Friends and Enemies
Xaiena's POV
As my brother pulled into the parking lot, I began to have second thoughts about going to school. Even though I was under the protection of the amulet that my grandmother made for me, I still had this bad feeling that something was wrong. I talked to Xander about it, but he told me that it was only first day jitters. I finally got out of the car and headed to the front office to pick up my schedule.
"Xaiena Callaway?" I heard from behind me. The voice sounded familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
"Yeah," I said as I turned around, "Oh my gosh! Bella, is that you?"
"Xai, I haven't seen you in what…four years? How have you been? When did you get here?" she asked as she hugged me. I hadn't really tested the amulet, but it was nice to know it worked. I was vision- free.
"I'm good. Moved here about a year ago," I said as a guy with wild hair and golden eyes stepped up behind her with a saddened look on his face.
"Oh, where are my manners? Xai, this is my boyfriend, Edward Cullen. Edward, this is Xaiena Callaway."
"Nice to meet you Xai," he said as looked at me curiously. Bella sure could pick them. I mean true Edward was cute, but he seemed to be a little off.
"Wait! Where's Xander? I still owe him for pushing me into the mud when we were little," said Bella as she folded her arms.
"Bella, you and I both know that you fell into that mud puddle," laughed Xander as he handed me my schedule.
"Okay guys, I have to go. I'll see you guys later," I said as Xander and I walked towards our first classes. Xander headed off to English, while I reluctantly headed off towards Calculus. Who really needed Calculus anyways? It's not like I was going to be a mathematician or anything. I really just wanted to pursue photography, and I was happy that my mother had enrolled me in the new hybrid photography class.
I walked into Calculus and handed the teacher my schedule to sign. After she signed it, she showed me to a seat in the front corner of the room. As I sat down, I noticed Edward glaring at me from across the room. Normally it didn't bother me when people stared, but he wouldn't stop. I wanted to confront him about his problem but before I could talk to him after class he was already halfway down the hall by the time I left the room.
Edward's POV
I moved as fast as I humanly could to get to Jasper. He asked me to find anything out about the new girl and, I had nothing. I tried penetrating her mind, but she was just like Bella-blocked from me. I was searching through the thoughts in my head, trying to concentrate on Jasper's thoughts to find him. I followed Jasper's thoughts until I found him outside. From what I could hear, he seemed pretty torn up about Alice's vision. We all thought that I was just the exception to the rules and I didn't have a soul-mate because she hadn't been born yet. We didn't think that just because Alice and Jasper met because of her vision that they weren't in love. They loved each other more than anything, which is why I know that it's hurting Jasper to see Alice this upset over it. He watched as Alice walked past him and to her next class.
"Edward, did you find out anything?" he thought.
"No, Jasper. Xaiena's like Bella;I can't read her thoughts at all." I said as we continued to our next class.
"Thanks anyways, Edward." he said as he walked away.
Xaiena's POV
I walked to my locker and grabbed my camera before heading to Photography, hoping to catch some good shots on the way. I got a few candid photos of random students, but there was one that just caught my eye. He was tall and muscular but still rather skinny, and he was with Edward. There was something about this guy. Maybe it was his hair, an unruly curly blonde, or his eyes, the same golden color as Edward's. I heard the warning bell and headed off to class where I handed the teacher my schedule to let her sign it. She handed me a project list and told me to sit in any seat.
"Hi, I'm Angela Webb. You must be the new girl everyone is talking about?" she said as she extended her hand.
"Yea, I'm Xaiena Callaway. But please just call me Xai, it's much easier." I laughed as I shook her hand.
"Callaway, the name sounds familiar."
"Probably my twin brother Xander. You may have seen him around earlier. Tall, kind of muscular, piercing red eyes," I said.
"Oh yeah, every girl has been talking about him today."
"Yeah, they probably have, and he's going to let it go to his head, too." I laughed.
I sat through class listening to my teacher drone on and on about macro shots and the project that was due in few days. I already knew over half the things she was talking about. This class wasn't going to be challenging like back home, but at least it was a little bit of normalcy. When class was over, I was gathering my camera and a few notes I had taken on possible ideas for my project. Angela and I talked a little bit before we parted ways, and she asked me to join her at lunch. I decided I should since I didn't know anyone but Bella in school, and it wouldn't hurt to make some new friends.
I walked to my locker and placed my camera inside before rushing off to English. Class was okay, seeing as my mom was my teacher and the assignments were the same ones that she gave me last year. She did stress that we could not use essays from previous years to pass the class. After English was over, I headed to Chemistry. I walked into class, handed the teacher my schedule and grabbed my books. She pointed me to an empty station in the back of the room. As I was flipping through the pages in my lab book, I heard the chair next to mine slide a little. As I looked up it was the same guy that was with Edward; his eyes were no longer the same golden color they were earlier but pitch black.
