A/N: ok as promised here is the next chapter, I'm finally done with my finals for this quarter, ok so I finished them on Thursday, but I had to take a few mental day before I attempted to finish this chapter, I was practically brain dead when I was done and I still had to work an 8 ½ hour shift before I could sleep again, and I had been up since roughly noon on Tuesday, but it all paid off I got two A's and two B's for the quarter so now I'm very happy. Ok I'll stop rambling and let you get to the story, I hope you enjoy reading please be kind and review. LD

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original plot or any other recognizable works, or characters; I'm just borrowing them for a little while.

Ch 3

B pov

I was almost hypnotized by his eyes, but I tore my gaze away from him, Edward on the other hand moved his seat as far away from he as the small table would allow, he still wasn't breathing, even though he was doing a good job of pretending at the moment, he was still glaring at me, I crossed my arms and felt for my wand not knowing if I would be needing any time soon.

All of the sudden I was angry why was this Vampire glaring at me? he didn't know me at all, what gave him the right to scare me like this?.

I just about had enough courage to turn and ask him these questions when Mr. Banner called the class to order, so I turned in my seat to face the front of the room, I really tried to focus on the teacher, but I kept peaking over at Edward, and every time I did, I had another jolt of fear run through me, after the second time I moved my hair over my shoulder, to block his view of me, and managed to get through the rest of class only peaking at him through my hair two more times.

When the bell rang he was out of his seat almost to fast, but nobody but me noticed this, and left the room before I could get my courage back, to ask him what had I ever done to him? As much as I hate to admit it I was shaking a little from what I feel was another near death experience, I made my way to the door, Mike meet me there.

"Hey Bella, where are you heading next?" Mike asked

"Gym"

I really was not looking forward to gym, being as clumsy as I am it does not make for a fun time for me.

"Great, I have that class to, I'll walk with you"

"Thanks"

I got the feeling that Mike was going to be a problem at some point but right this second I didn't have the mental space to think of a friendly way to let him know that I was not interested in him.

We made it to the gym, and once again I walked up to the teacher, I think his name is Coach Clapp if I remember right, I gave him my slip.

"Isabella Swan? you're the chiefs daughter I'm guessing"

"Yeah"

"Ok well it will take me a little while to get you a uniform, so I guess you can just watch for today"

"Ok"

I tried not to sound exited about the chance to site the period out, but from the look that Coach Clapp gave me as I turned away from him I didn't totally succeeds, oh well can't win them all.

I took a seat higher up in the bleachers and pulled out some of the work that had been assigned from today, but for the most part I had either already done all of this back at the muggle high school in Arizona, or learned some of it in one of my muggle studies class at my private school before that.

With this unexpected free time and no homework to really concentrate on my mind was free to wander and of course it wandered right back to my problem with going to school with a bunch of vampires, I couldn't help but be scared, I may have been lucky to get away from those others back home, but I'm not so sure that I could escape these vampires I was extremely out numbered just by the ones going to the school and to add on top of that I knew that were at least two others oh boy.

As I sat thinking about how to handle them I remembered the oddity of their eye color, why were there eyes that topaz looking color and not the normal red color of every other vampire out there, this tied up my mind for a little while.

After trying to puzzle out there eye color for a short time and coming up blank, I decided that this little mystery would have to wait until I got home, and had access to all of my books and must maybe they would have some useful information in them.

So instead of thinking about the oddity of their eyes I turned to thinking about the best way out of here, how I would approach the ministry about placing me someplace else anyplace but here, even if that meant that I would have to move to London for the duration of my punishment.

All of the sudden I once again became angry, did I forget to mention that I have quite the temper at times, but anyways, I was angry why should I let a few, well ok more than a few vampires scare my away from my temporary home, a place that I had been coming to longer than they had lived here, I had more right than them to be here they should be the ones to leave.

Ok so I there was no way that I could come up with to make them leave without getting myself in to deeper trouble, but why should I have to leave, I continued to think this over, and by the time the bell rang I had decided that I would not be scared away from here by anybody, they would just have to deal with the fact that I was staying, even though they most likely had no clue as to who I was or what I was, but I was a force to be reckoned with and if the threatened me in any way they would learn fast enough.

I carefully made my way back down the bleachers, I was almost all of the way down, when it happened I tripped on about the third one from the bottom, luckily I didn't hurt myself much, just a sore butt, but I was embarrassed, I had landed right at the feet of Mike, he had this look on his face like he wanted to laugh but was trying to stop himself.

I decided to help the poor guy out before he suffocated himself.

"Its ok Mike you can laugh if you want to"

And with that said I had to laugh at myself, it was that or cry from the sheer embarrassment, I decided to go with laughter, I was not going to cry in front of the boy, so he gave in and laughed a little.

