Charlie was the first to come downstairs, he's surprised to see Kagome up and ready already with breakfast on the table.
"Good morning, Kagome, you're up early" Charlie says as he sits down at the table and Kagome places a plate of bacon and eggs in front of him.
"Yeah, I'm so excited about my first day of school, that I couldn't sleep anymore."
"Are you scared?" Bella asks as she came into the kitchen, she served herself some bacon and eggs and coffee and thanks Kagome.
"No, more nervous than anything else." Kagome tells her.
"Well, don't worry, Edward and I will be there and introduce you to the rest of his family when we get to school." Bella informs her.
Kagome gave her a stiff smile, she wasn't looking forward to meeting anymore demons, vampires, whatever. But she would at least be polite to Edward and his family. As long as they weren't a danger to her or her family she could tolerate them.
At 7:00 Bella and Kagome left the house and drive in Bella's truck to Forks High School. During Spring Break, Bella had taken Kagome so she could get her license and told her that she was welcome to use her truck whenever she wanted. But today they decided that Bella should drive them to school until Kagome learned the route.
Meanwhile:
The Cullens had pulled into the parking lot at Forks High School. Emmett got out Edward's Volvo and immediately started scanning the parking lot for any new faces. As he looked around he thought it was odd that they all came to school in his car instead of him picking up Bella.
"She's bringing her cousin to school today." Edward answered Emmett's silent question.
"I didn't know she had a cousin." Emmett says.
"Neither did I" Jasper adds.
"I did," Alice says with a smile.
Emmett and Jasper look at Alice and roll their eyes, of course she knew. Emmett went back to scanning the parking lot. He hears before he sees Bella's truck roaring into the parking lot, he chuckles at the sight of Bella driving that monstrosity. He watches as Bella parks her truck across the parking lot from them and she jumps out. Emmett notices that she talking to someone who he can only assume is her cousin.
The passenger side door opens and Emmett's mouth falls open at the sight of the beauty that gets out of the truck. She's a little thing no taller than 5' 2" with a curvaceous figure and well-toned thighs. She is fair skin with waist length raven black hair, he can tell from where he's at the she's of Asian descent but the most remarkable thing about her are her beautiful blue eyes. They sparkle like sapphires as she looks around. Emmett is instantly drawn to her, he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is his mate.
The minute they get closer to the school, Kagome could feel the demonic aura, four of them to be precise. After dealing with the vampire the other day, she could now tell that these auras were also coming from vampires. Kagome could only assume that it was Edward and his family. She thought it was odd that they were pretending to be humans and were attending high school. When Bella parked her truck, Kagome began to scan the parking lot for the demons.
'Vampires.' Kagome mentally corrected.
That was going to be a little difficult, there was no vampire folklore in Japan other than what was shown in the theatre about Dracula and such. So Kagome was in unfamiliar territory.
Bella and Kagome got out of the truck and Bella immediately started looking around for her boyfriend, once she spotted Edward she smiles. Walking to the other side of the truck she takes Kagome by the hand and starts dragging her towards the Cullens.
"Come on, Kagome, I'll introduce you to the rest of the Cullens."
Kagome drags her feet as they walk over towards the Cullens. Alice is practically bouncing on the balls of her feet waiting for them to get closer. Bella pulls Kagome along towards Edward who meets her half way, they hug and kiss and Edward puts his arm around Bella's waist. He then turns and smiles at Kagome.
"Good morning, Kagome, nice to see you again."
Kagome gives him a nervous laugh and smiles, "Nice to see you too, Edward."
Edward notices how nervous Kagome is, "Nervous about your first day of school?"
Kagome realizes she's acting weird and steels her nerves, "Just a little."
She wasn't about to give away that she was wary of these people. Bella and Edward walk arm in arm back towards the others while Kagome lags behind. Once they reach the group Alice is the first one to introduce herself.
"Hi, I'm Alice Cullen." She says with a big smile.
"Hello, I'm Kagome Higurashi."
Alice reaches for Jasper's hand and pulls him forward, "And this is my boyfriend."
Jasper offers his hand, "Jasper Hale, ma'am."
Kagome shakes his hand, "Kagome Higurashi."
Alice flitters over towards Emmett, who has yet to move, and tugs him towards Kagome. Kagome's eyes widen as a mountain of a man steps closer towards her, she can't help but take a step back. Her eyes slowly climb from his his incredibly muscular body up towards his beautiful face. He smirks and winks at her when she makes eye contact with his amber eyes, causing Kagome to blush.
"And this is my brother, Emmett Cullen."
"K-Kagome Higurashi." She stutters as she offers her hand.
Emmett smirk turns into a smile, he reaches out and takes Kagome's hand and brings it to his lips, kissing her knuckles.
"Nice to meet you, Kagome."
"Nice to meet you too, Emmett."
