Author's Note: I am so sorry for taking so long to update. The last month I've been back and forth from being depressive and just laying around feeling horrible to doing some odd jobs and having crazy errands to run. And for one week I was physically sick. I have definitely not lost interest in writing this story and hopefully I'll start posting more often. This story will be finished someday, even if I'm 80 years old when it's done! That being said because I hadn't written in so long I had terrible writers block. So I'm not really sure if this chapter is that good. Please tell me what you think of it.

Chapter Six – A Curious Lunch with the Cullens

"Guys this is Jude, the girl I was telling you about. Jude you already know Jimmy and Edward but this," she said while pointing to Emmett, "is my big brother Emmett." I had to struggle to look away from Jasper and when I did I saw that Emmett had the biggest grin in his face and a mischievous look in his eyes.

"It's nice to finally meet you Jude. Alice won't shut up about you," he chuckled.

I gave Alice a pointed look while Jimmy quietly laughed in the background, "Yeah thanks for that."

"What? We're all going to be great friends. I know it." Well at least she has hope because with the stare Rosalie is giving me I don't think everyone will like me.

Alice shoves me in a chair between her and Jasper who I try to ignore, which is proving to be very difficult. It's like he's a frickin' magnet or something.

"Jude, this is my Rosalie," Emmett pipes up while putting his arm around her shoulders.

I'm not really sure what the right response to her nonchalant look should be so I just settle with, "It's nice to finally meet you."

"You too I guess," she says in a pretty nice tone. Well it's not particularly nice, it's more like she doesn't really care, which is fine with me. If she doesn't want me to mess with her I won't.

Alice, Emmett, Jimmy, and Edward roll their eyes while Jasper looks upset. "You'll grow on her," Alice stage whispers in my ear. I just give her a polite smile while Edward reassures me with a wink.

"And this," Alice says like she's presenting the grand prize on some game show, "is Jasper."

Alright I guess I have to look at him. Great now I'm stuck. I don't think I'll ever be able to look away. I mean yeah he's attractive. Actually I think he's the most beautiful man I've ever seen but there's something else there too. I can't describe what it is but it's weird, strange, and taking me by surprise. What the hell is going on!? And it doesn't help when he finally speaks and I hear that accent.

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you," he says with a kind smile, "Alice says nothing but good things about you."

I'm sure I'm blushing like a virginal school girl. Well technically I am a virginal school girl but whatever. "Well I'm nothing to special. I'm sure Alice talks me up quite a bit."

"No. I'd say her descriptions weren't even close to the real thing."

Oh My God. I'm sure I'm a red as a tomato right now. I've had crushes before but I don't think I could classify this as a crush. This is something new and foreign to me. Much more intense than a crush. I've not even been sitting by him for five minutes and I feel so calm and at peace. Like this is the best place in the world. It's like I'm being pulled to him.

" . . . around here?"

"I'm sorry what?" I snap back to reality and realize they all have their eyes on me along with little smiles barely visible on their lips. Except Rosalie who is just looking at me expectantly.

Emmett lets out a hearty laugh, "I said what's there to do around here?"

"Um, honestly not much," I laugh. "Hiking, camping, people sometimes go down to the beach. Most of the time we just hang out in front of some store front until the manager gets tired of us and makes us leave. Forks isn't all that exciting."

"Well I'm sure we can make some exciting stuff happen around here huh Jazz."

"Emmett," he says as a warning. I'm guessing Emmett can get a little wild.

"Fine," he huffs out.

I let out a laugh at his childlike pout and Jasper snaps his head over towards me when he hears it. His eyes have lit up and that's when I notice he's got the same golden eyes as Alice. In fact they all have the same color eyes. But they're not all related. Huh. Oh well maybe they all wear contacts. It's still weird they all wear the same color but whatever, I'm babbling in my own head.

I give him a small smile but then feel my cheeks heating up and look back down at the table top.

