The rest of the week went along swimmingly and Betty had yet to make any more friends. Acquaintances that would help her in class? Yes. But friends? No. Something she did not mind at all. Her half-sister Bella, however, had asked about her choices in friends after hearing some idiotic rumor.

~The young freshman sat on her bed as she attempted to finish her English homework about Romeo and Juliet. On the opposite side of the room was Bella who was pretending to read, every so often she'd look up at Betty.

"How has school been?" Bella blurted out.

"Good, I guess," Betty answered, not looking up from her homework.

"Have you made any friends?"

"Mhmm," Was the response that Bella got in return for her question. "His name is Jamie Stover," Before Bella had the chance to reply, their father appeared in the doorway. It was almost as if he had a boy detector that would go off any time his daughters mentioned a boy.

"What's this I hear about a boy?"

"His names Jamie Stover and he's a friend, dad. Bella has guy friends too." Betty mumbled, refraining from rolling her eyes.

"He's a bit of a delinquent, isn't he? Got suspended for getting into a fight and skipping." Her father told her with narrowed eyes. Betty groaned and her head fell back onto her pillow.

"I know, dad. Some annoying girl tried to tell me that and I told her to f-off. He's not bad, people just tried to mess with him and he had to defend himself. It's that simple," Betty ranted before looking down at her homework. Charlie's eyes widened and he looked from Betty to Bella, who merely shrugged. The man sighed before leaving the room.

"He's rig-"

"Oh my god, bug off Bella!"

~end of flashback~

Since that night both Charlie and Bella refrained from asking Betty about her choice of friends. This was something Betty had been grateful for.

"It's freezing!" Betty exclaimed as she and Bella got out of the truck.

"At least it's not raining," Bella mumbled, a small smile making its way on her face.

"Well, then I guess that means it'll snow if it does happen to rain. If it snows then I'll skip class." Bella shook her head as Betty said this, not believing the seriousness in the girl's words.

"Hey, Bella!" A few people grouped by a car gre4eted. Betty snorted in amusement as Bella smiled and waved. The older girl blushed at the snort and put her hand down. "I bet you don't even know their names," Betty taunted, her eyes twinkling with amusement. Bella shrugged and the response was enough for Betty to know that she was right.

The first period went by smoothly except for the quiz they had. Most of the class didn't understand what was going on and Betty internally laughed at their confusion.

"If I failed then I'd actually be surprised," Jamie informed her as soon as they stepped out of the class.

"Eh it was easy enough," Betty agreed. The two walked out and were met with the biting cold. "I knew it would snow today!" She exclaimed. "That's it, I'm skipping Gym."

"Crap, it's freezing!" Jamie pulled his beanie over his head to the point where it covered his ears. "Wait, you are skipping Gym? Little Miss Chief of Polices daughter? I don't believe it." The girl rolled her eyes at his dramatics and kicked a pile of snow in his direction as she moved in front of him. "Was that a declaration of war? Cause you do no-" His words were cut off when a snowball made contact with his face.

"Sorry, dude!" An upperclassman called. Betty was clutching her sides in laughter as Jamie wiped the snow from his face.

"I didn't even n-need to d-do anything!" Betty choked out. The boy smirked, ducking down to scoop up some snow as the girl was distracted by her laughter. "Jamie, you should've seen your fa-" Her own words were cut off when the snow hit her in the stomach.

"Whoops, I missed. I was aiming for your face,"

"Then my friend, your aim is terrible."

The two stared at each other for a moment before going down to create snowballs. The first to rise was Jamie and he threw the ball, only for it to miss her shoulder. Betty laughed and threw her snowball which met its target even when he tried to move. In fact, other stray snowballs from other fights happened to land on Jamie and his attempts at hitting Betty were futile.

"Give up!" Betty yelled looking back to see Jamie who settled on chasing her. "You can't win!" She taunted.

"Betty look out!" Jamie shouted. The girl turned around only to see that she was about to come in contact with a body. Betty tripped forward and fell against a solid body that didn't even budge at the impact. "Crap, Betty," She heard Jamie mumble.

"So sorry," Betty mumbled, ignoring the chilling feeling she felt.. "I wasn't watching where I was going." She looked up only to see an angelic face as well as a few others.

"It's alright," The bell-like voice whispered.

