Hi all, I appreciate you following the story and enjoying it (again! for some). Yes this is a re-post of the story, without mistakes I hope. I am changing some parts of the story but it's been very subtle so far. A friend asked me to put back all my stories (gah!) I'm undecided. Enjoy

Edward found her like that when he arrived from school with her work. She told him the clothes were a gift from Esme at his questing look. He didn't comment. When she started to do her school work Edward placed the clothes in her closet and straightened it for her. He shrugged when he caught her watching.

"I am a neat person. I don't expect you to be and have no problem picking up after you." He explained himself shyly.

Bella just shook her head and focused on her work. Her thoughts often strayed to the world of strange she found herself in. At times she thought Edward was okay on his own for her. She could see herself with him. When she considered that he was a packaged deal with his family, vampirism and its rules, he overwhelmed her.

He stayed with her all afternoon even when she prepared dinner for Charlie. He did his best to prepare her facing the following day at school. Things hadn't died calmed like he hoped. The school body was still reeling from the accident and Taylor's death. Bella cringed, she hated the attention that would be on her and felt guilt for the boy's death. As was his routine Edward left when Charlie arrived to give them private time for dinner and returned after Bella went to her room for the night. He was there when she woke in the morning.

"I'll be back to drive you to school shortly."

"I can drive myself. My truck still runs fine." She insisted

"I am still driving you to school Bella." He stated and disappeared from her room. Bella noticed he had picked out her outfit for the day too. Edward arrived with her breakfast and waited for her to finish before they left.

"Where are your brothers and sisters?"

"They took their cars. Alice and Jasper are leaving school early to go hunting today."

When they reached the school parking Edward slipped between two cars surrounded by admiring students. On Bella's side was Rosalie's red sporty BMW coupé and on the other Alice's midnight black Porsche 911.

"Rosalie and Alice's" Edward informed at Bella's admiration.

He walked around the car to open the door for her. Whispers floated in the air from the students still looking at the other Cullen cars although they gave them a wide space to pass. Edward carried both their bags with one hand around Bella's waist into the school. The morning was hard for Bella. Even with Edward's protective stance some of their classmates braved and asked how she was and whether she had heard about Tyler's passing. She was polite to them and remembered to keep her eyes averted especially from the boys. She didn't want anyone else to suffer the boy Tyler's fate by angering Edward. They joined the rest of the family at the Cullen table for lunch. Esme had sent Edward with lunch she prepared for Bella. He was pleased his mate wouldn't have to speak to the kitchen ladies. He sat her on his lap with their backs facing the student body.

Bella ate quietly. She seemed composed on the outside but she was a mess inside. The two worlds she drifted between the past few days were pulling her at the sides competing for attention. She had to be a normal human at school to keep up with the Cullen charade while she had to act as a Cullen while with them in private. Rose and Alice were back to looking and acting like teenagers again. Emmett had his arm around Rose's shoulder and Jasper held hands with Alice over the table. Jasper told them where they were going to hunt and that they wouldn't be back until the next morning. Emmett told them to be safe with a double meaning to the sentiment and laughed at his joke. Rosalie asked Emmett for a weekend away with a seductive purr stating she needed to get out of Forks. He agreed with a wide smile placing a quick kiss on her full lips. Bella hadn't looked at Edward's face since school started. She observed the family's interactions compared to when they were at home. She preferred them as teenagers not century old vampires. She was seventeen and confused where she fit in with them or with the crown of teenagers in the lunch room behind her. She knew she had never fit in with people before. Not even Renee whom she was closest to.

In her next class she analysed her biology teacher.

'Was he doing what he loved teaching high school Biology? He wore a wedding band. Probably had a wife, kids, a mortgage, car and a standard house in Forks. They probably had an emergency phone number's list attached to the kitchen or refrigerator door. He spent his days surrounded by high school children and went home to grade papers, spend little time with his family and sleep every day; five days a week. Did he go fishing every weekend like Charlie? Or stay glued to the television watching sports? Bella decided whatever he did, it fit him somewhere. He was normal.'

Her eyes roamed over a few of her classmates.

'Very few seemed to be interested in the lesson. They must have more interesting things to mull over… dating, gossip, fashion or sex. That was all normal for sixteen and seventeen year olds. They didn't drive expensive cars and live in glass mansions. They didn't dress up for three course dinners and then for bed immediately afterwards. Their parents undoubtedly made sure they didn't share the bed or showers with their boyfriends. Those who did likely spent the time awkwardly moving around each other to make space in normal sized showers. Perhaps even kept their underwear on. She thought them innocent while she felt she wasn't. What defined innocent anyway? Edwards hadn't touched her… Yet!' That thought made her mood plummet for reasons she couldn't understand.

'Did the girls in Forks have sleepovers and practice doing each other's hair?' She didn't know. As she stared at the nineteen strangers in the room with her she wondered if she was the only one whose life was a strange abyss or whether Forks was a strange place for everyone. The bell rang.

Edward helped her with her books and held her hand to the last class of the day. Fortunately, the teacher let her sit out. She had time to observe everyone in comparison to Edward who seemed to glide over the smooth floor without trouble. He commanded the gym room with a presence like he did his suite at home. He looked very attractive to her in knee length gym shorts.

'How would someone describe her? Was she the same person with Edward as when she was alone?' Not much in her life had changed. She still read, cooked and checked on her parents. Where she would have kept to herself by choice, Edward was now there. 'How much would her life be different if she hadn't met Edward? Not much.' She decided.

Besides the expensive clothes, high heels that could kill her and accepting her situation as a vampire's mate, nothing would have been different. 'So then why was she afraid to let herself love Edward?' The question shocked her. That's not where her thoughts were leading at all. Edward ran up the bleaches to her sitting place when the bell rang.

"Are you alright Bella?" He asked with concern in his voice. He had watched her staring into space the entire hour.

"I'm fine thanks." She worked to give a convincing smile. After he changed he took her home and stayed with her the afternoon. Edward didn't ask what had occupied her thoughts. He decided to let her come to him. After homework she read on his lap until it was time to make dinner. The week went by quickly.

Charlie and Billy were not on speaking terms after their argument over Bella and the Cullen kid's friendship. Charlie and Carlisle saw each other often and through traumatic events with their jobs so closely related. Charlie could not find fault with Carlisle. Edward liked that the situation worked to his favor. He wanted Bella to introduce him to her father but had never voiced his desire.

Bella was content to keep her life secret and had no plans to tell Charlie anything about it. At school she observed the Cullen behavior and studied how to pretend around her school mates. It gave her an escape and lessened her stress about deciding how to act and where she needed to fit.

On Saturday morning Edward woke her with butterfly kisses on her cheek and asked her to have a picnic with him.

"In designer clothes?" She asked jokingly

"Yes Isabella, in designer clothes." He chuckled as he decided what she would wear for the day. "We will go to my house later." He added.

"Edward, I can't be at your house every weekend. Charlie will have a problem." She warned.

"I was hoping you'd introduce me to him. Then he won't have a problem." Bella blanched.

"NO!" the words came out a little louder than she intended. "Edward that's exactly the reason he will have a problem." She argued

"No, he won't." He stated confidently before he left.

Bella growled at the outfit he laid out and stormed to the bathroom. 'Edward is being ridiculous!' she thought. 'If there's any reason not to love him, that's it!' She thought with distaste at the ensemble.