AN: So this is basically where the story really gets going. Sorry if the last chapter felt a bit rushed, I was just so excited to start writing this one (no excuse but still). Thanks for all the love, means a lot. Please leave a review if you have anything to say. This chapter is longer than the previous ones and I'm planning on continuing doing that.

Hope you enjoy this one.

Bpov

Previously: We turned around the corner to the relatively big, noisy school cafeteria. It was a basic setting of round tables and chairs and a food line in the middle of the room. The fluorescent lights made the already extremely pale students look even paler and it felt tiring to my eyes. I started looking around the room, trying to find an empty table for us to sit in. That's when I saw them.

A group of six people, so beautiful and impossibly perfect that I had never seen anything like it before. Each and every one of them could have been a supermodel. Somehow they managed to look even paler than the rest of us with their white, almost grey-toned skin and under-eye bags.

There were two girls, one of them had black hair and she was quite small, almost pixie-like. The other girl was completely different. Blonde, tall and gorgeous, like someone from the newest issue of Vogue. There were also four guys. Two of them were really big and strong-looking and they had brown hair. Then there were two slightly smaller guys, one of them had slightly longer honey-blonde hair and the other, who was facing his back toward me, had bronzy-brown hair. They all looked completely different, yet somehow the same. There was something fascinating about their still beauty that made me not want to mess with them.

One of them, the boy with the bronze hair, turned around and looked straight at me. I froze. My life was no movie, but boy did I wish this would have been the moment the perfect guy falls for the average girl (played by the not-so average hollywood actor. But that's besides the point). He was absolutely perfect, drop dead beautiful. I couldn't turn my eyes away from his piercing gaze even when I tried-not that I wanted to anyway. For all I knew, he could have been a Greek God with his strong jawline and perfectly proportionate features. He literally took my breath away. His eyes were a weird golden brown and looking deep into them, even from across the room, I could see something wild in them that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

After a while, which must have only been a few seconds, he turned away. Instantly I became more aware of my surroundings- and what had just happened. My eyes widened as I realized it. The family, no the coven. They were Vampires. My pulse started racing and I felt my muscles tightening. Vampires. My mom had warned me and Amanda about them. It had been one of the first things she had told us and she had insisted we trust her. They were dangerous. I tried pulling myself together, and grabbed Amanda's arm. I eyed the vampires' table suggestively, trying to make Amanda understand what was going on. She looked at them for a while and I watched carefully as her eyes widened in amazement and disbelief until she turned and faced me.

"Oh. My. God. This is so cool", she whispered, her eyes still open wide in wonder.

I couldn't believe it. Amanda thought this was cool. They were murderers, vampires killing people in the school we just started in and she thought it was cool. I knew Amanda hadn't really believed our parents that often but she wasn't stupid. Vampires were our mortal enemies! They stand for death and everything but the thing we as sirens stand for. We were going to have a serious talk once we got home.

I sat down, not turning my gaze off their table for a second. I was not going to let those vampires hurt me, my sister or anyone else for that matter.

"Who are they?" I asked calmly, trying to conceal my anger.

"They're the Cullens", Jess explained, giving me a knowing look.

"That girl with the black pixie-cut hair is Alice and next to her is her boyfriend Jasper", she continued. "That big guy is Emmet and next to him is his girlfriend Rosalie. Gorgeous, I know. And then there's Edward, the bronze-haired guy, and Emmett's brother Ethan. He's the one with the dark brown hair."

"They all live together with doctor Cullen and his wife. They're all adopted but Emmet and Ethan are the only ones who are actually related to each other", Angela continued.

Edward. So that was his name. Once again, I found myself looking his way. There was no point in denying that I wanted to know more about him even though I hated what he was and knew I was supposed to be scared. I found myself torn between hating them and wanting to know more. Now that my initial shock -and I'll admit, the slight overreaction- was over I could think more clearly and I realized something important was missing. The red eyes. They could have easily been wearing contacts (I'm not stupid) but those golden contacts would've never covered the deep crimson-red eyes my mom had told me vampires had.

"Why are you staring at Edward?" Jess asked me with amusement in her voice and immediately Edward turned to face me. For a while he looked confused and curious until he turned away quickly, shaking his head to himself.

"I'm not", I told Jess and decided that that would have to be enough Edward-stalking for the day. Wait, not just for the day. For good. He was a vampire and nothing was going to change that. "Should we leave?", I asked the others and with that, we left the cafeteria.

In the hallway, the blonde boy- the one whose name I didn't remember- yelled my name. I turned around in confusion, waiting for the boy to speak. When the boy was nearing me, it hit me. His name was Mike, Mike Newton.

"Hey, Bella! So... I was wondering if you needed someone to show you the way to French class", he spoke with a grin- that I'm sure he thought was charming- on his face.

"Actually,I'm fine. Jess and Angela will show me the way. But umm... Thanks anyway", I replied awkwardly.

"Okay. Well, I hope I'll talk to you soon!"

"Yeah… Sure", I replied and caught up to the girls, my mind filled with confusion.

"What was that about?", Jess asked with a slightly jealous tone in her voice.

"I have no idea. I don't even know him"

"I'm sure he just wanted to be polite", Angela suggested.

"Yeah maybe", I answered.

I turned around and saw Mike still looking at me. If I hadn't known any better- which trust me, I did- I would have thought he was interested in me. Like that would ever happen. Well, at the end of the day, it's not like I wanted anything to do with him anyway, at least not like that.

