Monday 16th September
School. Another day of boredom. I pulled my car up into a parking space in the snow covered car park of my school in Alaska. Peak high school was a tiny school in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, total pupil count two hundred . I sighed, zipped up my coat and rammed my fluffy hat onto my head and carefully climbed out of my jeep.
"YO! Vamp! Get your butt over here!" I heard someone shout. I peered across the car park to see my friend Jasmine waiting under our usual shelter for me, perched precariously on a bench arms waving frantically with a grin across her face.
"Hey Mini!" I called back waving a gloved hand at her in return. I carefully made my way across the car park, checking for any patches of ice that had escaped the furious gritting obsession of the care taker, Mr Simons a large man, with a bright green fur lined coat which was had decided he was born with as no one had ever seen him take it off.
Once I made it over to Jasmine without falling on my butt, which was a great achievement for me, we dived to the nice heated corridors of the school and made our way to our first lesson, History. History was an okay subject, by far my favourite, and our teacher was pretty cool with us chatting away as long as our projects were handed in on time. Pushing the door open, slipping my hands from my gloves, I walked my way towards our usual table laughing at jasmine's new multi coloured bobble hat to find the most curious looking people sitting in our seats deep in convocation. We had been told we would have new students in our class by our teacher last Friday, and I being a very hospitable person merely carried on a sat at the empty table behind them.
"So Jasmine my dear what are the plans for your birthday this year?" I said to her with a grin plastered across my face.
"I don't know..." She said, leaning back in her chair with a sigh, "It's not for another two months, so I haven't really thought about it," I put on a face of mock horror, slapping my hands to my flabbergasted cheeks.
"Your 18th birthday party and you haven't thought about it!" I said and put a hand on her forehead, "Are you ill?" She swatted my hand away giggling lightly.
"I'm fine," She said and grinned to me as her boyfriend walked into the room, "I'll be back in a second," She got up and walked over to him to say 'hello'. Yuck.
I turned my attention to the three people sitting in front of me. Two boys and a girl and all looking extremely out of place. New kids in a school this size was a phenomenon, I personally would hate to be a new kid here. Running my tongue along my chapped lips I swung out of my chair and decided to be friendly.
"Hi," I said smiling as I perched my bum on the table next to theirs, "I'm Lizzie Daxon, but people call me Vamp. You're new here right?" They all looked around at me. Oh. My. God. They were GORGEOUS. Even better than gorgeous, like super sexy angel looking gorgeous hot stuff.
"Hey, I'm Emmett Cullen," The largest of the boys said. And when I say large I mean, HUGE. He looked like a body builder on steroids, but he had the most amazing brown curly hair and golden eyes.
"And I'm Rosalie Hale," The glamour model of a girl said, swinging her long blond hair over her shoulder looking unimpressed by my winter wear of a thick jumper, jeans and big old boots. She also had those curious golden eyes.
"And I'm Jasper Hale," Said the last of the three. He had curly blond hair, golden eyes, skin that was snow white and he was so HOT, even hotter than Emmett, well in my opinion.
"We moved here last week, "Said Emmett, drawing my attention away from Jasper, I blinked a few times, trying to figure out how my brain worked again, and then grinned.
"Your parents must be mad! Who would want to move to this ice bucket?" I said and the shrugged, "Any way it's not exactly a huge school so getting lost isn't going to be a problem, but if you ever need a guide or someone to talk to I'm here,"
"Thanks, "Said Rosalie with a forced smile. I could tell she wasn't the friend making sort of person. Stuck up pretty girl.
"Anyway, can I ask how on earth you got the name Vamp?" Emmett said with a huge grin. I laughed and swung my booted feet.
"I'm addicted to Vampire fiction and I'm an insomniac, so they decided a while ago that I was a vampire... and it sort of stuck, so I'm now called Vamp..." I said with a sheepish grin.
"Addicted to Vampire fiction?" Jasper said raising an eyebrow and glancing at what I assumed was his twin, seeming more worried about my reading habits than sleeping patterns.
"Well I was back then, I went through a phase of reading any vampire related story I could get my mitts on, but now I'm just in to fantasy stuff..."I smiled and watched Jasmine cross back over to us with her boyfriend, "Jasmine come meet the new kids," She walked over and smiled waiting to be introduced.
"Jasmine, Connor this is Emmett Cullen and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. And this is Jasmine Lock and Conner Fritz," I said motioning to each in turn. Just then our teacher walked in, Mr Jeffrey. He placed his stuff on his desk and then looked around.
