Forever Dreaming
CH. 1- 100 years
B POV
I groaned at the thought of going to high school in Forks again. Edward immediately looked over at me wondering what was wrong. I sighed, "It's nothing; I just hope this isn't anything like last time." My favorite crooked grin spread out over his still dazzlingly perfect face, "Bella, relax. You already know everything there is to be taught this year." his grin grew and he continued at a much lower frequency so no one else would hear, "Besides, it's almost our hundredth anniversary; doesn't that cheer you up just a little?" I leaned in and kissed him briefly, "Of course it does Edward, I'm just nervous is all. Especially for how those two will cope with being around this many people." I glanced back at our newest additions, Nick and Sarah. They were conversing excitedly about how they were going to like going to school being vampires, and clearly hadn't heard our hushed conversation. The two of them were just a few years apart, and had been in a car crash that killed both of their parents and their older sibling; so Carlisle who was on the emergency response ward that day, had changed them. I often worried about them; they were so young when they were in that accident. They had been a mere 15 and 13 at the time, albeit they were mature and looked to be 18 and 16, but still before they had really had much a shot at life; now they were about 25 and still in the bodies of young teens. At least I didn't have it that bad; I was a hundred and 19 years old, but in the same beautiful, vampiric body I had willingly taken when I was about to turn twenty. Edward laughed softly at my concern, "You really have to stop treating them like children Bella; if only you could hear Nick's thoughts when you tell him what to do like a six year old; they're absolutely murderous!" I poked him jokingly in the ribs, "Well, he's about a century or so too late for that." Edward sighed, "Bella love, you know I was just using that a figure of speech." I laughed softly, "That doesn't mean I can't tease you about it!" I looked back at the siblings, and they really did seem happy, but I knew they were still struggling. Jasper had told everyone to try to help them out after a while of enduring the depression rolling off of them in waves. They had now moved on to what they were going to pick as their electives this year. They still had the true excitement of going to high school again, because it was going to be their first time through the school system, as they had both been homeschooled by their late parents. I looked up and there it was, Forks High School in all of its cloudy glory. Lovely. Just lovely.
N POV
Edward pulled his golden Volvo (his old silver one had lasted about twenty years after I was changed and since then he had had two other cars, though he kept to the same overall style) into a space at the back of the Forks High parking lot, but before getting out, he turned and fixed Sarah and I in a penetrating gaze that showed traces of concern. He raised his eyebrows, "You two are sure you can handle the blood? And the children who will be drooling after you?" I laughed under my breath; I couldn't wait for that, it would be hilarious! I saw Edward's mouth twitch at the corners. I scowled fiercely at him; he had been reading me again. Do I look like a book to you? I thought indignantly at him. He looked as though he were about to say some sort of sarcastic comment when his wife Bella tapped him on the shoulder. His face whipped around immediately and turned soft with love and caring for her. I couldn't help the small laugh that erupted in the back of my throat. He frowned at me then turned back to Bella. I was used to this treatment by now, if Bella was there, she came first. It was perfectly reasonable though, after all that those two had been through; it was difficult to separate them, and they often were distant or short-tempered when they were apart, complaining
of a physical hurt in their chests when they were apart for too long. Of course ten minutes counted as too long for them, so they were always very close. The two of them were definitely soul mates; maybe something more than that. Who knows for sure? And if you listen to Edward, none of us have souls, so that rules that option out. I guess it was good for them to be together, Edward had always been pessimistic and masochistic- a slight frown tugged at Edward's mouth again; Dammit! If you don't like what you hear, then why are you listening? Either way, Bella was the opposite; she was always looking on the bright side of things, but she had a bad habit of blaming herself for things that were out of her control. It was still funny to see them falling over themselves like little puppy dogs though. I looked away to give them some privacy, and I noticed Sarah doing the same. I grinned at her, mouthing "awww" and clasping my hands over dramatically. She doubled over in silent laughter just as I knew she would; it was fun to know someone almost as well as you know yourself. Then we noticed both of them glaring at us menacingly. We both ducked our heads and shrugged apologetically