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It seemed like I had just closed my eyes when the sound of Skillet's song Monster blared out from my left side. Yawning I reached over feeling for my phone and hit the snooze button giving myself five more minutes before my alarm went off again. I groaned but shut my alarm off and sat up in my bed, stretching before rubbing the sleep from my eyes and sliding out of my covers and sitting on the edge of my bed. For a second I was confused by my surroundings until I remembered that I was living in Forks, Washington with my dad and Bella because Renee wanted to travel with Phil. That realization gave me a boost of energy and I went to my closet and after a few seconds pulled on a black leather mini-skort and pared it with a pair of silk black thigh high stockings that tied around my thighs with a sparkling silver and green bow leaving two inches of my pale white skin to be seen and showing the five small white and pink Sakura blossom's tattoo that were connected with a thin dark brown branch that formed a small circle and became the center of the small dream catcher tattoo on my right thigh the three small feathers were covered by the stockings.

I paired that with an emerald tank-top, which I covered with a black mid-riff baring long sleeve shirt that nearly fell off my shoulders and formed my chest nicely as it hugged my body the elastic in the bottom of it causing it to stay put. It bore the quote 'I would love to insult you but I'm afraid I won't do nearly as good as nature did,' in sparkly silver letters. I debated for a minute on what shoes to wear before settling on the ORION black skeletal stilettos I had bought in Tokyo in preparation for the club we had went to in order to celebrate our last day in Tokyo. "What a night that was." I muttered with a smile as I thought about the guy that I had danced with and ended the night by making out with. Shaking myself out of those thoughts I acknowledged that by wearing the stilettos I would have to think twice before getting into a fight which I wanted to avoid, at least for the first day, "After all I only get to make this first impression once not to mention the bet Bells and I made." I thought.

I made sure to grab a pair of black sneakers and put them into my black and green backpack just in case I decided to go for a run. I used some black mascara to show off my full eye-lashes and used some silver and green eye-shadow blending it together and using a black eye-liner I did a double winged tip to bring attention to my deep blue eyes that looked violet in certain lightings. I used a simple silver lipstick and changed my vertical labret piercing to one that had a green clover on the top and a simple green barbell on the bottom.

I nodded to the mirror and realized I had forgotten my hair, I grabbed my brush and after several brushes I was done. Nodding to the mirror again I grabbed my black leather coat from my wardrobe and my book-bag which I stuffed my un-used notebooks and several loose pens into. I shoved my iPod and head-phones into one of the zippered front pockets of my backpack and un-plugged my now full charged phone and after setting it to silence I put it into the side pocket of my backpack and I walked downstairs carrying my stilettos and setting them and my backpack by the front door before heading into the kitchen.

I grabbed a chocolate chip cookie dough protein bar and a cup of black coffee. I wolfed that down and thought I was ready to go when I realized I had forgotten to put on deodorant or my Ed Hardy Skull and Rose's perfume. I rushed upstairs and put on my deodorant and perfume and stopped by the bathroom to rinse with the mouthwash, floss and finally brush my teeth before zooming back downstairs and putting my stilettos on and picking up my backpack and jacket just as Bella started the truck.

I tossed my backpack onto the floor on the passenger side and quickly pulled on my jacket and zipped it up as I slid onto the cold leather truck seat. After pulling on my seatbelt, which I had learned was a necessary thing with Bella driving, I pulled out my iPod and put in my headphones. Neither Bella nor I were talkers in the morning and we would rather spend our first hour or two as we wanted my way was to listen and sing along to various artists. As we drove along I put my forehead against the glass and hummed along with some of the songs that played. When we finally got to the High-School I pulled out my left ear-bud and we exchanged a knowing glance before I slid out of the passenger side while Bella slid out of the driver's side.

We walked side-by-side ignoring the whistles and the sarcastic comment someone tossed out about our truck. As Bella held up the paper for both of us to try and figure out where to go a friendly Asian guy started talking to us, "Your Isabella and Gemma Swan right? The new girls, hi I'm Eric, the eyes and ears of this place. Anything you two need a tour guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on." He said. I gave Bella a look which she interpreted correctly and spoke up for both of us, "We're both really more of 'Suffer in silence' type."

"Good headline for the feature. I'm on the paper and you two are news. Front page baby." Eric said happily as he walked along side of Bella and I. I felt my eyes widen and saw Bella's eyes do the same, she immediately spoke up strongly, "No we're not. Um…I mean.. please don't have any-" Here Eric spoke up, "Whoa, whoa chillax. No feature." He said with a smile and a shrug to which Bella smiled and thanked him while I let out a small sigh of relief. Finally making it inside of the High-School we went and got our schedules and groaned in disappointment after comparing them and finding out we only had English our first period and Trigonometry our third period together. As it turned out Eric had the same first period as Bella and I so he showed us the way to class. Thankfully Bella and I got to sit beside each other in English which was nice and then we headed separate ways, she to Government and myself to Spanish Class.

I took off my leather jacket and shoved it into my backpack along with my iPod which I had forgotten to shut off and put away during English class so Bella and I had listened to it while pretending to be catching up on the lesson. I swung my backpack onto my right shoulder as I rounded a turn and slammed into what I could have sworn was a concrete wall causing me to fall backwards. I stopped myself with my hands my butt just an inch off of the ground, my backpack thankfully off the ground so my phone which was still in the side pocket wasn't in danger of being broke. I glanced upward and found a beautiful smirking blonde girl, I knew immediately we were not going to get along, "Aw you poor thing, did you just fall?" She asked her voice purposefully louder than necessary to get any kid not paying attention to pay attention. As I stood up brushing off my hands I answered her deadpan, "No. I decided to launch a surprise attack on the floor." A beautiful brunet pixie looking girl and a tall handsome honey blonde male had come up beside the blonde girl and had heard my reply to which the honey blonde girl tried to get the final word in, "Backwards?" She asked with a raised eyebrow, I smirked at her, "I'm freaking talented." I replied before brushing past her, not giving another thought to the three of them as I tried to find my way to my Spanish class.

