A couple weeks past with no real issues. I met a few humans who were somewhat enjoyable to talk to. Like in science, Dr. Von Guessel split us up into pairs and Alice and I were not paired up. After a brief, worried glance at her, I joined my partner. It was a girl named Melanie. She was cute, I supposed. She had chin length, straight blonde hair. Her mouth was a little too big for her face, but it just made her look unique. She had smiled at me when I met her at our station, seeming a little unsure of what to say. We had chatted a little but I didn't know what to say to relate to her. We talked about our families, she had 2 younger brothers, her parents were divorced and she lived with her mom. I told her I was adopted by the Cullen's, that my parents had died years ago. I felt a little bad for telling the lie, but it was what I had to do, and with the whole no blushing thing, it made things easier to do it.

There were also some pairings that annoyed me, like in Spanish. Mrs. Escobar had teamed me with a boy named Mike. Edward seemed like he was going to jump out of his seat and kill this Mike kid before he even sat in the desk next to mine. I quickly threw my shield over the kid to protect him. I knew Edward would be mad at me later, but I only did it to save the class from what Edward was capable of. I almost let it slip at one point, the kid was truly annoying. As soon as he sat, I was filled in on how he was the quarterback of the schools football team. He kept flexing his muscles, like that would have made me want him. As it stood, I was stronger than he was. He kept trying to flirt with me, it was almost painful. I knew Edward could still hear every word this kid said, and I felt bad for the girl who had been partnered with my husband. He seemed oblivious to her drooling. It made me giggle a little when she offered to do all the work for him, he could do this work in his sleep - if he could sleep, that is.

I almost attacked the Mike character myself when I felt his too warm hand on my leg. I cursed Alice for putting me in this skirt today, it was made of the thinnest silk imaginable and stopped mid-thigh. Edward had enjoyed the sight, but apparently so did half the boys in school.

I didn't need any more reason for Edward to want to kill these boys. Our nature was enough of a thing to battle with. Even now with me being more than capable to handle myself against them, Edward had grown so accustomed to protecting me while I was human, he had to keep reminding himself that I could handle it.

Other than the few minute problems, school was quite easy.

I had fun with Edward too, in the middle of classes I would pull my sheild back and think about things we did when we were alone at night. I found it hilarious one day, when I let him into my brain suddenly and he fell out of his chair. He, on the other hand, had not found that amusing. He kept muttering that I was spending way too much time with Emmett, if this was how I was going to start acting.

The only class I ever had any real trouble with was guitar. You would think that learning a musical instrument would be simple with how much time we had to devote to practice and how easily our minds could comprehend things. My biggest issue was handling the instrument itself. I did not worry about touching Nessie, being half-vampire made her a lot less destructable than a couple pieces of wood. One day I was distracted by Alice - she was having a vision and I was preoccupied wondering what she was seeing - and I accidently snapped the neck of my guitar in half. A couple strings flew out and hit the kid next to me, giving him huge gashes.

That day was a true test. Alice and I had both stared, horrified at the kid. Luckily the teacher had acted fast and sent him to the nurse right away. Emmett had found the whole situation hilarious, of course, later when Alice had recapped it for the family. Everyone was proud of me for not attacking, human blood really is an amazing thing, but Alice and I had ditched the rest of that day anyways, to go hunt. Edward was not happy that we had disappeared half way through the day, but once he had found out why, he was fine. Emmett just would not let it rest that I had found a way to be a clumsy vampire. Eternity with him was going to be hard.

A couple weeks after the guitar incident, we were all sitting in the cafeteria, not eating lunch, when an idea hit me. It was less of a lightbulb being lit, and more of overhearing a conversation, but that was not important. We were all in our usual places, sitting next to our significant others, when I overheard a couple of girls talking about the upcoming try-outs for cheerleading.

I felt Edward shift under me, I was leaning back into his side with his arms around my waist.

"Bella, love. What are you thinking about?" His head tilted sideways a little, and I instantly imagined a puppy staring at me waiting for something to happen.

I giggled softly, "Just thinking..." I trailed off. I leaned away from him slowly, he let one arm fall while the other continued to hold my waist securely.

I glanced at him to catch the roll of his eyes. I rolled mine back at him.

I leaned on the table, and my siblings watched me curiously. Suddenly, Alice started giggling. None of us paid attention to all the stares that came to us when Alice's laughter got louder. I glared at her, but she seemed to like what I had in mind, her head was nodding as she continued to grin like an idiot.

I felt Edward shake with his own laughter as he watched the vision Alice had.

"Rosie, get ready for some fun." Alice laughed again, Emmett, Rose and Jasper all still looked confused, so I took pity on them and explained what I had thought up.

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It had been a week and a half since I had my brilliant idea, and now the three of us girls were walking into the gymnasium. I knew the boys would be watching from a window, they wanted to see how things went. I had no doubts. There was no way three vampires were not going to make the cheerleading squad.

Alice had dragged us out to do some shopping for the perfect outfits to wear to the try-outs. Now we wore matching sweats - black, loose fit pants, bright pink tank tops and pink and black sneakers. We had also watched every movie we could find that had anything to do with cheerleading, and had made up our own practice cheer. I was a little nervous, I did not want these girls to be so intimidated by us that they turned us down just to make themselves feel better.

