A/N: Here's chapter 1. Not much is going to get cleared up in this one, just like I planned. You'll learn everything in the next chapter.

I also hope you all notived my name change from prettybutterfly14 to WeepingWillow1494. I hope you like my name change.

Chapter 1: The mysterious New Girl

Edward'sPOV

It kept ringing in my ears and repeating in my head. A new girl is coming! A new girl is coming! That's what my "sister" Alice was chanting in her head iver and over and over again.

All night!

There were some advantagesti being able to read minds. Like knowing what the future was first from Alice when she had a vision, or like getting a good laughat what runs through other student's head's when they're put on the spotlight or cauhgt doing something stiupid in class. Especially last week when that vile Mike Newton was flirting qith the young female Biology substitute teacher. He went up to her desk just before class was about to start, gave her what was supposed to be a seductive smile- which looked more like he'd just been hit somewhere really hard and was in pain- complimented her and she totally screwed him over as the bell rang. She sai, "Sorry, but I don't date students, much less students with an IQ of a teaspoon and, well, you're no George Clooney either." The look on his face after that was priceless. Plus the stuff ruinning through his mind was all jibberish because of his embarassment.

I don't think I'll ever forget that day.

Now, the disadvantages to hearing peoples thoughts is that you can hear peoples thought. All of them. As if hearing Rosalie and Emmett, my "brother" and "sister" going at it almost every evening was bad enough. but when they think about it, which for Emmett is very frequently, I get a pretty good idea fo what they do behind closed doors. Not some of my favourite moments.

Back to the whole "new girl" situation, thats all Alice could think about on our drive to school. I was at the wheel of my precious silver Volvo. Emmett was in the passengers seat, complainging about not getting to sit with Rosalie, who was sittting in the back of the car, with Alice in the middle and Jasper, who was peering out the window, on Alice's right. He was also trying to calm Alice down with his gift of controling emotions.

It might not have been calming down Alice's excitment, but it was sure as hell calming me down from screaming at her to shut up her mind.

"Alice, for the hundredth time since yesterday, can you try to stop ranting on and on about the new girl? We get it already, especially me." I asked, almost pleeding to her.

"But I'm excited, Edward! It looks like we're going to be great friends, but I can't seem to figure out when that is, but I hope it's soon." she replyed with a cheely grin.

"Well, could you at least think about other things instead of just that? It's getting on my nerves."

Do you really want me to think about other things, Edward? Alice asked me in her mind. I looked at her through the rear view mirror, she had a prefect eyebrow raised and a smirk on her face.

I knew what she meant by other things. And it happened to have blonde hair and was sitting right next to Alice, only the version she was beginning to think of had a lesser amount of clothes.

I looked at her with a disgusted look on my face. I even shuddered a little.

"I'd rather you didn't." I said looking back at the road.

She laughed in her head, but giggled out loud.

Aure, Alice was one of the greatest vampires and sisters I know, but she was quite eveil when she wanted to be. Her 4'11" frame and short, spiky black hair didn;t help matters much either, nor did the fact that she was a vampire.

We were just arriving at the old brick building we call Forks High school. With it's assortment of weird kids, and students who unknowinly went to school with five vampires that were all older than even the eighty year old principal yet looked like the seventeen year olds that we looked like. But if it weren't for the teenage bodies we were all stuck in, we wouldn't be able to at least try ad live like normal people, even if we were the farthest thing from normal.

I parked the car in our normal spot, closest to the school doors. We all exited the car, Emmett heading right for Rosalie, Alice and Jasper just standing in each others embrace as usual. We were only about the thrid or fourth car in the parking lot not including the teachers cars. I also noticed an old red Chevrolet pick up truck. It was rusted, but looked in a sort of good condition. I didn't recognise the car, so I guessed it belonged to the new girl.

Other students were arriving now, so I decided to head to class, since it was in the farthest room from where I was standing. I had that class with Emmett, but since he was in the middle of a game of tonsil hockey with Rosalie, I decided no to disturbe them and meade my way.

As I passed the front office I could smell an excessive amount of freesias. I looked to see if they'd put some in the building, but none were anywhere I could see. I shrugged it off and continued my way down the corridor.

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My first three classes had come and gone. English, my first class, wasn't too bad. I zoned out about thirty seconds in, but no one bothered me, and Mrs.O'Connor, the red head middle aged teacher never asked me for answeres, so it wasn't that bad.

History class, which I had second with Alice and Jasper was...interesting to say the least. But it ususally was. Jasper would always correct the text book and/or the teacher about the war. He was in one down south before he was changed, so it was ammusing to hear him correct the text, and then hear him complain to me about the mistakes, and how some of the historians who wrote the book were compete idiots. It was hard most of the time not to laugh at some of the mistakes the teacher made, or the text.

