We met up with the others in the parking lot. As we walked together through the halls of our new school towards the main office, we could hear the gasps and whispers all around us. I heard thoughts about us flying around everyone's head. This town was bigger than Forks, but when a new family with this many kids ―especially when they looked like us― walked into school, there was bound to be some talk. I heard some not-so-pleasant remarks about my wife, daughter, and sisters going through some of male students' heads. It seemed that in the seven years since I had last gone to high school, teenage boys' minds hadn't changed one bit. If it was possible, they seemed to have become even more sexual. I wondered if I didn't prefer listening to Mike Newton's thoughts. I even caught some compromising opinions from a few teachers.

When we arrived at the main office, I could read the shock in both the secretary's face and thoughts when she saw us. She wordlessly passed me the pile of schedules and I passed them around to everyone. All the various couples began comparing their classes. I studied my list of courses; silently committing it to memory. Luckily, I had managed to call the school and convince them to place Bella and me together in all our classes. Of course, that large sum of money I donated to the school didn't hurt either. Fortunately, it seemed that all the couples had at least one class together.

The first half of the school day passed relatively painlessly. The classes were boring, but we only were called up to introduce ourselves in two classes. When it came time for lunch, we all crowded around one table. Jacob and Renesmee opted to go sit with some new friends they had made. I was relieved that everything seemed to be going great for Nessie, although a few of the boys at her table were thinking some things about my daughter that were not appropriate. I quickly put the images out of my mind before they scarred me for life. What was it with the guys here? Was there something in the water at school that made them all extremely horny? I would almost rather listen to Jacob's thoughts on Nessie. I heard one girl at the table address her.

"Wow. Who is that gorgeous God with the bronze hair? Is he single? Holy smokes he is hot!"

She shuddered at the thought. "Ew, no. That's Edward, my Da- um I mean my dumb brother. And no; he's not single. He's going out with the girl with the brown hair next to him."

"Nice save," I muttered. I knew she would hear me.

Sorry. I wasn't thinking, she apologized. I gave her a look to let her know she was forgiven.

"But aren't they like brother and sister?" The girl looked at Nessie with wide, surprised eyes. She quickly explained our situation to the girl― including who was with who. She even mentioned herself and Jacob when she was talking about the couples. I could hear the excitement in Jacob's mind as his heart beat quickened in response to her words. She smiled at him. He grinned back at her.

The rest of the day was quite uneventful. If Bella had been able to sleep, she definitely would have dozed off in biology. We were labeling the phases of onion root, just like at the beginning of the year when I first met my Bella. We finished within two minutes and had the rest of the period to ourselves. We talked in hushed whispers that were imperceptible to the human ear. We were both grateful when the bell finally rang, rushing out of the classroom towards the parking lot. As we glided through the hallways, I could tell we were still in the forefront of everyone's thoughts.

We met up with our family in front of our parked cars. The car ride home was completely opposite of what it had been this morning. We were all talking the whole way home. Bella asked Jacob and Nessie how their day had been. Apparently, they had already made a group of friends. People didn't feel inadvertently wary around Nessie as they did with the rest of our family ― in fact, she seemed to have the opposite effect on people; she had made friends almost instantly. People felt drawn to her.

Carlisle and Esme were waiting at home for us ―having come back from their hunting trip― with a fresh round of questioning for us. Then we all spent the 5 to 10 minutes it took to complete the homework for all our classes.

That night, after Jacob and Nessie had gone to sleep in their room, Bella and I discussed Renesmee's experience and marveled at our daughter's abilities at fitting in and acting like a normal teenager. Not a seven-year-old half-vampire-half-human with a werewolf for a boyfriend.

We spent the rest of the night marveling in each other. Luckily, we had gotten Nessie and Jake's room sound-proofed so we wouldn't wake them up at night with all the banging like we used to in our old house. Fortunately, we had made sure that the sound-proofing was only one-way. We could still listen in to make sure that Nessie and Jake were behaving. Although they were completely in love, we still didn't want our seven-year-old daughter making love to a twenty three-year-old. Even if that seven-year-old were physically sixteen.

The next morning, we all got ready to begin another day at Allderdice High School.