EPOV
I sighed.
I looked out of the window and noticed that it was twilight. For some reason twilight was my favorite time of the day, it sort of uncloaked all the pretenses and showed things for what it was, it made me feel vulnerable, exposed but in a good way, in a way that made me think that I didn't have to hide anymore.
It reminded me of my mother, how she would sit on the steps and tell me stories of how she and dad met. I never got to see my father much, he was a dim memory. I just remembered the shock of hair, similar to mine, his blue eyes that always held some indefinable sadness, his strong jaw line. I remembered wanting to be just like my father when I grew up, he was a firefighter. I had inherited my mother's eyes and I remembered her telling me that I would grow up to be a handsome young man.
Moot point. I remembered.
My parents were just a memory of a twelve year old boy. I felt the ever consuming anger again and was pulled back into the darkness wanting to just give in – but something held me back.
I could almost visualize the blonde haired killer laughing as he ran away, my mom calling out my father's name and mine as she took her last breath. As I stood, watching my world burn.
BPOV
I laughed as Jacob told me childhood stories about him and his sisters.
"Well you deserved that, I'm sure you were an irritating younger brother"
"Hey! Come on Bella, whose side are you on anyway?" he asked acting wounded
"You didn't have to steal their dolls and throw them into the river" I contradicted
"But the dolls gave me nightmares, after all how much can a seven year old boy take" he said bumping against my side. I laughed again, loving our easy companionship. His brown eyes sparkled with amusement as he took my hand in his. I blushed but didn't think anything about it. I felt like I had known Jacob all my life and not we had just met properly twenty minutes ago.
"Here we are, it hasn't changed much" Jacob commented as we reached the boarding house.
"Why'd you come late anyway" I asked shielding my face from the sunlight as I looked up at him.
"Me and some friends like taking extended vacations and Jason didn't mind much. After all I am the best student he has" he said winking conspicuously.
I chuckled and opened the door to see an indignant Alice staring at the staircase, muttering under her breath. The expression disappeared when she saw me.
"Oh Bella how are you feeling? I'm so sorry; I just got distracted you see…"
"It's alright Alice, I'm fine" I said smiling and felt Jacob shaking beside me. Alice had not yet noticed Jake [I wondered at that. How could anyone so small not notice someone so big?]
"But how?" Alice finally looked at the person next to me. "Oh Jacob! Hey when did you get here? Oh you mean Jacob healed you?"
I waited impatiently as Alice caught on. "Yes Alice" I replied exasperated with my best friend.
"Hi Ally nice to see you again" Jacob pulled her for a hug, letting go of my hand.
Alice giggled and winked knowingly as I stood there and did what I do best – blush.
We heard footsteps coming from the hallway and turned to see Jason himself coming, looking as regal as ever. His eyes seemed to be of a lighter shade than what it was when I last saw him. His eyes lingered on me and then moved on to Jacob.
"Hey Jacob, my man, how was your trip?"
"It was exciting, thanks again for allowing me to go"
"Not a problem man" Jason looked around then.
"Where are the others, I hope they remember about the session?"
Right then we heard boisterous laughter that could belong to only one person and then a smack of a purse from the front door. The rest of the group trooped in and stopped short when the saw Jason.
They seemed surprised and then Jason cleared his throat.
"I hope you know that we have an honorary session today as we have two new students" he asked amused.
"Oh yeah I'd forgotten about that, today's the day we reveal our super secret powers to Bella" Emmett cackled evilly, and I should mention that it was quite disturbing. Apparently Rose thought the same as she brought out her purse to smack him once again.
"Sorry about that Bella" she apologized while glaring at Emmett.
I giggled because Emmett looked so much like a teddy bear when he was pouting.
"Okay kids, let's get going, we're already late" Jason led us to an elevator and then suddenly stopped.
"Where's Edward by the way" he asked frowning
"Um…Edward is in his room" Alice said speaking for the first time since Jason had come. She was too busy gazing into Jasper's eyes all this while. Gag reflex on – check.
"Go call him then"
"There's no need for that" Edward lazily walked up to us, his hands in his pockets, his eyes the coldest shade I'd ever seen…they almost seemed dead.
Jacob moved closer to me sliding my hand into his once again. For once I felt uncomfortable with this though I did not know why. Edward's eyes slid towards me when he noticed my hand in Jacob's. His eyes showed a flicker of emotion before it was gone so fast that I was sure that I imagined it. He nodded towards Jacob.
"Who's the new lover boy" he drawled, while my heart picked up its beat. I was confused with my reactions whenever 'smart-ass' was around, I almost seemed to forget that I was angry with him. I rewinded and then I realized what he said, and guess what? I blushed.
"I'm Jacob" Jake held out his hand before I could tell him not to bother. Edward just looked at his hand uninterested and then turned towards Jason.
"Let's move then"
Jacob withdrew his hand looking puzzled, while the others looked mystified, except Alice. Alice stood with her hands on her hips and she was expecting no better from Edward. Glad she's seen the light.
Tanya and crew were drooling at the sight of him.
They wish. Edward seemed to be thinking the same as he looked away from them as if they were as inconsequential as the dirt beneath his fingers. Immediately I felt an inane need to defend them and then thought better of it.
