Chapter 10
Later on that day….
"What's with the new girl?" Emmett asked Edward at lunch.
Haley was sitting alone at a table on the opposite end of the cafeteria.
Her hands were tightly gripping the end of the table as she stared at them.
She was frowning at the Cullen's and her whole body was trembling.
Edward shrugged. "I haven't heard her say anything yet."
"Go on." Emmett encouraged him. "I want to hear what's wrong with her."
He rolled his eyes and then concentrated on her and a moment later he gasped and then growled. "No she's not."
"What's wrong?" Rosalie asked.
"She's a newborn. She's very new to this life. I think she was created recently." Edward replied. "She's struggling to hold onto her thirst with all these people around. She knows what we are and she doesn't trust us let alone herself."
"What should we do?" Bella asked as she looked around at the students sitting in the cafeteria.
Edward leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "We just have keep an eye on her and stop her from attacking anyone in here." He whispered as he looked back to Haley.
"Does anyone suspect anything?" Jasper asked as he looked around at the students that were passing by her.
She squeezed her eyes shut and plugged her nose as they walked past her.
"A few are wondering what's wrong with her eyes but beside from that nothing else." Edward replied. "They're wondering why there so silver and some of them are wondering if she's related to us."
"Silver? That can't be right." Jasper said as he frowned in confusion. "That's not normal. Are you sure that's what they were thinking?"
Edward nodded.
"That's unusual."
'Shows what they know.' Rosalie thought. 'Why do they even think that she could be related to us? Just look at her.'
Edward ignored her thoughts.
"What's her name?" Alice asked as she frowned as she looked in Haley's direction. "That's very strange. I didn't see her coming. I should have seen her coming. I didn't have any visions about her."
"I don't know what her name is." Edward replied.
"An even better question is do you know if she works for the Volturi?" Rosalie asked. "Do you know if she was sent here by them to keep an eye on us? That must be why you didn't see her coming here. To keep us from knowing what their plans were."
Edward and Alice shook their heads together.
"She doesn't look like she belongs to the Volturi." Alice said. "And the Volturi wouldn't send out a newborn to check on us. There better than that. They would know that a newborn wouldn't be able to handle their thirst around the scent of blood."
Edward looked at her again.
A second later he sighed and shook his head. "I can't hear anything that she's thinking now. She's hiding her thoughts from me. If she knows what I can do I bet she knows who we are."
Alice shook her head. "No I don't think she does. She doesn't seem to know us. She just knows what we are and that's all. She's possibly just a nomad. She doesn't seem trust us as well. That means that she doesn't work for the Volturi."
Suddenly Haley banged the table with her fist and stormed out the cafeteria.
"We should follow her." Jasper said. "She might hurt someone if were not near her to stop her."
Edward nodded and got up from the table and walked off after Haley followed by Jasper, Bella, Emmett, Rosalie, Alice and Emmett.