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Chapter One Class and New Kids
The sweet, blessed, joyful sound of the bell rang throughout the school. This bell was by far the second sweetest bell in the whole day. It was the sound that ended math class. I was so happy to be out of that darn class! It was almost like…well, there is no description to properly describe to you how that bell brings my heart to the point of happiness, absolute bliss. Who ever said ignorance is bliss has obviously not had math class! They saying is 'the end of math class is bliss' thank you very much!
I hurried out of the class, grabbing my stuff and running like my life depended on it. In my hurry, I joined the throng of students on their way to their next class. I pulled out my work for Biology so I could turn it in. And as I did that I walked smack into another person.
"Aw, God dammit!" I cursed as papers, books, and writing implements went flying everywhere.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, Avril," my high school's counselor said in a low tone.
Fuck, I thought. But I merely nodded and worked on gathering the scattered papers. "Sorry," I said and then accepted the sheets of paper that the person who I'd run into had collected. The hand was completely white, and the tendons of the arm stood out. I nearly gaped. "Thanks," I said when I was done following the muscles in his forearm up to his biceps. Dear Lord, this was like…Arnold Schwarzennegger! Only better looking!!!
"Avril, these are Bella, Edward, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper."
All one family? Yes I could see it-pale skin, same color eyes, all breathtaking…but no, they just had too different of body structures and differences in their appearance that could not be explained away.
One girl had long flowing hair that reached the middle of her back. And her hair was BLONDE!!! It looked like…a dye job for perfection only natural. Her eyes were a soft topaz-like the one on my necklace that my mom gave me for my sixteenth birthday. She was tall, about three inches taller than me. That pissed me off, I hate it when girls are taller than me, I don't like looking up to them. She was pale too. And she was breathtakingly beautiful. I felt hideous.
No amount of mom and dad's "you're beautiful, honey" could cure me this time.
Another girl was just an inch shorter than I was, she had long brown hair but I could detect reddish highlights. She too had topaz eyes and pale skin. She was the most average looking of them all.
The third girl was small, teeny tiny. She was under five foot. Her dark hair was spikey and in random directions-but it looked great. She was lithe but you could tell she was strong. I smiled tentatively at her. She smiled back at me with warm eyes.
Then I allowed myself to look at the boys. Oh My Gawd!!! It was an eye candy feast! A total solar blast of hotness! A smorgasbord of good looking guys...
And I could have gazed on that forever!
The tallest was about six foot five. He had dark curly hair that just begged for a girl to run her fingers through it. Oh my, I was acting like some freaky girl from a romance novel!! He was muscular-he was the one who'd given me my papers back. He grinned at me and his teeth flashed in the light. I was momentarily dazed.
Then my gaze slid to the next. He was lean but his muscularity could not be denied. He had blonde hair and topaz eyes. He was good looking, but not as good looking as the first. He had a gentle smile and for a moment I felt strange...I was happy, not concerned about getting to Bio…that was odd.
The last was the youngest, maybe about my age. He had hair like mine-the coppery color in the sun, only his didn't need the sun. His hair was earlobe length and he had a strong jaw with a pointed nose. His topaz eyes glinted with a secret. I wasn't sure which was which, but he struck me as an Edward.
"Hello," I said, "Sorry about bumping into you." The bell rang it's shrill sound and I mentally cursed again. "Can you give me a pass?" I asked the counselor in a pleading tone. Amazed not to feel too worried.
"I can do better!" he chirped in his voice. My old friend used to say 'He's fabulous' before she moved away. "I'll take you, Alice, Bella, Edward, and Jasper to Biology right away! They're in your grade, Avril, you know."
"No, I didn't know," I grumbled, "I just met them." He appraised me with one eyebrow raised and I fought back the fury, keeping my eyes away from them. I knew what he was thinking and I wished he wouldn't.
