I got back from the hunting trip with minutes to spare. school. I glanced at the clock. Shoot. I had been so focused on disgust and thirst that I had completely forgotten the hour, and I'd stopped at a shop to buy a few last minute props.

School started in twenty minutes, and my new home was 25min away-if driving really fast. Darn.

I raced upstairs and threw on the first thing I layed my hands on. I grabbed the schoolbag from its hook, and quickly stuffed in a few new pens and books.

I pulled on a jacket-most humans hated the cold- and continued to the door, stopping briefly to see if I looked human. Pulling on the headband, I whirled to my Audi, jamming the key in the ignition and starting it in the same second, and pulled out of the driving. beginning the race to school.

Remembering how to get to the school wasn't diffucult. The school… was like most other things in this drizzly town, just off the almost empty highway.

I pulled in through the school gate,into the maze of maroon bricked buildings

numerous shrubs. Parking outside the house-like front office, I cut the engine. I was sure I wasn't supposed to stop here but, hey, no-one was going to tow an Audi Coupe. Not if they wanted to end up paying a massive fine off for the owner.

I hurried down the wet stone path, which was set like an unprganized patchwork of stones, and I took an catious breath outside the door, ready to cut off my breathing, if nessecary.

I opened the door to reveal the familiar office. It hadn't changed at all since last time I'd been here.I liked that-the idea of things not changing. I drew comfort out of that, knowing that, hopefully, my life wqasnt going to be changing for some time after this.

The red-headed Shelley Cope was also still there, behind the enormously cluttered desk. When she looked up, I saw her confusion. And I could tell she had forgotten my name and who I was.

"Can I help you?" She asked.

'Im Isabella swan." I reminded her, and her perplexion cleared.

"Yes. Of course. I forgot." she smilied a little, and I smiled back politely as she dug through a towering stack of documents on her desk. She pulled out a pink-tinged folder, one of those almost see through plastic folders.

"Right. in here, I have your schedule, and a map to remind you where everything is." She bought the folder to the counter and pulled out a form. "Also, this skip-you need each of your class teachers today to sign it for me. I'll need it back at the end of the day, this afternoon when the final bell goes."

I nodded, tucking both the folder and the slip, into my schoolbag.

She smiled at me before I left, and wished me good luck. I smiled back at her. I needed her good luck.

I just wished I didn't, hoping I wouldn't kill anyone today.


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