Chapter 7- The High School
The two months had passed without difficulty and Harry and Luna had adjusted to their new life quite well; They loved their new home and their neighborhood, They got their driving licenses and at first it was quite hard to understand how to drive but after two lessons every week for the two months, they got the driving down and both were quite good at it.
One week before they had to arrive at school, they got a ride with Sam to some used and new car dealerships to look for a car for the two of them. The first few shops didn't have the ones for them, either the cars were too expensive or had too many problems with it. Finally, the last two shops had the cars. The first shop had the car for Luna, which was a green 2008 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible and at the second shop, Harry chose a black 2008 Mercedes- Benz S63.
After they had got their vehicles, they followed Sam to the reservation where they were introduced to Emily, Leah, Jacob, Jared, Paul, Quil and the parents of each.
"I would introduce you to Black, Embry and Seth but they're out patrolling the border right now."
"Or they are cliff diving…" Thought Sam, frowning at the lack of safety those three had
The siblings spent thirty minutes with the pack and the visit was filled with confessions and laughter. They all became friends except Leah, who seemed to distrust both Harry and Luna.
They left the reservation with smiles on their faces, not noticing a pair of shocked grey eyes following them as they went to their car and as they drove out into the distance.
The rest of the week went by and soon enough, there was only five hours until they would have to arrive at the school. Harry was spending the time pacing back and fourth in his room with a million thoughts going through his head.
"Will they like me?"
"Will I be good in the classes?"
More and more came until he heard Luna yell into his head, causing him to flinch.
"HARRY! You are driving me insane! Let's watch a movie."
"Fine."
He walked to her room to see her sitting on her bed, facing the TV, staring at the ceiling with a perplexed expression. As soon as Harry entered the room, she looked at him with a wide smile. He looked at her weirdly and the smile widened.
"Why are you smiling?"
"I just had a vision of what's to come this week. So far it's been pretty good. "
Harry looked at her, stunned, as she bounced of the bed and looked through the movies she had bought. She took a DVD out of a case and put the disk into the DVD player then went back to sit on the bed where Harry joined her still looking stunned.
"That's all your going to say? No details?" Spoke Harry as he tried to get a thought about it in her mind but all he saw was the screen of the TV.
"Yep and nope, no details at all. You'll find out soon enough. We are going to watch Titanic, by the way."
Harry rolled his eyes; he should have known that Luna wouldn't tell him anything. He leant against the headboard and watched the movie.
When the movie finished up, the siblings had breakfast that had the spell that Dumbledore had used on their last meal at Hogwarts. After the headmaster had signed his name, he seemed to have remembered something and put the description of the spell on the bottom of the parchment and it had helped Harry and Luna a lot in the past couple of months. After they ate, they changed their clothes and each got into Harry's car.
They arrived at the building five minutes early so most of the students had already arrived and were looking at Harry's car with curiosity, as they had never seen the car here before. They tried to look through the windows but they were tinted and the only thing that they could see was the outline of the two people that were inside. Harry looked around as Luna got out of the car and walked over to the driver's side where she waited patiently for him to get out. He shrunk in his seat a bit when he heard the thoughts and saw the looks that Luna was causing. Slowly he inched back up and opened the door. He stepped out and locked the doors before closing it. Harry tried to ignore all the looks they were getting but he couldn't and caught some people's gazed causing quite a few flushed faces. Luna looked around for anyone with a friendly face and walked up to a tall girl with soft brown eyes and brown hair.
"Hi, we're new here and was wondering if you could point us in the direction of the office?"
The girl stared at them then thought,
"Wow. They are beautiful. Why are they talking to me?"
Harry looked away from her, uncomfortable but when he discovered the thought was completely platonic because of her crush on somebody else and her insecurities, He looked back at her with a small sad smile with some understanding in it. She looked away and began to speak.
"Um… Sure… You go through the main entrance over there then go to the right and go through the first door on your left. If you need any other help, you can talk to me. Oh, I'm Angela Weber."
"I'm Harry Potter and this is Luna Potter, my twin. Thank you for helping us, we both appreciate it."
Harry smiled then thanked her as Luna linked their arms together as they began to walk to the main entrance. During the exchange with Angela, Harry had tried to block the thoughts but they slipped through.
"Wow! They're so hot!"
"I wonder if I have a chance with him…"
"They look so similar to the Cullen's"
"I wonder if there related to…"
"I wonder if she's available."
"Angela is lucky! So jealous."
"Why did they talk to Angela? She's so quiet and nerdy."
