"Hi, I'm Gizelle," she said as she smiled and held out her hand.

"Hi, I'm Bella," she answered as she accepted the hand shake.

Making New Friends

Two days had passed since Gizelle met Bella. She found herself looking forward to fifth period because she knew Bella would be there. She made biology fun and for Gizelle she found that to be a miracle. She just always found learning about biology very boring after the 100th time so anything to make it interesting was a blessing.

She walked in class and found Bella sitting there looking at her cell phone.

"Hey you," said Gizelle with a huge smile.

Bella looked up from her phone, "Hey," she answered with a smile just as big.

By time class was over their teacher let them know that there would be a 25 question quiz on the first four chapters. Gizelle moaned, she purposely never retained all of the information because she found it to be so agonizing. She looked over at Bella who didn't look any more thrilled than she was.

"Hey, do you want to come over my house after school? We can study together," said Gizelle.

"Yeah, I would love to."

"Okay, umm, well, I drove here with my brothers and sisters. Do you have a car?"

"Yeah, a truck."

"Great, okay, then I'll meet you in the parking lot after school. I'll ride with you and I can show you where I live."

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Edward had already left with Jasper and Alice as they didn't want to wait around the school. Emmett and Rosalie were waiting for Gizelle when she walked over to them with Bella by her side.

"Hey, Rosalie, Emmett, this is Bella. Bella, this is my brother and sister, Emmett and Rosalie."

"Nice to meet you both," said Bella awkwardly.

"You too," said Emmett with a genuine smile.

Rosalie needed to hunt and Bella's lavishing natural scent made it difficult for her to contain herself. She did her best to be courteous but kept her distance.

"Umm, I'm going to ride with Bella. She and I are going to study together."

Emmett looked at Rosalie and could tell she needed to feed.

"Okay, well then Rose and I will be home later."

"Alright, see you later."

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Bella and Gizelle walked into the house. Bella looked around the very open and spacious, luxurious but modest home.

"Wow, your home is beautiful."

"Thanks, I'll make sure to tell my mom. She worked hard on decorating it. It's what she does."

"Your mom is an interior designer?"

"Yep."

The two girls walked upstairs to the second level floor.

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"Jasper, I don't care. I said no."

"Daaad," he whined.

"Jaz, I strongly recommend you stop whining or I'll really give you a reason to be unhappy."

Jasper huffed slightly but didn't push his luck. He walked out of the kitchen and into the other room passing the girls. He was too upset to acknowledge them.

"I'm sorry; Jaz is usually a lot more courteous than that. Anyway, that's one of my other brothers, Jasper," Gizelle then looked at Carlisle as they walked further in. "This is my dad, Dr Cullen."

He stuck out his hand to shake, "please, call me Carlisle."

Bella took his hand. "Nice to meet you…Carlisle," she smiled.

"Daddy, Bella and I are going to be in my room studying for a biology quiz on Friday. Can you maybe order a pizza for us?"

Gizelle then gestured with her eyes over to Bella as in to say, 'you know, the human.'

Carlisle knew exactly what she was saying and couldn't help but give a small chuckle.

"Yes, I can certainly do that," he smiled.

"Cool, okay, thanks daddy. Come on Bella," said Gizelle as she grabbed a couple of large water bottles.

"It was really nice meeting you."

"You too Bella."

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"Wow, this is your room?"

If anyone first saw Gizelle's room before meeting her they couldn't help but immediately think how spoiled she was. Her room looked like it came right out of a high fashion magazine. The walls were painted light pink with one really wide black line running through the middle. Her bed was king size but unlike a normal shape bed, it was round. The comforter was black, quilted satin with two huge pillows and a handful of contrasting pink pillows. A black and clear crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling. She had a huge oak stained black desk with a 32 inch Apple flat screen computer sitting on it. Everything had a place and was perfectly aligned. Bella then came to a picture of Gizelle and the entire Cullen family and examined it closer.

"Don't laugh but if you didn't introduce your dad as Dr. Cullen I totally would have thought he was a super model or something."

Gizelle laughed and rolled her eyes.

"You have a lot of your dad's same features but you know, a lot more girly."

Gizelle laughed again. "If that is your way of saying you think I'm pretty, I'll take it," she teased.

Bella smiled then looked again at the photo.

