Hello. Am I back? Yes...ish. This chapter is SOOOOOO long. Ugh. Please don't be mad at me. Its a two for one. Thank me later. Idk what really to say so uhhh enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Twilight or Harry Potter. I only own the grammar errors and Alexia and Peter. I swear English is my first language.
"Alex! Bells! I've missed you two. Here, let me get your things." Dad said while taking our bags and putting them in the trunk and then opened the door for Bella and me. I was in the back of the police cruiser and looked at dad smiling as Bella got in the front seat.
"You two haven't changed much. How's your mom doing?"
"Mom's fine. Its good to see you Dad." Bella said aloud she then looked at me and I glared.
"Are you guys fighting again?" Dad asked. I looked at the rearview mirror and saw dad eyeing me. I grabbed my ruined sketch and showed him. He looked at Bella. "Did you ruin her drawing?"
"It's not like I meant too. I didn't actively set out to ruin it. I just tried to get her attention, but I accidently made her drop it on the plane. No big deal." I watched Bella shrugged. She turned around to look at me. If death glares could kill, then she would definitely be dead.
"I found a good car for you two, really cheap," Dad announced while he started the car.
"What kind of car?" I heard Bella ask. I knew that she was suspicious. I poked into her head. 'Why did he say good car for us as to oppose to just a good car?' Bella thought and I chuckled a little to myself.
"Well, it's a truck actually, a Chevy." Dad said while keeping his eyes on the road. 'I really hope they like it.' I could hear.
"Where did you find it?" Bella asked with a conflicting look on her face.
"Do you remember Billy Black down at La Push?" La Push is the tiny Indian reservation on the coast.
"No."
"He used to go fishing with us during the summer," Dad prompted.
'That would explain why I didn't remember him. I try to forget painful, unnecessary things from my memory.' I heard Bella think. I looked at her and rolled my eyes then looked at our dad.
"He's in a wheelchair now," Dad continued when Bella didn't respond, "so he can't drive anymore, and he offered to sell me his truck cheap."
"It will be here tomorrow." Dad said.
Once we got home, I waited till Dad opened the door while Bella opened the trunk to get her bags. I walked over and grabbed my bags and walked to the front door and waited on dad to unlock the door. Dad let us go in and I went to my room that was across from Bella's room. I had a secrete cubby that I would go into to draw. I took my phone out and texted Phil saying that we made it safely. I put my bags on my bed and looked around the old room. I smiled when I saw that nothing had really changed. I had always had a full-sized bed and went into my hidden cubby. It was covered in realist drawings. One boy had circle glasses with a scar. I remember drawing this unknown boy, I had made a point to color his eyes. They were green. I was always good at drawing people. I looked at walls and saw another boy with silvery-blond hair, grey eyes and he was dressed in a black suite. A forgotten memory perhaps, whatever it was, I felt at home. I knew that I was different from the rest, if I thought hard enough then I could read someone's thoughts. Snakes could understand me. I used to have nightmares that a huge snake had frozen me somehow. Nightmares of a bald man who was 71 years old. Remember us Alexia, please.
I crawled out and walked to my bag to get my sketchbook and pencils. I looked back towards my little hide out and then walked to my bookshelf to look for a curtain book, but instead I saw a ring that looked to big for me. The ring had a gold band with an emerald on top. The ring was familiar to me somehow. There was a letter under it. I picked it up and opened it:
"Alexia,
I am writing you to tell you that everyone wishes you a Happy Late Birthday. I don't know when your other birthday is, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I had to force Hermione to tell me where you were so that I could send this.
-Harry"
I put the ring on my middle finger on my right hand and as if by magic it formed to my finger. I looked at it and smiled.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and jumped. I turned around and saw Bella behind me. "I'm sorry for scaring you. W-Why is there smoke?!" Bella yelled and I looked forward to see that there was in fact smoke in front of me. I looked back at her and shrugged. The note was gone. Bella walked out of my room as my stomach growled.
I walked out of my room and to the kitchen to see my dad fixing a sandwich. He looks over at me and smiles at me then he sees my neck and his smile fell. I walk to him and grab a bowl and some cereal. I pour it in the bowl and then get the milk to pour it in.
"Does it hurt?" I heard him say. I shrug my shoulder and went to grab a spoon. I went back to my room to eat.
