I got out of the car in Forks High parking lot. Andy smiled at me as I grabbed my bag and he closed my door. We walked into the school together, our hands joined and fingers entwined, my black heels clicking on the pavement.

It was weird how much I enjoyed being at school. The holidays had been good, but somehow I preferred term time. Maybe it was because I got to see all my friends every day, something I hadn't managed during the summer. I had been looking forward to the holidays- endless amounts of time to spend with Andy, my human friends, the Cullens... however they did not turn out exactly as planned. Andy's mum returned from visiting his grandmother with the news that his grandmother was unwell, and Andy had to go to Seattle for the first week of the holidays. I found out in the first two days that my human friends were no fun- Steph had gotten herself a summer job at the newsagency, Alex was spending time with her older sister and Kate and Matt weren't interested in anything except each others tonsils. Tom was the only one free to do anything, but Tom by himself wasn't much fun- his idea of a good time was playing with his X-box, and I was absolutely hopeless at every game he had.

I spent the week when Andy was away with the Cullens. Alice and Rose insisted we go shopping, and so we all got in Rose's car and sped to Port Angeles. We spent over four hours going in and out of shops and trying on every outfit we saw. I bought a huge amount of stuff- more than I needed, considering I could make half the stuff myself. Alice and Rose bought a lot as well, but they had the money to do it.

I was completely broke, and decided to spend more time in the shop. For the rest of the week, I spent most of my time making huge amounts of stock (getting inspiration from my new clothes) and when I wasn't upstairs creating, I served customers. Alice and Rose helped me of course. The weather was predictably miserable- the wettest summer I had ever seen- and quite normal for Forks, and so I didn't really resent being stuck inside.

As soon as Andy came back, I spent all my free time with him. Due to the weather we couldn't go out much- although in reality there weren't many places to go in Forks. A lot of our time was spent on Andy's couch, working out way through the Indiana Jones movies.

Because my summer was fairly uneventful, I wasn't overly upset to be going back to school.

I had received my new timetable in the mail a day before school started. I had ended up with my friends in most of my classes, and Andy in all of them except Biology, because he did Physics (I had a suspicion that Edward had had something to do with this, as him and Bella shared all their classes too). Our first class together was Maths. It was far from my favourite subject, but I was sure that Andy could make even Maths enjoyable. We walked to the classroom and sat down, sharing a table.

"We've got Mr. Higgins," Andy said, making a face.

I laughed. "Is he bad?"

"He's a good teacher. But his voice had been known to put people to sleep."

I lifted up one side of my mouth. I wanted to be able to concentrate in Maths, not be yawning all lesson.

"Well, you have demonstrated your ability to keep me from sleeping even when it's way past my bedtime," I whispered to Andy, "I'm sure you will be able to keep me awake and alert."

He smiled and quickly kissed my cheek. "I'll do my best."

Mr. Higgins walked in then, and the class began. Andy was right- he was the most boring man alive- but Andy and I entertained ourselves by doodling in the margins of our notes. I did a swirly design in pink and purple pen. Andy drew a tall skinny tree, it's branches extending over the top of his page. He grinned at me and drew a blonde haired girl sitting in the branches, and then drew music notes around her. I smiled, lent over, and drew a boy with blue eyes sitting next to her.

After Maths we made our way to English. Matt and Steph were both in my English class. I had hardly seen Matt without Kate since last term, but he was his usual happy self. Steph was full of news about her summer- it turned out she was not as busy at the newsagency as she had made out, and had in fact spent most of her time with the mysterious Blake. I was given whispered, detailed descriptions of all their dates throughout the lesson. They hadn't 'done anything' yet, but Steph thought they would soon. Blake would apparently be sitting with us at lunchtimes from now on, and so I would get to meet him properly.

My next two lessons were Spanish (I had forgotten the small amount of vocab I had learnt and didn't understand a word of what Mrs. Goff said) and Biology. It was weird not having Edward and Bella sit behind me in Biology- I had gotten so used to listening to their conversations, observing their reactions to each other- but now I had Tom and Alex to talk to all lesson. They were each others lab partners and so I ended up with a guy called Duncan. Duncan had bleached looking blonde hair but dark eyebrows that didn't match. He was pretty good as Biology, which made it easier for me. He was pretty nice too, and we got on alright.

At lunchtime Tom, Alex and I went to sit at our usual table. Andy and Matt were already there. I noticed that Edward and Alice sat on a table with Bella and her human friends, although you could see that the two little groups didn't mix. It was kind of funny how the humans were instinctively afraid of the Cullens- well, not afraid exactly, but... wary.