But it was inevitable, I knew that. However we marched to Biology and went in. I found my seat and then they took theirs after introductions. I was right about the Edward looking guy, that was Edward. The good looking one but not too muscular one was Jasper. The short girl was Alice, and the girl only one inch shorter than me was Bella.
After I finished my work I cast a glance at them. Most everyone was staring at them, they were so blatantly beautiful. Then it swept me up. I closed my eyes and fought back, gripping the desk with both hands.
A little boy stood on a porch of an old house, and it was old…like a I don't, it just looked old fashioned! The next thing I saw was a battle. It was a confederate vs union and I saw the color guards duking it out with their flags being used as swords. Then I felt the sharp feeling of teeth on my skin and such a terrible agony that I started crying. I couldn't stop as I caught the image and heard the sounds and tasted the taste of blood and death and carnage. Then I found relief when Alice stumbled into the picture. Next I saw the family with two others. A hotel in Phoenix, AZ…tearing someone to shreds and burning them…fear when Alice said that Edward…Edward was trying to die? That made no sense to me, but it didn't stop. Images kept coming and going…I couldn't stop crying.
My teacher hurried over, "Avril! Avril! AVRIL!!" She shook me and for a moment the world came crashing down back to normal. Then it started up again.
This time, I saw Alice's past. Then Bella's. Then Edward's.
It all hurt. The sheer agony they'd all experienced was too much. I couldn't bear it. I laid my head down while some sympathetic student hurried over to the my teacher's supply cabinet and got me a bottle of water and some pain killers. She doesn't care if we go in there just so long as we leave the stuff in order. I swallowed the pain killers and laid my head back down. Then the bell rang and I hurried out to join the lunch crowd. I stuffed my books back in my locker and grabbed my lunch.
My school is relatively small. So they didn't think that six kids would warrant their own table. But there they stood, all six of them, looking uncomfortable. Graciously, I walked over to them, "Would you like to sit at my table?"
Part of me was begging for them to say no. I didn't want to see their past anymore, I'm sure, than they wanted me to see theirs. But instead they followed me to the table and they didn't eat anything. Curious I asked, "Aren't you hungry?"
"No," they answered. It was odd, even though I didn't want to I found myself wishing I was their friend. Before Emmett's past hit me.
And then I was struggling against the tumult of pictures and smells, the tastes and the sounds…
It lasted about five minutes before Rosalie's entered my head. I laid my head on the cool table top and waited for the pain to pass. A cool hand touched my head, "Are you all right?"
"Fine," I spoke a little too harshly. I couldn't exactly help it, I was in pain. The cool fingers found my forehead. I pulled away. I don't like to be touched. People who touch you literally get close to you and then eventually they become your friends. Then they leave you.
Oooh, big surprise. And yes, that was sarcasm dripping from my voice.
I looked up into the worried eyes of Alice Cullen. "What do you see?"
"How do you know I'm seeing things?" I asked, startled. Alice smiled her pixie smile.
"I'm gifted too," she said warmly. "I see things as well."
I looked around the table, the rest had left. "Why'd they go?"
She smirked, "They went off to find something to do. No doubt Jasper and Emmett are arm wrestling or something." She frowned, "I do hope Rose, Bella, and Edward are behaving."
"Don't they get along?"
Alice nodded but then she looked troubled. She stood with ease, up from her seat in an instant. She hurried out into the hallway and I grabbed my lunch bag and threw it away, hurrying out after her with my juice, way too curious for my own good.
I couldn't find her. Somehow in those two seconds, she'd disappeared entirely from my line of sight and in the hallway, I found myself lost.
Then I remembered something from Bella's past-riding on Edward's back. They had been able to run over five miles in a matter of…well, complete insanity. For a moment I was stunned by what I saw in my mind. I couldn't believe it…no one could run that fast.
Could they?
Author's Note: I was thinking about continuing. Should I? Review if you think so! Anyway, um, Thanatopsis is a Greek word for 'meditation on death'. I have a reason for that title too. If I continue, I'll explain it in the later chapters. Apollaskywalker