"Ok class take your seats, today we shall be starting looking at the Civil war," He said rubbing his hands together as if he had finally gotten his way and hadn't in fact been teaching this every year for the past twenty years. That was the good thing about history I guessed, the curriculum was unlikely to change in your life time. I hopped off the desk and took my seat behind Jasper, next to Jasmine and Connor.
At the end of the lesson we had been set projects which we had to work in twos for. Jasmine had clung to Connor and gave me an apologetic look, which I was used to, he was like a history bible.
"Fine," I said and tapped Jasper on the shoulder and waited for him to turn around, "Hey, you got a partner?" I said with a smile. He shook his head.
"You?" He asked.
"Nope... can I work with you?" I said hopefully, not wanting to be stuck with Francis Norman the cave man for another project.
"Sure," He said and the scribbled something on his note pad and ripped the sheet of paper off and handed it to me, "There's my cell phone number," I smiled and pulled out my cell phone, tapped in the number and saved it before texting him my number.
"And there's mine," I said as his pocket started buzzing. He tried to smile, which seemed to take him some effort as though he didn't smile often. Class was dismissed and I started stuffing my books into my bag.
"So what's your next class?" I asked Jasper and co when Jasmine and Connor left for their own one.
"Me and Rose have French," Emmett said glancing at his timetable and then hers to check.
"I have advanced math," Jasper said with a half-smile.
"Ouch... I have simple math," I said with a grin, "Your class room is opposite mine, want to walk with me?" He nodded, hoisting his messenger bag over his shoulder. I grabbed my bag and the four of us made our way out of the class room.
When we got to my class I pointed at the door opposite.
"You're in there, good luck with that," I said and made a face.
"Do you not like math?" He said looking from the door to me.
"Hell no! It's like torture... but I want to go into medicine so I need the grades in it," I said with a sigh, "Well I'll see you later," I said turning to my door.
"Yeah... later," He said as I entered my room, the door swinging closed behind me.
Maths turned to chemistry with Emmett which turned to biology with Jasmine and then lunch. I walked into the lunch hall with Jasmine to see the new kids at our table. I laughed grabbed my lunch and then walked over to them as Jasmine said she would sit with Connor.
"You lot are excellent at stealing tables," I said to Emmett. He grinned and pointed at the rest of the hall.
"There are lots of other tables around," He said cheekily. I raised an eyebrow.
"Aren't you observant," I said and watched two other people sit down with them.
"Vamp this is my younger brother Edward and Younger sister Bella," Emmett said introducing me to the others.
"Hi," I said with a smile then opened my mouth to speak only to be yanked into the chair in front of me by Jasper.
"You're making the place look untidy," He muttered, pushing his food around his tray. I rolled my eyes playfully.
"It's nice to meet you," I said smiling to Edward and Bella. Edward looked warily from Jasper to me and then smiled like a gentleman. Edward was also very good looking with copper coloured hair and the same golden eyes
"It's nice to meet you too," He said undoing his bottle of water.
"So are you in their classes?" Bella said with a smile. Bella was thin, pale and very beautiful.
"I have history with them and chemistry with Emmett so far," I said picking up a sandwich and taking a bite. I noticed none of them where actually eating. I didn't blame them, the school food wasn't the best but I was starving.
"Poor you, " Bella said grinning at her older brother, "He hasn't blown anything up yet," Emmett pouted childishly.
"I'm not going to blow stuff up... I'm responsible and mature!" He said. I snorted a laugh.
"I've known you one day and you almost turned me into soap with sodium hydroxide! I shall start calling you Hitler soon enough," I said smirking. They all laughed, well apart from Rosalie who seemed to take it as a personal insult.
By the time I got home I also had Emmett, Edward and Bella's cell phone numbers and had agreed to take Bella shopping at the weekend to get some more insulated clothes. I kicked off my boots in the porch and unwrapped myself from my coat, gloves, scarf and hat and went up to my room and set about the homework I had been set that day in chemistry and maths. By the time I was done it was time for dinner. My mum had left when I was little and my dad worked nights at the local hospital in a town 10 miles away, he was a doctor, so I set about making myself dinner, Lasagne with garlic bread and salad. I had just stuck the bread in the oven when my mobile started blasting music. I grabbed it and without even glancing to it pressed answer.
"Yo," I said setting the timer.
