I do not own twilight...all belongs to stephanie meyer... This chapter is going to introduce some new characters that you'll get to know through out the story...

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~Dazzler 916~

Chapter 7

First day of high school

(Ella's P.O.V.)

September 2nd 2009

This is it. My very first day of high school. I went to the open house last week with my family so we could meet my teachers and see where all of my classes were. The school is pretty small. about the size of the middle school I went to. There about a thousand kids at Shahala Middle School. There are about eight hundred kids at La Push High School. I got up early this morning. It took an extra forty minutes just to curl my hair. Mom curled it for me and then I put my white headband that had a big white bow on the side of it. My outfit on the other hand was the best part. Mom and I made a 3 hour drive down to Seattle to go school shopping and I found just about everything I needed. I've been saving up for the past four months so I could buy some really cute jewlery for freshman year. All the jewelery that Sasha had, my parents decided to let me keep...along with a few of her other personal belongings I wore Sasha's big diamond stud earrings and her heart necklace to go with my outfit...the rest of her belongings are packed up in the attic somewhere.

My outfit consisted of a waist high skirt that was a nice dull shade of ballerina pink...
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A black tank top that had little magnolias going around the neck...
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Then to top it off I wore my light peach sandals...
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Today it is supposed to be 80 degrees outside, so I'm glad that the sun decided to make an appearance today. Mom made Tony and I scarf down a bowl of cereal before we headed to the bus stop. The bus stop was walking distance from our house. Right down the street. I was glad to see that I knew everyone at the bus stop. There were only three people there, plus my brother and I makes five. Of course Seth was there because he live right down the road for me. Then there were my new friends the Avanaco twins, Lucy and Gabe. For the past few weeks I've been hanging out with Seth and few of the other friends I mad since moving here two months a go. I was with Seth most of the time. My parents like him. Especially dad.

"Seth is a good kid. Glad to see you and him are becoming good friends. He keeps you out of trouble" I remember my dad telling me last night as I was getting ready for bed.

Seth was the first to greet me when my brother and I got to the bus stop. He Hugged me. God how I loved his hugs. Maybe today was the day that I would meet this girl that he likes. The more I began to hang with Seth, the more I started liking him. Not just like him, but I mean "like like" him.

"You look nice" Seth commented. I smiled.

"Thanks you too." I told him.

Okay I'm not gonna lie, Seth looked really good. Jeans, a pair of Vans, and a gray Hollister t-shirt. Lucy came over and hugged me. Seth walked over to talk to Gabe and my brother. I flashed a wave and a quick smile towards Gabe. He waved back.

"My goodness you look amazing Ella" Lucy squawked. Lucy reminded me so much of my best friend Chloe Garza. I haven't really talked to any of my friends from Vancouver since I moved. But I liked the friends I have now. They make me feel so welcome. During the summer if I wasn't hanging out with Seth, I was hanging out with Lucy. We did some of our school shopping together.

"Thanks Lucy. You look cute too." I replied.

"Thanks...so are you excited? Freshman year! Well for you it is. I on the other hand am a sophomore." Lucy bragged. I rolled my eyes.

"Yea yea, but to answer you're question Ms. Sophmore...DUH! Of course I'm excited" I giggled.

"If you need anything, just come find me. I'm apart of the A.S.B Council." Lucy told me.

"Got it—" I nodded.

"Wait! I'm not done." Lucy snapped. I zipped my lips shut. Her voice got a little more quiet.

"I'm gonna be flat out honest with you. You are really pretty, just watch out for the boys. They look out for that, but don't pay any attention to them if you know what I mean. Then again you have some of the most popular guys in school who have your back like Jared, Jacob, Quil, and Embry." Lucy whispered.

I just nodded. I totally understood what Lucy was trying to say. Like every other "typical" teenage guy in high school...most, I said most not all guys wanna grab some ass. I knew better than that, and I wasn't gonna let that happen. I wasn't really good with flirting and all of that. So maybe I wouldn't have to worry about that.

