Renesmee.
I turned up the volume on my earphones to distract me so I wouldn't accidentally send my negative thoughts to everyone else in the car. "We're here!" I heard Emmett exclaim (intentionally right into my right ear.) I groaned. "Aww come on please don't make me do this momma, daddy" I pleaded for the millionth time. My mother spun around to face me,
"Renesmee darling(she was probably the only one who still called me that) instead of just sitting at home we think you should go out there and make some friends"
"But momma I already have friends" I protested referring to my warewolf/shapeshifter friends and pointing to Jacob whose lap I was sitting on.
"I meant human" she added her perfect lips curling into a smirk.
"Come on it'll be fun!" Emmett interrupted ruffling my hair until I was sure every single strand of my hair was out of place.
"EM!" I scolded.
"You'll just be like any ordinary new girl at school" my mother added ignoring Emmett's bellowing laughter.
"Yeah escorted in a shiny black Ferrari" I mumbled under my breath. But naturally, every one of them heard me and chuckled much to my annoyance.
In a final resort, I concentrated an image of myself massacring every single one of the students in school to my dad.
"Nice try" he finally spoke in his velvety smooth voice. Still chuckling he added, reading my thoughts, "You know we would come with you if we could but our names are in the records and we supposedly graduated 5 years ago. There are probably some teachers who are still teaching here anyway."
I sighed in defeat and turned to Jacob who squeezed my had and gave me a quick good-luck peck on the cheek. Rosalie gave me an encouraging smile as I stepped out of the black Ferrari to face my future for at least the next three years (depending on how fast I was going to grow anyway), "Forks High School".
I breathed in the fresh air. Ugh bad idea. The scent of blood was overwhelming. I closed my eyes for a second. If only Alice and Jasper were here they would be so useful right now. Jasper would be able to relieve the butterflies in my tummy and Alice would be able to see if I would lose control and feed on someone. Unfortunately they were away on one of their hunting trips. I rolled my eyes and started walking towards the school taking a final glance at my family behind me, encouraging me.
I put on my most cheerful smile and headed for the office. I heard a chime-like sound as I pushed the door open. Weird. I've never heard that before. Some trite human thing perhaps. The woman and the desk (Mrs Cope I presume) greeted me with a skeptical-yet-welcoming smile. I slipped my student profile on the desk. She looked through it and her eyes widened "Renesmee Carlie CULLEN?" she asked stressing on the "Cullen". I simply nodded and smiled tentatively at her. She continued to stare at me waiting for an explanation. I certainly was not in the mood for o a conversation so I quickly put the thought that I was Carlisle newest adopted child in her head. A look of understanding appeared on her face.
"Are you perhaps also adopted by Dr. Carlisle Cullen?" she asked. I simply nodded again. She suddenly realized what she was paid to do and explained to me all the school blahblahblahs. I thanked her warmly and heard her mumble something about Cullens and good looks before the door closed behind me.
As I walked across the car park and into the hallways of Forks high. I realized something peculiar about the way the humans walked. It just seemed so "calculated" and clumsy even, somehow to me it wasn't exactly graceful and to my surprise practically everyone around me walked that way. I guess they must somehow be curious about how I moved too as they all stared right back at me.
"New girl?"…."Who IS that?"
I tried as hard as I could to tune out all the human whispers I could hear as clear as crystal and looked down as I walked, self-conscious. Discreetly I tried to "rearrange" the way I walked so it would match that of the humans. I found my locker and gracefully opened it and placed my "books" (which were simply props as how daddy put it. As I already knew all there were to know about high school
education in Forks). I could tell from the corner of my eyes people were still staring. Gosh, just leave me alone I'm just a newbie.
As I neared my classroom I unintentionally overheard two boys talking, "Aww…Come on, no girl registers a perfect 10…"
I stepped into the classroom and passed the teacher who was rearranging his files on the table, the slip.
"Well SHE does" I heard one of the boys say again.
I turned around and realized to my horror everyone in the class was staring at me, the boys, their mouths gaping open. Well so much for my low-profile.
But something else attention. There was a boy sitting in the back row of the class all alone. He had a black hoodie on and dark shades. Shades in Forks? I was perplexed. He looked up and stared at me with the most peculiar expression. Those few seconds felt like hours and I felt as though it was just me and him in that class. Then he looked away breaking me out of my dazed-state. The confused expression did not leave his face.
"Renesmee?" the teacher called. I spun around and smiled at her, showing no hint of my previous mixture of emotions. "You may sit next to Demi" she continued gesturing towards a girl with huge specs and hot pink braces bouncing up and down in her seat excitedly, probably because she was the only one - well only OTHER one - without a seat mate.
Somehow I felt contented with my seat and walked toward it. Being careful not to look at the last desk at the back of the class…