Chapter 2 First day high
250 years.
That's how old I am as of today. My family insisted on giving me a party but of course they know I'm not in favor of that.
"Diamond Bloodstone! Today is your birthday and we will celebrate it!" My very loud sister shouted directly at my ear making me wince in each word.
"I don't want to!" I glared at her as she glared back. "Even if you have to shove a six inch stiletto on me, I don't want to!"
"Crystal, I think we should just let this go for Diamond." Emerald said in a calm voice. I nodded thanks to him.
"Yeah C. she's ready to sacrifice herself to be publicly humiliated than celebrating her birthday." Jasper chuckled beside me who put his arm around my shoulder.
"Fine. Then what do you want to do?" Crystal asked, her mood changing instantly.
"I just want to have a quiet and relaxing day today." I responded while sighing.
"Does si-"
"No Crystal. Singing happy birthday to me does not count" I cut her off before standing up suddenly.
"I'm going hunting." I announced then ran as fast as I can towards the forest.
We just moved down to this small town in Washington and my siblings decided that the day of the move would be on my birthday. So here we are now. Another small town. This freakin' life is boring and I hope there'll be some excitement here in forks.
Every time I think of Forks, there's something in the back of my mind that says I should know something about this place. Maybe something happened to me here when I was human. I shrugged the thought away as I pounced on my prey and drank its blood.
Three mountain lions and one grizzly bear later, I was now sitting on the edge of a cliff looking at the still blue ocean and the setting sun. I looked down at my hands to see my skin sparkling like thousands of diamonds. Diamonds.
I felt a tugging at the back of my mind again and a painful sting on my still heart. I scrunched my eyebrows in concentration trying to figure out what it meant. Ever since my transformation, when there was a word that I thought that sounds so familiar to me, I get that kind of reaction. At first it really pained me to the point when I almost crumpled to the floor in a fetal position but as time passed, I learned to hide it from the rest of my siblings and to stop whatever pain that was about to control my body.
"Am I really that broken when I was human?" I asked myself out loud. I sighed. I think it's best to go home now. They must be waiting for me and I think they'll still be planning a party for me.
I groaned inwardly as I ran as fast as I could back home. I felt the wind rushing through my hair and the adrenalin rush that's surging through my body. My giggles echoed through the silent forest as I enjoyed this time of the day. Twilight. I don't know why it's so important to me but there it is again. The sudden tugging. I inhaled a large amount of air trying to wash out the sudden sad feeling when I saw the soft dim lights of my new home.
I hesitated before opening the door, afraid of what my family has planned for me. I cringed as my eccentric sister's voice welcomed my ears.
"Diamond! Happy Birthday!" she squealed as she jumped on me and kissed my cheek. I closed my eyes to calm myself trying hard not to throw my sister against a wall.
"C, get off of her. You're choking her to death!" Jasper said while pulling Crystal off of me and giving me a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Yeah right. I'll give you a choke of death if you want!" Crystal growled.
"When would be the day that the two of you would stop fighting?" Em said from across the room.
"Happy birthday D." He greeted as I walked towards the living room and sat beside him. He rubbed my back to calm me down from pouncing on my sister and I gave him a thankful smile.
"D! Since I am your best friend, I will not greet you for the sake of our friendship." Ruby giggled as she sat on her mate's lap.
"Thank you! Finally, someone who understands me." I grumbled while glaring at Crystal.
"But then again, what kind of best friend am I? Happy Birthday Diamond!" Ruby yelled over at me as everyone laughed at my expense.
"Yes. What a good friend you are." Heavy sarcasm there.
"so diamond, tomorrow's the first day of school. What do you think our first impression should be?" Jasper asked excitedly. You see, every time we moved, we always set for a stereotypical high school role. Last high School we've been, we're the Jock/Cheerleader types.
"I'll say we do gothic!" Crystal squealed beside jasper.
"Egh. I don't want to wear black lipstick." Ruby whined while glaring at Crystal.
"I say, we'll do preppy/emo look." I said while grinning.
"Brilliant!" Crystal squealed. "I'll find my outfit now. I suggest you guys do that too. It's only 2 hours till school starts." She ran as fast as her little feet can to her room and we heard the loud bang of the door. We all looked at each other then shrugged.
