We all rose from our seats and went to the garage; Emmett took my hand and pulled me into the back seat of Edwards Volvo. Jasper got into the drivers seat and let out a slight sigh, none of us wished to return to school.
"I hope she's okay" I whispered in Emmett's ear anxiously,
"Don't worry about it babe." Emmett replied, kissing my cheek.
"So" I began softly, clearing my throat. "Same story?" I asked, Jasper nodded in my direction as we pulled out of the driveway. "Great" I said sarcastically replying. Same high school students going through the same problems, the same lessons, the same glances and being known as the 'freaks.'
"Nessie's going to go to school!" Alice screamed five minutes into the journey, I hadn't noticed her quietness.
"How?" I asked, sitting up straighter in my seat.
"I don't know I just saw her with a silver backpack on her and a school uniform! Edward and Bella obviously want to go private!" She exclaimed, turning around to face me.
"She only looks to be a second or third grader today, but what about next month? What does that mean when all of a sudden she could be fourth, or fifth?" I said, getting a bit irritated now. But if it made Renesmee happy… that calmed me down.
"I don't know the extent of the details Rose, but it will all make sense soon, I know it. Carlisle said it was nothing to worry about…" She said, but I could see the hint of anxiety in her eyes as we pulled into the new school, Tenton East High School. The school was one, large brick building with lush overgrown grass surrounding it. The only separate building was a one to the left of the brick one, a sign at the top labeling it 'front office.'
"Are you ready for some great learning?" Emmett said humorlessly, I just looked at him, expression irritated. We all got out of the car and went to the front office, there we got welcomed and handed our time tables before the first bell went. I was relieved to see that Emmett was in some classes with me, more than last time and I had art with Alice, good, I had someone to talk to.
I had always thought about trying to make friends, but I would get bored, anyway, and it would be slightly more suspicious if I sat with a bunch of students and they saw up front that I wasn't eating anything… I wasn't that interested in it anyway.
I had calculus first period, being taught the same concepts I already knew, and I had always hated maths, hence why I dreaded it, even as a human I still did. The bell rang loudly, a buzzing sound and heard footsteps scatter quickly all around me, a teacher passing by the school office walked us to the front building, handing us maps, I took one glance at it and had it stamped in my memory.
"I think we can find our way" Alice said cheerfully to the man, he nodded, was his left hand shaking? It sure looked that way, and he nervously walked off.
"Wow, we sure scared that guy." Emmett chucked.
"And we didn't even do anything!" Alice squeaked, sounding annoyed.
"Rose we have art together, yay!" Alice said walking next to me
"Hey, and this is the first time you are taking art! Oh wait, you have a degree in it don't you?" She asked.
"Yeah, I was bored, killed about four years" I shrugged, thinking I better tone down my knowledge so I don't draw to much attention.
Emmett kissed me gently before heading off in the other direction, and I was stuck on my own in Calculus. I entered the room and the teacher looked up to me, smiling warmly.
"Hello dear, and your name is?"
"Rosalie" I said dryly. "Where do I sit?" I asked, maybe he would get me to introduce myself to the class, I felt everyone's eyes on me, not that it bothered me, it never had.
"There's a spare seat next to Hazel, she said pointing to a girl in the corner.
"But before you go" She said quickly, "Would you like to introduce yourself to the class?" I nodded my head, rolling my eyes slightly as the small murmur stopped and attention was set on me, I tried to smile, I didn't want to look too intimidating…
"Class, this is Rosalie… what was your last name dear?"
"Hale" I replied flatly.
"And when did you move from dear?" She asked, why was this women asking so many questions?
"My family and I just moved here from Forks, my father got a new job" I replied looking towards her.
"Well, its nice having a fresh start, isn't it? Take a seat" She said, gesturing towards the chair I walked over and dropped my books and sat down. The teacher turned around and began to write the work for today's lesson on the board, I was tired of school already.
I leaned my body forward and placed my chin on the palms of my hands, acting natural, it wasn't exactly a hard thing for me to do as the others, I had the most memory out of all of them of my human life, well, except Bella of course…
"How are you liking Tenton?" The girl next to me asked cheerfully, I turned my head around, looking at her for the first time. She had dead straight long blonde hair, a similar shade to mine although slightly lighter, which hung down to her shoulders.