We walked in and sat on the ground to watch the girls ahead of us. Most of them had no business being here, it was quite comical. I looked up and saw the boys watching from a high window. I nudged Alice, next to me, and pointed up to them. She squeeled a little and waved up at them. Rose rolled her eyes as our sister started bouncing. Alice really was a little too excited.

When one of the girls sitting at the table in the middle of the room called my name, the three of us stood up.

"Uhm, my sisters and I were going to try-out together." I said quietly, giving her a shy smile. She rolled her eyes at me and said that was fine. I caught the whisper she sent to the girls on either side of her.

"This should be interesting."

Another girl leaned over and whispered as well, "The one, Ella, or whatever her name is. Isn't she the one who's guitar cut that boy?"

I sighed, I should have known that would get around school. I heard Emmett guffaw in the window.

Alice, Rose and I took our places and the routine started. After a lot of yelling, jumping, flipping and climbing ontop of each other, we finished in a Charlie's Angels pose with the judges staring at us in shock. Alice jumped up from her place on the floor and we bowed. We were dismissed and left the room with our arms wrapped around each other. Not a sound was heard as we left, everyone was in shock at what we had done, without breaking a sweat.

The boys were waiting for us and Edward cringed until Jasper and Emmett pulled their wives away from us. I gave him the same curious puppy look - my head tilted to the side.

He forced a smile for me, then explained that the two boys had been imagining their mates in a lot of inappropriate ways during our performance. I laughed as he slid his arm around my waist and we headed for the car.

It did not take long before the list was posted with who had been chosen for the cheer squad. Alice was squeeling at lunch, so I had a pretty good idea of if we made it or not. I laughed at her as we walked over to the gym after school to check the list - it wouldn't look good if we just walked around acting like we already knew we had made it. When we got there, the coach was handing out uniforms, so we searched until we found our sizes.

When we got home, the guys just went to the living room to play video games, while we wandered upstairs to talk about girl stuff. I had a feeling that Alice was realizing how much I actually liked shopping now, because I had not hidden it well when we were out shopping for our try-out outfits. We decided to change into our uniforms and see how much our husbands liked them. The school colors were orange and black, and the uniforms showed it. The skirt can to mid thigh, pleated orange on top of black all around, with a pair of very short black shorts underneath. And the tops were snug, and stopped about an inch above the skirts. The top was black all around except for two orange 'V's down the chest, with an eagle - the school mascot - on the front. The backs were plain black except for an orange 'W'.

My sisters and I changed quickly into them, then made our way downstairs. We were sure to walk past the guys on our way outback, telling them we were going to go practice. It was almost audible the way the guys just watched us walk by, jaws hanging slightly. We were on the back patio stretching with our backs to the sliding glass door, but I could hear as Edward, Emmett and Jasper all walked to the door to watch.

Suddenly Alice was gone, I looked at Rose who was laughing. I turned in time to see a blur of black, orange and white being carried up the stairs inside. The Rose and Emmett were tumbling towards the tree line, and I felt two warm arms slide around my waist. I felt his lips trailing butterfly kisses up my neck and I smiled before turning to look at him seriously.

"I guess we aren't going to practice today." I pouted. His lips came crashing onto mine for a brief second before I pulled back a little.

"Do you like my uniform?" I smiled up at him innocently, batting my eye lashes. I heard the growl make its way up his throat before he was kissing mine.

"Not at all. I think you need to take it off. Right now." I laughed huskily as he lifted and carried me up the three flights of stairs to our room. During the walk - well, run - I trailed kisses up his throat and nipped lightly along his jaw. He practically threw me onto the bed before he locked the door and pounced onto me.

The next few weeks seemed to fly by. Cheerleading practice had not started yet - they would in the middle of October. So had waited patiently. I tried to convince the boys to take a more active role in the school, but they did not know what to do. I was currently working on getting Edward to join the chess club. He was not too keen on the idea of spending a lot of time around humans, though.

"Come on Edward. Alice, Rose and I are trying to enjoy what time we have here. Why don't you?" I pouted at him in our room early one morning.

He staired up at the ceiling for a moment before responding.

"Look, love. I don't think its a good idea for us to mingle too much. We need to make it easier to just leave later on, and really, I mean, it's just wrong. It's like playing with your food." He wrinkled his nose a little and kissed my lip softly, before turning back to the book he had been reading.

"But, Eddie, don't you want to have a little fun?" I was not going to give up, and he seemed to realize that with a groan.

"How much fun can it be if I can hear what they are going to before they do it?"

That did pose a problem, so I sat back and thought for a minute. He had just relaxed and started reading again - thinking he had won the argument - when I jumped up, kneeling next to him. I snatched the book from his hands, careful to save his page because he gets a bit moody when he looses it.

"What about drama club?" I asked, more than a little excited. "It does not matter if you can hear their thoughts, because they will be concentrating on remembering their own lines."

He started to argue but stopped with his mouth open and finger in the air. I giggled at it, but he was scowling suddenly. I knew he liked the arts, and seeing as our family had to lie constantly to keep up appearances, I knew he could act. After a few minutes of silence, I knew I had won the arguement. I kissed his cheek softly and climbed out of bed, putting on a robe and strolling out to the living room. I had not e-mailed Charlie or Renee in a few days.

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A/N : ok so it has taken me a few days to post this, sorry for the like 1 person im sure is reading it. :) I decided to leave it at a little bit of a cliffhanger. See if Edward really does try out for a play and what Bella can get Emmett and Jasper into. I have a lot planned for coming chapters, so keep an eye out for new stuff. :)