POV CHANGE. This chapter will be from Bella's point of view. All recognizable content does not belong to me. Please see the end of the Chapter for the source information.

I remember the first day I'd come to Forks High School- How desperately I'd wished that I could turn gray, fade into the wet concrete of the sidewalk like an oversized chameleon. It seemed I was getting that wish answered, a year late.

It was like I wasn't there. Even my teachers' eyes slid past my seat as if it were empty. Lunch eventually rolled around, allowing me to wonder who everyone was sitting around the table. I couldn't remember if this was the seating arrangement from the first day or if this was the new normal.

I was beginning to get annoyed with myself. I might as well have been packed in Styrofoam peanuts through the last semester. No one looked up when I sat down next to Mike, even though the chair squealed stridently against the linoleum as I dragged it back.

I tried following the conversations, but it was difficult. "What did you two d\o this weekend?" Jessica asked, not sounding as if she cared about the answer. I bet that this was just an opener so she could tell her own stories. I wonder if she would talk about Port Angeles with me sitting two seats away? Was I that invisible, that no one would feel uncomfortable discussing me while I was here?

"We were going to have a picnic Saturday actually, but… we changed our minds," Angela said. There was a edge to her voice that caught my interest.

Jess, not so much. "That's too bad," she said, about to launch into her story. But I wasn't the only one who was paying attention.

"What happened?" Lauren asked curiously.

"Well," Angela said, seemingly more hesitant than usual, though she was always reserved," we drove up north, almost to the hot springs – there's a good spot just about a mile up the trail. But when we were halfway there… we saw something."

At this point Angela had caught everyone's attention, even Jessica's. "Saw something? What?" Lauren's pale eyebrows pulled together. "I don't know," Angela said. "We think it was a bear. It was black, anyway, but it seemed… too big."

Lauren snorted." Oh, not you, too! Tyler tried to sell me that one last week. Lily had something similar a few weeks ago too, didn't you?" she said mockingly.

We all looked towards the curly blond, who seemed to have gotten paler if that was possible. She rubbed her neck with both hands before resting them wrapped around her body, seemingly trying to comfort herself.

"Yeah, I saw it. Its what attacked one of the girls at La Push. I wasn't sure what to call it. I thought it was a wolf, but Ang is right. It just seemed too big…" Lauren had interrupted again at that point by laughing.

"You probably just imagined it. They never found it from what everyone says. The only people to even say anything was there were you and that girl, and she isn't talking about anything abnormal."

"You're not going to see any bears that close to the resort," Jessica said, siding with Lauren.

"Really," Angela protested in a low voice, looking towards Lily. "W did see it. But the table started to ignore her.

"No, she's right, "I threw in impatiently. "We had a hiker in just Saturday who saw a bear, too, Angela. He said it was huge and black and just outside of town, didn't he, mike?"

Everyone fell silent, and every pair of eyes at the tale turned to stare t me in shock. Nobody moved. "Mike?" I muttered, mortified. Remember the guy with the bear story?"

"S-sure," mike stuttered after a second. I didn't know why he was looking at me so strangely. I talked to him at work, didn't I? Did I? I thought so…

Mike recovered. "Yeah, there was a guy who said he saw a huge black bear right at the trailhead – bigger than a grizzly," he confirmed.

"Hmph." Lauren turned to Jessica, her shoulders stiff, and changed the subject. It was a little while later that I heard Lauren whisper loudly, "Oh joy. Bella's back."

Angela rolled her eyes at them, while Lily gave them a disapproving frown. I sighed. It was like I was starting all over again.

Suddenly, I began wondering what the date was. After asking Angela, she replied "It's January nineteenth. Why, what is it?

"It was a year ago yesterday that I had my first day here," I mused.

"Nothing's changed much" Angela muttered, looking back over at Jessica and Lauren.

"I know," I agreed. "I was just thinking the same thing."

This chapter is from New moon, Chapter 6 FRIENDS. I apologize for using so much of the original chapter, but it was important to getting the story moving.