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Chapter Three

After the hilarity that was the office, we did finally manage to get our new schedules. This whole exercise had me feeling a strange sense of déjà vu. Edward explained why I was feeling that way, as many of my more mundane human memories had long since disappeared. Me, Edward and Alice were joining the school as juniors, while Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie were coming as seniors. Originally we were going to start younger than this as we would like to be able to stay in the area for longer than the two years it would take us to graduate. However, Rose had firmly put her foot down on this. In many ways she was right. Although Forks was one of her favourite places to live because it was so grey here all the time, she simply could not stand small town high school. Her argument was that because Emmett was changed at twenty, there was no way anyone would believe him to be a sixteen year old student. This I felt was a very fair point, since Emmett is gi-friggin-normous and very obviously looks nowhere near a sophomore. This would also have meant that I would have had to come back as a freshman and there was absolutely no way in Hades that was happening. I had been promised college, and that I was anxious to get to.

The whole exercise, walking to the office to get my schedule in the tiny school, the rain, the jacket I was wearing, and the age I was currently portraying were exactly the same as when I joined here a century ago after coming to live with Charlie. Even the same Vampires were in attendance. The only difference being, of course, that I was now one as well. None of these things I actually remembered but Edward did and so filled me in as we walked the halls and compared our classes. I really hoped that Edward or Alice was in every one of them, even after this long and so many new schools; I absolutely hated being the centre of attention.

"Okay, I have; English, Spanish, break, Gym (urgh!), Calculus, Lunch, Biology, and American History. Dear Lord, why are they still subjecting poor innocent teenagers to Gym? That is not even remotely fair." I was pissed that I had Gym every day. Just because I was no longer clumsy did not mean that I had developed affection for human sports.

"I have the same as you love. I love that we have biology after lunch"

"Why?"

"Well, this biology classroom, in this school, straight after lunch, is where you nearly destroyed me for the first time."

"Well, when you put it like that I can see why it might have some romantic connotations for you." I poked my tongue out at my husband, before noticing that we had attracted quite a crowd.

"Edward!" I hissed.

"Yes, love?" Edward just smiled at my tone of voice, which just riled me up further. If I was still human I would have been beet coloured by now. Not a comforting thought.

"Everyone is staring at us. And it is not at all subtle."

I could hear Edward and Jasper snickering at my mortification, Jasper more than Edward, as he could not only see it but he could feel it too.

"Honestly Bells, you would have thought you were used to it by now. Now don't forget what we taught you. People are gonna be after your man and you must put those hussies in their place, you hear me?"

"Yes Rose" I saluted and nodded my head keeping a straight face, while Alice burst into her musical laugh.

"Just because you don't have this problem as much Alice does not mean that you can laugh at our little sister, she needs the confidence and you snickering is not going to help!"

"Sorry Rose, it's just, Bella and Edward are so damn possessive of each other they may as well have 'Fuck Off' written on their foreheads. Edward can't ever control his growl at the minds of some of these boys never mind their actions, and Bella gets this really feral snarl on her face if a girl's eyes even flick towards Edward. The best part is they don't even know that they're doing it! Ahhhh to be newly mated"

"Alice, we aren't newly mated." Edward was adamant on this point. I could see why, it took over fifty years for us to be able to be alone anywhere without tearing each other's clothes off, and we had now been together for over one hundred years. This, as far as we were concerned, was a long time. It was like calling a baby a new-born after the first month was up. Madness.

"Yeah, in comparison to the rest of us, you are."

"You know guys; we must look really strange right now."

"Stranger than usual you mean?" Emmett replied to Jasper's comment in his usual way, slightly sarcastic and without looking away from Rose's bum.

"Well, here we are having a conversation, correct?"

We all nodded slowly, not really sure what he was getting at.

"But, kids, we are talking to each other using vampire speed and movement. This basically means it looks like we are standing in a circle staring at each other and laughing at random moments, because none of the dear little humans can see our mouths moving, or hear a word we are saying."

"Oh. Now why didn't I think of that?" Edward was frowning ever so slightly, just a slight change in the set of his mouth. I seriously doubted that any of the people trying to sneak glances at us (and failing miserably) could even see that he was slightly annoyed at himself.

"Err, guys?" Alice looked at us like we were all slightly insane. This, however, was not a new expression on my favourite sister's face so I wasn't too concerned about our collective mental health.

Rose looked up at Alice and slightly cocked her head to the left, a silent request for Alice to finish her thought and enlighten the rest of us.

"You do realise that although we have had an entire conversation and then some, it's only been about two and a half minutes since we stood here? We have another two until the warning bell rings. So I doubt that anyone thinks anything other than we are so nervous to be at a new school that we are lost in our own dread. 'Course, they have no idea that we have been doing this for decades and are now old hands at this. Although, I should warn Edward that the whispers about Bella this time around, are going to be worse than Mike Newton's thoughts first time here."

I felt the need to interrupt here, you know, butting in with my own question, as the sense of déjà vu was back, and once again I had no idea why. This whole forgetting human memories shtick was getting severely irritating. This had never happened to me before.

"Who is Mike Newton?"

I swear it looked like Edward had swallowed the sun, his face lit up so much after that question. Emmett immediately started his booming laugh and even Rosalie giggled a little at the look of sheer joy on his face. Of course, Emmett's laughing fit caused more eyes to turn to us, although some people did scamper away slightly as the sound echoed off the walls around us.

"He was this blonde haired douche bag who used to follow you around when you first started here all those years ago. Edward hated him, and he hated Edward, purely because of the thoughts Mike had of you. He had his funny moments though; remember the time Bella got hysterics 'cuz he said that Eddie-boy looked at her like she was something to eat?" At this, Emmett's, Alice's, and therefore, Jasper's composure dissolved completely and they were laughing so hard they had to lean on each other to prevent their vampire super-balance failing them.

"Bella once referred to him as 'an ever faithful, but highly irritating, Golden Retriever" Rosalie said this with such a large smile on her face, her eyes practically sparkling, that I distinctly saw two boys who were wandering past wipe the corner of their mouths to dispose of the drool that had collected there.

It was at this point that a few things happened. Edward laughed so hard he nearly snorted. This caused a herd of girls walking across the hall from us to stop and stare at our husbands. This in turn caused me, Alice and Rose to stop laughing and snarl at afore mentioned girls. This then caused said husbands to wrap their arms around our waists before turning to glare at the herd themselves.

Then the warning bell rang, thus meaning that we would be late to our first class on our very first day, as we cannot use our natural speed to get to where we need to be. Well damn.

All of this took place in a span of about forty-five seconds. It was enough though, that herd scattered quicker than the herds of Elk we hunted last night in preparation for school. Ah the joys of being the world's most dangerous predator.

"Come on then bitches, let's do this thing." Rosalie spun on her heel and walked in the opposite direction to where we needed to go.

"Whoooooop, come on Jasper, let's roll!"

"Heaven help us all" Jasper muttered to himself as he followed Rose and Emmett down the hall.

The three of us remaining hurried off to English, already anticipating the tardy slip.

*sigh*