So I wrote an explination and stuff but then my internet decided to close and I'm not going to write more words .
Here is the stupid chapter *Glares at interenet*
Tania
I don't remember my heart rate ever slowing to normal during the whole hour. The seats soon filled, and many people were already chatting to their friends. Of course, I didn't know anyone to catch up with. In fact, there was only one other person in the room who wasn't talking to anyone.
I knew him – his name began with a 'J', but the name had slipped my mind. He was the same person I had seen when I was with Alice weeks ago, and the same person I had seen in the office when I had got there.
It was strange how no one was talking to him. Maybe his friends were in other classes? There was no time to ponder over it though, as the class started.
The teacher came out and introduced himself as Mr Gates, and then the limelight was already shined onto me.
"So we have a new student to the school,"
I felt all eyes on me. I wondered if they could hear my heart hammering. And then out of the corner of my eye I saw a pair of amber eyes, almost burning me. If I had felt awkward before, it was nothing to the embarrassment I was feeling now.
When I didn't say anything he continued. "Maybe you could introduce yourself?"
"Um... I'm Tania." I felt my face grow hot, and I was certain I was red. Mortified, I bit my lip.
"My, my, we've never had a shy one before!" He joked. "I thought this subject would be more for outgoing students."
"Actually, I got an A Star in my GCSE." I had to say it. It seemed a bit biased for him to say something like that! Sure I was shy, but I could still do it. My old drama teacher had thought I was pretty good at acting.
Mr Gates smiled. "Ahh, so there is a fire in there after all."
I smiled slightly to myself, although the people around the room didn't take their eyes off me. When he started explaining about what was expected of us by next year, many people started taking notes, drawing their eyes away from me. However, the familiar burn was still there, and when I looked out the corner of my eye, the golden ones were still staring at me.
After the run through of the two year course, we all moved the chairs and sat in a circle and said all our names and something interesting about ourselves. It took a lot longer than in should have as a lot of people had no idea what they were going to say and lingered. I was happy when the people before me took their time. Finally after about ten minutes or so, the person spoke who I had been waiting for.
"Jasper and I'm vegetarian." I had only heard his voice twice before, but it still sounded so heavenly, so wonderful, it was hard to forget. The incomplete sentence echoed in my head a thousand times. Whatever the next person or few people said after him was lost in my memory. I could no longer think clearly.
I stared at him, trying to take in the immense amount of overwhelming beauty. He was perfect – in every way possible. It was like I was looking at him for the first time.
Jasper looked up at me as I stared. Embarrassed I looked away, though I was very reluctant to.
I didn't understand how I could have forgotten his name. I repeated the way he had said it, a thousand times more. I vowed never to let it slip. It was so perfect...
Mr Gates handed out a few sheets with passages from a couple of plays we could choose from for the performance we would need to give in a couple of months. There was a few other groups in my Drama class had done at my old school for the coursework. Unfortunately, I was chosen to read the lines of one of the characters in one of the passages.
After another dose of embarrassment, we were told to get into groups depending on what play we wanted to do. Each corner of the room was allocated one. Immediately people stood up and joined a group. The one I wanted to be in was full so I looked around the room nervously.
A group on the far side of the room waved at me, so I walked over to join them. There were five in the group already - three guys and two girls. They seemed friendly enough. Once I got over to them, they were all considerably taller than me.
"That's it." said the brunette girl. "We don't need any more."
She was holding a script, and seemed to have taken charge of the group, allocating characters to people. I landed with a girl called 'Stacey'.
"Don't worry about her, she's pretty easy to get round if you don't want to be Stacey." The blonde girl, who I think I recalled as Amber, muttered to me, earning herself a playful slap on the arm from the brunette, who I couldn't remember the name of.
"So we don't get to choose who we want to be now?" said one of the guys, annoyed.
As they argued, I looked around at the people I would be working with. They seemed alright. But as my eyes want over each person, they stopped on one of the guys in the far corner. He was leaning back on the wall with his arms folded. Jasper was staring at me again.
I found it very creepy that I actually liked the fact he was staring at me. It made him seem even more so, mysterious. But this wasn't good... at all. He was in the same group as me... in the same performance... We would be seeing each other so often – after school, at break, running through lines... I looked away, quickly, terrified. I couldn't see him so often. Even though I really wanted to – I just couldn't be in his presence so much. I didn't feel good enough for him – like I would be getting in the way.
When I had first seen Jasper, I had felt like he hated me. He should. So that meant, I should be as far away from him as possible. My subconscious mind was telling me I should stay away from him, and this was doing the exact opposite.
I knew I had to get out of this group and go into a different one, but I couldn't think of a reasonable excuse. I hadn't been with anyone enough for them to hate me. Besides, I didn't even know if Jasper didn't like me. Maybe he had just been having a bad day when I had seen him at the cinema? That would explain why he hadn't been friendly to me. Maybe he was just as shy as me and that was why he wasn't being as welcoming as the rest of the group?
And still, his eyes burned me. And still, I was apart of that group. When I left the first nightmare, nowhere near ready to walk into the next, I couldn't help feeling that the so called bad day at the cinema, was just me trying to make up an excuse. I was pitifully trying to think of a reason why he might like me, even if it was just as a distant friend. I soon found myself wishing for him to be my friend.