"Hi, I'm Xaiena Callaway." I said. "You must be Jasper Cullen?"
"Hale!" he snapped as he pulled the chair further away from me almost into the aisle.
"Excuse me?"
"Hale! My name is Jasper Hale," he said through clenched teeth. He looked up as he saw a girl with long blonde hair and a big muscular guy walk into the room. He quickly got up and stopped them before they sat down and sat with the blonde girl, leaving the muscular guy to sit with me.
I tried to ignore him to the best of my abilities by trying to remember all of the elements of the Periodic Table. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get what just happened out of my head. I was trying to be nice, but it didn't work out. I actually made an enemy at Forks High School. Just as I was forgetting the situation, I was reminded when my new lab partner began to speak.
"Hey, I'm Emmett," he said flashing a smile.
"Xaiena Callaway."
"I'm sorry about my brother Jasper. He can be a little weird" he laughed.
"It's okay. I've dealt with harsher introductions before." I giggled remembering the first time I met Jaiku in my visions.
"So, I've heard from a reliable source that you just moved here from Texas. How do you like it here so far?"
"If you had asked me a year ago how I felt about moving here, I probably would have told you that I hated it here. Today…I'll have to get back to you." I whispered as class began.
During class, Emmett and I continued to talk. We soon discovered that we both had a love of sports which took up most of our conversation. Emmett couldn't understand how I couldn't like baseball, but at least I won a few brownie points for liking softball. Even though I never played sports back home, I was on intramural sports teams for basketball, softball, and volleyball. By the time class was over, I was actually happy that Jasper didn't sit with me. I headed to the cafeteria for lunch with Angela and her friends. Once I got there, I saw my brother sitting at the table with Angela and two guys, one with long black hair and one with short blonde spikes, waving for me to join them.
"Hey, Xaiena. I'm Mike" said the boy with short blonde hair. "This is Eric."
"Hi." He smiled. "You wanna get in line?"
"Sure, I'm starving." I laughed. As we all headed to the line, I couldn't help but feel like I was being watched, but I just shrugged it off and continued on with the rest of the crew. As I ate, it felt good to actually make new friends.
When lunch was over, I grabbed my stuff and headed to Government. Class droned on, but all I could think about was Jasper and what just happened. The bell rang, and I headed off to the gym. After I dressed out, I saw Bella walking very slowly to the court. Sports never were Bella's thing, and I normally teamed up with her to keep her from having to actually touch a ball. The last time I saw her play basketball, she ended up hitting my dad in the back of the head- he was nowhere near the the goal.
"Hey, Bella," I said as I hugged her.
"Hey, Xaiena. I'm so glad that you're here." she sighed with relief, "We just started basketball and I don't have a partner. Well, actually Mike is usually my partner, but today it's guys versus girls. No one wants to partner with me."
"Sure, I'll be your partner," I said as the coach blew her whistle for us to line up.
Today we were doing two-on-two, guys versus girls. I gave Bella a refresher course on passing and a few other basics before we were up to play. She seemed kind of worried, but I reassured her that we would wipe the floor with the guys and that by some chance she happened to get the ball that, if by some chance she should just pass it to me. We were up against Mike and his partner, whose name escaped both Bella and me.
"This is going to be easy." laughed Mike. "You got Bella."
"Yeah that's kind of true." I laughed. "Problem is... she has me."
"Okay, first team to fifteen wins. No fouls." said the coach as she blew her whistle.
Bella followed the rules and passed the ball whenever possible, giving us the win. After the game was over, Bella and I sat on the floor talking about our day. I told her I had Calculus with Edward and that I had Photography with Angela.
"So have you met anyone else?" she asked.
"Oh yeah, I met Emmett and his dick of a brother Jasper," I said. "Emmett's cool but Jasper not so much. He just got pissed off about me getting his name wrong. I mean everyone refers to him as a Cullen and that's what I called him."
"Well, Jasper really isn't a people person," explained Bella as we headed outside. "Hey, I gotta go. Edward's waiting for me."
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow."
I saw my brother sitting in the car as I walked across the parking lot. As I was walking, I felt as though I was being watched again, this time acknowledging the feeling. I turned to look around the parking lot I saw Edward and Bella pulling out of his parking space and then followed across and saw Emmett and the rest of the Cullens walking towards his Jeep, but the only one looking was Jasper; Emmett was practically dragging him across the lot. My eyes locked with his, and I could feel my heart start to race, but I quickly felt enraged the longer I looked at him. I snapped out of my trance just as Xander blew the the horn, and I rushed to the car just in time as I noticed a stray hair from my ponytail had turned white.
