[Disclaimer! I do not own Twilight or any of the characters. The only characters I do own are the original ones I came up with.]
Chapter 1-First Days = Too Many Stares
As the 7 of us walked up the stairs to Forks High we immediately got stares. We did have to remember it was a small town and almost everyone knew each other. All of us were nervous but I think Orion, who was on my right, seemed the most nervous.
"Rion, it's okay," I whispered grabbing and squeezing his hand as we all walked into the office.
The lady behind the counter looked up and a look of pure shock crossed her face then a small smile replaced it.
"Are you the Everett family?" She asked looking at us all up and down at least once.
"We are," I replied firmly looking her in the eye then looking back at my family. I always seemed to be elected spokes person. I don't get why, both Orion and Andy were older than me but yet I got stuck with the job.
The lady looked at us again and grabbed a stack of papers and walked toward us. "Alright then I'm Mrs. Cope and these are your schedules, maps, and medical forms," she said sorting the piles into three. "Which one of you is Apollo?" She asked taking a paper off the left pile and one from the middle and another from the right.
Apollo, who had reddish brown hair that he kept, cropped kind of short, green orbs for eyes, and a huge grin, stepped forward.
"Here you go," Mrs. Cope said to Apollo as he took the papers stepped aside. "Okay and Alexavier?" She asked looking down at the paper to make sure she didn't mix any names up.
"Call me Alex or Xavier," he said walking up to Mrs. Cope to take the papers. Xavier, least that's what most of us called him, had darker auburn hair that was somewhat longer than Apollo's. His eyes were the same shade of green and his smile just as big, and sometimes bigger.
Mrs. Cope grabbed the next sheet off the pile and looked down at the name. "Andromeda," she sighed, probably already bored with this.
Andromeda stepped out, she had dark blonde hair that was cut to just below her shoulders, and has bright blue eyes. "I prefer Andy," she said with a huge grin taking the paper.
Mrs. Cope merely nodded then grabbed another paper. "Sirius," was the name that was called this time.
"Yup that's me," Sirius called pushing his way through. He had dark brown hair almost black that, like Xavier's, was longer but was a little curlier and the longest part was just below his ears.
"Sapphire?"
A girl stepped out; she had long black hair with white tips, and piercing blue eyes.
"Thanks," Sapphire whispered taking the paper from Mrs. Cope.
"Orion?" Mrs. Cope called looking at the next paper.
Rion came up with a huge grin on his face. His hair was the same as mine, a dark chestnut brown. But his was shorter and like Xavier's and Sirius's.
"Thank you!" He said with the grin still there.
"And Sagittarius?"
Everyone in the room sniggered as I stepped forward to grab my papers. All I could remember thinking was. Why the hell did my biological mom name me Sagittarius?
"Thanks," I muttered snatching the paper from the woman and walking out of the office as soon as humanly possible.
"Who has English first!" Apollo almost shouted over everyone in the circle we had made.
"Oh I do!" Andy cried with a grin. She was my older sister (biologically), but in a way she always seemed younger than I.
"Ugh I have Math first," I groaned looking down at the schedule I was handed.
Everyone looked at me and frowned. That could only mean one thing… I was alone.
"Sorry Sage," Xavier said, using my one nickname, poking his schedule, "I have physics first."
Orion came over and wrapped an arm around my shoulders; he was my older brother (biologically as well) and knew that I was worried. "Yeah it's okay Archer," he told me using his pet name for me. Although it was my favorite.
"Oh I have that," Sapphire said looking at her schedule then Xavier's.
"I have P.E. first," Sirius said frowning, you could tell he hated P.E. but at least you don't have to learn in there.
"Oh…I have history first," Orion said looking at Sirius then at me. "Guess you aren't alone in being alone in the first class of the day."
"Yeah but still alone in the class won't be fun," I stated quietly looking at the schedule again. "Hopefully we all have a class together later."
Orion looked at my schedule and his. "Yeah we do, we have P.E. after lunch."
I smiled warmly at him, but I was apprehensive about having P.E. with him. After all I was a known klutz and I would most likely fall on my face at some point and he would see then tell the others about it. Then they would have my name and my klutziness against me.
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I walked into the math class and walked up to the teacher hoping he wouldn't make me sit and talk about myself.
To my utter dismay before he sent me to my seat he said, "Why don't you tell the class something about yourself?"
All I could do was turn to everyone, who by now were all staring directly at me.
"Well my name is Sagittarius Everett; yeah I'm named after a constellation. Although, I prefer to be called Sage, or sometimes Archer by my close friends Um, I'm a triplet with my two other siblings also being named after a constellations. I am adopted and I have four other siblings as well."
