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I wasn't sure what my reaction would be when I laid eyes on them. I nibbled on a fry as I finally allowed my eyes to wander around the room, looking for the five kids I wanted to see…
Chapter 2
As my eyes settled on the new students clustered around a lunch table in one of the corners of the room, my heart skipped a beat and I nearly gasped. Three boys and two girls, just as Angela had said. As I gazed at the new students all I could think of was one word to describe the boys, gods, and one word to describe the girls, goddesses. They looked so strange surrounded by the ordinariness of all the other students around them. Their skin was nearly chalk-white, inhuman almost, although I had never been to Alaska, maybe all Alaskans had skin like that. Their pale skin seemed to be made of some strange kind of stone, their features so perfectly straight and angular. The only other characteristics that made the five of them look alike were their eyes which resembled black onyxes and the purple-ish bruises that resembled bruises under their eyes. The bruises reminded me of someone who suffered from lack of sleep, and yet, on these god-like creature's faces it seemed like something more. I wondered fleetingly if they all wore contacts. I couldn't think of another reason for their eyes to be so similar, so identical.
One of the girls and one of the boys seemed more similar than the others and I assumed they were the Hales, the twins Angela had mentioned earlier. I scanned the group, sorting through their differences. The two girls' appearance seemed almost exact opposites of each other. They were seated in-between the three boys. There was no way they could be related, so why were their eyes and skin so very similar, both their features so perfect? One was short with dark black hair, crop cut and styled almost spiky like. The other girl was drop-dead gorgeous, everything about her screamed I'm perfect and gorgeous worship me. She resembled a model with her golden-hair flowing freely, reaching her middle back. The three boys were fairly different. The one on the right side of the short girl was very tall and lean with honey blonde hair, resembling the taller girl, they must be the twins. The second one, seated to the right of the tall girl, had dark curly hair; his bulky muscle's making him seem very menacing, yet welcoming at the same time. The last boy, the one that I most lingered on, that caught more of my attention than the others, sat a little ways away from his siblings, to the left of the shorter girl. He looked somewhat boyish when being compared to his brothers, with untidy reddish-brown hair. He was less bulky than his menacing brother, but he was by no means scrawny.
The boyish brother was absentmindedly looking out the window when I caught sight of him and I felt my heart speed up considerably. The pop bottle that sat by my right hand shook back and forth, toppling onto the floor. Thankfully it was closed and sealed not to mention that fact that no one was paying the slightest bit of attention to me. Suddenly his head snapped towards me, his eyes meeting mine in a breathtaking gaze. The movement happened so fast I almost thought I had been wrong at where he had been originally looking. I briefly wondered if he had been looking at me the whole time, and I had merely imagined him gazing out the window. I felt a blush rise to my cheeks as he caught me basking in all his glory. No matter how hard I tried, how much I wanted to, or how much I needed to, I could not convince any part of my body to look away from his glorious face. It seemed like there was an invisible string connecting our eyes, one that refused to break or bend. If I didn't look away soon I feared I would wreak havoc on the cafeteria.
Annoyance entered his eyes as he finally looked away, freeing my eyes. I quickly grabbed my pop bottle off the ground, shifting my eyes to my approaching friends. I wondered why he had gotten an annoyed look but pushed the thought away for the moment. The thought would only get me into trouble with my friends seated around me. I greeted the three of them as they filled the table. It took my heart a couple of minutes to finally calm down. I silently sighed in relief as I felt it return to its normal rhythm and made a mental note not to get locked into his godlike features or his glorious gaze again. I would need to try to ignore him it would be better that way, safer.
My three good friends were now seated around me, Angela to my right, Jessica to my left, and Mike in-between them. I flashed them a half-hearted smile. I was still slightly reeling from my stare-off with the gorgeous bronze-haired beauty.
"Have you heard about those new kids?" Jessica asked excitedly after we had exchanged our greetings. It was obvious she had some sort of gossip to spread.
"Depends on what you have to say," I replied shrugging, attempting to act as casually and calmly as I possibly could. "By the way what are their names and which ones which?" I couldn't keep the curiosity out of my voice as I asked the question and I saw my friend's eyebrows being raised in their own bit of curiosity.
"You don't usually take such an interest Bella," Mike chimed in, curiosity and surprise prevalent in his voice. "What caused the change?"
I shrugged half-heartedly. "They just seem so unusual I guess." I risked a quick peek at the reddish-brown haired boy and inwardly sighed with relief when I realized he wasn't looking my way.
Unfortunately Angela noticed and followed my gaze. When her eyes rested on their target she smirked. "Uh-huh, I'm sure that's the reason Bells."
I just sighed, refusing to start an argument over the topic. I felt eyes burning into my back suddenly and had to fight the urge to turn around sharply and look for the source. It was crazy to think I would KNOW that someone was looking at me, wasn't it?
"Well, the one that's staring at you is Edward," Jessica said smugly. The three of them bursting into laughter as a huge blush rose to my cheeks.
"Come on Jess, he probably just knows we're talking about him," I pleaded quietly, trying to move the topic of conversation off of me and back onto the rest of the new family.
"The two blonde-haired ones are Jasper and Rosalie Hale, twins," Mike chimed in, catching onto my attempt at deterring the conversation away from me. I gave him a grateful smile and he returned a smile happily. Of course Mike had been unsuccessfully hiding a crush on me for the longest time and he would always do whatever he could to please me. The feelings I had for him were no stronger than friendship, and I didn't see that changing anytime in the near, or distant, future.
"The other two are Emmett and Alice Cullen," Jessica finished, eager to get to her news. "They're all like together. Emmett and Rosalie. Alice and Jasper. It's so weird. I mean they all live together. It's kind of disturbing really if you think about it. Edward's the only one free." Following her last sentence she gave me a quick wink, although from her enthusiasm delivering the sentence I could tell she'd rather I left him alone so she could go after him.
"Ugh…I do not want him like that Jess, would you just drop it. I just find them fascinating, that's all." I quickly grabbed my pop before it took another tumble off the edge, taking a sip while trying to clear my mind. "Besides, they're not actually related. It's not really that disturbing."
"Whatever you say," Mike muttered depressed, making me cringe internally. I didn't like to make Mike sad, but it was so easy. He saw that my interest was more than just that they were fascinating, but I really didn't want Edward the way they all thought I did… At least, I didn't think I did.
All of a sudden I caught a glimpse of the Cullens and Hales walking…no, dancing or prancing would be a more appropriate term for their movement, out of the cafeteria. I felt a pang of something deep in my heart but I couldn't place it. It shocked and confused me to no end. What was going on? Why would I feel something when they left? This was getting weird, not to mention getting on my nerves. Why was I reacting to these five people so uniquely? What was so special about them? I had to get out of here and clear my head. I was starting to lose too much control over my emotions.
I quickly excused myself from the table, telling my friends that I would talk to them later. I started heading towards my next class, Biology, dumping the remaining contents of my tray in to the trash can as I passed. My mind was running in overtime as I walked to the door of the cafeteria, covering anything and everything it could about the new students. I was so absorbed with this topic that I failed to notice the couple of posters floating slowly toward the ground as I went out the door of the cafeteria.
