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Casey POV

"Casey?"

"What?" I startled, looking towards the teacher.

"You're to report to the principal's office."

"I didn't even do anything!"

"Just go," the teacher said pointing towards the door.

I sighed and stood up grabbing my stuff as I went. Bella gave me a concerned look but I waved her off. I walked down the hall wondering why in the world the principal would want to see me. Of course my mind came up with the worst case scenario which was that my father was here to take me back. My heart started to beat faster causing my head to swim. I stopped and took a deep breathe, calming myself, before I continued on. It would do me no good to start panicking over something that I had no control over and I highly doubted that my father's anger would have diminished over nine months. That man could sure hold a grudge.

I arrived at the main office and was immediately ushered into the principal's office where I was directed to sit.

"Now, I'm sure you're wondering why you're here," Mr. Greene said shuffling papers around his desk. My eyes flicked over them, none of them were about me or about anything important.

"No shit Sherlock," I mumbled so low that he couldn't hear it.

"We're here because…Oh, yes, here it is…Because of this," he handed over my transcript from Atlanticas Acadamy, the school that I had attended in the City.

"What about it?"

"You have fulfilled all of our requirements."

"And?" I asked dragging the word out.

"You'll be able to graduate this year. You'll be our youngest graduate ever. Congratulations! You can go back to class now," He said dismissing me.

Seriously what the fuck?

"What?!" Bella yelled.

"I'm graduating with you guys," I repeated to the table at lunch.

"But how?" Jessica asked looking shocked.

"Back home, we went through classes faster. Almost everyone my age in graduating this year."

"And you're how old?"

"Seventeen. I'm old for my grade though. Most graduate at sixteen."

"Are you serious?"

"Completely. Once you graduate, you're considered an adult."

"Why not when you turn 16?" Angela asked.

I nearly flinched but caught myself with only Edward and Alice noticing the little twitch I gave. "There's reasons for it…" I trailed off not entirely sure how I was supposed to phrase it because it was that way because of the dangerous missions we took on. Because of early tutoring my friends and I had graduated nearly two years ago. I had only taken classes here to blend in better.

"Are you not supposed to talk about it?" Angela asked.

I nodded. "The City likes to keep its secrets. Less people know about us, the less they can do to hurt us. We tend to avoid violence if we can help it."

Edward snorted at that.

I sent a glare at him. "The government avoids it with other countries. We don't like unnecessary wars. The rest of the world is too war happy. They're too eager to jump into a war over resources or any other excuse they can come up with." I shut up stopping my little rant before I got too passionate over it. I hated war more than most people did and even though I tended to become violent when angry, I knew that violence wasn't normally the answer.

"Oh, Casey, I'm coming to La Push tomorrow!" Bella said smiling at me.

"Great," I said trying to remember the last time that she had come to La Push and I couldn't remember when she had.

Why is she coming down all of a sudden? I asked Edward.

His eyes snapped to mine, not used to me communicating with him like this.

We're going hunting tomorrow.

I nodded my head. Jake and I were just her babysitters. Fun. Actually I was the babysitter. I rubbed my forehead as a slight headache set in. Jake hadn't been getting much sleep for about a week now and he was constantly sleeping during the day because of it. I needed to keep Bella out of the house so that he could sleep. Sam was being stupid with all of the patrols that he was heaping on the guys. Sure, they didn't need as much sleep as humans did but they still did need sleep. The bell rang, signaling the end of lunch and I stood heading to finish up my final for the day.

I collapsed on Jake's bed wanting nothing more than to just curl up with him but of course he had patrol. He would be back soon though and then I could get my Jake fix. I laughed softly at that thought as I buried my face in his pillow breathing in his woodsy scent.

"What are you laughing at?" Jake asked sleepily as he climbed into bed with me and wrapped himself around me.

"Just that I need my Jake fix," I said turning in his arms to place a kiss in the center of his chest. His skin almost burned but oh how I loved to burn with him.

One eye peaked open, "You're strange sometimes."

I laughed again giving him a peck on the lips. "Go to sleep. You need it."

"Oh, no after that I am definitely not sleeping," he said rolling us so that I stretched across his body.

"You should though," I murmured running my hand through his hair causing a rumble to form deep in his chest. "Sam is working you too hard," I continued frowning as I gently traced the dark circles under his eyes.

"It's nothing I can't handle."

"You shouldn't have to handle it though," I countered resting my head on hands.

"It's my job," he replied running his fingers through my hair.

"I know but…" I sighed. "I wish it didn't have to be. I don't want you to get hurt."

"I won't and don't you think I feel the same way about you?" He asked pulling my up his body so my face was directly over his. "I always worry about you."

"You shouldn't."

"Neither should you."

I sighed and buried my face in his neck making my words muffled, "I just wish we were normal."

He laughed, "Where would the fun be in that though?"

"Let's see," I said sitting up on him causing his hands to rest on my hips. My eyes raised to the ceiling as I thought, "For one, there would be no redheaded bitch to worry about, or my wack-job of a sister, the issue of Bella turning wouldn't be there either. We wouldn't have to worry about the Bonding either…" I trailed off thinking of all the things back home that I wouldn't have to deal with.

