Chapter Two

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Edward carried my tray as we walked over to their table. I still wondered about their interest in me, since I was a stranger to them, but what else was I supposed to do? Turn back around and sit with my friends? That would seem rude.

They probably would've joined our table if it wasn't so crowded.

Before, I had been nervous as they approached us, but now, I was oddly calm. Students turned to stare in our direction probably wondering what I was doing with the mysterious Cullens. We didn't get new kids often and the Cullens didn't look or appear to be like the average teenager.

"So how long have you lived in Forks?" Edward asked, trying to start up a conversation. When I looked over at him, I found myself dazzled by his eyes that appeared to be a golden brown color. He was so handsome like he was carved perfectly out of clay.

"My whole life," I said. It was true. I had been born and raised here. The same was true about my parents. They had never lived anywhere else. But one day, I wanted to travel outside of California and see what else there was out there.

"Do you like it here?" he asked.

Maybe this was why they approached me. They probably wanted to know more about Forks.

"I guess," I replied. "Its a little boring here. Not much to do."

I tried not to think about the time it hadn't been boring. Those were the dark days, back when I used to always look over my shoulder and pray that he wasn't right behind me. They didn't need to know about that.

"Are you okay?" Jasper asked me in that voice of his. I was never going to get used to that accent. Hopefully, he would give me a chance to. It made something in my stomach flutter. "You sounded nervous a minute ago."

My heart pounded in my chest. Seriously, Delaney, get a hold of yourself, I thought to myself. It was time to put my past behind me and move on with my life. I would no longer be the victim.

"No, I am fine," I said, and really I was. It was like being around these guys made me feel better.

Rosalie and Alice were already sitting at the table. They looked up at them as we approached. Edward set my tray down for me, and Jasper pushed the chair out for me before scooting me in closer to the table.

"Thank you," I said. Did they always act like such gentlemen?

Emmett sat down on my left side, Jasper on my right, and Edward right across from me. "Introduce me to your friend," Alice said. She had a high pitched soprano voice.

"I'm Delaney," I said.

"That's a pretty name," Rosalie commented.

After that conversation was pretty easy. I learned that they moved here from Los Angeles. They had an adoptive mother named, Esme. She was Dr. Carlisle's sister. She decided to adopt children after she had issues getting pregnant and her husband left her.

"That's so sad," I said.

"She's happy now that she has us," Alice reassured me.

While we talked, Emmett made funny faces or gently tugged on my dark locks to try to make me laugh. He had a very goofy personality.

He frowned down at my tray that had an apple and some of my leftover salad that I didn't eat on it. "Is that all you are eating?" he asked. "No wonder you are so small."

Next to him, I was tiny. He was just so big. He was a foot taller than me and broader.

I laughed. "You are just so much bigger than me," I explained.

"Hey, what are you trying to say?" Emmett said, pretending to be hurt.

"She's saying that you should lay off the bear," Jasper said.

My eyes widened. All of the guys faces went pale.

"We hunt with our father," Edward quickly explained.

I tried to hide it, but I was horrified. I kept picturing them hunting bear cubs.

Jasper, reading the expression on my face, said, "We don't hunt bear cub."

"The momma bears won't let us get within a few feet of them, not like we would want to," Emmett said. I had never been a fan of hunting, but I tried not to judge them. All of the meat I ate came from a dead animal.

The bell rang signaling that lunch was over. "We should go shopping sometime," Alice said to me before she left with Rosalie. "There are a few clothing items that I need."

The guys groaned.

I laughed at their reaction. "I would like that," I told Alice.

"Great!" she clapped her hands together.

Jasper took my tray to put away before I could stop them before he walked me to class along with Edward and Emmett even though I only had biology next with Edward. They wanted to escort me to forth period anyway.

Once we approached the biology classroom, Jasper said, "It was nice meeting you" before squeezing my hand and walking away. Emmett gave me a quick kiss on my cheek. He laughed at the shocked expression on my face. It was the reaction he wanted to see.

"Come on," Edward said, beckoning me into the classroom. "Emmett just enjoys getting a reaction out of people."

I began to walk towards my assigned seat next to my lab partner, Leo. Edward shared a long, intense staredown with Leo. Leo immediately grabbed his things and got up to find another seat.

"You could've asked him to move nicely," I asked.

"I know," he said, smirking.

The bell rang again and our teacher walked into the classroom. He told us about a new project that we would be doing with our lab partner. We would be dissecting a frog. Edward laughed at the look on my face.

"I can do the dissecting if you want," he offered.

The teacher began to walk around and give us our supplies. I gagged when he played the bag with the frog in it on our table. "Did they wait for the frog to live a long life and die peacefully before packaged him up like this?" I asked.

Edward tried not to laugh again. "You are something else," he said. It sounded like a compliment.