Edward Cullen's Point of View
The whole ride back home was filled with my siblings asking what my problem was, both mentally and verbally.
"Just wait until we get home," I said as I pushed on the accelerator, "I don't want to explain more than once." Alice's eyes then got that glassy look, meaning she was having a vision.
"Why didn't I see any of this earlier?" she mumbled, as if embarrassed about the fact that she wasn't the All-Knowing-Alice she thought she was. I pulled into the driveway and my brothers and sisters ran into the house, anxious to hear what the problem was.
"Carlisle, Esme." I called quietly, knowing that they could hear me regardless of the fact that they were nowhere to be seen.
In an instant, both of them were standing right in front of me, concern crossing their features and thoughts.
"Family meeting." I mumbled as I walked into the living room where Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett were already waiting. They all sat down, but I stayed standing, pacing, trying to figure out how to best word it.
Edward, was there an accident at school?
Son, are you okay?
Would you hurry up and spit it out? I have things to do.
Bro, I'm dying of anxiety here... Oh wait, I'm already dead!
Just come out with it already, Edward. I'll calm them if you'd like.
I can't believe I didn't see this...
"I found my singer."
Everyone's eyes widened, excluding Alice's. I continued pacing as all their thoughts rushed into my head. Finally, Carlisle spoke, "No one was hurt, right, Edward?"
I could hear the desperation in his voice and thoughts. "No," I reassured him, "But that's not all."
"Oh," exclaimed Rosalie, "That's just great! Not only did Edward find his singer, but there's more! He's going to end up killing her, whoever she is, and then we're going to have to move again!" She glared at me as she jumped up from her seat, her eyes flashing in fury.
If you screw this up, Edward, I will kill you. Slowly.
"Rosalie," Esme scolded, "Your brother has sufficient control, I'm sure he'll be able to resist the temptation."
"Edward, what did you mean by, that's not all?" Jasper inquired as he sent out calming waves towards the now seated Rosalie, who was still glaring at me.
"As you all already know, Chief Swan's daughter, Isabella Swan has just moved here," I took an unnecessary breath, "She's my singer, but I also can't read her mind. And, that's still not all."
"Well, this just keeps getting better and better doesn't it?" Emmett laughed.
"I fail to find the hilarity in this situation, Emmett." I glared in his direction.
I fail to not find the hilarity in this situation. Eddie can't read some little human's mind!
"What else is there?" asked Esme worriedly.
"There's another new girl, Ariadne Ceccarelli," Carlisle nodded in recognition, her father being the new doctor in town, "I can read her mind, but I don't get the full thought."
I thought back to the brief hour I had sat next to her in Spanish. Her thoughts were just a string of random words that must have formed sentences, had I been able to read her mind properly.
"All I get is a few words, silence, a few more words, and then more silence. It just keeps on going from there." I ran my fingers through my hair and sighed, "Do you think there's something wrong with me?"
"Of course, there's something wrong with you. You're almost 100 years old and still a virgin." I growled in anger.
"Emmett, leave your brother alone."
"What are you going to do Edward?" I thought about it. I had two options. I could find the Swan house and kill the girl, or I could go away. I knew which option I should take, but it wasn't the one the monster in me wanted. I couldn't disappoint Carlisle and Esme though, not after everything they've done for me.
"I'm going to visit the Denali coven for a while. I don't know if I'll be back," Carlisle and Esme nodded in understanding. I wondered if they'd be so understanding if I accidentally caught her scent on my way to Alaska and ended her life. I could make it look like an accident. From what I heard, she did seem extremely accident prone. It would be all too easy...
"We'll miss you, Edward," Esme said, her eyes shining with tears of venom that would never fall. Everyone but Rosalie nodded in agreement.
You'll do what's right, Edward. I have faith in you. We all have faith in you, even Rose.
I nodded at Alice, then ran to my car and began my journey to Alaska. I would not disappoint them.
Ariadne Ceccarelli's Point of View
I walked into English the next day feeling a whole lot better than I did the day before. People still stared, but that was to be expected. It would have been rather foolish of me to expect otherwise.
We continued reading the assigned book, Wuthering Heights, for the rest of the period. To say I was bored would have been an understatement. After reading wizarding books for seven years straight, muggle literature just seemed completely uninteresting to me. I pretty much ran out the door when the bell rang.
Alice Cullen was already sitting down when I reached Trigonometry. I greeted her as I sat down in my seat, ready for an interesting lesson. Merlin, I sound like such a nerd.
Mr. Varner walked into the class and told us to quiet down.
"Today, you'll be working on a few worksheets," he held them up with his hand, "You'll be able to work in partners, but I'll give you one warning, if I see no work being done, you will be separated." The class cheered in excitement, they must not get a lot of group work in this class.
"So what do you say, partners?" asked Alice as I turned to ask the same question.
"Sure, I was just about to ask you the same thing." And I mean that literally, those were the exact words that were about to leave my mouth.
"Great." she beamed as Mr. Varner gave us three pieces of paper.
