"I'm nervous Jake." I whispered as we walked the rest of the way to the school through the woods. We were holding hands and taking our time. My parents ran ahead with the rest of the Cullens. I had stopped running abruptly and Jake had phased and jogged back to me wondering what was wrong.

"Why are you nervous. Your a freaking genius, Ness." I smiled, he always knew what to say to cheer me up.

"It's not that I don't think I'm smart enough. I'm afraid no one will like me." We were at the school and I was about to walk out of the woods into the parking lot when Jake pulled me back. His lips crushed onto mine. I completely forgot what I was worried about.

"They will love you." Jake said harshly as he pulled back to look at me. "And if they don't, they have eight vampires and two packs of wolfs to answer to." I giggled nervously and we walked into the parking lot. I clutched his hand in mine as we walked up to the cafeteria where my family was hanging out.

"Slow enough?" Emmet laughed at me as we walked up.

"Yeah Em, like you can out run me." I was the second fastest in the family, behind my dad. Either from inheritance, or from the fact that I have human blood constantly giving the vampire half of me more energy, we don't know. Emmet growled and walked away with rose close behind.

"He is going to race you home." dad warned.

"And I will beat him with 50 miles to spare." Dad smiled at me and mom stared at him like he was some sort of god. "Mom." she looked up at me."Come get my schedule with me and Jake." She kissed dad and guided me to the office.

"I'm Bella, not your mother here." She said it too low for the kids passing to hear.

"Oh. Yeah, can I just cal you and...Edward by your name all the time now? It would help me remember." She smiled. I knew for a fact she called Charlie by his name when she was my age, but he would get mad if she did to his face.

"Sure...Nessie." she grimaced. She hated my nickname but she couldn't call me "Renesemee" if everyone else called me Nessie. We walked into the front office, it was crowded with people. My nose filled with their sweet smell. I touched Bella's face remembering my cup filled with blood that I drank until I was around a year old. Bella stiffened, she had forgotten I had never been near so many humans. Jake's hand squeezed mine as my palm slid from Bella's face. He looked at me with concern on his face.

"I got it, it was just a shock, the smell." my mom relaxed at my words. Jake put his arm around my shoulder and we stepped around the crowd to the desk. People were staring, open mouthed, at Bella as she glided past. She smiled back, careful not to flash her teeth. Jake chuckled as my mom started to speak.

"Hi Mrs. Spangler!" she cringed slightly, too slightly for the humans to see, at the sound of her voice, knowing everyone had turned to see who was speaking. "These are my friends Jacob and Re...Nessie." She continues in her beautiful voice. "They're new to the school and need schedules." Some people behind us grumbled and I realized we had skipped a line, but no one was going to speak up. I grinned at the lady as she handed us our schedule and we quickly move out of the way.

We walked outside again; I could feel eyes following us. Jake growled, "I don't like these guys, they all stare at you, Ness."

"What? No, they were staring at Bella." My mom smiled.

"You really don't notice how beautiful you are?"

"Hmm, who does that remind me of?" Edward walked up and kissed Bella, tucking some hair behind her ear. "But really Nessie, you should hear what these boy are thinking." he glared at one passing boy who was looking at me, but quickly disappeared under Edward's glare. Jake watched him go, realizing what the boy might have been thinking he clutched me closer. I laughed and kissed him. Edward laughed too. "you just hurt a lot of boy's feelings. They were hoping you were single."

"Didn't they see me with my arm around her?" Jake asked indignantly. "They did. They were hoping you were a friend or something, but you just proved that wrong."

Jake perked up and kissed me again, longer and more passionately. He looked up in triumph and Edward sighed. "There was no need to prove your point." he grumbled.

I was enrolled as a sophomore with Bella, Edward, Jake. Rose and Emmet were seniors and Alice and Jasper were juniors. When the bell rang I went to my first ever class, holding my brand new books in one hand and Jakes hand in the other. Walked into class and sat down in the back. All the other kids came in behind us. One girl waved to me as she walked in. I glanced at Jake and he beamed at me.

"I told you. You haven't even said one word and you're already making friends." The girl came to sit next to us.

"Hey! I'm Grayson welcome to our school."

"Thanks. Im Jacob and this is Nessie, we came from that private school down the road." I glared at Jake, he had already forgotten our cover story! But, moments later the girl whipped my worries away.

"Oh yeah! Seattle Country Day? They're our rivals you know" She eyed us, probably wondering if we would have adequate school spirit.

"Yeah, we got tired of losing to this school so we switched over." Jake grinned at the girl and she laughed, then turned to the front of the class and pulled out her math book. I glanced at Jake, loving how easy he was to talk to; he made that conversation so easy! I pulled out my notebook and started listening to the teacher. He was talking about what we would be doing this year, and what the expectations were. I was rapidly taking down every word he said on paper, but Jake caught my eye. He shook his head and I realized my hand was moving at an inhuman speed. I sighed and looked around the class. No one was taking notes. Everyone was doodling, passing notes, or staring out the window. Jake himself was sketching a picture of me standing in the wind by the beach.

I realized that, to not stand out, I had to pretend not to listen while memorizing everything Mr. Sherman, the Algebra II teacher, said. When the bell rang, Jake stood up and grabbed my schedule. He groaned.

"I don't have class with you next, or second to last period, but we have everything else together." My face fell. I thought we would be together all day. "It's alright Ness, you will probably have Bella or Edward in those classes." I continued to stare straight ahead. "And I will walk you to your classes and pick you up after class" He added. I smiled and pulled his arm over my shoulders.

"Bye, Grayson!" I called across the room. She smiled back and we walked out into the rain.