Chapter 1

He sat quietly in class and listened intently to everyone's thoughts around him. It was a rather boring day, no extra gossip about him or his family, which he often found amusing, nor any serious dirt on another person to pick up on. The main thought was I'm bored, in result making him bored.

He glanced over to the microscope on the table in front of him. Normally he was always willing to be the one to do all the work, he knew it all off by heart anyway but today he just wasn't into being himself. There sat his lab partner for the year leaning over the telescope, one eye squinted as she tried to make out whether the cells were in anaphase, prophase, that junk. See? Repeats, he'd done it all before.

He sighed quickly before trying to at least make a little effort and grabbed her hand just before she went to write down the answer. She gasped at his chilled temperature, much like Bella had back in the day, he mused.

"I'm sorry…" he mumbled. Maybe he was just chilly from being outside; didn't anyone get cold these days?

"Its fine, it's just…your so cold!" Apparently not, he thought bitterly.

"Bad blood circulation," He went to explain. See, he could have that problem too. Just because he was cold didn't mean there was automatically something wrong with him. All of a sudden he felt as if someone was in his mind. There was the feeling of being scrambled around and he swore he heard her voice in his head before he actually physically heard her gasp from beside him.

He quickly refocused his attention on the girl beside him. She was staring at him coldly. He stared back. If he was right, and he normally was, this girl had just been in his mind.

"Bad blood circulation my ass. How about there's no circulation at all?" Right again. Edward glared.

"You are a very interesting human." He stated. What else was there to say? He was so angry he couldn't even think of an appropriate threat or something to come back at this girl with. Who was she? How was she just in his mind? What the hell was going on?

She smiled at him, showing all her sparkling white teeth, blinking three times. Edward watched in horror/angry silence as her eyes turned from brown to blue, to brown again as she blinked at him.

"You're a scary beast, should I fear for my life?" She shot back, too quickly. Edward growled quietly.

"Who are you, and what do you want?"

"Um…"she began. "I'm Keisha and I want to finish our lab." She smiled gesturing to the microscope that sat between them. Edward glared harder; he was in vampire-Edward mode right now. Anyone would be scared.

"You're just jealous that you're not the only one who can read minds." She mumbled turning to the microscope.

"What are you?" He whispered, slightly frightened by this girls knowledge.

"I'm a human genius."

"Stop with these games and answer me!" He began to get angry again.

"Figure it out," She teased as the bell rang. She waved "Bye!" she said before skipping from the room. Edward almost smiled at his luck as 'Keisha' stopped mid-skip. There at the door, eyes wide, was Alice.

"Uh oh…" he heard her mumble. Edward rushed over to them quickly.

"Alice, thank God. Let's go." He immediately grasped Keisha's arm and raced with Alice to the car.

"Hey now!" Keisha yelped, momentarily taken off guard by Edward's abruptness. They made it to the car before she even thought to fight back.

All of a sudden Edward's hand was thrown off her wrist and Alice was pushed back quite a few feet and then they were frozen. No matter how hard Edward or Alice tried they couldn't move.

"Now what the hell do you want vampires? Don't think you can just take me by surprise and not have me defend myself." Edward felt his lips twitch and realized she was letting him speak.

"I want Carlisle to show you to Carlisle. You're being difficult though, Alice has already seen you with us in the future so why don't you just get in the car, free us from whatever you've done and all will be good." Keisha scoffed. He finally noticed that she was holding her hands out in front of her, as if to warn them not to come closer. They were already frozen, what was she doing?"

"I don't trust you."

"Then just tell us what we want to know."

"I don't trust you."

"What are you?" She shook her head. Quickly, too fast for any normal human, she darted to her own car and had exited the parking lot before Edward and Alice unfroze.

"Edward what the hell was that?"

"I have no idea. It's like she can control what I hear. Sometimes she's as quiet as Bella and others, as loud as Jacob. I only noticed today in class. I don't know what to make of it." Speaking of Bella, she arrived and quickly wrapped her arms around him. Edward was still thinking and wasn't able to respond as quickly as he usually did, and therefore, after five seconds maybe, Bella pulled back eyes wide and scared.

Edward finally put his arms around her and smiled. Honestly sometimes she over-reacts just a little too much…He sighed slightly irritated by her dependency on him but he kind of like it too, so he wasn't going to complain.

"Let's get you home hmm?" She nodded happily and hopped into his shiny silver Volvo. Edward sighed once more before he too, got in his car and drove away.

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Edward growled slightly under his breath. He couldn't hear anything. He thought Bella was bad, he felt like he'd scratch his eyes out if she didn't tell him something, anything. He'd never come across anything like her; someone who could choose what thoughts he'd be able to see, be able to freeze two vampires without touching them…ugh! Why wouldn't she think anything?!

Would you please stop growling? You're getting kind of obvious.

Edward snapped out of his thoughts and stared at her. She was staring at her finished note as the teacher prattled on about homework assignments and I.S.U.'s.

"Why won't you just talk to Carlisle? I want to know what you are." Edward whispered helplessly.

"I don't need Carlisle to tell me anything. I know what I am."

"Well then why don't you tell me?"

"Why should I? You're just some vampire! It's none of your business."

"Mild curiosity," he replied. "You know I'm a vampire." He argued.

"Anyone who has ever touched you would know that."

"People don't really touch me. – "

"Well you know what? You're just S.O.L. on my secret okay? Just get over it already." Just then Chris Bourdon walked over to their table, F.Y.I. another Mike Newton in training.

"Hey Keisha," He greeted. She smiled up at him.

"Hey."

