I am so sorry for abandoning this story for like ever...I just wasn't feeling it and when I went back over and read it I realized my writing sucked so I decided to redo it. Everything is basically the same I just added more tid bits of detail and dialogue to try to make it better. I don't know if it will actually be any better but hopefully you guys will enjoy it more than the first draft. Let me know your thoughts and how you think it compares! Again I am sorry it has taken me so long to update this story.

So the major changes in this story which aren't really too major: Melinda and Chris start school near the end of the year in May. Eric has been with the Cullen's for half a century and is a 100 years old turned when he was 19. As to why Edward can't hear Eric's thoughts, well there is no plausible explanation for that. I guess I just like to see Edward squirm a little bit. I feel that sometimes he has a little to much access to peoples thoughts and since Eric is my original character I didn't want him to feel mind-raped all the time by Edward.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Charmed or Twilight except Eric.

A/N: For this story to work well I changed the timeline around a little: Bella met Edward when she was a sophomore and now she is a junior so they have been together a year. The Cullen's have another "brother" named Eric in their coven. Eric is a vegetarian and is 100 years old turned when he was 19 but is playing an 17 year old Junior and he has been with the Cullen's for 50 years now. He has no special power but for some reason Edward can't read his mind. Takes place during Eclipse. Alice, Edward and Eric are all juniors while Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper are seniors.

First Days and Dreary Outlooks

A fresh start for some can be a relief, something good among a past of hardship, but for others a new start is something dreaded. But sometimes its the things we dread most that have the most unexpected outcomes.

A piercing blare sounded throughout the room breaking the silence and awaking its occupant abruptly. Melinda Prudence Halliwell reluctantly opened her eyes and it took a minute for her brain to catch up and realize it was her alarm clock that was making the noise. She tore herself from the remnants of peaceful sleep and reached a hand out to slam the snooze button. The seventeen year old sat up halfheartedly cracking her back with a long sigh and turned off her alarm clock for good. Why her and Chris were being made to go to school during this crisis was a mystery to her but Piper being Piper wanted normality in their lives as well as demon hunting. So there they were.

"Come on honey your gonna be late for your first day of school," Piper Halliwell yelled to her youngest from the bottom of the stairs. Melinda cringed to herself, absently untangling herself from her cocoon of blankets somewhat ignoring her mother.

"Yay...A new school," she mumbled to herself with sarcasm. She yawned loudly and cracked her stiff neck, she had been up till 4, for the millionth night in a row, looking for anything that could lead them to their family. She looked back at the tangled mess of blankets her bed had become, so temped to just crawl back under them for the rest of her life or at the very least another five hours or so. She would even settle for 20 minutes.

Sighing longingly she pushed herself to her feet and ambled over to her dresser a permanent frown set into her features. Melinda pulled out a pair of skinny jeans and put on two tank tops, a light blue on the bottom and a dark on top. She grabbed her plain black flats and slipped them on before she grabbed her bag and went into the bathroom. She tried to tame her blonde wavy hair but to no appease and settled for a french braid. She wasn't much of a makeup person and preferred to go Au natural most of the time with a little blush, eye liner and lip gloss, which is what she did today.

"Melinda, get your skinny little ass down here right away before ma blows a gasket..." Chris yelled with a smile on his face. Melinda walked into the kitchen just as Piper smacked her son lightly on the head.

"Christopher Perry Halliwell, watch your language," she said sternly.

"Ouch Mom," Chris said even though it didn't even hurt and ran a hand through his hair to fix it. Melinda laughed at him and he glared back.

"Do you want to walk to school?" Chris threatened. Chris a senior now at Forks High School, was 18 and had brown hair that was cut short and piercing green eyes.

Mel laughed humorlessly, "...very funny. I didn't even say anything," she stuck out her tongue at him before turning her attention to Piper. "Why did we have to move to Forks, the coldest and rainiest place on the planet?"

Piper looked her daughter over deciding to ignore that question and saw what she was wearing, "Speaking of which, you better put on a sweater or you'll freeze." Even though it was nearing the end of May and the temperature was picking up, Forks was still cold and rainy as always. Melinda thought they should have that engraved on their "Welcome to Forks" sign; The place where its dark and rainy even when the sun shines. Piper handed her her breakfast, which Mel was too nervous to even think about eating, and her lunch.

Mel never in her life had had to go to a new school or move to a new place but she could already tell she hated it. It was almost like being in a new place you had to prove your worth over and over again. And being in this new place was just a constant reminder of what they were missing. Mel missed the manor, missed her old routine and even the so called friends from her other school. She dreaded going to a new school, being the new kid. She was never good at making new friends, preferring to cuddle up with a good book than to go shopping with friends.

