Leeches

BPOV

I woke up to the alarm blaring in my ear. I reached down and unplugged it from the walk. Kicking the quilt off my feet, I slowly stumbled to the window. I pulled back the curtain while rubbing the sleep from my eyes. I blinked a couple times from the bright light shining off of the snow. It was another beautiful day. My kind of day.

I went to the bathroom, took a quick shower using my strawberry shampoo, and brushed my teeth. I went back into my room, with a towel wrapped around my body and my hair. I got dressed in a pair of skinny blue jeans, a red long sleeved shirt, and my black converse.

I was walking down the stairs drying my hair, going slowly as not to trip. At the

last step, like always, I lost my balance. I quickly reached out with my hands, dropping the towel making it land on my head where I couldn't see, and grabbed at the banister. The fingers of my right hand skimmed over and missed the railing, but my left hand was able to get a good grip on it. I tightened my grip on the banister and steadied myself. I reached up and removed the towel from my head.

I walked into the kitchen, setting the towel down on the counter on my way to the cabinets. I reached up and pulled out my favorite cereal, Captain Crunch, grabbed a bowl and a spoon, and got the milk out of the refrigerator. I made myself a quick bowl, then ran back upstairs to fix my hair. I looked at my watch. Damn. Five minutes till I'm late. I grabbed my stuff, stumbled down the stairs and out the door, while quickly throwing the deadbolt, and got into my blood red Mustang Giugiaro Concept. The start of another ordinary day.

I raced down the road and pealed into the parking lot of the school. I slammed on the brakes and did a one eighty, parking perfectly in my spot. I looked at my watch again. One minute. I turned off my car, grabbed my stuff, and got out of my car. I slammed the door shut, trying to balance my things in one hand, and locked the door, while walking toward the school as fast as I could without dropping anything or tripping.

I threw open the front door, and ran down the hall. I turned a corner, sliding a little. I raced down the hall, seeing my class a couple doors down. I grabbed the door frame, stopping myself from passing it, and dashed inside right as the bell rang.

"Glad you could make it this morning Isabella." said the Spanish teacher, Mrs. Price, while closing the door behind me.

"My pleasure." I replied, as I found my way to my seat in the back left corner.

I pulled out my sketch book and started to doodle random things, while the teacher rambled on about unimportant things. Someone walked into the class room about half way through. I was to busy drawing trees with snow on them to look up and see who it was. I heard the teacher turn toward the person and start talking to them. After awhile, the teacher turned back to the class.

"Ok class." she said. "We have a new student joining us today. Make him feel welcome. Would you please introduce yourself?"

"I'm Edward Cullen." the new guy said, his voice sounding like bells. I stiffened in my seat.

"Please find a seat Edward and we can continue our lesson." she said.

I continued doodling when he sat down in the only empty seat next to mine. The entire class time, I could feel his eyes on me. I just kept drawing, trying to distract myself to not look up.

A minute before the bell rang, I carefully put my stuff away, while sneaking a peak at Edward between my hair. Oh, shit. I quickly looked away. When the bell finally rang, I quickly got up and ran out the door, while looking at the floor, making sure I didn't trip. I went skidding down the hall, heading towards my math class. I was the first person in my class for once. I went and sat down in my seat in the back of the room again.

I didn't know why he was here, but it had to be for something. I knew his kind, it never ended well. If one person ended up missing, I would have to end him and whoever else is with him.

EPOV

As the bell rang, I watched as she sprang up out of her desk and ran out the door before any one else was even out of there seats.

Never in my existence, have I ever failed to be able to read anyone. Maybe I was losing my power, or maybe there was something about her that was different then every other human I've ever met.

I got up and followed her scent of freesia and strawberry and a hint of ….. snow?, down the hall. She had already made it to her class and was the only one in there, when I found her. She was staring out the window, with a confused look on her face. God, how much I wanted to know what she was thinking.

After a few seconds, I reluctantly walked away before she noticed me watching her. I was walking to Mrs. McLeod's class, when Alice walked around the corner to stand in front of me. "I couldn't see you for a minute." she said looking worried. "Whatever you where planning, don't do it."

"What do you mean you couldn't see me?" I asked her. "I wasn't going to do anything."

"What where you just about to do?"

"It doesn't matter." I said, walking around her. I didn't want to talk about how some girl was making me go crazy in just a few short minutes since we'd been here.

Alice grabbed my arm and turned me to face her. "What happened? I know something happened. You couldn't have just disappeared and reappeared."

"Okay, okay. I'll tell you." I said, getting a little angry. "I couldn't read this one girls mind. I think something might be happening to me."

"Your power can't just stop working Edward. It's suppose to grow over time."

"I know that Alice, but I couldn't get anything out of her. You don't know how frustrating that is."

"Yes I do. I couldn't see you, remember? I didn't know what happened." Alice said. She started to pace back and forth, lots of different thoughts going through her mind. "Well then, it must be her doing something."

"Do you think she knows that she's doing it?"

"I don't know, but we'll talk about it later, the minute bell is about to ring. See you at lunch." she said, walking past me to her class right as the minute bell rang.

I walked down the hall toward my English class. I was going to find a way to read her mind.