After a few minutes later I was in my little compartment staring at the boy with round glasses with the scar. Who was he? Why am I remembering things that I have no memory of? My birthday? Its in September. Other Birthday? What other birthday? December. I got up and started unpacking. I'll just wait and see if any of these "memories" come back. I cleared my head and took a deep breath. I put my clothes up and more books. I pulled out my makeup bag and bathroom stuff.
"Oh yeah, one bathroom. I'll just keep everything in my room and my toothbrush in the bathroom." I mouthed to myself.
I went to put my toothbrush up when I ran into Bella doing the same thing. I looked at her and then went to the bathroom to put it up. She was still in the hallway bringing her stuff into her room. I looked into her mind and she wasn't really happy to be here. But Dad was over the moon.
My thoughts were interrupted by my dad's voice, "Alex? Where are you?" I turned my head to see him coming up the stairs. "There you are. I got you and Bells something. Come on. It came early." Dad motioned me out of the door and went to go get Bella. "The truck was dropped off." he said walking downstairs. I could tell that he was excited.
Glad that at least someone likes it. I heard Bella think. I glared. I walked up to him and hugged him.
I remember Jacob and I would Skype each other when he was trying to fix his older sister's toy cars. I knew he was going to be a good mechanic. I smiled cause I knew that he did this.
I shot his a text saying 'Thanks for the truck. :) '
After that we back into the house and dad pulled me aside, "Look, I'm going to be honest, the school here is different from what your used to in Arizona. We don't have a translator for you and I can't promise that you and Bella will be in the same classes. But the Cullen kids know some sign language, I asked their father. He also said that his son, Peter will most likely be in all your classes. So if you need any help just ask him. Now that I think about it. He would be your twin. All that's different is his birthday." Dad chuckled and I looked at him confused.
"How can he look like me?" I whispered.
"Your eyes are the same. Identical even." Dad muttered the last two words to himself but I heard him.
"So does that mean that I don't have to be around her all the time?" I heard Bella ask from behind me. Her voice sounded excited. I rolled my eyes. Dad nodded.
Forks High School had about three hundred and fifty-seven, well fifty-nine students. Smaller town, fewer people. I was happy. I don't really like crowds too much, but since Bella and I were new to the school, I was prepared.
Maybe, if I looked like a girl from Phoenix should, I could work this to my advantage. People might think I'm a freak. I head Bella's thoughts.
You see, I know that she's self-conscious about how she looks. She is a beautiful human being. We were both pale but that was about all we had in common. While she had chocolate brown eyes and hair, I had black hair and pale blue eyes. I was smarter and shorter than Bella standing roughly at 5'4, while I was four inches shorter.
I went upstairs to take a shower and hea0rd some footsteps behind me. I looked behind me and saw Bella.
"Could I take the first shower?" She asked and I nod my head. I then went to my room to pick my clothes out for tomorrow.
I had picked out a deep red long sleeve with a v neckline and a high low hem and some dark denim skinny jeans. My shoes would be black ankle booties. I might wear a black scarf to hide the scar on my neck or just my choker. It was the reason why I couldn't talk. I set an alarm for 3:30AM on my Blackberry and a few more alarms. I plugged up my phone and iPod so they would be ready for tomorrow morning. I put my packed bookbag at the foot of my bed where I had put my boots for tomorrow.
I woke up with a start. A nightmare. I felt a slight burn on my left forearm. I checked the time on my phone and saw that it was 3 o'clock. Might as well get ready for the day. I got up and turned off the alarm I had set, and headed to the bathroom. I took a quick shower and then I blow dried my hair in the bathroom. Good thing that Bella and Dad were heavy sleepers. I put some anti-heat damage spray in my hair and then began straightening my hair, parting my hair on the right side. I looked at myself in the mirror. I stared at my scar then went to my room and put on some light make up. The time was now 4:30 AM, I took my time getting dressed. Bella knocked on my door.
"Hey, I was just wondering if you wanted me to fix you anything?" Bella asked popping her head in my room still in her PJs, she must have just woken up. I thought for a moment before signing; "You know that Dad will want meat, right? Would you want me to do that part?" I giggled while she nodded.
I brought my things downstairs and started making the coffee. The doctor had told he that whenever my throat started hurting that I should drink hot tea. It was a little aggravated. I looked for some herbal tea, but I couldn't find any. Dang. I started fixing toast and bacon. The coffee maker beeped, and I heard Bella move around in her room and I heard my dad's hard footsteps go towards the bathroom.