Alice speaks up while putting an arm around my chair, "Jude if it's okay with you, we'd like you to sit with us every once and a while. I'd really, really love for you to." Great she's giving me the puppy dog eyes. Like I would say no anyway.

"Sure, if it's alright with all of you?" I ask looking around at all of them.

"Of course Jude", answers Jimmy.

"You can be our official Forks friend!" Emmett exclaims.

I look back over at Jasper and it takes my breath away. He's wearing a big, beautiful smile. I don't think I've ever seen someone look so happy and content. It kind of makes my head spin. "You're welcome to be with us anytime Jude."

I hear Rosalie sigh and wonder if she's going to put up a fight. She looks resigned, like she doesn't really care for me being around but knows it's going to happen anyway.

"I don't think we should steal you completely away though," Edward says to me with a smirk, "your friends might break their necks trying to see what's going on."

A flash of confusion sparks in my brain until I remember one of my friends is the gossip queen herself, Jessica. I look over to my regular table to see everyone except Angela staring with wide eyes and their mouths practically open. Mike and Eric quickly look away once they realize they've been caught but Jessica mouths to me, in a not so subtle way that she wants to know everything.

"Oh my God," I mumble while turning back to the Cullens and resting my palm on my forehead. Edward gives a small laugh and to my surprise even Rosalie chuckles quietly which causes my head to snap up to look at her. She looks back, her right eyebrow raised like she's challenging me to say something.

I don't. I'm not that stupid.

I look back to my old table and see Angela giving me a look that says she's sorry about our three uncouth friends. I just send a smile her way and shake my head. There's really nothing to do about them anyway.

"I'll try to rein them in. Try being the key word."

"Don't worry about it," Edward replies, "We've moved school's a couple of times before and it just comes with being the new kids."

"Well they could at least be polite and not gawk at you like you're animals behind the glass at the zoo."

"That's why we all only have anything to do with you. You don't treat us like a novelty," Rosalie says. She actually looks sincere when she says it. It's not like she wouldn't. I'm sure it gets old fast being the new kids.

"Well," I say hesitantly to her, "you're just people."

At that Emmett bursts out laughing, catching the attention of the whole lunch room. I'm not really sure what's so funny about that but okay.

Soon enough he calms down to just chuckling when he sees all the piercing stares coming from his siblings. "Sorry. Sorry. I'm good now."

"You know," Jasper addresses me, breaking the silence, "you really are amazing."

Here it comes, the blushing and the huge smile that probably makes me look like a fool, "Thank you, I guess."

"The bell's about to ring," Alice says. And not five seconds later it does.

"Jude," I hear Jasper say. I turn around to him after pushing my chair in and grabbing my uneaten lunch. He's standing very close but oddly enough I don't mind. I actually like it.

"Uh, yes."

"Would you mind if I walked you to class?"

"Of course not. That'd be nice."

Then my tray is being pulled out of my hand from behind me. "Here I'll take that." I turn to see Alice with Jimmy behind her looking amused at her actions, "You two go on to class. Go shoo!"

Jasper then appears at my side and puts his hand lightly on my back, leading me out of the cafeteria. The moment he touches me my back starts to tingle and I involuntarily let out a soft sigh. It's not sparks like it's described in all those cheesy romance novels. It's more like the feeling you get just before your hand falls asleep. Like a gentle, relaxing, warm feeling.

"I see you've been able to handle all of Alice's quirks," he says teasingly.

"Yeah," I laugh, "With someone as nice as her the quirks, as you call them, aren't bad at all."

"I hope Rosalie and Emmett didn't scare you."

"Well Emmett is quite boisterous, but I think I can handle him," I look up to Jasper with a smile. Good lord this is crazy. He makes me feel all warm inside my chest when I look at him. "And I don't really know Rosalie to well but I would probably be standoffish too if I was stared at 24/7 by ignorant teenagers."

"It is tiring at first, but after a while you don't notice it anymore," he says as we near the door to my speech class. "Here you are. Safe and sound."