"Thanks for the heads up" I muttered.

"No problemo. Sooo I noticed that you and Seth have been hanging out a lot". Lucy mumbled. I flashed a tiny grin and then I bit my lip.

"Uh yea we have. Seth was one of the first friends I made, and then I met you of course." I said elbowing Lucy.

"Yea, Seth is such a sweet heart" Lucy admitted.

"You're right, he is" I said as I flashed a quick smile towards Seth. In return Seth stuck his tongue out at me trying to be silly. I replied to his funny gesture by sticking out my tongue back at him.

"Hey the bus is here" Tony said out loud.

The boys walked over and stood next to us. The bus stopped right in front of us. I could hear my heart begin to pound through my ears. Now I was nervous. Seth and I were the last to get on.

"After you," Seth gestured letting me get on before him.

My first instinct was to look around to see if I recognized anyone. Sure enough, I saw Quil, Brady and Jacob all sitting together in the middle seats. Quil was sitting with Jacob, then Lucy sat next to her boyfriend Brady and Gabe sat with my brother. Seth and I sat next to each other.

"So did you two froshmen get enough sleep last night?" Quil asked from behind us.

"And so the freshmen hate starts" I muttered.

"Well either way you freshies can still hang with us—" Jacob began to brag.

"Um hello! Jacob we're your friends" I told him. Jacob and Quil rolled their eyes at me.

"Sure sure, but as upper classmen...It's our job to give froshmen hate." Jake said.

Our bus arrived in the parking a lot a few minutes later where five other buses were loading kids off. Six buses counting the one some of my friends and I were getting off. Regardless how small this school is, it still felt crowded like any other high school. There were five small two story buildings that formed a big circle around the courtyard. Lucy told me that you can eat lunch anywhere you want on campus. When it's not raining, alot of people like eating out in the courtyard.

"Welcome to La Push High School" Quil said patting Seth and I on the back.

"You have 15 minutes till the bell rings, just don't be late. If you get three tardies, then you receive a detention." Lucy told me.

"Got it. Well I'm going to go put some of my stuff in my locker." I told my friends.

"At lunch we're all gonna meet in the middle of the courtyard by the big wolf statue. It's our usual spot when it's not pouring down rain." Gabe told me.

"Alright that works. I will see you guys at lunch, and Seth I will see you in math" I said. Seth was in three of my classes; math, digital photography, and spanish. So I'm really looking forward to my other classes. My locker was in the 400 building, also known as the arts center. It's where all the visual and performing arts classes were. All the lockers in this building were a dull shade of green. I'm glad I managed to fit everything I needed into my locker. It was just a locker shelf with a few of my school books and a mirror on the door. Math was in the 100 building which was all the way across the courtyard.

As I was heading to my first period I completely ran into someone and dropped everything that was in my arms. Good job Ella may. I thought as I bent down to grab the books that I dropped. I though the person who I ran into would just be rude and keep walking, instead the guy helped me pick up my books.

"I'm so sorry, I wasn't paying attention—" I began to say still look at the ground.

"No the fault was mine I—" the boy began to say till he looked right at me. Now this guys was gorgeous! Not as gorgeous as Seth but still very attractive. Black hair and shocking blue eyes.

"Um here's your book." the boy said handing me back my math book.

"Thanks" I said taking the book from his hand. He was tall, and was wearing a varsity jacket. Obviously he is jock. There was a basketball, football and a baseball stitched into the front of his jacket and then the name Whale # 24 was stitched into the right sleeve.

"I'm Clark. Clark Whalen" he said reaching out to shake my hand. I smiled and extended my hand out to his to shake it.

"Ella. Ella Gardner." I replied. I smiled.

"I'm gonna remember that for sure. It's a pretty name" Clark commented. Thank God I managed to keep myself from blushing.

"Thanks." I mumbled. Clark squinted his eyes at me. Jeez! what is with these guys as them staring at me.

"Now that I think about it, I haven't really seen you around here...have we met?" he asked. I shook my head.