Mel ate as much food as she could, which was a couple bites, and grabbed her stuff. Just as Mel was about to go out the door Piper came over to her and handed her a sweater.

"What no kiss goodbye for your mother?" Piper asked as she gave Mel a kiss goodbye. "Bye honey. Have a good day, I love you."

"Love you to." Mel said as she headed out the door.

Piper halted her with a gentle hand on her arm. "Wyatt called and he said that he may have a lead on a demon. He will be over after school at 3:15. Ok? Tell Chris." Piper broke the news to her gently but firmly just as frustrated and scared with everything as they all were. Mel really appreciated the fact that her parents held it together and forced normality into their routine for their sakes. Even if that did mean having to go to a new school in the midst of a family emergency.

Mel nodded somberly and gave Piper another hug squeezing just a little too tight before walking out the door to Chris's car. On the way to school Mel relayed the message to Chris, who just nodded and looked at her with a blank expression. She knew how he felt...Every lead they got on who took their family just ended up as a dead end. But that didn't keep Wyatt from pursuing them. Between the three of them they had searched every nick and cranny in the underworld but came up empty handed.

"We're here," Chris announced. "Wow this is a really small school compared to the one back home." He noted as he got out of the car.

"Yeah tell me about it," Mel replied sourly as they trudged up the front steps slowly.

The walk to the admissions office was quiet and long and rainy. By the time they reached dry land Mel's hood was soaked through and her hair drenched and she was glad she hadn't spent much time with it this morning. The lady behind the desk was all smiles and way to damn cheery for it being so early in the morning and dreary out. Mel guessed that was what happened when you lived here long enough, the rain got to you. She was basically bouncing in her seat as she gave them their schedules telling them how they rarely got new people in this town. To Melinda that was no surprise, this place was the poster board for where not to live if you hate rain, cold weather, or having nice bright sunny days. Wrap that all together and you got the tri-fecta, the rainiest darkest place on the planet. The secretary which Mel and Chris learned her name was Cherry, which if you asked Mel was way to close to cheery; everything about her was starting to make sense Mel thought with a sarcastic snort. Cherry asked countless questions to which she received nods and one word responses. After they got their schedules and maps they both bolted from the room before Cherry could start another ten minute monologue about the weather and how you'll get used to it and blah blah blah. Mel wasn't trying to be mean, neither was Chris and usually they would have been more polite to the lady but with everything going on they just couldn't find it in them to be perky this morning especially when the outlook for the day was dreadfully well...dreadful. Once they made their escape into the quiet hallway they looked at each other and conveyed more than words could with the same look before going their separate ways to their respective homerooms.

"Alice would you please just pick a shirt already. Even with the way you drive we are gonna be late." Emmett shouted at Alice even though Alice would have heard him if he whispered but it was the principle of the thing.

Edward just laughed and went to the couch and sat down more out of habit then anything. Typical Alice,he thought.

"Emmett, this outfit has to be perfecto. We have two new kids." Alice sang as she bounded down the stairs and ran out the door to her car. "Someone has to keep up appearances, seeing as you won't," she said, which got a glare from Emmett and a snicker from everyone else. She was interrupted when she had a vision, to which she frowned. "Awe it looks like we are taking Edwards Volvo. Everyone squeeze in the back." Edward looked over at Alice and smiled.

"But don't you have to pick up your precious Bella?" Emmett joked, he really wanted to drive his new jeep.

Edward just glared and said "She wanted to take her own car today," and hopped into the drivers seat. Alice got up front, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie all squished into the back, while Eric rode behind them on his bike.

Melinda found her first class Trigonometry, Greyson Room 216 according to her color coded schedule. She was five minutes late but only got lost once if you didn't count the other wrong turn she made which she didn't because it was really only half a turn. She opened the door and walked up to the teacher to have him sign her slip.

The teacher signed it and handed it back to her along with a book and a pile of papers, "Welcome to Forks, I'm Mr. Greyson. You will have some catching up to do but according to your progress report your old school was basically on the same track. You can sit next Alice in the middle row there."

"Ok great. Thanks," Mel replied as she made her way to her seat the teacher pointed to. To her relief he was much to busy to have her introduce herself in the front of the class and she couldn't have been more grateful.

Just as she down, Alice perked up. " Hi I'm Alice Cullen and that's..." she pointed to the guy sitting next to her."...my brother Eric Cullen."

