Chapter 3:

Panic.

That's all I could feel. The cold sweat and racing heart that only occurred as panic gripped your heart.

Calmdowncalmdowncalmdowncalmdown. Mine and Aiden's panic swirled together making thoughts impossible. There's no way this is what it seems, no way this boy knows Aiden's there.

No way.

Yet there he is, looking between Aiden and I flabbergasted, unsure of what's going on, just as confused as we were. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

Aiden. Stop. Stop thinking. Hide yourself, go invisible. I thought this at him forcefully pushing through his panic, luckily he heard me and went radio silent. I didn't even hear a flicker come from him afterwards. One moment it was a cacophony of thought and emotion and the next moment- nothing. Still looking through Aiden's eyes the difference in Edward was immediate he went from shocked eyes fixated above me to eyes darting around, looking below us at me. I disconnected from Aiden to hear the boy named Mike say 'Bella?'

I looked up at him surprised, 'Yes?' I answered in the clearest, strongest voice I could muster.

'You in?' he looked at me expectantly.

'In…' I had literally no idea where the conversation had headed.

'Saturday, we're all going down to the beach in La Push, you in?' He said all of this slowly, as if he was talking to a very slow child. Clearly he'd already said all of this before. I smiled apologetically, 'Yeah absolutely, sounds like fun.' I gave him a bigger smile to show him I was genuine and he looked away blushing. Once his attention was off of me I quickly looked back towards the table that the Cullen's sat at.

They were all gone.

I felt Aiden breathe a sigh of relief, I couldn't help but feel the exact same way. Now that he was gone I could THINK again. How? How did he know Aiden was there? I've lived my entire life being the only one to see Aiden, other people have known he existed, but never like this. He looked at him directly. Also, he looked over at us in the first place as soon as Jessica said his name, he couldn't have heard us. Could he? I know better than anyone that the supernatural exists.

He and his family did look otherworldly, and according to Jessica they were all adopted so why should they all resemble each other in one way or another?

My thoughts were interrupted by the bell going off signalling the end of lunch, I sat there for a moment weighing my options. Do I stay and risk running into him again? Or do I take off and consider this entire experience a failure after only one day of school… Yeah right. No way am I letting this one high-schooler ruin my chances of leading a normal life for the first time.

Plus, I had to admit… I was curious. He's clearly something different, and judging by the similarities between him and his adopted siblings, they were as well.

No, I would be staying, I like a good mystery. Here I thought we would be bored in this quiet town, apparently you can't judge a book by its cover.

My next class was biology luckily Mike had biology next as well so he offered to walk me there. On the way there Aiden couldn't stop picturing Edward staring directly at him, clearly still unsettled. Just stay silent until after school, we'll talk about it when we're safely at home. I thought at him. After the teacher signed my slip he directed me to the only open seat, which of course sat next to Edward Cullen. I dragged my feet as I walked over to sit next to him, while I was curious about him; I wasn't particularly excited about sitting right next to him. As I walked up to him I saw him stiffen conspicuously and whip his head around to look at me, I swear I could almost see his eyes darken a few shades as he glared daggers at me before he quickly looked away.

This made Aiden react, stopping me abruptly, after a second I pushed my way through him to my seat thinking its ok… just keep watch. I couldn't help but notice though that he had looked at me this time, not even glancing at Aiden, maybe I had imagined it? But even if I had what caused this reaction, what caused him to look at me with such hate? For the entirety of the class he sat on the extreme edge of his seat- as far from me as possible, though at least to my relief he didn't look at me or Aiden again. When the bell rang I had hardly registered the sound before he was out the door across the room.

'What did you do to Cullen?' Mike asked as he approached me.

'No clue, he definitely seemed mad about something though.' I responded.

'I wouldn't worry about it' Mike said, 'dudes a weirdo.'

It wasn't until I got home that I heard from Aiden again, he was seriously freaked. He made it known in his unique way that we needed to go, leave Forks forever and we needed to do it now.

'We aren't going anywhere Aiden`' I said, rolling my eyes at him. As soon as I said this he picked up the shoe I had just taken off and threw it across the room.

'Real mature' I said as I followed the shoe into the kitchen, picking it up 'I know you're worried, but aren't you even a little curious? If he did see you, then how did he do it? There's definitely something off about him and his family, as long as he doesn't appear to be dangerous we're staying. I've waited too long to lead a normal life for him to ruin it for me. What about you, are you so desperate to go back? You've got to be tired of saving me every day; a little bit of high school will be good for both of us.'

He assented- for now, I could tell that he wasn't totally convinced, and to be fair, neither was I.

Let me know what you think of it so far, I have some general plot points for progressing the story but if you have any ideas let me know!