"Probably not. I just moved here from Vancouver over the summer." I said.

"You're from Canada?" Clark guessed

"Washington state." I corrected him.

"Ohhhh I see. My bad." Clark muttered. I rolled my eyes.

"Trust me you're not the first."

"Okay good. Are you a junior—"

"Oh no no no I'm a freshman." I said quickly before Clark was able to finish his sentence. Clark's eyes widened as began to look me up and down.

"You're kidding right?"

"No I'm not. I'm a freshman." I told him nodding my head. Was it so hard to believe.

"Wow. I though you were like a junior or—"

"I'm guessing you're senior?"

"Yep. Class of twenty ten." Clark told me.

"Cool—" The first bell rang before I could finish what I was about to say.

"Well I have to get to class—"

"Yea me too. So I guess I will see you around." he assumed. I would definitely like to see this boy again. My answer was simple, but I wanted to lead him on just a little bit.

"You just might." I told him. Clark smiled and started walking backwards in the opposites direction I was headed.

"Well I hope so because I—"

Clark wasn't even paying attention to where he was going seeing that he ran into someone. I giggled. The person he rain into didn't even seem to care and just kept walking. Clark regained his control and waved at me. I smiled and continued walking to math.

I think I just made a new friend. A very cute friend at that.

(Unknown P.O.V.)...for now lol...you will find out who this is later on :D

Woo hoo! It's the first day of school. Only two years left! I'm finally a junior. I drove to school in my new car. A 2009 Nissan Altima. It's gray. On top of that I had a national singing competition in a few weeks down in Olympia. You see I am the best singer at this school, and I'm also Mr. Iverson's best choir student. I have been studying voice and piano for the past 9 years and have won several elite classical singing competitions. So I guess I do have the rights to say that I'm "the shit". I

I'm popular, I'm one of the most best dressed girls in school most of all... I have one of the hottest guys in school chasing after me. Clark Whalen. Freaking Hot! I met him last year and we hit it off immediately. Then out of no where just as school is about to end he breaks up with me. Clark wanted to "take a break"...he didn't even bother calling or texting me this summer. I really want us to get back together...and I will personally sabotage anyone who tries getting in the way of me getting Clark back. I don't have time for armatures and there horrible flirting skills just get his attention. No one has ever messed with me because they know I would make high school a living hell for them. I walked into the courtyard to see if I could spot Clark. My friends Terry and Maylin approached me before I managed to even spot Clark.

"O.M.G! I hope you know Clark is talking to some girl!" Terry informed me.

"Where!" I snapped. Who ever it was better not be flirting with him. Clark is mine. My friends pointed to Clark who was in the middle of the courtyard talking to some black girl. Damn it she's really pretty. Good taste in clothes, I love her skirt. Clark better wipe that silly little smirk off his face.

"I have to admit...She's gorgeous. I love her outfit. Aww look Clark's blushing—" Maylin began to babble.

"Maylin. You're not helping" I spat.

"I mean who the hell is she?" Terry said.

"I gotta hand it to you though..Clark looks like he's pretty into her.—"

"Maylin!" Terry shouted. My friend finally shut her trap. I was definitely not liking what I was watching. A very attractive girl, smiling and talking to Clark...and it wasn't me.

"But don't worry you are so much prettier than she is. You and Clark will sooo get back together. Don't sweat it." Maylin assured me.

"Just in case, you better set things straight with that girl before she ends up stealing him from you. Aww look at how they're smiling at each other." Terry said but then went back to admiring how cute Clark and that girl were together. Ugh!

"Don't worry girls I will. I'm sure she will understand. I haven't even seen that girl around campus. She's probably just another clueless little freshman." I mumbled.

(Seth's P.O.V)

It's 7:45am. Ella and I managed to get to class right before the bell rang. There were about 20 other kids in the class. The teacher wasn't in class yet, so everyone was sitting around and talking to each other. I saw a few familiar faces from middle school. My friends Rik, Nate, Maddy, and Kaylee all waved at me. All of us are in an advanced sophomore math class, so we were just about the only freshman in there.

