Jenna had questioned me about my 'date' with Matt for over an hour. I told her it went well, even though it had gone horribly wrong. She still giggled and made fun of me about it, but that was better than her knowing the truth about the whole night.

On Monday, I got an icy glare from Matt and Rosie, who seemed incredibly smug about the whole thing. Matt didn't even say sorry for just going and leaving me there by myself.

I had English fourth period – right before lunch - and I couldn't help but feel so nervous about it. I would have to sit next to Matt since Mr Williams doesn't let people change seats until the start of a new term. When I walked in, both he and Emmett looked up at me. Emmett smiled and nodded at me, but Matt just glared and looked back at his book.

Taking a deep breath, I sat next to him and ignored him. It was awkward, and he turned away from me. Emmett's eyes were on me yet again today, like they were everyday. I was even nervous about sitting with his family at lunch. Matt ran from the class the moment the bell went, and I sighed. Was this how it was going to be whenever I had to sit next to him?

Emmett was next to me in a matter of seconds, grinning. His solid frame towered over me. Emmett's eyes were brighter today, the same bright gold they were when I'd seen them in the hospital. That didn't make any sense, his eyes had been darker before, I was sure of it.

"Emmett, do you wear contacts?" I asked. He picked up his bag and flung it on his shoulder, and I did the same. We began walking towards the cafeteria, with my stomach in knots because I'd sit with his family for the first time. He glanced down at me.

"No, why?" he asked though he avoided looking into my eyes.

"Your eyes," I murmured. "They were almost black when I last saw you."

"Must've been the light Em," he chuckled.

I wasn't convinced and I was going to ask him more about it later, but my nerves were getting the best of me when we walked into the cafeteria. In a flash, everyone looked at us.

Emmett ignored it completely, since he was so used to it. I followed him, and saw Jeff, Matt and the rest of the group watching me with wide eyes. Even Rosie's mouth was hanging open.

Jeff still apologised to me at every chance he got. Rosie would start flirting with Matt whenever I was within ear shot of them and then snigger. I never liked her, but that was just annoying. Emmett stopped walking and I heard him sigh.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Alice is a little over-excited to meet you Em. Don't say I didn't warn you," he told me.

Just on queue, Alice skipped over to us. She was literally beaming at me, taking my hand and dragging me away from Emmett. I laughed at the way she skipped and she made me sit next to her. Emmett sat next to me, sighing at her.

What I found strange was how cold Alice had been. Emmett was the same, they were all extremely cold. And the eyes. How they never came to school on sunny days. Edward looked up at me as I thought about it, and even his eyes seemed brighter now.

Edward was amused, yet again. Jasper was smiling at Alice, kissing her cheek a few times which I found adorable. Alice spoke so fast I barely understood her, but she made me laugh a lot. She wanted to bring me shopping, go to the cinemas and have sleepovers.

Matt sent us glares at us for the majority of the break. I ignored it, since I was having a great time with the Cullens. Edward made sarcastic jokes most of the time, and Jasper talked about history. We had it right after break, and he wanted to sit next to me in this class so we can talk more about wars.

I was actually sad when the break was over, but Alice kept hugging me and telling me we were going to be great friends and she skipped off with Edward mumbling behind her about how she needs to be taken to a mental asylum.

Emmett walked up behind me and said, "Don't forget we have to go to the forest like I said this weekend. Okay?"

"Sure, how about Friday?" I asked.

"Great."

Jasper was waiting for me when I finished talking to Emmett. I smiled to myself, happy with how well the break had went. Even the fact that Matt had purposely stomped past us in the hall didn't bother me in the slightest. Or how Rosie ran after him, telling him to wait for her and calm down.

"What are you so happy about?" Jasper asked.

"Nothing," I laughed. "Just that Alice is very, very fun."

He nodded, smiling at the thought of Alice. "She's amazing."

Jasper kept his word and sat next to me in History, and just before the teacher came in we would talk about the Civil War. Jasper knew a lot about it, and he was fascinating when he spoke about it. One thing kept popping into my head when he was talking. Their eyes.

Golden, but I was sure Emmett's had been black. And he said he didn't wear contacts, so that was out of the question. Jasper noticed and asked what was wrong.

"Jasper, you don't wear contacts either, do you?" I asked.

He raised an eyebrow at me. "No, why?"

"Just your eyes were black. I mean, sometimes when I see you or Emmett, your eyes are golden…And then they're black."

"It's just the light Emilie," he smiled.

"Yeah," I murmured. "The light."

.*.*.*.

As I sat in the car with Jenna after school, I kept thinking about them.

The Cullens.

It could not be the light. It just wasn't. Jenna was too busy singing along to the radio again to notice how deep in thought I was, and I liked it that way.

Jenna was in a particularly good mood today, but I'm not sure why. It seemed like the average day, and she gave Robert an extra kiss when she skipped through the door.

Robert looked at me, raising an eyebrow but I just shrugged and went upstairs. We didn't have much homework today, just reading an English essay and finishing off a maths paper. Maths was fun today, since Alice sat next to me.

Alice is very…eccentric. She asked me all about my life story, my family, friends, music, art. Sometimes she'd actually wait for me to answer, but I just liked listening to her. She made me laugh a lot, but yet I still couldn't stop thinking about their eyes and how cold they were. It wasn't the normal cold, it was like ice.

Lying on my bed, I looked around my bedroom, trying to find something to take my mind off of it. I pulled out my laptop and had an email from Lilly, asking how my new school was.

It's interesting Lilly, and I even had a date with a complete jerk called Matt…Tell you about it later. How's everyone at home?

I sighed, knowing she wouldn't reply for a while since she wasn't online. Instead, I looked up changing eye colours. Nothing extremely interesting, so I looked up cold skin, changing eye colours, being incredibly fast and strong.

