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Authors Note: Hey I got a review from sum1 asking where Ariella's coven was when she came out into the parking lot and saw the Cullens, after Edwards point of view, there is a quick summary of Bellas point of view where she and the rest of her coven are in the office registering while Ariella goes into the carpark for a few moments.. That's when she see's the Cullens. : )

Also sum1 commented that if it were 90 years into the future the technology would of changed, but I didn't like the lame idea of vampires zooming around in flying cars… so I just kept the normal technology of 2dai : )

CHAPTER 10 – Old Faces, New Life

I was now quietly seated in homeroom waiting impatiently for the bell to ring for first period. I had never noticed how unbelievingly frustratingly long it took for trivial human things to happen. I, like the rest of my coven, were used to speedy times and a fast going pace, right now it felt like 5 vampire years packed into 20 minutes.

Now that I was able to be by myself for a while, I was able to think over what Elijah had sensed. When he said "others" he obviously meant other vampires. That was his gift after all.

As soon as I had walked into the room, it was suddenly filled with gasps and everywhere I looked, I saw every single male practically foaming at the mouth, even the homeroom teacher was already beginning to fantasize about me. The females all gave me a filthy look, clearly hostile and filled with jealousy. I closed my eyes and sighed. This was going to be a very long year.

I walked up to the homeroom supervisors' desk and introduced myself. I thought I heard a gasp or two when I said my name. The supervisor seemed too stunned by my looks and opened and closed his mouth repeatedly without a single breath escaping his lips. I used this to my advantage and quickly glided to the back of the room to sit before he could make me stand in front of them all and introduce myself - whether I was a vampire or not, public speaking still wasn't on my list of things to do.

After a exchanging a few friendly smiles and greetings reluctantly, I turned my head and ignored them. Suddenly there were about 15 male voices bouncing around my head, thinking relatively the same thing.

"My God! I hope she's in my class today…"

"…I bet she already has a boyfriend…"

"Maybe I could offer to show her around the town, she obviously isn't from here…"

"…wow, look at her ass, its gotta be one of the nicest…"

I droned them out easily, and then came the females.

"…what a slut! Look at her, flaunting it around."

"I bet her boobs are fake…what a joke."

"Oh god, I had to get Johnathan away from school before he sees her!"

I quickly got frustrated and exhaled sharply, accidentally letting out a small growl and making the boy staring intently at me on my right – even more so than the others, snap his head towards the front again. I didn't take any notice of him, he was actually quite cute. He was blonde.

Now I could just stay with my own thoughts, wondering what type of vampires we would come face to face with today. They were probably "vegetarians", no mysterious disappearances had occurred around Forks as far as we knew – which was quite a lot.

I gazed out the window onto the grounds. They were exactly as I remembered them. I looked up at the sky again. The clouds were swiftly moving out and sunlight was racing in to reclaim its place. I concentrated on it being cloudy and suddenly the sunlight vanished behind a massive black rain cloud about twice the size of Forks. How could Harrison pay so little attention? I let out another growl only audible to vampire ears. I felt the blonde boy stiffen again. He probably couldn't hear it, but his instincts probably sent him a warning.

After what seemed a lifetime of receiving quick appreciating glances and listening to childish, lustful remarks towards my looks, the bell finally rang. I stood up swiftly, internally cursing that bell which rung extremely loudly through my sensitive ears. Once again, I left the boy stiffen behind me. I wasn't even going to turn around and bother. What was wrong with me? Did he have an unconditional flinching disorder? I was about to sweep angrily from the room when I noticed I did have any idea what I had next. I didn't hear any heartbeats or breathing in the room so I knew I was alone. I leant over much more quickly than usual and whipped out my timetable at superhuman speed. I had gym. Great. I rolled my eyes and glided out of the room.

The rest of the day continued in pretty much the same fashion. Many double takes as I walked passed and plenty of whispers about me and about my friends. I didn't really have any classes with the rest of them except for maths which I had with Rachel. In many of the subjects I just daydreamed and amused myself by trying to picture the beautiful Ariella sitting in class obeying someone else's orders.

