I'm in high school. (again) I was getting bored with it. Nothing new ever happened. It was my freshman year. (again) It had been 25 years since I had become a vampire and was "adopted" into the Cullen family. Already, I was bored with my new life. I loved my family, but I was just as bored as Emmett in gym class with the mortals.
You've probably heard Edward and Bella's story. Well, let me catch you up to speed. About 12 years ago, Jacob started aging again and sadly died in a very bad vampire attack. Well, they wern't vegetarians like us. Nessie took out her anger and grief on the Quileutes. She ruined the whole reservation. The people there are now reconstructing the school and several other buildings. So, the werewolves have to come to Forks now. We were just moving back to Forks this year. After all, they couldn't keep us away from Forks. There's no treaty line. But, we were forbidden at all costs to associate with the Quileutes.
" Haley, you, me, arm wrestle, backyard, now!" said Emmett.
Emmett never forgave Bella, nor myself for beating him at his own game. He had thought he was losing his touch, so everyday, he made Bella and me arm wrestle with him, and everyday he lost.
Esme was sketching something n a notepad, and sitting on the stairs. Rosalie, Bella, and Renesmee were watching Edward and Alice play chess. Jasper and Carlisle were talking about something Alice had seen in a vision the other day. It was something about some "visitors" are in Forks.
"Please, Haley!" Emmett pleaded.
" No! You're annoying me more than a stupid werewolf!" I told him. I made him shut his mouth and walk away. When I say "made him", I literally mean made him. I'm gifted. I could just "think" someone to do what I wanted them to do. I didn't like my gift, or to use it on anyone ( unless that person was annoying me.) I felt my gift wasn't a gift at all, a curse. I truely hated it It. It made me feel like a dictator. And nothing's worse than a vampire dictator.
I looked over to see Alice had lost the chess game as usual. I usually never played chess. I thought it was boring and only for dorks, but for the first time ever, I walked over to where Alice had just gotten up from.
"You've never played against me before. You're going to lose." Edward said matter-of-factly.
"Watch me beat you. I can beat you at anything, anytime, no matter what you say."
"Oh? Am I sensing a bet?" He said.
"Maaaaaaaybe" I replied, with a smug look on my face.
"What do you want?"
"Well...if I win, you have to stop reading everybody in this house's minds for a week."
"You know I can't do that."
I grimaced. " You know what I mean!"
"Fine, but if I win, you can't talk to anyone for a week. Not Alice. Not Nessie. Not Bella. No one." He smiled an evil smile.
I gasped in horror, but then the smile returned to my face when I remembered I was going to beat him.
"Fine." I said.
I sat down and took the first move. Edward went and I made him subconciously make the wrong move. This pattern went for about a minute when I won. He was in shock.
"Remember, no mind-reading!" I laughed.
I high-fived Alice. Just then we realized it was five minutes till school started. Edward, Bella, and Nessie took the volvo. Ness was old enough to put on the charade with us at high school now. Alice and Jasper took the porche. Rosalie took and Emmett took the jeep. I took my metallic blue pontiac solstice.(What? I absolutely lurve that color!) Everybody takes different cars now because the volvo isn't big enough for all of us, I mean, there's... eight people now who put on the teenager facade, so of course we're not going to fit in one car. Well, we're,like, bazillionares, I'm sure we could get a car that fit all of us, but nooo, we have to look inconspicuous.
We were at the school in less than two minutes. What do you expect? We're vampires for crying out loud! We all parked next to eachother, of course. As we walked together to the small front office to get our scheduales, some girls actually fainted at the sight of Edward, Jasper, and Emmett. I think I saw some guys drooling over Rose, Alice, Ness, and me. Humans are so easily dazzled, I find it sad actually.