"Thanks for walking with me, and for accepting me as a friend I guess."

"Well I would never deny you," he says with an intensity in not only his voice but his eyes as well.

"Um, well, I guess I'll see you around."

"I hope so," he says, then turns and walks back the way we came.

I walk into class and to my seat in a daze that quickly wears off when Eric plops down in front of me.

"Just so you know Jessica's going to ambush you after school."

"Yeah I figured. And by the look on your face you also want to know what happened?"

"No. No!" he persisted like that was an absurd idea. "No. . . . okay yes, yes I do want to know."

"Well how bout we just all go to the Newton's store and hang out there so I can tell you all at once instead of repeating everything millions of times?"

"Cool. I'll text Mike," he tells me while turning around in his seat, sneaking his cell phone out, "You tell Angela and Jessica. If she can wait that long."

"Well she's gonna have to," I say while texting both Angela and Jessica, "If she comes up to me once before hand. I got dirt on her."

"You're pretty evil." I jump hearing Edward's voice in my ear.

"I can be if you get on my bad side," I say with a smile.

He smiles back, "I'll remember that." I go to turn back in my seat when his voice stops me, "Oh and good luck with Jessica."

"Eaves drop much Edward?"

He answers me back with another secretive smile, "You have no idea."

"Alrighty then." I shake my head as I turn back around to answer a text, no doubt from Jessica. Frankly I'm surprised she didn't text me before I had the chance to text her.

I have 2 wait til then?!

'Hell yeah you do.' I think.

Yep. & remember if u pester me b4, I have dirt on u;)

Let's just say that was the end of that conversation.


Typing was different. Well the only real difference was that Rosalie didn't glare at me. In fact she didn't even act like I existed, which is better than wanting to set me on fire with her eyes.

In Novels Jimmy asked if I was too uncomfortable being bombarded like that at lunch.

"Not really. I mean Alice did take me by surprise, but I'm glad I got to meet your other siblings."

"I tried to make her give you some warning," he glances at me with sympathy, "but . . ."

I don't give him a chance to finish, " . . . you can't stop Alice."


Art was normal too, until Alice abruptly brought up a topic that made me snap my pencil lead off.

"So how do you like Jasper?"

"Alice," Jimmy chastised her.

"What?" she replied innocently, "He did walk her to class. I just wanted to know if they got along." She turned back to me waiting for my answer.

"Uh, he's very nice. Definitely a southern gentleman," I finished with a small smile.

"Good. He's always had a lot of trouble changing schools and the things that come with it. I think you'll be able to help him open up."

Okay I really don't want to talk about Jasper right now cause I know I'll sound like an idiot. And I just might drool over him. "Well I like all of you guys. Even Rosalie," I say trying to change the subject. They both looked up at me after that statement. "Well she doesn't look like she wants to kill me every time I'm in her path so I count that as a small victory."

They both chuckled at that. Alice puts her hand on top of mine, "Jude I know you two will be really good friends some day. I promise," she said with a wink.

With that we went back to our work. Well they did, I was mostly thinking about Jasper. I've never felt like this before with any boy. I know I just met him today but even since I saw him the first day at lunch, I'd been thinking about him without realizing it. And when I did I quickly tried to snap out of it. I feel connected to him somehow, drawn to him. I mean yeah he's extremely good looking but . . . I just don't know what's going on with my feelings and that boy.

I've never had a boy interested in me. I guess I'm not good enough, maybe a little too flabby. Sometimes my attitude can suck. At first when other girls were getting their first kisses and boyfriends it bothered me. But I just came to accept the fact that I wasn't what boys were looking for. And since then I've tried to better myself in every way possible. So I don't know why Jasper shows an interest in me. I know it's not much but I don't think I can feel this way about someone without them feeling at least something. And as dumb as it sounds, I'm worried. These feelings seem like a big, colossal joke that could blow up in my face.