The worksheets were pretty simple. We had to determine whether it was tan, cos or sin and find the measure in degrees of the angle. This was definitely nothing like Arithmancy. Thank Merlin I was paying attention to his lecture yesterday.
"And the sin is 5," I told her as she wrote it on the worksheet in her neat handwriting.
"We're done," she gave me a huge smile, "You're really good at this. If I had been working with anyone else, I would have had to do all of it myself." Alice said in her tinkly voice.
"Thank you, maths has always been a strong point of mine." It really was. I was one of the best in my Arithmancy class.
As we were the first pair to finish, we turned in our work to Mr. Varner and talked the rest of the period.
"What was your old school like?" Alice asked me, curiosity evident in her voice, as we got onto the topic of my previous education.
"Magical," I breathed as I pictured Hogwarts in my head, the old Hogwarts, not the battle torn mess the war left us with. "It was a castle, you see. There were many towers and turrets as well as secret passage ways hidden throughout the whole castle. It was very medieval looking." I felt like I had to stop. I might just very well tell her about magic if I continued.
"It does sounds magical," Alice said, "And your teachers? Did you like them?"
"My professors were amazing. They really cared about our education and well-being even though sometimes they were a pain in the arse." I smiled as I thought about my head of house, Snape, and Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, but then I thought of the Carrows and how Snape was murdered and the smile slipped off my face. Alice noticed.
"Are you alright?"
"Uh, yeah. I just miss it is all." I could tell she knew that I was leaving something out but she didn't question me further for which I was extremely grateful.
The bell rang and I waved goodbye to Alice telling her I'd see her later. I had Biology next, which I already hated. I took my seat next to my lab partner, Alexander Chase, a fairly attractive boy with dark, shaggy hair and hazel eyes. He was pretty friendly from the few words we had exchanged the day before.
He greeted me as I sat down and I returned the greeting. Mr. Banner walked into the room and immediately continued the lecture from yesterday, cellular anatomy. I didn't bother paying attention, although did I keep my eyes facing towards him as if I was paying attention. Seriously, why was this class even mandatory? I doubt many of us are actually going to need to know any of this in the future. Chemistry would have been far more interesting than this, that's for sure. It did sound a lot like Potions.
Finally, the bell rang. I gathered my things to leave but Alexander stopped me.
"What class do you have next?" he asked politely as he grabbed his biology book.
"Spanish." I replied, a little confused as to why he was asking.
"Mind if I walk you?" he asked with a shy smile, "I have the same class."
"Sure, let's go," I smiled at him. His shyness was just too adorable. And refreshing too. Most of the boys at Hogwarts stopped being shy as soon as we hit 4th year, well, excluding Neville Longbottom. It's the hormones, I'm sure of it.
Alexander was telling me about his best friend on the way, who I later learned to be Faye, my new friend from P.E class. As soon as we entered the room, I felt myself being pulled towards the back of the classroom. As it turns out, Faye was in this class with me and she was the one pulling me to the back of the room.
"I am here to save you from the evils of," Faye spoke to me in an urgent tone, "Bella Swan." At this point, her voice has gone down to a whisper. I couldn't help but laugh at her silliness.
"Oh, I don't know what I would have done without you," I stated dramatically as I fell into an empty seat.
"I guess it's a good thing we'll never find out then," she laughed as she plopped down on the seat in front of mine. "I see you have met my very best friend, Alexander Gabriel Chase, but you can just call him Lexi." she winked.
"No she may not, in fact, neither of you can call me Lexi,"
"And why ever not, dearest Lexi?" asked Faye sardonically.
"Well, I am a man, a manly man," he replied as he took a seat next to me, "Manly men do not go by names such as Lexi," This time, he pulled his arm up and flexed his muscles. Merlin's baggy Y-fronts, forget fairly attractive. This kid was fit.
He must have noticed my ogling because he asked, "Like what you see, Ariadne?" while wiggling his eyebrows.
"I certainly do, Alexander." I winked and he went slightly pink.
"Call me Alex," he murmured as the teacher walked into class. I saw Faye raise an eyebrow at me but I just shrugged.
When the period was over, Alex, Faye, and I walked to lunch together. I saw Jessica wave me over to her table, but I signaled to her that I would be sitting with Alex and Faye. She looked slightly disappointed, but quickly turned back to her friends.
Faye dragged me over to a table situated on the far left of the cafeteria. Sitting there, were two boys and a girl.
"Guys, I'd like you all to meet Ariadne!" Faye exclaimed as she shoved me onto one of the white plastic chairs surrounding the table. Rude.
"Hi, I'm Ellie," a small girl with honey blond hair smiled shyly at me from across the table.
"And I'm Brandon!" One of the boys waved enthusiastically at me.
The last boy stood up from his seat, walked over to me, took my hand in his and kissed it.
"It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance, my lady. The name is James." He made a horrible impression of an English accent. I decided to go along with it.
"I'd have to say that the pleasure is all mine, Mr. James." I exaggerated my accent a bit, making it sound like a posh, Queen's accent.
James laughed as he let my hand go and sat back down in his seat.
