It was a dreary day, cloudy with no sign of sun. It was the perfect day for my family. Today was the first day of school. My mind was busy with worried thoughts. What if no one liked me? What if I acted too differently from everyone else? I looked out the side window from the passenger seat. Jacob was dying to test drive the new car so I let him drive us to school.

We were at a red light when I noticed the car next to us filled with kids. The girl in the driver seat was telling what looked like a very animated story. She had light brown hair with olive skin. Her hand was waving in the air while she was talking. The 3 other girls in the car were laughing as she went on. I suddenly became very envious while I was watching them. I've never had friends before. I spent most of my life with my family. I know that I had Jacob, but he has been around all of my life. He wasn't just my best friend, I really felt like he was something more. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

I started drumming my fingers on my knee and looked up at Jacob.

"Nervous?" he asked.

"No, not really," I said.

He looked at my fingers. Immediately I stopped.

"Maybe just a little nervous."

He chuckled, "There is nothing to be nervous about, its just high school."

I nodded.

"You know," he said, "you probably wouldn't be this nervous if you hadn't watched all of those lame TV shows."

I shrugged my shoulders and stared off onto the road. He was probably right. It had started out as research but then I had gotten engrossed with the storylines. I was watching old episodes of Gossip girl, 90210, Laguna Beach as well as a few others. Okay, maybe it wasn't so much research but guilty pleasure. Either way, I began to think high school was going to be filled with mean girls and untrustworthy boys.

"Don't worry, Nessie. High school is never that dramatic and if anyone is mean to you, I'll just beat them up," he said with a smile.

As he pulled into the school parking lot, I began rummaging through my oversized Chanel bag for my class schedule. It was one of my birthday gifts last night from Alice and Rosalie. I had asked for a normal backpack and instead got this. This was getting shoved into my locker as soon as possible. If anything, this was going to make me look like I was trying too hard.

We had gotten our schedule a week before classes started. I was happy to find out I had no classes with any of my family members and at least 2 classes with Jacob.

"Do you want me to see if I can switch into more of your classes?" he asked.

"No that's okay. I can't always use you as a crutch. Besides, it would probably be harder to make friends with you around."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. Your kinda intimidating, you'd probably just scare everyone away."

"Me? Intimidating?" Jacob said as he flashed a grin as he looked back at me. All of sudden my breath caught and it felt like my heart skipped a beat. What was that? I thought. All I could do was smile back as his eyes fell back onto the road.

He knew he was intimidating. It was going to be interesting to pass him off as a high school student. He looked like he could be 25 years old. But if they were buying that Emmett and Jasper were high school students, I'm sure Jacob would have no problem pulling it off.

Jacob was tall and muscular. He had decided to cut his hair short before school started. His hair was jet black which looked nice with his dark olive tone skin. His checks' were a little red from staying out in the lake all day. I was envious of his skin. I wish my skin could tan or even burn. No matter how long I stayed outside in the sun, I would have the same color. The only thing my skin did was faintly glow, nothing too noticeable a human eye. I'm sure he would have been more intimidating if he didn't smile so much. His smile was so warm and gravitating. I always watched how people unknowingly drew near him when he was laughing. He carried this carefree aura around him that people couldn't help but notice.

As we pulled into the parking lot I noticed the clothes he was wearing, a light blue button down dress shirt and a nice pair of dark blue jeans. This surprised me since I was used to seeing him in just sweat pants and a plain t-shirt. Anything easy to throw on and off when he needed to phase.

I noticed how nicely his shirt hung over his chest. It was snug just enough to show his muscles.

"What are you staring at?" he asked. I immediately snapped out of my daze, slightly embarrassed.

"New clothes?" I said quickly.

He chuckled, "Yeah, Alice got me."

"Really? I'm surprised you let her."

He shrugged, "I probably should start playing the part. Alice said it would look a bit off if I was the only one out of the adopted Cullen clan who looked like the shopped at Kmart."

"Well you look good."

He snorted, "Thanks."

"No really, you do."

"It feels sort of weird. It's not exactly the most convenient clothing for me to be in."

"Are you planning on phasing into a werewolf while we are at school?"

"Probably not…don't want to make a bad impression."

I laughed, "Probably."

We pulled into the school parking lot and parked near the side of the lot.

"I never gave you your birthday present last night," he said.

"Oh yeah. I take it your feeling better."

"Uhm, yeah," he said nervously.

I had forgotten about last night. I had walked onto the back patio where everyone was waiting for me. I was holding onto my father's arm as I wanted to know what everyone thought of how I looked in my new dress, plus I always held onto my dad during my birthday parties. I loved hearing how much I was loved. I saw Jacob look at me, then quickly to my hand that I held onto my dad. He all of sudden started dividing big numbers in him head and claimed he wasn't feeling to well. He took off into the woods right after. He didn't come back till pretty late at night as I had stayed up sitting on my window seat watching the pool house till he got home. I was worried about what he was hiding. We never kept secrets from each other. I was going to ask him this morning but I completely forgotten about it. It must have been my nerves for the first day of school.

Jacob walked to the back of the car and popped the trunk. He pulled out a normal backpack.

"Thank you Jacob! It's perfect!" I said as I grabbed it out of his hands and started transferring items from the Chanel bag to the backpack.

"I thought you may have wanted something a bit more low key."