The elevator door tinged and opened. We got in and it was spacious enough to fit almost fifty people. We got down at the basement where the door opened to reveal a huge hall. It was entirely white in color and had a lot of glass and other metallic stuff which I couldn't make sense of because they were completely random. There were a lot of crystal glasses, broken or battered cars and towards the end there was a glass house containing different kinds of plants.
"We'll start with proper introductions first and then guys show Edward and Bella what you're made of" Jason said unable to hide his excitement and I thought he wasn't that bad. He was really cool for a principal if not a little intense.
"Jasper you go first"
Jasper moved forward standing awkwardly in the middle, Alice gave him an encouraging smile and he began
"Hi I'm Jasper Whitlock, I'm from the south .My…" he laughed making quotations in the air ..."'power' is…"
He concentrated on his hands until they began to glow, slowly flames started licking his palms as the moved upward and encircled him. Jasper stood in the middle of the ring of fire unaffected by the heat, looking by all means like a great being.
The flames slowly subsided and only then did I realize that I was standing like an idiot, my jaw hanging.
"Wow…just wow" was all that would come from my mouth.
Edward looked bored, like he'd seen it all before, that's what it seemed like to the others. To me, since I was standing next to him, I could see that he was impressed.
"That was nothing, I'll show you what I can do" Emmett scoffed while Jasper just looked amused.
Emmett moved in front of a Hummer H3 and flexed his muscles. Then to my utmost shock he lifted the Hummer with his single hand and brought it down and hammered it to pieces.
"What did you think happened to the other cars?" he boasted pointing towards the other battered cars. I gulped and looked at Emmett with new eyes.
"Remind me to never mess with you Emmett" I said laughing nervously.
"That was the reaction I wanted. Don't worry Bells I won't hurt you" he hollered moving to stand next to Rosalie. Edward looked amused.
"Well Bella has seen what I can do…so here goes" Alice twirled around once, twice and then disappeared. I was still just getting used to her power so I was taken aback. But what surprised me was Edward's reaction. He stilled looking at Alice in what can only be described as fear. He turned towards Jason and Jason just shook his minutely. Edward calmed down after that leaving me puzzled, so I let it go.
After Alice, Rose took center stage. She walked towards the battered Hummer and touched it. Her body slowly started changing into a dense color, and then it hardened. I was confused so Alice explained it to me. Okay she didn't explain but just said that
"Rose became the metal"
I stared at her still not getting it, she sighed. "Rosalie can become any metal she likes by just touching it"
"Oh… That's so cool!" I said excitedly, the people here were awesome, my power was nothing compared to theirs.
Seth apparently had super speed as he ran around me causing me to feel dizzy.
"That's awesome too Seth but can you stop, I kinda feel like puking"
"Sure Bells, but you are too delicate" Tell me about it.
Next was Jessica ,so she moved towards the huge stand of crystal glasses. Can you guess what her power was? Yeah she broke the huge stand of glasses by singing in a really high voice. After that she walked towards us like she had the coolest power among all of us.
Yeah right. My ears were still ringing from the sound of her voice and it seemed like I would never hear again. My poor, poor ears.
Mike was next and he was really embarrassed about showing his power. I looked around and everyone seemed to be stifling their laughter, everyone except me and Edward that is.
"I'll just get it over with then" Mike muttered not unaware of the giggles. Mike stood tall, took a deep breath and sunk…into a puddle of…goo. I tried my best not to join the raucous laughter of everyone in the room and I even saw Edward crack a smile. I succeeded and when Mike *cough* emerged again, he saw that I was the only one not laughing; he walked towards me with a bright smile on his face.
Oh why do bad things happen to good people?
Luckily Benjamin saved me "Come on Mike I need your help here" Ben winked at me and I mouthed thank you.
Benjamin's power left me awestruck. For him to demonstrate his power, we had to go to the glasshouse. If Japer's power was fire, Ben's was earth. The plants obeyed to his every whim and command, so soon the glasshouse was filled with beautiful, exotic flowers. He gave me a flower called the Amazon Lily. It was a beautiful sweetly scented white flower which drooped towards the ground. He said it only bloomed for two hours before it died. I thanked him for the flower but he waved it away.
"After all what are friends for" he said.
Sam was up next and I don't know exactly how to describe his power. It was like Mr. Fantastic from The Fantastic Four.
Tanya's power was that of a chameleon. She could camouflage herself so well that I was really impressed. I didn't tell her that though. If she expected high praise from Edward she didn't get any, he looked simply bored. Sometimes I could feel him watching me from the corner of his eyes to see my reactions but I again brushed it off because if I thought about it too much I would end up blushing and then he would get the wrong indication, that smug jackass.
"Well now for the last student – Jacob Black"
Edward snorted and pointedly looked away. I ignored it.
"I've already seen your power Jake" I said confused
"You've only seen a part of it… I am the best for a reason ain't I" he boasted good- naturedly
He went towards another Hummer and I wondered if he had the same power Emmett had along with his healing power.
He stood in front of the truck concentrating for a long time. After a few minutes I saw changes in the Hummer, it seemed to be shrinking and then slowly before my eyes I saw the whole Hummer fall to dust.
I just stood there like a statue not moving as Jacob turned to me, smirking. His grin grew wider when he saw Edward's face. Edward stood looking amazed but immediately collected himself and put up the blank expression but Jacob had already seen it.
Edward one, Jacob one
A/N Really, really sorry for the long wait…had a bit of writer's block and then some
I hope it was good.
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