I knew when I got up that morning that today would be special. I don't know why but I just had a feeling. Looking towards the unopened preasent I gently plicked it up and set it on my bed. Beginning to slowly unwrap it my eyes widened and a little smile peeked across the corners of my rosy mouth.

He had gotten me a classical guitar, a Yamaha C40 to be exact slowly I began to carress the string. I had always wanted to learn the guitar, but Renee never let me instead she would tell me that I wasn't going to be good at it anyways so I shouldn't even try. My smile turned into a frown and I set the guitar back into its case. It was beautiful but-

"Julia! Come on we're going to be late! If you don't get down here I'll just leave you to fend for yourself!" I chuckled Bella was acting like a mom again. Looking down at my guitar one last time I grabbed my messenger bag and made my way to the kitchen grabbing an apple on my way out of the front door. However When ever I went to get in the truck… It wasn't there. My eyes widened.

"She was actually serious! I thought it was a bluff, what the heck?!" Reaching for my phone I was about to call my friend, Sammy, to give me a ride, when suddenly it hit me. I wasn't in Arizona anymore. "Crap, I guess I just have to walk."

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Finally arriving an hour later at the school was a blessing, but myself being soaked to the bone my hair stringing to my face like soggy yarn was anything other than a blessing. I cringed as my boots squeaked, when I stepped foot onto the linoleum floor of the pale brown office. The receptionist spotting me, just shrugged at my messy appearance and began to shuffle around with the files on her desk. "Name?"

I took a deep breath, "Julia Swan ma'am." She stopped and did a double take as I sighed. Changing her attitude she began to speak.

"Okay sweetie, My name is Ms. Cope," She then grabbed some papers out of a folder and a highlighter. Quickly realizing that she was highlighting my class routes on a map I frowned. I was never good with maps.

Coughing, I interrupted her just as she was about done, "Ma'am, Um I'm very sorry but I'm horrible with maps. Is there anyway that someone could just show me to my classes instead?"

Ms. Cope eager to please fervently nodded her head and picked up the the speaker phone.

"Could a one Jasper Hale please come to the office." Quickly and quietly she put the receiver down and made a funny face. I giggled and a small smile made its way onto my lips. "Okay I'm going to warn you he's not much of a talker but he is every bit of a southern gentleman, so don't worry you're in good hands." Just as I was about to say thank you the door opened and a blonde man walked into the room, He quickly glanced at me and looked away staring at Ms. Cope he began to speak in a strained and quiet voice.

"Um, am I in trouble Ma'am?" As Soon as I heard his voice my ears perked up. He was from Texas I could tell. Believe it or not I was familiar with Texas After all I had lived there for 8 years. Mom had gotten tired of me and sent me to live with My grandfather on Renee's side. And when he died she brought me back home. I still had the accent and I wondered if he would notice.

"No Jasper you're not In trouble I just wanted you to show Ms. Swan around." At my last name he quirked his brow in confusion, and I immediately frowned. Something had happened with him and my sister. Quickly I turned to him and nodded holding out my hand.

"My name is Julia, and I could really use your help showing me around." I purposely let my twang shine through and I saw him relax a little. He shakily avoided my hand, Probably noting that I was soaked like a drowned cat, and carefully led me out of the office and into the hallway. I handed him my schedule and then he looked confused. Suddenly we stopped and I looked at him.

"Hey what's wrong," I asked with a small frown. He just shrugged and pointed to a door mumbling something about this door being my first class. My frown deepened, Trying to get his mind off of whatever was wrong I began to talk about the only thing that I knew for sure we had in common. "So I can tell from your accent that you came from Texas," He stopped and turned to me wondering what My point was. "You probably don't know this, but I actually lived in Texas with my grandfather for a while." Not expecting an answer I was about to talk again when a small mumble caught my attention.

"Really?" He said, "I could hear an unclear accent but now that you mention it It does sound Texan." I smiled with pride knowing that I had finally cracked his exterior, however what he said next reminded me to ignore my sister for a while. "So I noticed you're late and wet." as if sensing my anger he stopped walking and began to walk again, " S-Sorry I didn't mean to make you mad." He mumbled softly.

I simply sigh and grabbed on to his arm noticing briefly his flinch and the coolness of his skin. Letting go I smiled briefly ," It's not your fault, I'm mad at my sister. She left me to walk to school in the rain and I'm pretty upset about it." He nodded again and then showed me to the rest of my classes. Yeah today was not going great.

15 minutes later and the tour was finished. Excusing himself Jasper walked away and left me at my 3rd period class, which by the way he said that I shared with his brother Emmet. I slowly knocked on the door and entered the classroom. The teacher and the class stopped talking and turned to look at me. "And you are?" Said an older gentleman who I assumed was teaching AP Physics.

I looked down at the ground bashfully, "My name Is Julia Swan." He nodded and then shooed me to a seat by a burley looking man.