"Why should you be nervous?" Edward asked me, extremely perplexed. Normally, he would read my mind and find out for himself but mom shielded my mind. They had come to an agreement that my life should be as normal as they could manage- this included.
"Dad, I have never been in any form of school." I muttered, knowing anyone in the house would hear me anyway… damn their vampire hearing.
Emmett snorted. "If she did, we'd have no use for the ten thousand books she reads per day!"
"Uncle Emmett!" The folks believe calling him Emmett to his face wouldn't be normal. "I need those."
It was true. I couldn't have any form of human education. What, and risk the humans witnessing my extraordinary growth rate? No good. So I have been kept with those of my own kind- other vampire friends visit regularly and so do the wolves.
That's the thing… I don't know when, where, or how this happened. I have started feeling… irritated, frustrated and overly-babied whenever Jake's around. I haven't told anyone but is it possible for someone to break the imprinting destiny?
You see, that's what I hate (aside from garlic and neon yellow); someone deciding for me. I'm fine with the case of Alice because she's just predicting and not actively controlling unless it involves clothes but Jake… He's not my father. Damn, he's not even a relative!
You may ask why I'm going to school now. It's due to the slowing down of my growth rate to a human level (I'm about fifteen now). So I'm just in time for the jungle that is high school.
"You're gonna love it, Nessie." Jake told me from across the living room. "And I can come pick you up after school."
My mom and dad hissed at the same time. Jacob backtracked (it was kind of comical to watch). "Okay, maybe once a week?"
It wasn't that they didn't like him (in fact, you probably already know about their PAST), they just wanted me to meet different people. She didn't want my world to revolve around Jake at such an early age.
Well, they certainly had no problems there. "What about during weekends?"
Mom looked relieved when dad just grit his teeth. "That's great! Remember, you can make as many friends as you want."
"Sure I will. If I find them half as interesting as the people I've grown up with." Chuckles resounded around the room.
"You're going to meet a very good friend today." Alice exclaimed.
I groaned. "You seriously didn't have to tell me that."
"Yeah, Alice." Mom said frowning, then she added, "Male or female?"
Alice grinned; mom smiled wryly; Emmett howled with laughter; I blushed. "That's it! I'm out of here."
"Be safe!" Emmett yelled as I slammed the door on them all.
It was typical of my whole family to be there for me on my first day, but that was way too much. At least gramps and grandma (Carlisle and Esme) were calm about it. Charlie was with Billy doing who knows what.
So I was driving through the pouring rain in my Hybrid car. Dude, someone has to save the world. Why not a half-breed (hybrid… haha, get it?) like me?
Being the crazy-faced driver that I was, I was too busy straightening my dress to watch the road. I was so worried that I would stand out too much with the pale green cotton dress with the low round neckline, puffed sleeves and slightly full skirt that barely covered my knees. It was I good thing I never hit anything on the road.
Alice even made me wear matching mary janes! I think it was her mission to make me look like a princess for first day.
Whatever it was, it worked! I was getting stares from everyone from the moment I stepped out of my perfectly parked car. If they thought I was quite a sight now, wait 'til they see me in the sun! I might get a few faints from that one.
I smiled at the few that didn't look away when I looked back at them. I got a few smiles back and even a beam from a girl who looked to be Angela's(old friend of my mom) daughter. She looks exactly like her mom did in the yearbook, only with thick, almost gothic eyeliner and a leather jacket.
She would be intimidating if her expressions weren't so animated.
She eagerly approached me, with her tall blonde friend in tow. "Hi! I'm Abbie. You must be Renesmee."
"Yup. I'm the newbie." Was I taking the lingo too far? She didn't seem to mind.
"Yeah. Just like your mom, I heard. Did you know that she knew my mom?" She asked, looking like she was looking for a connection.
"Yes! She has only nice things to say about your mom. I'm guessing that I'll only have nice things to say about you too." I remarked, scoring a grin.
"I hope so." Then she remembered her manners and ushered her very pretty blonde friend forward. "This is Candy."
"Hello." I said, smiling welcomingly. She would be considered a vampire if it weren't for her smell, the beating of her heart, and her deep blue eyes.
She looked at me in this almost suspicious stare. "You look like a fairy princess."
I inwardly groaned. "Is that a good thing?"
"If you want the boys to notice you, which they already are doing, by the way." She told me matter-of-factly. "Or if you want to hang out with them."
Her sullen glance was directed to a couple of confident senior girls who were eying me calculatingly, as if assessing my 'potential'.
"Rox!" Abbie reprimanded disapprovingly. It was funny that the gothic chick was rebuking the angelic-looking girl in casual clothes.
"I'd rather hang out with cooler people." I said haughtily.
"And who are they?" Candy looked thoroughly confounded.
"You guys." That finally brought a smile to her otherwise sullen face.
"In our dreams." Abbie said wanly. "But we're cool if you consider a trying hard goth and a skeptic popular."
"Why not?" I said happily letting them walk me to my locker then to my next class.
Amidst these new friends, I couldn't help thinking about the male friend Alice was implying. Who is he?