BPOV

I stared in the large mirror, studying my reflection. As always, my body - 17 for eternity - stared back at me. Today I was wearing skinny jeans with a white one sleeved top that said 'too pretty to be single' in fancy loopy writing with aviators on the top of my head. I was, in fact, incredibly beautiful, even for a vampire, but it was not something I liked to boast about or even admired about myself. It was quite annoying having lustful males staring at you wherever you went.

Today, I had been especially careful about what to wear because today was the day I was going to boarding school. I had, of course, gone to school in the past, but never had my biological father - Aro - allowed me to go to boarding school. Unlike Daddy, or Uncles' Marcus and Cauis, my skin did not look pasty or frail, it just looked normal, like any other vampire that didn't sit still too long.

My favourite Volturi member, and my best friend came in, "Bella, Aro says it time for you to get into the limo." Internally, I groaned. It was so like my Daddy to get one of the limos to take me to the airport because, and I quote 'You shouldn't drive, you should sit back and look pretty, as a lady should'. I did not completely obey this rule, as Daddy knew, but he was fine with me driving my cars if I really wanted, just preferred me to ride in limos."

"Thanks Jane. Are you packed?" She and Alec was coming with me, and staying in the town next to the school so if there were any problems, they would be able to help.

"Yep! I'm looking forward to the sight seeing. Of course, I know this isn't necessarily a holiday, but still! Your things have already been packed for you."

"Okay, let's got then."

One limo and a flight later, I was going to reception to ask for my car. "Hello, my name is Miss Volturi, I'm here to pick up my car." The human looked startled. He was drooling, ew! "Hello?!" I waved my hand in front of his face.

"I'm sorry, what?" "I need my car."

"Which one?"

"What do you mean?" I looked at him, confused. Then I looked at Jane who looked like she was trying hard not to laugh.

"Your father and uncles sent a total of 17 cars over here for your use." WHAT! I glanced at Jane, angry at her for not telling me! I only needed one car! Not 17!

"Um ... I'm just take any one. And two other car's for these two, send the rest to my address."

The guy tossed me the keys and a sheet of paper with his phone number on it saying 'call me'. Making sure he saw (which wasn't hard seeing as he was staring at my butt) I slowly crumpled the phone number into a tiny ball and threw in into a trash can.

"Coming?" I asked the twins.

"Sure!" They both said. Unfortunately, the car the airport guy had given me turned out to be the most expensive one there. It was far too flashy for my liking, but that was Aro for you. It was a shiny red porshe, which could, according to Alec, go 278 miles an hour. Its windows were tinted dark, obviously so if it were sunny, no one would see our skin.

All too soon, it was time for Jane and Alec to leave me, and I continued the rest of the journey by myself. I was too nervous to put on any CDs. I thought of going back to Volterra for a moment, then remembered how much i had wanted to go. I was scared, thought even as a new born my self control had been better than Aro or anyone else now, I was worried I would slip. And what if a human found out about my secret?

I had known the risk of going here. Sharing a room with two roomates and not eating was going to be a bit hard to explain, but to be honest, I didn't intend to socialise with anyone that much, even my two roomates. I was a vampire and we either lived among others of our kind or in isolation. It was unatural to do what I was doing.

I parked the car in front of a number of large buildings. I seemed there was shops and restaraunts on campus as well as school buildings. All around students were playing, walking about, thowing balls.

But when I walked in, the people fell into a stunned silence. They gazed after me, their mouths open, as I walked to the building with a sign over it saying 'STUDENT OFFICE'. Why they were staring? I didn't know. Perhaps the hormonal boys lusted me or the girls envied me, and sure enough, as I briefly glanced over my shoulder to see if my assumption was right, I saw girls glaring and boys showing off.

An elderly woman with long silver hair was sitting in the student office. Casually, I walked up to her and said, "Excuse me, miss, but I'm the new student - Isabella Volturi - and I was wondering if you had my scedule?"

She gawped up at me, as if she'd seen a ghost, "Umm ... Are you alright?" I asked her.

"Waht?" She asked, snapping out of day dream at last. "Scedule? Here!" Quickly, she told me where my room was, and I figured I'd go there. My luggage must have already arrived, Aro had made sure it would be there by the time I'd landed. I walked quickly to the dorm, and again the hushed reverence came over the crowd. What was wrong with these teenagers? Were they all high or something?

Silently, I opened the door, and as I'd thought all of my things were there unpacked. Some of them were in my room. Neither of my roomates were here yet, so I figured I would just go into my room and be silent for a while. Even when they were back, I wasn't sure if I wanted to reveal my presence. But I didn't want to go back out into the court yard either. Instead, I sat on my bed in silence.

Two hours later, I could hear the door opening. "Come on, guys, we'll have tonnes of time before that roomate comes. I doubt you'll even want to be friends with her, she'll probably be really ugly, but I bet she wouldn't mind kissing me ... "

I wanted to meet who owned this voice. I mean how dare he speak about me like that! Why would I kiss a arroogant, pompous teenager who had obviously deluded himself into thinking he was the most important person ever. Hah!

"Edward!" A female voice scolded. "I bet she'll be loads of fun!"

"As if!"

A different female voice said, "I think you should agree with your sister Edward, don't you think Emmet?"

"Yeah. I'm sure she'll be great."

"I agree with the girls and Emmet." A new masculine voice said.

"Come on Jasper, Emmet! You're only agreeing with them because they're your girlfriends!"

Vaguely, I wondered whether I should go out and introduce myself before an argument was started.

"She'll just be another toy to play with!" The one called Edward said.

"Ed-"

"Hello, I'm Bella Swan. I am so very sorry for intruding in what must be a close knit friendship, and seeing, "I glanced at Edward, "some people would rather not want me here, perhaps I should move rooms."

None of them spoke, whether because they were stunned by my having been there the whole time, or my beauty, or both, I didn't know, but I took the oportunity to look at the people before me.

One was a petite girl, with spikey black hair that was very pretty, holding hands with a blonde haired guy. Moving my eyes to the left, I saw a tall blonde girl with hair that reached her waist, with an arm round a well muscled curly brown haired guy. The last, who I presumed was Edward, seeing as he was the only one with out a girlfriend had messy bronze hair, a pair of jeans and an unbottoned shirt. I felt sure I had just met the school's player.

The minutes passed and no one spoke - they were still staring.

Another 5 minutes passed and still nothing.

Finally, after 15 minutes, Edward, in my head the name sounded like a swear word, spoke, "Y-y-you're Bella Volturi?"

"Why? Did you think I was some sort of a nerd who couldn't hear properly, Edward?" The guys and girls apart from Edward stood, obviously trying not to laugh.

"Of course not, I sorry, I didn't think such," his eyes flashed to my chest, "beautiful girls existed. So, I take it now I've apologised you'll want to be my date this Saturday? Yeah, then, I'll pick-"

"Hold on one second, Edwin," I said, pretending to have forgotten his name. "Did you hear an acceptance come from my lips? No. Did you hear me accept your invitation to go out? No. I will not go out with you tonight, or ever."

"Wow, slow down babe. I understand what you're trying to say. You want to play hard to get. No problem."

"Listen to me, right now please. Whatever complete idiots may be at this school that have gone out with you and deluded you into thinking you were amazing is incorrect. I am not one of those girls you can use and then throw away, nor am I one of those girls who wants to go out with you. So, Edmund, I'd give up now if you don't want to be humiliated."

He walked out of the door, but not until he winked at me.

"I'll be back, baby."

Just my luck.