"So, I was wondering what you were doing this weekend…" That's right T.G.I.F. baby.

"Well, I was planning on visiting some friends at La Push…"

"Ok okay, I was just wondering if I could take you to a movie." He flashed a mile. Keisha batted her eyes. What a strange way to trail a guy along…Edward thought.

"What movie?"

"Whatever movie you want," He gave her another award-winning smile. She smiled back; too bad he gave the wrong answer.

"I'll have to see if I have any time…I'm pretty busy lately." He smiled again easily brushing off her rejection.

"Alright well you let me know." With that he left.

"It's funny," Edward began. "Bella used to get hit on by a guy just like him…" He reminisced.

"Wow, how interesting!" Keisha said sarcastically. "Too bad I don't care." She said as she gathered her books.

"Are you really going to la Push this weekend?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Edward sighed.

"Who are you going to see?"

"Ugh, I'm visiting my friend Embry! I don't think he knows I'm in Forks yet, happy?"

"Embry is still alive?" He asked. The vampires still weren't aloud on the reservation and well Jacob hadn't mentioned anything of his old pack since they had returned from Alaska. Keisha however didn't seem to appreciate that comment and glared.

"Yes Embry is still alive! I don't care how you know him but you better leave him alone!" Edward laughed.

"I wouldn't hurt Embry. He's been much too helpful to me in the past."

"What?!" Edward smiled.

"Ask him." Keisha grimaced.

"Oh I will." Finally the mercy of the bell rang through the class. "Bye now." Keisha quickly exited the class and headed for her car. Speak of the devil and he shall arrive, there was Embry leaning against her car wearing his usual cut off jeans and a black shirt that was too small. That boy really needed to go shopping. He smiled brightly as his eyes rested upon hers.

"Embry!" She squealed as she ran to him. He caught her easily and lifted her in the air, laughing at her enthusiasm. He set her down kissing her cheek as she looked up at him as if he was the center of her world. How interesting.

"So don't tell me you're here by the way," Embry started to say. "I'll just find out through someone else…"Keisha immediately looked apologetic.

"I'm sorry, I didn't have time! What with unpacking and school and shit for my mom!" She explained in a hurry. Embry just smiled at her before noticing Edward as he stood by the cafeteria waiting for Bella.

"Hey Edward," He said, barely over a regular speaking level but Edward was there in a matter of seconds anyway. Keisha grumbled quietly at his approach. Embry turned to Keisha.

"You don't like him?" Keisha just rolled her eyes. "Hey Edward," Embry addressed again, ignoring Keisha's bad attitude. "Trying to be a freshman again?" He joked. Edward smiled.

"No, we managed to get sophomore this time round." Keisha grumbled again.

"He's in my chemistry." Embry laughed at her surliness. He could kiss her right now.

"Edward's cool Keisha, give him a break. How's Bella?" He asked, turning to Edward once more.

"She's great. Things are pretty weird this year…" He trailed off. Embry raised an eyebrow.

"Well Nessie is being a freshmen and this year and well her parents are being sophomores…" Embry howled with laughter.

"Oh the irony," He yelped. Keisha glared disgustedly. Vampires didn't have children. What kind of sick twisted operation were these people running? Changing teens and making the pretend to be your child?

"What kind of sick, twisted vampire are you?!" The humour stopped instantly. Edward looked upset by her words as if he regretted some of his actions and Embry looked to her, as if scolding her for her rudeness.

"Perhaps we should go…" Embry said quietly. Edward nodded; his eyes distant with thought began to drift away from them.

"See you around Edward." Edward half-smiled once more before he was gone completely and was waiting once again by the cafeteria for Bella.

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"Keisha, there's a lot of shit that you just don't know about okay? That doesn't mean you should go be a bitch to Edward just because he freaks you out."

"Oh I just don't know huh? Well here, let me find out."

"Don't you dare go in my mind! You know I don't like it."

"Then why don't you just tell me?!"

"Why does it even matter?! He's just a vampire! Like you couldn't kill him in seconds?"

"It matters because he's annoying me and I want to kill him in seconds."

"So he's got a thing for mysteries. They guy is over 100 years old. Discovering something new must really be a shocker to him. It's not like he's trying to publicize you. He's got secrets to keep to you know." Keisha did her best to growl but failed miserably making Embry laugh. He took her in his arms and kissed her forehead.

"I don't like fighting with you." He confessed, Keisha closer her eyes at the feel of his lips on her forehead.

"I don't like fighting with you either…" She mumbled. He dragged her to his couch and they plopped down on it before flicking on the T.V. Embry innocently wrapped his arm around Keisha's shoulders as she leaned into his chest.

If only he knew how evil he was being right now, Keisha thought. First he sticks up for an annoying vampire, technically calls her a bitch in the argument and then cuddles with her on his couch.

As far as she was concerned, it was no secret that she was absolutely in love with this boy, but he just didn't seem to notice. She'd seen him maybe three times in her life whenever she travelled to Forks; she was 3 he was 5, she 8 him 10, and finally she 13 and him 15, but girls were aloud to love without reason. Just because they corresponded through letters and emails didn't mean she could fall helplessly in love with him.

And now here he was practically holding her as they watched T.V. Oh the irony!

"I missed you Keisha," He said. There he goes again. Stupid bastard rubbing in her face how much he didn't love her…Yay anyways!!

"I missed you too." He kissed the top of her head as Keisha's mind melted to mush. Oh the things he was capable of…

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A/N

So what is Keisha? Hmmm?

Yeas so I'm not sure of the climax yet, nor anything about the next chapter so updates are sketchy but…Let me know what you think!

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