Apov

I can not believe it. Vampires in our school. If I had known this was going to happen I would've moved here sooner! Don't get me wrong, I am scared and I'm not exactly thinking of becoming best buddies with them, but still. I- or Bella for that matter- have never met a vampire. Everything I knew was based on what mom had taught us- which was more of scaring us than actually teaching us anything. My mom hadn't even met a vampire and what she told us she had probably learnt from her mother and she from her mother. The stories she tried to scare us with might not even have anything to do with what vampires are actually like.

After lunch, the day had continued quite normally through our french lesson to the last period, gym. We were playing volleyball and, to no one's surprise, Bella was performing pretty much as badly as humanly possible. We were on the same team, and Bella had already managed to hit both me and a blonde guy (Mike Newton, I think) with the ball. Now she was just standing in the back corner trying not to even touch the ball. For the millionth time this day, I noticed Mike staring at Bella. I was pretty sure he was developing a crush on her. I almost felt bad for the guy knowing already that Bella would turn him down if he asked her on a date. I had dated a few guys during my years. Well maybe more than a few, but nothing that serious. But Bella, she hadn't really shown that much interest to anything more than occasionally admiring Ian Somerhalder's abs and smile or admitting a guy was handsome looking.

After Jess, Angela, Bella and I had changed, we left to the nearby café, the only café in town. We all ordered something to drink and eat and started to get to know each other.

"So, do you guys have any hobbies?" Bella asked the two girls.

"I like reading" Angela replied and shrugged.

"I loove shopping. It's the best! And I go jogging every once in awhile", Jess said and continued: "You two have any hobbies?"

"I love shopping too! And dancing. And swimming", I replied.

"I mostly just read and cook. As you may have noticed, I'm not big on sports.", Bella said smiling. We all laughed.

"Soo... The Cullens. Have they always lived here?", I asked after a while.

"No, they moved here a few years ago", Angela replied nonchalantly.

"I wonder why they only stick to themselves"

"It's probably because they think they're better than all of us. I mean they are rich, smart and attractive", Jess replied annoyed.

"You jealous?", Bella asked jokingly. We laughed again.

"Well Jess, you are right about one thing. They are good looking. Especially that Ethan guy", I admitted smiling. Bella shot me a glare- not hard to guess what that was about- and I rolled my eyes. After I'd finished my chocolate cake, Bella and I decided to go home.

As soon as we were through the front door Bella started yelling at me.

"Are you serious? `That Ethan guy is soo good looking`", she tried to imitate me with an oddly high-pitched voice."They are vampires! They are killing innocent people. We can't get to know them. In fact, we should be trying to get rid of them or something."

"Calm down, Bella. First of all, we don't know if they're actually killing anyone. I mean you saw their eyes- not red. And second of all, get rid of them? What are you talking about? If and I mean if they're killing people they're going to do it no matter what we do and where they are. There's nothing we can do about that", I replied, caught off guard by how passionate Bella was being about this. She was acting weird. "Are you sure there isn't something else going on. I mean, you know they aren't going to hurt us. Our blood smells neither good or bad for them and it doesn't even satisfy their thirst."

"I know. But still. I feel bad knowing that any one of the people in our school or this town might end up being a victim in the Cullens' massacre", she answered a bit more calmly but I still thought something was off. I gave her a questioning look.

"What?", she asked, pretending not to know what I was talking about.

"Bella"

She sighed. "It's just that I don't know what to think anymore, okay? Didn't mom know what she was talking about? I mean, are we supposed to just think these vampires might actually be good?"

"Well there's only one way to find out. Let's talk to them tomorrow". Bella's eyes widened until she sighed and nodded in agreement.

Later in the evening, we were making ourselves dinner- lasagna. After a minute of silence I spoke: "Just so you know, I do not sound like that. And besides, he is hot. There's no point in denying that."

"Well he is a vampire. Good looks are to be expected", Bella replied nonchalantly.

"Yeah, but he isn't just good looking on a human scale. He's totally hot even for a vampire"

"Yeah, guess so"

"You don't agree?"

"Yeah sure I do. He just... isn't really my type", Bella replied, trying to hide her smile.

My eyes narrowed. She was acting weird- well weirder than usual- again. "What are you not telling me? Are you crushing on that Mike guy or something?"

"What? No! I'm... I'm not crushing on anyone, nobody at all. It's just that everyone doesn't have to agree with you about Ethan being the hottest one"

"Well who is then?"

"I don't know. I mean Edward's kinda handsome, maybe", she replied trying to come off as nonchalant, failing miserably in doing so. I could see her smiling to herself.

Wow. That was new. Bella never seemed nervous about someone. Awkward and shy. Yes. But this? No, never. This was the first time I'd ever seen her show any sort of actual feeling for a guy. I mean, she hadn't even talked to him so it's not like this actually was a big deal or anything but for Bella, it was more than anything I'd seen. I didn't say anything about the topic after that because I'd pushed my luck enough already.

Bpov

It had been a long day and I was tired like crazy. Forks high really hadn't been what I'd expected it to be. Actually it had been quite the opposite. Oddly enough, I had a feeling I might actually like high school this time- well as much as you can like high school.

I was having a hard time falling asleep because my thoughts were jumping all over the place, keeping me awake. I tried to push the thought of the Cullens to the back of my mind but it crept back to my conscience no matter how hard I tried. Finally, after hours of tossing and turning in bed, I fell asleep with the picture of beautiful, golden eyes turning red, present in my mind.