"I disagree with you." Rose asserted, raising her hand in Mrs. Hanigan's English class, "I don't feel sorry for Hamlet or Othello. I think they both got what they deserve."

"You think people are capable of deserving to die?" Mrs. Hanigan asked, leaning against her desk.

"Yes." Rose simply answered, as Jasper nodded beside her.

This earned all of the students' in the classrooms attention. Jasper enjoyed when his sister got in her debatable mood, especially since for years he was always on the other side of the debates. For once, he actually agreed with her. Each boy and girl turned to face her as Mrs. Hanigan responded.

"Elaborate please, in terms of Othello and Hamlet."

"Alright." Rose replied, sitting up assertively, "Hamlet was plagued with indecisiveness. He was too slow in extracting his revenge on Claudius. If Hamlet had just killed Claudius the first time, when he had the opportunity, he wouldn't have died and neither would have a few other characters. Hamlet deserved to die, not only because of his gullibility when it came to the ghost, but also because of the inane actions he took to seek revenge."

Rosalie crossed her arms and leaned forward ready to move on to the next story.

"As for Othello, he killed himself. He even agrees with me when I say he deserved to die. He got what he deserved. He killed his wife because he thought she cheated on him. Othello is like Hamlet because of his naivety when it came to Iago and for the fact that he decided to not bear the consequences of murdering his wife." Rose paused, to look around the class at everyone's nervous glance, "I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way," she stopped briefly to hear someone mutter the word harsh, before shrugging her shoulders, "What can I say? We live in a society where the pizza man gets to your house before the police do."

"Are you basically saying a life for a life?" Tanya, the class's know it all spoke up, rolling her eyes at Rose's explanation.

"No, I'm basically saying what I just said." Rose remarked, glaring daggers at the girl.

"You have such extreme opinions." Mrs. Hanigan spoke up, as the bell rang, "I'm actually excited about reading your essay Rosalie."

Rosalie walked confidently out of the classroom and down the hallway with her brother, Paolo and Carlo trailing behind.

"That was awesome." Jasper informed, dapping her fist, "It feels good to not be on the other side of the debate."

The school day was already going better than expected. Rose was starting to like the public school experience. Math, the most hated subject by Rosalie was next. It always put a damper in her day.

Rosalie seemed to grow on Mr. Archer. She left a good impression on him when she thanked him the day he set things straight. Jasper on the other hand, made it worse.

"Jasper, how about we do some basic, elementary school math with you?" Mr. Archer growled, approaching Jasper's desk, "If you have twenty dollars, and your sister needs ten, how much would you get back?"

"Nothing." Jasper muttered, smirking at Rosalie.

"Like I thought, you don't know math." Mr. Archer spat, shaking his head in disapproval.

"And you don't know my sister." Jasper retorted, earning a smack in the arm from Rose.

"Nobody likes a smartass Mr. Romano." Mr. Archer remarked, walking towards the marker board.

Mr. Archer grabbed yesterday's assignment to pass back out. Rosalie wasn't surprised at the low score marked on her paper. Math was not her best subject.

"What's going on?" Mr. Archer questioned, tapping the graded paper.

"I use to be good at math," she muttered, turning the paper over so she wouldn't have to see the grade, "until some idiot decided to add the alphabet."

"I'm sure if you put forth extra effort you'll get the hang of it." he responded, continually passing out papers, "Anything is possible."

"Really? Try slamming a revolving door, nailing jell-o to a tree, swimming in hot lava and drawing a concave triangle." Jasper scoffed, nodding his head, "Yeah, I did. I brought math into it."

Mr. Archer raised his head as he slammed Jasper's paper onto the desk. The young Romano couldn't help but grin as he smiled down at the A.

"Surprisingly, you did well." Mr. Archer spat, walking back over to his desk.

"I did great. I got all of them correct!" Jasper exclaimed, smiling as his sister snatched his paper off of his desk.

She knew he would. He was always the math genius. For some reason, he just understood it.

"Why are you so arrogant?" Quil rhetorically asked, earning Jasper's attention.

"I'll tell you why I'm so arrogant, if you tell me why you're an idiot." Jasper remarked, before the bell rang.

Some students laughed while others rolled their eyes at Jasper's comeback. Mr. Archer yelled out the homework as students collected their belongings.

Rosalie and Jasper walked into the cafeteria with Paolo and Carlo a few feet behind them. All eyes turned towards them, as mouths lowered and began to whisper. No one was discreet with the whispering. It was obvious who they were talking about.

Rosalie felt herself go mute once again. She felt how she felt on their first day of school, even though it was technically their second week of school. Alice quietly tried to walk past Rose and Jasper before she felt him grab her wrist.

"What's going on?" he growled, releasing her arm.

"Word around the school is your dad threatened all the teachers into giving you all good grades on your assignments." Alice mumbled, before scurrying back to her seat.

"That's ridiculous!" Rose exclaimed, running her fingers through her hair, "Did everyone in our math class fail to see the D plastered in red ink on top of my paper?"

