"Quailton High." Jacob said, standing behind me and squeezing my shoulders. We were all actually taking in our surroundings. "Little dark and dank aint it?" he said to no one in particular.
"Thanks for that mutt, without your thorough insight; we might not have come to that same conclusion." Rose replied sarcastically as she walked around him and started for the large staircase that was in front of us. Emmett simply gave a bright smile and popped him on the back as he followed after Rose.
I remained where I was, taking in the large building, with it's gray bricks and white rimmed windows. Their was moss that decorated the top of the building, from the outside the the building looked more like a church rather than a school.
"Not to intimidating huh?" Jake said as he stepped to my side and nudged me. I gave him a quick smile and then turned my attention back to the school. In the back there were three tennis courts, one set up for basketball, another for volleyball and the other for the original tennis. Many students decorated the courts already participating in the required sports for the current court they were on. The wooded area was a lush green behind the courts and surrounded the school to allow the only one exit which just so happened to be the only entrance as well.
I was pulled out of my observing when I felt a light pinch at my jacket, it was my mother, "Come on" she said as she ascended the stairs hand in hand wit dad. Jake smiled at me, through his arm around my shoulders and started walking after my mom and dad. I looked around the front entrance and read a couple of the plaques that were mounted outside the doors.
"Nessie, they'll still be here when we leave, let's go, come on." She said with a light laugh and pulled Jasper into the school.
Edward caught the door that was closing behind Jasper, and held it for Bella, she walked quickly after Alice, I walked quickly over to him, smiled lightly and walked through.
"Thank you footman!" I heard Jake chirp and turned in time to see him walk through the door dad was still holding. My dad was suppressing a smile and cocking an eyebrow at Jake. He walked in after him and gave me a wink as he strode past me to catch up with mom.
The inside of the school was really as I had expected it to be. To the left of the long hallway and right at the entrance was the main office, where through the glass window's I could see aunt Rose speaking with an older white haired lady who appeared to be copying something, uncle Emmett who was leaning against the counter beside her and aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper standing off to the side, mom and dad hadn't gone in yet, they were standing outside the office, for the large entry area, the standing room in the office was very limited. Then to the right were restrooms for the everyday visitor's convenience, then the hall ran long and narrow, straight ahead, along the walls were doors that I was sure led to classrooms, and in between the doors along the length of the walls were blue lockers. Halfway down the hallway the area widened and there resided a large stairwell that led to the second level of the building. Right when you enter if you looked up you could see the second level barred off by a black banister. A yellow and blue flag hung on the small wall that was visible from where she stood.
"Hey, check this out." Jake said as he walked over to the left side wall and examined the pictures that hung their, many that hung were those of previous graduating classes, and special school teams. I followed him over and glanced at what he was looking at. The wrestling team, of course he would go for the guys that stood bigger than the others, most of the guy's were huge. All about the same size or bigger even, than Uncle Emmett.
"I could take em." Jake said with a grin. I smiled and rolled my eyes. He only grinned back at me.
"Nessie.." my dad called from behind me, Emmett and Rosie were just coming out of the office, and dad was again holding the door for my mom and gesturing to me to follow. I turned back to Jake and said, "I'll be right back." Then walked quickly to dad and preceded him into the office.
The office smelled strongly of coffee and pencil shavings, not a pleasant smell but no one made notice of the foul smell. The white haired lady walked up to the other side of the desk with a packet of papers, and handed them to Jasper. "There you go hon, your locker information is on the yellow card." She said in a low strange voice.
Dad smirked and swiped at his chin, obviously he was hearing the woman's thought s and they were apparently amusing. Jasper gave a nod to the lady after accepting his papers and then after shooting Edward a knowing look escorted Alice out of the office.
"We'll wait for you out here." She said sweetly, before exiting.
Mom smiled at her and the stepped up to the space Alice and Jasper had just vacated.
"I take it, you're with this group?" the woman said gesturing to Alice and Jasper outside the door.
"Yes, sibling!"' mom said with a roll of her eyes and a smile. The lady then proceeded to register her, without a hitch, in no time at all mom was in the computer under a fake name and identity, when she was handed her packet she thanked the woman and stepped back letting dad, who just took my folder from me and slipped a folded sheet of paper from his pocket inside, step up; mom rubbed my arm and smiled.
Dad gave a brilliant smile to the woman who had gone starry eyed when he stepped up and first spoke to her.
