A/N: Ok so by the time I post this I might be leaving for my camping trip really soon or I might have already gotten back. I'm sorry I just realized that I didn't put my reviewers' names on the last chapter I posted. I'm also sorry that when I put it up it was all crammed because I forgot to double-space it. Oh and one more thing Sydney in the last chapter was misspelled. I meant to spell it with a y because it is based on some one (sort of). Ok well now here are the reviewers for the last two chapters:
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NPOV (As always)
After lunch was over, I looked back and realized that Jason hadn't shown up like I had hoped, but I had forgotten anyway because I was talking with Sydney. I learned a lot about her. The first thing I learned was that she was nothing like my Mom when she was human. She missed the sunny beaches of California, and her best friend Paige. She had a dog named Toto like in The Wizard of Oz. And that she was living not too far from where the woods opened into the city. I had a feeling that Sydney wasn't just going to change things for me, but become my best friend. I liked the idea of having a person I could talk to outside of my family and have fun with even if she didn't know my little- okay, big- secret.
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I found Alice after lunch to tell her what had happened.
"Alice!" I yelled over the noise in the hallway. "Alice, wait up!"
She slowed down and patiently waited for me.
"You know how I felt like something was going to happen today? Well, it did! There was a new student in my math class and her name is Sydney, you know the one in our History class? Any ways I think that we are going to be friends. Actual friends!!"
I was jumping for joy by this point and hugging Alice. I probably looked like I was loco in la casaba (crazy in the head). Oh yeah, I fluently spoke Spanish and several other languages. Did I forget to mention that?
"Wow, Nessie, I didn't even see that one coming not that I can see anything when you're around." Alice exaggerated her words. It always upset her when she couldn't see and with Jacob or me around she couldn't see a thing. She seemed suddenly sullen.
"I know, I know but you're missing the point. I'm going to have a human friend!!"
"I'm happy for you Nessie, but I need to get to class and you need to go to Gym." Alice's begrudging mode had left as quickly as it had come and now I really did need to get to class.
"Ok Alice but I'm just sooooo happy!!"
I cold hear a faint "I noticed" once Alice had turned around the corner.
I sprinted off to Gym and found Jacob after I had changed.
"Hey, Jacob. You'll never guess what happened today during lunch. but I know you'll try so I'll give you a chance."
"Ok. So you said I wouldn't believe it so when I went to the bathroom Emmett pulled a Grizzly out of the woods and started eating in front of the whole school?"
"Jake!" I playfully punched him in the shoulder, "Be serious. What would make me really, really happy?"
His expression darkened. I hadn't meant for this to go down that road.
"If it has anything to do with that stupid human then I don't want to know Nessie."
"Not what I meant Jake." But that would make me really, really happy. "Try again."
"Umm… some one got mauled by the bear that Emmett was trying to eat?"
"No again. Do you just want me to tell you?"
We were already play basketball by now and I wasn't able to put my energy into it with this conversation going on on the side.
"Fine."
"Ok well there was a new girl in my math class named Sydney and we started talking during lunch and I think that she is going to be one of my best friends!! Jake, I'm going to have a human friend! I can't believe it!"
I took a shot from half court and the ball went in with a swoosh.
"Can you believe it Jake?"
He nodded his head in approval. He was almost as protective as my father.
"I'm just so happy!!"
After that we continued the game and ended up winning by six baskets. Then I was off to Language Arts, happily skipping in the hallway.
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Most of class was boring. We were assigned to read Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice. That made my day even better. Now I had an excuse to read it again. That book was one of my favorites. I looked over my shoulder and saw Jason sitting like a painting in the back of the class. I hadn't realized that he was in this class yesterday because I had waited for the class to empty before leaving and had only seen Jason afterwards. I wonder if I could switch seats with that guy next to him. I think he might do it for a pretty girl like me… Oh well.
After class was over I sitting in my seat collecting my things with my back turned. Then I heard his perfect voice.
"Hey, Nessie."
I turned at the sound of his voice and my name.
"Oh… hi, Jason."
"So what's up?"
We stated walking towards the door and then the parking lot.
"Nothin' much. How about you?"
"Nothin' really. I just can't believe how huge that book is that we have to read."
"Trust me. It isn't that bad once you get into it. I actually love that book. It's such a great love story. I don't know what it is but I can just read that book again and again."
"Really? It seems kinda ominous and huge and maybe even, to an extent, boring."
"Oh, trust me it isn't that bad if you like it. I don't think most boys like it though. But who knows."
"Oh, well. We should, like, read it together or something where we could talk about it after reading so much."
"Yeah that would be cool. But I don't know where we would do it. We really can't go to my house too much because my dad is always at the hospital working or something like that."
"Oh, well if you wanted to do it we could do it at my house or after school some where. There's a park over by where the woods meet the city limits."
"That would be cool. A good motivator to read the book. Any ways I got to go. My family is waiting for me. Bye!" I called as I sprinted away to the cars.
"Hey, everybody."
"Hey, Ness," said Alice.
"Hey, Alice can I ride in your Porsche? I love that car. I see why you stole one of these in Italy." I had been told that story when I was younger but I still hadn't actually been to Italy; probably because of The Voltaire (check spelling later).
"Sure! I love this car too!" Alice was extra perky all the way home will she drove her Porsche showing me what it could do. She chattered on and one about how Jasper and Edward managed to trick Emmett into pretending to be burned from microwave oven misusage. It was somewhat entertaining to me, especially the part where Emmett had water poured all over him to stop the fire ignited onto his finger, but I had much more stuff to think about.
Finally we reached home and I suddenly remembered why I had been in such a great mood after lunch. I walked in to the living room and waited for everyone else to come in and settle down.
"Guess what every body? First of all I think that I'm going to have a human best friend!!!" There was a long pause as everyone took this in then I continued, "and second of all I think I might have a weird power or I'm a really good guesser because I had had a feeling all day prior to lunch and then after I had assumed that something big and life changing was going to happen it did!" Grandpa was standing in the doorway looking into the room by now.
"Wow, Nessie that would be quite something. It sounds similar to Alice's gift. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions about it?"
"Not at all Grandpa. Whatever will help you to figure this out."
"Ok why don't we go to my study?"
"Ok!" I chirped, excited all over again. Jasper looked like a girl in the schoolyard with a new toy jumping up and down but then again he always was happier around me because I was usually in the best mood of all of us.
I followed Grandpa up to his study and then he closed the door as if it would help anything.
"Nessie what kind of 'feelings' were you getting before this happened?"
"Well I just felt like something was going to happen today and then later I got that feeling again and the second time I could tell that it was going to be big but that's all."
"Ok, anything else you felt?"
"Well when that girl walked into my class I could tell that she was that thing that was going to change things for me."
"Interesting. Anyways right now it's just a feeling, no pun intended. It's not very fair Nessie you are hogging all the powers."
"I'll share Grandpa. I promise."
With that I hopped out of the chair and went to re-read Pride and Prejudice for the hundred thousandth time.
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Sorry I took so long to post. I'll have a lot more time once school is out and all the tests are over. We have to take a math final yuck! Any ways review!!!
