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Chapter 2: Pale Faces and High Speed Races



I got ready for school the next morning, dreading all the attention we would get,

It's not that I didn't know that we would get attention, for being new in the first place, it's just I was and am always reserved. Arielle was always the mouth for us. She had no problem flaunting her appearance.

I got dressed in a pale pink top, a white cardigan, white heels, and some pink and white accessories , along with black skinny jeans. I also had on pearl and diamond, earrings, and bracelets.

I went downstairs, and ate a quick bowl of cereal. Ari came down the steps from her room. She looked beautiful as always. She was wearing a black and white top, ripped light blue skinny jeans. She was wearing a black leather jacket, pink heels, and pink and black accessories. She was driving her new motorcycle to school. It was a Ducati monster 696. I was still nervous about the fact that we would be flaunting that we have money.

We made our way to the garage and went to our respective vehicles. I pulled out of the driveway, and caught Ari's eyes.

"Race to School?" She asked over the hum of the Ducati's and Bugatti's Engines. I nodded.

As we made our way onto the highway we raced to the Forks High Office. I won by a nose. She pouted as we made our way to the secretary. We made it here extra early in order to avoid people and get our schedules.

We walked up to the front desk and approached a woman with frizzy red hair, and freckles. I cleared my throat to get the woman's attention. I could hear her heart beat pick up as she took in me and Ari's appearances. I still only looked seventeen and Ari only looked fifteen.

"Hello. I'm Isabella Swan and this is my sister Arielle Swan. I called last week."

"Oh-um.." She stammered. "Of course. I have all your information right here. I'm Mrs. Cope. Here is your schedule, a map of the school and a slip for you both to return at the end of the day. " She handed us all the things we would need and we thanked her. We walked out of the office. When we got out, more people were starting to fill the parking lot. Almost every person was staring at either us or our vehicles. Ari went to her bike and got her helmet and bag. I went to my Bugatti and took out my bag as well. I looked at my schedule and the map and committed them to memory.

When I finished getting my stuff, Ari came by my side to compare schedules. We only had last hour gym and lunch together. A boy with short blond hair and blue eyes came up to us and introduced himself.

"Hi . I'm Mike Newton. You must be Isabella and Arielle Swan."

"Yes but please call me Bella." He nodded.

"Um, I guess I'll see you both around. Bye" He waved. I sighed. I knew that's how the day would progress. As promised ,it did. I met a few people. I met a sweet girl named Angela , in my first and second hour classes. In my third hour class, I had a class with Mike, he introduced me to his friends, Jessica, Tyler and Eric. There were others but I couldn't remember. By fifth period, It was lunch. Mike invited Ari and I to sit with them and we agreed, not wanting to sit all alone.

That's when Ari and mine worlds turned upside down. Five of the inviting sweet scents we have come to know wafted in as five supernaturally beautiful people entered the cafeteria. I looked at Ari to see the same panicked expression on her face. Five vampires just entered the room and nobody even turned.

Our worries faded away when we caught the eyes of one of the vampires. She was short and pixie like. Her eyes were a golden color. Ari nudged Jessica, and asked who they were.

"Oh those are the Cullens. They're weird. They are the adopted children of Mr. and Mrs. Cullen. Rosalie-the tall blond bombshell – and Jasper – the blond that looks like he's in pain- are twins. The other three Alice, the small one, Emmet the big burly one. Are all adopted."

"What about The one with the bronze hair?" I asked joining the conversation.

"Oh his name is Edward. Don't waste your time. Apparently none of us are good enough for him. I looked over to where the Cullens were sitting. Emmet was snickering nudging Edward who had a stern expression on his face.

"Don't worry . I don't plan to."

Everyone went back to their normal chatter. I told Ari to get up because I needed to talk to her.

" Ari, I think they are the ones who need help. " I said after we were out of the vampire's hearing range. We could still hear everything because our senses were even more advanced than a vampire's.

"What do you mean?"

" 'Member the vision? I remember the shadows. There were seven people. And we were able to make out their hair. It matches perfectly."

"Oh yeah . You're right. Well what are we going to do? We don't even know what they're in danger of."

"Well I don't know. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it, but for now, cover your body with the scent shield. We don't need them to eat us on our first day, They may be vegetarians , but we don't know how much control they have. Even though we were in a room full of people they are still vampires and—"

I was interrupted by a flash of copper hair in the corner of my eye. The pixie girl, Alice and the bronze haired guy, Edward were standing 200 feet away, gaping at us. Ari followed my line of sight and gasped. We were standing there with our eyes wide when we composed ourselves and went back to talking. We started talking about the book series, The Vampire Diaries.