"Crap, Betty," Jamie mumbled again, -literally- pulling her away from her daze.

"Again, I'm really," Betty cleared her throat. "Sorry." She shivered a little bit, perhaps the cold had finally got to her...

"It's fine, I'm Alice." The girl smiled at her and Betty had to refrain from telling her that she already knew. "And your Betty, right? The new little freshman."

"Mhmm, yep. You guys are the upperclassmen, I'd also be rather moronic not to know who you are," Betty whispered, gesturing to the whole group. She grabbed Jamie's arm from behind her.

"What do the little fishes say about us? That we bite?" Emmett Cullen asked in a joking manner. His words made Betty's eyes widen and the feeling of being threatened washed over her once more, not that it wasn't already there. "He's joking," Alice added, noticing Betty's reaction.

"We should go, um, to... class," Jamie whispered to Betty, knowing that the girl found them scary. The girl nodded and allowed herself to be pulled away by Jamie.

"It was nice meeting you!" Alice called as the two walked away. Betty took one last glance at her, sending a forced smile before looking away again. She didn't see the slap that Emmet received or the looks that were traded between the family members.

"They really scare you, don't they? Why?" Jamie asked in curiosity.

"I can't explain it, they just do."

The Cullen's all looked at each other once more when they heard the exchange between the two. Worry and curiosity were clear on each of their faces.

"Now we have another new girl to worry about. The sister to top it off." Rosalie growled.

"She was terrified, threatened even," Jasper informed them. "It radiated off her in the most subtle waves but it was still there."

"Do you think she knows, Edward?" Alice asked.

"She's the same as her sister. I can't hear a thing." This fact seemed to frustrate Edward.

"I don't see the future with her." Alice's words cemented the idea of how much of an enigma Elizabeth Swan was proving to be. She was a girl, a normal human girl that was supposed to react to them like the rest of the school does or, at least, like her sister does. She did no such thing instead her face was similar to the animals that they preyed on. An expression full of fear and apprehension.

"I mean, she looked at us like she knew. Like we were..." Alice trailed off, her face constricting into a pained look like she didn't want to finish her sentence. Rosalie, on the other hand, had no problem finishing what everyone was thinking.

"Monsters..."

For some reason, there seemed to be a light tension between Bella and Betty. The younger girl had no idea why but her sister kept sending her looks and it made her feel uncomfortable. She didn't go into her room until she absolutely had to in fear that Bella would finally explode, which she did. Bella Swan came up to her like a cat pouncing on a mouse.

"Is it true that you skipped class today?" Bella asked as soon as Betty entered the room. The 14-year-old looked at her with slightly widened eyes and crossed her arms in defense.

"Where'd you hear that from?" Betty wondered, not trying to give too much away. The question made Bella's face blush and she began fidgeting. Betty's lips curved into a smirk, she seemed to ask the right question.

"This guy, Edward, in my Biology class told me he saw you and Jamie playing in the snow during the second period," Bella answered as calmly as possible, despite her flaming features.

"Cullen? The one you were staring at in the parking lot?" Betty snarked, holding back a laugh as Bella blushed even harder.

"I wasn't," Her voice came out as a squeak, Bella cleared her throat. "I wasn't staring at him. And yes, he was asking me some questions and you came up which led to him, um, telling me about your activities." Bella paused, once more. "I think Jamie is being a bad influence on you."

"It's healthy to skip every once in a while, Bella," Was the response Betty gave her sister before plopping onto her bed. Bella stared with, what she thought was, an intimidating look as Betty grabbed a pair of headphones.

"Don't ignore me," Bella snapped, not knowing what to do with the information she had. She didn't want to be a snitch on the one who shared a room with her and could easily suffocate her in her sleep.

"I'm not," Betty told her, putting the headphones on. The teenage girl whispered words in a language her sister wouldn't be able to understand and a one-sided barrier of silence drew up between the two. Bella frowned, already hearing the music blasting from the opposite side of the room, not even the slightest bit aware that her sister could not hear the disapproving noises she made.

"Yes, you are."

hello, I'm not that serious about this story tbh. I've had the first couple of chapters written since last summer and that's it. I might write another chapter soon but I have to dig out my ol' Twilight book to do that. hope everyone enjoyed this though :)