Alice's POV

I carefully did my hair in spikes sticking out in every direction. It was not as simple as it looked but the result was worth it to me.

Jasper walked up behind me in our bathroom and hugged me around the waist I turned to hug him back.

"I love you honey" He whispered in my ear. "I love you too" I whispered back.

I turned to kiss him and then took his hand and we walked downstairs only he had to walk behind me because the stairs weren't big enough for us to descend side by side.

"So how did everyone sleep?" I asked jokingly – nobody had slept in our household for hundreds of years.

Yep hundreds, Edward looked up at me sullenly. He hated being a vampire; he thought he was a monster.

But Jasper Carlisle, Esme, Emmett and I got a good laugh out of it. The sun shone brightly through the window displaying the expensive décor that was all around our house.

This was not our first time living here in the small rainy town of Forks, Washington.

The last time we had been here we had met a small band of werewolves whom we signed a treaty with to stay off their land.

Today was the first day of school we would have to go to school with humans galore and try not to eat them.

As Jasper had once said "Impossible!" but somehow we managed year after year, sometimes one of us "slipped" and we would have to move early in the year to remain inconspicuous.

Edward reached for a regular sized backpack, I knew it had all the normal stuff in there, paper, pencils, books.

Yet when he picked it up his hand shot up too high in the air.

"Arrrrgh!" He said annoyed, "Wow there, Ed, remember try to look normal" Carlisle reminded him.

"Good luck with that!" Emmett chuckled loudly.

Edward whirled like he meant to punch him but thought better of it and turned on his heel and stalked off.

"I'll be in the car" He muttered, "I'm only waiting thirty seconds."

Jasper, Emmett and I made it to the car before him seeing as he was spending too much attention to his own sullenness.

We got into the silver Volvo and he started it and took off.

"Edward can't you drive any faster?!" I said groaning at the speedometer.

"Don't tell me how to drive my car!" Edward growled from the front seat.

"I wouldn't be telling you how to drive if you weren't driving like a turtle!"

All this earned me was a glare from his flat black eyes.

"Wow Ed, you should have known better than not to go hunting before we go to school" Emmett told him.

"Your eyes are getting awfully dark"

"Shut up Emmett!" Just all of you shut up okay?!" Edward yelled.

Suddenly his eyes weren't as wild; I felt a sense of Mellowness washing over me.

"Jasper", Edward said in as hostile a tone as he could manage in such a mellow mood, "If you don't cut it out right now I'm coming back there after you!"

"Cool it man!" Emmett muttered from the front seat beside Edward.

Edward managed to compose his features as we pulled up to the school.

We walked into school and each went our separate ways to our classes.

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The next time we saw each other was at lunch, we gathered at a lunch table in a corner.

Trays of untouched food sat in front of us, I drummed my fingers on the table, and nobody said anything.

I sighed and rose with my lunch tray apple, soda, and whatever else and dumped into the garbage can, then through the back door.

Jaspers POV

I sat at the lunch table in a corner with Edward and Emmett, Alice had just left.

Edward's eyes flicked upwards to meet those of a normal looking teenage girl then to the on next to her – prettier and more intelligent looking- then returned to the tabletop.

Hey, I knew her! She was that girl everyone had been talking about nonstop before and after she came.

Isabella Swan, or as everyone seemed to call her "Bella".

Edward began picking apart a bagel.

"Someone thinking about you again Edward?" I asked teasingly keeping my eyes on the ceiling.

He shrugged and gave me a dark look.

"You don't know how lucky you are!" Emmett told him seriously.

"I wish I knew what girls were thinking." "Or which ones liked me."

Edward snorted "Trust me you don't want to know half the things people are thinking in this cafeteria right now!"

"And the other half?" Emmett asked.

Edward shook his head. "Not gonna tell you."

He stared at his tray again. I saw one of the girls – the more intelligent looking one – looking at Edward.

He looked up and met her gaze he looked curious, but the curiosity soon faded into frustration.

"Edward!" I hissed quietly. "Stop staring!" We are trying to remain inconspicuous in case you have not noticed!"

He looked back down at his tray and in a second I saw him smiling ever so slightly.

After awhile longer we all left the cafeteria and he didn't look at the pair of girls again.