The next morning, as the sun filtered in through the open windows, the three sisters began to ponder what their new school would be like.

"I hope it's not like the last one" Maalon muttered, "That boy Josh would always annoy us. He was just so, ugh!" she threw her hands up in the air in exasperation, as Renia applied her make-up in the bathroom mirror.

"I never liked him" Renia commented, "He was too overzealous" Maalon nodded as she finished lacing up her shoes. "I have no idea who you guys are talking about" Monique said as she entered the bathroom, "but he seems like a jerk."

"Trust us he was…"

"Where's the school again?" Maalon asked from the passenger seat of the truck. It was cruising down the heavily forested highway, the sea of red lights making them stop up ahead. Renia glanced in the rearview at the line of cars behind her, and began tapping her fingers against the steering wheel. "Maalon" Monique said from the backseat, "that maps upside down…" Grinning sheepishly, Maalon turned the map the right way, as Renia inched ahead in line. "You know" she commented, "The GPS has been turned on since we got inside the car. I'm not going to let us get lost." As it said Renia turned left on the next interstate, a mountainous green sign reading: "La Push High School, 5 miles ahead" greeting them. "See we're exactly on the course we should be on"

La Push High school was a towering wooden structure, by the beach, overflowing with kids of every age. They leaned against railings or in the shade of a fern tree, all talking animatedly, as the sisters got out of the car. "So much for not sticking out like a sore thumb" Renia muttered sourly. All eyes were suddenly on them, whispers drifting here and there like wildfire. "Come on guys" Maalon ushered, "we have to get our schedules anyway." The girls walked to the front of the enormous building. "These kids are parting like the Red Sea. What are we the Black Death?" Monique muttered.

"Maalon, Monique, Renia!" The girls turned around, to see the boys from last night walking towards them.

"Oh Jacob, hi" Maalon waved as they got closer. "What are you girls up to?" he asked with the same toothy grin. "We were just about to get our schedules."

"Oh" Jake said in surprise, "You girls go here now?" The girls nodded as they all made their way inside the crowded hallways.

"Yeah" Maalon said, "we'll be here all the time" she said. Renia elbowed her in the stomach as they kept walking.

"Because I love me some hound-dogs" Maalon said, glancing at Jacob. He raised his eyebrows in confusion and she wolf-whistled in his direction.

"Oh look" Monique interrupted, "the front office. Maalon come in with me to get the schedules" she all but dragged her sister into the small office, leaving Renia outside with the other boys. "Your sister" Jacob began after a while, "she's quite the flirty one huh?" Renia glanced at him warily, and then shrugged. "She's just….overfriendly"

"You guys look!" Maalon said as she ran out of the office, "we have all the same bells together!" she shoved the copied schedules into their faces, and truth be told the papers were exact copies of the ones they boys had memorized from day one at the school.

"Well isn't that handy, now we can spend more time with you girls" Paul said suggestively. Renia blushed scarlet, and turned away from Paul's intensive gaze.

Suddenly the bell for first period rang and all the students began to disperse. "Allows us to accompany you ladies to our first class" Jacob said as he ushered them forward. "Why thank-you" Maalon said.

"First class of the day is Chemistry with Mrs. Lakes" Seth began, reading over their schedule. "But be warned, she's not a very nice lady, and she doesn't like it when kids are late to her class"

The group got to the Chemistry lab in record time, and a middle-aged woman in a professional pants suit was standing at the head of the class. She was standing very erect with a tight-lipped grimace, a Chemistry textbook in her hand.

"Boys….and girls" she began, "so good to see you could finally make it to my class. You were two seconds away from being late" just then the sharp peal of the tardy bell rang loud inside the classroom and out in the vacant hallways.

"Sorry Mrs. L" Jake muttered, "but we have three new students in the class and we had to show them the office, so they could get their schedules, doesn't that count for something?" the whole class snickered and Mrs. Lakes glared at the group with menacing eyes.

"No Mr. Black it doesn't" she snapped, "now I want you all to take your seats."

"You" she pointed at Maalon, "take a seat next to Mr. Black" Maalon nodded as Jacob led her to the seat next to him towards the back.
"You" she pointed at Monique, "go have a seat next to Mr. Call" Monique shrugged and took the empty seat next to Embry in the back.

"And you" she pointed lastly at Renia, "sit down next to Mr. Meraz" Renia glared at the lady then took the seat next to Paul in the back.

"Now if I have to talk to any of you for disrupting my class there will be consequences."

"Having Chemistry was always stressful and boring" Jake whispered as Mrs. Lakes lectured at the front of the class, "But now its…fun and exciting, now that I have a pretty new friend sitting next to me." He winked and Maalon giggled nervously, tapping her pen against the desk. "Thanks, its nice having you as a friend as well Jacob"

"Please" he whispered, leaning closer, "call me Jake" his cool breath washed over her face, and she breathed shakily, gripping the sides of her desk….