Steph arrived with Blake, and introduced all of us. I hadn't really seen Blake properly- it had been too dark at the prom- but he was kind of hot. His dark hair flopped attractively into his hazel coloured eyes as he greeted us. He reached up to brush the hair of his face. I could see the muscles in his forearms. He smiled at me lazily. I realized I was staring and quickly looked away. What was I doing? I should not be checking out other guys, especially not Steph's boyfriend. I shook myself, and looked at Andy. Why would I be looking at Blake when I had Andy. He smiled when he caught me looking at him, and his smile was a hundred times more beautiful than Blake's. And it was belonged to Andy- Andy who I loved and who loved me. Blake was... attractive, but that was all. I was allowed to think other guys were attractive. It didn't mean I didn't love Andy.

"It's nice to meet all of you." Blake said. His voice was as lazy as his smile, and almost as seductive.

"You too." Alex replied.

Blake sat down next to Steph. Kate arrived. She didn't greet any of us, instead plonking herself down on Matt's lap and locking her lips onto his. Tom rolled his eyes.

"And here we go again." he said.

"They do that a lot?" Blake asked.

"If every day of summer is 'a lot'." Tom replied.

"It gets a little boring." Alex said, "I mean, I don't know why they feel like they have to make out all the time. Tom and I don't. And Juniper and Andy don't."

Blake looked at Andy and I, sitting side by side.

"Oh, you guys are together." he said.

I nodded. "Yeah, for a while now."

Blake nodded.

"So how did you and Steph meet?" I asked them.

They looked at each other, smiling the smiles of a new couple. Blake really liked Steph, I could tell. I was happy for her- really, I was.

"End of last term." Steph said. "Well, we've sat next to each other in Chem for ages now, and we never really talked, but then I was worried about something," Steph's forehead creased into a frown and she turned to Blake. "What was I worried about?"

Blake frowned too, trying to remember. "You were worried about one of your friends. You said they'd gone away and you didn't know where...?"

"Oh yeah, it was when you went out of town Juniper," Steph said.

I bit my lip. I had told all my friends that I had been called out of town by some family friends. They didn't know the details of my parents death and how I wasn't in touch with anyone from my old life, and so had bought the story easily enough.

"She was kind of worried about you," Blake said, putting his arm around Steph, who smiled at him.

"Yeah, I didn't have time to tell you where I was going. Sorry about that." I said.

"Anyway, I was worried because you weren't at school and even Andy seemed unsure where you'd gone, and for some reason I told poor Blake all of this in Chem," Steph continued. "And he was very sympathetic."

I smiled. So it was because I had run off after the Cullens that Steph was with Blake.

"And we became pretty good friends, and then he asked me to prom." Steph smiled at Blake again, staring into his eyes for a moment, then turning back to Andy and I. "So yeah, that's how we met."

I nodded. "Cool. So you enjoyed your holidays then?"

Steph made a face, obviously worried I'd reveal to Blake just how much Steph had told me about their time together.

"Pretty good, yeah," Blake said, "Steph was busy a lot of the time, working and stuff, but we got to spend a bit of time together. How was yours?"

"Good," I said, "But I had to work heaps too."

"Where do you work?" Blake asked.

"Do you know Forks Fashion Boutique?"

"Oh yeah, my sister loves that place."

"Yeah, I own it."

"Oh, really," Blake said. "That's cool."

He turned to Alex and Tom. "How was your summer?"

Alex and Tom started to tell him about their holidays. Alex's time with her older sister didn't sound like much fun, and I was aware of Tom's extremely boring X-box full holiday.

"How was Biology?" Andy asked me.

"Not bad. How was Physics?"

He shrugged. "Okay. I've got that Chloe girl in my class. She must have swapped classes."

I made a face at the mention of the bimbo I'd sat next to in Biology last year. "She's not your lab partner is she?"

"Nah, some girl named Bridget. You?"

"Guy called Duncan. He's good at Bio, so I'm happy."

"I think I know who you mean. Blonde guy, dark eyebrows?"

"Yeah, that's him." I laughed.

The bell went and we all stood, our chairs scraping on the cafeteria floor. Kate and Matt broke apart- I was surprised they weren't oxygen deprived. Andy and I walked hand in hand out of the cafeteria and off to History. Andy didn't like History at all, but I didn't mind it. We got to class a little bit earlier than most people. Andy glanced around at the almost empty classroom and winked at me. We dumped our books on a table and slipped back out of the classroom. The classroom across the hall was full of juniors but the one next to that was empty, with no sign of a class starting that hour. I pulled Andy inside and he shut the door. Pulling me close, he pressed his lips against mine. My heels were high enough that our faces were almost level. His arms wrapped around me tightly, almost lifting me off the ground.

