Chapter 2-First Day at School

We knew from previous experience that everyone stared at the Cullens. But it didn't stop us from having paranoia. As we walked down the corridor towards our lockers and every pair of eyes was on us. I couldn't help but worry.

"Becca," I whispered to low for human ears to hear "contact check."

"They're fine" she answered back. We had to wear contact lenses to cover up the scary bright red eyes that came with being a new born. But the venom in our eyes dissolved them after a couple of hours. Okay, so if they were still there my theory of why everyone was staring at us kind of disappeared with a cheery wave. For the first time that day I checked what Alice had dressed us in. I was wearing silver ballet flats, black skinny jeans, a sapphire blue babydoll blouse, a silver scarf and a black swing coat. Okay so it wasn't the way I was dressed. I countered. I turned to inspect my twins outfit but there was nothing wrong with the little black ankle boots, dark blue skinny jeans, checked shirt and navy pea coat she was dressed in either. We looked good, I would have to thank Alice later for her impeccable fashion sense, and no doubt it would make her day.

It was then I heard the whispers, and suddenly understood the staring. Let's just say it ranged from things like 'oh my god they are so hot', 'are they new? I wonder if they have boyfriends'. And occasionally you would hear a shut up from one of our friends who didn't appreciate the way people were treating us. After dumping stuff in our lockers we dawdled our way to first period. French. This lesson was going to be deeply boring after only a month with the Cullen's, we were already fluent in four languages; and French was one of them. No doubt we could probably now speak French better than the teacher. The morning dragged so much that I was tempted to use my powers or get Becca to use hers to liven things up. But I restrained myself, knowing that the amount of trouble we would get in; it wouldn't be worth it. During French, Alice asked us if we were staying back for orchestra tonight. We replied, saying that we were. But we would have to go home to get our instruments, so there was a possibility that we would be a little late to lunch.

When the bell rang for lunch; Becca and I strolled inconspicuously towards the edge of the forest. This was before running through the amazing scenery at full vampire speed. We slowed as we reached the house casually walking up the porch steps together. Esme was the only one home, and she greeted us as we came through the door.

"Hey Esme" we said in perfect unison.

"Hello," Came the reply in her calm loving voice "why are you home?" 'Good old Esme' I thought, she was the only one who wouldn't jump to conclusions when the two newborn vampires arrived home in the middle of the day.

"We came to get our instruments, so we can start orchestra again after school, is that okay?" I asked while Becca ran upstairs to retrieve our violins. A warm smile lit up Esme's face; our music brought a lot of joy to her now that Edward had moved closer to Dartmouth with Bella Nessie and Jake, while Bella got a degree in English literature. She had missed the house being filled with music and the arrival of Becca and me filled some of the empty space in that rift.

"Yeah, of course it's okay, have fun!" Esme called happily as we turned and ran back out of the house.

When we got back to school we dropped off our violins in the music cupboard and joined our best friend Alice. Human Alice by the way, Alice Roberts, not our pixie of a sister. When entering the cafeteria I looked around for adopted siblings only to see a look of great relief wash over pixie's face, Jazz wasn't there and I wondered briefly where he was. You see I only had to wonder briefly, because he suddenly materialized in front of us. If I wasn't so used to every member of the Cullen family doing that I probably would have jumped. But on the contrary I just looked at him deeply confused by the anger and worry that etched his face, Jazz motioned for us to follow him outside.

We followed him out the back door of the cafeteria, deeply confused and although he could feel our confusion he never attempted to enlighten us until we got outside. However, when we did get outside he turned on us…

"Where have you been" he yelled clearly stressed, I jumped slightly and involuntary at the volume of his voice, I hadn't seen that one coming.

"Errrm at home." I answered, still confused at why he so stressed.

"Calm down Jazz" Becca muttered, looking a little in pain from the angry emotions rolling of Jasper. At Becca's request or maybe the look on her face, he knew what that felt like. Jasper suddenly ceased to be angry, instead his face turned into a look of worry and relief.

"I'm sorry." Jazz apologized his southern accent creeping into his voice "It's just Alice and I was so worried. Alice had a vision of you running through the woods and then you didn't turn up to lunch. You could have done anything or anything could have happened to you and for some reason Alice couldn't see." Jazz explained slight confusion was now mixed in with his relief, the worry almost gone. "But why did you go home?"

"To get our violins for orchestra tonight." Becca stated simply.

"Oh." Jasper said still looking a little worried.

I couldn't bear to see my brother like this I mean nothing had happened. Becca's thoughts clearly mirrored my own because when I nudged her she just nodded, calmly and I felt the air around us ripple as she sent happy emotions towards Jazz. But clearly he didn't like having a replica of his own gift used against him.

"Don't." he said glaring at Becca; however he now only sounded mildly annoyed.

"What's wrong, Jazz?" I asked, he wasn't normally this temperamental

"Sorry girls," he apologised again, the hint of formality was still there "I was just worried about you, and I'm also confused as to why Alice couldn't see you when you were only at home. Look never mind, we can talk about it some other time. Enjoy the rest of your day" Jasper said laughing slightly at the bored emotions I was sending him. "See you tonight." and with that Jasper walked back inside and we saw him settle down next to his wife. Becca and I exchanged a look then walked back inside and enjoyed the rest of lunch time laughing with our best friend Alice. We really did love her and were glad that our transformation into vampires hadn't affected our friendship with her at all.

The rest of the afternoon dragged just as much as the morning had and I think the only highlight was moment in maths. You see before I became a vampire I was horrendously bad at maths and therefore I wasn't in the same set as my twin, Becca. She was in a way higher one; more intelligent in the maths department, so when I walked into set three that afternoon with my new and improved vampire super mind and did all my work in five seconds and got it all right the look of confusion on my maths teachers face was absolutely priceless. I'd never completed a piece of math work and got it all right before, especially in that short space of time. I just sat flicking through my text book for the rest of the lesson, instead of the words and equations swimming in my gaze they all seemed to click into my brain with ease. I understood it all. I just smiled.

When the final bell went, I met Becca and Alice at the end of the maths corridor and we swung by each of our lockers. When we got to mine, I took out my iPhone and suddenly felt very guilty as I saw the ten missed calls from Alice and Jasper. Becca must have sensed my guilt because she looked at me questioningly, but I just shrugged no doubt she would understand when she saw her own phone. Though I was grateful for the wave of happiness she sent towards me anyway.

We were sat in the hall tuning up before Mr Foxall came, God how I hated that man. Don't get me wrong he had never done anything to me he just grinded on me, it had been the same even when I was human. I often felt like beating him to death with my bow. Without remorse. Alice, Becca and I got bored of waiting, our violins were already in tune and well you can't really tune a flute. So we started messing about and ended up jamming along to the song 'Crushcrushcrush' by Paramore. The rest of the orchestra stopped what they were doing and stared open mouthed in our direction. It was a bit of an odd song choice to play on violins and a flute.

We were mid song when Mr Foxall walked in and everyone immediately sat down. We on the other hand didn't, we weren't intimidated by him like some of the younger ones were; besides he couldn't afford to have us leave his orchestra. It wasn't particularly large. After that orchestra was only bearable because of the amusing comments made by Alice, Becca and I, which had us crying with laughter as we played the boring songs Mr Foxall had picked. Finally we were released from the boring pieces and the endless drone of Mr Foxall. We all packed up our instruments swiftly; Becca and I walked Alice home. We were laughing most of the way down the road, before running back to the Cullen mansion. For what was going to turn out to be; what I supposed would be a very funny night with the family….