Chapter 1

Brilliant, I thought to myself, just what I need. A new school. Why do we even need to go to school?

"Are you ready to go?" a pleasantly musical voice came from behind me.

"I don't think I will ever be ready to go to school, I mean, people complain about going once. It's not like I'm learning anything new," I replied, equally musically. I turned around, slid my hands behind his neck, and pulled his head closer to mine, so our lips were touching.

"Well, firstly," he kissed me lightly. "You haven't even been to school half as many times as me, not even 3 times yet," he kissed me again. I was starting to feel light-headed; I don't even think vampires are meant to be light-headed.

"Another positive, you will be top of the class." He kissed me again.

"And finally, if I hadn't gone back to school, I wouldn't have met you, would I?" he kissed me deeply. We stayed like that until Alice came bouncing down the stairs singing not to do that in the doorway.

We followed her slowly, holding hands. She had bounced into the back of Edward's new silver Volvo. The old one was used to fake my own death 15 years ago. Edward kissed me again before sliding into the driver's seat.

I walked, at vampire speed, to my car, a shiny, royal blue Volvo, the same make as Edward's. I jumped into the driver's seat and waited for Jasper and Rosalie to follow. We were going to go as two separate groups. Jasper, Rosalie and I were to register under the Hale's and Edward, Alice and Emmett were to register as Cullen's, even though now legally I was a Cullen.

I drove the car, pushing the speedometer as always. Even though we only arrived here yesterday, it was impossible to miss the school, a typical school building and the only place in the whole in town with cars actually coming and going.

I parked in the student car park, waited for Edward to pull up, and walked to the office together. Jasper, Rosalie and I went in first. The woman at the front desk, in her mid 40's and slightly plump, was reading a trashy gossip magazine. She looked up to see who had walked in and almost fell over when she saw the three most beautiful people she had ever seen, all walk in the door. I then saw her gaze drift off over to Jasper. I rolled my eyes and allowed him to do all the talking. I wonder what she would be like when Edward comes in. I thought to myself.

After we had all registered we split up, my first class was with Edward and Alice. The class was boring enough: genetics. Edward surprised Mr Lee by knowing more about the subject than he did, two medicine degrees come in handy; of course, Lee thought he was being a "smart allic" and making him teach the class. He did it with ease and we were dismissed by a rather embarrassed looking Mr Lee 10 minutes early.

"Well that was funny," I said to Edward, avoiding the numerous stares.

We had gone to the cafeteria, bought some food, when a smell hit me. It tasted sour in my mouth and almost made me gag. I looked around at Edward and Alice who looked like they could also smell it. I searched over the cafeteria in an attempt to find the source of the smell. I found it. A tall, muscly, 17 looking boy was sitting in the corner of the room looking out the window. I recognised him in that instant. Jacob Black. As I said his name, he looked over towards us and had a similar reaction to us as we had to him. He almost threw up.

All four of us got up and walked out of the building for some fresh air.

"Edward just go back inside, he will want to talk to me and it would be best if you weren't there for it," I muttered to Edward, then kissed him and gave him a push towards the cafeteria.

That left Alice and I to face Jacob alone.

"Finally," he exclaimed, "I've been looking for you for the past 15 years, ever since I heard of your 'suspicious death'."

"Well Jacob you found me, what do you want?" I replied.

"Well your bloodsucker family broke the treaty, if you even remember the treaty. Remember that the deal was that they would never BITE anybody, not just kill. And unless you somehow magically became a vampire on your own, I think they broke the treaty."

"So what if they did, I've never been happier."

"Well I'm sorry but now that I've found you I will have to get rid of the whole family. Let's start with Alice here."

"I'm sorry to say Jacob that if you fight with us, me in particular you will never win. If you have, somehow forgotten that, some vampires actually acquire powers when they change. Well unluckily for you, I was one of them." I replied sweetly.

The fight begun. Jacob, being the werewolf that he was, lunged first. I easily parried the move and hit him with a ball of fire. His fur caught fire and he yelped. By this stage, we had moved out into the woods near the school. The next time he lunged at me, I just allowed him to go straight through me. Alice was waiting on the other side of me and caught him in a bear hug. I turned around and grabbed the other side of him.

"I'm sorry to say Jacob, but you spent the last 15 years of your life for this moment, that's pretty sad." And I don't know what possessed me at that time, but I sank my teeth into his neck. Alice copied on the other side. We sat there draining his blood until it had all gone. My body felt suddenly unbearably hot and I thought I was about to explode. It died down and I saw that Alice's eyes had gone to a normal brownish colour, and her skin looked a bit less white.

"What just happened?" I heard Alice's voice.

"I don't know, but I think we should try to forget it," I replied.

"Let's go back to school."

We buried the body and walked back to school. I saw Edward walking out his classroom, towards the car park. We had been out for a few hours and had missed most of our first day of school.

I agreed with Alice to run home with Edward and she could drive home.

Edward of course was worried about what had happened, and since he couldn't hear Jacob's thoughts or Alice's, since I had blocked them from other powers.

"Why was Jacob here and where is he now?" He questioned.

"Well he came to kill us, our family I mean, and so we killed him." I left out the part that we had drained his blood. However, he hadn't completely missed the fact.

"Why are your eyes dull? And why is your skin darker than normal?"

"Just drop it Edward, I don't know," I was getting angry.

When we made it back to our house, which was out of town, we went straight to our room and I flopped onto the bed. Edward came and laid in the space next to me.

"I'm sorry; I was just worried all through geography and maths. I didn't know what had happened to you and I was worried that you might have been dead. Although, all that worrying has made me realise how much I want you." He finished his sentence and rolled on top of me. He started to unbutton my shirt.