"Hey Alec, I'm going to school and what are you doing? Lazing around and trying to find girls to sleep with?" Alexis asked her brother as she brushed her hair while standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom. Alec scowled at her as a smirk appeared on her full kissable lips. He leaned against the open door bathroom and folded his arms across his chest

"No Alex, I'm going to be working down in La Push as a mechanic. It'll help with the bills and other needs," he said carefully as she stopped taming her hair and turned her upper body around to face him, the smirk disappeared and a firm line was replaced. Her eyebrows pressed together to the centre. Alec sighed and placed his calloused hand on her petite shoulder and squeezed it lightly, "It's ok, you don't need to get a job. I would like you to...enjoy being a teenager,"

Alexis slowly nodded and Alec dropped his hand back to his side as the awkward moment slowly thickened between them. It was rare seeing the two show such affection towards each other. Alec cleared his throat as Alexis shuffled on her feet. Without a warning or word, Alec turned around and walked into his room to get ready for a new day in their new home. He closed the door to his room quietly as he grew frustrated at his words before. It hadn't always been like this. He hadn't always acted like he was the sensible one but Alexis had changed that.

Alexis sighed and walked down the stairs of her new home. The smell of old wood came through her nostrils clear as daylight. She could smell the musty morning from the forest around her house. There were no neighbours, not at least a few minutes away. And Forks had always been nothing but green. Green. Everywhere you look, it was green. Just complete and utter green. She grabbed the leather jacket that was draped over the back of the chair in the kitchen and slipped her arms into the sleeves as it snugly held against her body. Keeping her warm. She walked out of the front door, not calling back to Alec who was upstairs. She knew he would be able to hear her leave. The house was dead quiet as it was before they moved in.

She smiled softly seeing her precious vehicle standing on its stand there in the driveway in front of the black Vanquish that belonged to Alec. Her side bag was resting on her shoulder as she adjusted the strap again, a sign of being nervous at a new environment. Alexis nodded to herself and turned the key, hearing the roar of her engine was enough to wipe away any nervous feelings in her body. She kicked the stand up and prepared to leave home for school.

"Hey Alex," she turned to the front door seeing Alec standing there, dressed in worn jeans with a rip on his left pant leg. He was wearing his worn leather jacket over a white muscle shirt. He smiled at her as he zipped up the zipper, "Have fun at school and knock out any arseholes or bitches, ok?" Alexis grinned and nodded as a promise before she sped out of her driveway hearing Alec laugh before disarming the alarm on his car.

The early morning of Forks was clear; this was probably the most clear atmosphere town she had came to. A small grin curved onto her lips as she began to like this town. With one hand on the handle bars, Alexis reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a earphone, she slid it into her ear and reached into the pocket again to press play on her IPod. The music blast through her ears nicely as she drove incredibly slow today. At the regular speed on the road.

"This is what I brought you, you can keep. This is what I brought, you may forget me." The drum beats of AFI's song Prelude 12/21. The song ran for a total of under two minutes but was a catchy rhythm that had Alexis hooked on when she had once heard it. "I promise to depart, just promise me one thing. Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep." Alexis turned. Her head nodded slightly to the beat of the song as she rode to school, still sparing at least under 5 minutes. Not that time was a trouble to her. There were a few cars along the road going the opposite way though, towards La Push. Cars moving towards Forks were far behind Alexis as she had overtook them.

"This is what I brought you, you can keep. This is what I brought, may forget me." Glancing down at her wristwatch, Alexis saw that she had less than 3 minutes to get to school and which at the snail pace she was driving at, it would take 10 minutes to get there. She smiled wickedly to herself as she cranked up the speed. The arrow on the speedometer rose quickly. From 50 to 120. The rush of the cold air against her exposed face was enticing. The air licked at her hair as it flew behind her. "I promise you my heart, just promise to sing. Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep."

She noticed the silver Volvo ahead of her and twisted the handle again to increase her speed again. The arrow raised from 120 to 140. She had never actually driven this fast before and it sent adrenaline just rushing through her system like a drug addict having a dose of the drug. "Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep. This is what I thought, I thought you needed me. This is what I thought, so think me naive." Alexis was just at the tail of the car now. All she had to do was continue at this speed or increase it a bit more. The passengers in the car were staring at her. Their pale complexion made Alexis frown. Their topaz coloured eyes strike Alexis as strange but she spoke nothing of it. They were beautiful nonetheless.