"It seems your work is never done." He said kindly. The woman simply stared and then said, "There's normally another young lady present, she called out today." She had kept her eyes on dad the entire time, without blinking.
"Well, I surely hope they appreciate the effort you put forward in keeping matters running efficiently around here." He told her.
She gave a dumb looking smile and after a moment stepped back and said, "You need sophomore registration papers," she stated and then frantically began looking around.
Dad reached down and placed his hand over her's, her head jerked up to look at him and she was gone again, "Yes, I do need the correct documents for registering myself but also the forms for a student that shall be entering the eighth grade, my younger sister to be precise." He said softly.
The woman gave a soft frown, "Oh, I'm afraid all students 16 and younger must have a parent or current guardian present to register." She said lowly.
Dad smiled and then said, "Yes I understand, there is written consent present with my sister's documents, I trust that will suffice?" he said, offering the woman my folder and a crooked smile.
"Why…yes…yes, that should be fine" she spoke as though she were completely oblivious of what she were saying. And by simply glancing at my dad's profile, it was obvious he was glamouring her, so she probably didn't realize what she was saying.
The lady took my folder and stepped over to a large printer/ copier and began to scan the documents from the folder into the computer. Dad looked at me and smirked, 'Is that what one would call a white lie?' I questioned in my mind raising my eyebrows. Dad suppressed a laugh and turned his attention back to the woman who stepped up with a sheet of paper and a concerned expression on her face.
"I'm sorry, it appears that Calculus A has already met it's capacity, is there another math you would be interested in?" she asked my dad.
"Actually I was hoping to attend the class to maintain my success with the subject, I'll be instructing a few of your other students in this course outside of class and was hoping to have first hand insight to the scheduled material, so if there is any possible way you can admit one more to the classes' number I would be especially grateful." Dad finished. Even I could hear the "honey" that dripped from his voice.
"Let me see what I can do" the woman said lightly and then turned and picked up the phone from her desk.
Dad turned to look at my mom, and gave a light sigh, through the window Emmett was gesturing to dad, it looked like he was inquiring as to what was taking so long. Dad straightened his jacket and simply folded his arms over his chest and then gave a slight nod to the woman on the phone. Emmett rolled his eyes, and moved over to Rosie.
Dad turned back around when the woman's breathing slightly hastened as she moved to hang up the phone. "Alright, it's done. We managed to get you an extra spot in the class, but don't let the word spread." She said with a smile.
"Thank you, very much mam, for your time and efforts." Dad said and gave her a full grin. The woman smiled at him and then clicked a few things on the computer and a few moments later we were given our schedules and were instructed to go and find our lockers.
Dad handed me my schedule and I observed it thoroughly. Algebra, Physical Science, History of the early 1800's to Present Day, Lunch, P.E. and Honors English. Well, it wasn't to bad, I ended up having Honors English and lunch with my family, though that's not really a coincidence, the whole school has lunch at the same time, but there are apparently three lunch room's, I guess your just stuffed into a lunch room based on registration timing. I kind of figured to though about English, mom had said something about us all signing up for it, well there you go.
Algebra, Physical Science, and History of the early 1800's I was on my own. P.E. however I happened to have with uncle Emmett and Rosie, I knew that was no coincidence, and I stopped right outside the door from where I had been allowing my other senses beside's sight to guide me, and looked to my mom and dad expectantly.
"I thought we agreed on one class." I said dryly, dropping my hand to my side.
"That was before we knew P.E. was a requirement for all 9th graders and below." My mom said.
I sighed, they made me sound like a kindergartner, I didn't even sign up for P.E., I had never had to restrain myself before, well, ok, for little times, like when around Grandpa Charlie or going out to the malls and stuff, like that but none of that was ever over exerting myself, I wasn't really active, now I had a period in the day where I had to be active, it made me nervous. What if I slipped up, what if…, I completely stopped my mind's 'what if' thinking process when I felt a hand at my chin, pulling my face up. My dad stood in front of me with a small smile, "You don't have to do this Nessie, you can still change your mind, no harm done. But if we're going to do this, it's going to be done the right way" he'd lowered his hands to my shoulders.
"I want to do it, but I kind of feel like I am being babysat" I said steadily, looking away from him.
"With Emmett?" Alice asked in a slight bell like laugh, as she gently pulled on Jasper who was smiling at me as well.
Uncle Emmett stepped up to me and through his large arm around my shoulder squeezing me slightly, "For real 'cee-ceece', think of it like a party, and these four ain't invited" he said gesturing towards my parents, Alice and Jasper.