Hope you enjoy this chapter. It took a bit longer than I thought it would. Ive been working alot, on top of taking 17 credits in college, and I also got two of my wisdom teeth taken out a few days ago. Which actually allowed me a bit more time to write since I was off work. I plan to edit last chapter and fix some grammar mistakes when I have time.
He slept well, feeling properly refreshed upon waking up. He took a shower again, contemplated the possibilities of today then went downstairs. He was surprised to see his dad at the oven cooking an omelette?
"Thought you had work?"
"Normally I would but wanted to send you and bells off properly"
"Hmm" he muttered in recognition.
"Also needed to use these eggs up, they expire in a few days" Charlie said well looking at the omelette.
"Where's Bella?"
"Ate already up here in her room."
"Now come sit down, didn't make this omelette for nothing."
He sat in the nearest kitchen chair at this point. Charlie smiled, then placed the omelette on the plate in front of him.
"Let me know how it is"
Adam took a bite of the omelette, it was definitely a bit burnt and could use some seasoning but it tasted good enough. If he was at a restaurant he would get mad, but since he was not at a restaurant and at his dad's house and he has never been able to make an omelette himself. He appreciated it enough, but could definitely use some cheese and vegetables for flavor. Burnt plain egg is not the most pristine flavor in the world.
After he finished up his omelette and chugged a glass of orange juice, he let his father know the omelette was good, but maybe add seasoning next time. By the time all this happened it was 30 minutes before their classes were supposed to start so he went up to his sisters room.
He was a bit freaked out when his sister pulled open her door right as he was about to knock, but it was a moment he quickly recovered from.
"Oh… Did I scare you?" Bella said with a tiny smirk plastered her face.
"No, No just was surprised. We should get going"
"Yea thats why I opened the door was gonna rush down and yell at you to get ready to go."
"I am ready, are you?"
"Yea of cours… wait forgot one thing,"
"BETTER GET READY BELLA ITS TIME" He said in mock annoyance.
"Haha, just give me a second.. Im assuming im driving?" She asked
"Yes… for today anyways ill see how it goes from there."
"Really you think youll get back on the road again?"
"Will see…"
"Well I better get the book and pencils i need in my bag, just wait by the car ill be there in a minute."
"Will do"
The minute turned out to be 3 minutes but his sister was down rather quick literally running to the truck. Which knowing her knack for falling randomly for no reason was probably not a good idea. Thankfully she made it to the car safely and then we were off.
The drive down the block the first thing he noticed were the lines that were usually so prominent were a lot more scarce here only seeing lines going across the street here and there, he still saw lines, but it was much easier to ignore and not so overwhelming on the eyes, perhaps he actually could drive out here?
"You think it will be good here?"
He was driven out of his thoughts by his sister asking that, the same question he asked her just yesterday.
"I don't know, though I have a good feeling so far."
"A good feeling isnt really an answer"
"Its the only one I have though.
Upon arriving at the school they were greeted by a sea of old run down cars in the parking lot, 90s buicks, some fords, even a few other trucks. all seems pretty normal until he notices an elusive silver volvo, on the left side of the lot, a volvo that properly others itself from all other cars in the lot. Which pale in comparison to it. The car certainly does not meet the standards of the town. Why is it here? Perhaps someone important is visiting the school mid semester? The boss of the principal, some rich guy who funds the school or something. He didn't really know why the car was there but he knew it didn't fit in with the town so it had to belong to someone out of town someone of a particular make and caliber.
When he brought himself out of his thoughts he wasn't surprised seeing his sister eyeing the volvo as well, perhaps having a similar line of thinking to him on the vehicle.
"Nice car" he muttered under his breath as he and his sister wordlessly made their way into forks highschool. The inside looked like well exactly what he expected white tile floors, with brick walls, it gave him this weird vibe of being small yet spacious. They made their way to the office and explained they were the new students, which the secretary, receptionist whatever the official title is, seemed completely unsurprised, not uninterested but entirely unsurprised. Hed worry about how that bodes later he supposed. The receptionist gave them each a schedule and explained we need to have all the teachers we have sign it for the day.
