A/N: Hey everybody!! I am sooooooooooooooooooo sorry for posting!! You don't even know how sorry!! I mean like really!! I haven't been on my computer for like a week. I didn't really have a reason but I just didn't. I didn't email, write, or even read. Oh well now I'm writing so I will try to make this longer to try to make up. Sorry!!!! And edwardbaby123 this chapter is for you as a late b-day present!!! And my lovely reviewers are:
Insider~ a.k.a. B.O.B.
NPOV
I walked to the bathroom still silently cursing my alarm clock. I heard Dad laugh down stairs and ignored him. I walked into the bathroom to see another one of Alice's beautiful outfits, which consisted of white shorts and a purple tank top. She always know what I should wear and I was glad that it was going to be warm but overcast so that I could actually wear this and not be thought of as weird even though I never got cold. I didn't know why but I felt like something was going to happen today. Oh well!! I walked down the stairs in a good mood and all traces of last night's conversation were gone. Everyone was in a good mood even Jake. I hoped that that wouldn't change once we got to school but I knew it would.
Even though we never eat everyone was converged in the kitchen sitting at the counter and Grandma Esme's table which last night had felt like my own personal hell so I steered clear of there and went to sit next to Uncle Emmett at the counter with the barstools.
"Hey Ness!" Emmett boomed as always.
"Hey Uncle Emmett. How as your first day for the 100th time?"
"It was ok I guess. How was yours?" He asked sarcastically as if he did already know what had happened with Jason and the river. Thinking back on my first day seemed like a long time ago.
"It was good." I said equally as sarcastic.
I looked away from Uncle Emmett who had turned his attention to a syrup bottle that was sitting on the counter for what ever reason.
"Hey hunny." Mom said as she walked over and sat down next to me at the counter.
"Hi Mom."
"Did you get enough sleep last night? You were up late."
"I'm fine Mom. Thanks for the concern. So what happened after I went to sleep?"
The mood seemed to become heavier and everyone was suddenly hashed. But Mom tried to stay cool and calm as she continued to talk.
"Well, Nessie we decided that you should be able to enjoy going to school and that we need to give you more freedom than we have been."
At that I just stared at my Mother in total shock and disbelief. They were actually going to trust me? Hells to the yeah!!! I could see my Dad laughing over my shoulder or at least hear him. I got out of my seat and hugged Mom as hard as I could and she hugged me back.
"We thought that we were being a little hypocritical not giving you the freedom that you deserve since Esme and Carlisle gave that freedom to all of their children."
I was nearly bouncing up and down because I was so happy that Mom and Dad would trust me. I didn't see that one coming. I ran over to my Dad and gave him a hug as well and then ran out the back door strait to my meadow.
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I just stat there for a while calming down as the hyper ness finally flowed out of me. We still had an hour until we had to leave for school so I ended up just relaxing and sitting there in the warmth of the day with my eyes closed. I didn't know how long he had been there but when I opened my eyes Jake was on the edge of my little meadow just looking at me and I could see the love in his eyes.
"Hey Jake." I said casually.
He walked over to where I was sitting by the small waterfall on the rocks and sat as well.
"Hi Ness."
"So did you have a good first day of school yesterday?"
I knew the answer was going to be no.
"Not so much."
"Come on Jake it is just one guy and I don't even know if I like him yet."
"That's not why my day was bad. My day was bad because I heard at least 100 stupid comments about you yesterday and I pissed me off."
"What could be so bad that it would ruin your entire day? Huh?"
"Trust me Ness you don't want to hear or at least I don't want to say them."
I decided to leave Jake alone for now.
"Ok then I guess I'll race you back to the house wolfie." I said in a playful voice as I got up to start running.
"Ok." He said as his spirits rose along with him.
"On your mark… get set… GO!!!" I bellowed and started running as fast as I could back to the house. Jake knew it was a lost cause but he tried any ways because he was so competitive.
