Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, any of its characters, or any aspects of the story. I do, however, own this plot.
EPOV
I was sitting at my piano, playing the song I had composed that was inspired by Carlisle and Esme's relationship. When she heard this, Esme ran down the stairs and came to stand by me while I played.
Thank you, Edward.
I nodded in acknowledgment of her thought. I heard Rosalie working on her BMW, and thinking about how pretty she was. Jasper was thinking about what to get Alice for their anniversary while trying not to make a decision so she wouldn't know beforehand. Then I noticed that Alice was having a vision.
A beautiful girl was getting out of her new-looking car in front of the Forks High School. She was expensively dressed and looked anxious. Then the image skipped ahead in time, how much was impossible to tell. She was sitting on the floor of what I guessed was her bedroom. The girl was crying and running her hands over a 5-inch scar that stretched from the underside of her wrist up to her forearm. She was murmuring "I'm so sorry!" over and over. She said, "Oh, Jasmine." While she said this, she caressed a bracelet being worn over her scar.
Hm. I stopped playing and looked over at Alice as I asked, "What was that, Alice?"
"Forks High School getting a new student today!" She responded.
"What was she crying about?" I asked her.
"Your guess is as good as mine." She shrugged.
With that, she got up from her spot on the couch and skipped over to watch me play. After a half hour or so, we all went out to my Volvo, got in, and sped off toward school. We had just walked up the steps of the school when the silver Porsche from Alice's vision drove into the parking lot. When the girl stepped out, I noticed again how beautiful she was. Unfortunately, she was undoubtedly spoiled and shallow, as well as conceited and self-centered.
I'll have to ask her where she got that tank top.
I looked over at my sister as she thought this and she shrugged and said, "What? It's cute!"
I rolled my eyes at Alice.
"What's cute?" Jasper asked.
"The new girl's top." Alice informed him.
"It is pretty cute." Rosalie injected. Then she started staring at her car and thinking about all its different parts.
We watched as Eric Yorkie walked over to her, introduced himself, then informed her that she would be on the front page of the school paper. I admit, I was surprised when she swiftly argued and told him not to. She seemed almost scared at the thought that she would be in the paper. Grudgingly, she agreed, but on the condition that her picture be omitted. When he scurried off, she took a deep breath and glanced at everyone else, as they were all staring at either her or her car. She walked confidently up to the school and strutted into the office, no doubt going to get her schedule and whatnot.
We turned and went to our respective classes. Alice and I were posing as juniors, while Jasper, Emmet, and Rosalie were posing as seniors. As I walked into homeroom and took my seat in the back of the classroom, I sighed in wait of a boring day in purgatory, as the teacher began droning on about something unimportant.
Lunch finally rolled around, and the new girl was on everyone's minds. I learned that her name was Sapphire as I waited for my family. We sat down at our regular table with the food that we wouldn't eat. I heard someone think my name and turned my head to look at them, an automatic reflex. I found myself staring into the utterly shocked and horrified eyes of Sapphire. She gasped, and my family caught the direction I was staring in. As the girl's eyes traveled over the rest of my family, her eyes widened even further, and she suddenly got up from her table and announced that she wasn't feeling well and needed to go to the restroom. She nearly ran off. Emmet, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice looked at me, confused and expectant. I just lifted a shoulder in a shrug, for once I didn't know, because for the first time in my vampire life, I couldn't hear anything at all from her mind.