"I guess I'll do whatever the little squirt says. I don't want to have the attention of her pink wrath." I rolled my eyes and ran up to my room.
After two hours of doing completely nothing, I decided to change to the outfit I had picked out for today. I put on my black backless top, black ruffle skirt with white skulls printed on it and some black platform shoes and a black and white stripped vest. I put on some black and gold accessories and I grabbed my cute black clutch. (link on my prof!)
Mostly, I'm really not into Fashion but after living with Crystal and Ruby for almost 250 years I think that is enough time for me to master fashion, make up and shopping. In my opinion, shopping sucks! But since my two lovely sisters are very understanding, they let me off the hook since I give them the privilege to shop clothes for me while I hang out with the guys.
I went down to the garage to find the others fighting over something. I rolled my eyes and walked over to them.
"I think we should take mine!" Crystal argued angrily.
"No crystal. Your car is too ostentatious." Emerald argued back. "Mine is better!"
"Nuh uh! I can't handle anymore green!" Ruby whined.
"Why don't we take Jasper's?" I asked. "I mean, we're all wearing black you know. So the car fits."
They all considered that then nodded their heads. I rolled my eyes at my family. Just about everything, there would always be an argument. We all sauntered to Jasper's Black Mercedes. (link of jazz's car on my prof!)
I looked over at Ruby who was climbing at the back of the car with Crystal. Ruby's outfit was elegant yet edgy. She's wearing a black lacy top under a black silk jacket, black skinny jeans, vintage black leather shoes and some cute silver heart accessories. Her cute white purse was slung on her shoulder completing her look.
I followed the girls to the back and looked at other's outfits. Crystal was wearing her white ruffle top under a gray rhinestone studded cardigan with a big bow on the center, black pants with a silver belt, some cute black Mary Jane booties and a heart shaped purse. (both outfits' link on my prof!)
"Cute outfit, C" I complimented her. She smiled charmingly at me as the car got out of the garage.
The guys' outfit looked similar. They were both wearing a button up shirt under a black sweater and black skinny jeans.
So anyway, with jasper driving like a maniac, in just five minutes we arrived at school. When our car came to view, all eyes were on us or rather, on the car. Jasper parked and we all gracefully got out.
Jasper grinned as the human boys' envious eyes glared at him when they saw him slung his arm on Crystal's shoulder and his other wrapped on mine. I smirked at him while C rolled her eyes.
"Feeling a little cocky, jazz?" I asked while raising a brow.
"Not really, just having fun that's all." He said with humor.
When we walked towards the school office, the girls were giving us looks of awe and envy while the boys were giving us lust filled stares. Jasper noticed them and pulled Crystal and I tighter to him.
I smiled thankfully at him while Crystal huffed. "why do always do that, jazz?" she asked irritably.
"Do what?" Jazz asked innocently.
"Acting like a protective jerk. How can I have a good time with some boys here if you're pulling the protective brother?" C glared at him while I rolled my eyes.
"Seriously C, humans are very vile especially teenagers. How can you stand to play with them? They're only after one thing and you know it." Jasper said looking annoyed.
You see, Crystal here is a total player when she was human. She loves to 'socialize' with them and mess with their minds. All in all, she's a very dangerous creature to all men.
"I just love messing with them and I know that idiot." C shrugged off jazz arm and walked over to Ruby's side.
"Jasper?" I asked innocently.
"what?" he asked, still completely annoyed.
"why don't you just tell her?" I said.
"huh?"
"you love her." I whispered. I felt him tense then looked at me like I'm crazy.
"I do not!"
"Yes you do. And don't give me that look!" I said when he put on an unbelievable look. "I've been living with the two of you for centuries and I've known you inside out so you can't fool me. You are very much in love with her." he sighed while I smiled triumphantly.
"Am I that obvious?" he asked.
"Yeah but apparently, Crystal is oblivious."
"I know. But how can I tell her when every time I struck up a talk with her, she'll shrug me off like I'm a piece of crap." His sad golden eyes reminded me of someone and I felt a sting in my heart.
"Honey, you treat her like a sister that's why she's like that. But if you treat her like the wonderful woman that she is, she'll treat you the same way too even though she's a bit of childish." I giggled.