I began picking myself up before he thought to offer to help me up, he offered me his had and I stood up the last remaining inches.

"So are you going to be ok?"

"Yeah I think so, but my ego begs to differ"

He just kind of gave me an odd look before obviously deciding to move onto a new subject; didn't these people have any sense of humor here? Oh well.

"So Bella how was your first day?"

I thought I would have to lie through my teeth when asked this question, but surprisingly I didn't.

"It was very interesting I guess"

"Well thats great"

By this time we had approached the gym doors; I pushed the door open and walked out with Mike still beside me.

"So what are you up to tonight Bella?"

Oh boy don't tell me that he is actually trying to ask me out, that I knew I could not deal with I didn't want to get attached to anybody here and besides I felt nothing but a slight friendship with this boy I right now, I would have to let him down gently.

"I think I'm going to go home and most likely collapse I still have some jet lag from my trip here I guess"

"Oh ok, then I guess I'll see you tomorrow then"

"Ok by Mike"

I made my way out to the parking lot and to my truck glad to have avoided Mike for at least one more day, that is one day to try and come up with a way to make this boy see that I have no interest in him beyond friendship, without hurting him, something I did not want to do to anybody in this small town.

On my way to my truck I had to pass the one nice car in the lot and its no surprise to whom the car belonged to, it just had to belong to the vampires, I was extremely tempted to just walk up to them and have it out with them especially this Edward, but I can't let my temper get the best of me I know where that would get me and I didn't need the ministry on my back again. So I would keep to my plan and research them a little more before I even thought of getting near any one of them.

So I walked quickly by them, determined not to look at them as I passed, but a movement from the corner of my eye made me look over, I was unable to make any sense of the scene I glimpsed at all, what I saw was Edward being held in place by his two brothers. Now there is not much that can scare me but this sent a tremor of fear through me, so I quickened my pace and quickly got in my truck.

Once I reached the truck I felt just a little safer, but not totally, even if my truck was somehow vampire proof my house was not, because in that one instant one thing became clear to me and was the answer as to why Edward had reacted the way he had in class.

He wanted my blood, this put a slightly new perspective on things, I knew what it was like to be attacked by a vampire once already and I did not want to go there again, at least I knew that he didn't just hate me for any reason.

In my book that still didn't give him a complete freebie to scare me the way he had, but in order to save my own life I would do what I could not to tempt him and the first thing I could do was make my scent disappear so that if he decided to come after me he would not be able to find me so easily.

Second on my list would to be to cast a charm to warn me if anybody or anything dangerous was approaching my home, so that I would have sufficient time to either run and hide or prepare myself to fight them off, being me I would most likely fight.

So for the moment I was safe in my truck there really is no way for him to follow my scent when I'm in my truck as I'm not touching the ground, so feeling just a little safer I made my way to the Thrift Way just off the highway just like everything else in this small town.

Once in the store I was able to forget for the moment where I was, because for the first time without magic I was unable to hear the near constant rain that fell here this place I now called home, I knew that I would eventually become used to the rain, but I had high hopes of being gone from this small town long before that happened.

Once I finished the shopping, I drove back home, before I unloaded the groceries from the truck I slipped my wand from up my sleeve and walked around the perimeter of the house casting a simple intruder warning charm, this would have to do for now I would see what other charms I made need later on.

Next item on my list was to hide my scent, so on the walk back to my truck I quietly murmured "Homenum Revelio"

When this reveled to me that there where in fact no muggles within seeing distance of me, something I should have done before I had cast the intruder charm around the house, but at the time I had only been thinking about mine and Charlie's safety.

"Locomotor groceries"

I said under my breath and moved the groceries into the kitchen, I got them set on the table, then walked back outside to see what I could do to get ride of my sent around the house, after thinking about if for a moment I decided to use a hot air charm to blast away my scent, this also had the added bonus of keeping me warm as I walked backwards around the house and the yard, this would have gone much quicker if I weren't to clumsy but I eventually go this done and walked back into the house.

After attempting to put all of the groceries away by hand without the use of magic, well I almost had all of them put away, but I discovered that I had bought a little bite much of the food that belonged in the freezer, so after trying every which way I could think of without magic I finally gave up and cast an extension charm on the freezer I could always hope that Charlie wouldn't notice at least not for a while.

After getting through the dirty work of putting everything away I turned to the steaks and potatoes I had left out on the counter, I quickly prepared a marinade for the steak's and got them soaking in the marinade and stuck them back in the fridge, next I got the potatoes seasoned and wrapped in foil and in the oven.

