Emmett grins, "Man it would be fun to watch them pee their pants."

"Emmett Cullen you will do no such thing" Rosalie fumes. "These humans are none of our concern, we can't get involved. Why would we even want to?"

I know she's right of course but her attitude still annoys the hell out of me. "Come on it's time for class anyway."

I try, unsuccessfully, not to think of the girl again as I make my way to biology. After the teacher, Mr Banner introduces me he points to a table at the back of the class with the only spare seat in the room. The other occupant at that table causes me to freeze momentarily when I see the now familiar brown hair. Her hair is all I see of course as she is staring intently at something in front of her on the table.

I approach the desk and glance to see what has her rapt attention and se…nothing. She is staring at the empty desk, strange. Just as I am about to sit I am hit with an odour, her odour, which is so strong I have to grip the chair I'm holding so I don't lunge straight for her. Of course the chair won't do much to hold me back. I look around the room quickly to make sure there are no other available spaces, there aren't. "Mr Cullen, is everything alright?" Mr Banner is getting impatient, he wants to start the lesson.

I look back to the girl to see that she is actually looking at me and saw me trying to find another seat, away from her. I might have felt guilty about this if it wasn't for the fact that I wanted to kill her! Instead I shoot her a ferocious glare as I sit down. She blushes scarlet and looks away quickly, I can taste her blush in the air, making me insane.

She must think I am insane. That's when I realise, I have no idea what she thinks…at all. I didn't notice until just this second that I haven't yet heard a single thought from her mind. I listen intently and still get nothing from her. I almost growl in frustration, what is wrong with her? I know she looks like she is staring at nothing but surely she can't be thinking nothing, especially when she blushed.

I don't know what annoys me more, her scent or her silence. It's so frustrating. Pulling my chair as far away from her as I can I spend the rest of the lesson ignoring her as she ignores me and reminding myself not to breathe. As soon as the bell sounds I tear out of the class and don't look back, I've got to get out of here.

BPOV

Will I ever get out of this town? Today started off crap and just got worse as it went on. I didn't sleep well last night, nothing new there, so I was tired this morning walking to school. It was raining hard too but when isn't it here? I was soaked through when I got to school but I was prepared, I keep a spare set of clothes in my locker for when I get this wet. After I changed in the bathroom I made my way to my first class.

I am a good student I study hard, I don't have much else to do. I'm hoping a college, any college will give me a scholarship because it's the only way I'm getting out of this place. Charlie, my dad certainly won't be helping me. Charlie is Chief of Police here in Forks, he doesn't earn much and what little money he makes is mostly spent on beer. He didn't always drink, but when my mom left us he just stopped caring about everything. Including me. She said she didn't want to be a mom, she said she shouldn't have had me. So she left. Whatever.

He doesn't talk to me really, nobody talks to me. I mean I know I'm shy but I'd still like to talk to someone every now and then. I keep thinking I'll get used to it, but I don't. My only chance of a normal life is getting out of here and going where nobody knows what a freak I am.

Lunch was a disaster, again, I think I'm going to have to start eating my lunch in the bathroom again where I can lock myself in. For the most part I am invisible to these people, there is just one group, Lauren and her gang, which insist on making my life even more crap than it already is. I was absolutely mortified in the canteen over Mike's stunt with the pizza. I spent the rest of lunch trying to clean melted cheese from my hair. And trying not to cry.

And now I have this new guy, Edward, who is looking at me as if I stink or something. I saw him search the class for another available seat but had to give up and sit beside me. If he was sitting any further away from me he would be out in the aisle. What did I do to him? I know people don't like me, well usually they just don't even notice I'm there, but what the hell is his problem.

Could I really be that repellent to people that everyone hates me on sight? If I knew what I was doing wrong maybe I could fix it. But I could never work up the courage to ask as I am sure it would just bring more ridicule my way and I have had enough to last me ten lifetimes. To make matters worse he just happens to be the most beautiful person I've ever seen. Great. All I want to do is stare at him but of course I won't do that, I already look like a tomato from the withering look he gave me. I don't want to add insult to injury. I wonder which group he will hang out with, I hope it's not Lauren's. Everyone else just ignores me, but that girl and her friends can be so cruel. I know it really shouldn't make any difference who he befriends, I mean let's face it, it's not going to be me! But I don't want this gorgeous boy picking on me.

When the bell goes Edward all but runs from the class before I even have a chance to gather my books. Wow this is going to be a fun class for the rest of the year.

I head to my personal hell on earth…gym class. Here is where it makes sense to me why nobody wants to know me. I am probably to most uncoordinated person on the planet. I am a klutz plain and simple. Here I understand why no one wants to be my partner, why I'm always picked last and yelled at by the coach. I get it. I just don't understand why people ignore me all the time everywhere else.

An hour, two bruises and a possibly concussed partner later I head for home. As I trek the two miles to Charlie's I cringe when I think of how hard I hit Tyler with that bat. I hope he's ok even though he hangs with Lauren and laughs at me along with the rest of them I still feel bad about almost knocking him out.

The rain has eased of a lot so I'm not quite as wet as this morning when I get home. The house is silent, Charlie must be working or fishing, his cruiser is gone. Not that it matters when he's here because he hardly ever speaks to me anyway. The only difference is the silence when the TV is off when he's not here.

I spend a few hours doing my homework and a bit of studying before I make myself a sandwich. I sit in the silent kitchen surrounded by the cabinets my mother painted before she realised she didn't in fact want a family. I wash my dishes and trudge upstairs for a shower. After I spend a long time under the soothing warm water I dry off and dress in my comfy pyjamas, well really it's a holey old top and ratty sweatpants.

I snuggle under my duvet and take out my book. I am re-reading pride and prejudice, one of my favourites. I open it to the page I left off after the cafeteria incident today. The pages are a little stained with pizza sauce but as the book is falling apart anyway it doesn't really matter. I fall asleep reading and silently praying for a better day tomorrow. Heaven knows they can't get much worse, can they?

A/N So there you go my first chapter of my first attempt at fanfiction. What do you think? Reviews are welcome and appreciated. Don't hold back I need the criticism to know where I can improve. If its crap tell me! I have a few ideas of where I'm taking this story but I welcome any suggestions. Thanks.

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