A/N: This is the third story in a series I've written. The first is titled "Anti-Venom." The second is "Human Moments" and Chapter 1 of "Lily's Twilight" is actaually the Epilogue to "Human Moments." You don't really have to read my other two to understand this one, but it would be cool if you did! What you need to know if you didn't read the other two, Bella & Edward are human. Also, their children are teenagers at this point.
I dedicate this story to LinkinPark101 and bloodredeclipse - muchas gracias!
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Katie a.k.a. AliceMakesMeLaugh
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Lily's POV:
Chapter 1: New
I looked in my closet for my favorite black t-shirt and I can't seem to find it. "Mom!" I called.
"Yes, Lily?" My mother entered my room, "you better hurry, you can't be late for your first day of high school."
"I can't find my favorite t-shirt!" I whined a little. This probably surprised my mom since my sister, Annie, who's starting her junior year, is the fashion queen. She's been up since 5:30 am, so that she could make her wavy hair perfectly straight and she's already dressed and ready to go looking like a runway model. I'm the not-so-fashion-conscious one of the bunch. But OMG, even I can't look like a retard on my first day of high school.
My closet door was hanging open and I was standing inside. My mom approached me, closing the closet door, then opening it back up, holding my t-shirt in her hand on a hanger. "Is this what you're looking for?" I grinned.
"Yes! Thanks, Mom! I forgot that I put it there last night so I wouldn't be late."
"Lily, your brothers are already out in the car waiting for you," my Dad entered the room.
"Jeez, Dad! Don't you knock?" I was horrified, standing there in my bra and jeans, quickly covering up with the t-shirt my mom handed me.
"Sorry, Lily," he looked really embarrassed and quickly left the room.
I finished getting dressed, brushed my hair one last time, ran downstairs and grabbed a yogurt shake and ran to my brother Adam's BMW. I'm glad Thomas isn't driving his stupid flashy Porsch today. It screams "Hey, look at me!" and I get embarrassed when he drives me around in it. I opened the door and slid in next to Annie in the back seat. My mom and dad stood on the front porch waving to us, as if we're a bunch of toddlers or something. As they disappeared from my view, I saw my dad put his head down to kiss my mom. Yuck, they make me sick. They're not teenagers anymore, but they usually still act as if they are.
"Senior year, here we come!" Thomas hooted as Adam wound his way out of our long driveway, onto the road.
"Speak for yourselves," I groaned, only a freshman.
"I hope I have a lot of classes with Eve!" Annie said, referring to our cousin who's also a junior.
"Don't you mean that you hope you have a lot of classes with Javier?" I teased, saying Javier like "Jav-eeee-aaair." That's Annie's boyfriend. They just started dating this past summer, much to my father's chagrin.
"Oh, whatever Lily. You're just jealous that Mark doesn't go to Fork's High. Maybe we can get mom and dad to transfer you to the school at La Push!" She teased me right back.
"I don't even like Mark Black," I retorted. I mean, we used to be friends when we were like 5, but we don't hang out anymore. He's too busy with his friends and besides, I'm too young to start dating anyone seriously. He doesn't even come up to my house anymore like he used to with his parents. They still come, but since he was like 13, he chose to stay home and hang out at La Push.
"When are you two going to grow up?" Adam laughed. Sometimes he and Thomas like to act like they're so much older than we are.
"Adam, speaking of growing up, can I drive to school tomorrow? I've had my permit for two weeks now." Annie begged.
"Uh, no, ask Thomas..." Adam replied quickly.
"Tom?" Annie pleaded.
"Um, no, not after what you did in Dad's Volvo." Thomas said seriously, then laughed. We all laughed remembering how Annie had driven up a curb at 35 miles per hour in the center of town the day she first got her permit. Dad said she's not allowed to drive on roads until she's mastered a parking lot.
We arrived at school shortly thereafter. I sucked in a deep breath as I got out of the car, adjusted the strap of my backpack and walked toward the crowded school. The population in Forks has increased dramatically over the past ten years, largely in part due to the fact that my Uncle Jasper and Uncle Emmett's contracting and real estate development company built thousands of homes in the surrounding Forks, Washington area. People who were looking for the next "small town" to get away from city life in Seattle and Olympia were like voltures when the new homes were built. They couldn't build them fast enough.
There were two large middle schools merging together here at the new high school, so I would know half the kids and the other half would be a mystery. I went to the large tables in the lobby area where they had tables set up where you could pick up your locker number and class schedule. I was finished quickly and was so happy to see my best friend, Elena Wilson's locker was near mine.
"Laney!" I called out to get her attention. Only I'm aloud to call her Laney.
"Hey, Lily. Did you get your schedule yet? I have Algebra first period, yuck." She smiled and we compared schedules. We had two classes together, Algebra, then after lunch together, we had sixth period World History. We walked off to Algebra, and I was amazed at how many faces I didn't recognize. I knew there would be a lot of new kids, but jeez. I really started to get nervous then.
At lunch, Elena and I sat at a table with some of our other junior high friends. I heard Sarah and Beth snickering next to me. "What's up?" I asked,
curious.
"Do you see that new guy over there? He looks so dangerous," Beth remarked.
"Dangerous and totally hot!" Sarah added.
I turned my head to look behind me in the direction they had pointed to. Mark Black was sitting at a table with a group of guys who looked like trouble makers. I hadn't seen him in a few months and I was shocked. Mark is 15, so he's a year older than I am, but he looked like he was 18. His tall, lanky, frame looked slightly awkward, but the rest of him left me speechless. His once boyish face was chisled now with perfect angular definition. Not too angular, but not soft either. His dark eyes were mysterious and complemented his tan skin perfectly.
"Don't you know him, Lily?" Elena asked, bringing my out of my reverie.
"Yeah, that's Mark. His parent's are friends with mine." I answered nonchalantly.
"Will you introduce me?" Beth looked excited.
"Um yeah, sure." I really didn't want to introduce Beth to Mark, but I wasn't sure how to say no. I changed the subject and continued to eat my lunch,
hoping Beth would forget about the introduction. No such luck.
"Lily, he's getting up, let's go!" Beth hopped up, and grabbed her tray. I followed suit, not looking forward to this.
We dropped our trays off at the window to the dishroom and I had to jog to keep up with Beth. "Say something," she prompted me as we approached Mark, who's back was to us. He must be at least 6 feet tall.
"Mark?" I called out, but not too loudly. He turned around, searching the nearby faces for one he recognized, then settling on me, I thought I saw his lips turn upward in a smile, but his expression quickly changed to annoyance.
"Yeah?" He didn't sound pleased.
"How are you?" I asked.
"Fine."
"What are you doing here?"
"What's it to you?" Was this really Mark Black?
"What's your problem?" I wasn't going to shrink away and just take his abuse, embarrassed or not.
"You are. Now go away Lily," He turned and stalked off to catch up with his trouble making friends. I recognized one of them, his name was Jeffrey Mims and he spent more time in detention than he did in class.
"What was that all about?" Beth looked shocked.
"I don't know..." I said dumbfounded. The rest of the day flew by in a blur and I couldn't get out of there fast enough. As I waited for my siblings to arrive at Adam's car, I saw Mark exit the school and get into his dad's WV Passat. I felt like crying, but I refused to let Mark Black get to me like that.
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