It was May and we'd just moved back down from Alaska (again). Alice, Edward, Emmett, "Vanessa" (Renesmee) and I were acting as Cullens, while Rosalie, Jasper, and Bella were acting as Hales this year. Since they all date someone in the family, we had to divide up more people into the Hales and Cullens than before, because it would be kinda gross, in my opinion, if some of the couples had the same last name as their lover and people in town were supposed to believe that we were siblings. I mean, that would sooooooo not help with the whole inconspicuous thing. Alice, Edward, Bella, "Vanessa", and I were starting out as freshman. Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper were starting as sophomores.
The morning went fast. Except in fourth period literature. I noticed a boy sitting across from me. I could immediatly tell he was one of us. Except for one small differance. It would be small to a human anyway. But to us, it defined good and bad. His eyes were red, the color of rubies, but not in a sinister way, not in a scary way, they were somehow soft and secretive and... nice. In other words, they were beautful, because you could see a gentle nature in them, you could see a boy who didn't like his nature, but didn't know what to do about it, didn't know how he could be good. My heart sank for him, I felt terribly bad that he wanted to be good and didn't know how. He'd looked up now and I could see that he was wearing muddy colored contacts. We stared into eachother's eyes for what seemed like an eternity. I knew he knew that we were both vampires and I could tell that he was wondering why my contacts appeared such a bright green, since it was impossible to get normal vampire eyes to look such a bright green, or any green at all for that matter.
Suddenly, a thousand questions ran through my mind as it registered that this boy drank human blood. How can he be around humans without killing them? How has there been no murders in Forks lately? Why is he even here? I didn't know.
The bell rang to go to fifth period lunch. I got up and ran at a human pace to the cafeteria. I heard someone mutter, "Wow she must be hungry, ooo I like a girl with an appetite!" Then that guy started fighting with his friend over who could ask me out. Ugh. Human boys are such meatheads, it's disgusting! I got to the cafeteria and grabbed a wasted tray of food and ran to meet my family at a table by a window. I just had to tell them about this boy with red eyes! I glanced around looking for him, when I saw something that completely shocked me. The boy, well, vampire, was sitting with not one, not two, and not even three, but four others like himself! There were two girls and tw boys with him and all of them were vampires.
One of the girls was short, very short, about as tall as Alice with long straight bleached blonde hair. She looked like your typical cheerleader, blonde, peppy, frilly, peppy, pretty, peppy, and wore her cheerleader's uniform to school proudly, oh, and did I mention she was peppy? Talk about an optimist! The other girl was the complete opposite. She was very, very, tall, with short brown, wavy hair, and wore a t-shirt and basketball shorts. Uh, tomboy or what? She was looking very evilly at The Elle Woods Impersonator. Well, I can understand it, I mean, that much pep has got to get annoying after awhile. One of the boys was tall and looked like your typical jock, he had a football jersey for the Steelers on. That jersey brought back some of my cloudy human memories. I remember how my dad hated the Steelers. He was a die-hard Browns fan, and the only team he hated more than the Steelers, was Michigan, he was also a die-hard Buckeyes fan. The guy had brownish-blondish hair. It looked like the kind of hair that's bleach-blonde when you're little, but then darkens up as you get older. his hair was kinda long for a guy, but not like long enough to put in a pony-tail. I'm not sure why, but he reminded me of the kind of guy I heard Mike Newton was like. The other boy was tall, too. He was wearing lots and lots and lots of black, he looked goth, and his hair was brown and wavy.
The boy from my literature class suddenly looked over to me. I finally looked at him other than his eyes. He had messy, bright, red hair and was roughly the same size as the other two boys, but he seemed... younger somehow than them. He seemed more vulnerable and sad. I wanted to just hug him! Or comfort him! or SOMETHING! I hate seeing people sad! I would seriously probably die if you locked me in a room full of depressed, suicidal people who are so fricken depressed they can't be comforted in any way!
I looked over to my family; I was sitting down now.
"We have to tell Carlisle." said Bella.
"How are they able to-" Edward cut Nessie off.
"We don't know, but I think we should meet with them." said Edward," Do any of you have any classes with at least one of them?"
"I do," I answered," I have fourth period literature with the red-head."
