We were moving. To Ashland; apparently.

The Cullen's had decided against going to find Nahuel yet, they wanted me to finish school properly first. I had tried to persuade them otherwise, but when they found that I hadn't actually ever finished high school, they were insistent that I finished.

'But it won't be the same in America as it was in England. What the point?' I asked desperately.

'The point is that you haven't had a proper education yet, and you need to!' Esme told me.

'But I have plenty of time for that!' I insisted.

'Why do you want to put off going to school so much?' Emmett asked. I could tell by looking at all of their faces they had all wanted to ask the same question.

'I really, really don't like school. I always get told off, and I don't want to make friends only to have to move again soon after.' I said.

'It's not that bad, really,' Rosalie said, and coming from her (queen of 'I don't want to move again!') it meant alot.

'Anyway, who cares if you get told off, you're a Cullen now, sweet talk your way out of a detention!' Emmett said, grinning. I grinned back.

'You know what I have never understood, why you all act so perfect at high school. It's not really fitting in, and it's no fun!' I said.

They all looked at each other, and then shrugged. 'I don't know, we just always have,' Edward told me.

'Well, this time, no more being the perfect Cullen's. Of course, look perfect, but don't act it,' I said and Emmett high fived me.

Anyway, now we were on our way to the new house.

My eyes were golden. Though, I hadn't met any of the packs. Jake thought it was funny torching me. Leah was going off on her own for a bit, now she had finished school, and Seth was staying in La Push to finish his high school education. I would meet both of them in the next summer holidays. Sam's pack was also staying in La push. I would meet them in the next summer holidays too. I really wanted to kill Jake. I really, really wanted to meet them, and now I wasn't getting to. For another few months. I had tried convincing myself that I would be able to go another few months without meeting my favourite werewolves (all of them were my favourites except Jake now). But I could tell it would annoy me.

We soon arrived in Ashland, to find our house already furnished. Esme and Alice had travelled up the day before to finish decorating and Jasper and I was the last car to make it up there so obviously everything was ready.

'Way to drive slow Jazz. They already unpacked,' I told him.

'You're the one who told me to go left when it was right!' Jasper shot back.

'I said, I THINK it is left, and then when you started indicating, I said, wait no I mean right,' I said.

'Learn how to tell your left from right!'

'Learn how to drive fast!'

We had been having this argument the whole way up. He started out by driving slow, and then I accidently told him left when I meant right, so we ended up on this one way road for an hour until we finally found another one way road back to the road we actually needed. And for the last 10 minutes I had been bouncing on my seat repeating 'we're late, we're late, we're late!' so he had turned on classical fm. This just made me chant louder, as I hated classical music.

We weren't really angry, but it was fun to annoy each other. Alice had sent us a text before we got in the car, telling us good luck. We hadn't completely understood it then. We did now.

Alice came bouncing out of the house, laughing at our annoyed expressions.

'I am NOT going in a car with that freak again,' I told her.

'Like I would let you,' Jasper told me. I stuck my tongue out at him.

'Actually guys, we all voted you guys had to share the car tomorrow. Maggie is not going to be in a good mood on her first day at school, and we all decided you were the best person to keep her calm and happy,' Alice said. I couldn't really understand this. When I was in a bad mood, I was like Rosalie in a good mood. It really wasn't that scary. But apparently it freaked everyone out a little when I was bitchy and didn't have a smile plastered on my face.

'B- but Alice!' He was going to carry on, but Alice silenced him with one of her looks.

'Why do l have to share with Jasper?' I asked, 'he will get me there late, he drives so slowly,' he stuck his tongue out at me. I grinned at him. Alice rolled her eyes.

'Guys, we all know you don't hate each other, so get over it.' We nodded.

***

The next day we arrived fifteen minutes later than everyone else.

'I thought you said you could read a map!' Jasper was still yelling at me.

'I thought you said you knew the way!' I yelled back. We hadn't actually gotten out of the car yet, so none of the students knew we were yelling at each other.

'Why would you lie about being able to read a map?'

'Because you said you knew the way!'

'But I obviously didn't!'

'Well, I know that now!'

'Idiot,' he hissed.

'Freak,' I hissed back, and got out of the car. I stood up on my toes and waved to the other Cullen's, smiling.