After a few amorous moments I whispered into his ear, "I think class will be starting."

He made groaning sound deep in his throat and buried his face in my chest. I giggled.

"Seriously," I said. "We'll be late."

He lifted his head and sighed. "Okay then," he said.

We returned to class. The teacher had arrived and gave us a disapproving voice as we took our seats. Our classmates stared at us, but I ignored them.

History was okay- we were doing the French Revolution. I had always liked European history but clearly my classmates didn't. Half way through the lesson they started fidgeting and scribbling in their notebooks. I took diligent notes- I actually paid more attention than any other class all day.

At the end of the day Andy and I walked out to his car. Andy was happy to pick me up everyday for school, which suited me because it meant I always arrived for school considerably warm and dry. He drove me home and dropped me at my door. He would have come in, except he had Physics homework and I had a shop to open. So I waved goodbye to him and went into the shop.

As I closed the door, I had that feeling you get when you know someone's watching you. I turned slowly, looking around the empty room.

"Hello?" I said nervously.

I heard soft laughter and spun around. Alice and Rose were sitting on the counter, smiling at me.

"I always said she was a freak guesser." Alice said.

"How was your first day of school?" Rose asked. She had 'graduated' from Forks High, along with Emmett and Jasper. Edward and Alice still had another two years to go, the same as me.

I rolled my eyes. "You make me sound like a five year old."

Rose's eyes sparkled. "Not many five year olds get up to the same stuff as you."

I poked out my tongue at her.

"So why are you guys here?" I asked them, pulling out the stool from behind the counter and sitting down.

Alice and Rose glanced at each other.

"Well, we've got some good news, and we've got some bad news." Alice said. "What do you want first?"

"Um... the bad news?" I said uncertainly.

Rose looked as me guiltily. "Emmett and I are going to Africa," she said.

My mouth dropped open. "No way."

She nodded.

I didn't say anything for a moment, to shocked to speak, then I smiled.

"That's great! I mean, I'm sad your going, I don't know what I'm going to do without my constant car and sex advice, but," I smiled, "You and Emmett will have fun."

Rose smiled wickedly. "Oh yeah. We'll be having lots of fun."

I shook my head. "I'm going to miss you."

She leaned forwards and hugged me, her arms cool against my back.

"So what's the good news?" I asked.

Rose rolled her eyes. "Alice thinks it's good. I'm glad I'm going to be in Africa."

I raised my eyebrows and looked at Alice. She was bobbing up and down in excitement.

"Bella's birthday is in three weeks!" she said in excitement.

"And..." I said,

"And she's having a party. Well, I'm having a party, for her. We're not allowed to tell her until closer to the time, because Edward said she'd find as excuse not to come..."

I rolled my eyes. Only Bella would not want to celebrate her birthday.

"...And you're invited, obviously, and so is everyone else, and we're going to get her a stereo for her truck because hers is really bad..." Alice kept chattering excitedly.

I nodded, trying to look enthusiastic. "Sounds good," then I groaned. "I don't know what to get her as a present."

"You'll think of something." Alice said.

"A giant plastic bubble?" I suggested.

Alice looked at me. "I'll take you shopping."

"Anyway," Rose said, mercifully changing the subject, "How's Andy?"

I smiled. Andy had seemingly grown on Rose. Obviously, the same could not be said about Bella.

"He's good," I said.

"You'd know." Alice added.

I smiled.

"Who's that new guy who was sitting with you today?" Alice asked me.

"Oh, just Steph's new boyfriend, Blake." I said flippantly.

I saw Alice watching me closely.

"Oh. Is he nice?"

I shrugged. "Yeah, he's alright."

Rose didn't notice mine or Alice's expressions. "How the rest of the humans?"

"They're good," I said, avoiding Alice's gaze. "Kate and Matt are driving us all crazy- they can't keep their hands of each other. They don't even talk to us anymore."

Alice and Rose agreed that this was irritating. They stayed for a few hours and then went home. I had wasted the afternoon and made no stock, so I didn't go with them. Rose promised Emmett and her would say goodbye before they left. I made myself some pasta for dinner and went up to my room. I planned to start making my winter line, but after dinner I was so tired that I changed out of my clothes and went to bed.