"Come on Ella" I sid leading her over to where my friends were.

When I saw her at the bus stop this morning she looked absolutely AMAZING! Ever since the day I met her, we hung out every single day for the rest of summer vacation. I did get a little heated when I saw her talking to some guy in the middle of the courtyard. He had a stupid little grin on his face that made me want to slap him silly. He was flirting with her. Jared told me his name was Clark Whalen who's a senior just like him. Ella was just smiling and talking to him. I was a little annoyed.

"Hey guys" I said to my friends.

"Hey Seth who's your friend?" Nate said giving Ella a gesturing nod saying hello. Ella smiled.

"Everyone this is Ella" I told my friends.

"Hi" Ella said. Maddy and Kaylee pulled her away and immediately they all started talking to each other. I have a feeling she just might have made some new friends.

"Dude Seth, your friend is hot—" Rik began to say.

"Hey lay off! She's mine." I spat. I wanted to it clear that she was mine. I wasn't gonna let some other guy, let alone my own friends take my girl away from me. It would be complete torture.

"Okay okay fine...does she have a sister?" Nate asked. I swear my friends were gonna drive me crazy about this. Plus they wouldn't be so interested after they found out how old she was.

"Her sister is eight years old" I said.

"Ohhh...Never mind" Rik and Nate mumbled. I laughed.

"Sure sure. There's tons of other girls at this school. But you can't have Ella. I —"

"You like her. A lot!" Nate told me. I shook my head.

"You two have no idea." I replied.

"Did she go to middle school with us?" Rik asked.

"She just moved here from Vancouver, Washington during the beginning of summer break. She's my neighbor—" I tried to explain.

"Okay class. Sit where ever you want. But, if you don't choose your seats wisely, then I will choose them for you." I turned around to see the teacher standing in front of the classroom.

I quickly scanned around the room to see where Ella was. She was already sitting down with Kaylee, Maddy, and a few other girls. I sat in the back with Nate and Rik. But I did have a good seat that gave me a really good view of Ella. Then she turned her head and smiled at me.

"Okay class, I'm Mr. Pierce. Your Honors Integrated Two math teacher. Please take out a pencil, pen, and a piece of paper so we can begin class."

(Ella's P.O.V.)

It's almost time for lunch. I'm in my digital photography class right now. A few of the new friends from my other classes were in the class with me. Macy, Kaylee and Natalia from math. Lindsay from physics and Brock from honors English. Seth was in this class as well. We were sitting next to each other. Our teacher Mr. Spike, was just going over the rules and what we plan on doing in class this year.

"Your very first assignment in this class will be to come up to the front of the class and each of you will take a camera." Mr. Spike instructed as he pulled out a big box from under his desk. All eighteen of us got up and walked up to the front of the room and picked up a camera. Wow! These cameras are really nice. It's a Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR. My mom does professional photography as a second job, so she has showed a thing or two about camera models and such. It's her own little business apart from working at her new job in Forks.

"These cameras are yours to borrow for the next 3 weeks. Every friday you are going to upload the ones you have tooken from the past week and we will start to enhance them. I want you take pictures of your everyday surroundings like nature, people, animals, the beach and stuff like that. But, I want you to take them from different angels. Another point of view." Mr. Spike explained.

The teacher let us have the last couple of minutes to ourselves. Seth got his camera and walked to where I was standing. I put my back pack over my shoulder, still holding the bulky camera in my hands.

"So how—" the bell rang just as Seth was about to say something.

"How bout lunch?" I said. Seth sighed.

"I was just about to say that." he told me.

"I can read minds!" I teased.

"Uh huh sure. Well everyone is meeting out by the wolf statue for lunch." Seth said pointing at the door.

"Well what are we waiting for. Let's go!" I told him.

All the students were spread all across campus eating lunch. Seth and I sat by the wolf statue in the middle of the courtyard. I pulled out my sack lunch while Seth set down his back pack.