"I promised you a heart, you promised to keep. Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep." She was almost ahead of them with 2 minutes to spare and near the school. The driver glanced over at her. His bronze coloured hair was everywhere. He hadn't used gel or wax like most boys his age in the other towns. It was natural and was disarrayed on top of his head. Alexis raised an eyebrow before she increased her speed to 150 and sped off in front of the silver Volvo. "Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep." Just as the song had ended. Alexis had slowed down and was slowly driving through the school parking lot, looking for a nice shade of tree to park her bike.

~*~

She grabbed her messenger bag that had fitted underneath her seat and pulled out her schedule. Her eyes glancing at the words before she had memorised the schedule for her time being here. Students walking pass would stop and stare then whisper about her beauty to each other. The bad girl appearance to her was enticing. She appeared as a mysterious girl with an attitude as she rode a bike to school and not a 4 wheeled vehicle. Her beautiful appearance made girls wanted to be her or jealous. Boys instantly wanted to know her name and who she was but were too shy to.

First class. English. Alexis had always exceeded her education wherever she went. Education to her was simple. She only did it to look normal. Alexis pulled out the slip of paper given to her with the schedule and map yesterday afternoon by the lady with glasses. She passed it to the teacher as he stared at her in awe. She was strangely beautiful but still looking humanely. He signed the paper wordlessly and smiled as he handed the paper back to her and Alexis curled her lips upwards into a polite smile before she turned around and walked towards the back of the room to take a seat there.

Slowly students began to fill the empty seats. Her IPod was still on and the music was still blaring into her ear from the earpiece. Alexis had tuned her surroundings out of her mind as she thought back to the silver Volvo earlier before. The way they all had looked were different but strangely the same. The coloured eyes and pale skin adding to the strangely godlike beauty. As the final bell rung indicating that school had started, Alexis pulled out the earphone and switched off her IPod, shoving it back into her pocket before paying some attention to the blabbering teacher in front of the class.

'A dog, I had always wanted a dog...maybe I could beg Alec into getting me one' she thought as the male teacher cleared his throat for the thirteenth time and continued his speech on Macbeth. Killing. Macbeth. Betrayal. Such tragedy.

"Hey," someone whispered to her. Alexis blinked and turned her head to the side, meeting a pair of nice baby blue eyes and spiky blonde hair aided by the help of gel. Alexis swallowed at the lump in her throat as she had been too deeply in thought of the Volvo passengers to remember her other actions. "Hi, I'm Mike Newton," Alexis studied Mike for a second longer. 'A baby face...pretty good looking' she thought lightly before smiling.

"Hi, I'm Alexis Green but you can call me Alex," he gulped nervously as he stared at her lips curved into a polite smile. Alexis watched his Adam's apple move up and down as he swallowed the nervous lump in his throat. It gave her some sort of pride that she had him nervous and shy. "So, you obviously talked to me to get to know me, why not we do that when you give me a tour of the school later?" she asked casually as Mike's cheeks reddened and he nodded unable to speak.

Glancing to the girl beside Mike, Alexis could see a pretty girl. Her hair reaches pass her shoulders with curls. Her face is red with emotion. Alexis couldn't determine what emotion she was feeling but it seemed she wasn't happy. Her eyebrows were furrowed to the centre as her eyes were narrowed slightly. Her hands by her sides were balled tightly into fists. Giving one last smile and glance at Mike, Alexis turned back to staring out the window as she half listened to the blabbering teacher.

When the bell went off signalling the end of the first class and beginning of second. Alexis walked out of the class slowly. Her feet gracefully side stepped other students in front of her. When they noticed she had walked passed them, Alexis was already a metre ahead. Her walk was graceful almost like she was dancing. She was beautiful, attracting a lot of attention.

~*~

By the time lunch had rolled around, Alexis had pretty much memorised the outlook of the school, where each building lay and how many rooms there were in it. Mike had been a great tour guide. It seemed that he was quite popular in the school. Alexis smiled and laughed politely at his jokes although they weren't all that funny. The girl that sat next to him in English was Jessica Stanley. Mike grinned at Alexis and dragged her by the elbow towards a table where a few people sat.

