"Don't think about anything", Noah whispered to me. His voice was inhumanly low.
"And you control your emotions, god damn it! Don't go all berserk, or that Jasper guy will sense that something's wrong", I snapped back in a hushed tone.
He swallowed audibly, but I could tell that he was relaxing. Kay on the other hand was nervous and practically trembled on Noah's lap. Noah leaned down to her ear and whispered something calming.
I glanced once again at the incoming Cullens; they were heading to the furthest table.
The blond girl, undoubtedly Rosalie, who incidentally was a total bitch towards mom, was leading the group. She drifted in front of a huge bear-like figure; the guy I presume was Emmet.
Following them was a guy, with an anguished expression. He was obviously Jasper. And he was evidently OD:ing on the Fork's high school emotional gush. He towed a small pixie-like girl, who was without a doubt Alice. She had a huge grin highlighted on her face.
And finally, the person I dreaded, and at the same time yearned to see, came into my sight. Edward Cullen. My resemblance to him was astonishing; no one could be fooled by saying we weren't related. Something about him was just… so sad. He seemed so empty and passive, that I ALMOST felt sorry for him.
Noah's kick at my leg woke me from my inspection. I glared at him and noticed that he looked nervous.
"Stop thinking", he whispered yet again, in an inhumanly low tone.
Sure, Sure.
"Damn", Red said and licked her lips. She was wheezing at the male Cullens.
"They look like supermodels or something…It's kinda creepy", Josh replied.
"Supermodels are creepy?", I teased.
"No, but SOMETHING about those Cullens is very creepy", he answered.
Very perceive, I'm impressed. I could hear his heartbeat speed up. Noah shot me a deadly glare. Fine, Fine.
"Boy, they sure do look a lot like you guys. Especially the guy with the bronze hair, I mean he could be your twin, Lexie", Ethan declared.
Red was shivering in her seat; her tongue hung outside her mouth like a dog's.
"Yeah, I guess they might be our distant cousins or something", I explained.
"Crap", Noah exclaimed, and continued in his too-low-for-humans-to-hear-tone, "Don't think or feel anything incriminating". Aah, so they were about to look!
Kay never had the need to forcefully ban her thoughts from a specific topic, so Noah kissed her. That would surely keep her thoughtless for a while.
I on the other hand attempted to launch a conversation, subsequently preventing the group to accidently think about our 'sister'. Lucky for me, Josh was eyeing Jenny.
"Josh-y baby, did I just saw you checking Jenny out?", I purred.
"What if I were?" he asked buoyantly. Not even a blush!
"Keep dreaming", Ethan said.
"Don't you want me to settle down?" Josh smirked.
"You don't have a chance in hell, with that bitchy cheerleader", Red fumed.
Always with the bitchy-cheerleader-crap. I'm starting to think that she secretly wants to become one of them.
"Get a room", Red whined at Noah and Kay.
"It's weird to have a bedroom-level make out session in front of your sister, dude!", Ethan complained.
"And to make the rest of us watch, too", Red carried on.
Noah didn't stop their kiss, but he managed to flip the finger at Ethan.
"Touchy, touchy. Is he always like this, Lexie? ", Josh chuckled.
"Always", I replied.
I could hear muffled, musical, laughter behind us. Creeps!. I trembled furiously.
Noah kicked my leg so hard that I had to moan.
"Thanks a lot, bro", I sneered at him.
Saved by the bell. I actually mean it. The bell ringing meant that our lunch time had ended.
"Time to go", Joshed lifted his tray.
"Josh-y, wait", Red exclaimed. She stood up and picked up her tray. Then she followed Josh.
"Good luck at English, baby", Ethan shouted after Red.
She turned to face him, gave him a flying kiss, and then left with Josh.
"Time to go lovebirds", Ethan said to the kissers.
No response. He sighed.
He picked up his tray and left the table.
"Wait Ethan", Kay pleaded, after stopping their kiss. She sounded quite breathless.
