To Love A Human

Chapter Two

"Is this seat taken?" I heard a voice ask. I looked up to see the boy, Jackson, standing next to the empty chair at my table.

"Well I don't believe so, I mean my invisible friend is sitting there but I can ask him to move if you'd like." I said in a sarcastic tone but keeping my facial expression serious.

Jackson laughed. "Yes, if you could ask him to move, I could direct him to the empty seat over there." He gestured across the room.

"Okay Dallas, you gotta go sorry." I said to the empty chair, I then pulled the chair out from the table and gestured for Jackson to sit down.

I just couldn't be serious any longer so I gave up and laughed along with him. He seemed to have a pretty great personality for being a human. I had time before the bell rang signaling for class to start so I pulled out the book I had been reading from my bag and flipped to the spot I had left off.

"Great book don't you think?" Jackson asked. "It's a shame about Tom Robinson ain't it?"

I was now utterly amazed; he reads classic literature too? I put down To Kill A Mockingbird and turned to him. "Yeah, I've read it several times myself." I said. I decided to test him. "So what's your favorite part of the book?"

He smiled and his eyes glinted with humor, "Definitely when Scout beats the snot out of the Cunningham kid on the first day of school." He said, proving he knew the book. "So Alex, where are you from? Nearby?"

Why lie? I thought to myself. "No I'm from Texas actually." I said.

"I would've thought a Texas girl would have been a little more tan. Your whiter than me and I've lived in the rain my whole life." He smirked.

Now why did I tell him the truth? I thought to myself. "Yeah I've never been able to get a real tan, my friends always picked on me back in Houston." I smiled as warmly as I could and I heard his heart rate increase. Oops, I hadn't meant to be flirtatious. I suppressed a childish giggle.

The teacher then started class and we turned to face the front of the room. Like the teacher before this teacher called aloud names for attendance.

"Alexandria-Karma?"

"Here, uh, you can just call me Alex." I said.

"Alright then, Alex." She just smiled and continued, not drawing any attention to me. I mentally thanked her for that.

When attendance had been taken Mrs. Barber passed out worksheets to each table.

"Okay everybody partner up and answer these questions about the last two chapters," she said then she walked over to my table. "Alex have you ever read The Odyssey?" she asked.

"Yes I have, several times." I answered politely.

"Good then you shouldn't have any trouble." Then she walked away without another word.

"Partners?" Jackson asked.

"Sure," I said and took our worksheet. I looked up at him and smiled, "I've got this." I answered all of the questions at a speedy human pace and had the whole assignment done in ten minutes.

"You know, I could've helped you." Jackson said.

"I didn't need your help." I said in a tone sharper than intended.

He didn't seem to notice. "So you've got to tell 'bout that name of yours, why such a long first name?" he asked.

"Well my parents were old fashioned and named me Alexandria, they added the Karma in hopes that I would have good luck in life." I said truthfully. So much for that though, I added on a mental note.

"I think its really pretty," he said. "It suits you." I must say his words were flattering but he was still just a human to me.

"Thank you," I said. "So you've lived here your whole life?"

"Yeah," he said. "Born and raised, Brian too."

"I had a brother once also," I said.

"Oh really?" he asked.

"Yes, his name was Jasper." Thinking about Jasper always brought back good memories, I know that my human memory was faded but I can still remember him teaching me how to ride a horse when Pa was too busy, and playing hide and seek in the garden. He was also the one who taught me how to play the fiddle on the one that grandpa had handed down to him.

I looked up from the desk to see that one of the kids I'd saw in the hallway was staring at me, eyes wide. I hadn't even noticed that he was in this class. The bronze haired boy looked away from me quickly after noticing I was watching him. Okay, that was creepy.

"If you don't mind me asking, where is he now?" Jackson asked.

I thought for a minute, well I can't exactly tell him he was a prisoner of the civil war, I thought. "He passed away two years ago in a car accident." I said.

"Oh, I'm really sorry Alex," he said. "I didn't mean to bring up a bad subject."

"Nah, It's okay." I told him.

I hadn't noticed how long we had been talking, when the bell rang for third period.

I picked up my books and handed in our assignment to the teacher's desk.

"See you later Alex." Jackson said on his way out the door.

I smiled, "See you later." I hurried to drop off my books at my locker before third period. Marianna was already down by the lockers.

"So how was English?" she asked.

"Good, I think I made a friend." I said.

"Now what did I tell you? Who is it?" She was so going to rub being right about school in my face later.

"It's that Jackson kid from Algebra II." I said.

"Oh, you be careful Alex, I think that boys got a crush on you." Mari was so serious it made me laugh.

"He doesn't even know me." I said. I left it at that and grabbed my sketchbook from my bag, my next class was Art I. I rushed off to class and made it in plenty of time. After the teacher, Mr. B, signed my student form I took a seat. I had another couple of minutes before class so I opened my sketchbook and flipped through my drawings of landscapes and the one I drew of Mari and me while we were in the Mountains in Colorado.

