Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or Naheul, but I do own the plot and all its baby bunnies.

NAHUEL

Moving into the cafeteria I had to wonder why in the world I was forced to go to this place called a school. I had been there around two weeks and already I knew that I was going to hate every minute of it. Sure I was learning new things every day but that didn't make me like the forced socialization and dumbing down of my powers. It was true that I wasn't considered as powerful as a full vampire but I had learned how to hold my own against any that I had encountered. Apparently that still did not save me from the mundane and idiotic.

It was proven as I slid into what was becoming my customary seat between Alice and Emmett. Unfortunately for me, this seat was right across from the mind-reader. A mind-reader who was currently, and for some unknown reason, pining over a human girl who was, at best, mediocre looking. According to him it was simply her blood that drew him but I saw him looking at her too much for that. It was sick really. Couldn't he just keep it in his own kind? The last thing I wanted to see was another human screwed over by a vampire who got his kicks off by playing God.

And he wondered why he pissed me off.

"You look annoyed," Edward commented. Though why he couldn't just look my way and tell me that was beyond me. It was almost as if he thought he was simply too good to look at me. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the way he thought about it either.

"What can't you just read my thoughts and guess?" I sneered taking a sincere and perverse pleasure from the fact that he couldn't read them. It simply wasn't possible for him. I blanked out my mind too much. And it probably drove him up a wall which made me that much more pleased. It's the little things in life really. And this was one that I was going to take as much pleasure in as I possibly could.

The others gave Edward and me a look but then again, they were used to it by now. Or they should have been. We had been doing it almost constantly since we had first met. It was just a fact. We hated each other. I rather liked it that way. It made me feel a kind of peace to have someone so close who I could hate. Far more peaceful than when I was around my father or dealing with the whole reason we had had to leave home at all.

I sighed and looked away, running my hand through my dark hair. Screw this. Screw all of it, I wanted to say. I wanted to just leave. But I couldn't. I had promised her that I would stay. It frustrated me. I hated being forced to do something that I did not want to do and with good reason in my opinion. And even when there was a good reason my nature fought to rebel against it. Finishing off the food in front of me, I stood and looked away from the table. "I'll be back tonight."

"You can't just leave in the middle of classes," Alice objected grabbing my wrist. I looked back down at her and arched an eyebrow.

"Look," I explained with a sigh. "I just need to get out and clear my skull alright? I'm not used to being around people like you are. Besides, think about it this way. Now you get to have a clear head without me to fuck up your visions."

Alice opened her mouth before it clamped shut again and she nodded. I looked at Jasper and he tossed me his keys. Of all of them, I got along best with Jasper and Alice. Then again, it probably helped that they didn't seem to judge me like Edward and Rosalie did. Even Emmett was okay in his own way. Edward and Rosalie were enough to make me want to shoot myself. Though it wouldn't have done me much good. It would have just pissed me off even more and that wasn't the direction that I was looking for.

I stalked out of the cafeteria and moved over the side walks and open areas to the back of the school until I made it the woods before I started into a sprint, running to the house so I could commandeer Jasper's car. I was still going "vamp" speed when I slid into the car and started it forcing myself to wait as the garage door opened before I pressed my foot to the floor, taking in the feel of the squealing tires before I actually took off down the road anticipation feeling my very being. This was the closest to home that I could get and I took it when I had the chance, speeding down the road at stupid speeds that could easily get me or someone else killed. Alright, probably not me, but a guy could dream after so long of being alive couldn't he?

I let the hood down on the convertible and had to wonder at the fact that Jasper would even let me borrow his car considering he never drove it. I had yet to figure out why either. It was a damn good car after all and I couldn't deny that I enjoyed driving it given the chance as I was now. There was something about it that reminded me of running. It gave me a kind of freedom that I couldn't do without. It was probably the only thing beside my promise that did make me stay.

I shook my head as I steered the car onto the highway and started driving south. I'd get back eventually. Just wasn't sure when the hell that would be. Before the next day though.

My aunt would kill me if I wasn't.