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This chapter was really weird to write, Edward was being really stubborn as to sharing his thoughts. He's always complaining to Bella, "You have to tell me what you are thinking," but the hypocrite does not want to share with me. So it didn't come out totally the way I wanted, but I will give it to you anyway.
So without further ado here is...Chapter 1
Starting Out, Yet Again
Forks High School Home of the Spartans is what the sign read in front of the school. If you could call it a school. It looked nothing like any of the other schools we had attended in the past. It was just a bunch of rectangular bricked buildings. I was positive that these were some of the first houses built in Forks when we lived here decades ago. The only difference, from the outside, was the new shrubs and the numbers on the side, identifying which building was which.
We pulled into the parking lot, and right then I knew it would be very hard for us to not to stick out. Even though we took the Volvo today, it still was the nicest car in the parking lot, by a good few years. Rosalie in the back seat next to Alice groaned, thinking of how she could easily fix all these cars for less than a few hundred dollars so they could run more smoothly, and not look like "total pieces of shit."
"Be nice, Rose," I jokingly scolded.
"It's not my fault they don't take pride in their cars like I do," she whined. "It's despicable."
I was about to park next to a beat up Suburban when Alice spoke up.
"Um, Edward? I don't think you want to park in that spot."
"Why not, Alice." I spat. Jasper gave a glare from behind me, sticking up for his wife. But who was she to tell me where or where not to park.
Stop overreacting Edward. This is why.
In my head came a vision of a blond, spiky haired boy hitting my car with his door, looking at what he did, then jumping in his car and quickly driving away.
My knuckles clenched the steering wheel thinking of the punk who would dare put a ding in my precious Volvo and just drive away. A car behind me honked, telling me to park or keep moving. If they want to have a dent in their car at the end of the day, that was fine by me. Their car was a total piece of shit anyway.
Great, now I was starting to think like Rosalie.
I drove to the end of the row and in getting no input from Alice this time, I parked in the very last spot. Better to walk a little farther than to have to fix the body of my car. I mumbled a 'sorry' to Alice as I got out of the Volvo, and she said all was forgiven.
I know how dramatic you can be sometimes Edward.
I gave her a cheesy smile back, showing all of my white teeth. She giggled, Jasper put his arm around her and we headed out of the parking lot.
We got here about a month ago, knowing it would be less conspicuous if we started school with everybody else, but this was the first time we had shown our faces in Forks. Of course, less conspicuous doesn't mean we didn't stick out. As we walked along the cars, Emmett hand and hand with Rose, Jasper holding onto Alice, and I beside her, everybody's head turned to look at us incredulously. We were all used to it by now, but I still found it incredibly unnerving. All my other siblings paid no mind to it, except for Rose of course, who was flaunting what she had. Once she started flirting with Emmett, I decided to block myself out of my own mind, just so I wouldn't have to hear what the other students thought about my sister. I already had enough problems with Emmett picturing Rosalie in ways I should never even think about a sister. I didn't need the terribly immature minds of teenage, human boys in my head with their disturbing fantasies.
We reached the front of the "school" and separated into our two groups to head to our homeroom, like we supposed to on the first day. Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper were all starting as sophomores while Alice and I were freshmen. Our orientation letters had been sent in the mail two weeks ago telling us our homeroom teachers and that we would get our schedules on the first day of school. We already knew our classes once we were enrolled, thanks to Alice, and since then we had snuck into the school to scope it out. All of Jasper's classes were either with Rosalie or Emmett, and Alice and I had the same schedule, of which I was truly happy. At least we could keep each other entertained considering we had learned everything and more that the school had to offer us.
Alice and I walked side by side to our homeroom in silence. She was probably looking out for Jasper's future, and I was trying to keep my mind from opening up to the thoughts of the other students. I started to sing Saints and Sailors from the most recent Dashboard Confessional album. I never really connected to any of the band's lyrics, considering I had never been in love, or fell out of it, but they were always enjoyable to sing to. I was near the end of the song when I felt someone tap me on my lower back.
I turned around, at a swift but human speed, and saw a girl about as tall as Alice, with very curly brown hair and shallow blue eyes. Just an average high schooler I supposed.
"Hello," she drawled, fluttering her eye lashes. Oh, so she was one of those girls. Now I would have to put a little fear into her so she would stay away.
"I'm Jessica Stanley, you must be one of Dr. Cullen's kids," she said, completely ignoring the fact that my sister was standing next to me, and had turned around when I did.
I nodded curtly, staring intensely at her. I'm sure my eyes got a little darker, though we just hunted yesterday.
She staggered back a few steps and I decided to daringly dive into her mind, hoping for the best.
Whoa, that was creepy. Did his gold eyes just turn to black? Maybe I should just go back to… No! You bet Lauren you would get his number by the end of the day, and what better time to make my move than right now.
She stepped up again, gaining confidence. "Okay, so what are you classes, maybe I could help you find them?" she asked hopefully.
"No thank you Jessica," I said politely, with just a hint of annoyance in my tone. At this rate she would just brush that off. "My sister and I know how to get to our homeroom, and we will be able to figure out where our other classes are from there." Though we already know where they are. I offered no smiled.
Her faced dropped. "Oh, well if you do need help, you could always ask me" She said flirtatiously, winking. Were girls even suppose to wink? I decided to ignore it and continued to stare. "Umm, bye then. I hope to see you around."
I turned on my heel to leave and I felt a pat on my butt. I turned to look at Alice and she let out a short tinkling laugh, looking behind us. There was Jessica Stanley sprinting down the hall, her thoughts a mess. Considering I was not in the mood to listen to her mind, I grumpily started back down the hall to our homeroom to distance us, a scowl on my face. Alice easily matched my long strides.
"Well that sure was an interesting start to our first day at school," she said, still giggling a little.
"It's not funny Alice," I said, completely serious. "I feel violated."
"It might not be funny to you, but Emmett is going to go crazy over this one."
"You wouldn't dare," I growled. She just smiled up at me, that perfect little pixie smile, and went inside the classroom we had finally reached. I grudgingly followed in and sat down beside her.
If the day kept going as it was, maybe keeping to the treaty would be harder than I thought.
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Ugh, I'm a little disappointed in myself for putting that up, but whatever. I'm just trying to get going. So I said last time that I already had chapter 2 finished, well apparently I lied. I have decided that...well, I don't exactly know. It was originally chapter 2, but the story isn't running like I thought it was going to, so it will be later in the story. I've started the next chapter, and it should be up sometime next week. Like I said, I'm trying to update twice a week. I probably should finish reading the last chapter I have to read in my history book over the summer, but American History can get really boring (but this book is better than my World History book). English is more my thing.
So, favorite, alert and review. They really motivate my writing and make me especially happy. I will keep singing my favorite bands.
Speaking of, did you guys hear the Muse and Radiohead are suppose to be on the New Moon soundtrack? It would totally make my day if they are.