I fixed a plate of toast and bacon and put some coffee in a travel cup for him to take to work. Just toast with Nutella with apple wedges on the side with a cup of coffee for Bella. Toast and bacon with orange juice for me. I fixed a travel cup of coffee for later.
"Charlie liked the food. He got called into work early," Bella paused looking at me. She was eyeing my choker. I walked over to my things and picked up my scarf to put it around my neck as well.
"It's too cold outside. I'll bring it just in case." I signed to her. I started eating my toast and bacon when I looked at the time. Shit.
"We need to go. I already cleaned up." I looked around the kitchen and it was indeed cleaned. I put the remaining piece of bacon in my mouth and put my plate in the sink. I heard it raining outside and saw Bella ready to go. I put on my booties on and grabbed my things. We walked out of the house while Bella locked up the house. I waited for her to be done and walked behind her. As I heard the thunder roll, I noticed Bella loosing her footing. I held on to her arm.
"Thanks." She muttered. I walked to the passenger side of the truck and got in.
I already knew that when Bella drove it was going to be a quiet ride. She liked to focus on nothing but the road. Which was fine, don't get me wrong, and I know that I'm not the best travel companion. I got my iPod out and earbuds and put my music on shuffle.
The drive wasn't too bad. Once Bella parked and we got out, I pulled out an earbud to hear a comment on the truck. I looked over to see a jock looking guy, I then hear Bella mutter a thanks and we continued to walk to the side door.
Once inside, we made our way to the office by following the signs in the hallway. I put my earbud back in as we entered the office. I could hear the faint sound of my sister and the woman at the front desk talking. I saw her hand us a map and our schedule. I take out my earbuds and turn off my iPod to put it back in my bag as we walk out of the office and looked at my schedule, then at Bella's. We only had two periods that was different.
"Will you be ok alone for those two classes?" Bella asks silently to me as we both look at the map to head to English. I nod. On the outside I am calm and collected, but on the inside I am absolutely freaking out. Bella has other things to worry about.
Then out of nowhere, "You're Isabella and Alexandria, the new girls. Hi, I'm Eric, the eyes and ears of this place. Um," he paused for a second, "anything you need tour guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on?" This Eric guy was all smiles with his pearly white teeth. He was walking beside Bella.
"Uhh." Bella paused looking at me, I sent her the best fake smile I could muster and nudged her lightly as if telling her to go on. "We really just kind of stick to ourselves." Bella continued. I knew that she hated attention from strangers but since we were in fact the new kids, that made us targets for both the good and the bad types of attention.
"That would make a great headline for the feature. I'm on the paper and you both are news, baby, front page." That's why he was the quote. 'eyes and ears' of the school. Should have known. I rolled my eyes.
Bella stopped. "No we're not." I could hear the slight panic in her voice. I hoped this Eric guy could too. Eric looked at her with a smile on his face. That was starting to get creepy. "Please don't have a fea-"
"Woah woah woah cillax, no feature." He said shrugging his shoulders as if it was nothing. He must be the one that runs it.
"Thanks." Bella mumbled and Eric nodded his head.
After that, turns out that the guy was in our first period, so he offered to walk us there. English was normally one of my favorite subjects, but Eric had taken the only seat beside Bella so that left me sitting two places up from her right. Great. I was beside a boy that had black hair and had blueish green eyes. He was pale. From a distance, he kind of looked like me. Peter. I thought to myself and the boy looked at me with widen eyes. Peter did look like my twin. Government was the same deal although a guy named Mike tried to talk to me but I sat next to the look alike boy. He was smiling. I had figured out that his name was Peter. Mike had kept on staring and his thoughts would make anyone uncomfortable. I cringed. That caught Peter's attention.
"Hey, you're Alexandria, right?" I nodded. "I'm Mike Newton." I nod again and then looked at Peter. He was looking out the window. "You don't talk much, do you?" I looked back at him and he had a creepy smile on his face. I bet I could make you scream. I heard his disgusting thoughts. I scooted closer to Peter and I saw him now looking at Mike and so was Bella.
"Well, you see, I would talk but," I hid my hands from Bella. "I don't want to talk to a creepy jock." I signed and smiled at Mike.
"She can't talk. She's mute." Bella said to the creep. He nodded his head but now he had a smirk on his face as he looked forward. Bella then looked back at me.
"Don't EVER leave me alone with him." I signed to her and she looked confused at that but nodded anyway. The rest of the class went by smoothly after that.