at the same time. This made Bella and Edward burst out laughing. I frowned; what's so funny about that? It's not like we were the ones making out! I shuddered inwardly at the thought of my sister in that way, and Edward laughed almost as loud as Emmet. I scowled; it's better than enjoying that thought! He nodded at me with his smile gone, but his tawny eyes still laughing at me. Stupid mind-reading vampire brother...When we walked into the school, it was as Edward warned us it would be. Instantly girls started drooling over me and my brothers, while simultaneously glaring at the girls. The same went for the guys, though they were shooting death rays out of their eyes at me instead; I thought clearly enough for Edward to hear: Is it just me or does this remind you of Rosalie a little? He smiled at me nodding his head the tiniest bit up and then down. I noticed the calculating look in the girls' eyes as they quickly identified couples, and found me to be the odd man out with only a sister to stand with. Crap! I wanted to bolt right then and there when a tall dark haired girl sauntered up to me and said, "Hey, my name's Olivia. Who are you?" I noticed Edward smiling and gesturing at me from the other side of the room, Oh yeah, very funny Edward! I decided to just go with slightly rude truth, "My name's Nick Cullen. Why do you want to know?" She stepped closer and I took a step back, her blood was getting too close for comfort, and she wasn't terribly nice. I could already tell she was conceited and narcissistic, even without Edward to tell me. She smiled hugely at me, showing every one of her unnaturally white teeth, "Because I noticed you were single and good looking, silly." I was increasingly glad by the minute that I couldn't blush, "Well that's nice of you to compliment me, but I'm really not looking for anyone right now. Good bye." I turned as quickly as I could at human speed back to my family who had heard every word and were about to go into hysterics. Before they could get in a joke or two, I grumbled, "Not a word, ok?" Rose of course ignored me and took the time to give me her two cents, "Of course we wouldn't tease you about that... Silly!" I rolled my eyes at her. Behind me Olivia stood there frozen in shock that I had so easily rejected her. The layout of the school was fairly simple and I memorized my schedule in a few minutes. First period I had biology, building three. Easy enough, I grabbed my things from my locker and headed off to class. The class passed uneventful with the exception of my biology teacher Mr. Jones having a field day over my eyes and explaining to the class that I had Heterochromia Iridium or two different colored eyes. I wanted so badly to disappear right then. One was the Cullenised topaz, and the other was a very dark grayish blue in color. Carlisle hadn't been able to tell me how I retained my condition from being human. My eyes had previously been a plain brown and the same blue, but it didn't make sense that I had kept that. It still darkened when I was thirsty though and it saw just as well as my other eye, so it was definitely a vampire trait. I drifted through the rest of the morning not actually learning anything because the rest of the family had taken the liberty to teach Sarah and me everything over the past ten years or so. In between classes we
gathered at Alice's locker to talk for a minute or so. When we separated, I headed off to English class which was next in the lineup of torture they had prepared for us today. Mrs. Slater was kind enough to treat me with the same indifference she gave to everyone else, and I walked back to my seat in the far right corner of the room. I was seated alone, and that helped with the blood lust a little, but not much. I was already well versed in everything this drab old lady was preaching to us, so I made a sort of game up out of detecting and tracing each scent in the room. There was no scent in the empty seat next to me or the one in front of that, so I assumed they weren't used, but I noticed the floral scent of several house plants up front, a dusty scent surrounding Mrs. Slater (suits her well if I do say so myself) and the various colognes coming from the students. I was just drifting into a sort of coma when I heard three telltale signs that someone was at the door. First a loud rapping knock that commanded attention, a soft rush of air as each head in the room turned to the left, and finally the abrupt cutoff of monotone words coming from the front of the room accompanied by a few muttered curses. I wasn't about to turn my head; I couldn't scent or hear anything from the other side of the door, so whoever it was must've run away already. But, the teacher didn't seem to realize this because she stalked up to the door still muttering all too audible words I won't repeat, and was about to wrench open the door and yell at whoever had disturbed her lecture on... Shakespeare I think it was. I was just contemplating what the teacher's face would be like when she saw no one was there, when I heard a quick twisting noise and in walked two very different girls.