After the receptionist was done explaining he peeked at his schedule, "Noooo, why me?"
"Everything okay?" Bella asked seeming gneuinely concerned.
"Yea, nothing crazy, just look at what my second class is."
"Physical Education?"
"Yea physical education at 9:05 am"
"Hmm… I think gym is my last class." She said well holding her schedule up.
"Really, ok how about we do this…, I will be mysterious new girl Bella Swan, and you can have the honor of being the elusive, sexy, equally mysterious Adam Swan."
"No thats ok, sorry I just don't think I can live up to those high standards."
"Aww too bad.."
"Maybe PE won't be too bad here?"
"Even if it isn't bad I don't wanna have risidual locker room smell the entire school day."
"My first class is English."
"Of course you would end up with your favorite subject as your first class meanwhile, I start with History then have Gym"
"I thought you liked History,"
"I do but I really don't like the idea of immediately having gym after I have some history test or presentation or something.
His sister seemed like she was gonna say more on the subject but then we were interrupted.
"Hello, You are the new students?"
"Yea."
"Yes.
""Hello Im both of your best friends now names eric. Ill help you find your way around for today. What classes you have right now? "
"History"
"English" Bella and he said at the same time.
"Sorry repeat that."
"History for me, English for her"
"Oh those are on opposite sides of the school…"
"Ok, Plan will all walk by the history door then ill take her to english"
"Ok."
The walk to the class was rather quick only a few hallways away. Then he left me to my own devices promising he or someone else would be around to help after class.
History was interesting after his awkward introduction which went "Ummm… Hey Im Adam Swan, im from arizona transfer student."
Apparently we were learning about the colfax massacre in the civil war era, appeared we'd be reading a book for the semester. Class went by surprisingly fast and as it got out he wasn't really surprised when Eric wasnt there to help him out, or anyone else from what he could tell, thankfully though someone seemed to notice he was out of sorts.
"Hey you lost?" Genuine concern coming from the male voice that said it,
"Uh, yea you know where gym is?"
"You got gym in the morning? LUCKY"
"Haha, I don't think so but whos to say"
"Sorry, forgot to introduce myself Names Mike Newton. Im on the track and field team and used to be on the baseball team, so I can definitely show you where the gym is."
"So you like history?"
"I mean the teacher seemed alright and the era we are focusing on right now is interesting, Though honestly always been more of a fan of european history over us history"
"Im just not a fan of history of any kind."
"Haha, I can understand that" Adam Chuckles.
"What classes do you like?"
"Psychology, Calculus, Gym"
"I figured the last one already"
"Haha, yea big on sports, personally"
Mike paused at this point,
"Gym is right through those double doors down there" He said pointing.
"Ok, thanks for showing me the way?"
"Yea of course, anytime, Be seeing you"
At this point Adam began making his way towards said double doors and as he made his way he began to develop a headache, he didnt think much of it until he entered the room.
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As soon as he entered his second class Phy Ed he had a headache, of intense proportions he had no idea what the cause of his headache was until he began trying his best to look around despite the throbbing in his brain . He saw a man leaning against a wall in the corner of the gym a very big guy abnormally muscular, he was certain this man was the source of his headache. He had a line by him possibly the most intense line he has seen that led out of the room somewhere else, he wasnt sure where. but there was something more to, it reminded him of the vibe he got from jacob but this image was considerably unclear instead of seeing a beast of sorts on him he just saw a large blob of purple darkness, couldnt acertain what it meant, but it definitely hurt his head alot more than whatever jacob brought on. Like a jackhammer in his brain a pain he hasnt geñt since he first came into his "powers" , His curse months ago. But seeing this man here was like experiencing it anew.
So in the past 2 days he experienced 3 new weird sight power things, 2 of which were in the nowhere town of forks, 1 of which made him feel a pain he has not felt since his powers came to be. What was up with this town? This isn't just coincidence anymore…
"You the new student?" Said a gruff older voice
He looked up to see what he assumed was the teacher, they had a older face possibly late 40s some graying hair but they looked relatively healthy.
