A.N. Hey, guys... I'm sorry I haven't posted in forever. I could give you a thousand excuses about summer camp and the biggest carshow of the year in my area, or even repainting my room, but I won't. Because I should have posted. And just to make sure that I do post more often, I'm going to make a promise to myself that I'm going to try and post on this story every Friday. I'm going to try and post a chapter every Wednesday for my other PJO and Twilight Crossover, Secrets and other things that kill you. Also, I have a new story that I just posted the prolouge for. It's a Sherlock Holmes FanFiction based off of the TV show Sherlock and book series Enola Holmes. If you like Sherlock Holmes, then check it out. You don't have to know Enola Holmes or Sherlock to enjoy it. Enough rambling, on with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. Or Percy Jackson. I own the stuffed car that is sitting in front of me, but that's about it.

The next day was better… and worse.

It wasn't raining, so I knew that Daddy dearest wasn't spying on me, and I managed to fit in some time to train. School wasn't as awful as yesterday, as I knew what to expect and my every move wasn't scrutinized by the entire student population.

However, I was still sleep deprived due to the awful weather during the night. When I got back to camp, things would be eerily quiet. Also, my "new kid" status that made me untouchable by teachers in class wore off, so I had gym and trig to contest with. It was also worse because Edward Cullen wasn't in school.

I dreaded seeing him, of course, but a part of me wanted to get the inevitable confrontation over with. It was going to be awkward but having humans around would be a good buffer.

Walking into the cafeteria with Jessica, I immediately looked to the table the coven was sitting at yesterday and saw only four vampires, not five, sitting around the cafeteria table. We were herded to Mike's table to eat and talk. The entire period I was looking at the doors waiting for him to walk in, hoping that he wouldn't notice me, or pay any attention to me whatsoever.

I'm not sure if I was disappointed by his disappearance or happy.

I grew more confident as I walked to Biology, though, keeping my eyes peeled. Mike came and talked to me until the bell rang. That was going to be a problem. Camp had a… difficult atmosphere for crushes and other things along those lines. You see people at the best of times… and the worst of times. Needless to say, I wasn't used to boys' attention, and it was obvious Mike was giving me attention.

I could tell it was my fault that I had the desk to myself, that Edward was absent. If a vampire wants a human's blood, being the human's lab partner would not be a good idea.

After school let out, I rushed to my truck to avoid my golden retriever of a friend and to head to the local Thriftway to get food.

Charlie couldn't cook. At all. After gaining kitchen duty for my stay, since I could cook, food was a definite necessity.

Returning home, I checked my e-mail, sure that Percy had sent some sort of communication. My mom had also promised to write when I called her to tell her that I wanted to regain contact with the normal world. I apologized multiple times for not coming to stay with her, but Phoenix doesn't have easy access to the ocean. She then told me she was moving to Jacksonville to try and get her new husband signed to a baseball team. I then responded by saying that I didn't want to get in the way of her and Phil, plus if the move wasn't permanent, I couldn't be sure if I could stay. She finally gave in and made me promise to e-mail as much as possible. So, I wasn't surprised to see four messages in my inbox, three from her. The first was nice, a friendly e-mail that you would expect. The second was asking why I hadn't written back. The last was quite a bit more urgent saying that if I didn't write, she'd call Charlie. Replying to her and Percy, who had written a simple friendly email once like the sensible boy he is, I finished up in my room.

It was later, at dinner, that I sought out more information about the Cullen family.

"Dr. Cullen's family? Sure. Dr. Cullen's a great man," Charlie replied when I asked.

"They…the kids… are a little different. They don't seem to fit in very well at school."

And then Charlie ranted. "People in this town. Dr. Cullen is a brilliant surgeon who could probably work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here. We're lucky to have him – luck that his wife wanted to live in a small town. He's an asset to the community, and all of those kids are well behaved and polite. I had my doubts, when they first moved in, with all those adopted teenagers. I thought we might have some problems with them. But they're all very mature—and I haven't had one speck of trouble from any of them, besides the occasional speeding ticket. That's more than I can say for the children of some folks who have lived in this town for generations. And they stick together the way a family should – camping trips every other weekend… just because they're newcomers, people have to talk. And don't you go scrutinizing them just because they are different. They are a perfectly normal family with nothing up their sleeve. No monsters, nothing in that world. Forks is nowhere near any of the important places in that world, so you don't have to jump at everything." Charlie got louder with every word he said, but ended up just speaking loudly. I recoiled.