"I will be right back. I'm gonna go get food," he said.

"Okay." Just as Seth left, Lucy came and joined me.

"Hey Ella" she said giving me a warm smile as she came and sat right next to me.

"Hey" I grinned.

"So how are you liking you classes so far?" she asked me.

"I like them alot! I have already made some new—"

"Don't look now, but Clark Whalen is making his way over here. He's looking right at you." Lucy muttered. Sure enough, he was.

"I met him earlier this morning. We accidentally bumped into each other." I explained.

"Sure. I bet that wasn't an accident. Clark really isn't the guy who would randomly bump into someone like that. Just as you walked off to you locker, you walked right passed him and he went after you. Then I saw the two of you talking to each other in the courtyard." Lucy said.

"Really? Well I'm not gonna lie, he's pretty cute." I mumbled. Lucy rolled her eyes and laughed sarcastically.

"Just stick with Seth. Trust me." she insisted. My brain suddenly clicked into alert. Stick to Seth? What makes her think I like Seth? Well I do...but how does she know that? I haven't told anyone. I scrunched my eyebrows together.

"Ella know you like him. I can totally see it on your face. I figured that one out on my own." Lucy whispered. I shook my head.

"Seth likes someone else. He even told me about her. It's some girl he met rece—"

"Ella" Clark said. I didn't even noticed he had walked over her so fast. I'm surprised he actually remembered my name.

"You actually remember my name?" I asked.

"Of course I do. I have a really good memory. I told you I wasn't gonna forget." he reminded me.

"Right" I nodded. Clark smiled.

"I was wondering if you maybe wanted to come and eat lunch with me and a few of my friends. Your friend can come." he offered.

"That's very thoughtful of you Clark, but I already made plans to eat here with Lucy and a few of my other friends. They should be her any second now." I told him. Aww how sweet of him.

"Oh well that's cool." he mumbled. Judging by the tone of his voice, he sounded a little disappointed. I bit my lip.

"How about another time?" I asked him.

"Definitely" Clark agreed.

"Then it's settled" I muttered. Plus it would give me a chance to get to know him better.

"Sweet. Well I better get going. I have to get back to my friends." He said.

"Don't worry, you'll see me around." I assured him.

"Good. Bye Ella." Clark said giving me a nice little smile and then gave a gesturing nod towards Lucy.

"Bye" I said as he walked away.

Seth came back over to where I was and sat on the other side of me. He had a big sandwich in one hand, and a bag of chips in the other.

"Who was that guy you were talking to?" that was the first thing that came out of his mouth. I had knoe idea that he saw that.

"He's a friend of mine. Clark Whalen. I met him earlier this morning." I said.

"Oh—"

"Ella were you just talking to Clark Whalen?" Quil said joining out little group.

"Yea, I met him earlier this morning." I said.

"I saw that he ran into you accidentally while you were in your way to class." He said.

"You saw us too?" I asked.

"Yea. Well Clark Whalen doesn't accidentally run into someone unless he has a reason." Quil said.

"Told ya" Lucy mumbled. I rolled my eyes.

"He probably likes you. But don't even bother with him—"

"And what makes you think that guy likes me Quil?" I wanted to know.

"Did you see the way he looked at you when you walked right past him this morning?" Now Jared miraculously joined the conversation.

"Yea I saw that." Jacob added as he came and sat down by Quil.

"Me too." Embry added.

"We all saw it" Collin and Brady said as they came and joined us.

"What's the big deal! He's just some senior guy I met this morning." I told all of my friends. It's not like I actually like Clark. I hardly even know him as it is.

"I'm not even interested in him. Besides...I got my eye on someone else." I said.

"Who!" Everyone all said at the same time. It was freaky and quite hilarious because they all had the same curious expression on their faces.

"That's for me to know and you to find out...eventually." I hinted.

"Okay new subject!" Embry demanded.

"So what's with the camera?" Lucy asked pointing a finger at the camera I was holding in my hands.