Noah stood up, pushing Kay gently of his lap. Then he picked up both of their trays, and followed Ethan.
"Have fun at cal-ce-lu-u-u-s", I teased.
"Will do", she winked, and followed Noah and Ethan.
I rolled my eyes, and watched as they left the cafeteria.
I sighed.
I hated the next period after lunch. I was the only one who took advanced physics, so I always sat alone. I picked up my tray of untouched lasagna, and set out to the dish-unload-washing-thingy; ok I didn't know the name.
When I strolled closer to my destination, I realized that I would pass the Cullens table, so I slowed down.
"Edward, are you alright?", Alice asked him worryingly.
"Sure", he answered inconvincibly.
"I knew coming back here was a mistake", Alice whined.
"Come on man, we should be checking out to see if she has grandkids", Emmet wailed.
Alice smacked the back of his head.
"Have you...", Jasper stopped his question midsentence.
I lowered my gaze to the floor, as I scarcely passed them.
And then, I could feel the penetrating gazes of each one of them, behind my back.
I froze and missed a heartbeat when a velvety voice spoke to me.
"Are you lost?", Rosalie asked.
I could virtually feel the sneer on her tone.
"No, I'm fine". Hmm, it's raining. Wonder if the teacher will have a pop quiz.
And then I almost sprinted to the unloading-thingy. The Cullens continued their conversation.
"Nosy", Rosalie whined. What a bitch.
"Did anybody saw her hair? Edward, bro, it's the same color as yours", Emmet chuckled.
"I guess so", Edward's dead voice replied.
"But man, did you see her run out? Scared poor thing. Good though, we still have it in us to spook the humans", Emmet said cheerfully.
Rosalie chuckled.
"She didn't feel afraid of us. More like the opposite", Jasper said.
Emmet snorted.
"Edward, what was she thinking?", Alice asked.
"Sorry, I didn't listen", Edward answered in his usual dead tone.
"Something about her is… familiar", Alice said.
By now, I got rid of the tray, and I was running in the hallway to the physics classroom. I couldn't hear or smell them anymore. Plus, I could taste blood in my mouth. Wishful thinking.
I slowed my pace down and stopped in front of the classroom door. It was open and I peeked inside. I'm the first one. And then, I stepped in to the classroom.
I sat down at my usual table, where I always sat alone. I started to doodle on the empty pages of my notebook. The rest of the class was slowly coming in. I drew for a minute or so, until I smelled a sweet vampiric scent. And a second later, the pixie girl appeared.
I lowered my eyes and stared at the dirt on the floor. If one of them just took a second to look at me, I'd be busted. She sat next to me. Damn! Why did my table have to have the last free seat? I tilted my head opposite of her direction. I was extremely tensed.
"Hi, my name is Alice Cullen", she introduced herself.
I didn't turn to face her. But I talked back.
"Hey… I'm Alexandra. Nice to meet you".
"Yeah, nice to meet you too, Lexie". Were they listening our entire lunchroom conversation?
"Excuse me?", I scoffed.
"To be fair, you listened to our conversation too".
I blushed. And we fell silent.
About two minutes later Mrs. Latera stepped in the classroom, and started her lecture. I was almost sure that I would get through the day in one piece, until the teacher announced that she was having a verbal pop quiz. Of all the days!
"Mr. D. Brandon, provide me a motion equation".
"Aaaaaa?", a dumb jock who didn't pay attention to the teacher, muttered. What the hell was he even doing here?
"Miss. A. Cullen, then?". Oh dear god! Which one of us did she meant?
"S= vt – 1/2at²", Alice answered.
The teacher smiled awkwardly at our direction.
"I actually meant the other Miss. A. Cullen"
Oh crap, I'm busted
Alice glanced franticly around the classroom, with such speed that I was only one who noticed it. Then she gazed at me, after she saw the teacher and the rest of the class staring at me. I swallowed nervously.
Then I met her gaze, and saw the instant recognition. She knew who and what I was.
"It can also be S= s0 + vt – 1/2at²", I said in a hoarse tone.