After maths, we made our way into the cafeteria for lunch, laughing lightly at the complete lack of intelligence our teacher had. We of course did not need to eat, but we still decided to buy food and sit at our own table chatting quietly to avoid suspicion, how similar we were turning out to the Cullens', I thought.

When we entered the cafeteria, we found that the others were already seated at a table tucked away privately into a corner and deep in conversation. Elijah threw his head back suddenely and laughed extremely loudly, causing a few passers-by to stare. Immediately he was hit in the face with a carton of milk thrown by Ariella and was soon dripping with the white condensation causing his spiked hair to droop slightly. Suddenly the whole table erupted into insane laughter, even Elijah chuckled at his own humiliation.

'Hey all, what's the cause for all the laughing?' I noted, sitting beside Willis. Willis smiled at me and Harrison looked sulky, he turned his head and started gazing intently at Ariella.

'Well,' Ariella started huffily. 'I was just telling them all about my little incident with one of the teachers. I tried to tell him how molecules are really supposed to react when he totally lost it and called me a "stupid little know-it-all brat!".' She finished with a sour look. The whole table including me and Rachel laughed openly.

'So then,' She continued. 'Elijah thought he would be funny and make quite a rude comment and so I decided to shower him in milk.' She smiled evilly at this. Willis suddenly grasped my hand in his. I quickly became embarrassed and started talking, without removing my hand from his.

'Speaking of showering,' I started, and then turned on Harrison. 'Have you been watching the weather? The sun was about to come out and pay us all a visit, I noticed it during Homeroom and had to save your butt.'

'I can't keep an eye on everything Bella.' He winked and grimaced at me.

Suddenly a group of boys came over to our table. They all stood behind me and I turned in my seat to see what they wanted. I had to admire their courage, normally, humans never approached us, these boys certainly looked scared to death.

A bold looking boy with brown hair and freckles acted as a spokesman for the rest of them. He cleared his throat nervously before speaking in a deep rumble.

'Um, Isabella Swan right?... I was… um… wondering if you would… um… like to come sit with us?' He gestured hopefully at the 12 or so boys around him.

'No thanks! See you later!' I said brightly before turning back into the conversation to find them all with broad smiles plastered over their faces.

Adrian explained. 'I knew it wouldn't be long before they came over here, Ariella and Merrindene already had their own little fan club bother us just a few minutes ago asking us the same thing, ah yes Rachel, I see you've got one too, here they come…'

But I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying for behind me I heard something that I thought I would never hear again in my whole life. The sound filled me with happiness and shock at the same time. It was a growl, low and territorial; and directed at the boys who had just asked me to sit with them.

I turned around as though in slow motion and gazed into the light topaz eyes of my angel.

Edwards Point of View

I sighed; leaning back slightly on my chair with my eyes closed waiting patiently for the bell to ring signaling the end of Homeroom. I was thinking about that mysterious girl in the parking lot. I tried desperately to scan the school trying to sense her thoughts. I only realized that after she had left that I hadn't been able to hear her thoughts. I was a bit uneasy as the one and only person whose thoughts I hadn't been able to read were Bella's.

I sighed again, only this time much more sadly. In a way that girl reminded me of Bella, I couldn't put my finger on it, but the annoyed expression that crossed her face as she looked me up and down had forcibly reminded me of my angel.

The door of the homeroom suddenly flew open with much force and two extremely appealing scents washed over me. One I recognized, one I didn't which smelled like mint. My eyes flew open to see a young boy with black hair that fell casually around his face and into his eyes, standing with the same strange and beautiful girl I had met earlier. Both their eyes flickered to me in a split second before exchanging a quick glace at each other. They were silent for a moment and then she nodded once at him.

They walked with a graceful lope up to the Homeroom supervisor's desk and handed him a slip each. As the girl walked passed, all the males practically fainted on the spot. They openly starred with their mouths open and eyes glazed, turning their heads as she casually walked passed.

The supervisor had trouble retaining his thoughts as he took in every curve of the girls body, studying some aspects more than others. The boy let out a defenceful cough and threw him a filthy look before the supervisor stopped fantasizing about the young boys' companion.