"Yes, Adam Swan?"
"See you here looks like your sisterbwill be in my gyn class as well"
"Well here get yourself changed in the locker room."
"Oh I don't have any gym clothes well that won't do."
The gym teacher began leading me somewhere.
"Normally I wouldn't do this as im not supposed to but we have some extras so here"
at this point the teached handed me a few clothes wrapped in plastic, one was a short sleeve school shirt, the other was some school themed shorts.
"Thank you, these mine to keep?"
"Yea, but don't tell anyone I said so"
"I won't, Where should I go after changing."
"Just wait where everyone else is northside of the gym"
He changed quickly and went to the northside of the gym. Unfortunately the northside of the gym was the same side the source of his headache was on. Gym was already hard enough, why did this have to happen?
Thankfully though he was able to stand as far away as possible from the guy being the other corner of the north side, and his headache though still very much present was begining to die down.
Which was definitely a good thing cause they were seperated into 2 groups shortly after and of course he ended up in the same group as the guy. Guess they were gonna be practicing hitting a volley ball to eachother well in a circle.
"You the new kid right, Chiefs son?"
"uh yea… and you"
"Call me Chris"
He looked over at chris he looked like a lot of other guys in town, Had short faded hair, and was on the smaller side, though his shirt caught his eye "NIN"
"So you a fan of Nine inch nail?"
"Sometimes yea"
"Favorite Album?"
"I don't have a favorite album just think they all are pretty good, My favorite song is probably…" His eyes went up in thought for a moment.
"Reptile, on the Downward Spiral album"
"I always liked how trent brings our the vocals in that one."
"You mean when he comes out all like ~shes got the BLOOD OF REPTILES~"
"Yea exact part I was thinking of actually just sounds kind of bizzare but also really good, and then the song really picks up"
"So you enjoying forks?"
"Well ive been here for 2 days hard to say"
"I've lived here my whole life, I like it though cant say I dont wish I could go somewhere.. Grander I suppose, like phoniex"
"ey phoniex has its own problems, Personally I looked forward to coming here, and its been good so far which isn't really saying much"
"But it means something,"
"Christopher, You ready for this shit." a male voice said that from a few feet away, He looked towards the voice and was surprised to see the source of his earlier headache, Looking right at him did make him flare up mildly but the brunt of it was gone thankfully" Though The man still appeared to notice his discomfort, as he made a face, of confusion.
"Yea emett I am, what about you?" Chris replied.
"Hell yea I am, bring it on like donkey kong"
"Oh hey, Emmett Cullen, your the new student?"
"Yea, Adam Swan."
"Awesome"
"How you two no eachother?"
"We've been in the same classes a few times"
"Ah, thats cool"
"He honestly wasn't that invested in the conversation anymore, after the source of his headache appeared he got a better look at them, From what he could see which actually wasn't alot given the purple darkness still enveloping alot of him, He looked and acted like a fairly normal student, save for the rather large muscles, but that wasnt that crazy some if the football players back in arizona came close yo his size. Though their still was something quite grand about it, another thing he noticed was his face, it was pale, very pale so pale it almost looked like it glowed, He wasn't paper white but he was fairly close. He had a good looking face, but the glow, and even just the particular type of attractive he was was unnerving why that was he wasnt really sure. From the little interaction he had with him he reminded him, of some of the sporty guys at his school, the ones that wernt assholes generally had this chill hunorous demeanor that Emett matched pretty well. Personality wise atleast so far he seemed perfectly normal, but visually both in regards to his abilities and what he physically saw, left questions and uncertainty in his mind. Should he be concerned?
Probably better if he wasn't, I mean just yesterday he saw the weird wolf like beast inside jacob, and he didnt find it unnerving, he found it curious, and troubling yes, but not unnerving. so why was he concerning himself about this.
Thinking on it he realized he didn't have an answer so he decided for now he would simply do what hes gotten quite good at, ignoring it.