Her eyes were a deep brown, almost a blackish colour, she was defiantly not plain. Maybe that's why she didn't feel as intimidated by me, I don't remember any human ever asking me that sort of question.
"Its okay, I guess" I said smiling and looking down at my book, coping the questions off the board.
"I'm Hazel by the way" She said quickly adding "I heard your father works at the hospital, mine does to, he's a Nurse there, maybe they will run into each other."
"Maybe" I replied, but I couldn't help put feel slightly suspicious on how she knew that.
"How did you know that my father worked at the hospital?" I asked, looking at her again, but never was she intimidated, which surprised me.
"Oh, my mothers the principal here." She replied, slightly embarrassed.
"That makes sense" I laughed, noticing her scent as I breathed in, it wasn't all that appealing, compared to everyone else in the room, surprisingly. I pulled my silver cell phone out from my pocket and flicked it to the mirror, I looked exactly the same, bored, I put it back in my pocket.
"I'm going to forget that was a cell phone Rosalie seeing it is your first day here, but no phones are allowed during school hours at this school" She snapped sternly, geeze she seemed nice before…
"Sorry it was just my father, he wanted to know if I was okay, I promised I'd text him to tell him how I was doing." I said lying innocently. The teacher, who had not mentioned her name, not that I cared anyway, just nodded her head and returned to a detailed explanation on some concept I wasn't paying attention to.
The bell rang and everyone quickly exited the room, I had art next with Alice, she could do the introducing this time, I was tired of repeating the same story.
The rest of the day leading up to lunch was pretty uneventful, I was eager to see Emmett, and there he was waiting for me when I came out of English, I ran up to him and cradled my arms delicately around his shoulders, kissing him gently on the lips and giggling as he took my hand and led me to the cafeteria.
Everyone around was giving us strange looks, we were used to it. The cafeteria was indoors, and painted a light cream colour with clusters of square wooden tables. I noticed Alice and Jasper in the corner, sitting with their trays of food. We went over with a whole bunch of students lining up to get served.
"Emmett, lets just go, it takes too long, were not hungry okay?" I said tugging him towards Alice and Jasper.
"Alright Rose, but we have to get something tomorrow" He said, following my lead. My eyes scanned over the curious eyes staring at us, some disbelief. Every table was full of groups giggling and talking loudly except for one. One table had a girl staring at the desk, her head bowed down and picking at a bread roll.
I noticed the girls hair colour, it was Hazel, it didn't make any sense to me while she would not have any friends, I absent mindedly took a seat next to Emmett and leaned into his chest.
"School tiring you out?" He asked me, stroking his fingers through my hair.
"Very funny" I replied, getting up and turning to Alice.
"Any news on Nessie?" I asked, it had been bothering my all day.
"No" She breathed disappointedly.
"But, it's going to be rainy all day tomorrow, so schools on…" She said, rolling a can of soda back and forth on her tray.
"Great" Jasper said sarcastically.
I looked over to Hazel again who hadn't moved, and she had only picked at the content of her plate scarcely… I wished Edward was here to read her mind, what I would give to have that power right about now, but of course I wasn't given anything.
"Rosalie" Emmett said, snapping me out of my train of thought. My eyes jumped over to Emmett.
"What?" I asked.
"You looked like you were concentrating on something, oh and the bell rang." He shrugged getting up and putting his hand for me to grab. The rest of the day followed and before I knew it we were driving home, and pulling into our new narrow driveway which led to our newly established garage, which was originally a massive rumpus room, Esme was still putting in the finishing touches.
I saw Nessie rush through the door and wail excitedly to us
"I'm going to school!" and quickly run back into the house, we all jumped out of the car quickly, eager to see why and most importantly how, I was the first in the door, quickly throwing my bag on the floor and going into the dinning room where I could hear a quiet murmur of voices, the others weren't far behind me.
"Ah, how was your first day" Carlisle said warmly.
"Fantastic." I said dryly and looked around; Edward and Bella were sitting at the table.