The girl spoke, ending the awkward silence. 'Hi, I'm Ariella Evans; I'm a new student here-'

"What a shame…" thought the supervisor

'-and this is Harrison Michaels, so is he.' Her voice rang throughout the room, practically propelling all the human males out of their seats at her.

The supervisor was still to dumb founded to form coherent words. He just nodded numbly at her and motioned them to sit at the desk at the back of the room directly behind my own desk. As they walked passed me I slightly sensed a loathful glare being thrown my way from the messy black haired boy.

Fresh air was temporarily replaced by the two scents wafting over me. The girls scent was extremely powerful and the boys' one the exact opposite. The boy called Harrison had a scent equal in strength to that of a vampire, it was strange that I had no urge what so ever to attack these strange humans. But try as my mind might, something about these two peoples appearances suggested otherwise.

They had the impossible inhuman beauty, the graceful walk, extremely appealing voice and a fair bit of strength when it came to opening doors. If Alice had sensed two vampires in the school, I would have screamed "Ariella and Harrison!" straight away. Although… this Ariella girl had some strange qualities, even compared to a vampire. She seemed to appeal way more than a normal vampire should be, then again, maybe she was just blessed with extreme beauty.

I was probably just imagining things; if there were any vampires here Alice would have seen then days beforehand. I decided to concentrate on their thoughts; maybe what they were thinking would give away their secrets. I waited patiently for their voices to sound in my head…nothing. I tried harder…again, nothing. I though that maybe if I were closer to Ariella, something might just come through, but it didn't; but what about Harrison? …nothing from him either. I hoped I wasn't losing my gift. I concentrated on the others in my homeroom, sure enough, their petty mindless chatter sounded in my mind…

"…wow, I hope I can be friends with her…"

"man she's hot!"

"how gorgeous is Harrison?"

I tuned them out quickly, already getting frustrated. I sighed angrily. Suddenly I heard Harrison's boyish chatter for the first time.

'Ariella, are you sure about this? I cannot deny it will be amusing…?'

'Oh please Harrison.' She giggled her heavenly laugh. 'For once in your life just let go, we've got all the time in the world after all.'

'Ariella! Be careful! There are others in this room you know, we can't afford to…' Harrison spoke quickly in a hushed tone.

'Relax Harrison, there is only one other in this room that can hear us, and he's sitting right in front of us.' Her silky voice was taunting.

I momentarily stiffened in my chair. She was right. I hadn't noticed but the two of them were speaking too high and too quickly for human ears to catch. The way vampires spoke.

I turned sharply in my seat to face the two of them, my hands gripping the back of the chair extremely hard. The bell rang and everyone except the three of us scuttled towards the door. Soon we were the only ones left but I didn't relax my posture. I was hostile and worried, how could they evade our family's senses like this?

The two of them sat staring at me intently both with evil grins on their faces. Suddenly Ariella's brown and topaz eyes flashed momentarily crimson. I drew back slightly and emitted a dangerous growl. This only seemed to amuse them further. Harrison laughed while Ariella spoke.

'I wouldn't do that if I were you, I said you should be more careful, you hurt my best friend. You're an old face Cullen, and she has a new life.' She threatened. I stared at her in confusion.

And with a swift wave of her hand the back legs of the chair I was sitting on instantly bent back causing me to fall to the ground with an extremely loud bang. I detangled myself quickly and crouched, ready to attack before I looked up and noticed they were no longer there.

Two periods later I was sitting in history thinking over the incident that occurred in homeroom while staring at a particularly attractive female. Her name was Rachel and supposedly she was new as well. Of course I could just be feeling over-protective of my family but something about this girl was similar to Ariella and Harrison. I had concluded that they were both vampires, I couldn't deny that, and the way this girl acted made me feel slightly edgy. She was extremely beautiful, graceful, smelled like honey but didn't give me and urge to drink her dry, her voice was naturally appealing and I couldn't hear a trace of her thoughts. Suddenly a human voice interrupted my subconscious by murmuring a name to their neighbor. It was mindless gossiping but the name caught my attention none the less.