"You're really the only one where I could tell looks like your dad."

"Oh, well, there is a good reason for that. I'm the only biological one. My brothers and sisters are adopted. That is why we're all so crazy close in age."

"Are you the youngest?"

"Yeah, how about you? Do you have any brothers or sisters?"

Bella looked a little sad as she walked over to the bed where Gizelle was sitting.

"I have, I mean had….no, have an older brother. He went missing five years ago though when he was seventeen. Two years after he went missing my parents divorced. My father refused to stop looking and my mother just couldn't face reality anymore. I went with my mom to California; but, recently came back to live with my dad. My mom, well, she drinks and it just got worse."

Gizelle gave Bella a hug. "I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine."

"Yeah, I have my good days and my bad. I can't help but feel my dad is right though. I feel he's still out there too and alive."

"What is your brother's name?"

"Riley."

Gizelle was about to say something when there was a knock on her bedroom door.

"Come in."

Carlisle opened the door and poked his head in.

"I'm sorry but I forgot to ask, Bella, what do you like on your pizza?"

"Oh, just a pepperoni pizza is fine with me," she looked at Gizelle, "you?"

"Me? Pepperoni is fine. Maybe some blood sausage too if they have any," she said as she teasingly smirked at her father.

She then looked at Bella who was making a bit of a face at the idea.

"Haven't you ever tried blood sausage?"

"No."

"You should. In fact, the bloodier the better," again smirking as she gave her father a side way glance with a devious little twinkle in her eye.

Carlisle just sighed.

"Okay, pepperoni pizza it is and Gizelle…"

"Yes?"

"Behave."

He gave her a knowing smile as he left the room. Once the door was shut Gizelle just smiled at Bella and asked her if she was ready to start studying. She told her she was and they both attempted to do their best studying without dying from boredom. They welcomed any interruption. It wasn't long before their wishes came true. There was another knock on the door.

"Come in."

This time it was one of Gizelle's other brothers, Edward. He walked in and noticed Bella immediately. He took in her scent and had to control every impulse in his body to not take her and just ravish her. He found it to be really annoying and rudely ignored her. He acted as if there was a smell in the room and almost gagged.

"What is wrong with you?" Gizelle asked Edward.

"Nothing," he snapped, "do you have my book, The Catcher in the Rye?"

"No, I don't have your dumb book."

"I saw you reading it last."

"I wasn't reading it. I was skimming it and I put it back where I found it."

"And that would be?"

"The end table in the media room."

"Was that really so hard telling me that?" Edward snapped again.

"Whatever Edward, you don't have to be a jerk about it."

He acted as if he was about to say something but instead ran out of the room as if he just couldn't take the scent of something.

"Wow, is he always like that?"

"No, not always."

The girls laughed and got back to their studying.

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The next morning Gizelle was getting ready for school when Edward knocked on her bedroom door.

"Yeess?"

Edward opened the door and walked in.

"Hey," he said.

"Hey," she replied as she finished putting on her makeup.

"I was thinking…"

"About?"

"Your new friend."

"Bella?"

"Is that her name?"

"Yeah, what about her."

"I don't know. I think she is really pretty."

Gizelle stopped what she was doing and looked at her brother with confusion.

"Pretty? Yesterday you didn't even acknowledge her and you acted as if she smelled horribly."

"Mmm yeah, about that, do you think she noticed?"

"Ohh yeah, she noticed."

"Humm, well, I suppose I'll just have to make an even better second impression."

"Do you seriously want to meet her?"

"Yes, I seriously do."

"Fine, but if I do then you can't go getting all moody on her again, promise?"

"Yeah, I promise.

Gizelle knew it wasn't a promise he could keep. Being a bit moody was just who he was. She also knew how incredibly sweet he could be.

"Okay, sit with us at lunch. I'll introduce you then."

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It was ten minutes into lunch. Bella and Gizelle had already chosen a table and began eating. Bella ate while Gizelle pretended to not be very hungry. As Gizelle was about to tell Bella something about the weekend she could see Edward in the corner of her eye. He pulled up a chair and had a really big smile on his face as he sat down.

"Hey little sis," he said to start the conversation.

She sighed from annoyance but did as she promised she would.

"Edward, this is Bella. Bella, this is my brother, Edward.