Chapter 4

People here were so different. Not from us but from each other. Some were really flashy showy people. Others looked real quiet and shy. There was of course the 'gangster' people and the preppy people, then the average people.

When we walked in the door I swear almost every head turned to watch us come in.

A strong breeze blew in and mixed every scent in the warm room. I stopped a few feet in and froze there.

"What's wrong?" Jacob asked.

"There's way too many people here I need fresh air." I said. I could feel the excess venom in my mouth. I turned to go outside.

I could breathe again when I was outside. The scents were there but not as strong. "Hey are you okay?" I looked up to find a shaggy blond haired guy. He was cute, like 'I wanna pinch your cheeks' cute

"No…I mean yeah I'm fine."

"Are you new here?" He asked.

"Yeah I'm Nessie."

"Like the loch ness monster?"

I rolled my eyes. "Kind of, it's short for Renesmee. Nobody remembers that."

"I see. I'm Jordan."

"Nice to meet you."

"You're with that huge family that moved in right? What are there like 10 of you? I saw you all arrive." He asked.

"Yeah 10, 3 of them are adopted and 1 is living with us, family friend."

"I figured. Your parents are really young."

I shrugged. "Yeah I guess they are."

"Hey Nessie are you okay?" My mother came up to us.

"Yeah. Oh Jordan this is my m-" Crap, this isn't going to be easy. "Bella."

"Your Bella, really?"

"I...I was going to say my…brother's girlfriend."

"Hello." My – Bella! Bella! Bella, greeted him. This is going to be harder than I thought.

"Jordan!" A group of guys called. He turned around to look at them.

"Well I'll see you later, Nessie."

"Sure." He turned to meet up with his friends.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked me again.

"Yeah it was just really sudden." I assured her.

"I know, it helps if you don't breathe so often you'll get used to it." I nodded and followed her back inside. The family was waiting for us near the front.

"You good?" Jacob asked me.

I nodded. "I'm fine."

Everyone was making their way to what I believed to be the auditorium. We followed everyone in and sat in the back. Once everyone got seated a man started to speak.

"Welcome everyone to Arkadia High. I'm Mr. Miller the head principal. Behind me are the AP's/Assistant Principals. I would like to welcome the new students and the former students as well. I hope this year is as great of a success as last year. Before we split up to visit the classes we will present our major organizations. First is our varsity football team come on up guys," A large group came up wearing green football jerseys. "We wish them well this season. Next are cheerleaders." A bunch of girls skipped onto the stage with their uniforms on they did this cheer. "Thank you girls, next is the drill team." It was almost like the cheerleaders only they actually danced to music. "Alright now I have the pleasure of presenting our Performing Arts class 2 for this year. We have two new students joining us Allison Lozz and Renesmee Cullen come one up with the rest of the group." I almost freaked out when I heard my name. There was no way I was going up there. The guy in front of me got up and to my luck it was Jordan.

"You can't say it's not you, there aren't that many people with the same name. Come on." He urged me.

"No, I…I'm okay right here."

"Come on they don't bite."

But I do. "No I'm not going up there."

"Come on Nessie." Jacob said nudging me.

"You're not helping."

"Jordan please join us." Apparently the principal knew him.

"I'm getting our new student!" he announced. It was like domino effect everyone started to turn my way. "Come on it can't be that bad."

I laughed nervously. Dad! I screamed mentally. "Fine." I got up and followed him up to the stage.

"Welcome Renesmee and Allison." He said as another black haired girl joined me beside the principal. "For those who aren't aware the Performing Arts students perform throughout the year with the rest of the dance and vocal teams. They raise the most money in our fundraising show. Jordan and Kathy are our senior performers both very talented individuals." Everyone clapped for them. He dismissed us to our seats. It was the most nerve racking moment of my life. He introduced the dance teams though most of them had already been up for Performing Arts. "Lastly we would like to invite the varsity Soccer, Baseball and Basketball players." He elaborated on the teams and then dismissed them.

"Well our AP's will be taking students around on a tour." He divided the auditorium into 8 groups. This school was huge and apparently these were just half the students.

When we started to follow the AP I turned to my dad. "What was that?"

"I didn't know."

"How do you not know? You read minds for goodness sakes." I said in a lower voice.

"There was no open class that period so they put you in there."

"That was so embarrassing."

"I didn't mean to put you on spot sorry." A male voice said behind me. It was Jordan.

"It's okay I'm not used to so many people. I went to a small school, very small."

"I'm really sorry then."

"It's fine. Oh this is the rest of my family, my brothers Emmett Jasper and Edward, my sisters Bella, Alice, and Rosalie, my best friend Jacob. Guys this is Jordan." They all mumbled their hellos. "These are my parents Carlisle and Esme."

He shook with Carlisle. "Nice to meet you all."

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We took a long tour of the big school. I figured I knew where my classes were. After it was over Jordan took me to meet some of his friends.

"You guys this is Nessie." Apparently everyone knew I was that girl on the stage, nice way to be remembered. "Nessie this is Scott, Gabby, Kayla and Julian." I greeted them then I looked behind them. There was a Hispanic looking girl making her way over to us.

She wore one of those fake smiles. "Hi you're Renesmee right?"

"y-yeah." I answered.

"You're getting really acquainted with Jordan here right?" She asked coolly.

"Maribel, drop it." Jordan said.

"I guess." I answered.

"Well stop it, he's my boyfriends back off."

"Maribel, I said drop it." Jordan said in a harsher voice.

"Mhmm." She stalked off.

"I'm sorry about her. She's pretty blunt or a little mean. Don't worry about her."

"What he's trying to say is that she's a bitch." Gabby said. Jordan scowled.

"Like you don't know it, you just put up with her because of your parents, if it were up to you you'd dump her in a heart beat. They just make you stay with her." Scott added. I looked over at Julian who became uncomfortable.

"Whatever." I heard a phone vibrate it was Jordan's. "Hello." He answered. "I'm by the main gym" I could listen to the woman on the other line. Maribel is waiting for you. "Okay I'm going" Jordan you need to start being nicer to her, she told us what happened. "I know and that wasn't my fault, she overreacted." His voice grew annoyed. You have a responsibility. "I know, you won't let me forget. I'll be there in a minute." He shut the phone. "I have to take off, see you later."

I was left alone with Gabby, Julian, Kayla and Scott. Julian went out the back door to his family and the rest of us started to walk back.

I guess I had a confused look on my face. "You want to know why they have to stay together, right." Kayla asked as we walked back up to the front door.

"N-no it's none of my business."

"He knocked her up." Scott said.

"Oh…that makes sense." I said.

Gabby joined in. "He doesn't think it's his, she cheated on him with Julian." Now that makes sense no wonder he left in such a hurry. "Yeah, it's big happy love triangle. The truth is he was going to break up with her because he found out about her and Julian. When she found out about the baby she told him and her parents and her parents told his parents. Maribel admitted that Julian was drunk and she wasn't when it happened. That's why their still 'friends,' If you can call it that. He told his parents about Julian and they won't believe him. She denied it and they refused to ask Julian about it. They think he's trying to punk out and now they live together in his house. As you can see he's ecstatic. He's making her do a paternity test when the baby's born."

"Wow." That was quite a love triangle though I doubted there was love involved. Poor Jordan he really looks like he hates the situation and Julian looked uber guilty. Maribel seemed….not nice at all.

"I know get ready this school is always flooded with drama. We've got it to spare." Kayla said laughing. Drama, sounds complicated and school hasn't even started yet.

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You like? I'm actually loving it. Well I love writing it.

-toodles.