'Have you seen the new students yet? Oh my god their all absolutely gorgeous! Apparently there's about eight of them but I've only seen four of them. Apparently they're all adopted but not related, that new girl over their with burgundy hair called Rachel is one of them, and I've seen Adrian – he's got the best surfers hair I ever saw, Harrison who's got kind of a natural cool look about him and this girl called Ariella! Wait till you see her, you wont believe it! She looks way prettier than any supermodel I've ever seen and apparently she's like the leader of her little friendship group, she's so nice….' The girl continued worshipping Ariella and I zoned out with an angry growl only audible to vampire ears. She sure wasn't nice to me.

At my growl, the girl called Rachel snapped her head around to look at me, a faint smile on her lavender lips. Yep, definitely a vampire. I sighed, how many of them? Eight? What the hell did they want in Forks?

When I entered the cafeteria early at lunchtime I already saw my family at our table leaning forwards with their heads together and talking quietly and swiftly. I ignored all the thoughts surrounding me getting tiresome of the restless gossiping about the new students. I walked over to them and the second I was seated, the words flew out of my mouth without thinking about it.

'There are other vampires here, eight of them. I've seen three so far.' I paused and looked at them.

'We already know Edward, we've seen them too but we had no idea that there were eight of them.' Alice spoke; she looked like she was keeping something from me. I let it slide for the moment too intent on discussing the new arrivals.

'So far I've met about five, Adrian, Elijah, Merrindene, Willis and Ariella, they seem really nice… Especially Ariella, she's like a spokesperson for the rest of them.' Rosalie said.

'Why does everyone think this Ariella is nice? She certainly wasn't to me! She threatened me in homeroom to be careful and made me fall to the floor!' I fumed, I was sick of everybody worshipping her. Sure she was beautiful, but I didn't take much of a liking towards her.

'Leave her alone Edward,' Logan voiced. 'She probably just said that because of-' He broke off because Emmet kicked his chair.

'Because of what?' I asked dangerously, consciously aware of my eyes turning black. No one answered and they all avoided my gaze. Except for Logan of course who was angry in Ariella's defense.

'You either tell me now or I find out for myself.' I warned, still mad.

Alice hesitated before speaking up. 'Well Jasper is in the homeroom of one of the vampires… and well…'

'Well what?' I thundered. I was sick of this. Ever since I left Bella they treated me like a fire cracker that would explode at any second.

'Edward it was Bella! He's sure of it! She introduced herself as Isabella Swan and was telling everyone to call her Bella.' She let the words tumble out in a rush. Now they all stared at me with softened expressions. Their pity made me feel remorseful.

'And she definitely is a vampire, during homeroom she let out two growls that only a vampire could make or hear and when she noticed the sun coming out, she closed her eyes and in an instant the sunlight disappeared behind a massive rain cloud. I wasn't sure if I was mental or not so I waited behind the lockers where she wouldn't see me. She thought everyone had left the room and bent over to retrieve her schedule at super human speed. It was unbelievable! She was so fast!' He finished with a pleading look on his face, and then when he took in my furious expression, his faced composed itself into a more apologetic one.

'You're sick Jasper.' I stated vehemently. 'The one I am truly heartbroken over and your trying to use her image to play a joke on me. I'm sorry but its just not funny.' I thought I would of yelled, but I was so hurt by what he said that my words just came out nastily.

'No Edward! I'm telling you the truth! I swear it!' Jasper said hurriedly with wild eyes. I just ignored him. 'You'll see for yourself.' Was all he said.

I was confused and worried. I was worried that what if Jasper had got it wrong? I would be extremely let down and I wouldn't be surprised if I sunk into an even heavier depression. And I was confused, it wouldn't be likely for Jasper to get it wrong, but wouldn't Alice of sent this coming? Our gifts seemed so out of tuned lately, I was beginning to worry. Suddenly loud laughter filled the cafeteria from a table over the other side. I looked up angrily and enviously at those who still had something to laugh about, or someone to laugh with.

I had looked up in time to see a boy with cherry red hair and muscles to rival Emmets' get hit in the face with a carton of milk thrown by Ariella. At this the table laughed even more loudly, causing my family to also look up. The carton of milk had completely shattered when it hit the boys face, he didn't even blink.

