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Chapter 3

Edward POV

Alaska is where I ended up.

A family like us were up here called the Denalis. Not that I stayed with them. I kept away from everyone, ashamed of my own weakness, that a girl with strange blood could drive me away from my home.

Tanya one of the Denalis tried to follow me when I dropped the car off at their house and started to run. Eventually she got the message that I wanted to be alone. I felt bad. Reading her mind I could see she got her hopes up. She was always interested in me, though I had rejected her as kindly as I could many times before.

I couldn't feel the cold on my skin as I blurred through the trees, my skin was probably as cold as the snow anyway.

I decided to hunt. Try to quench my thirst and take my mind off things. I had caught the scent of an eagle just a mile away.

While the rest of my family preferred large carnivores, bears, lions, I had always preferred birds for some reason. Maybe it was the exciting chase or the fact that their blood was so different to most carnivores.

Only a few metres away, I slowed down and started to climb the trees. The scent was so strong now. Venom poured into my mouth. It reminded me of...

I stopped noisily in my tracks and the eagle flew away.

It reminded me of that girls blood. In my mind I compared the two. The girl had the scent of bird in her blood, masked by the scent of human blood, so I didn't pick up on it at first.

I turned around and ran back to the car. I didn't know what this means but something isn't right about that girl. I could call Carlisle but I something was pulling me back to Forks. I wanted to see her myself. Make sure I was right.

Max POV

That Edward guy didn't show up the next day. Or the next or the next.

Over the days I had managed to fall into routine. I guess I made some friends though, to be honest I didn't exactly try but I everywhere I went there was at least one person who knew my name and wanted talk to me. It didn't annoy me like I thought it would. It was kind of nice...though sometimes I'd still get a stinging pain in my chest, reminding me what I lost and that I didn't deserve to have friends.

The Cullens didn't bother me except for the odd stare in my direction when I went past and I didn't bother them. I'd like to think that I was just over reacting, a side effect from being on the run all the time but when Edward didn't show up for the third day in a row I got suspicious again. On the third day none of the Cullens showed up. Not only was it not raining but we got bursts of sun sometimes. It was a nice change and I got to ride my motorcycle.

On the fourth day though, they were all in. I watched them walk together across the parking lot. One of the girls with short brown hair, I couldn't remember her name, seemed to talking frantically to Edward and the rest seemed uneasy.

Biology was my last class. As I walked in I could feel his stare on me like I was under a microscope. I sat beside him without a look or a word.

"Hi."

His voice caught me off guard. He was actually going to speak to me this time?

"Hi." I flicked through my book trying to ignore him.

"You're Max, aren't you?"

"Yep."

There was a beat of silence as I found my page and then he spoke again.

"Do you like living in Forks?" He spoke so formally I had to bite back a smile.

"It's Alright."

The teacher came in with microscopes. He handed one to each pair with slides.

"You are going to examine each slide and write down what phase of mitosis it is. First pair to get it right wins."

Edward set up the microscope. I watched as he looked the first slide."Prophase."

I remembered going over this with Jeb last year but I was still sketchy on it.

Edward passed the microscope to me with the second slide. I took a lot longer than he had and still had no idea. I took a guess. "Anaphase." I said confidently.

"May I?" Edward took the microscope and looked through it for a second. "Anaphase."

Thank god I was right.

"Like I said."

"Like you said."

We got through the slides and I managed to get nearly all of them right.

"So you moved here from Virginia?" He asked when we were done.

Great more conversation.

"Yeah."

"You like talking monosyllables, don't you?"

I couldn't stop myself from smiling I could hear the frustration in his voice.

"Yep."

"Or maybe you're just doing it to annoy me." The frustration was gone as quickly as it came.

"Maybe."

"Or maybe you don't like talking about yourself." He continued.

Before I could answer he made up his mind.

"I think it's both."

"Why ever would you think that?" I said sarcastically.

He just grinned and stayed silent until the bell went.

I met Total straight after school in the mountains. We decided to try and find the family of eagles we had been seeing around the place.

Total started to change when the flock was dying. I was changing to but with Total it was a lot more noticeable. While I tried to stay strong for the rest, he went quiet. He stopped making jokes, he didn't complain any more. He only really talked to Angel. Only Angel knew he was growing wings until they were really noticeable.

He changed again when Angel died and I broke down. He became the strong one. He may have been talking dog with wings but he kept me going. I think it's because he saw angel in me, and he didn't want to lose her again.

We watched the eagles nest from a tall pine tree. Total sat on my lap and I kept him warm. It was cold and windy up here, but I didn't really feel it.

"Jeb is going away next week." He said

"Yeah," I wasn't sure to be happy or sad.

"Are you still going to go to school while he's here?"

I thought for a moment, "Yeah, I think so. It takes my mind off things and it's kind of nice, you know?"

"Any friends?"

"Sort of..."

"Sort of? You can't have sort of friends."

"What's the point in having friends if I just have to leave them."

"But you don't have to leave them. You can stay here as long as you want."

"I don't..."

"Don't you dare say you don't deserve them. You do. They don't deserve you because they don't know how loyal you are. How great you are."

I didn't say anything.

"C'mon, so what are they like? Good looking guys? Cool girlfriends."

"I like this girl Angela. She doesn't talk much or ask stupid questions."

"You should invite her over or something."

"You're beginning to sound like Jeb."

"Well, he's right."

We waited in silence for a while and one of the eagles came to the nest. Total and I watched for a while and I decided to tell him.

"Total, have you heard of the Cullens?"

Edward POV

Alice couldn't see Max.

Everyone was worried now. First the over appealing bird blood and now this? Something wasn't right with her.