Hi fellow reader(s)!It's Jazzy! I just wanted to say that I'll be adding little caption-like notes here. If you just read through and there were no little messages, that probably means I'm not quite there yet. But don't worry! You can always reread and review! Please do! (Ha, that rhymes!) Thx a lot! -Jazzy. Love yas.

Chapter 1

New World, New friends

Oh, god. High school, again… And again, again, and again, again, again... God, I can't even count anymore. Same routine, as always. Make my bed, brush my teeth and my hair, pick out an outfit, wear that outfit, eat breakfast, and go.

Sooo boring. I thought to myself. Well at least the school is different. I hope everyone isn't madly social-I don't wanna be the next big thing! Noo… Someone will be the one who suspects something, and I'll have to move again….. I tried to distract myself by remembering the time when I still had a family, and we were at Disney World, "It's a small world, after all." I hummed to myself. I got depressed as I thought of my childhood. My parents divorced, and I normally lived with my dad. But, he got remarried. So while he and his wife, Darla, planned to take many vacations together, I decided to spend time with my mom. My parents both know about my powers, and don't know how I got it. Apparently, the surgeon that gave birth to me died from a heart attack from hearing such news. So we decided not to tell anyone else of my powers. They never take me to the doctor's, in fear of telling the secret. When the doctor asks of why I never come in- this is only in my hometown by the way, Dallas, Texas- my parents faked a car accident and said I spontaneously combusted. They kept me hidden there. My parents often got into arguments, mostly about me. My mom was always stressing, and my dad was calm. They eventually divorced, and I chose to stay with my dad because he handles stress well. My mom moved to Forks, Washington because that was her hometown and she missed it. My dad and I moved to a different place in Dallas, where we weren't most familiar. So I could live my life, not worrying about hiding from not-so-strangers. Stop thinking of the past, Joy! I screamed at myself, Just, look at the future. Which was ironic since I could see the future. I hurried downstairs, realizing I'm always absent-minded. Every other day, I figure out something different about myself. Like that other day, I thought to myself, when I realized how strong I am. Man, I'm such a monster. Ugh! I always tried to be positive about everything and anything, but sometimes, I always take the wrong route. You have no excuse to think bad about yourself, Seriously! For Pete's sake, you can see the future! Ohh, did I mention all of my freakishly amazing supernatural powers? No? Well, here ya go. I am….. Immortal, Super Strong, Super-fast, a mind reader, can erase minds, can block minds, can hurt you in your mind, I have amazing eyesight, I can hear incredibly well, I can see the future, and can make an angry mob feel soothing…. Pretty much a freak.

The immortality has always been an issue. I'm stuck at 17, but in real life, I'm at 32. I always switch schools after graduation, and start fresh at seventeen. I've been born with immortal powers. I grew really fast. In fact, I was technically five in a matter of months. The growing was fast at first, then slowly, day by day, got slower. I stopped at almost eighteen. Every girl's dream.

Oh, shoot! School! I chowed down my cereal, not realizing it was stale, hoped on my bike and pedaled to Forks, high school.

Thank god it's not that far. I could even run there….. No. No suspicions. Be human. Okay, I'm half human, half…. Supernatural wonder? So I can still sleep, eat, daydream; many human things. But I feel sometimes very sad and alone when I think about being one-of-a-kind in the world. Sometimes it's good being one-of-a-kind, but for me it's bad. I never fit in. This is the small town, so everyone probably grew up together. I'd be the stranger out of town.

I try to do research to see if I'm just a mistake, or if I'm even supposed to exist. It always has nothing to help me. Wow, I thought as I pedaled, fast, trying to distract myself from my terrible childhood, this is a really sturdy bike! Note to self: Thank mom again.

As I approached the school, my head hit a huge wave of thoughts.

Is that a new kid?

She looks scared… Maybe I should talk to her.

She's really pretty...

Why so many new kids? Did they move together?

I've never seen her before…. Weird.

