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Alice waved at her siblings and then sat down. I cautiously put my water on the table and sat down, waiting for someone to object. They all looked surprised first, but quickly recovered and smiled at me again.
I then saw the guy from Music class, he looked at me like he was confused and slightly frustrated, I looked away quickly.
"Hey guys, this is Bella Swan, the new girl. She's gonna eat lunch with us today." Alice said the last part like it was a command/warning. I wondered why she said it that way but quickly put it to the back of my mind.
"Hey Bella! My name's Emmett Cullen." A guy with dark brown hair said kind of loudly. He was very well built, he looked as if he could easily snap me like a twig. I smiled at him politely. He then went on to name the rest of the people at the table.
"That's Jasper and Edward, and this is my girlfriend, Rosalie." He said pointing to each one as he said their name. My eyebrows shot up at the word 'girlfriend'. Alice said we were sitting with her siblings, not her siblings and her brothers girlfriend. I then noticed the tall, blonde one, Jasper, give Alice a quick kiss on the cheek.
'What?! I thought they were related.' I thought. Alice must of sensed my confusion.
"We're all adopted. Me, Edward, and Emmett are siblings, and Jasper and Rosalie are twins. We're not all related," She explained quickly. That eased my discomfort. I let out a sigh in relief and they all laughed. Then a thought hit me, if their all not related, why do they have the same pale complexion and golden eyes? Once again, I pushed to the back of my mind. Wouldn't want to accidently skate on thin ice.
"So Bella, how you liking it here?" Jasper asked. I wasn't ready to tell them I've lived here for nearly two years. That would cause a lot of explanation, so I just took the 'here' as the high school.
"It's ok I guess, I mean as far as school's go, it's better then the last one I went to." I replied, trying not to give too much away. Jasper looked as if he could sense my discomfort with the subject and gave me a confused glance but quickly let it drop.
"What's your next class?" Rosalie, Emmett's girlfriend and probably the prettiest girl I'd ever seen, asked me. She actually sounded interested too, I was surprised but answered.
"P.E." I said with a smile. I loved sports with a passion.
Both, Alice and Rosalie looked excited, "So do we!" they exclaimed simultaneously. I smiled brightly, they actually seemed happy we had a class together.
Then something I wasn't expecting happened, Edward actually said something.
"So, where did you live before here?" He asked, he still had that look on his face but it was more hidden.
"I lived in Salem," I stated, I slightly frowned while I answered on accident, I missed my family terribly. They saw my frown.
"Do you miss living there?" Jasper asked. I thought about it and decided I'd rather live like this then live in that hell-hole, so I answered truthfully.
"No, I don't miss living there at all." I said matter-of-factly. Jasper and Edward looked at me confused. Edward was about to say something, and I had a feeling it was going to be something that I wasn't at liberty to talk about. Just as he started the bell rang. I jumped up, Rosalie and Alice followed. They dumped their un-touched food and I threw my empty water bottle away, and we headed off to gym.
we got to the locker room early, I quickly got changed, we we're required to wear short-sleeves, which for me, was a bad thing.
"Woah, where'd you get that scar from?" Alice asked wide-eyed, while pointing at the long slice on my upper arm. Rosalie looked over and widened her eyes too. I racked my brain trying to think of something to say.
"Uh, I fell off a bike when I was fifteen." At least I was telling the truth about the whole age thing. I don't know why, but I actually feel horrible for lying to them. That only ever happened with Brice.
They looked at me skeptically again, but this time, they didn't try to hide it. They were tired of excuses, and they wanted answers. Right as I started to panic the other girls started heading out to the gym. I sighed in relief and started following their lead. Rosalie and Alice looked mildly frustrated, but followed me.
We played three-on-three Basketball in gym. Me, Alice, and Rosalie were on a team against some girls named Lauren, Jessica, and Angela. Lauren and Jessica kept trying to 'accidently' trip me, but I'd just pass the ball over to one of my team mates before I even got close to one of them. This irritated them to no end, they'd huff and angrily run over to try and steal the ball. We ended up beating them 10-2 playing single-pointed-shots.
My next class I just talked with Angela the whole time, she seemed nice enough. She apologized for her team mates behavior.
"No blood, no foul" I replied. She smiled gratefully at me.
After class, the Cullen's met up with me and we walked over to the music room to get my guitar.
"How long have you played guitar?" Edward asked me.
"Since I was thirteen, so nearly five years" I said back happily. I loved my guitar, writing songs always helped me through after the beatings when I lived with my family.
"When's your birthday?" Alice asked, yet again, excitedly. Was she ever not happy?
"October thirty-first" I answered non-chalantly. That was also the day I 'ran-away'. I felt depressed again, but quickly put on a smile. Jasper gave me a concerned glance but quickly looked away.
"See you tomorrow guys, I've gotta get to work." I said to them heading in the direction of my car. I gave them one last wave and drove off.
APOV:
"See you tomorrow guys, I've gotta get to work." Bella shouted over her shoulder heading in the direction of a silver Saturn. She gave us one last wave and drove off, as soon as she was out of the parking lot I turned to my family.
"Something's up with her" I stated matter-of-factly.
"What do ya mean?" Emmett asked dumbly.
"Well for one, once we asked how she liked it here she avoided the fact that we didn't mean the school." I stated.
"And when we asked where she lived before she frowned when she answered Salem and was filled with sadness and longing, and when she said her birthday was October thirty-first she got extremely depressed." Jasper stated, grimacing, probably remembering the depression.
"And did you see that scar on her arm! That was not from 'falling off a bike'." Rosalie exclaimed. She was right there, that was not from falling.
"Wait, what scar?" Edward asked, obviously concerned. I showed him in my mind. He grimaced.
"Whatever it was, it cut in deep." He stated grimly.
"Now that you mention it, she did look like she hadn't eaten an actual meal in a while" Emmett stated. We all nodded our heads. I was then pulled into a short vision where Bella was in her car behind our Volvo and we were headed to our house. I smiled.
"Bella's coming over to our house Saturday" I said excitedly. Everyone got excited, they all obviously liked Bella. Now if only we could find out what she's hiding.
BPOV
Work was a drag, although I did make fifty bucks off of tips tonight, which is amazing for a Monday night. While driving to Wal-Mart I couldn't help but think of the Cullen's. They were all so nice⦠and good looking. Especially Edward. I then started worrying, they definitely know something's up. The question is, do they know what?
I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
AN: I changed up the POV a little bit. I will more than likely do that a few other time's but the story will mainly be in Bella's point of view. The next chapter will skip a week forward, meaning the monday Bella goes to the Cullen's. Woo, I'm excited. Please review!