"Freak," someone from the back of the class room said with a chuckle. No one else laughed though.
"My family and I moved here from Vancouver, British Colombia in Canada, my adoptive father got a new job here and it was a very good job offer so he decided to take it." I looked down at the floor because I couldn't take their stares anymore. "That's about it."
"Thank you Sagittarius, oh I mean Sage," the teacher said pointing me to a chair beside a boy who seemed curious about me.
That boy stared at me the entire period and it put me on edge. Did I look that bad? I honestly thought I looked cute. Andy commented this morning on my dark wash boot cut jeans and my purple t-shirt with black writing and a black cotton vest over top that accentuated my narrow waist. She told me it was very cute.
When the bell rang I shot up immediately but my book fell from my desk. Before I bent down to pick it up the boy who had been staring at me the entire period had the book held out for me to take.
I took the book carefully out of his hands and he continued to look at me. "Thanks…"
"No problem," he muttered then left the room in a hurry.
I shrugged at his hasty exit and then left to go to my honors anatomy class.
Once I was in there I noticed, crap I was alone…again.
The teacher was a little bit nicer, he didn't make me get up in front of the class and talk about myself. All he did was ask what I'd rather be called instead of Sagittarius.
"Everyone this is Sage, she and her family moved here from Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada."
The teacher pointed to a seat at a lab table that already had an unusually good looking boy sitting there. "You can sit there, next to Noah."
I nodded and started to walk over to the table. Somewhere along my way there something or someone tripped me. And of course I fell flat on my face with most of the class laughing or just looking on in horror. Picking myself off of the floor I went to grab the book the teacher had given me and the other books I had from the day but they were gone.
"Here," someone said from above me. When I looked up I noticed it was Elliot, he held my books out with one arm. Déjà vu much? Then I thought he looked a lot like the boy that was staring at me from before…but not exactly. What made them look the same? I decided to ignore this fact and took the books.
"Thanks," I said taking the books from him.
Noah simply nodded then walked back to the lab table.
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By the end of school I was sick of telling people, who I am and where I'm from. I was also sick of people looking at me and my family like we were insane.
"Can we go home?" I complained draping my arms over Apollo, he and I did have a thing in the past but obviously it was the past, but we were still the best of friends.
Apollo laughed and wrapped his arms around me. "I think we can yes, although Sirius, Sapphire, and Andy are still in there. The rest of us can leave."
"Good," Orion said smiling holding up a small pile of books. "Some how a few teachers managed to give me homework."
"Don't worry. Me too," I said holding up three books of my own.
Xavier and Apollo grinned at each other than back at Orion and I. "We don't!" They both called laughing.
I glared at them both and held up the keys to my Eclipse. "If you would like a ride home now, stop bragging. If you want to wait for Andy, Sapphire and Sirius keep bragging."
Almost instantly they both stopped laughing and they looked at me like I was their only hope.
"Fine we'll stop," Apollo said sighing and walking over to me.
I nodded and walked over to my car quickly unlocking it so we could get in and leave the school before anyone else starts asking questions. Shoving the key in the ignition and starting it I practically floored it out of there and home.
"Jeez Sage," Xavier said getting out and mocking me by falling on the ground.
"Haha funny." I said glaring at him taking my books out of the trunk.
Orion laughed and got his books as well. "You know something weird today?"
"What?" Apollo, Xavier, and I all said at once.
"There were kids that had really pale skin. Not like us pale but paper pale," Rion said looking at us seriously.
Apollo looked at him skeptically. "I really doubt they were that pale."
"I saw someone like that though, actually two someones," I said looking at the three of them. But only Apollo and Xavier looked at me like I was crazy.
"Honestly they had very pale skin, it was like as white as paper. Then they were both unreasonably good looking."
Xavier laughed and shook his head. "Only you would notice a person's looks."
"They were both guys!" I exclaimed looking desperately at them. "Plus I couldn't help to notice they were good looking!"
Both Orion and I looked at each other and then said in unison, "They did have pale skin though."
I walked over and walked with Orion. He was older than me by ten minutes but to me it sometimes seemed like an entire year.
"What do you think those people with pale skin are?" He asked me while we both walked to the kitchen table so we could work on our homework.
"Don't say it like that," I scolded, "They could just never get in the sun, because just look at this place. I heard it always rains and it's very rarely sunny."
"I guess," He said shaking his head.
But after he said his first comment it made me think. Maybe those people could be something that is different. Or like I told him they could just never get much sun. But we'd find out sooner or later.
Please R & R. Also I'm sorry this chapter seemed to rush to an end. I promise the others won't do that.