"Hey guys, this is Alexis Green. She's new," Alexis scanned the new faces quickly. There was a bleach blonde girl with large round eyes reminding her of fish eyes. She was quite pretty looking and wore a scowl on her face. She sat next to a black haired boy with dark coloured eyes. He had a darker skin than the rest sitting there on the table. "This is Lauren Mallory," Mike said pointing to the blonde haired girl as she faked a smile which Alexis returned. "This is Tyler Crowley," the boy next to her. Opposite the two was a girl. She had light brown hair framing a fair skinned face with soft brown eyes. She seemed to be a shy girl as she sat there not talking but with a gentle smile, "This is Angela Weber," Alexis smiled as the emotion reached her eyes which Angela returned. Alexis sat down beside Angela, already taking a liking to the quiet girl. Mike joined her on the other side as Jessica sat on Lauren's side. "Eric, not here again?"

Tyler shook his head as his response as Mike nodded and Alexis smiled at Angela as the two engaged in a whispered conversation about each other.

"So you used to live in Miami?" Angela questioned with a disbelief tone as Alexis looked a little pale to be in such a sun filled state. Alexis chuckled and nodded as she recognised the disbelief tone. "But you don't look that dark to me,"

"I usually go out at night besides we only stayed there for a few weeks then we moved here. Miami wasn't the life for us," Angela nodded and sipped her cola. "Yeah, my brother wanted a change, he said that the women over there already know him as 'heartbreaker' or something like that," Angela and Alexis shared a humorous laugh as she explained why they moved. Lauren scoffed lightly at the laughing girls and Alexis turned over to face Lauren. She was unsure why Lauren had such negative feelings towards Alexis as to only meeting her today.

Her attention from Lauren was taken away when she noticed a table of pale skinned family sitting there with their trays filled with food untouched. Their lips unmoving as they seemed to speak through their topaz coloured eyes. Alexis remembered them from this morning's ride to school. Their appearance still strike her as odd and inhuman,

"Hey Angela, who are they?" she asked not taking her curious eyes off them. Angela followed Alexis gaze as she gasped seeing the pale family turn to face their table noticing Alexis stare over at them but Alexis seemed unfazed by their looks as she continued to stare at them. Angela swallowed nervously at the beautiful family's look and turned to face Alexis with her cheeks a dark red.

"They're the Cullen and Hale. The large looking one is Emmett Cullen. His dating Rosalie Hale. The pretty blonde one. Rosalie has a twin brother, Jasper Hale. He's the other blonde haired one who is dating Alice Cullen. She's the small pixie like one. The youngest there and still single is Edward Cullen. He's the one with the---," before Angela could finish her description of the youngest pale one, Alexis interrupted.

"The one with bronze coloured hair right? I saw them this morning riding to school. Quite interesting they are. Are they dangerous or something? Why is everyone seemed afraid of them?" Angela chuckled at her new friend's oblivious knowledge of the pale family's reputation. "Why are you laughing?" Alexis asked with a slight chuckle at the end.

"They're not dangerous, everyone is too shy or afraid of actually speaking or befriending them. Aren't you intimidated by their beautiful looks?" Alexis shook her head at Angela's strange question, "That's because you're really beautiful, almost like them too. Come to think of it, you're almost pale like them and you're really graceful when walking too. You're also beautiful," Alexis laughed freely. Her smooth laughter rang through the lunchroom, hushing the talking groups as they listened to this new laughter ring through the air. Alexis calmed down after a short moment wiping a tear from her eye and slapped her hand on Angela's shoulder lightly.

"Yeah right Angela. Anyway, I need to get going before gym. See ya tomorrow then," she said standing up, waving to the table she sat on and walked out of the lunchroom towards the car park where her bike parked under the shade of a tree near the same silver Volvo. Her phone had been vibrating for the last two minutes as she sat there talking to Angela. Rolling her eyes she picked up the call knowing who it was from actually. "Alec, what is it that you had to call me out here?" Alec glared at her as he leaned against his car outside the school.