They relaxed their posture a bit but still looked suspicious.


I went to my car while Ari went back to the cafeteria. I put on my favorite mix CD of classical music. Just as Arabesque number one was going to play there was a small rasp on my window. My breathing quickened when I saw Alice Cullen standing there. It's not that I was afraid , I was just caught off guard.

I opened my door and got out , to greet Alice. She stuck out her hand and I took it without hesitating. She seemed shocked that I took it and didn't flinch at the coldness.

"Hi. I'm Alice Cullen. " She said in a voice that resembled the tinkling of bells.

"Bella, but you probably already know that."

"Yea. Ever since the school got the call last week, the town has known of you and your sister." She laughed.

"Yep. " It was quiet for a moment before she spoke again.

"That's a nice Bugatti, you go there."

I blushed and mumbled a thank you.

I heard steady breathing and no heart beat approaching.

"I wish I could have one of these." A musical soprano sighed behind me. I turned around to see Rosalie.

"Hello" I said shyly.

"Hi . I'm Rosalie."

"Bella" I replied.

"How fast have you gotten it to go?"

"Well I have fined tuned it. But I haven't really tried doing to much. It only came yesterday, so I haven't really tried doing much with her. I really want to go to this race track I saw in Seattle."

"Well when you do go give me a call. I'd love to see what this baby can do."

I smiled kindly at Rosalie , just as the bell rang.

"Well , bye Alice, bye Rosalie."

"Bye Bella. Please call me Rose."

"Sure."

Behind me they started whispering at vampire speed.

"Rosalie? You only let people you like ,call you Rose. What was that? What happened to the human is going to ruin our lives!?" I heard Alice tease while asking Rose.

"Hey, she has good taste in cars and clothes. Did you see what she was wearing? Geesh . She and her sister are obviously not ordinary humans. "

I grimaced. They hadn't believed us at all. I guess we were going to have to tell them. I didn't want to but I felt like I could trust them. Not in the way that their vampire charm was affecting me, but in the way that they felt like family. I walked into my biology class and handed Mr. Banner my slip.

He signed it and told me where to sit. I took a seat at an empty desk that he told me to sit at. Just as I sat down, Edward stepped graciously in the room.

He sat down next to me rigidly. I remembered jumpers have the sweetest scents, so I quickly covered mine. That power came from a werewolf . His name was Joseph. He was a very sweet person. It came in handy at times like these.

He visibly relaxed and his eyes went from onyx to amber in a matter of milliseconds. He looked at me and smiled. I blushed and looked down .

"Hello, my name is Edward Cullen. I'm sure you've met my sisters." His voice was like satin. Smooth to the touch. His voice had just the right tone of masculinity. It wasn't as deep as a bass but just above a tenor. I looked into his amber eyes and introduced myself.

"HI-II I'm B-Bella" I stuttered. He chuckled. His eyes were hypnotizing me.

" Well I guess we're going to be lab partners. "

"Yea."

"So. Why did you move to Forks?" He was the first person to ask me this question.

I decided to stick to the partial truth.

"Well.. when my parents died, their last wish was to keep my sister happy. We had been wandering around. We wanted a fresh start so we decided to come here."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry."

"Oh don't worry. She and I are well over it. It happened years ago."

His face contorted as I said this . I suddenly realized my mistake. I tried to back track , but I was interrupted by Mr. Banner's lecture.

I ran out of the class. I was nervous because I let a little detail slip. Our parents were supposed to have only died months ago not years ago. I ran to my gym class too early and stumbled into Alice and Ari in a heated discussion over Armani's new line.

"Oh hey Bel. Why are you so out of breath?"

"Oh nothing. Don't worry."

Ari and I didn't have to participate today since it was our first day. It was Alice's free period so we just talked for the period.


"Bella , Arielle , would you two like to come over to our house?" Alice asked as me and Ari were walking towards my car and her bike.

"I don't know…" I trailed off as I looked into Ari's hopeful gaze. She was using a witch's hypnotizing gaze to make me agree.

"Ugh Fine! Ari just stop with the witch glare!" It was an inside joke between me and Ari. Only we knew about all the other mythical creatures.

"Yes , Alice we'd love to. "

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