Harry walked to the door and quickly opened it to let Luna in first then him. Before he shut the door completely, he looked to the parking lot and saw a silver Volvo parked next to his car. He turned back and missed the five golden eyes looking at them with questioning and suspicious gazes.
They walked to the secretary's desk and saw that she was staring at them with the same look as the others in the lot.
"Are they related to the Cullen's? They sure are beautiful enough to be." She thought with a red twinge coming up on her cheeks as Harry walked towards her.
It was the hundredth time that someone mentioned the Cullen's and Harry was quite curious about who they were but the time to figure it out wasn't at this time.
"We're Luna and Harry Potter. We are new here and we don't really know where to go so…"
"Y-yes, here are your class schedules, a map of the school and forms for the two of you to fill out for the use of the school parking lot. I hope your day is a p-pleasant one and I need that form by the end of the d-day."
Luna picked up the papers and thanked the secretary before she led Harry out of the office while looking at their schedules. They compared the timetables and found out, with relief, that they had most of their classes together except the last one of the day. They both had AP English, Psychology II, Team sports and while Luna has Theater Arts, Harry has Physiology/Anatomy.
The bell then rang and all the students began to walk toward their first class, which was AP English with Mrs. Perry for the siblings. As they walked down to the classroom, it seemed as if they were walking down a runway. The students were giving them room to move and quickly parted to the side if they were in their way. Luna found this quite amusing but to Harry, it was humiliating. They finally arrived at the classroom and took a seat in the middle. Everyone in the room was staring at them with awe struck eyes except two people who were sitting in the back who were talking to each other. The female looked haughty whereas the male looked intimidating. As if they could feel Harry's eyes on them, they looked straight at him. He was stunned to see they both had the same gold eyes and pale features. Harry turned back to the front when the female gave him a sneer, reminding him of a certain blond haired boy.
The class was fast in the passing and the siblings were introduced with more stares. After that, they took a quick comprehensive exam that told the teacher where they were at in reading and writing. When the bell rang, the siblings then went to their Psychology class where they were introduced again with the same effect. The teacher was Mr. Schatz and he appeared to be a strict yet laid-back teacher all at once. For the siblings, this class seemed the most interesting. Then the bell rang for lunchtime.
They walked to the cafeteria and went in silently. As they got their food, Harry looked around for an empty table and spotted one at the far side beside a group of pale students who looked like they were only picking at their food. Harry looked at them for a little bit but couldn't see their faces.
Thoughts peaked as the siblings picked up their trays and started to walk towards the table.
"I wonder if they will sit with us."
"I hope he sits with me. Not her though, just him."
They both sat down at the round table with Luna's back and Harry's front facing the table with the pale people around it. Murmurs broke out in the room as they discussed how the Potter's seemed uninterested and unaffected with the people in front of them.
Discretely, the twin's murmured the blood spell on their food and was going to begin to eat when a girl with a flowery scent came and sat down very closely beside Harry. When he looked at her with a raised eyebrow, she blushed.
"Hi! I'm Jessica. You two must be Harry and Luna Potter. It's really nice to meet you." She said, not sparing Luna a glance
Harry looked at her with dislike already in his eyes.
"Yes, that's us. Nice to meet you."
She gave him a what was supposed to be a seductive full-toothed smile but ended up making her look like someone who was trying to hard to impress. Harry glanced at Luna and they shared a look. Jessica started chatting about this and that but Harry wasn't listening. He was looking at the people in front of him with Luna following his gaze. Her face was bright with a smile as they both looked at them without the group noticing. She turned back to see that Harry was studying them intently.
They were all very pale and beautiful. There were five of them sitting at the table while staring someplace and not talking to each other or eating the food in front of them. There were three boys and two girls and most of them were paired up except for the third guy. Harry could see the two that were in his English class sitting there along with them. The big guy with curly dark hair and dimpled cheeks was sitting beside the haughty girl with the long wavy blond hair and a small pixie-like girl with short spiky black hair. Beside her was the second guy with honey blond hair, and was muscular but lean too. The third guy had tousled bronze hair and gold-like topaz eyes. All five of them were different yet the same. They all had the pale skin and angular features but all had different physical shapes; some more muscled than the others. Their eyes were all different shades of gold as was their hair. The third guy also seemed to be talking lowly to the others as well as describing what Jessica was thinking which made Harry realize that he could read minds.
"Vampires." Luna proclaimed with a question in her voice at them same time
"Looks like it."
Harry heard another voice in his head that belonged to the person beside him.
"Why do they always get the attention that I want? He's probably staring at Rosalie. God, she's not even that attractive."
He turned back to look at her and asked the question he wanted to ask her despite the less than positive feelings towards her.
"Who are they?"