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I ran into the house and waited for Jake so we could get off to school. I ran upstairs to pull my brush through my brown ringlets one last time and by the time I got back downstairs Jake was waiting in the kitchen.
"Hey slow pock." I mocked him, "Why do you even try?"
"Because I can't help my-self."
"Well then I hope you have gotten used to losing because it happens to you a lot."
"Shut-up!" He said playfully as I had before.
"Ok everybody time to get off to school and get gawked at again." Said Rose in an annoyed tone. I could tell that she was a little tired of the "Their so beautiful!" bit.
We piled into the cars and again I got the feeling that something was going to happen today and only then I could see that it was going to be big. I didn't need to be Alice to see that. I dismissed the thought and laid my head back on the black interior of Alice's yellow Porsche. I really liked this car.
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We parked in the back of the lot yet again. I could feel a habit forming. We went walking through the crowd again being stared and whistled at. Half way through I saw something that made me stop dead in my tracks. It was only Jason waiting for me but it made my heart sore that he didn't just invite me to the game out of pity and kindness but I was also hyper aware that my Dad was standing next to me stiff as a board. They had decided to give me more freedom but how much I wasn't sure. I looked to my Mom and put my hand on her arm so that people wouldn't think I was some kind of freak. I silently asked her how much freedom they were giving me and she spoke only to me in an attempt to say Dad from attacking someone.
"We decided that what we got you get. So you can do what ever you want to within right and reason. We trust you Nessie."
Awww they trusted me. For a short second I thought about how my Mom called me Nessie when she used to hate the nickname Jake had given me but soon snapped out of it as I realized that it was stupid to be thinking about this right now and I could dwell on it later when I had more time. I began to walk again leaving my family behind me Jake fuming. I was headed for Jason when two guys walked up to me. What they were doing I had no idea but then one began to talk.
"Hey I'm Tyler. This is Josh we were wondering if you were with any of those guys over there. We heard that they aren't actually related to you."
Ha! They were sadly mistaken but figured they looked like stupid jocks any ways.
"Um… no I'm not 'with' any of them."
"Well then how about you and me…"
I didn't bother to listen to the rest of what he said already getting the idea. Uhhh!! That dumb a**!! How dare he? He isn't even that cute!! I could see that everyone in my family was about ready to attack him especially Bella so I saved us from being exposed and slapped the jacka** in the face with probably a little too much strength but it seem to get the message across. He cried out in pain and put his hand to his face. That ought to teach him a lesson. A group had gathered around us looking at this 'Tyler' jerk as he held his face. I simply looked over at my family and nodded seeing the approval in every set of golden eyes and the laughter in Emmett's. Mom looked proud of me in a way; never a good thing when you just injured someone but I got the feeling she would have done the same. At that I walked away to go to math class. I was walking slightly too fast but I didn't care. As I reached the front door of the school Jason finally caught up to me and stood holding the door. I suddenly felt shy and was afraid that he wouldn't like me after what I did to that kid.
"Hi Jason." I said sheepishly.
"Hey Nessie." He said slightly out of breath after having to run to catch up.
"So…"
"Wow Nessie. I didn't know… I mean it doesn't look like… what I'm trying to say is that I'm kinda impressed with you. You have got to have a lot of strength to do that to Tyler. He is quarterback on the football team after all. You must really have an arm. Do you pitch when you play?"
"Yeah sometimes but most of the time my aun… I mean Alice pitches but I'm pretty good too."
"Oh well Tyler had that coming to him. He's such a jerk."
"You don't say." I said sarcastically.
Jason laughed.
"We should get to class. It's almost time for it to start."
I hadn't even realized that we had been standing there for around five minutes but I could no longer see my family so they must have gone into the school.
"Ok."
We started to walk to class together. Even though this was only reasonable I still felt butterflies because we were walking together. I know it's stupid you don't have to tell me but I still felt it. We walked over to our desk and sat down. We sat through Mrs. Brigg's excessive talking when someone from the main office, who looked familiar because she had helped us because we were new, interrupted. Did that mean that there was another new student? My answer came quickly: yes.
