Chapter 1
New Girl
I walked to my classroom, ok this was just wrong I was in 7th grade and we got assigned seats; we only had one teacher the whole day too. Augh, this was going to be a very long year…
I made my way to the front of the class, I was new to this tiny school, a Jr. High
school in the small town of Forks… I wasn't much of the person who like the sun or hated it but hey I didn't like living in a place where you could step outside when it's raining and take a shower every day.
"Ms. Lock?" I looked up as my name was called and saw my new teacher, Mrs. Stern. I wondered if that was her real last name?
"Yes?" I looked at the teacher smiling I was always one to try to make a good impression. Or at least my parent(s) told me to…
"You'll be sitting by Jasper Hale, Cullen…" she gestured with her dainty hand to the boy who was unbelievably gorgeous sitting in the back of the classroom, he looked like he was being quarantined, he sat away from everyone, but me now. His head snapped up at his name, I stared at him for a moment then blushed and looked down at my new Abby Dawn t-shirt, it was the ones with the vest on it.
"Ok, thank you, are my textbooks and stuff inside my locker?" I inquired.
"Yes everything you need is there; your dad brought your supplies in last night." She smiled nervously, I had a feeling she was trying to impress me… she probably thought I was filthy rich since my dad was deputy here. Nope just in-between, my mother thought it would be a good experience for me to live here, and I agreed. She was only with my baby brother and step father Bill.
"Ms. Lock try not to daydream, we have a lot to get through today." I snapped back into reality and walked to the back of the classroom to where Jasper sat, he had beautiful honey colored hair that was a little long and messy, but stylish…and handsome.
"Hi my name is Alyson Lock," I smiled as I took the desk that beside him, I began to feel unease…
"Hi," that was all I got from Jasper the whole day.
I realized that he hung out with other people from our class, apparently their names where Edward, Bella, Emmet, and the supermodel Rosalie.
"Just don't think about them they are all paired of, well except Jasper, but he doesn't date. He and his sister Rosalie where adopted by the Cullens when they were 8. Emmet and Edward where separate adoptions. They all pretty much keep to themselves." one of the girls told me, who introduced herself as Vanessa Ralph.
"Oh," looked at Jasper from where we ate at. As I looked at him he looked up and starred at me with his liquid topaz eyes, I blushed immediately and looked down. Augh I wish I had my long hair back; I had it cut into a pixie like cut when I got here.
"Jasper is looking at you," Vanessa said smiling at me, I had taken to looking at the thing I was supposed to eat, it looked like somebody was trying to pass it as shepherds pie, I didn't like that in general. Note to self: Bring sack lunch from now on…
I dared to look up again and saw the Cullen's leaving with there untouched lunches in their pale hands.
"I've got to go get something from my desk." I hurriedly ran out of the cafeteria with my untouched food, throwing it in the garbage on the way out.
Ugh I needed to get…OH CRAP! Jasper Cullen was standing right in front of the classroom portable. I kept on running until I thought my lungs would burst. I stopped at a bench and basically crumbled onto the bench. Why did I even come to this stupid rainy town? Yea that's right, to escape the madness at my house, I couldn't stand being on the outskirts of everything, I knew I had to get out of there before I lost my mind.
I heard the bell, I took of running in the direction of the 7th grade portable. I was there in time to get into the classroom before anyone else, well almost, there in the same seat was Jasper, starring up at my probably beat red face. I was never going to escape this was I? I sat down at my desk and looked down and pretended to be interested in the assignment that I had pulled out of the purple binder that was sitting by the corner of my desk.
"Ms. Lock what do you think about this equation?" Mrs. Stern looked at me and smiled. Oh, she wanted me to explain it. So I went into detail about it and told her the answer. Everyone looked at me like I was crazy, ok so math was one of my better subjects, was I supposed to fail the problem.
"Thank you Ms. Lock, well we have another bright student, Jasper looks like you have competition." Mrs. Stern laughed good heartedly. I looked over to see Jasper looking at me. I swallowed and looked back up to the board.
The bell finely rang and I gathered my things and quickly ran out of the classroom, I caught my toe on the corner of someone's desk and stumbled but kept my footing. I hated being clumsy, but it had gotten better over the years, so at least I hadn't fell, I spoke too soon. On the way out of the portable I lost my footing and landed on the wet grass. Yuck. I ran away quickly after I had gotten up, I ran to my bike and peddled home.