Third period class was the most boring of the day. It was a Civics class, something I'm not particularly interested in, at all, so it droned on forever.

It was lunch, and for someone who didn't eat, it could not have come sooner. Through out the day my mind was filled with the thoughts of the other students thoughts, which were all focused on one thing in particular. The "New Girl"

Isabella Swan, or Bella, as she corrected anyone who said otherwise.

It was all anyone would think about today. I could see her face in my mind from other students. From what I had depicted, she had pale even skin, full pink lips, around average height, a nice figure, not that it really mattered to me-I couldn't help it after all, most of the male population was thinking over her middle and lower regions-mahogany brown coloured hair that reached the middle of her back, and brown eyes to match in the middle of a heart shaped face. She was very pretty there was no doubt about it. Every male mind was thinking about her and imagining themselves falling in love with her.

That, or imagining doing something else with her. Something I try not to think about.

Even some of the female population's thoughts focused on her, mainly out of jealousy. I guessed because of all the attention she was getting from the male student body.

I could hear some of the most recognisable students in the room. The nerdy Eric Yorkie complaining about Mike Newton ruining his small coversation. The very shy but nice and kind Angela Wever, worrying about her next calculus test rahter that what the also very shy Ben Cheney, who was pretending to read his comic book at the end of the table, but was really sneeking peeks at Angela.

The rest of my family was already seated at our usual table in the cafeteria, with trays of uneaten food and unopened cans of soda of bottled of water place in front of them. I was waling through the door of the cafeteria whe I heard a soft voice.

"W-who's he?" the voice stuttered. I didn't recognise the voice. ButI didn't dare turn my head in the voices direction. I knew I was at a distance away that I wouldn't be able to explain how I heard the voice. If I were human I wouldn't have been able to hear the voice.

"That's Edward Cullen." I recognised that voice as essica Stanely. The Forks Gossiping Queen, obvoiusly dishing the dirt on us Cullens and Hales. The other voice must have belonged to the new girl. I leaned my head a little in their direction, "Totally gorgeous I know. But apperently, none of the girls here are good looking enough for him. He doesn't date." she finished in a sort of sad and angry tone of voice.

I couldn't help but smile a little. Oh if she knew the real reson why I didn't date. That would surly stop all the annoying fantasies she has of us being together.

It was an annual thing for her to think about us like that. Sometimes it got...a little graphic. Not something I'm very proud of to have heard, even if I couldn't help it.

"Not that I care or anything." Jessica continued. But alas, she was lying through her teeth. Of corse she cared. She wanted me bad, but even if I was human, not to be offensive, I wasn't interested in her anyways. Her mind was going off about the lie too.

Of coarse I care! He's hotter than a toaster. If I was the first girl to ever date him here, everyone would talk about me, and maybe some of the guys would notice me more. But Edward and I would look so cute together. She thought.

Oh ya. She really thinks that.

I'd made my way to my table, and I could feel a pair of eyes on me, but I ignored it. I quietly said to my family too low for anyone else to hear, "Looks like Jessica's giving the new girl the ditry laundry on the Cullen clan."

Emmett snickered under his breath, not that he needed the breath.

What does the new girl think of us then? She really belive were as shallow as Jessica puts us out to be? Emmett asked me in his head.

I tried to listen for the soft voice I'd heard earlier, but I could find nothing. Had she left the room? I looked up to check, when I was met with a pair of brown eyes. The eyes I felt watching me a moment ago.

In fact, she hadn't left the room. There she was, sitting st the table with Jessica, Anglea, Mike, Eric and the rest of the other "popluar" kids. She was turned around in her chair looking directly at me. And even though I knew she was in the room, I couldn't hear anything in her head,

My eyebrows began to scrunch up in response. She was sitting right there, looking at me, yet not a single whisper was coming from her mind. Was she blocking her thoughts? Now, impossible. How would she have known to block them if no one knew I could read minds?

During my time looking at her and searching for her "voice" I got a rpetty good look at her. The heart shaped face, framed with the soft mahogany coloured curls that was her hair. Big brown eyes were staring at me. They were deep brown eyes. I could see deep into them, not something you can usually do with most brown coloured eyes. There was also something about her looks, and her in general, that seemed off. I couldn't really place what it was, but it was definatly there. Almost as if she were hiding something.

She quickly turned away, embarassed for being caught staring.

I was still staring at this Bella, trying to find a voice. Alice must have notice my stare down with the back of Bella's head, because I heard her ask me, Edward? What's wrong? What are you staring at?