They stand and stare at each other for a few seconds until Jasper clears his throat, "So Kagome, what year are you?"
Kagome shakes her head and wrenches her eyes away from Emmett to look at Jasper, "Oh, I'm finishing up my last year here. As a matter of fact I should get going to the office to get my schedule."
"Oh, I'll show where it is." Emmett offers.
"No, that's okay, you stay with your family, it was nice meeting you all."
With that, Kagome makes her way inside the school. Emmett watches as she walks away, wanting desperately to go after her, but at the same time he doesn't want to scare her off.
"She seems nice." Alice says.
"Yeah she is."
"How are you two related, if you don't mind me asking." Jasper asks.
"Oh, well, her dad was my dad's older half brother, they had the same mom."
"Was?" Emmett asks.
"Yeah, he died in a car accident when Kagome was five."
Emmett's dead heart clenched for his mate, to be so young and to lose her father must have been terrible for her.
"That's so sad," Alice says with a frown.
They sat around the parking lot and talked a little more about Kagome, meanwhile Kagome sneezes as she makes her way towards the administrative building.
'Someone must be talking about me.' She thinks.
She walks into the administrative building where she sees a middle aged woman sitting behind a desk, Kagome clears her throat.
"Excuse me, this is my first day here."
Ms. Cope looks up from her computer and stares at Kagome for a minute then it dawns on her. "Oh, you must be Kagome Hi-gu-ra-shi, Chief Swan's niece" Ms. Cope says very slowly, "I hope I didn't butcher your last name."
"No, ma'am you said it right, just a little faster, Higurashi." Kagome explains with a smile.
"Higurashi," Ms. Cope repeats. "Well, Kagome, I'm Ms. Cope, I have your schedule, locker number, combination and a map of the school right here. Just have all of your teachers sign your schedule and bring it back at the end of the day."
"Thank you, Ms. Cope." Kagome says as she takes her schedule and walks out of the office. When she comes out of the office she bumps into a young man that happens to be walking by.
"Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going," Kagome says.
"That's okay, You're Kagome Higurashi, the new girl. Hi. I'm Eric. The eyes and ears of this place. Anything you need. Tour guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on."
Kagome smiles at Eric, "Thank you, Eric, I could use your help to find my locker."
"Sure, no problem, let me see your schedule and I'll see if we have any classes together."
Kagome hands her schedule over to Eric who looks it over very briefly, "It looks like we have three classes together, first period being one of them. Let's head over to your locker then to class."
Kagome agrees and follows Eric to her locker, a locker that just happens to be across the hall from the Cullens. Kagome waves at the Cullens as they get their books out of their lockers.
"You know the Cullens?" Eric asks.
"Um, yeah I just met them this morning, my cousin Bella is going out with Edward and she introduced me."
BELLA'S YOUR COUSIN?!" Eric yells. Everyone turns around and looks at them.
"Sorry, wow, I never would have guessed."
"Yep."
They left after that heading for their first class. Mr. Berty's English class. Kagome walks in and hand him her schedule.
"Ah, Miss Higurashi you can have a seat next to Miss. Weber, Miss Weber raise your hand." Mr. Berty says.
Angela raises her hand and smiles at Kagome, she smiles back and makes her way over to her and sits down.
"Hi I'm Angela."
"I'm Kagome."
"That's a really pretty name." Angela tells her.
"Thank you."
The class slowly begins to fill and a few seconds before the bell rings Bella, Edward and Emmett walk into the class. Emmett's face lights up when he sees Kagome, he smirks and takes a seat on the other side of Kagome.
"Hey, Doll Face." Emmett says in a flirty tone.
Instantly, Kagome's eyebrow starts twitching. She slowly turned to look at him, she was about to tell him something but the bell rings and class starts. For the rest of the class, Kagome stews in her anger as she listens to Emmett as he keeps whispering to her trying to get her attention.
"Hey, Cutie, Hey Doll Face." Emmett whispers.
The minute class was over, she stands up and turns around and pins Emmett with a deadly glare. Emmett only smiles at her.
"Look, my name is Kagome, not cutie, not doll face, or any other stupid nickname you can think of. It's Kagome, Ka-Go-Me. And if you want me to respond to you, Emmett, you better learn to use it. Got it?" She said and poked him in the chest with her index finger.
Kagome used a little of her spiritual powers so that she could give him a slight shock when she poked him, Emmett jumped slightly when her finger made contact with his chest.
And with that, Kagome marched out of the room with Angela following behind her Bella too rushes out the door after Kagome. For his part, Emmett sat in his chair dumbstruck. He was not expecting his little mate to be such a spit fire. He rubs his chest where she poked him and watches her walk out of the room. Edward comes up to him and pats him on the back.
"Smooth move, Emmett."
A smile creeps its way across Emmett's face, "Oh I like her, this is going to be fun."