After finishing my preparations on dinner, I headed up to my room only tripping over my feet twice on my way up the stairs, I really was tired like I had told Mike at school earlier, I had just been fighting it since then in my attempt to get the shopping done and trying to stay vigilant about protecting Charlie and myself.

I couldn't have been any more than forty-five minutes later when I was woken up by Charlie arriving home.

"Bells you here?"

Still just a little groggy, I tripped my way down the stairs.

"Yeah, I guess I fell asleep, sorry dad, I'll have dinner ready in jiffy"

"That's ok Bella I wanted to check the score on the game anyways"

"Ok"

I quickly pulled the steaks out of the fridge and transferred them to a broiler pan, and switched them for the potatoes, while I waited for the steaks to get done, I tossed a salad. Nothing special just one of those chef salads pre-made in a bag.

Once I decided that the steaks where done I called out to Charlie.

"Dinners ready dad"

He slowly made his way into the kitchen and took his seat at the table, and began eating his dinner.

"Wow Bella this is really good"

I of course being me had to blush at this compliment and looking down at my plate muttered

"Thanks"

After we had both finished our dinner, Charlie carried his plate over to the sink to begin washing his plate.

"Don't worry about that dad, I'll do the dishes"

"Are you sure Bells?"

"Yeah I'm sure dad, but if it's ok with you I thought I would step out for a little while after I finish?"

I really didn't want to start a precedence of always feeling like I needed to ask his permission every time I stepped out of the house, but I didn't want to seem rude by just telling him, also I didn't him to worry if he came to check on me and saw that I wasn't in my room.

"What do you mean by step out?"

Obviously he wasn't going to take the subtle hint I was trying to convey to him so I would have to be more obvious to him.

"I thought I would take a quick flight around the forest to help clear my head from the day"

"Oh, ok just as long as you don't stay out for to long Bella, it is a school night"

"I know I won't be out for to long, I just want to clear my head like I said and also explore the area a little"

"Sure thing Bella"

With that said Charlie made his way back to the living room to watch the game again I guess, and I quickly washed and dried the dishes the muggle way, then made my way up to room, stopping on the way to say goodnight to Charlie.

"Night dad"

"Night Bella"

Sounding distracted, I guess the game he was watching was really interesting as he was sitting on the floor close to the television than the couch.

When I reached my room, I walked over to my closest, and grabbing a set of black robes from the back of my closet and my Nimbus 2001, a gift from my mom just before all the trouble had began.

Muttering under my breath "impervious"

While pointing my wand at my robes, making them in muggle terms water resistant, a must in this rainy place, I slipped them on and opening my bedroom window then balancing myself on the window ledge pulling my broom out the window, I quickly got settled onto my broom before I fell out of the window.

With that I was airborne, I felt a freedom that I rarely felt when standing on my own two feet, because while I may be so clumsy I was nearly a hazard to myself and anybody around me when walking around, I was as I had been told extremely graceful when on a broom.

Whispering to myself "Lumos"

To make a light at the end of my wand so that I could see more than a few feet in front of myself I quickly rose higher in the air and really gained some speed. As much as I didn't want to come back to earth so to say after almost an hour and half of just randomly flying around I turned around and headed back home.

I had flown further than I had thought I was unable to see any signs of civilization below me, no cleared area of land with a light house sitting on it, no nothing just the far reaching and never ending forest, a very beautiful sight might I say, that is if you were into that kind of scenery, to which I had no plans of becoming attached to this place so of course it had no real effect on at all, ok maybe just a little.

All of the sudden I did notice a clearing in the middle of a section of the deep forest, that's odd I thought, why would there be a house this from any kind of civilization, but as I was already extremely tired, I decided that I would just have to remember where this place was and come back when I had gotten some sleep then explore this oddity some more.

I speed up just a little more, at the thought of my warm bed waiting for me, just because I had made my robes resistant to the rain did not mean that I was resistant to the cold air around me and now that I noticed I was quite cold.

After managing the mini miracle it took to get myself back in my bedroom window, note to self next time just use the back door it would be a lot safer for me, I changed into my favorite old sweat pants and tee-shirt as fast as I could and crawled into bed.

Just before I fell asleep I gave into the mild dread that I would have to face another day of school tomorrow, including facing being in closer contact with the vampires of the school than I wanted to be, but oh well tomorrow was a new day after all, who knew what could happen.

A/N2: So I hope you enjoyed the latest installment of this story, and please be kind a remember to press the little green button at the bottom, I promise it doesn't bite. If any of you are reader of my previous story I hope you have noticed that I'm trying really hard to make to the chapters longer and with more detail this time around. So thanks you for reading and I hope to have another chapter out by mid week, but no promises at this point there is no telling what could happen in my crazy life at the moment, anyways as always lots of luvs. LD