Mel gave her a small nod, "Melinda Halliwell, Mel for short." Mel said as she shook Alice's hand and noted that it was really cold, like dead people cold. Mel fought off a shiver as she took in the two Cullens. Alice was a short petite thing, kind of like a pixie with all the energy Mel could feel rolling off her in waves. Her black hair was cut short and spiked up at the ends to match her quirky personality and Mel noted that she was beautiful. Not supermodel beautiful but inhumanly beautiful with flawless pale skin and sharp but soft features that drew you in. When she looked over to the guy Alice introduced as Eric her breath caught. Not only was he beautiful as well but he was gorgeous with a capital G. He was tall, about 6'1'' 6'2'' with broad shoulders and sharp but extremely handsome features. He wore a simple black t-shirt and washed out jeans but the way the shirt hugged his body left nothing lacking. His brown hair was short and spiked and his topaz eyes, a color she had never seen before, seemed to penetrate through to her soul. Mel tore her eyes from his, which was no easy feat when she remembered that Alice said they were siblings. She looked over them both again quickly and noticed that except the fact that they were both overly pale, had the same eye color and were extremely beautiful and eye pulling, they looked nothing alike.

"I don't mean to be rude, you said that you were siblings but you don't really look alike." Mel said as politely as she could curiosity getting the better of her. Melinda had the problem of almost always speaking her mind but did it in a way were you weren't really offended or at least not too offended. Her dad called it a gift. Mel called it a babbling nuisance.

Alice didn't seem offended at all and laughed. "Yeah that's cause we're adopted," she said with a smile.

Mel looked at her and instantly felt bad. But she couldn't shake the feeling that there was something off with them. She had never seen anybody with those colored eyes and in combination with the unnaturally pale and cold skin and wondered if they were demons. She would have to look in the book of shadows for anything and check with Chris and Wyatt because something was definitely up with tore herself away from her thoughts quickly and spoke. "Oh I'm sorry. It was nice to meet you," Mel said and bit her tongue so that no other words came spilling out. She was saved from making a bigger fool of herself when the teacher started their lesson.

Mel was writing down everything the teacher wrote but she wasn't paying attention. She was too busy trying to figure out Alice and Eric Cullen. She went over in her mind all the demons she memorized from the Book of Shadows but couldn't place the traits to any one of them. She was stumped and as time ticked on she got more and more anxious being in the same room with them while they acted so calm. She was at wits end and when class ended Mel shot up and practically bolted to the door. In her haste to get out of the room she narrowly avoided taking down two other students and a stack of books placed on the end desk. She didn't know what they were but she had a gut feeling they weren't exactly human. And one thing you learned as a Halliwell was to always go with your gut.

Mel raced to her next class which was English and got their just in time. She originally wanted to track down Chris and skip school to go over what had happened but she knew her mom would be pissed. So she pushed her anxiety and fear to the back of her mind as she walked up to the teacher, introduced herself and handed her her slip. The teacher signed the slip and told her to find a seat also bypassing the whole 'lets embarrass the new kid by having them stand in front of the entire class and have them give a speech about themselves'. It seemed luck was on her side in that department, apparently that was the only luck she was getting for a while though. By now all the good seats were taken so she had to settle for the one in the front corner. Just as she sat she felt some one touch her shoulder and she jumped her previous anxiety turning her into a ball of nerves and her charmed senses were on high alert.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you. I'm Mike Newton. Your Melinda right?"

"Um..That's fine..Hi..Er how did you know my name?" She stuttered through her shaky breaths, calming her heart rate. She really should have just skipped the rest of her classes, she was wound tighter than a coil nerves bunching together, leaving her on edge.

"Small town," he said as if that were explanation enough. And it probably was but with the way Mel was feeling at the moment she wasn't so sure it was.

"Right..." replied Mel and plastered a fake smile on her face and turned back around. He tried to make conversation with her but she pretended to listen to the teacher and eventually he shut up. Jease Louise whats is with all the nut jobs that live in Forks, she thought to herself. It must be the cold, crazies flock to the cold, right? Or was it the hot?

English didn't go by quick enough. As Mel was sitting not listening to the teacher she felt her eyes wander around the room in boredom. She tensed when she noticed another boy sitting across the room who was very pale and looked as though he had topaz eyes as well. He had bronze colored hair that he spiked crazy in all different directions and was sitting next to a girl that was pale but not as pale and had brown eyes. Mel become very nervous wondering how many of these people there were. Freaking A, she couldn't get a break but now she knew why she felt so anxious and on edge when she walked in the room.

