Disclaimer: I don't own the Saga. I'm not Stephenie Meyer. I own Rashid, Joann, the triplets, Megan, Maggie and Luke.
Note: There may be some Lemon in this chapter and hence forth. _______________________________________________________________________
Chapter Nine:
When I opened my eyes, I saw I was laying next to Megan, in the meadow.
"Morning," she said, and she caught a piece of my hair as it fell off my head. "You're a sound sleeper. I called your name 5 times and you didn't wake up." She smiled.
"I needed the sleep, I guess." I stood up and stretched. "See you at school." I kissed her on the cheek, and yanked my shirt on, and ran to school, which was a mile away.
"Look, there he is." Jake said as he spotted me. "Fall asleep?" He punched me in my shoulder when I stood next to him.
"Yeah, I guess I was just really tired." Everyone was staring at me.
"Here's your bag." Emmett said, tossing it at me.
"Seth!" I heard Maggie yell. I turned to see her getting off of her bus, waving when she saw I was staring at her. I waved back.
"Aww! Sethy has a girlfriend." I heard Nessie whisper. Maggie came up to me. I grabbed her hand as I led her to her first period.
"So, who do you have?" I asked, curious.
"Ms. Barnes, algebra." She said. "You know, this school thing is fun. I forgot how it used to be." We ended up near her classroom door 10 minutes before school started, so we stopped just outside of it.
"You know, you have the most gorgeous blue eyes I ever saw." I said, and Maggie rolled her eyes. "You know what I mean."
"Yeah, I know. And your brown eyes are breath-taking." She reached up, and traced the planes under my eyes, then led her fingers to my lips. I slid my tongue out and licked her finger. She raised an eyebrow.
"You naughty dog," She kissed me on my lips, and slipped into her class. I raced off to my Freshman level history class, which Edward was in, as was Nessie.
"Um, Seth, why are reciting Canada's national anthem in your head?" Edward asked. "Are you trying to hide something?"
"No, I just don't want to forget. You never know when we'll be in Canada again, and I don't have a vampires' memory." That seemed to shut him up.
"Okay, class, today we will start with the 5 themes of geography. It's a review…" Ms. Harley said, with a voice that made me want to sleep. Snore. I thought in my head, and Edward chuckled.
"Mr. Cullen, would you like to share what's so funny?" She said, using the same monotone voice. Can you find a new voice? Edward kicked my chair.
"No Ms. Harley. Please continue, I'm sorry I interrupted." Edward said.
"Yes…well…open your textbooks to page 5." The rest of the class period was boring, because her voice never became animated like some teacher's did. 2nd period was Spanish, and we were picking out our Spanish names. Edward snorted, because the name I'm going to choose will probably lead me down the path of class clown.
"¡Estudiantes bienvenidos!" The Spanish teacher said, and I could tell she already lost half the class. "Soy la Señorita Lopez, y yo estuvieron ayeres enfermos. Ahora, escoge un nombre español y me dice." Everyone raised their hands. "Señor Brandon, ¿Qué es?"
"Uh…no comprendan?" He said, and the teacher shook her head.
"The correct term would be, no comprendo, which means I do not understand." She went to the board. "Estudiantes means students, and bienvenidos means welcome." She wrote on the chalkboard. "I said, welcome students. I am Señorita Lopez, and I was sick yesterday. Now, pick a Spanish name, and give it to me." The class started in a chorus of "Oh". The teacher turned around and wrote her name. "Esto será uno año largo." She said under her breath, which meant 'this is going to be one long year.' She turned around and grabbed her clipboard.
"Señor Black, what Spanish name do you want?" She looked at me.
"Um…." Time for my plan to fold out. "Helado." Everyone laughed, and I was glad they knew what it meant.
"¡Calle, por favor!" Señorita Lopez smacked her yardstick against her desk. "Señor Black, you want to be 'Ice Cream'. Is that correct?"
"Si." I said smiling. "Me llamo Helado, y me gusta Helado." My smile grew bigger.
"Okay," Señorita Lopez said. "If that's what you prefer." She wrote the name on the clipboard, and continued to the next student. I daydreamed while I was in her class, trying to keep my thoughts away from Maggie, just in case Edward was listening in. The bell rang, and I was heading to my Algebra class, which I had with Alice.
"Hey shorty," I said as I placed by bag under my desk. "What's on the agenda for today?" I knew she wouldn't know, so I smiled.
"Oh, just a review of 8th grade math," she said, returning the smile. I gave her a confused look. "Look," she pointed at the whiteboard near the front of the class, "it says review of 8th grade math. You're so gullible." She smiled even more.
"Demon pixie," I murmured, and she hit me upside my head. "Well, it's the truth." I whispered.
"Yeah, I know." Alice said. "I can be very demonic." She replaced her smile with a frightening face, and I cringed.