"Yes, you are a life saver," I said as I put the Chanel into the trunk and closed the door.

As we walked through the parking lot towards the large school building I noticed my father's Cadillac and my Aunt Rosalie's new Jaguar. They must have beat us here. The school was swarming with students. All the hormonal and nervous teenagers made their blood smell more potent.

"Are you going to be okay?" Jacob asked.

"I probably shouldn't breath so much today." It wasn't that I was afraid I was going to do something. I just didn't want to feel uncomfortable.

We continued walking down the hall. Though it was crowded no one came close to invading Jacob's personal space. I spotted my dad through the open glass window in the administrative office talking to a woman across the counter. I could hear their conversation even through the door and the noisy hallway (vampire powers). He was dazzling his way into changing his schedule so that he could be in all of my mom's classes. I rolled my eyes. He was most likely going to get his way. Could they not spend one hour without each other?

He must have caught my scent as he all of sudden turned around and waved. I smiled and waved back. I found my family talking and laughing together in the hall. I noticed Jasper joking around with Emmett. It was hard to imagine what he was like 7 years ago. From what I hear he had been really intense and that going to high school in the past had been difficult for him. When I asked him about what had changed, he simply stated that my mom had inspired him and nothing else was said.

"Hi Nessie... and Jacob," Rosalie said as she waved us over. They were not always nice to each other but it was getting better over the years.

My mom came over to give me a small hug.

"Are you ready?" she asked.

"Yes. I think so."

I saw my Aunt Alice eyeing my backpack. Her tiny eyebrows pushed together. She was going to give me crap about it later; I didn't have to touch her to know that.

"What's your first class?" Emmett asked.

"Biology."

"You know how to get there?" he joked.

"I think I'll be able to find my way."

I saw my dad stroll up to us as the bell rang.

"That's the five minute warning bell. We should get going Bella, our Trig glass is on the opposite side of this building," he said as he put his arm around my Mom. "Good luck Nessie."

My mom waved goodbye and mouthed I love you.

"Thanks."

Jacob walked me to my class with 2 minutes to spare. He waved goodbye as he said, "See you in 3rd hour."

As I walked into my class and found an empty table towards the back. I sat down and pulled out my notebook. I heard a chair slide out of the desk next to me. I looked up to find a tall blonde boy, with blue eyes sit down right next to me. I was wondering why he choose this seat as I thought it wasn't the social norm to just sit by someone you didn't know, especially when there were so many other available seats.

"Hi, I'm Spence," he said as he gave me his hand to shake.

"Renesmee but you can call me Nessie," I said as I shook his hand.

"Your new here aren't you? I swore I knew every pretty girl in this school."

I blushed but not because I was flattered but because I was uncomfortable. I was always around Jake, or my big uncles or my dad so no boy had ever approached me before.

"Yes, my family just moved."

"Really? From where?"

"Forks, it's a small town in Washington."

He was just about to day something when I notice him look up. I saw two other guys look over to him as they made their way down the classroom and take the open seat in front of the table.

"Hey Spence, who's your friend?" the curly brown hair boy asked.

He rolled his eyes so obviously to convey that he didn't really care for the two guys.

"This is Renesmee but she goes by Nessie. Nessie, this is Rusty and Jason."

I smiled and said hi.

"Hey, do you have a brother?" Rusty asked me.

"Yes, he also goes here too."

"Yeah, I saw him in the hallway. Is he dating that girl with long brown hair? She is hot."

Eww, that's my mom.

I tried not to look too disgusted and said, "Yes, that is his girlfriend."

"Too bad, how serious is it?"

"Serious."

"Rusty, like you would have a chance if she was single," Jason said.

The teacher came in, did roll call and past out the syllabus. He then sat at his desk as the rest of the class began talking again. I enquired why he wasn't teaching today. Spence said that because it was only the first day of class. I was unaware that it was common knowledge that the first day of classes were blow off classes.

The rest of the hour passed by quickly, as I was bombarded with questions from Spence, Rusty and Jason. They wanted to know what Forks was like, why I moved here, what I like to do for fun, if I had any hobbies or played any sports. I looked up every now and then to catch a small group of girls glare over to me. I was wondering what I had done to offend them. As the bell rang to dismiss the class, Spence asked if he could walk me to my next class, which was Spanish.

He continued on with the questions while we walked. I started thinking that maybe I shouldn't of been so worried about making friends at school. This will be easy, I thought. I basically have a new friend already and its not even halfway through the day. Making human friends was going to be easy! As we got to the my Spanish class he stopped abruptly.

"Do you know those guys?" he whispered to me.

I looked over to find my uncles Jasper and Emmett giving him the death glare. I wondered why they were trying to look frightening. I wondered even more as to why they were in this class, since I knew I had no classes with them.

I looked back at him and his eyes were wide, "Yes, those are my brothers."

"Oh, well I should get going. It was nice to meet you," he said very fast and was quickly already down the hall.

When I looked back at Emmett he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Hey Nessie, we saved you a seat," Jasper called as he pointed to the seat in the far back corner of the classroom. Jasper sat next to me while Emmett sat in front. It seemed like they were trying to put this barrier between me and the other students. It also didn't help that human instinct made all of the students sit as far away as possible from Emmett and Jasper.

I sighed as Emmett turned around flashed me a huge grin.

"This is going to be an awesome school year," he said.