When English class ended, this time Mel didn't run to the door but rather waited till they boy and girl left before heading to her next class. Mel was relieved to find no weird pale people in this class but was mortified that she had to sit next to Mike again. He started talking to her and it's not like she could pretend to listen to the teacher because it was art class, everyone was talking to everyone. So she had to settle for pretending she was so into her art project that nothing could distract her. It was quite pathetic but it did the trick and lunch couldn't have come quickly enough.

Mel walked into the lunch room and saw Mike and some other people she recognized from her classes and steered herself in the other direction. There was no way she was sitting with him. She found her brother sitting with some other people who must have been in his classes.

As she walked up to his table, she noticed that a couple tables away sat Alice, Eric, the other pale boy and that girl from English sitting at the table but there were also three more just like them as well. It was obvious to Mel that the girl was completely human and this got her really concerned, she knew she had to speak to Chris and Wyatt about it but not now and not here.

When she reached Chris's table he scooted over to make room for her. He introduced her to his friends, to which she didn't pay attention to because she more interested in the Cullen's, but she smiled politely and said hi.

Chris looked over to her and whispered to her "I hope you don't plan on making this a habit because you are not sitting with me and my newly found friends everyday," he said with a playful smile and a brotherly shove to her shoulder.

Mel smiled back shoving his shoulder right back, "Wow I feel so loved..." she said with mock hurt before smiling. "Anyway I didn't really meet anyone that didn't creep me out yet. We have to talk when we get back home," she said and tilted her head ever so slightly towards the Cullen's table with her eyebrow slightly raised. Chris looked back at her and nodded slightly with a knowing smile. At least she wasn't the only one who noticed.

Edward sat at their lunch table mushing around uneaten food trying to figure out why he couldn't read the two newcomers minds. He listened to what they were saying and smiled a little bit but perked up when he heard Melinda's voice turn serious and he saw her head tip slightly towards their table. He looked over at Alice and read her mind 'I saw that too,' 'In first period she was acting strange, and literally flew out of her chair to get to the door. She almost took out a desk and two students.'

Edward smiled slightly at the image Alice's mind provided before he interrupted every ones conversation "Do you think she knows then?" Edward asked Alice.

Everyone stopped talking suddenly to listen to what Alice and Edward had to say.

"No but I think she might suspect something. I think we need to keep a close eye on her and her brother." Alice said.

"Edward is everything ok? Whats are you guys talking about?" Bella perked up with a concerned look on her face sneaking a look in the direction they were looking. Bella noticed they were taking about the new kids that started today.

"Nothings wrong love." Edward replied to which Bella replied with a sour look and gave him a yeah right look. Edward just smiled and changed the subject.

As the conversation at their table turned to something lighter Bella kept sneaking looks back to the table and studied the girl and her brother. She took them in as she wondered what Alice and Edward were so worried about. They seemed like any normal brother and sister to her. The girl which Bella heard her name was Melinda was very pretty with her blonde hair and blue eyes most girls would kill for. She was average height and her soft features accented the natural beauty of her. The guy, Chris, was undoubtedly attractive with his piercing green eyes and fit body. The simple jeans, t-shirts and sweaters, the backpacks that hung over their chairs, lunches in front of them-which they ate- and the ease at which they laughed and conversed all seemed completely normal to her. Bella had a hard time believing Alice and Edward were so strung up over what appeared to be normal siblings.

On the other side of the table Eric sat and watched the new girl talk and laugh with her brother. And for some reason he felt a stab of jealously, he wanted to be the one to make her smile, but he quickly pushed that thought aside. He shook his head and averted his gaze in an attempt to get her out of his head.

When he first saw her walk into the trig room he was immediately paralyzed by how beautiful she was and she smelled better than anything, but not in the 'threatening my control' or 'I want to eat you' kind of way. She just had this natural smell that was appealing. He was so taken back that when Alice introduced them he couldn't even move or say anything. Then when she looked into his eyes he knew he was a goner, she had the most beautiful blue eyes he had ever seen. He couldn't take his eyes off her. It got so bad that Alice actually had to punch him in the leg to get him to stop staring. Even then he kept sneaking glances in her direction. When the bell rang and she jumped out of her seat and ran to the door is when he finally snapped out of whatever state he was in. Right now he was so mad at himself, no girl had ever done that to him. He was in control when it came to his emotions but today he wasn't and he was going to do whatever he had to make sure that didn't happen again. Or so he thought.