"You really think that will work?" his eyes going wide like a kid on Christmas.
"Psshhh. Please, I'm Diamond Bloodstone. Why would that not work?" I asked him mockingly while he laughed. He kissed my cheek and ruffled my hair.
"Hey!" I mockingly glared at him as I soothed my hair.
We reached the office and there is this man in the counter with huge glasses that makes his eyes look big.
"Hello." Ruby greeted. The man looked up and his big eyes got bigger when he saw her. His heartbeat stuttered furiously and we all hid our laughs as he composed his face.
"w-what can-n I d-do for y-you?" he asked.
"We are the new students and we're here for our schedules." Em said politely.
"y-yes, of course." the man muttered and gave us our schedules and maps for the school. We walked out of the office laughing our asses off as Ruby and Crystal bid the man a flying kiss almost giving him a heart attack right there and then.
We compared our schedules and went our separate ways. Since I'm posting as a junior and Crystal and Jasper are posting as sophomores and Ruby and Em are posting as Seniors, I didn't have them with me to any of my subjects which sucks.
My first subject was English so I walked inside the room to be greeted by stares from the humans. I smiled at them charmingly while I head over to the teacher. He gave me my book and pointed me to my seat, silently thanking him for not letting me introduce myself to the class. I felt the curios stares and glances of students around me when a girl with long black hair came in front of me.
"Hi, my name is Gella Webber." We both shook hands as she sat beside me. I smiled at her politely and introduced my self. Something about Gella's last name made a tug on my mind reminding me that I should know that name from somewhere. But instead of pondering on her name, I just shrugged it off.
"Wow. Diamond, huh. Nice name." she smiled at me as the class started. The class was boring and the teacher droned on and on in a boring monotone voice which made the situation a whole lot more boring. Like I said, boring. The students in the class were either talking or trying hard not to fall asleep but when the bell rang, all of them jumped out of their seat, instantly coming alive.
"So, how do you like forks so far?" Gella asked as we headed for our next class. The other students stared at her with envy just by talking with me. Tsk. Silly little humans.
"Well it's green, that's what I have to say." I chuckled.
"Yeah but don't worry, you'll get used to it somehow." She smiled politely.
"You know, you remind me of someone. I just couldn't pin point who." I muttered. She looked at me surprisingly.
"Really? You must have missed your friends back home."
"nah. I wouldn't call them friends. Their good companions but they're all plastic wannabe's" I smirked as I remember a few pranks that Crystal and Jasper pulled at my so-called-friends.
"That must be horrible." Her voice sounding sad.
"Not really, I'm used to be around those kind of people." I shrugged nonchalantly.
"Well, beware. A lot of people here are like that. Especially the popular crowd. Good thing the cullens don't give them any time of the day though." She mumbled.
"Cullens?" I chocked out. Something about that name made a hard stab on my dead heart but I didn't let it to be noticed on my face.
"Yeah. They moved here like a few months before your family came. Now that I think of it, you guys looked exactly the same." She said the last part under breath.
"What do you mean the same?" I asked suspiciously.
"oh. You guys have the same eye color. I thought you might be a distant relative or something." My eyes widened as I consider the possibility of having other vampires here at school.
"diamond, you okay?" Gella asked me with a worried expression.
"yeah." I cleared my throat. "I'm totally fine. Come on, we might be late for class." I dragged towards our room and the class started in no time. While the teacher discussed on and on about stuff that I already know, I pulled out my phone from my purse and gave a group text to my siblings.
"Veggie Vamps in d school"
-D
Was all I texted before four other replies came.
"I know. I've met one of dem already."
-C
"wtf?"
-J
"Interesting, we'll just have 2 meet dem l8r."
-Em
"Finally! My kind of crowd."
-R
I rolled my eyes at Jasper's reply and scrunched my eyebrows at Crystal's. She already met one of them and she didn't tell us? Stupid little squirt. When class ended, Gella and I went to our separate ways and class. I was really anxious in meeting the Cullens. The name struck something to me, like it's a big thing that I should know about. I tried to concentrate on anything I might know about them but my brain is as dead as my heart. Two hours passed by and in no time, I was meeting my siblings and we were all heading for the cafeteria to meet the Cullens.
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