"Hello everybody I would like you to meet our newest student Sidney."
Just then a girl walked in who looked as if my Mom had let Emmett finally get to her and play a prank. She had long brown hair and the same figure as my Mom and just all around looked just like her except for her eyes obviously. She had an air of confidence even though she was new and I could tell that even though she looked like my Mom she wasn't like my Mom. Then I knew. I could tell that this was what I had know was going to happen today. Something big but what? All I knew was that there was a new girl named Sidney and? But I knew in that instant that she was going to be life changing to me for whatever reason. God must have sent her into my life to teach me something or for me to teach her. You see like Grandpa Carlisle I believe that there is something out there even though Dad doesn't. I contemplated this new girl sitting to my right for the rest of class what could she do? What could a human do to change my life? But more importantly how did I know that she meant something?
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I continued to ponder this as I met up with Alice after class to go to History together.
"Hey Nessie." She said in her high tinkling voice that always seemed to sound like wind chimes. Sidney walked past us again and I once again got the feel that she was going to be significant in my life from now on.
"Hey Alice. I have a question?"
"What about?"
"About our 'powers'."
"Oh… So what do you want to know Ness?"
"Can a person have two powers?"
"I'm.. not sure. You should ask Carlisle. Why?"
"No reason."
She gave me a look that told me she knew I was lying because I was a pretty bad liar when it came to my family. They could read me too well but humans couldn't so I got by well enough.
"Nessie what is it?"
"Well it's probably stupid but I have been getting this feeling since I woke up that something is going to happen today and then I got that feeling again when the new girl Sidney came into the class. I felt like she was going to be part of or she was going to be that change. I don't know. It's probably stupid any ways."
Alice didn't actually say anything after that but I could see that she was chewing on the idea of a new power that none of us had. A power to sense change like Bella's amazing self-control.
I sat through History and Bio and all my other classes not thinking much about the subject but speculating about this sense. Only right before I left Choir did I realize that I had no idea what was going to happen at lunch but it felt like it was going to all happen. I didn't know where to sit so I just sat. Away from my family and everyone else. It seemed like my little message to Tyler had gotten around too. It was nice not to have a million and two pig-headed guys staring at me. Then it happened Sidney walked over to my table and sat down.
"Hi I'm Sidney." She said as confidently as ever.
"Um… hi." I had no idea what to say.
"So I heard you slapped some guy in the face this morning. Nice. What did he do?"
"He was being the average stupid jerk that quarterbacks can be."
"I see. Do you play sports or something? I heard him crying after you left."
Oops I didn't mean to do that much but oh well.
"Yeah I played baseball back in Washington but there isn't a girl's team here."
"Oh. So you just moved too? Kinda sucks doesn't it? Leaving everything behind and coming to a new place where you don't know anybody."
"Yeah it does pretty much suck. I had to leave a lot of people behind when we left. So where did you move from?"
"Oh well we just moved from Cali. It's pretty different here with all the rain and clouds."
I'm sure it was different from the sunshine of California but that's why we moved here.
"Yeah it must be but back in Washington we lived on the Olympic Peninsula, one of the wettest places in the continental U.S. so I'm used to it. I even kind of like it."
"I guess it takes time to get used to. So…"
We sat through the rest of lunch just talking to each other and getting to know each other. By the end you would have thought we were best friends. That was it!! That is why Sidney is so important. I'm going to have a human best friend!! Oh my god!! This is going to be so much fun. I haven't really spent time with humans besides yesterday so this was going to be a new experience. The only humans I was ever close to were Grandpa Charlie, Billy, and Sue. I can't wait to tell Alice I was right about my feeling!!!
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Again sorry this one took so long. I'll try to get another up before the weekend because I'm going camping with my family and our neighbors. Even if I don't get to post I'll write up there. And if you notice that this has been in almost all Nessie POV I guess it's just easier to write in one so I'm going to do that. Luv you guess!! Review!!
