Here is Chapter 2, not that a lot of people requested it or anything. This is just a little intro to Bella going to school and dealing with making friends. No telling how

many chapters there might be at this point. I may give the story an M rating. Please review.

BPOV

So here I was in Forks, Washington. On my way to my first day of school in this rusty truck my father Charlie had given me. I had only been to Forks to visit him in the summerwhen I was just a little kid and I had nobody my age to socialize with during my stay. Needless to say I was nervous, I have no idea how I come off in a crowd of my peers.

When I pulled up into the parking lot I noticed how small the school was, but it was a small town and at least it wouldn't be too hard to find my way around. When I got out of my truck I noticed this weird looking group of people, they were all pale and had golden eyes; well except for one. The one good looking guy had black eyes. I couldn't keep my eyes off of them, maybe they were albinos, emos or some shit. One of them caught me looking, a short girl with short dark hair, the guy with the black eyes noticed her doing that.

"Alice, don't stare, it's rude."

It really didn't matter if she was staring because everyone else was when I entered the school. What was wrong with me? Was it only because I was new or was there something else going on I wasn't aware of? Any way while everyone was acting as if I was from Mars I managed to get my class schedule; Biology first, might not be too bad. I had an assigned seat up front but there didn't seem to be anyone assigned to sit next to me.

The teacher gave my class an assignment but it required a partner and everyone was taken. I wasn't one of the gifted children they had back in Phoenix, I didn't come close but I'm sure if I follow the steps everything would be fine. Of course I was wrong. The chemicals I mixed caused a chain reaction, the building was engulfed in flames and only a third of the school made it out. It was said to be one of the biggest National tragedies and it was all because of what some called a planned terrorist attack from a perpetrator that grew suspicion the moment she stepped out of her large, ugly orange truck. Okay so that didn't happen but it might as well have.

This one guy Mike saw me struggling and came to my aid.

"Are you sure this is okay? I mean don't you think your partner might need you?", I asked.

"We're done actually."

I looked over at his table to see his lab partner I would later come to know as Jessica finishing up their beaker of chemicals and writing down the findings. Yeah so they were pros.

"I'm Mike. So you're the new girl, huh? How are you liking Forks?"

"Well, it's about the way I remember it. I used to come here to visit my dad in the Summer."

Mike's face lit up after that.

"Really, who's your dad?"

"Charlie Swan", I said without thinking this through.

"The sheriff?", Mike looked surprised.

I wondered if he'd hate me now.

"That's cool."

He invited me to join him and his circle of friends at lunch, why would I refuse this was my chance to come off as a real human being. I didn't let Mike do all of the work on the assignment, I signed my name on the paper and reworded a few things. I had English before lunch and it was more than I could bare, I'm good at English it's easy but when a teacher drones on about how awesome Shakespeare is it can seem to last a long time. But getting to the interesting stuff when I was at the cafeteria table with Mike and his clique I learned something very important; all of the guys were attracted to me and for the most part all of the girls were envious. I admit I was pretty dense sometimes but I don't think of myself a total fool, I could tell what was up. The way the guys looked at me was like a pack of wild dogs about to race to a piece of meat; I think this Jessica girl was jealous that Mike was giving me all this attention. She kept giving me these looks; the other girls seemed pleasant at first, but I think Angela was the only one I could consider to be a true friend.

"So, we're all thinking about meeting up this weekend for a bonfire would you be able to come?"

Angela asked me eagerly. I thought about this as Jessica was giving me more dirty looks.

"Yeah I think I could make it."

After that we just talked about the usual shit, babbling about what it was like in Phoenix, my old school, if I had any hot siblings, a boyfriend and if I had any pot. Why do people always think I have that? They also always think I'm a pothead because my eyes are a little droopy and when I tell them I don't do drugs they never seem to believe me; Mike and his crew didn't believe me either I could tell even when they said they did. I noticed that strange group of kids again, don't get me wrong they were actually good looking but there was something off. They sat together near a window; shit, they were the whitest people I have ever seen. Jessica noticed me looking at them.