"Good, now go over there and ask them to meet with us after school." Edward said.
"WHAT? I CAN'T DO THAT!" I said kind of loudly, and a couple of kids turned to look at me like i'm a freak.
"Ya know, all the guys that just looked over at you immediatly stopped their fantasies they were having about you." Edward said. "You know what they were thinking-"
"Okay! I'll go see about the meeting," I got up out of my chair. "As long as you don't tell me what they were thinking about me!"
I walked over to the table where the red-eyed-tree-frogs sat.
"HI!"said Elle Woods.
"Hello." I replied.
"I know what you are." I said simply. I got a faint sense of de-jah-vu.
"And we know what you are." said Basketball-Girl.
"Oh, how rude of me. Let us introduce ourselves. My name is Danielle." said Basketball Girl.
"HI, MY NAME IS BROOKE!" said Elle Woods.
"I'm Michael, but everyone calls me Leeper." said the reincarnated Mike Newton. Weird. His name was Mike, too.
"Tim." said the goth guy.
I turned to the guy from my literature was staring down at his uneaten lunch. He looked up into my eyes and slowly went to shake my hand."I'm Rob." When he grabbed my hand, it felt like a shock went through my body, and adrenaline corsed through my venom-filled left his hand in mine for longer than nesassary and we just stared at eachother. His eyes were so God-dang gorgeous! Then I realized the other vampires were looking at me, waiting for me to say something.
"Oh, um, I'm Haley." I said.
"Would you like to sit down..?" Danielle said, eyeing Rob and then me.
"Oh, no thank you. Actually, I came over here because my stupid, nosy, know-it-all brother," I knew Edward could hear me." asked me to ask you guys if you would please have a meeting with our family after school... Would you be interested?" I asked.
Before anyone could say anything, Brooke said "YES! THANK YOU! HEY DO YOU WANT TO GO SHOPPING LATER? OR MAYBE WE COULD GET MANI-PEDIS! OR EVEN BETTER! WE COULD GO GUY SCOUTING IN PARIS!" She screamed. I could tell she, Alice, Nessie, and I would be good friends. But she is a red-eyed-tree-frog, and they are hard to turn to our ways most of the time. Then again, these ones seemed different, maybe we could change them. "Yes, that would be lovely. Where do you want to meet?"asked Danielle.
"Come to this address after school." I said, writing down our address on an unused napkin. Yes, we live in the same house in the forest, partialy made of glass.
"Alright then, we'll see you after-OH-MY-GOSH! WHO IS THAT?" Michael asked.
He was pointing at Alice.
"Oh, I should introduce you to my family." I said.
I gestured for them to come over here. They did'nt come. So I used my gift. They came right over, all seven of them. I knew I'd pay the consequences later though. If I use my gift to often or on to many people at once, I get a headache later, even though I 'm a vampire.
"This is Alice." I said.
Michael whistled and winked at her. She rolled her eyes and Jasper stiffened.
"I'm Jasper." He said through his teeth.
"I'm Edward and this is Bella." Of cooooooourse he introduced her himself.
"HI, I"M NESSIE!" She said excitedly. Nessie reminds me of a dog. She's always excited to meet new people and her favorite place was a park.
" I'm Emmett and this is Rosalie."
"You'll get to meet our parents tonight." I said.
"Your parents?" Tim asked.
"Yes, now, we can talk about it later, right now, we're going to be late for class." I told them.
"OKAY! WE'LL SEE YA LATER!" Brooke said. Michael and Tim made the call me sign to Alice. She gawked at them. Danielle slapped Michael in the back of his head. he turned his head to Alice and mouthed the words "Remember, call me." Then Tim slapped Michael too. He waved to Alice and mouthed the words "Don't listen to him, I'm the one you want!"
Then Michael said, " Man, she's HOTT!" to his family. They all slapped him. I giggled.
I liked these people already. I didn't know them well, but I could tell they hadn't been changed long ago.
I quickly went to sixth period Spanish, and the rest of the school day went by fast.