Which proved hard until class officially started, then instead of glancing at the lines of others, and the strange purple darkness of emmett cullen, he instead put all his focus on the volleyball and did quite well, at the days practice exercise because of it.
Class went by pretty quick after that, so quick what should've felt like an hour felt like 20 minutes. His headache was completely gone by the time class ended. Won't have to worry about it flaring up next class we have together. Over the past few months he learned thats how whatever it was worked, if something new caused him a headache be it a intense migraine or a mild headache, if it went away. He wouldn't get it again for that specific instance anyways.
Which is a good thing he was worried he would have to deal with these headaches for the next couple gym classes at least. Thankfully not.
After changing into his regular clothes, he began heading towards to door back to the hallways of the school but was stopped.
"Yo, Adam Wait" He looked over to see chris.
"Was wondering would you wanna exchange numbers? Figured since your new and also have superior taste in music."
"Haha yea sir"
After that the two exchanged numbers and went their seperate ways, Chris's next class was History, and his next class was physics. The next two classes went by pretty quickly since he one already knew quite a bit regarding physics, and government and two there was no physical activity or mysterious migraines. All was well until lunch, as he made his way down the hallway as he neared the cafeteria he felt a headache of intense proportions. Which as soon as he looked towards the source of it he swore his head nearly exploded, it felt like all the nerves in his brain were being poked, hammered, and having acid poured on them all at the same time. The source of course was the table with emmett cullen at it along with 3 possibly 4 others, he didnt really look cause as soon as he even glanced in the direction he felt the most immense of pains flare up in his head. and closed his eyes immediately, He felt a soft hand on him only a few moments later instantly recognizing the touch as his sisters
"Are you ok? is it happening again?"
"Im not, and I dont know, just let me sit down dont do anything yet"
"Ok,"
"Bella, You and your brother wanna sit with us?"
Even though he couldnt see he could tell his sisters was put off guard by this.
"You mind if we sit with them?"
"Its ok, Just let them know, So they know not to be out off if I dont talk much"
"Ok."
"Hey, Jessica, My brother has a migraine right now."
"Oh my god thats horrible, are you okay?" Said an unknown female voice he assumed was Jessica
"Yea, you okay dude?" Said the familiar voice of Mike.
"I will be, just dont talk to me too much right now not trying to be rude, just every little thing bothers me"
"Yea dude" He didnt miss the offput tone in his voice.
He let himself lay facedown to the table and after about 5 minutes his horrible headpain mostly subsided and he felt confident in opening his eyes, and joining in on the conversation his migraine mostly tuned out, then as soon as he lifted his head and opened his eyes, headpain returned again but not as prominent, a more tolerable form, like a force was on a small part of his head opposed to his entire head being tortured in 3 different ways.
when his eyes cleared up he saw a man looking right at him, someone at Emmett's Table, Someone who produced a similar purple darkness to Emett.
"Who are they?"
He looked at the others at his sisters table and they all had this slightly annoyed look on their face.
"The Cullens" Said the female voice who invited them to the table earlier in a rather dry manner. He didn't really want to deal with someone being angry at him on day one so he decided to take a risk and try to mend t situation.
"Sorry, did I say something I shouldn't"
"No, sorry its just we already explained who they were to your sister just a minute ago"
"Oh Sorry I didnt hear I guess cause the headache and all that"
"You better now?"
"I think so, sorry again I just asked cause Emett, the big one is in my Gym class"
"You have that slab of meat in your gym class?" Somehow the girl managed to make that comment in a way that was both mildly sexual, but also filled with disgust.
"Yea, he was pretty nice though"
"Uh… Yea I guess, anyways ill go over it quickly, Theres emett, who you already know, Alice and Edward Cullen, then theres Rosalie and Jasper Hale, and they are all together and they are related so gross"
Despite the girls clearly judgemental and Biased opinion, and tone. He had to admit that last bit did put him off.
"Well the hales are with the Cullens but they arnt related by blood just by adoption" Mike chimed in
"Still gross" The girl quickly replied
He had to admit the girl had a point, it was at the very least weird.