She looked away from me, and towards Bella as well. At that very moment, Bellas head turned towards me again. She looked embarassed again, but instead of looking away from me, she looked towards Alice, then back at me. Her eyes seemed to widen a little when she looked directly at my eyes. She broke contact with my eyes and looked away again.

Alice's eyes lingered on the new girl a little longer before turning to look at me again. She looked at me with a confused expression. I just shrugged, not knowing what else to say or do. She raised an eyebrow at me and looked back at Jasper, who was reading a Civil War book, again complaining in his mind about the mistakes.

I was so fixed on trying to look for a voice, and Alice's confusion, that I missed what Jessica and Bella were talking about before she turned to look at me again.

She too, ahd a confused look on her face. She looked at me for a second longer, when a small smirk began to form on her face. She turned away completely befor I could see the whole thing. I wondered what she was smirking at.

"Whats up with you, man? I haven't seen you this confused since Alice took you on her last shopping trip." Emmett asked me with a smirk.

"He's been looking at that Bella girl. She's very pretty. I can't wait until we're friends!" Alice said happily.

"One thing's for sure, he's confused. What's up Edward?" Jasper asked me. Take it from himto know that I was cinfused.

"Nothing's wrong. Well, something is. I just can't tell here. Wait unil we get back home. I have to ask Carlisle something." I answered.

I looked back at Bella when everyone shrugged and went back to waht they were doing, just in time to see her smile softly at Eric. She had a very pretty smile I'll admit. There was no doubt about that.

It was then that she got up and picked up her bag and tray of...unopened and uneaten food? She walked it over to the garbage bin and threw it all out and walked out of the cafeteria just as the five minute warning bell for class went off. She didn't even look back.

"Earth to Edward! Get up or you're going to miss class!" a very pissed Rosalie said to me.

I shook my head and got up, threw out my garbage, and walked to my locker, getting my thins for Biology.

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I was already seated at my lab table in the Biology room by the time the rest of the students were just entering the class.

This meant that either everyone is terribly slow, or I might have accidentally walked a little too fast to class.

Soon enough, though, the other students were piling into the room. I was still wondering why I couldn't read Bella's mind during this time. Why couldn't I hear it? How was she keeping me from reading her mind? I had to know why. Not just for myslef, but because it was for my families sake that I knew, for if she ever suspected anything, or anyone else ever suspected anything, I'd know and we would be able to leave without anyone getting too suspicious of us.

I thought about it until the middle aged cam into the room to being the lesson. I looked down at my text book.

"Afternoon class. Settle down people." she said.

"Hey !" I heard Mike Newton enter the room. I kept my eyes fized on the text book in front of me.

"This is Bella. Bell, ." I heard Mike say.

When I heard Bella's name, I slowly moved my eyes from the text to look for her. Sure enough, there she stood at the front of the class. She was looking at me, but shifted her eyes to the ground. She looked very uncomfortable up there, almost like she didn't like the attention.

Little did she know that not only was she getting attention from the other classmates eyes, but from their minds as well.

All of the minds in the room were going off about her in some way. Some of the girls with jealousy, some of the guys from lust and the jealousy of Mike getting to walk her to class. But not one mind wasn't thinking about her.

She began to walk a little more to the front of the room to retrieve the books from .

Bad move.

The heating fan at the front of the room was on, and as she walked past it, her scent was blown right in my direction. Her skin and blood smelt amazing, delicious. The venom was flowing as bad as the Niagra Falls in my mouth. Her blood smelt sweeter than any blood I'd ever smelt. I wanted it. Needed it. her skin smelt of freesias. Thats why I could smell it so bad this morning, she must have been in the office.

My hand threw to my mouth. I had to keep control. But it was so hard to. My hands balled into fistes. I struggled to stay in my seat. I squeesed my eyes shut as tight as I could make them. I could feel Bella looking at me, obviously with confusion I was pictureing. Right at that moment I thought of one hundred ways to kill her in a matter of seconds. Snapping her neck right then and there, drinking her blood while the rest of the class screamed, but I'd have snapped all their necks before they could call for help. To the rest of the school who would have heard owuld probably would have thought it was a scream of excitement.

It was so hard to keep my self under control. Until I thought of Carisle and Esme. They would have been upset for me drinking the blood on an innocent human. I could picture Esmes sad but understanding face. I'd never be able to live with myself if I hurt Esme by doing that.

I thought of my father and mother figures to keep me under control.

I heard hand Bella her books and told her to sit down. In the only empty seat left...right next to me. She walked over towards my table.

