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BURNING BRIGHT

Chapter 1

I'm sitting in a parking lot, looking at my new high school and I can't stop my mind from wandering to the events that led me here. It's been almost five years since the last time I saw my Uncle Charlie, so after discussing it with Piotr, Ororo, Remy and Professor I called him and asked does his offer still stands. When my parents died, he said that his house would always be open for me if I wanted to live with him. At the time I refused because I wanted to improve my self-control, not to mention the little fact I was emotional wreck and my abilities were out of control. Charlie was of course happy that I wanted to live with him. So the last two weeks were spent driving across the country from Westchester, New York to Forks, Washington.

Soft taps of raindrops against my car brought me back to present. The lot was still mostly empty so I decided to go to the office while no one was around to give me a third degree. Seriously, I wasn't even 24 hours in this town and everybody knew about me. I wasn't that much surprised when lady in the office knew who I was the second I entered.

"Good morning, I'm…"

"Ruby Winters, Chief Swan's niece. It's so nice to meet you. I'm Mrs. Cope," her voice was hurting my ears with all the squealing.

"Nice to meet you too," NOT!

"Here is your schedule and locker number, dear," she handed me two pieces of paper, "Hope you'll have a nice time here."

"Me too," I said with a fake smile and walked away. When I got out of the building everyone was staring at me and whispering comments about me, which pissed me off big time but I ignored it. At that moment I was really glad I had good self-control because I hate when people judge me without knowing anything about me, and that was exactly what they were all doing. I walked back to my car, humming Anywhere but Here from Rise Against, it seemed fitting. I grabbed my backpack, along with my big headphones and iPod Touch trough the window, still trying to ignore all the stares and sounds around me, but I still heard the bike being parked behind me and saw out of the corner of my eye that it was a guy. I felt the heat of someone's stare on my ass and I knew it was the biker boy's so I wiggled it a bit. At that moment I noticed Angela, a girl I met yesterday at the store, waiting for me in front of the car.

"Please tell me you came to save me," I pleaded looking at her.

"Maybe. Let me see your schedule," I handed her the paper and she quietly read it, "We don't have chemistry and physics together but everything else is the same," she said with a smile.

"Thank you, you are a lifesaver," as soon as the words left my mouth we heard the bell so we headed inside.

….

First four classes were fun, I managed to annoy all the teachers but they wouldn't give me detention since it was my first day. It was nice to know that those things would usually land me in detention. The teachers kept comparing me with some Hale guy, saying that I was worst than him, but that only made me proud. It was kinda ironic that Chief's niece had no respect for authority figures. Chemistry, last class before lunch. It was time to up the ante if I wanted that detention. I walked up to the teacher, "I'm Ruby Winters, new student."

"Well Miss Winters, due to lack of the equipment students are paired off so that means your partner is Newton," he said pointing to blond boy that looked at me like a love sick puppy.

Great. Everyone once again stared as I walked to my table, but I ignored them to the best of my ability. But one stare I couldn't ignore no matter how hard I tried, just like the biker boy's in the parking lot. When I sat down I tried to find its owner. She was short, like pixie short and had short black hair. If I saw her somewhere from behind I would say she was thirteen years old. Suddenly, my twisted mind gave her wings and short pinky dress, making her a fairy. I bet she had a personality to match one.

First fifteen minutes Mr. Jones explained what our task for this class was, but I didn't really pay attention. Until he accidently gave me an idea, "Remember it goes acid in water, not the other way around."

"What would happen if we did it the other way?" I already knew, but it was a perfect way to get what I wanted.

"I would appreciate it if you don't try to find out," his voice was stern. Too bad it didn't have any effect on me. I looked at my table with a grin. HCl, H2SO4, AgNO3, distilled water, four beakers, four test tubes and Bunsen burner. I had to do it, or have Mike do it. So ten minutes later, I mixed up the beakers and Mike poured water in AgNO3 and it went puff. Well it didn't explode really, just some smoke, but it was enough.

"Newton!" Mr. Jones yelled running to our table. It was fun watching Mike squirm.

"I didn't do anything," Mike tried to defend himself.

"So you didn't switch the beakers so that you can have a little explosion?" Mr. Jones was red. I almost expected steam to blow from his ears. The way things were going Mike would end up in detention, not me.

"Ruby handed me the beakers, she must have switched them," Mike turned towards me.

This is the point where I could have gotten away with it if I said it was an accident. But then I opened my mouth, "Why the fuck would I do that?"

….