No one seemed to pay any attention to her remark. Everyone just nodded their head and watched as the twins walked towards the lunch line.

"Jasper, don't you just love rumors?" Rose asked, as the girls in front of them quickly shut their mouths, "I mean, I learn stuff about me, I've never known!"

The girls decided it was easier…and safer to just get out of line. Jasper balled up his face as they made it through the lunch line.

"The gossip about us was actually dying down." he sighed, grabbing a juice.

"We should have known it wasn't going to last long." Rose remarked, glancing around the cafeteria for a seat, "I mean, we're the most excitement this school has gotten in years."

Bella waved her arm in the air, trying to get the twins' attention.

"You guys were looking for a new seat. You don't want to sit with us anymore?" Bella asked, as Rose and Jasper joined them.

"No, it's not that." Rose answered, opening her juice, "We just figured you wouldn't want us sitting with you."

"We actually like you." Alice whispered, as Bella nodded her head to back her up, "Even though sometimes you both scare me, I've never met people like you. I've heard about both of you, but those rumors are wrong."

Jasper's normally straight face actually smiled. Rose couldn't help but smile either, but she was the normally happy twin.

"What are the tables they're setting up in front of the school?" Rose asked, biting into her pizza.

"It's club sign up day." Edward answered, smiling as he wiped his hands with a napkin.

"What are you all signing up for?" Rose asked, taking the paper Alice handed her consisting of all of the clubs.

"Drama club." Alice said, clapping her hands.

"Yearbook." Bella replied, grinning wildly, "And the school newspaper."

"Jasper, they have an auto club!" Rose exclaimed, catching Alice, Edward and Bella completely off guard, "We're so signing up for that!"

"Yeah." he agreed, cracking his knuckles, "I'm also joining the wrestling team."

"I'm signing up for the glee club." Edward added, nodding his head, positively.

"Seriously? The glee club? What are you, a female?" Jasper asked, making himself laugh.

Edward stood up, and shoved his tray away from him. Jasper couldn't help but laugh harder at the reaction he got from Edward.

"There are a lot of guys in the glee club." Bella spat, before going after her boyfriend.

Rosalie stood up to go after Bella and Edward. She caught up with them right before they made it out of the cafeteria.

"I'm sorry!" Rose asserted, turning Edward to face her, "My brother can be insensitive sometimes."

"Sometimes?" Edward repeated, rolling his eyes, "Try all the time."

"Look Rose, you're not responsible for anything your brother says or does, so don't apologize for his actions." Bella avowed, grabbing Edward's hand.

"I wish people thought like that when it comes to my father." Rose muttered, turning around ready to head back to the table.

Six girls in cheer-leading uniforms stood in front of Rose, proudly smiling at her.

"What do you want?" Rose spat, crossing her arms.

"We want you to join the cheerleading team." Victoria spoke up, tapping her foot, impatiently, "We have never recruited anyone. You should feel honored."

"Well, I don't." Rose growled, rolling her eyes, "Now if you don't mind, can you move out of my way?"

"Can you at least think about it?" Charlotte wondered, stepping closer towards her.

Rose looked up at the six girls. Five of them were smiling hopefully, while the leader Victoria stood with an angry scowl on her face. Rose grinned at the fiery red head in front of her before nodding her head.

"Sure. I'll think about it." Rose agreed, before walking around them.

An awkward silence fell over the table as Rose, Bella and Edward left Jasper and Alice alone with each other. She tapped her nails along the table as he avoided eye contact.

"I don't know you very well, but I know of you." Alice informed, as Jasper nodded.

"Good to know."

"I guess what I'm trying to say is," Alice sighed, trying to get her thoughts together, "I know no one can be that mean. I know you probably don't like to be mean, but you can't help it."

"You're right you don't know me very well!" Jasper laughed, shaking his head, "We've only known each other for a week, you don't know me at all."

"Well, I would really like to get to know you." she whispered, before walking off.

Jasper was speechless. Someone had actually made Jasper Romano speechless. He watched Alice walk away as her face flashed in his mind. He shook the image of her quickly out. Her voice flooded his mind, followed by her face.

"What has you so quiet?" Rose asked, startling Jasper out of his thoughts.

Jasper shook his head as he hopped out of his seat. They dumped their trays before heading out of the cafeteria. Paolo and Carlo kept their word, they were waiting right outside of the door like they always do.

"We need to go to our lockers, then we're separating." Rose informed their guards.

She felt her pocket vibrate informing her of a text message. She glanced across the screen before smiling. Lauren.

If you saw me in handcuffs, what would you have thought I did?

-Lauren ;D

"Why are you so happy?" Jasper asked, closing his locker.

"Can't a girl be happy for no reason?" Rosalie wondered, before walking off with Paolo in a separate direction than Jasper.

Rosalie laughed to herself as she typed back a response.

Sold your body on the corner! -xoxo Rosalie

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-Rachel.