"Hey it's jasper," The caller answered. Smirking I turned and made my way into the front room, slumped down on the couch and put my feet up.
"Oh hey! What's up!"
"I was wondering when you wanted to do the project for history,"
"Urm... when are you free? Because whenever is fine with me," A smile tainted my lips.
"I'm free whenever,"
"Cool, urm how about tonight at mine? I mean we can start it at least..."
"Sure, what time?" I heard the timer ping and got up to go to the kitchen.
"Urm... I'm about to have dinner so say half an hour?"
"Ok...where do you live?"
"13 Parker Road, it's about a 10 minute drive south from the school,"
"Ok I'll see you then"
"Ok bye"
"Bye" And then he hung up. I gave a very uncharacteristic girly squeal and served myself dinner, sticking the other half of the lasagne in the fridge for dad for tomorrow lunch, ate relatively quickly and then washed up and made myself presentable.
The doorbell rang as I was dumping my history stuff on the living room coffee table. Quickly I neatened the messy pile and went and opened the door with as welcoming a smile as I could muster.
"Hey there, you found it alright then?" I said to the person who I had only met this morning, "Come in and make yourself at home," I moved aside, letting him in.
"Hey," he said as he kicked off his shoes and I hung up his coat before showing him into the living room.
"You want anything to drink? Food? Anything..." I said watching him take a seat on the sofa, putting his messenger bag at his feet. He half smiled to me, one hand brushing the blond ringlets from his face.
"I'm fine thanks, I ate before I came and I'm not thirsty," I shrugged and crashed on the other side of the sofa.
"So what sort of thing do you want to do the project on?" I said grabbing my note pad and pen.
"The civil war," He said with a smirk. I laughed.
"Oooh, so you're a smart alec?" I said. His face fell slightly and the he regained his composure.
"Do you want to pick a battle or a person?" I said, changing the subject, he seemed to not like discussing his wittiness.
In the end we made a good start on our project before I decided enough was enough.
"So tell me about yourself... I mean you're pretty much a stranger and I let you in my house. Dad would say I'm mad," I said leaning back into the cushions.
"Me? There isn't really a lot to say," He said. I could tell by his face that wasn't true but I let it drop.
"So where did you move from?" I asked picking up my soda can.
"We moved from Forks..." He said putting his notepad on the table and swivelled round to look at me. His phone buzzed and he checked the message.
"Forks? Where's that?" I asked. He glanced up at me and he replied to the message.
"It's a small town in Washington," He replied with a half-smile, "In the middle of the forest, quite near the coast, up in the mountains," I could imagine something like it in my head.
"It sounds pretty... why did you move?" I said and I watched his perfect face.
"My adoptive father is a doctor and every couple of years we move to another hospital. He says he likes to spread his help around," He sounded kind of sad to have moved.
"You're adopted?" I said carefully, I honestly didn't want to offend him.
"We all are. Esme, my mother for all intents and purposes, can't have any children and her and Carlisle, my father, love kids so they adopted us all," He explained, not seeming sad in the least bit.
"All five of you? That's a really big heart they have," I said with a smile.
"Esme is lovely, she'll like you when you come round to finish our project," He said, seeming content, "Enough about me, what about you?"
"Me? Urm... I live here with my dad, who is also a doctor. My mum left when I was little, I can't really remember her so it doesn't bother me. I like to read, lots. I have a cat called Monty and I've lived in Peak all my life," I said with a smile, "And as you know I want to be a doctor when I'm older"
"Is that it?" Jasper said, raising his eyebrow. I scoffed playfully.
"It's more than I got out of you, I just confessed my inner most being to a person who I know nothing but his previous address about," I said grinning. He chuckled.
"I guess that's true..." He said and stretched, "I should probably be going, it's getting late," I nodded and led him to the door, only to find three feet of god damn snow.
"I hate the snow," I said growling, "I doubt you'll get far in this," I looked to the road, seeing nothing but a blanket of white.
"I brought my brothers off road jeep, and I don't live far away so don't worry," He said sticking on his boots and coat.
"If you're sure, give me a text when you get back to let me know you got home ok. I'd hate to have a new kid dead on their first day at school," I said with a grin. He laughed and I waved him off as he climbed into the massive car.
I went upstairs and grabbed a book, hoping at some point to night i might fall asleep, but of course the gorgeous blond haired new kid filled my mind with thoughts that were not very lady like.