Jessica sighed with discontent before she answered the question with a glare in the other vampire's direction.
"Those are the Cullen's," She drawled, "They are the children of Esme and Dr. Cullen. The short girl is Alice beside is Jasper then Edward then Rosalie and the last big guy is Emmett. They are all together though including Rosalie. She's with the big guy Emmett, Alice is with Jasper and Edward is probably with somebody that is not in this high school. He's not with me or anybody else here. Apparently we're not good enough for him… Anyways, they're all adopted into that family. "
Harry bit back a laugh as she glowered at Edward who had a small smirk on his face, as did the others. They obviously didn't like her very much either.
"Poor Jessica. Got turned down by the attractive male."
"Yeah, she just tries to hard."
"That's really nice of them to do that. Adopting them into a nice family." Said Luna sincerely
"I guess. Apparently the reason they're all adopted is because Mrs. Cullen can't have children, from what I've heard. Too bad for her."
Harry looked at her then with disbelief and a sudden green fire began in his eyes causing Jessica to shift uncomfortably in her seat.
"Why does that matter? It doesn't take away any kindness away from them. They sound like nice people and those people over there are lucky to be given a friendly home. Most people aren't so lucky, they either don't have a family at all or they have a family that abuses them for fun and amusement or they just abuse them emotionally because they hate what the kid stands for. The kid had some qualities they didn't like and wanted to squash it out of them. Think about it, how would you feel?"
Harry then stood up, picked up his tray and dumped the contents into the garbage then walked gracefully out of the cafeteria with five wide eyes following him out. Luna followed after him, glared at Jessica then went to find Harry leaving the stunned and confused girl behind. She found him in the front of the school, kicking at a rock. He took a deep breath and when he recognized Luna's scent he turned to face her with apologetic eyes.
"I didn't mean to say all of that. I was just angry and I had no reason to react like that to her words. I guess they'll all know then… I can't believe I did that…"
"It's okay Harry. It's not your fault you just couldn't control it. She had no right to say that anyway. It's none of her business."
The guilt that had clawed Harry began to dissipate at he listened to Luna's words. It was true.
The bell rang, signaling for them to go to gym with Mr. Gads.
They went into the gym and walked up to the teacher to ask what they had to do and he gave them a uniform and told them they wouldn't have to get changed for this class but would have to tomorrow. They were starting with dodge ball today then for two weeks and a half, starting tomorrow, they were going to play volleyball.
The siblings walked to the side of the gym and sat on the bleachers to wait for the rest of the class who were getting changed. There were only twenty people in the class and all of the Cullen's were part of that number which Harry was kind of wary about. Most of the kids in the class were people that the siblings did not know except Angela and Jessica who was staring at Harry and Luna with a puzzled look. Harry saw Angela and waved to her then went up to her and smiled.
"How are you?"
The normally shy and quiet girl smiled back at him and said,
"I'm good and you?"
"I'm actually pretty good. I could have lived without the lunch scene but otherwise, the day has been good."
Harry began to laugh which sounded like music with Angela joining along at the face that Jessica had made when he had lectured her. It was hypnotizing to the people around them and most people looked at Angela with jealousy. Jessica's gaze was hard as she glared at Angela with dislike. Harry was proud to see that Angela just ignored them. They conversed for a bit before she went away to sit beside a boy with black, oily hair who was looking at her with surprise. Harry turned back to Luna
"I like her Luna. She's the only sincere person here."
Luna just gave him a smile and looked in the Cullen's direction. They were all sitting in a corner and staring at the ceiling. Luna didn't think anything that would give her and Harry away. Harry looked at Luna questioningly but she just tilted her head in the direction of one vampire in particular and he understood. Although it wouldn't have mattered much since the vampires were already watching their every move. The coach came into the gym and blew the whistle.
All the students separated into teams and both teams for the dodge ball game were on opposite sides of the gym with ten members on each side. Harry and Luna were standing beside each other on the left side with five people they did not know and Angela, Edward and Alice. Harry looked at Alice and saw her looking back at him. She smiled at him cheerfully and looked back at Edward. Harry saw him frown in confusion. Then she looked back at Harry again.
"Hey! You're Harry right?
Harry stared at her for about a minute then looked back at the game while thinking. The other side was winning so far. He decided to try and talk back to her.
"Yes, I am. And your Alice right?"
"Yeah! I just wanted to say thank you from all of us. You defended our family and you really didn't have to. So thank you."
"Your welcome... I just hate it when people like that gossip about things that are absolutely none of there business. You guys are lucky that you all have each other and a nice family to be with. This is just something from my past that I feel really strongly about. Anyway, how did you know that I could do this? You just met me. "
"I'm a seer and saw you guys coming to Forks, " Seeing Harry's quick look, She added, "I could see it because all our lives are going to be entwined. I've been hiding this all from Edward though."