He spared another look at the cullens and he realized besides the familiar purple darkness emett had something more was there as well on the head of the one who was staring at him earlier Edward. , there was a reddish blotch, Looking over at the rest of the table he saw strange colored blotches on 2 of the others heads aswell, Green on the girl with the short spiked hair Alice, and Yellow, on the guy with the medium length blonde hair, Jasper. He knew that these blotches are what caused his intense flare up a few minutes earlier. There was something similar about the blotches but it was different enough to warrant different colors… What did colors mean exactly. He still wasnt entirely sure as before yesterday he never saw anything besides lines between people. Speaking of lines again, the lines between the cullens were quite prominent, He finally got an answer where the other end of the line he saw in gym class led to, and the answer was the girl he was sitting next to, Rosalie, Alice and jasper shared a line of equal prominence. Which troubled him, he never saw a line so strong before even between couples that have been in loving relatioships for years, and best friends. Not to say they didnt have prominent lines as well, but the prominence of the lines the cullens and hales had with one another was disturbingly perfect, no transparency, no cracks, it was pure white.
Strangely only those dating one another seemed to have a line at all, despite supposed familiar ties, the hales didnt have even a thin line, and neither did the cullens, they only had lines with their Significant Others..
Which on top of all the other weirdness, That somehow unnerved him the most. He always saw blood connections, emotional ones to, he was clearly seeing some of the cullens and hales respective emotional connections but not all of it, and he was entirely missing the blood connections.
Then came edward who had a line but it wasnt connected to anyone at his table and it wasn't white, it wasn't even the usual gray, it was Blood red, and it was connected to… He looked behind him expecting to see it go past where he was to some room or place beyond his scope, but instead it was connected directly to his sister...
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When he saw his sister staring at the cullens just like he was he had some small grain of hope that see saw what he saw, then he realized everyone at their table and even several people at other tables were looking at the cullens all the same. He highly doubted everyone in the cafeteria suddenly gained his ability in the past minute so he assumed this was just a normal casual fascination. Maybe there was some explanation for this, maybe the cullens aura or whatever he was seeing was so strong that people who weren't so mentally messed up like him were able to see some portion of it to?
What was that blood red line about, what are the cullens about in general, that whole table is so alien compared to everyone else here, sure that emmett guy was nice, in the 2 minutes I interacted with him, and if it was just that his brain would've been content mostly ignoring it, but all of this in one day was weird as hell.
After that thought bubble subsided for a moment he asked for everyones name, and reintroduced himself to mike. He could tell Mike, Jessica, Angela, and Eric. Have been friends for a long time, just by how they talked with one another, but seeing fairly strong friendship lines helped as well, something else he saw was jessica seemed to want more than friendship with mike. and Mike wanted more than friendship with his sister… Well that was if he was reading these things right, which before yesterday he figured himself somewhat of an expert on reading the lines only he could see.
But regardless if what he surmized was right or not, he debated in his head if he should scare mike off, Convince him to go for it, or do neither. Realistically he'd probably choose the latter. In part cause he was too much of a coward to do the other two, and in part because at the end of the day it was probably better if he didn't get involved in his sisters love life.
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The rest of the day was pretty uneventful save for his last class Economics, which was in part cause the teacher some how made the economy sound entertaining, and also cause Alice Cullen in all her Green blotch glory was 2 desks away from me. Despite several guys and girls talking in the back 2 rows where we were. She remained intently listening avoiding all the chatter. I tried my best to do so as well, failing a bit, apparently some girl named Holly Confracted a STD from someone?
He felt as though he heard this exact conversation at least 3 times before so he again did his best to tune it out and managed to gain some insight into what was said. Near the end of class he looked at the Cullen girl again, maybe he should try talking to her, Her older brother seemed nice enough, and he wated to normalize these people in his mind so all the weirdness with them would stop consuming his thoughts. He debated in his head. If he should go up to her, make some shitty excuse about needing notes, or help with class, hell that wasnt even an excuse he did need help with class. Maybe he could just go up to her and ask "Why do you have a green blotch above your head? By the way I need help with econs can i cheat off your notes? Thanks"
He almost laughed out loud at his imaginary, scenario. And ultimately decided he wouldn't go up to alice. Not right now anyways. Theres so much to unpack already.