Jasper
I disliked drama. No, that was an understatement. I hated drama. My first class of the year, was definitely the worst class I had had in a long time.
I stayed out of the way as much as I could. At least, I tried to attempt at making it like my other classes. Stay out of the way, and say nothing, were my usual plans for school.
Somehow, I couldn't keep my eyes of the human who wouldn't get out of my head. Tania was still nervous. I imagined she would be for the first day or so. I found myself only concentrating on her emotions, which was actually scary. Of course, I was probably feeling her nervousness at the same time – but still.
"So we have a new student to the school,"
All eyes darted to Tania and she felt even more embarrassed that before. At least before she had been mentioned, everyone hadn't taken notice of her. However, now that she had been revealed from her hiding place in the open, everyone could see her. Curiosity and excitement spread around the room. I had to admit, some of the curiosity was mine.
"Maybe you could introduce yourself?"
"Um... I'm Tania." She was very embarrassed now. She wasn't the first human who was shy, however I didn't think she'd had a lot of attention since she was to herself.
Perhaps she didn't want friends? Or maybe she was just to shy to talk to anyone? I was sure she had friends. Alice was her friend, however Alice had spoken to her first.
"My, my, we've never had a shy one before! I thought this subject would be more for outgoing students." Mr Gates was trying to make her feel more welcome, but apparently it wasn't having the right effect.
"Actually, I got an A Star in my GCSE." That surprised me. How could she be this embarrassed and come out with that? Still her heart was beating so loud and fast. It sounded like it would burst.
Mr Gates smiled, probably amused too. "Ahh, so there is a fire in there after all."
I was barely concentrating on the unnecessary notes I was taking. I mostly watch Tania as she took her notes furiously. She had started writing neatly, probably trying to make her notes readable. However, at the pace Mr Gates went, there wasn't enough time to write down what he was saying word for word. If it wasn't for the nervousness, I would have found it amusing.
I knew we would have to introduce ourselves before we had to. Anyone could have seen it coming. For some reason, I was very interested in what Tania had to say.
"I'm Tania, and... I just moved here." She said it with uncertainty, as if it were wrong to say something like that. She wasn't forced to stop and think up something else, to my disappointment. It wasn't even a fact about herself - it was an event that had happened to her and her family.
I didn't understand how I had just thought that. I didn't want to find out more about this girl! I should be staying away from her. I didn't care what Carlisle said. Humans shouldn't be friends with vampires! It was completely insane.
But then something else just had to happen to bring me even closer to the stupid human.
We were made to get into groups for a scripted piece we had to perform in a few months. It had started with me on my own, and two others joined, along with two girls (one of which I could tell only wanted to be in the group because I happened to be in it). She took one look at me and she was drowning me in lust. I didn't think Amber would be particularly happy by the end of the course.
Tania stood in the middle of the room looking around. She had approached one group at first but they already had enough people. She sighed in defeat, unsure of where to go.
Please don't come this way... I thought, knowing there was only one space left. But it looked like everyone else in the room had found their group. Oh no.
Anna stuck up her arm and waved at Tania. Thank you, Anna. Thank you. I really loved that human.
"That's it." She exclaimed as Tania slowly and cautiously made her way over to us. "We don't need any more."
I knew immediately Anna would take charge of the group, and I didn't mind. Stay silent and out of the way... It wasn't exactly difficult to learn lines (being a vampire), just so long as I didn't end up with...
"Oh no!" Tania cried, looking over the script. "No way! No. Way!!"
"Aww come on, it'll be fun!" said Anna, excitedly.
"I. Am. Not. Kissing. Anyone."
Amber looked at the part of the script that Tania was looking at. I quickly grabbed a script and flicked through it. Apparently this play had romance – and a lot of it.
"Oh Tania! You..." started Amber in shock. "Please, please, please can I swap with you?!"
"No, Amber, you're great for Jasmine." exclaimed Anna. "You'll be great for her – I can really imagine you as her."
"But she... and..." her eyes flickered up to me. "You can't honestly be ok with..."
Anna giggled. "It's not real. It's acting."
"Looks like you get to be Chris." She said, turning to me. "Unless you've got a problem with that...?"
I quickly glanced at the script, and then to Tania who was looking at me nervously.
"No, I don't mind." What else could I say? Would it really be that bad? Yes, said a voice, bitterly, in the back of my head. Oh and how will you do that? You're going to have to eat half the forest to even be near a human, let alone 'pretend' to kiss one. Not to mention it will be in front of everyone! What If you loose it?
"It's just acting." I shrugged. The voice was too shocked at me for being able to act naturally.
So, just to add up so far – I had been transferred into drama, where Tania just happened to be in the drama class, and not only had I been forced into a group with Tania, but into a character who had to kiss her.
How was it only the first lesson?
Is anyone else finding it funny Jasper and Tania are both observing each other? Anyway, the whole play thing actually has a reasnable explination. Blood lust :D The play will be a good thing in the future :) And also very fun to write :D
Reviews are like Jasper in review form! Well... they make me happy :D
