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BPOV:

Ah, another day of high school. At least we were now able to fully enjoy the day, living in this nearly constant precipitation. My family and I were more than willing to put up with a little extra water in the air if it meant that we could come outside during the day.

"Alice?" I called to her in a tone no human could hear, but was comfortably within my vocal range. She turned her head to look at me about three tenths of a second before I had called her name, and I assumed she had known that I would want to talk. Alice has the uncanny ability to see the future, to some extent, and she used her power to its fullest.

"Yes, Bella?" She answered.

"You wouldn't be able to tell me what Mr. Banner has planned for next period, would you?" I hated having to learn biology again and again, especially since I had had no reverence for it the first time around, a good 90 years ago.

"Sorry Bells, you're stuck with the usual. It will be fine; Mrs. Goff is assigning a project on the Incan ruins, so you can finally use all of the pictures you took on your trip!"

Too bad all of them were at night, I inwardly sighed. Rosalie was looking at me with an odd glint in her eye, and I wondered what she was up too. I figure I'll find out sooner or later.

"I figure we should go camping soon, right?" Jasper, Alice's mate of sorts, used our code name for the hunting trips we took as a choice to deviate from our "natural food source."

Rosalie, Emmet. Alice and I nodded our consent, moving only a fraction of an inch in either direction.

My family, although as normal as could be expected from a group of vampires, stood out from the general population of Forks, Washington, so we tried to call as little attention to ourselves as possible, knowing that a day may come when someone would figure out our secret. Although we all knew the point in time when our inability to age would become a factor in playing our role as high schoolers, we were in no rush to move again. Our entire conversation was quiet and fast, lasting no more than a minute, with no possibility of eavesdropping, as we sat far apart from the rest of the school's population.

The bell rang and we all fluidly rose from our seats and went our separate ways. Although Alice and I were acting as juniors, Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper were playing the role of seniors, taking classes more challenging for the humans we had once been, but now, seemed just as tedious as the rest.

As I walked to Biology, I saw Angela Weber, and waved. The girl was one of few humans who would even consider talking to the "mysterious Cullens," but that was besides the fact. Angela was a wonderful person, and a joy to be around. I counted her as a real friend.

"Have you heard about the new boy?" She asked.

"Edward something or other, isn't it?"

"Bella!" she exclaimed, again reprimanding me for not even trying to keep up with the goings on of Forks High School. "His name is Edward Mason! Don't tell me you haven't noticed him? He is so hot! Everyone is fighting over who gets to ask him to the spring dance!"

Yes, I had noticed the boy, but he seemed ordinary enough to me. I wouldn't put more effort into being his friend than I had with most of the other juniors.

After Angela and I entered the classroom and took our seats, I saw the boy in question walk through the door. In the right light, he could have looked nice, but the portable classrooms the school used were so dingy, no one looked good. Edward walked to the front of the class and handed a slip of paper to Mr. Banner, then waited for the teacher to assign him a seat.

Without looking up he called, "Mr. Mason, kindly take a seat next to Ms. Cullen."

I was in the motion of clearing some space for him at my desk when the back door of the class swung open, bringing a blast of air past Edward, and smack into my face.

I was momentarily stunned. Then my throat burst into flames. I could barely control the muscles in my hands that wanted to stretch forward and break the new boy's spine, so I could taste the warm blood pulsing just below the thin layer of skin on his neck.

I don't know how, but I managed to collect all of my things into my bag, and walk to the front of the room, conveniently placing Edward out of harms way. I coughed pitifully when I reached Mr. Banner's desk and looked him straight in the eyes, imploring him to believe me, "Mr. Banner, Do you think it would be okay if I went and saw the nurse? I think I must have had something bad for lunch and it's really not agreeing with me." I winced at the end, putting as much effort into the charade as I could without having to take in another breath.

Thank God, he believed my lie, and sent me out of the room within seconds. Once outside, I sprinted into the outlying woods near the school parking lot, and took a deep breath; although uncomfortable, not breathing was the only way to rid myself of the most alluring scent I had ever encountered in the entirety of my almost 100 years of experience. I could not completely leave the most recent chance at disaster behind though; flashbacks of the many ways to kill Edward Mason that had popped up in my mind in that one instant in the classroom, would not stop replaying in my head.

But I was not alone in my suffering for long. Alice was at my side in less than a minute after my initial departure from biology. She gave me a long look and could tell I was in great emotional turmoil, but she also knew that I would never be able to communicate in my current state.

"We're going to see Carlisle," was all she said before dragging me to the car and racing off down the road to council with our adoptive father of sorts.

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