The bell rang signaling that Trigonometry was next. Bella and I looked at our map for this one. Why does this school have so many buildings? After a few minutes, we finally found the classroom. I looked at Mr. Varner with an apologetic look. We got our books and this time; I could sit beside Bella in this class. Peter was also here. Bella sat beside a girl that I heard her introduce herself as Jessica.
While Jessica and Bella talked, I paid attention to class. Halfway through I heard Jessica mutter, "What's wrong with your sister? Is she shy?" I looked at her and when our eyes met, she averted her eyes from mine. Bella looked at me.
"She was in a freak accident when we were younger and lost her voice. A knife nicked her vocals." Bella said. Jessica looked shocked to say the least. Then her face morphed to a guilty look. I sighed and forced my attention to book that was opened on my desk. I saw something landed on my desk. It was a note! I opened it up and read.
"Mike is a creep. I guess you could hear his thoughts too?"
I looked around panicked. Someone knew that I could read minds. I tried to focus but I couldn't. Before I knew it, it was time for Gym class. Great. I groaned as I packed up my things and put them in my locker that was placed near my Biology class. I put away the heavy books and made my way to Gym. Once I got there I saw Coach Clapp standing there with a pixielike girl, she was thin. Very thin. Her hair was a deep black, chopped short and pointing in every direction. She was already in her Gym uniform. Shorts and a gray t-shirt. She was holding a spare gym uniform, I guess for me. She spotted me and gracefully walked over towards me.
"Hi, I'm Alice. Coach Clapp wants me to show you where everything is. Come on." She signed as she smiled at me. I looked at her as she dragged me to what I could only guess was the girls dressing room. I could tell that her touch on me was gentle, as if she didn't want to break my wrist.
Alice stopped near a locker that was near the middle of the room. People were staring at us. She really was like an energetic pixie. "This is your locker for your clothes. Or we can share a locker. Up to you. There hasn't been any thefts this year. This is my combination." She handed me the gym clothes with a piece of paper.
I set the clothes down on a bench that was near the lockers and looked at her. "I didn't bring any other shoes." I signed at her. She smiled again and took out a pair of extra of tennis shoes that were all black.
"I'll be outside the locker room when you're done." She explained while setting down the shoes near the clothes.
I watched her leave and looked around the room. It was empty except for a few girls who were still changing. I took off my scarf and looked for my choker. Here it is! I quickly got dressed and put on the shoes expecting them to be a size too big but was surprised when they fit perfectly. Odd. I pulled my hair up in a ponytail. I then put my things in Alice's locker. I'll have to ask Bella if we could stop by the hardware store later after school.
I walked out of the locker room to find Alice talking to some guy and Peter. He was beautiful to say the least. He looked like some Greek God. He had messy hair that looked like a bronzy color. He was pale like Alice but way taller. His eyes were a deep black. He looked at me with those dark eyes making me jump. He looked surprised When he saw me Alice looked as though she was zoned out. I walked over to her and slowly touched her shoulder.
I was in a house that I didn't recognized. "What do you mean She's remembering?" a tall blond said. I looked around and went around the corner. I was drawn to a room, no office. There was books from every era and one book that caught my eye.. I picked it up and read the Title. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I put it back and went back to where everyone was.
"Yes, she's remembering. Its Peter's fault!" The Greek God said.
"She's my mother! You think that I could help myself even once?! I haven't seen her since she sent me here!" Peter yelled. Alice folded her arms in thought. The tall blond one huffed.
"Stay away from her Peter! She's 17 and he has no memory of you even-
I let go of Alice and blinked. The boyish Greek God was watching my movements then I saw his eyes flashed to my neck. I paused. I looked at Alice to see her looking at me. Her smile had returned, and she then held my hand. I saw Peter approaching cautiously from the corner of my eye.
"Come on Alexia." Alice said and I nodded. That name… I stopped and looked ahead.
' "Hello, we haven't been introduced. My name is Alexia, Alexia Riddle." I heard a voice. I saw a hand reach out reached to a boy with shaggy brown hair and circle glasses. "You saved me in the Chamber of Secrets."
"Harry, Harry Potter." He said taking my hand to shake.'
"Alex?" I heard Alice's voice. I looked at her but I couldn't say anything. My body was paralyzed. I then saw Peter rushing over to me. I saw black.
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Thanks for reading.
-Ali :)