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AN: Here's the next chapter. I only have a vague idea of where I'm going from here, so it may take a few days for the next chapter. But I'll try to hurry it. Thanks to those who reviewed my last chapter, or in other ways showed that they liked my fanfic. Please R&R!

Chapter 2: Alice, Jazz, and Jake

Jason and Heather walked me to my next class, still telling me about the Cullens. "And they are really rich, they have these great cars. Let's see. . .a Porsche Turbo—bright yellow, Alice drives that; a silver Volvo S60R, that's Edwards; um, Emmett has a jeep wrangler; and Rosalie, omg, she has this red BMW M3 convertible. It's beautiful." Jason finished. Heather grinned.

"I sorta like Alice's bright yellow Porsche Turbo." A voice spoke behind them.

"Thanks." All three of us turned. A tiny girl with spiky black hair and dark amber eyes stood there, grinning and bouncing on the balls of her feet. Behind her stood a boy over a head taller than her with wavy blonde hair, and the same eyes, and well, a look on his face like it hurt to breathe. "Hi I'm Alice! This is Jasper." He nodded stiffly, his hand clenched around Alice's. "You're Renesmee, right? I'm so glad we could meet!" she squealed, switching Jasper to her other side and pulling me into the desk next to hers. Jasper signed. It really did look like he was in pain when he breathed. "Alice, calm down," he commanded. She groaned but seemed calmer. Jasper stroked her hand. "You'll scare her away if you keep up." She nodded and squeezed his hand before turning back to me.

"So how old are you?"

"16." She squealed, causing Jasper to put his hand on her warningly.

"I know, Jazz." She turned back to me. "I'm 16 too. A sophomore. SO is Jazz and Jake. What's your next class?"

"Um. . .Biology." Alice bounced in her chair, but refrained from squealing this time.

"Jake's in that class! You'll probably be his lab partner—he doesn't have one. He's really nice—"

"Unless you're Rosalie," Jasper added, staring at the ceiling with his chair tipped back. Alice slapped his arm lightly, grinning. "He thinks Rose is extremely self centered and shallow. Which is sometimes true, I guess. She thinks he's obnoxious.

"Which is also sometimes true."

"Oh, shut up, Jazz." Snapped Alice mildly. "No, really, he's nice; he just has a sense of humor. It's cute.

"So how is he related to your family?" I asked, curious.

"He's not really. He's just sort of a family friend, and when we moved, he decided he wanted to see the world, so he left one tiny town and came to another tiny town. Great education in the way of the world. And he can do like anything with cars. He's got this Volkswagen rabbit that he built himself. And he's really cute." Jasper cleared his throat and Alice looked up at him. "Not as cute as you, though." He smiled and patted her on the head.

Class passed in a blur. Jasper got Alice to shut up long enough for me to listen to the lecture, but she started up again the moment the bell rang. It was almost overbearing, but I kind of liked it. She was just a nice person. "You have biology now, right?"

"Yeah."

"We're on the other side of the building, but the Bio room is easy to find. Oh, and Jacob looks NOTHING like me and Jazz. He's really tall and tan and he has black hair. See ya!"

I walked in the direction Alice had pointed me for Biology, and spotted someone who could only be Jacob Black. He towered by half a foot above the rest of the students and his skin looked like he'd spent a year sunbathing in Florida. Alice was right. He was hot. I followed him into the classroom before going up to have the teacher sign my slip. When I turned back around, Jacob Black was staring at me. The teacher motioned me to the seat next to him.

"Are you Jacob Black?" He stopped staring at me and nodded

"Yeah."

"Alice said you'd be in this class. I'm Renesmee Swan."

"Renesmee." He smiled. 'That is a really long name."

"My grandfather calls me Nessie."

"Jake. When did you move here?"

"Just a few days ago. My grandfather gave me a few days to settle in, and then sent me here." Would he pick up on my constant references to my grandfather, instead of my parents?

"You're parents died in a car crash, right?" I stared at him, stunned.

"How did you know?" I demanded. He was immediately apologetic.

"I'm sorry—that was really heartless to—I can't believe I said that—Ness, I'm so sorry—" I stared, surprised. He was completely frieking out!

"Jake! Jake! It's okay! Just calm down. I'm fine. I don't remember them. Jake, calm down." He seemed to hear me this time, and took a deep breath. "I'm fine, Jake. You don't have to apologize. I don't remember them—I mean, I wish I did, but I'm not that touchy. But how did you know?" He shrugged, grinning now. I was glad he had calmed down.

"The Cullens, and by extension, me, know everything. And once one knows something, the rest of us know pretty quickly." The door opened behind us and a velvet voice said

"Oh, good, you too found each other. I turned to see a bronze-haired boy and a brown haired girl, both unbelievably beautiful, standing behind us, watching me. "Alice sent us to make sure you too had met."

"Oh, Nessie, this is Edward and Bella." Bella spoke.

"I'm so glad we could meet. We've been waiting for you since Alice learned you were coming." Jake grinned.

"I told you, the Cullens know everything." I could see what Heather and Justin had meant when they said Bella was the most mature. She was much calmer than Alice, and was looking at me almost maternally. The bell rang again, and Edward groaned.

"We-we need to go, Bella. Bye, Nessie. See you at lunch." He and Bella left quickly, glancing backward at me as they went out the door. As much as I liked the Cullens, I noticed that they seemed to be taking my friendship for granted. 'We'll see you at lunch?" Of course I wanted to eat lunch with them, but it would have been kind of nice if they'd actually asked.

But still, it was really nice to have friends.