BPOV

By lunch, I had pretty much forgotten about the new kid, until I walked into the lunch room. I stood frozen in the doorway. There were five of them. I got pushed from behind from a couple people trying to get into the lunch room, and stumbled into a couple people in front of me. I steadied myself before I bumped into anyone else. I went over to the lunch line, grabbed and paid for my food, and walked over to my table, in the opposite side of the cafeteria then the new students, before I could cause anymore trouble.

I sat down and looked at the filthy parasites out of the corner of my eye. There was a big brawny male with dark curly hair and a gorgeous blond sitting next to him. There was a blond male with muscles, but not as much as the other one, and if you looked closely, you could see that he had tons of scars, and there was a little pixie with short black hair that stuck out in all directions sitting next to him. Then there was the bronze haired one. Edward. He wasn't as muscular as the others, but you could still tell he had some muscles. And if I looked closely, I could see that every one of them had black eyes. Not good for anyone.

I looked up and notice that Mike Newton and Eric Yorkie where walking to my table. They could never take the tint.

"Hi Bella. How you doing today?" Mike asked me, sitting down beside me, closer than I liked. Eric sat down on the other side of me, making it impossible to move.

"Just fine Mike." I said, taking a bite of my pizza, ignoring them both.

"How was your summer?" Eric asked me.

"Like all other summers. Boring." I said, taking another bite, wishing they would go away.

"We were planning to go to the movies this weekend. Did you want to come with us?" Mike asked, hopefully.

"I'm sorry." I said, with no sorrow in my voice. "But I have other plans this weekend." I started to take bigger bites of my pizza, trying to get out of there as fast as possible.

"Well maybe another time then." Eric said, probably thinking about when was a good time.

"Maybe." I said doubtfully, getting up, planning to go anywhere where they weren't. I threw my trash away and grabbed my stuff. "Good hanging with you." I said sarcastically. I walked toward the exit and saw out of the corner of my eye, that Edward was grinning and shaking his head back and forth looking down at the table. I ignored him, and kept walking, going to the library, where I knew Mike and Eric would never go.

I walked into the library and sat down on one of the bean bags in the corner, trying to think why the leeches would come to this small town. Nothing exciting ever happens here, but I guess it would be a great place where they could come out in the day, seeing as it's always cloudy. But why would they go to school and try to be normal. It's just not natural for there kind. I would just have to watch them and see what they are up to.

EPOV

I went into the lunch room and sat down in an empty table in the corner, waiting for the rest of my family. A few seconds later they walked through the door and headed straight toward me.

When Alice sat down, she got straight to the point. "Okay. Well, I thought about it, and I think we just have to watch her for a while and see what happens. See if she knows that she's blocking us or not."

"Okay. I've been following her all day, and still nothing. If she is doing something, she hasn't let it slip." I said, sighing at the end in my frustration.

"Wait." Emmett interrupted Alice and me. "What are you talking about. We haven't even been here a day and there's already a problem."

"We could always take care of the problem." Rosalie said, while looking at her nails, already picturing ways that we could take care of the problem.

"There is nothing to 'take care of it'." I said getting mad at Rosalie for even suggesting that we kill her.

"Okay, okay. I won't do anything. I was merely suggesting it." Rosalie said, rolling her eyes.

There was a sudden commotion at the front of the cafeteria. I looked up, and the person in the middle of all the commotion, was the mystery girl. She got bumped from behind and knocked into a couple people in front of her. She quickly steadied herself and walked over to the line to get food. She grabbed a pepperoni pizza, paid for it, then walked to her table and sat down.

I could tell that see was looking our way out of the corner of her eye, when she sat down. It was as she was studying us, so I decided to study her. Maybe it would help me to be able to get something from her mind. She was beautiful, with long brown hair that had some waves in it. Her skin was pale white, but not like she was sick, just that she didn't go out into the sun. I then looked at her eyes. They were a deep chocolate brown, and I got completely lost in them.

After a few seconds she looked away, making me snap out of my trance in her eyes. Two guys walked over to her table, who where both thinking things what would put shame to Emmett and Rosalie. I looked to the girl and saw that she had noticed them both to. She looked back down at her food as the two vile boys sat down next to her, rather closely.

"Hi Bella. How you doing today?" the one with blond hair, asked her. So I finally found a name for her.

"Just fine Mike." I heard her say, with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"How was your summer?" the other boy asked her.

"Just like always. Boring." Bella said. It looked like she was starting to get mad. I turned to Jasper. "Jasper, can you tell what Bella is feeling?" I asked, wondering if his power worked, since Alice's and mine didn't.

Jasper looked Bella's way and concentrated awhile. After a few seconds he looked at me. No. he thought to me. I looked back to Bella.

"We were planning to go to the movies this weekend. Did you want to go with us?" Mike asked her, thinking that there was no way she would say no, and trying to find a way to ditch the other guy so that they could be alone.

"I'm sorry." she said, with no sorrow in her voice at all. "But I have other plans this weekend." Mike and Eric both let out their breaths in disappointment.

"Well maybe another time then." Eric said, thinking about asking her again tomorrow.

"Maybe." she said rolling her eyes, while throwing away her trash. She went back to the table to grab her stuff. "Good hanging with you." she said sarcastically, and walked toward the door.

Both Eric and Mike thought that they still had a chance with her and where going to ask her out again after school. I looked down at the table and shock my head back and forth, laughing. Boy's thought never changed.