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Chapter 12: Tin Man

Alice POV:

I jumped at the sound of the lunch bell. Can you imagine that? Me, a vampire who can see the future, jumping at a bell signaling lunch time. I sluggishly made my way to our old table seeing that all my siblings had beaten me. They were all unsure of what to say to me as I put my useless tray of human food down.

"So," Emmett was the brave one to try and start conversing, "has anyone had any classes with her?" I shook my head no as my eyes found Bella sitting across the cafeteria with Angela and Ben. She was eating an apple while talking with Angela about some History project.

"I have." My eyes snapped up to Jasper who had answered the affirmative.

"How was- how was she?" Rosalie asked tentatively.

"Quiet. I greeted her when I sat down and she just nodded at me. I know I can't read her emotions anymore, but I couldn't even distinguish anything from her face or body movements. It was just nothing." Jasper furrowed her eyebrows, obviously upset at his lack of information. "Oh her eyes are gray by the way Alice. Not contacts. I could tell." His words brought an onslaught of emotions onto me. I loved her chocolate brown eyes, but the knowledge of her now gray eyes only confirmed that she was my mate even more so.

"How is that possible?"

"I don't know Emmett. We can ask Carlisle later." Jasper ran a hand through his hair distractedly. I know this must be hard on him as well, he blames himself a lot for why we left.

"Edward you haven't said much." Rosalie was staring daggers into my brother at the moment. "Actually you haven't said anything at all." He shrugged at her. Bad move. Rosalie has been royally pissed at Edward ever since she came back with that paper in her hands. She blamed him for everything that happened to Bella, it was her way of not feeling her own guilt. "Maybe it's because you finally realize how much of a fucking idiot you've been." She started growling at him menacingly and I could sense a fight coming.

"Rose. Not here OK?" Emmet put a hand on her to calm her down and she complied. "Come on let's get some air." He escorted her out of the lunchroom, giving a threatening look to Edward as he left. I decided to steal another glance at my mate. She was relaxed in her chair and laughing at something Angela had just said. It wasn't her old, shy Bella laugh, it was hearty, almost bark like. Maybe she's hanging out with Jacob too much. I growled at the thought of the stupid mutt. All pleasant feelings I had had over the summer about him making her better had completely vanished.

Jessica had gotten up from her table and moved towards Bella's, I looked back down to my food and played with it while I listened intently.

"Hey guys! My parents are out of town this weekend so we're having like a big start of senior year party on Friday if you're in." I heard a few 'sures' from the table and Ben asked Jessica what time it would start. "Oh probably around 9 o'clock or so. There'll be like a bunch of alcohol and shit so make sure you got a DD. Oh," she lowered her tone slightly, "Bella I heard you could get some stuff? You know, like stuff?" What? What stuff? No Bella cannot get stuff! Bella shouldn't be doing any stuff!

"Yeah Jess don't worry about it. I already talked to Mike about it. I got you covered." No. No! Charlie was a fucking cop for Christ's sake! I started to stand up, and was about to make my way over to their table and yell about her insulting her own father's grave with her behavior.

"Alice! How about some of that fresh air?" Jasper didn't wait for my answer before grabbing my arm and dragging me out the doors.

Bella POV:

Lunch was very entertaining to say the least. Mike had already asked me if I could get drugs for the party. Of course I could, I could get anything if I wanted. I really only took something stronger when alcohol wasn't cutting it. But if some idiot high schoolers wanted some, I'd be happy to oblige. I don't know how Mike got the idea to come to me really, I think Jessica started a rumor that I told the doctors I needed weed for grieving or something. I don't care that much. Although I did find it hilarious when Jasper had to drag Alice out of the cafeteria, and Edward started growling at me lowly thinking I couldn't hear it. This was turning out to be a lot of fun for me.

Rosalie was in my next class and I ignored her just like I did Jasper. She kept shooting me apologetic looks from across the room. Obviously someone regrets being bitchy. I actually don't mind the fact that she was cold towards me when I was human, at least she was honest. Edward was in my Calculus, and just continued his staring match with the back of head. Every once in a while I heard him mutter something under his breath about me but it was too soft to hear. Finally I was at my last class of the day, gym. Something I could look forward to now that I'm good at it. I was one of the last in the locker room so I changed quickly and ran out to the track.

Both Alice and Emmett were in this class with me. Emmett caught sight of me and nudged Alice to notify her of my presence. I turned my attention to the teacher trying to ignore Alice's silent pleas for me to look at her. Her desperation was tangible. I kept a good pace when Coach Henderson made us run laps the whole period. Making sure I was a little behind Emmett and ahead of Alice was proving difficult. She kept changing her mind about if she wanted to talk to me while we ran or not. Finally Coach Henderson blew his whistle and we went back to the locker room to change. Luckily I can sweat, and I had a good layer on me so I wasn't provoking any suspicion. I mean I have stamina and can run a lot faster and harder than that, but a warm-up can get me sweating a bit. I finished changing back into my jeans and T-shirt and was tying my shoes back up when I could smell Alice approaching me. Her scent was just heavenly, but that was beside the point. I'm angry with her and ignoring her family at the moment. I took my time with my shoes before looking up to her face to hear what I'm sure would be a very long rant.

But I never got to hear the rant. Because right when I caught her eyes, everything changed.

A/N: I'll give you three guesses why. ;) This chapter was named after Miss Miranda Lambert's song. Next chapter: Bella's reaction and decisions, and some shenanigans at Jess' party of course. I will try to have it up tomorrow night. Gotta go write