"Well, now you show your face out here," he said grumpily with his arms crossed against his chest. "I called you many times, what were you doing in there?" Alexis rolled her eyes again but didn't provide an answer as Alec spoke again, "Well, I got the job, starting the day after tomorrow at 10. Anything interesting?" Alexis frowned a bit as she remembered the Cullen and Hale family in the lunchroom and nodded

"There's a suspicious looking family. Maybe it's just me but they're different from the rest of us," Alec nodded listening to his sister's explanation, "I'll explain it to you later tonight, what about La Push?" Alec scoffed as he too remembered his adventure down in La Push.

"Yeah, I was in the garage and a customer came in with his car. Then he saw me and I swear he started growling like a dog. It was like he smelt cat---" Alexis laughed again as she saw Alec's disgusted face and expression, "And I smelt a wet dog too. It was gross I tell ya," Alexis couldn't stop laughing as she clutched her aching side with tears filling her eyes, "Stop laughing you stupid girl," he did his best to insult her which only adding to her laughing. "Whatever, I won't take you cliff diving in La Push," Alexis gasped hearing such a daring sport. She stopped laughing and looked up to Alec with pleading eyes as he struggled for a moment before sighing and nodded. Alexis grinned and threw her arms around his neck as she tightly hugged him in appreciation.

"Alec, have I ever told you how much I love you?" hearing that Alec scoffed knowing she was only saying this as he had promised to take her cliff diving for the thrill. "I really do, I'm glad you took care of me. Last year was probably the best year as you taught me everything to survive in the real world. I'm grateful of you Alec, really I am," he sighed and slowly wrapped his arms around her waist embracing her into the hug as she confessed her feelings for him. Alec sighed.

"It's alright Alex. I like ya, being with you is fun and teaching you all those things was a way to kill time," Alexis whacked his head with her head as he groaned at the impact, "I'm sorry, I was only joking. I like spending time with ya. So it's good," they could hear the faint ringing of the bell warning that lunch time was over and classes should begin soon. Alexis and Alec dropped their arms awkwardly to their sides. Lately, they've been showing each other a lot more usual of emotion. It was strange in the beginning, they hated each other but was forced to live together under tight circumstances.

"I'll see you at home right?" Alexis asked as she subconsciously adjusted her messenger bag strap on her shoulder. Her eyes not locking with his as she stared at the ground like a shy girl in front of her crush. Alec cleared his throat looking anywhere but at her. He grunted as his reply and she smiled up at him before turning around to walk back into the school towards the Gym where it held her last class of the day, "Oh and Alec," she raised her voice as she turned around to walk backwards and talk to him, "Don't eat lunch, God forbid you can't cook," she teased with a chuckle as Alec glared at her and grumbled to himself as he opened his car door and stepped in.

Alexis walked to the locker room, calmly as usual, she changed into a pair of basketball shorts and a purple t-shirt. Her clothes stuffed neatly in her messenger bag and the bag shoved into the provided locker. It was a wonder how a few of her books and her clothes had fitted into the bag. The other girls had already changed and were standing in a line along with the boys. Alexis walked out of the change room stretching her arm across her chest gaining the attention of the students in the gym. She noticed Mike being in crowd and she flashed him a smile as he blushed and returned it. The teacher came over wearing red shorts and a white shirt with a whistle hanging around his neck. 'Such a typical, sports teacher' Alexis thought bored as she stood last in line listening to the man drone on about safety issues and what the lesson was about. Alexis bit on her bottom lip and raised her arm.

"Yeah?" the teacher grunted as he just realised a beauty was in his class. He pushed his belly in and proceeded to look toned for the new face but Alexis ignored his pathetic attempts and dropped her arm to her side again as she smiled at him before speaking, watching as he fidgeted slightly in his spot in front of the class,

"Why don't we just get to the game sir? I'm sure there are students here eager to play," she spoke sweetly as the teacher cleared his throat and stammered out while he held onto his whistle shaking,

"Well, let's get into groups then!" with that, he blew onto the silver whistle. The loud shrilling rang through the echoing room as Alexis winced slightly at the loud decibel. As the students walked towards their friends, Mike walked over to Alexis as she tilted her neck side to side, stretching her sleeping muscles before playing sport. He smiled at her as she returned the smile seeing him standing in front of her,

"You really wanted to play huh?" Alexis grinned like a little child wanting candy. She stopped stretching and stood up straight

"I love sport, it's fun," was her simple answer before the teacher blew the whistle again, shouting for people to gather around him as he would choose the two teams. The students slowly moved around the Gym getting into their assigned teams.