"It's really nice to meet all of you actually." I smiled at all of them as I stood back up. They already had their lunch trays in front of them, but Alex, Faye and I still had to get ours.
I scanned through my choices: ham sandwich, chicken sandwich, a cesar salad. I sighed as I grabbed a chicken sandwich, a bag of crisps, and a Sprite can. It was moments like these that really made me miss Hogwarts all the more. The food here, for lack of better word, sucked. I miss the Hogwarts house elves.
I quickly paid for my lunch and moved to the side so that Faye and Alex could pay for their own.
Lunch flew by fairly quick. I got to know Ellie, Brandon and James, and I actually really liked them. That made me feel a lot worse as they, like Faye, had questioned me about Hogwarts.
"So, did you like 'em?" Faye asked as we walked to gym together.
"Your friends? Who wouldn't like them?"
She laughed, "Good. I was scared you guys wouldn't get along."
"Well, there's no need to worry about that now. Your friends are lovely." I replied.
"Ugh, you're so British!"
"Thanks, love." I once again exaggerated my accent a bit.
We made it to the locker rooms and I went to go change into my uniform. I'd have to actually play today, which was unfortunate, as I sucked immensely at most sports. Faye, on the other hand, still got to sit out because of her sling.
We walked out onto the small field and waited on the bleachers for Coach Clapp. Alice and her family were sitting on the bleachers as well, but on the other end.
"You're gonna be running today." Faye told me with a smirk on her face.
"Ugh, how'd you know?" It wasn't that I minded running, but the field was soggy and muddy, plus it was raining slightly.
"James had P.E last period."
Coach Clapp chose that moment to walk out from his office. Everyone was already dressed and scattered around the bleachers waiting for instruction.
"Alright class, today, you're going to be running laps," the class groaned loudly but he continued, "Two miles, which is the equivalent to twelve laps around the field. As soon as you're done, you can change and just hang around until the period's over. Get started!" He blew his whistle and everyone immediately began running.
I was on my sixth lap when I felt a presence next to me. Alice.
"Hey, Alice." My voice came out a bit uneven. I hadn't worked out in a while and I was beginning to feel it.
Her light, tinkling voice spoke, "Are you alright?"
I laughed slightly, "Yeah, yeah. I'm fine. It's just been a while since I've actually worked out. Can't say I'm doing as bad as them though." I pointed to a group of girls on the other side of the field that looked like jogging zombies.
"No, you're certainly not." She laughed.
"So what's up?" I asked, curious as to why she was talking to me. As far as I knew, she really only hung out with her family.
"Oh, nothing. I just noticed you were running alone. I thought I'd come keep you company."
"Oh, well, thanks." I smiled at her.
There was a moment of silence before I broke it.
"Is your brother alright? Edward, I mean." She looked like she was expecting the question, which was just a bit odd.
"Yeah, why'd you ask?" She questioned, but I got the feeling she already knew why I had asked.
"Well, he was acting a bit odd yesterday. I mean, it's not any of my business, but I just wanted to make sure he was alright, you know?" I realize how weird my question seemed. It wasn't like I knew how the bloke usually was as I had only met him yesterday, but I don't think throwing a fit over an unchangeable schedule a month into the school year was a regular occurrence.
"He wasn't feeling all that great yesterday, but he's better now. He's left to go visit some family friends though. He should be back soon. There's no need for you to worry." She gave me a knowing look, like she knew something I didn't. This actually bothered me a lot. I hated not knowing things.
Her answer didn't really satisfy my curiosity, but I responded with a quiet 'alright' before falling silent.
We finished up the rest of our laps in silence. By the time we finished, there was still a half hour left of class.
I walked up to the bleachers and plopped down next to Faye, who looked utterly bored.
"Hey, what were you and Alice talking about?" She asked as soon as she noticed my presence.
"Eh, just about her brother."
"Edward? Has someone got a crush?" She nudged me with her elbow, a loud giggle escaping from her mouth.
I laughed, "It's not like that at all."
"Sure it's not." She winked at me.
I rolled my eyes at her playfully before standing up.
"I'm gonna go change. I'll see you in a bit."
I walked into the locker rooms, hoping to see it completely empty so that I could freshen up using my wand. The locker rooms lacked showers. Unfortunately for me, Alice and her sister, Rosalie were both in there. I smiled at both of them quickly before turning and walking to my locker.
I pulled off my uniform, and quickly pulled on my jeans, long sleeve shirt and hoody. Thankfully, I had placed my wand in my bag, so I didn't have to worry about trying to discreetly pull it out to put my boots on.
I felt a pair of eyes watching me as I pulled my bag onto my shoulder. Turning to look behind me, I saw Rosalie Hale glaring at me from her own locker. I raised my eyebrow at her inquiringly, but she just rolled her eyes, flipped her hair and walked out the room. Taking the opportunity of the now empty locker room, I quickly pulled my wand out from my bag and murmured a freshening charm on my body, then stuffed my wand into my boot.
I briefly wondered what Rosalie Hale's deal was, but then I realized that I honestly didn't care. Pulling my bag up on my shoulder once more, I walked out of the girl's locker room and to my next class.