Adeline Lawson looked up from her book to see her name was being called. For a brief second, she was confused at what was happening, noticing her surroundings she replied 'present' in a hesitant voice. Adeline was never usually this nervous, back home in Miami she was the epitome of loudness. Something about the drear of this small town made her feel utterly self-conscious. She knew she didn't fit in here, everything from her car to her hair stood out. Class had started and as usual for the past two weeks, she sat alone at the back of the room, with a vacant seat. It was probably okay to assume it belonged to Jacob Black, wherever he was because he certainly wasn't in school for the past two weeks, well, since Adeline had started at La Push High.

The woman at the front of the room, Miss Biggs or whatever they called her was lecturing about the prose in one of Shakespeare's sonnets. Despite being in an AP English class, Adeline knew most of it already. That's how she was, how her kind was. Intellectuals, powerful wizards. But she couldn't flaunt her knowledge in this class of eight, it would seem weird, Adeline knew how to make situations turn from normal to awkward, so she didn't bother. It often dawned upon her that she would have to make some friends here, but they all looked at her with a certain fascination which made her seem alien. I'm lucky to even fit in where I was, thought Adeline. She wasn't bothered about fitting in much, after all she had to suffice two years here and then could happily go to some Ivy league place in terms of material progress that humans so loved.

Just as she was about to put pen to paper to assess the use of prose in Shakespeare's sonnets, the classroom door flung open. Some kid must be crazy round here, she thought before going back to her essay.

'Sorry I'm late, helping dad'. Adeline briefly heard from the back of the classroom, her hearing was extremely good, not as good as perhaps vampires but none the less very good. The voice sounded husky and worn out to Adeline at first, but there was an attractive quality to it, it sounded almost caring she thought.

'I hope you're okay now, Jacob. Take your seat please'. The figure was well built, strong and lean and walked towards Adeline's seat with a cocky tone.

Adeline was still feverishly writing, English was her favourite subject and a new face wasn't about to stop that. But then, she remembered her manners.

'Hello'. Adeline spoke, but then she thought it must be too low for human ears and quickly went back to her essay.

'You're in my sea- forget it.' Jacob Black huffed and sat down next to her, taking out only a pen in comparison to Adeline's notebook and pencil case.

A long drawl of silence passed, before Adeline sensed something, someone looking at her and it made the hairs on her neck stand up.

'Hey to you too, so where're you from? ' So, he did hear me, she thought.

'Miami.' She was now looking through to see if there were any mistakes on her essay.

'Can I borrow some paper? I left my notebook at home.' Well, she expected a billion more questions like if it ever rained in Miami, if everyone had a tan and the endless curiosity. She couldn't blame anyone here for asking, she would if she were here all her life. It felt good to actually have someone not ask about her past, not that it was bad. He only asked you so he could get some stuff off you.

She pushed the thought to the back of her mind and stripped two pages worth of paper from her notebook and slid it to him.

'Thanks.' Jacob said.

It had only been twenty minutes in the two hour lesson, but she finished before the hour time limit. It was worth an A, but pretended to keep writing and correcting mistakes for at least thirty more minutes. She peeked to see how Jacob Black was doing. He had written three lines and was now doodling some symbol. He could just ask me what we had to do, I wouldn't mind telling him. Perhaps, she had come off as a bit cold to him. She didn't mean too, it was something about him that made her seemed obliged to. The gorgeous voice, she thought before momentarily blushing. No, what was she thinking? She had just gotten off with Matt, after a quick summer together. Matt was lovely.

She went back to thinking about her cold, perhaps rude behaviour.

'Do you need any help?' She asked chirpily to Jacob Black.

'No thanks, unless you could do the essay for me.' She could hear the smirk when he said the last part.

'Tough luck, I only do advice.' There, she thought, she knew there was a playful tone to her voice that usually came across as nice to humans.

He didn't reply. How rude, Adeline thought. What was I, his personal geek? Oh, relax Adeline, you only just met him. Several thoughts skewered her mind before she nearly used a closing off spell to be rid them. Maybe her English buddy for the next two years was just socially awkward.

'Put your pens down, swap sheets with the person next to you.' Miss Biggs announced. The class of eight did as they were told, I even pushed my essay over to Jacob Black. He didn't even acknowledge it and said

'Hey, Paul! What's for lunch today?' Well that counts socially awkward out, she thought and grunted inwardly. How rude was he? She stated lasers, or wished lasers into the back of his head. She could see even from sitting down, how well built he was. Everyone else, except for this 'Paul' was staring at how this Jacob Black looked. Adeline guessed he must be the player of the school, or something like that who ignored smart girls. Or actually, anyone apart from his own crowd because no one dared speak to him.

As the poor excuse of a teacher had her back turned to the board, writing reams of sentences.

Adeline, slightly hurt and bored, checked her texts. She pulled out her Blackberry and saw her first message.

Edward

Are you okay? Alice said she couldn't see your future.

Well it was nice to know Alice was stalking her future, Adeline mused. The Cullen's were good friends of Adeline's family, Edward had known her since she was an infant and was he who taught her how to play piano. Edward was more like the big brother she never had, the other Cullen's were nice but it was good old Edward who grew on her. Times like this made her wish there were spare seats at Forks High, instead of here.

I'm fine. That's strange. Are you okay Edward? I couldn't turn you into a frog sorry.

Adeline chuckled to herself. Her second text was from Julia.

Julia

I was thinking, wouldn't it be awesome if some of us come and see you soon? I'm serious, next month. I'll call you later to tell you what's happening. Till then, goodbye, farewell, I hope we will meet again.

This brought a happy smile to Adeline's face, she did have amazing friends, just not here. Julia, Morgan and Lee were just a few of the hilarious messages she kept on receiving and replying to for the next five minutes. After that, she was brought back to reality.

'Mr. Black, what did you think of Miss Lawson's essay? Since you were absent for a while'. Miss Biggs eyed Jacob as she spoke.

Adeline could almost feel him cringe at the word 'absent'. She smiled to herself, thinking that now he would have to be a smart ass really quick.

' It was good. Said the right things. Well done….' He wanted to congratulate her in a sarcastic way, but didn't even know her name.

'Adeline. Adeline Estella Lawson, if you want to know.' She said with a certain annoyance that was hard to dismiss.

That was when she actually looked at him in the eye, and in the same moment, he bore his eyes into hers.