"Where's Nessie?" I asked concerned, she had just been here…
"She's in her room Rose" Bella said.
"Could you please take a seat, all of you" Carlisle said, gesturing for us to sit down. We all obeyed and Carlisle placed his hands on the table folding them together.
"I didn't want to alarm you all at breakfast, apologies for that." He said, turning his head to Edward, who gave a slight nod, and then continued "I measured Nessie about a week ago, and, she had made progress, but I noticed yesterday that she has grown not at all, not even in millimeters"
"…How" Alice began, but Carlisle quickly continued.
"Nahuel, after speaking with him today stated that he too went through a similar process, he said it lasted about a year, where he only grew in mere millimeters, he simply forgot to mention that when he was here last."
"Which means I can go to school!" Nessie said, popping out behind the door and running over to sit on Edwards lap, she had timed that nicely.
"So… Edward and Bella, does that mean you'll be joining us?" I asked, grinning smugly.
"Well, yes" Bella said with a sigh.
"Looks like you are going to have to be Isabella Hale, Bella, it will raise suspicions if you have the same last name as Edward." Carlisle said, Bella looked at me anxiously.
"Wha – oh sorry, yes, Bella that's fine" I said, faking a smile.
"It will only be for my school life Rose" Bella said to me her eyes almost bouncing with anxiety.
"Don't worry about it" I said, turning to Carlisle.
"So are Bella, Jasper and I going to be triplets?" I said rolling my eyes.
"No, Bella can be your little sister, how does that sound Bella?" Carlisle said, turning his head.
"Oh, whatever's fine." Bella said, sinking lower into her chair.
I noticed Nessie, her smile the widest I had ever seen it.
"So, what school for Nessie" Alice asked, looking to Edward.
"We will have to go private, do you agree Bella?" Edward said, turning towards her, she still looked scared…
"Oh, whatever's fine," She replied, looking over to Renesmee.
"What about the situation, of, uh food, they will notice and care that she's not eating anything." Bella asked Carlisle.
"We could fill a drink bottle with blood and then - "
"No Emmett. Just no." Edward said cutting him off, I couldn't help but smirk a bit.
"I will try and eat human food" Nessie said, looking up to the ceiling to hide her facial expression of disgust.
"Renesmee, you don't have to eat it if you don't want to sweetie." Edward said, running his fingers through her long curly hair. "If there are any problems you can just pretend to eat it, Alice can give you a few lessons on that."
Alice chuckled "Remember the time Charlie made me breakfast… Good times, good times"
"Okay then!" Nessie exclaimed. "Tomorrow morning then?"
"Renesmee, these things don't happen over night." Bella said, taking her off Edwards lap and onto her own so she could whisper in her ear.
"Edward and I will look at schools this evening when you're in bed." How many schools could this town have? although, it was twice the size of Forks…
Eventually the conversation closed and we had all left the room, I was sitting at the piano, Emmett by my side.
"You're such a beautiful pianist Rose" Emmett said as I had finished.
"Well, I have been playing since I was five, so that's what? One hundred and twenty three years?" He chuckled lightly and went off to watch some sporting event with Jasper, yawn.
I looked out the window, this house had one beautifully placed behind the piano in the living room, it covered the whole wall. The sky was pitch black, it looked around nine, Nessie would be in bed.
I flittered up the stairs and down the hall, wanting to know what school she would go to, and I should be a part of this decision. Their room was on the opposite side, so I pretended to be walking towards the study, we had enough rooms in this big house to have a massive computer room, which all of us shared, and Bella and Edwards, as well as Nessie's room were next to this. I could hear Nessie quietly breathing as she slept, and Edward and Bella talking softly in their room, I didn't exactly want to storm in, I guess I should have thought this through a bit more…
With a sigh I walked into the study sitting at my computer, turning the volume off so Nessie wouldn't hear. I remembered the English assignment we had gotten today on
A Midsummer Nights Dream, I had written a dozen essays on it before. I sifted through the files on my computer trying to find one that matched the description of the task, sure enough I did… I tweaked sections a bit, but it was done in five minutes.
What I would give for sleep, if I could dream, escape from eternally being awake.