I parked my bike and I soon started to get a headache. I started rubbing my hands against my temples as I walked to the school. Always have to get used to new minds. That's one reason why I hate moving, seriously, I have a list. A long list of why I hate moving. As I thought darkly about myself, a cute-faced boy came over.

"Hi!" the boy said," Are you new here? Joy, right?"

I saw passion spilling everywhere in his head. Great. I thought sarcastically. This guy's gonna bother me, I know it. There's always the one… Or two… Or three… But once there were five… I shuddered delicately.

"Uhm, yeah. I moved here from Texas." I replied, still rubbing my head. "You are?"

"Michael Newton, my friends call me Mike." Looks like I'll be calling him Michael. He saw me rub my head, and he started stressing, "What's wrong? Am I giving you a headache? Can I help?" Yeah, shut the heck up.

He started to get on my nerves. I didn't always like the idea of being in a relationship. It makes me shudder, and… Wait… Is he attempting to flirt with me, or is he just this nice?

"I'm fine," I lied," Just, worried that, uhm, I'll get lost."

Smooth. I thought sarcastically.

"Oh," he said," Do you want me to walk you to classes?"

Polite pass. I thought, but before I could say anything, my head shoved a future in my way.

That's when a flash of the future came. It was Michael, asking the same questions to another girl. Shoot, I'm messing up the future! "Uh, No thank you, I already have a map. It doesn't look that complicated. Besides, I don't want to keep you busy." I tried to be polite. I had a hard time, because his thoughts were all about me. I felt like socking him, but I held back. That's showing how much self-control I have, nice.

"I'm not busy." He insisted. Hope she changes her mind! She's really cute! Shaddup.

"Don't you need to go to classes?" I countered. Ohh, yes you do.

"Classes?" He hesitated. "Oh, yeah! Got to go!" He turned and ran towards the school.

Idiot. Of course you do. I thought. He was thinking of how I reminded her of another new girl, the same girl he was about to ask questions to.

"Hey, uhh, Michael, do you know where this girl is. I've heard she's new here, and I wanna be friends with her." I said, looking around. She's new here? What are the odds? Least likely.

"Ohh, you must be talking about Bella. She's right over there…" Mike said. Where'd she heard about Bella?

"Sweet thanks!" He was really curious about me, maybe a little too curious. I gave him an awkward wave, and started towards Bella.

Wow…. That was awkward. He thought, and then remembered about class. He ran closer to the school.

That really was awkward. I hope that I don't have any classes with him, jeez. I thought.

When I started walking away, I decided to get to know a little of Bella. I searched her mind. She was shy, from Phoenix, and was pale like me. Except, she has dark brown hair, I have light, warm, chocolate-brown hair.

I reached Bella and I knew exactly what to say. "Hi, you're Isabella, right?" First name! That always works! I encouraged myself.

Ugh, she thought to herself, it's like the first day of school all over again. "Bella," she corrected, "I haven't seen you here before?"

"I'm Joy Michaels, nice to meet you. I've heard that, besides me, you're the recent new kid. I thought we could be friends, because we understand each other. Are you okay with that?"

"Uhm, yeah. That's fine! Always glad to have another friend!"

She's really nice. And has a nice fashion sense, love her shirt. She thought. She's nice. I smiled.

"Thanks," I happily replied," By the way, you're really pretty! I love that shirt." Compliments help. I noted.

Aww, she's so sweet! "Aww thanks! I love yours!"

"Thanks!"

I was beaming. I already have a friend! And she's really nice!

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw five people staring at nothing. They didn't seem human, wait, why wouldn't they be human? They all had good looks; I have to tell you that. There were two girls, three boys. The way they positioned themselves said that they are family.

"Bella, do you know who those kids are?" I asked, really curious. I wanted to get some information from Bella before searching their heads. I saw a bronze-haired head tip up when I asked Bella.

"Yeah. They're all the Cullen's family. They're adopted, so they're together, why?"

