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The grounds were beautiful. The forest surrounded them, forming a ring around the school, with the only opening in the trees at the front enterence to the school. The trees were all so different and beautiful. Tall, winding, twisted trees overflowing with dark green leaves and looming high above everything else. The trees casted shadows all over the grounds, but it made everything look safe, cozy, and it radiated a mystifying vibe that caused goose bumps to form on Cassie's lower back.
"Its really pretty here," Camie commented as she and her cousin walked across the grounds to the dorm building, "oooh do you see that white gazebo? Its so cute!"
Cassie looked over at the gazebo Camie was referring to. It was a white gazebo with some sort of ivy growing all over it. The ivy sprouted pretty yellow flowers that grew all over the white structure. The gazebo was near a bridge. Camie's blueish-green eyes glittered with excitment and she darted over to the gazebo. Cassie shook her head and slowly walked after her cousin. The girl was quite the nut case. She got excitied over the simplest things, like gazebos. Camie had darted a bit ahead of her and had disappeared inside the gazebo. You couldn't really see inside the white structure, the ivy was long and overgrown and thick, giving the inside of the gazebo a sort of privacy. The yellow flowers and the bubbling brook beneath the bridge near the gazebo gave it a rather romantic vibe.
Cassie could hear Camie talking animatedly from inside the white ivy covered retreat and wondered who the hell she was talking to. Cassie quickened her pace easily, she walked like a maniac when she truly wanted to, and walked inside. She saw her cousin seated at the table inside the gazebo with 6 other people, chattering away like a happy little chimpmink. At first all Cassie could truly do was shake her head at her younger cousin. She was so social it was sickening. In a matter of seconds she had managed to engage in a full throttle conversation with six complete strangers. It was so like Camie and so unlike Cassie.
But then Cassie took a good look at the people she was talking to and her breath got caught in her throat slightly. These people were absolutely gorgeous! There were three girls and three guys and they were all beautiful. Seated on top of the table was a tiny, petite, adorable looking girl with marble white skin and short, spikey dark hair. She was smiling a sort of smile that was truly hypnotic and at the same time comforting. Seated on the table next to her was another glorious looking creature, a man with dark, military short hair and amazing features. He too had marble white skin that looked so soft and seemed to glow in the darkness of the gazebo. What was interesting about his skin however, were the faint scars. They were everywhere, hardly noticeable, but still there. The scars looked like fading crescent moons. He had his arms wrapped around the tiny girl with the spikey hair, who was nestling into him.
Seated on one side of the table was a girl with long, thick, dark brown hair and heavy lidded eyes. Next to her was a man with bronze colored hair. He was holding the girls' hand like it was fragile and precious. On the other side of the table was a man with broad shoulders and big arms and dark brown. He was beautiful as well. Next to him, like a perfect statue, was a beautiful blonde girl. She was classic all american beauty with her perfectly straight platinum blonde hair and perfect white teeth. Come to think of it, they all had perfect teeth. Bleached white and almost too straight. Another thing they all had in common were there eyes, which were all a golden topaz.
Cassie stared at them in awe for a minute. The white marble skin, the eerie beauty, the impossibly perfect teeth, the golden eyes. It couldn't be? Could it? To the magically educated mind like Cassie's, they all had the characteristics of vampires. But she had never seen a real live vampire in person before, only read about them in books. They were very dangerous, obviously. If these people really were vampires, it was amazing that they had been allowed to enter the school. Or maybe they hadn't been allowed to enter the grounds. That thought made Cassie narrow her eyes.
"This is my cousin, Cassandra! Cassie, this is Alice and Jasper," Camie said, nodding at the couple sitting on top of the table, "Edward and Bella," nodding at the man seated next to the girl with the long dark hair, "and Rosalie and Emmett," she finished as she pointed at the beautiful blonde girl sitting next to the broad shouldered man.
Cassie stared at them all, still in a bit of a shock. The tiny petite girl with the dark spikey hair named Alice smiled at her.
"Its so nice to meet you Cassandra," Alice said in a musical voice.
Cassie nodded. "Are you guys vampires?" She asked bluntly.
Camie's mouth dropped open and she looked closer at her new found friends. Tiny little Alice let out a tinkling laugh that reminded Cassie of bells. Rosalie, the gorgeous blonde, narrowed her eyes as she studied Cassie and the man next to her, Emmett, let out a booming laugh.