He spared another glance at alice and she was no longer looking at the board or the teacher; she was looking directly at him...
I didn't actually laugh out loud a bit did I? He looked around no one else was looking his way, He looked back at alice and she was again staring intently at the front of the classroom. Odd..
Perhaps she noticed him glancing at her a few times earlier.
—
After class ended he passed by Angela and Mike, well looking for his sister, He waved and said goodbye respectively. He found his sister by the office. a ways behind another student, of course that student ends up being edward cullen. Hes speaking rather loudly to the secretary seemingly pissed off about something. Then he storms out the door yelling about having to deal with it or something like that. Then he rushes off like he was auditioning for some part in a play.
"That was something" I dryly stated.
"Heres my Sign sheet" His sister said, seemingly in the spot where Edward was just a few moments before.
"Thank you Bella looks good and your brothers?" The women said eyeing me intently.
I almost forgot about that thing, where did I put it … I checked my bag then found it extremely crumpled up in the front pocket. Which compared to my sisters very pristine sheet is quite the contrast, I gave the women the sheet which she looked at with a face of disappointment examined for a few moments.
"Looks like you are both free to go, again welcome to town, have a good rest of your day."
"Will do. You as well" I replied.
We headed towards the doors to the parking lot at this point.
"How was Emmett Cullen?"
"Why you ask?"
"Just wondering"
"He seemed alright, I had gym with him, humorous personality, clearly likes fitness even said Hi and introduced himself to me."
"Oh…"
"Why did you actually ask?"
"Well its nothing really just… I think Edward was asking to get a different lab partner cause of me"
"Huh? What happened"
She shrugged "Wish I knew, Just was paired up with him cause he was the only person without a lab partner, and he just acted really rude, and got really angry.
"Ey maybe he just was having a bad day, or has some anger issues?"
"I thought that to, but then I asked mike and he said it was the only time he ever saw edward act like that, and then he was really adamant and angry about mot being able to change lab partners, thats what he was in the office about earlier."
"Well, im sorry, I honestly don't know what to say, Emmett seemed fine, and I actually had Alice Cullen in my Econ class, and she wasn't talkative but ahe wasnt rude either, so I dont know maybe hes just the asshole of the family…, Or maybe he is just having a bad day."
"Your probably right, it just bothers me"
"It bothers me hearing about it, pisses me off someone would treat you like that for no reason. Though don't worry too much about it now maybe he won't be so bad tomorrow.
They made the drive home with little comversation, both of them seemed to have alot to unpack, in bellas case it was suddenly having all this attention from others, and the weirdness of Edward, and in my case it was suddenly having all this attention, and the weirdness of the cullens in general, and the odd auras they produced.
Did the red line edward have that connected to his sister represent anger, was it some cosmic warning that edward was gonna be an asshole towards her. He felt that wasn't the case, he never saw lines that represent hate atleast not directly, if a line was thin or a thick line became thinner that normally represented some degree of dislike or hate due to some reason or another. But he never saw a line that represented hate itself, because well in a way hate was just some messed up form of Love or like, in order for someone to hate someone they would have had to love some part of them one way or another, atleast thats what he thought anyways, but even if he didn't identify hate in that way, he just knew that line didn't represent hate, it represented something else, he wasn'f sure exactly what. But it was clearly strong based on the prominence of the line. But what exactly did it represent… He wondered if he would ever find out, if he even wanted to...
**Hey, Again, Hope you enjoyed I plan to delve more into the bloodborne side of things in chapter 3. Not too much though, I understand many of the people reading are only familiar with twilight. I promise to do my best to make it entertaining and understandable for those unfamiliar. Also they'll be some more information on Adam's Powers.**