Jasper got out, noticed what I was doing and rolled his eyes, 'I will never understand how you change emotions so easily.'

'I am skilled,' I said and stuck my tongue out at him. He grinned and we walked over to the others.

We all walked into the school office and got our time tables. I was going to be a junior, the same as Jasper, Rosalie Emmett, Jacob and Alice. Since I was 19 I had refused to be a sophomore on my own. Even though I really didn't look old enough to be one. Jasper and Rosalie were pretending to be Esme's niece and nephew again, and twins. Jacob was pretending to have been adopted and so was Alice. Emmett and I were pretending to be brother and sister, as we looked quite alike, with the same hair colour, and both our hair being curly. And the vampire traits only added to the whole similar looking thing.

Bella and Edward weren't going to school; instead they spent time with Nessie. Jacob only went to school because he hadn't finished his education and anyway he thought Bella, Edward and Nessie should have some time together. My timetable said I had Art, Physics, Textiles, English, Lunch, Chemistry and Spanish. I had textiles with Alice, and English and Spanish with Emmett. I couldn't actually speak Spanish, as I had never done it at my school. I should learn quite a bit in my sciences too. And yes, I had managed to waste five years of my life not learning anything, just reading chick flicks and trying to get through some of the classics without getting too bored. I had never been self motivated.

English was fun. Emmett just made me laugh the whole way through. It didn't help that the woman we had was really boring. And blind. And deaf. She didn't even notice when I burst out laughing really loudly, after Emmett said something particularly funny.

Lunch was interesting. Everyone stared.

Chemistry, I made friends with the girl sitting next to me, but I didn't really want to make too good friends while I was here as it would be harder to leave.

Spanish, I learnt some Spanish. I was supposed to know quite a bit by now, so my vampire memory helped me remember some basic things she said. Emmett helped out too, whispering the answers any time I needed them. And with my awesome memory, I remembered most of them too. But I soon realised I would probably need to read the text book before the next class, so I didn't look so bad. It was still funny. I couldn't believe I managed to trick the teacher into thinking I had actually done Spanish before.

So anyway, my days went on like that. By the end of the month, I knew enough Spanish to have caught up with the rest of the class. I had decided this was the year I had to concentrate, and then I wouldn't have to ever again.

Our stay in Ashland was pretty ordinary. We of course were returning, but for now it was the summer holidays and I was meeting the WEREWOLVES! I became a Cullen family member properly. I felt I fit in properly. But it still bugged me not having met the wolves yet. But I was going to now! I had actually bought a calendar for 2007 and was counting down the days until we finished junior year and then I could finally meet them all.

We would go back for the whole of the summer holidays. Jacob went back frequently to see his dad, and Bella and Nessie also went to see Charlie. Who I also had yet to meet. So it wasn't like it was going to be a massive reunion, I would just finally get to meet the wolves. It was bugging me so much that I hadn't met everyone yet. I hadn't met Charlie because he needed time to adjust to everything, and I hadn't met the wolves because Jake was evil.

But I didn't spend too much time thinking about it. I concentrated on my studies, since I had skipped a couple of grades, and also on my family.

Time seemed to fly by. And soon enough, Jasper and I were stuck in a car together again, trying to find our way off that stupid one way road we had turned onto again.

'I said turn left!'

'Yes, but last time we were here and you said turn left, you were wrong!'

'But we are going in the opposite direction this time, so I'm right!'

This journey was not going well. I wanted to meet the wolves! It was dark now, not that that affected our vision; it just meant we really were late. I was supposed to have met them two hours before, but once again we had gotten lost. I blamed it on the fact that we had been singing along to a song. It was very gradually getting back to my music and fashion era, but we were still two or three years behind. But I happened to still remember lyrics to my favourite songs of 2007. Weird, and unhelpful.

Right now, we were listening to one of Michael Jackson's old songs.

'Oh my god! I have just realised! Michael Jackson is still alive!' I exclaimed.

'No way.' Jasper dead-panned, 'you don't say.' He rolled his eyes.

'He dies in June 2009,' I told him.

He swerved off the road. 'No!' Jasper liked Michael Jackson.

'Yes! It was so sad!'

And that was how we ended up being 5 and half hours late. Bad directions and the news of Michael's death.