I clicked search, scrolling through the Google results. One thing popped up in bold letters…

The Cold Ones.

It was an old tribe story, but all these things matched up with how Emmett behaved and his skin and everything about him. The Cold Ones were vampires, whose natural enemy were the werewolves.

When I thought of vampires, garlic and wooden stakes came to mind. It wasn't my fault, those are just the stories that parents would tell kids. Or at Halloween, when they dressed up as a vampire. I dressed as a vampire as a kid when I was five, instead of dressing like Lilly, who was a princess.

"Oh my God," I whispered, looking right at the screen. "Emmett…the Cullens…they're vampires."

.*.*.*.

Ever since I saw that article, I'd been watching the Cullens closely. Edward seemed suspicious too. It was Friday, and I was going to the forest with Emmett. Jenna thinks we're going to the town because she'd freak out if she knew I was going back to the forest.

I was permanently sitting with the Cullens at lunch, and yet another thing I noticed was that they bought food and didn't eat it. Or some days they didn't bother buying any food at all, saying they'd eaten already. They didn't mention anything more about it and they'd pick at the food they did buy sometimes too but wouldn't actually eat it.

"Emilie, come on!" Emmett boomed. Standing in the parking lot outside school, I was waiting for Emmett the whole time but I'd been so lost in thought I didn't notice him running up to me.

"Bye Emilie!" Alice chirped.

"Alice, hurry up. You'll see Emilie again," Edward muttered, smiling crookedly at me. Jasper nodded and gave a tiny wave. They left in Edward's car, and I got into Emmett's.

"Put on your seat belt Emilie, like I said before I drive fast," Emmett laughed. He didn't have to tell me twice, his driving was terrifying. Emmett hadn't put on his seatbelt, so I told him too and he just rolled his eyes and did as I asked.

The clouds were dark, and it was probably going to rain. I'd come prepared today, with a large gray hoody I'd found in my wardrobe, some heavy leggings and I even brought some wellies.

Emmett didn't seem that bothered by getting soaked in the rain, like I hadn't when I was lying in the forest for the first time. Bad day to wear eyeliner Emilie, I thought. Emmett tapped his fingers on the driving wheel, laughing.

"What?" I asked.

"It's going to rain, I don't think it's such a good idea to go to the forest, you'll get sick," he murmured, looking up at the clouds.

I rolled my eyes. "I go there by myself a lot Emmett."

"Maybe you shouldn't anymore."

"I will anyway," I laughed. He nodded, grinning.

Emmett had this way of making me blush, which was embarrassing to say the least. When he laughed, I blushed. When he so much as called me 'Em' I'd blush. And he'd laugh when he saw me blushing, causing me to blush even more and punch him.

When I did, his skin was rock hard. At first I assumed it was just his height, and how strong he was anyway but I was messing with Edward when I pushed him and he didn't even move.

It was yet another thing that made me think they were…vampires. I felt insane thinking that, but the more I spent time with them the more it made sense. Emmett pulled in by the side of the road, and jumped out. He was next to me even faster than before, adding to my suspicions of his speed.

Unless he was some sort of superhero who wore his underwear over his tights.

The image of Emmett in tights and his underwear with a giant cape caused me to start laughing until I had tears down my face. It's not that bad an image actually.

He raised an eyebrow at me, but didn't ask.

I didn't mention the vampire – or superhero – thing at first, since he was having a great time picking me up and spinning me around, making me incredibly dizzy and giddy.

We were having so much fun I didn't even realize just how much it was raining. I could barely see, but Emmett is tall enough to be seen a mile away.

He was about a foot or two away from me when I decided to ask him if it was true. A part of me wanted to just forget about it, and pretend I was just acting crazy or something. But I couldn't. I had to ask, even if he did think I was a mental patient.

"Emmett," I asked. He stopped laughing and looked at me.

"Yeah Em?"

"I-I need to ask you something, so please don't lie," I said, serious this time. He looked at me, his eyes narrowing a little bit. Emmett was still in cheery mood, I could see that.

"A-Are you a vampire?" I whispered.

He had heard me, I could tell because his eyes hardened. It was completely quiet, and I could feel the rain smudging the eyeliner on my face. My hair was matted to my skin, just like the first time I was here in the forest. I'm sure I looked weird, with the eyeliner pouring down my face and hair stuck to my skin. Not to mention I still had the red lipstick on. I always wore it.

He chuckled, quite loudly. But from the sound of it, he was nervous. I didn't give up, and waited for him to stop.

"What makes you think something so silly Emilie?"

"How fast you are. How strong, how cold a-and…Your eyes Emmett," I babbled.

"I told you Emilie, it was the light and-," he began.

"Emmett!," I yelled. My own eyes widened when I yelled. I rarely yell, I've never needed too. Emmett froze and looked kind of guilty. "Don't lie."

He hesitated, before saying, "I'm not a vampire, Emilie."

Furious, I turned on my heels and began walking when Emmett started following me. He was well able to keep up with me, easily.

"I'm not going to accept that it's 'the light' anymore Emmett," I muttered. I had no idea where the Hell I was going, and had to step over logs and branches but I didn't care.

"Emilie, please, we can't go to this far into the forest," he begged.

"Nope. Not until you say it."

"Say what?"

"That you're a vampire!"

We stood for a moment, looking at each other. He was chewing his lip, like he wanted to say it. After two minutes of pure silence, I sighed in frustration and stormed past him.

I walked on and on, knowing he had stopped following me.

"Emilie," he called. "I am."

I froze, spinning around. "W-What?"

"I'm a vampire."

I took a step back, bumping into something.

Spinning around, I gasped as I looked into the eyes of a giant, murderous-looking wolf.

Today is just getting better and better…