"So he doesn't know a thing about us?"
"Edward can read thoughts like you but he can't communicate back and he can't hear your thoughts nor Luna's."
She looked over at Edward and saw him looking at her funny. She just smiled at him and waved hello. Edwards face just went down to puzzlement. Harry looked at his face and smirked though he just noticed something about Edward that he hadn't noticed before. He couldn't read his mind. It was just bits of words and whispers. He looked back at Alice.
"I can't read his thoughts. Can he hear mine?"
"No. It is because you two are different kinds of vampires and you both have the same gift. If our futures weren't entwined I wouldn't be able to see you either. But we are all going to be such good friends! I will definitely have to take you guys shopping in Seattle soon."
"I actually kind of like the sound of that. It would be nice to have more friends here."
"Angela is a great person by the way. You can help her gain more confidence in herself."
"I really like her and I hope so. "
Alice beamed at him.
Just then, after their conversation had finished, a dodge ball came at Harry and was about to hit him in the side of the face when he quickly caught the ball. It was going too fast for a human throw so he looked at one of the Cullen's on the other side and saw that Emmett was smirking at him with amusement. Harry threw the ball with more force than a mere human and put most, but not all, of his strength into it. Emmet didn't expect the strength of the hit so the ball hit him right in the middle of the chest. He stumbled at the force and looked at Harry, stunned. He then grinned and they continued their fight, trying to knock the other out of the game. Finally, it ended with Emmett going on the sidelines with a pout on his face. Harry looked at Edward to see that he was grinning at nothing in particular. He then looked at Luna to see her smirking at Rosalie in a satisfied way. Rosalie was clutching her side with a sour expression as she walked to where Emmett was. After a bit, Luna and Alice got tired of the game and went to sit on the bleachers while chatting animatedly with each other. Soon enough, Harry got out of the game too and went to sit with them, listening and chatting along.
After Gym, the siblings went their separate ways and walked to their last class.
Harry looked around the classroom and saw an empty seat in between Edward and Alice. He saw Edward giving her a stunned look at the fact that she wasn't sitting beside him and at her actions that are signaling for Harry to come and sit in the seat in between them. Harry walked over to them and took the seat. Once he had sat down he noticed Edward shifting a little, almost nervously. Harry looked at Alice and raised an eyebrow. She smiled slightly as if amused at Edward. He turned again towards Edward and was about to talk to him when he smelt a very nice smell around him. Edward smelt like strawberries with a twist of cinnamon and vanilla. There was also a smell of a kind of spice that Harry couldn't place but really liked. Now that he thought about it, all of the Cullen's had that smell but Edwards was a little different and more delicious than the others. He tried to figure what was with the smell and decided that he would need to talk to Luna about it. Harry then stuck out his hand to Edward in greeting.
"I'm Harry. Your Edward right?"
Edward looked at his hand curiously and nodded at him.
"Yeah. Nice to meet you."
After that tiny introduction Edward went back to staring off into the distance. Harry sighed and looked back at Alice to see that she was deep in thought and almost looked like a statue. He opened his mouth to speak then changed his mind at the last second.
Harry sighed again and looked back at the front of the class. The teacher was explaining all the muscles in the body to the class. He tuned out the teacher and concentrated on all the thoughts he could hear in his head. Out of the thoughts, he could hear a soft whispery voice that was very faint. Harry picked that one and blocked out all the others. He guessed that the whisper was Edwards since he hadn't heard his voice yet. He only understood bits and pieces.
"I can't read full sentences in Edward's mind. It's only bits and pieces and it'sa whispery voice too." He thought to Luna.
"Try thinking directly to him in his mind. It might work."
Harry caught the whispery voice again and tried what Luna had suggested.
"Hi."
He sneaked a look at the vampire in the corner of his eye and saw Edward jump in surprise. He had heard him.
"What was that?"
Harry smirked in success and paid attention to the teacher for the rest of the class that was taking far to long to end.
After Physiology, the bell rang telling everybody to go home. Harry met up with Luna in the parking lot and they walked to his car to see all the Cullen's standing around a Hummer and the Volvo. Harry and Luna waved to them and they got in their own car, preparing to drive home. It had been a good day.
AN: Wow. This has to be the longest chapter so far in this story. The next three chapters will come more quickly as they're already written up and they are the latest chapters in the original one that I wrote. They were written months apart so they have less stuff that I want to change… Honestly, I'm so glad I rewrote this.
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