As I was going over my sketches I heard some kids at another table talking although I didn't look up from my sketches.

"She's like super hot," One male voice said. "Look at that body." I rolled my eyes.

"I think she's weird, and her name is like ten miles long." I heard a nasally voice say.

"Her sister is really nice, and funny too," Said a female. "Maybe she's shy."

"She was like all over Jackson last hour, laughing at his corny jokes and shit." This female was obviously mad. And confused, he didn't even tell me a joke.

I sighed. Humans are just so childish, I thought. I couldn't care any less about what they had to say about me.

"Hi!" I heard a soprano voice say. "I'm Alice Cullen, mind if I sit here?"

I shook my head. "Nah, go ahead. I'm Alex." I told her. She still frightened me a little.

"Oh, I know who you are, everyone is talking about you and your sister, Mari." Alice said.

The teacher called class to order and took roll. When he was done he called across the class, "Alice, would show Alexandria-Karma what we are working on?" he asked her.

"It's Alex, Mr. B, and no problem." She flashed him a sweet smile and pulled out her sketchbook.

"Very well then." He said and went back to his desk.

Alice quickly explained the mosaic portrait we were supposed to work on and then burst into conversation.

"So Alex, where are you and Mari from?" she asked.

"Texas." I said.

Then she looked around the room real quickly and leaned in close and whispered to low for a human to hear, "I know that your one of us, we all do." She leaned away and grinned.

"All?" I was starting to wonder how many of them there were.

"Edward, Emmett and I," she said. "We can introduce you to Rosalie and Jasper after school, Oh! You should come home with us and meet Carlisle and Esme, oh they'll love you and Mari!" She was excitedly whispering to me as we worked on our projects. I found it odd that I had happened to come across a clan with a vamp named Jasper. Strange, I thought to myself.

Alice babbled on and I had to supply little to her conversation, for she did much of the talking. By the end of the hour I had agreed for Marianna and I to go home with them. I was no longer scared of them, although the one she called Edward still frightened me.

I was quite excited about the fact of the other "good" vampires in the area, I didn't to come in contact with any other kind ever again. I shivered at the thought.

The bell rang and students hurried from the room, I had lunch next. I went down to lockers to put away my sketchbook and hang up my jacket. I was making myself look busy when Marianna came walking by shamelessly flirting with some poor human kid who was hanging on her every word, probably literally too. I turned back to my locker and chuckled softly, the poor boy. When he walked off I turned to Marianna and gave her my best serious face.

"And you're telling me to be careful?" I pressed. "Now that's not nice you know, that little human is going to go off and tell all his friends that he's got a chance with you, when you and I both know that's not going to happen."

"I couldn't help myself," she said with the face of a child who lost her puppy. "Well aren't you even a teensy weensy bit drawn to mess with them? No harm done, I'm sure he'll get over it."

I sighed, and decided to just let it slide, after all she wasn't persuading anyone to brush her hair or do her nails, yet. I grabbed my assignment from algebra and decided that I would just do it at lunch since I wouldn't be eating, I mentally cringed at the thought of cafeteria food. I then had a flashback of the April fool's day when Mari had persuaded me to eat a box of crackers, which definitely made my Top Ten Worst Experiences Ever list.

We headed down to the crowded cafeteria to find two empty seats at the end of a table. I recognized some of he kids from earlier and waved to them. After we set down I pulled out my homework and a pen and finished it in a bout five minutes, with a sense of accomplishment; I smiled and put it back in my folder. That's when I heard them talking.

"Alice!" I heard one of them whisper angrily, "I thought we agreed we weren't going to confront them until after school."

I heard a small giggle. "We are going to confront them after school, they are coming home with us." I recognized Alice's voice.

I didn't look toward their table, I didn't want them to know that I was very impolitely eavesdropping.

Then another male voice I recognized entered the conversation. "Wait what? We weren't supposed to like, talk to them?" He sounded incredibly confused.

"Emmett!" the first male voice whispered. "You too?"

"Calm down Edward!" Alice scolded. "Why are you so worried? Look at their eyes, they're not savages." She said trying to calm his anger.

"I don't care about what they eat Alice!" Edward continued louder than before then he lowered his voice and continued. "I heard something today," his tone was serious and slightly edgy. "The girl Alexandria or whatever, well, I think she's related to Jasper."

I made a little gasping noise and then controlled my surprise and listened harder than before so I wouldn't miss anything.

Another male voice, one that I had never heard before, spoke softly. "You mean from my days with Maria's army?" He asked.

Maria, I recognized that name.

Edward spoke again, "No, Although she was in the wars for a couple of years. I think she is blood relation to you."

WHAT! My mind raced in a frenzy of everything that was going on. Could it really be?

"Edward spit it out!" The softer male voice commanded. "What on Earth are you talking about?"

Edward sighed. "Jasper, I think she's your sister."

A/N: Cliffhanger! How will Jasper respond? What will Alex think about the situation? So is it better? Worse? I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks Readers. 3 Lee