"Those are the Cullens", she said that with contempt."They're like the popular slash outcasts."

"So are they like albino emos or some shit?"

Mike butted into the conversation.

"Nah, they're just really weird."

"They're doctor Cullen's foster kids", said Jessica. "Don't know where they're all from but they just moved here together."

"But they all have the same gold eyes. They have the same complexion.", I stated looking over at them.

"Maybe he's like a collector of really weird pale kids with gold eyes", Mike suggested.

"So have you actually talked to them?", I asked.

"They're not a very social group they pretty much avoid everyone", said Angela.

"They're social enough with each other", one of Mike's friends Nathan said.

I didn't quite get what he meant by that.

"What do you mean?"

I guess I was being naive I noticed them in couples and holding hands, that dude with the black eyes was with one girl and the other pretty boy Jasper was with another which I had to admit she was pretty hot; didn't know where short girl was though.

"Oh", I said after I came to the realization of the couples.

The short girl walked past our table I could have sworn I seen her glancing at me.

"That little one is Alice, she's really weird", Jessica said bitterly. "Remember when she asked you out Mike?"

Mike looked at Jessica in fear, all eyes at the table were on him.

"Uh, yeah that was like messed."

It was almost as if he was really afraid of his girlfriend. Everyone except Angela and me laughed about Alice.

"I don't know", said Nathan, "I think she's kind of cute".

Everyone burst out laughing, I didn't see what the big joke was I mean sure Alice and her family were different but maybe this was exactly why they didn't like to interact with other people. That's when I opened my big mouth.

"Don't you guys think you're being a bit harsh?"

"This is nothing you should have been here last week when we dumped a pot of tomato sauce on her from the roof", Mike said proudly as if this was his way of impressing me.

I noticed the Cullens look over at our table a few times, I felt sorry for them. Lunch had passed and I headed to my locker, I was amazed at the fact that none of the girls bothered me about any girly shit since I wasn't really up to date with what was considered cool; not to say that in any way that what I was interested in would be cool or at least not cool to them.

I saw these guys huddled at a locker they were showing off comics they had just bought; one caught my eye it was Green Arrow; more specifically The Rise and Fall of Green Arrow which I didn't have. Oh shit you weren't supposed to know that; one of my dirty little secrets I guess. Any way they caught me looking.

"What?", asked one with the biggest zit I had ever seen under his bottom lip.

"Nothing", I said startled.

"We don't have any pot if that's what you think."

I felt so insecure, if this was back in Phoenix I would probably be talking to these guys about the Green Arrow and even debating like a nerd with them but now things were different; I was part of the so called normal kids now and to be caught speaking with them would definitely be committing social suicide. For all I knew these were decent guys; I adverted my eyes and walked to class. That's when I saw Alice, she looked kind of sad. I decided to introduce myself as kindly as I could. "Hi, I'm Bella", this sounded a little awkward. She turned to me from her locker, she looked shocked to see me. With a sweet smile she spoke in a small voice.

"Hello, my name is Alice Cullen."

I didn't know what to say after that, I was kind of stunned. I couldn't get over how short she was, she kind of looked like a pixie or a fairy.

"You're new here right?", she asked me.

There was an awkward silence, I almost stuttered my answer.

"Yeah, I moved here from Phoenix".

"That's a pretty big change."

"Uh, yeah it's a lot colder here."

She smiled and looked away for a second down the hall.

"Well I should probably get going", she said looking kind of impatient.

"Yeah, I wouldn't want to make you late. See you around Alice."

"Nice meeting you Bella and you don't have to lie, it's okay", she said with a wave.

What did she mean by that? She left for class in a hurry.

Just then someone came up behind me, they were touching my hair. What the hell? It was Angela, "Bella, did you know you have little white balls in your hair?" She held up a tiny paper ball. I felt the back of my head, there was a bunch of wet paper balls! Those Green Arrow-tards shot spit balls at me!

So there it is, please review, constructive criticism is appreciated. I'm going to try to keep the next few chapters as short as I can, hope your enjoying it so far.