JASPER

Just five more months, I repeated over and over in my head as I drove my bike to school. All of my family already left, but I tried to convince Esme to let me stay at home. Obviously no luck on that front. I don't know why we bother with school every time we move somewhere else, but I think I would go crazy if I just sat at home all the time. Only problem when you are vampire, besides wanting to drink blood, is too much time. It would be easier if we could sleep, but no, we are stuck awake all the time. So to entertain myself while in school, I decided to be rebel. Besides we can't all be perfect. When I say all, I mean my adoptive siblings Emmet, Rosalie, Edward and Alice. We all have good grades in school, it would be weird if we didn't since we repeated it at least twenty times so far, but they act like good students never making trouble or anything. Well, Rose and Em were with me in detention few times since they were "caught" making out on school grounds. They were just bored and wanted to join me in detention. Speaking of detention, I wondered what I could do today to get there. My time in detention was usually spent discussing something from history or playing Texas hold 'em with Tom, our history teacher who looked after the poor souls that ended in detention by accident. I on the other hand went there on purpose. I would do some shit that would upset teachers and off to detention after school I go.

As school comes into my view I mentally prepare myself. It's not my bloodlust that is a problem, I wouldn't jump on somebody unless they are ten feet from me and bleeding from every major artery in their body. Me being empath is the problem, especially in a room full of teenagers with raging hormones or when I'm with my family. It's not that easy to control the bloodlust of seven vampires. Most of my slip-ups were when I was around them. Well, those weren't exactly slips, but they don't need to know that. Today would be even a bigger challenge than usual because of the new girl. I almost felt sorry for Edward since he would have to listen what everybody thought about her. Out of the whole family, only Eddie and I didn't get along. Sure we could be civil towards each other, mostly because of Carlisle and Esme, but we avoid being in the same room if we can. He doesn't like that I constantly keep blocking my thoughts. They are inside our heads since they are meant to be private, hence the reason I'm blocking him. But then again it could the fact that Alice and I had a thing while we searched for the family. We didn't know how long it will take, and since we both had some urges we decided to help each other. I ended it maybe a week before we met the family, mostly because I began to see her more as a sister than as a fuck buddy.

I saw an open parking space between Emmet's Jeep and cherry red '69 Yenko Chevelle with two black racing stripes. Even though I am more of a bike kinda guy I know a beautiful car when I see it. As a vampire I am supposed to have super senses, then how did I fail to notice the girl is beyond me. Only when I got off my Ninja ZX-14 I noticed a girl leaning trough the window, her black coat a bit lifted giving me a perfect view of her ass. I couldn't help but admire it since it was probably the best one I saw in my very long life. As if she knew I was watching her, the girl wiggled her butt, provoking me. The skinny jeans weren't helping either, I barely stopped myself from running my hand over it. I saw Angela walking towards the car so I quickly left and joined Emmet and Rose who waited for me at the steps.

"What took you so long?" Emmet asked once he detangled himself from Rose.

"Tried to persuade Esme to let me stay at home."

"Looks like you managed it," Rose taunted and I only stuck out my tongue in response. Due to years of pretending we were twins Rose and I we very close, almost like we really are twins. She just laughed and turned around, holding Emmet's hand. I followed them, but my mind was still stuck on the picture from the parking lot and I felt my jeans become a bit tight. That realization stopped me. Oh shit!

….

I'm not much of a believer but I prayed for this class to end. Hell, the whole day to end. And to think it began so nicely. Every boy in the whole school felt lust for the new girl, while girls were jealous. Not to mention I can't stop thinking about parking lot and the girl. Or stop humming some tune when I have no idea where I heard it. I banged my head quietly on the desk. I heard Rose laugh beside me so I flipped her off, which only made her laugh harder.

"What is it with you today?" she asked when her laughing transformed into giggling.

"They're killing me," I don't remember the last time I whined, which caused new laughing wave from Rose.

"Hale, calm down," teacher said looking at Rose before turning back to the board where he drew human heart.

"And how are they killing you?" her voice betrayed the fact that she was trying very hard not to laugh, as well as her emotions.

"Their lust and jealousy are killing me. I would kill myself if I could."

"You do know that the next few weeks are going to be the same, right?" I could feel the sympathy coming from her, but before I could respond I heard commotion from the classroom next door. She heard it as well so we both concentrated on it.

"Newton!"

"I didn't do anything."

"So you didn't switch the beakers so that you can have a little explosion?"

"Ruby handed me the beakers, she must have switched them," Ruby was the new girl that much I knew.

"Why the fuck would I do that?" at this point I could feel amusement coming from Alice who was in the chemistry lab and someone's smugness, which I presumed was Ruby's.

"Language Winters!" I could feel how pissed Jones was.

"You wanted to know what would happen but you didn't dare to try it so you set me up," Mike was defending himself, but he still felt lust towards Ruby despite what she did.

"Fuck you very much," Ruby responded and I could feel shock from every person in that class, including Alice.

"Detention after school and leave this class right now," I knew that Jones was absolutely fuming right now. I wondered if his face was red.

"She's got style. I bet he has steam coming out of his ears," Rose commented which sent us both into fits of laughter.

"Hale's, both of you out," we were still laughing on our way out.

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A/N: As you probably realized, Jasper is the single one and there is no Bella. I just wanted to try something different from my usual writing style, and this was the result. Hope you like it :)