"Ro-s-e-e-e-e" I heard Emmett say from behind the fall.
"Shh!" I hissed at him, placing my finger on my lips. He was silent before he reached the room, closing the door behind him.
"Can I talk now?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
I nodded my head and looked to the small black bag in his hands.
"What's that?" I asked, my eyes tensing in suspicion.
"It's a present; I brought it yesterday and forgot to give it to you." He replied, smiling and handing the bag to me.
I opened it, and pulled out a game box which had the title 'The Sims 2' on it.
"Emmett, you know I'm not really into video…"
"Its not a video game exactly, just give it a go."
"Okay" I said, opening the case and placing the CD into the computer. "Thanks by the way" I said as he sat down next to me. It didn't take long to install, and soon enough a screen came up loading the game. It came up with a screen asking you to select what neighborhood you wanted to visit. I clicked on 'pleasantview' and waited while it loaded.
"Its like a life simulator, you can make people, create families…" Emmett said,
"Okay, it doesn't sound too bad…" I admitted.
"Click on create a family." Emmett said, pointing to a little icon.
"Wow, where did you learn how to play this thing?" I asked, turning my head to look at him.
"Some kids where talking about it in my chemistry class, seemed interesting" he shrugged. I made two Sims, me and Emmett, I loved customizing the clothes and choosing out outfits, I'd have to show Alice this game, you must be able to make your own using Photoshop…
"Now choose some place to live." Emmett said.
"We have no money!" I whined.
"Just buy an empty lot, I have a special trick up my sleeve."
"Oh I wonder what it is" I replied sarcastically.
I brought a medium sized lot and Emmett typed in some money cheat.
"Nice" I said, it didn't take me long to work out how to play, and I made the grandest house possible. I began to play, and sure enough, I fell in love with the game. Emmett and I had six children, and had careers in medicine. I didn't even notice Emmett leave the room when it was getting towards morning. I felt I got rather too attached to my Sims babies, they grew up so fast!
"Rosalie, school babe" Emmett said placing his hands on my shoulders.
"Noooo!" I cried.
"Remind me why I gave you this? Now I'll never see you!" He cried.
Reluctantly I saved my game and turned off my computer.
"That's the way!" Emmett said, lifting me off the chair.
"Oh and I ordered a new stirring wheel for your car." I had completely forgotten about that, with all the other things occurring of course.
"When will it be here?" I said excitedly.
"About a week." He said, a week? I smiled at him nerveless.
"What's with all the spontaneous gifts? Not that I'm complaining…" I chuckled.
Before I knew it we were all seated in the car, ready to repeat yesterday. Bella and Edward were going to be going to look at schools today, and with Nessie's excitement, she would be starting in a couple of days.
I ran my hands through my long blonde hair trying to improve its appearance, realizing that I only had five minutes to get ready after Emmett had lured me off the computer, I hadn't exactly had time.
"I don't see what was wrong with it in the first place" Emmett said playfully poking my nose.
"Anyways!" Alice said from the front seat turning her head around.
"Isn't it great Nessie is going to school? This morning she was up early so I taught her my special trick! The secret to being able to eat food"
"And what exactly is that?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
"You hide the food in your purse…" She chucked. "But there's a special technique, and, I'm not teaching it to you!" She teased.
"Right" I laughed.
I had calculus first period again, and took my usual seat.
"Hi Rosalie" Hazel greeted me.
"Hi" I said, pressing a smile. "Uh, why where you sitting by yourself yesterday?" I asked her, I was curious.
She seemed to go paler, and be stuck on what to say.
"I don't really have…friends" Something about her seemed unusual, the scent of her didn't seem… well usual for a human, as well as the blackness of her eyes, it looked almost the shade of ours when we were thirsty.
"You should come sit with us" I said, the words slipping out of my mouth, I was getting to the bottom of this.
"With your… brother and sister" she asked, her voice a little shaky.
What was I saying? Maybe I was just being paranoid. She didn't speak again until the bell rang, always too loudly.
"See you at lunch" She said, slightly nervous.
"Oh, well, okay" I replied exciting the room, the others would be able to see it to, she didn't seem human, it was the right thing to do, I hope…
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