"It's for photography. We all get to keep this camera for the next 3 weeks and we have to take a bunch of pictures with it. Seth has one too." I said.

"Okay. Ella, Seth...start now. Take a picture of all of us. " Jacob said as he stood up.

My friends all made wacky poses around the big wolf statue. Jacob was flexing his muscles, Collin was doing some wacky thinking pose, Embry just stood there with his hands in his pockets trying to look cool, Quil had his arms up in the air like he was on top of the world while Brady and Lucy sat next to each other and smiled.

"Okay 1...2..—"

"Wait!" Jared said as he came out of no where and jumped right in front my camera.

"Hey" everyshouted from behind him because he was in the way.

"This picture isn't gonna be perfect unless I'm in." Jared bragged. We all rolled our eyes.

"Get in the picture Jared! You too Seth." I demanded pushing Seth to go stand next to Jared. This was hilarious. Jared and Seth were back to back with their arms folded.

"Okay...Now everyone say Jared is lame!" I teased.

"Hey!" Jared whined.

"I'm kidding... Okay 1...2...3.." I snapped the shot. Perfect.

"Now do a nice one. Everyone smile!" I told them. They all got out of their ridiculous poses and got closer together as a group and smiled. I snapped the shot.

"Okay we're done now. I got to get back to Kim" Jared said as he ran off.

"I think I might go down to the beach later and get some good shots in before the sun sets." I told Seth.

"Good idea. Mind if I join you?" he asked.

"Of course! It would be —"

"Seth!" some girl came out of no where and wrapped her arms around Seth who had a surprised expression on his face.

"Nina" Seth said letting go of the girl who had just hugged him. I turned my head look over at my friend and gave them a who is this? look. All of them shrugged their shoulders. They were just as clueless as I was.

She was pretty. Long black hair, brown eyes, high cheek bones, wide smile.

"I've been looking for you" she said batting her eyelashes at him.

"Uh Nina this is my friend Ella." Seth said pointing towards me.

"Hi" I smiled. The least I could do is be nice and not show the fact that I was a little jealous.

"Hello" Nina muttered and then immediately turned her attention back to Seth. Rude!

"Anyway I was wondering if maybe you wanted to come over and hang out lat—"

"Nina I can't. I already made plans to hang out with Ella" Seth said quickly before Nina could finish. I smiled. That made me happy knowing that he wasn't just gonna blow me off. Nina frowned.

"Oh. Well that's fine I guess." She frowned.

"Sorry." Seth said. Nina looked disappointed.

"Next time then—" the bell rang cutting off Nina's sentence.

"Well that's the bell. I will see you in Spanish Seth." I said just as I was about to leave.

"Wait!" Seth yelled.

"Where's your next class?" he asked me.

"In the 400 building." I told him. Seth grabbed his backpack.

"I'm headed that way...I will walk with you" he said leaving Nina standing there by herself.

"See you later Nina" Seth waved.

"Nice meeting you" I said to Nina. Nina squinted her eyes and gave me a tiny little smile compared to the one she gave Seth.

Seth and I walked into the 400 building.

"So is that the girl you were telling me about?" I asked. Seth shook his head and chuckled to himself.

"Nina Hinto is old friend from middle school. We kinda had a little fling...but I don't like her like that anymore." he explained.

"Ohh I see." I nodded.

"You will meet her eventually Trust me. You'll really like her." Seth assured me. Who ever this girl is I knew deep down I would dislike her because she had Seth.

"Well I gotta head to class...See ya." I told him.

My last two classes went pretty well. We just played a bunch of name games to get to know each other and then I got my Spanish book in sixth period. By the time the final bell rang, I was exhausted. The first day of high school was really fun. I like my new school.

"So how about we meet down at the beach at 6:15?" Seth suggested as him and I got off the bus.

"Okay I'll meet you there. Call me and let me know if your plans change" I told him.

"They won't. I will catch up with you later Ella." Seth said.

"Bye Seth"

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