'That's Elijah.' Rosalie said.

I looked back at the table and my breath caught in my throat. There was Rachel walking over towards the table accompanied by an extremely stunning girl with long brown hair, almost black and pale skin. It was Bella. There was no doubt about it, I almost lifted out of my seat straight away, but Emmet caught me by the arm, pulling me back down.

'What?' I exclaimed at him surprised.

'Just wait.' Was all he said.

I turned to watch impatiently. Bella walked over and sat next to a sinister-looking boy with long black hair with noticeably darker shadows under his eyes which were almost black. I hoped he was safe. I didn't really like the idea of my Bella being so close to someone like that.

I stiffened in my chair as I heard the heavenly voice I hadn't heard in ninety years. 'Hey all, what's the cause for all the laughing?' Her voice could melt steel. I was still soft and stunning but it held a new type of confidence in it. She had grown strong. I could sense it in her voice. From that exact moment I knew that I still loved her with all my heart. I had never stopped.

I watched them for a while as Ariella explained her attack on Elijah and once again the all laughed heartily. But what I saw next made me want to rip off that black haired boys head. He was holding my Bella's hand! I turned angrily to the rest of the table to see if they were watching. They were. I was shaking with anger.

'Who is that?' I asked slowly, trying to contain my rage.

'Willis.' Rosalie said quietly. They all looked at me with fear in their eyes.

I slowly began to rise from the table and make my way over to theirs. 'No Edward stop!' Jasper said, trying to engulf me in a wave of calmness. It didn't work. I shook it off easily and started to approach the table of new comers slowly.

To my anger a group of 20 or so boys walked in front of me. Their thoughts of course, on Bella. They reached her table a little bit before me and I was able to make out what they asked her. One of them invited her to sit with them. She refused quickly and turned back around to face the group, her hand still in Willis'. As the group of boys walked away looking dejected, I let out a territorial growl. They didn't hear it but they suddenly stiffened and walked more closely together.

But someone did hear it. Bella did. She turned to look at me with disbelief and shock in her now topaz eyes. The rest of her table followed her gaze.

Back To Bella's Point Of View

I couldn't believe what I saw. It was Edward. My Edward. He looked as unbelievable as ever and I wanted to just run into his cold steel arms and cry. But a new emotion came over me. Anger. Now I wanted nothing less than to rip him limb from limb. I was only vaguely aware that I was standing and so was Willis next to me, still holding my hand tightly. The bell rang but I didn't move. Neither did our table nor did the Cullen's who were walking swiftly up behind their brother.

When his family was standing behind him, mine rose to and were with me in a heartbeat. Ariella loyally by my side.

'Bella.' Edward breathed, stunning me once again with his sweet, mouth watering cool breath. I reached up to touch his face before I paused, inches from his left cheek, my face hardened and I slapped his across the face with as much force as I could muster.

My heart ached and my throat burned as the ninety years of heartbreak he had put me through came flooding back to me. At first he didn't do anything. He just looked at my hard expression with shock and hurt in his perfect eyes. His family looked shocked yet mine smiled with pride. I turned and with a dry sob, made a run for the exit before a cool hand fastened its grip on my wrist. I looked down at the pale hand and then into the eyes of its beholder.

'Wait Bella, please!' Edward pleaded. I tried to pull away but he would not let go. Then Ariella stepped in. She grabbed him and ripped him off me with hate pounding in her eyes. She grabbed me around the shoulders and led me back a few steps. Edward made a move to go forwards towards me but Willis stepped in between us. He was obviously using his power to intimidate Edward and his family because they suddenly recoiled back from Willis with fear in their eyes. At that Willis and the rest of them turned and hurried after me and Ariella out the door.

I got a quick glimpse of Edwards broken expression, before I broke down into dry sobs.

Authors Note: Thanx sooooooo much for reviewing my chapters and im sorry about the cliffhanger but please keep reviewing and tell me what you think about the story switching views between Edward and Bella, im not sure whether or not to keep on going with that…. REVIEW! REVIEW! XXOX