"I don't know. Wait, what do you mean, together? There's an odd number." I pointed out. The head tipped up more. He was staring at me. I smiled and he looked away again. What's wrong with him?

"They're in pairs. The two on the left are Alice and Jasper. The two on the right are Rosalie and Emmet. The one in the middle is Edward..." she hung onto Edward's name. Edward hates me. She thought.

Then, a ball of memory came charging at me. It was Bella's life, except without me in it. She was with Edward. They were together, they got… Married after graduation? Had a kid a couple years later? Wait… There's something different about them, and Bella after the kid. She has… Red eyes? She was drinking blood, and looking beautiful. She was mouthing something. I almost fell when I comprehended it.

I gasped. "Vampire?" I whispered so low, she barely heard. All the Cullen's head rose and they looked in our direction.

"Uhh did you say some-" Bella didn't have time to finish because the bell rang. "I don't wanna be late again! Oh look, you have class with me! Let's go!" She was clearly trying to distract me; she didn't want to talk about Edward. I shrugged.

"Okay! Let's go!" I said, looking at them, they looked at me and each other. Edward was staring at me, Rosalie saw him, and looked at me, she bared her teeth. I saw fangs. I shivered.

We both raced to our class, and I decided to read Edward's mind, and see what's up with him.

How does she know? Edward thought.

I felt him scan my head, but one of my powers with the mind allows me to block off other readers. I can block sections, or my entire brain.

What? Why can't I see anything? Is she a vampire too?

That would be cool, if I was a vampire. But I'm not. Since I'm supernatural, I figured there would be vampires, zombies, and werewolves too. Why wouldn't there be? I decided to let him explore my mind. I opened up a little crack, and then slowly opened my mind, scared I'm giving him too much.

Oh…My….God….. I heard in his thoughts. She knows. She has powers, but how? Is she human? That's impossible.

Well, I thought, I guess it isn't impossible, since I'm here and stuff. But I really want to ask you, why do you hate Bella?

You can read my thoughts? Wait… Hate her?

Bella sees it that way, oh speaking of Bella; I need to concentrate on class.

I…s-swear. If you tell anyone… Edward was having a hard time believing that I actually know.

Excuse me? I'm not that shallow. Bite me. I thought, but you have to tell me more about you, or I'll figure it out myself. I decided to give them privacy by blocking my head completely. So I can't hear them, and they can't hear me.

"Ms. Michaels? Hello, Ms. Michaels? Joy?" My teacher was calling on me?

"Huh?" I managed to say, He was showing something on a projector. In his thoughts he said, Seriously, What's this germ from? Please. He was irritated. Other students started questioning in their thoughts too.

Why isn't she answering?

Does she know the answer?

She's a little weird…

"Ohh, Onion Root." I said swiftly, brushing my hand by my temple.

"Correct..." He mumbled. I whewed. Isn't that what humans do if the teacher doesn't call them out?

Everyone was staring at me. Great, I'm known as a freak now.

Bella was looking at me with curious eyes thinking, I feel so bad I didn't help her, I'm such an idiot. "Sorry I didn't help you," Bella whispered.

"Its fine, I was just zoned out, really." I whispered back.

I truly felt bad by letting her take the blame, totally selfless. How ironic, Edward always says she's selfless. I, then, got a migraine. I screamed.

"My head!" I screamed. Everyone jumped up, scared from the scream.

"What's wrong?" Is she dying?

"Are you okay?" What's wrong with her?

"What's happening?" Is she mental?

With all the students worrying in my head and shouting, it only made it worse.

"Help!" I Screeched. I urgently started rubbing my head, it didn't help.

"What!? Are you okay?! What's wrong?" Bella frantically said.

"Nurse… Doctor… Anyone... Migraine…" I managed before I passed out from the pain.

Wow, intense. Am I right? Please continue on reading and take breaks between chapters! It's fun reading like that so you can try to guess what'll happen next! Please don't forget to review! I take all criticism. -Jazzy