"Cut that out!" someone yelled, and I saw it was the algebra teacher, Mr. Billings. "I want peace and quiet when we have this review." At least he isn't a monotone. I thought. His class still dragged on, but I think it was because I wanted to go see Maggie, and the wait was driving me crazy. Finally, the bell rang, and I grabbed my bag, and rushed out the door.
I ran into a wall, or so I thought, as it was just Bella waiting for me.
"In a hurry?" She asked as we walked to the cafeteria.
"Kind of." I replied, and held open the cafeteria doors for her. I looked for Maggie, but I didn't see her yet. The rest of my 'family' was already in line, and Alice came up behind me.
"Yo, ice cream!" Someone yelled, and he was pointing at me. I recognized him from Spanish and gym. "Party at my house!"
"Maybe another time," I said as I walked past him. I felt Bella nudge me.
"Ice cream? What kind of nickname is that?" She whispered.
"I didn't pick it. I just picked my Spanish name." I grabbed the tray, and placed a slice of pizza on it.
"And you happened to pick, Helado, didn't you." Bella smiled, and she grabbed a slice and put it on her try.
"You know me so well, sis, it makes me want to cry." I teased, and Bella shoved me a little bit. I grabbed a baked potato, and baked beans, and found the butter and cheese to top off the potato, and went to pay for my lunch. After I sat down, I concentrated on getting the butter and cheese to melt, so I placed them in my potato before I ate anything else.
"Do you mind if I sit here again? I'm not very good at making friends." A female's voice said, and I could already tell that it was Maggie. I looked up at her, and she had a confused face.
"Guys, do you mind?" I asked. "She's in my English class, and I know no one is nice to her in there." I twitched my lip a bit, but in Maggie's direction.
"Go ahead." Edward said. "We're not very good at making friends either; they seem to alienate themselves away from us." Maggie sat down, and looked at my potato.
"You like them loaded?" She asked and I smiled.
"Didn't you know, cheese makes everything better." I kissed her on the cheek.
"Great, another human is going to get in on our charade." Rosalie said, too low for a normal human to hear.
"I can't get a feel for her emotions, so your not alone, Edward." Jasper said, at the same volume as Rosalie. I grabbed a bite of my pizza, then checked on my potato. Nope, still not melted.
"You know, Seth, I know an easier way for it to melt." Edward smiled, and I knew what he was going to say. Wouldn't it look weird if I dug my hands all up in my food? "Yeah, it would." Edward added.
"So, Maggie, where are you from?" Nessie, who went by Vanessa at school, asked, and she took a bite of her sauerkraut, which I thought was the nastiest food on the planet, and that means a lot, coming from an eating machine.
"Well, my parents were born in Ireland, before they had me and my brother, they moved to America, because their jobs moved them out west. And here I am, stuck in this Podunk town somewhere in the state of Washington." Maggie said. She grabbed my fork, and scooped up some baked beans, and fed them to me.
"Isn't that sweet." Jake said as he grabbed his baked potato. "Oh, Vanessa?" He shoved the potato in her mouth.
"Geez, Jake." She said. "You're worse than Seth." Everyone laughed.
"And that's saying something." Alice said, and I stuck my tongue at her.
"So, how did Dr. and Mrs. Cullen find you? I've heard rumors that they just wanted to pick the most beautiful kids out of foster care." Maggie asked, and she fed me a bite of pizza.
"Well, Jasper and I are Carlisle's niece and nephew." Rosalie said. "Edward and Vanessa are Esme's niece and nephew. Seth and Jacob, well, their mom was an ex-girlfriend of Esme's brother. He saw the conditions they were living in, and yanked them out. The other three were adopted before the rest of us joined."
"Wow, so, it's not just, they wanted that many kids, but that, it was a family thing? Everyone just thought they were lunatics for wanting that many kids." Maggie said, and played with her food. I grabbed a bite of pizza, and finished it quickly.
"Believe me, I've heard." Edward said, and we all laughed. The bell rang then, and I finished off my potato in a hurry.
"Seth, can you walk me to class?" Maggie asked, "We are going the same place."
"Sure," I said, and we went to Mr. Beardface's class, hand in hand.
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A/N: Thank you to all of you who have put me on their story alerts/favorites. I only have a few so far, but I plan to get more.
So, thanks to my sister, Melanie, for giving me info on freshman curriculum. I can't remember that far back. Thanks Melanie.
Melanie: Bite me.
Ahem…okay, so, I also wanted to say that some of the Spanish may be wrong, because I used . I know some of it is right, especially the part where Seth says 'My name is ice cream, and I like ice cream.' I should also mention that I got the Beardface/Beardfacé reference from Scrubs.
So, the Cullens see how happy Seth is. Next chapter, Maggie/Megan go on a date, and they tell the Cullens.
And Seth keeps referring to Megan as Maggie because he's being careful. Who knew when Edward was going to search his brain. He already knows Seth is hiding something.
I hope to get another chapter out tonight, but I said that last night, so I'll say tomorrow, as a precaution. And this is one large Author's note.