"I hope that you don't mind that I didn't really hear much of that," he said causing my gaze to snap to his face, a glare in my eyes that softened at the look he was giving me. "I was too busy paying attention to the gorgeous woman sitting in my lap," he continued with a smirk.

"Well, if you don't listen then this gorgeous woman might just cut you off!" I said smiling as I started to get up from the bed.

"Oh, no you don't!" Jake said with a laughing in his voice. His arms snaked around my waist and pulled me back down to the bed making a squeal come from me. "You're not allowed out of this bed," he mumbled into my hair.

"Am I your bed slave or something?"

"Yes."

"Jake!" I said as I tried in vain to get out of his arms.

"No, you're stuck here forever," he said sounding like a little kid.

"I'd be fine with that if you weren't crushing me!" I laughed even though my chest was being compressed in a way it shouldn't.

His arms instantly loosened and I snuggled back into him, no longer struggling.

"Now, sleep."

"Yes ma'am!"

The drive to La Push was kinda awkward with Bella, she was being super quiet and just sat in her seat staring out the window. I half expected her to start twiddling her thumbs but she didn't and that actually made me sad. I needed something to laugh about. The pack was way too serious including Jacob. Of course, when they were all together they joked about actually having some vampires that they could kill soon. They were really easy to read though, they didn't want to have to be having this war. The worry over the imprints' safety was driving Sam and Jared insane. It was actually even worse for Jacob because not only was I in danger, according to him but I also would be participating in the fight. It wasn't like I could be changed though and it was difficult to kill a Carlyle. A newborn wouldn't be able to do it.

I pulled up to the beach hoping that Bella would just let it be and not question me for coming here but of course I wasn't that lucky.

"Aren't we going to Jacob's?" she asked even as she was getting out of the car.

"Maybe later but he needs the sleep. He hasn't been getting enough of it," I said grabbing two blankets from the back of my car.

We walked down the beach a bit before we stopped and sat down on one of the blankets and laid the other across our legs.

"Why isn't he sleeping?"

I sighed, I really didn't want to talk about the pack but I knew that Bella wouldn't let it go unless I told her. "They're all running extra shifts."

"Why?"

"Sam's feeling antsy, like something's going to happen that he isn't ready for and he's stepped up patrols because of it."

"Isn't that bad for the pack to be so tired though?"

I stayed silent for a moment just staring out at the ocean. Bella didn't get it. Yes, it was bad that the wolves would be tired but it was better than someone being drained. "It's better than the alternative."

"But have they even caught any vampires?"

I gritted my teeth. "No."

"Then it's just a waste of time!"

"It only seems like a waste of time because there haven't been any. What if a vamp got through because there were less patrols? Then we would have messed up because it seemed like a waste of time to have extra patrols going when we knew that there were a shit ton of vamps only a little ways away."

"Oh."

"Yeah, oh. You have to think about the repercussions, Bella. You don't get any of this because as much as you are a part of this, you're not."

"That's why they should just turn me."

I scoffed. "All that would succeed in is getting both you and Edward killed. Guess that would be fitting since you love Romeo and Juliet so much." I sighed, shaking my head. "I'm sorry, Bella. That was a really bitchy thing for me to say. I'm just worried about Jake. I don't like seeing him so tired."

Bella nodded staying silent.

We were silent for a few moments when I heard the soft sound of someone walking through sand. I turned and saw Jake walking over to us with his eyes still looking sleepy. A lazy smile spread across his face when my eyes met his. His eyes briefly flickered over to Bella with a confused expression flickering across his face.

"Hey Bells, what are you doing here?" he asked sitting down next to me. Oops, forgot to tell him about that.

"Jake!" she startled having not noticed him settle down. She lept across my lap and gave him a hug knocking be backwards.

"Woah Bella, be careful!" he said checking me over with his eyes as he wrapped an arm around her briefly to give her a hug.

I waved off his concern giving a smile. I'm fine, I projected into his mind.

The smile came back onto his face as he set Bella back to where she where she was sitting.

"So why are you down here?"

"She needed a babysitter according to Papa Edward," I said.

"No, I wanted—"

"Don't bullshit me Bella. I know they went hunting and that Edward didn't want you by yourself," I said interrupting her.

"It doesn't mean that I didn't want to come here."

I rolled my eyes not wanting to get into it with her. I leaned against Jake and just continued staring at the ocean. Sunday was a full moon and of course that was when the graduation party and graduation was. Hopefully Alice had a wig or something. Jake and Bella were talking about something but I continued spacing out until a buzzing coming from Bella's pocket woke me from my trance.

"Already? That was fast. – I'll be back soon. Can you meet me at the treaty line? – See you then."

"Can you drop me off?" Bella asked looking at me.

I stood and picked up the blankets after I nodded. "Go sleep more," I said turning to Jake. "I'll join you after I get back."

"I'll see you soon."

Bella and I climbed into the car and drove off.

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