I kept my hand on my face a little longer, ordering myself to stay calm. I opened my eyes cautionsly to see Bella placing her books on the table and graciously, yet clumsily sit down. I'd removed my hand from my fave, but kept the in fists. had come by and place two class containers on each desk, each containing flat worms. I caustiously reached over and pulled mine towards me. Bella looked over at me.

I looked over at her, and glared.

She looked a little scared, and turned back to at the front of the room.

I glared at her the whole class. Why did her blood have to smell so good? I felt hate for her because she could have just ruined my family and my reputation. She had the power to ruin it for all of us. Why her? Why now?

Bella cautiously looked over at me a few times in class, obviously a little uncomfortable at me, but quickly looked away. Class was nearing an end. A few second before I was about to get up and leave, Bella's head moved towards me, but her eyes stayed at the fromnt of the room.

She whispered, "Take a picture. It'll last longer."

I was so sure her voice was going to throw me in over drive. But I remained froze. Her breat had blown into my face. It was freezing. As if she'd been chewing on ice the whole class.

I stared at ehr with wide eyes.

The bell had rung, but she was already out of her seat and at the door. I was still staring at her, still in shock at what just happened. I looked at her.

What happened next was the most shocking and crazy thing that's ever happened to me in my life.

Something weird was going on. Her blood smelled amazing, her breath was ice cold, I was sure I was going to kill her a few moments ago, but I was too shocked to even move. I was ablolutly positive I would have killed want to know what stopped me from killing the new girl?

As she left the room and caught my eye, her eyes went from brown, to blood red.

My eyes widened in horror. Was that even possible? She smiled, or smirked rather, at me and turned away.

I knowcked out of my shock, got up and walked out of class faster than normal.

What the hell just happened?

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I skipped out on my last class. I waited it out in my car. What happened? I was too stunned first my the temperature of her breath, then even more shocked my the colour of her eyes.

Something was seriously going on. There was no way changing of eye colour was possible for a human, other that special serguries or coloured contacts, but for someone to do that in less than ten seconds? There was no way.

I thought about this for the whole hour where I was supposed to be in my Mathematics class. As the bell for the end of the say was about to ring, I got out of the car and headed for the office.

I needed to change from Biology before I did something seriously bad in that class. I walked to the office, ignoring the weird looks from other students, and walked into the office towards , the old receptionist.

"Edward? Is there something wrong?" she asked me.

"I need to make a class switch." I sadi with as much ontrol over my voice as possible.

"Which class?" she asked.

"Fourth period Biology in room 214 with ." I said.

"Were you hoping to switch with another science class?" she asked again.

"Yes. Anything." I said with desperation.

She loked on her computer for a few moments.

"Um, I'm sorry Edward. All the other science classes during that period are full." she said with a frown.

This could not be happening.

"There must be something open. Physics? Bio-Chem?" I asked with a tine of anger.

Suddenly, the door to the office must have opened, for I could smell that same alluring freesia and sweet blood smell fill the office. I squeezed my eyes shut and balled my hands into fists again, trying to keep control. My head leanved towards the smell, and I opened my eyes.

There she stood in all her glory with her bag and a slip of paper, looking at me.

"I'm sorry, all the classes are full. You'll just have to stay in Biology." said.

I huffed. I just had to leave it. I was about to do something I would surely regret for the rest of my life in a few seconds here.

"Fine, I'll just...just have to endure it." I said, not looking at anyone, I walked towards Bella, who was standing right at the door. I walked past her out the door, being sure no to touch her, for I might have went crazy if I did.

I walked out the door and made my way to the car as fast as possible. I got seated in the car, with everyone else already in the car.

"Edward, you oaky?" Emmett asked.

I completely ignored them, grwoling slightly. I put the ky in the ignition, and tore out of the lot. I ignored all of their trying to talk to me, each time they did my growls becoming louder and louder.

They left me alone.

I concentrated on getting home. I needed to hunt, but I couldn't do it here, I needed to leave for a few days. I knew it would hurt my family, Esme especially, but I needed this. I needed to get myself under control. I needed to be far away to do so.

I got to the house, but stayed in thee car as the others got out.

Alice walked right over to the window, and knocked for me to roll it down. I did so, waiting for her to talk,

"Take as much time as you need. I'll explain to Esme and Carlisel. Don't be gone too long though. Be careful." she said with a small sad smile.

I smiled greatfully at her. I knew she would understand.

She backed away from the car, and I drove off. I needed to get out, get under control.

But most importantly, I needed to figure this Bella thing out.


A/N: I hope that made you all even more confused!! Hhe! I'm evil.

Review, and next chapter is going to be in Bellas POV, so it'll clear everything up. Hopefully!