"I know. They seemed nice enough to me. I just noticed that they kept to themselves, that's all. I wasn't even looking at it that way, and even if I did they don't match anything I've ever heard of. They're all very attractive." I tried to get back on my feet without getting into a huge discussion with Charlie about things that would make him uncomfortable. Charlie took the bait and after a comment on Dr. Cullen's apparent good looks, we lapsed back into comfortable silence.

After dinner, I trudged upstairs to do my math homework, and to make an IM to Rani. The technicalities of an IM in Forks were a little different. The watery mist I could handle, but it was the sun that made the rainbow. After a little experimentation, Rani and I came up with a sun lamp being the best choice. I turned on the shower and the sunlamp and made a call.

"The Recording Studio under the Amphitheater, Camp Half-Blood." Rani had promised to be there every night to wait for my call. When the image appeared, she was making some changes to a sheet of what I assumed was music.

"Hey." I said. She spun in her chair.

"Hey! How are you? School treating you ok?"

"Yeah, things are good. Just a minor thing that I wanted to ask you about, but it's all good. How's camp?"

"Good. What do you want to know?" Darn it. She didn't get distracted as I would have hoped. Rani would flip when I asked her about the Cullens, and I wanted to have a normal conversation with my friend.

"Just a little thing…are there any covens in the Seattle area?"

"Not that I'm aware of, but there are a lot of nomads in the area, and one coven that stays a couple of years in one place then moves that I have no idea where they are. Why? Has something happened?"

"Well… there could possibly be a coven of 7 vampires living in Forks, one of which being my lab partner who was very tempted by my blood on the first day of school and didn't show up today."

"WHAT!"

"There are 4 more in the school."

"This is not little! This is huge! A coven in your school, this is bad. What happened on the first day with the lab partner person?"

"He was on edge and didn't breathe all the way through class. I ran into him in the office at the end of school and he briskly walked out the door."

"No attack?"

"None. And he was thirsty that day. I could see it in his eyes."

"7, you say?"

"Yeah."

"Two adults, and the rest are all teens?"

"Yeah. Do you know them?"

"Maybe. Last name the kids are registered by?"

"Cullens. Well, two of them are Hales, but they're called the Cullens."

"I know them. Not so much a Coven, but a family. I'm glad it's them. I met them once. They're vegetarians, like me, so less harm. What was the name of the lab partner?"

"Edward."

"Oh! You'll be fine. Edward has the most control next to Carlisle, the doctor. He'll run and hide for a few days, decide that you are a human girl and who are you to keep him from his family, and come running back. Now, a few things to note. They don't know anything about demigods. Edward can read minds, but Athena is blocking him from reading anything about demigods until they are needed, or they find out. Alice can see the future, but Apollo messes with her visions so that she doesn't see anything she shouldn't. Jasper messes with your emotions, but he wouldn't use that badly, so the gods haven't put restrictions on him."

"Bella! Hurry up!" Charlie knocked on the door.

"Be out in a sec!" I turned to Rani. "I gotta go."

"Ok. Just one last thing."

"What?"

"Whatever you do, do not mention me to them. Got it?"

"Got it. Bye! Tell Percy I said hi!"

"Bye!" I turned off the shower and walked out of the room to my bedroom, perfectly dry, freaking Charlie out.

Edward Cullen didn't return to school the next day. As the days went past, his absence was longer. I grew comfortable in my surroundings. I was an idiot for letting my guard down.

A.N. Hope you liked it! I have two quick shout outs to make. First is my amazing Beta, WishingOnMyStar, for being brilliant at catching my mistakes and making my chapters what they are. You rock, and I hope I remembered your name correctly. (I just call her Wish.) Second is my good friend in real life (Yes, I have one of those), Sera Sleeklorn. She's a talented writer, so if you like Rescue Me, Buffy, Sherlock Holmes, and Psych, check her out and tell her I sent you.