"No one has ever came out and asked us that before!" Alice said with a laugh. "Most people don't recognize us for what we are."
Emmett was still cracking up. "And most don't have the guts to ask either!" He declared with a chuckle.
Cassie smirked and sat down at the table next in between Camie and Emmett. Camie blinked, looking slightly confused for a moment.
"Wait, so you guys really are vampires?" Camie asked.
The man with the bronze colored hair named Edward nodded. "Indeed. I'm a little taken back that your cousin identified us for what we are so easily," Edward said.
The girl next to him, Bella, smiled a dazzling smile. "Even I didn't know what you really were, when I first met you as a human. All I knew was that you were special," Bella said as she smiled adoringly at Edward.
Edward smiled back and continued to hold Bella's hand and softly stroke her knuckles. Camie giggled.
"Of course Cassie could tell that you were vampires! She's a little book worm, always studying and reading. She got all A's in every subject at our last school. She's a registered genius!" Camie told them, smiling proudly at her cousin.
Cassie was still studying the vampires all around her with great fascination. It was one thing to read about them in books, but it was truly something else to actually be sitting next to a vampire. It was mind blowing. The blonde vampire was still staring her down, narrowing her eyes and occasionally peering over at the man on Cassie's other side. Emmett. Cassie smirked slightly, Emmett must be Rosalie's mate. Cassie had read that vampires got extremely possessive of their mates. Cassie found it very funny. Tiny little Alice was studying Cassie with open interest.
"Is this your first year at the school?" Alice asked Cassie.
Cassie looked at her and nodded. "Yeah. Do you guys actually go here?" Cassie asked.
Alice smiled. "Yes. We've attended here for 4 years. This is our fifth and last year," Alice told her.
Cassie shook her head. "That's insane. That they actually let you come here. I thought that the administration would forbid vampires from going to the school," Cassie said.
Alice laughed again and moved to a more comfortable position in Jasper's arms. They looked very at home sitting together on the table. Alice nestled against his chest before answering Cassie.
"Most of our kind are banned from the school, from all magical schools like this. Only a select few are allowed to attend," Alice told her.
"Only those whose past behavior has shown that they aren't a danger to humans," Edward said.
Cassie laughed sarcastically. "But you are a danger to the humans! I mean, you're vampires!" Cassie declared in amusement.
Emmett laughed along with her and Alice smiled a tiny smile.
"Yes," Alice said, "yes we are. Aren't you a bit nervous about sitting next to us now that you know for sure what we are? Aren't both of you?"
Camie automatically shook her head no and smiled brightly at them. "Uh uh! I'm not scared of you at all! I could tell as soon as I saw you that you guys wouldn't hurt me. That's why I talked to you!" Camie explained.
Cassie smirked and rolled her eyes. "I'm not afraid either, although I'm not as trusting as my darling cousin," Cassie said drly.
The vampires all smiled darkly at her. Rosalie peered down her nose at Cassie.
"Well," Rosalie said in a low voice, "maybe you shouldn't be scared. Or maybe you should."
And with that, Rosalie got gracefully to her feet and walked away. Emmett let out another booming laugh.
"That's my Rose," He muttered fondly as he watched her walk away.
After another second Emmett got up and followed her out of the gazebo. Edward shot Bella a glance and she nodded. Then they too walked away. Alice smiled at Cassie and Camie.
"It was very nice to meet you Cameron. You too, Cassandra. Maybe we'll see you around," Alice said with a smile.
Cassie shrugged carelessly. Camie smiled brightly and nodded.
"Oh for sure!" Camie said with a bubbly smile.
Alice gracefully rose to her feet in one motion and hopped off the table. The man that had been sitting on the table next to her, Jasper, got to his feet as well. Jasper hadn't said one word. Cassie assumed he didn't like humans or at least found them difficult to be around. He strolled casually over to Alice and wrapped an arm around her waist. Alice gave them one last smile, then walked away.
Cassie shook her head at Camie.
"Leave it to you to make friends already. And with vampires too!" Cassie said with a laugh.
Camie smiled. "They were just sitting inside the gazebo and they all looked very nice. So I said hi and sat down," Camie said simply.
Cassie rolled her eyes. "Let's go find our rooms, you crazy little minx," Cassie said.
"Okaaayyy!" Camie said, jumping to her feet.
The two of them walked out of the yellow-flower covered gazebo, away from the bridge and the bubbling brook, and in the direction of the Dorm Building to find their rooms.