I got directions and a date invitation from the guy I asked help from. I turned down the date, the guy seemed like a jerk wad to those who fell 'beneath him' but thankfully the directions I had gotten were accurate causing me to walk into my Spanish classroom before the bell rang. The teacher, Mrs. Goff said I could grab any seat as my arrival had caused her to change the seating assignments. I chose a seat in the back nearest to the open window as someone was cutting the grass outside and I loved the smell of freshly cut grass. I set my backpack at my feet and pulled out one of the two notebooks that was still un-used and wrote in bold letters, Spanish 101. "День мертвых ... сегодня." (Russian online translation suppose to mean =Spanish 101. "The day of the dead…is today.")

I drew a skeleton face-mask with black, orange and blue pens on the white note-book cover as I waited for the class to start. The bell rang bringing me out of my drawing which was coming along nicely just needing a few extra touches to be completed in my opinion. I looked up to see a familiar looking handsome honey-blonde male and beautiful brunet pixie girl come into the classroom which I found almost completely full to my surprise. The only two seats that were open was the one beside me and one beside a nervous mousy looking girl. The blonde guy and pixie exchanged glances before the pixie went to sit next to the other girl and the guy slowly came to sit next to me. At first it seemed like he was barely breathing and he was sitting up straight as a statue so I poked him gently but firmly with my left elbow and whispered, "Relax hon, I don't go for guy's that are taken."

My words seemed to help him a relax a little and by the end of the Spanish class we had exchanged names, his being Jasper Hale and twin brother to the honey blonde from earlier, Rosalie, whom he apologized for, we learned we both played guitar, and actually enjoyed some of the same bands. By the time Spanish class was over I felt like I had a new friend and that learning Spanish wouldn't be as hard as I had thought. All in all my life was good especially since I had my next class which was Trigonometry with Bella. Jasper gave me the directions before he and the pixie left the classroom together so I easily found the right classroom and after greeting the teacher, Mr. Varner and getting yet another book to weigh down my backpack he pointed me to a seat near the back and Bella who had just walked in asked if she could sit next to me and to our joy he agreed.

We didn't get to talk much as I had a horrible time with Trigonometry and had only passed so far because two of my friends in Phoenix were math geeks to the highest degree and enjoyed teaching me it every-time I needed help. And Bella had to pay attention in class in order to pass herself so my third notebook was solely devoted to Trig which would have left me with a problem if I wasn't an A+ student in Biology and a solid B student in Government. After the bell rang we promised to meet up at lunch and went our separate ways, me to Biology 2 and Bella to Spanish.

I walked through the classroom doorway just as the bell rang so I was once again introduced in front of the classroom and as I scanned it I found to my annoyance that Rosalie, Jasper's twin sister was in class with me. Thankfully she already had a partner, a buff jock looking guy who didn't have the typical creepy jock-stare so I decided to reserve writing him off yet. My partner turned out to be a shy nerdy looking boy who I had no doubt spent more time with computers and animals then other people. I could tell he was just waiting for me to make fun of him and or shove the entire project onto him so I decided the project could wait and I introduced myself. "I'm Gemma, what's your name?"

His name was Horus, I could see him wince out of the corner of my eye as he readied himself for an insult, "After the Egyptian sky god? That's cool." I told him as I put the required amount of drops into the beaker before turning on the burner. And so by the end of Biology 2 I had made another new friend and I couldn't help but think I was probably the first friend of the opposite sex that he had made who wasn't planning on using him to pass Biology when his eyes widened dramatically as I spoke knowledgably about the project and different formula's we were using.

After finding my locker and pulling out my iPod and head-phones and putting them into the front pocket of my mini leather skort I headed towards the lunch-room and perused the lunch-line. Finally deciding on a salad loaded with ranch-dressing and an apple as well as a cup of chocolate pudding and a water bottle to wash it all down with. Bella had been three people behind me in the lunch line so I waited for her while looking for an empty table when Bella tapped me on the arm meaning for me to follow her which I did.

This jock looking guy holding three sodas was walking in front leading us to a table where Eric was sitting with two girls. I sat down right next to Bella making the jock looking guy have to sit next to me instead of Bella. After giving me a hidden but grateful look, "Hey Mikey I see you met my home-girls." Eric said. "Oh, your home-girls?"The guy who I now identified as Mike replied and I could feel Bella getting agitated with all of the attention on us then another guy came up in between us and bussed us both on the cheeks while saying, "My home-girls." And pulled Mike's chair out from underneath of him before running off, Mike took off chasing him. I felt my iPod slip out of my pocket and reached down and caught it before it hit the floor slipping it into my lap and looking up just in time to catch Eric say harshly, "Feature's dead Angela, don't bring it up again." Before he left the table in a huff like state which made me thing, "Drama king."

I went ahead and dug into my food not paying much attention to the conversation or the happenings that were going on around me until I heard Bella ask, "Who are they." I looked up while chewing the last bite of my apple which I had decided to eat last and found my gaze following Bella's to the window and door to the lunch-room that led outside. Angela was the one who replied to Bella's question, "Their the Cullen's." The girl who from earlier in my half-paying attention state I identified as Jessica took it from there, "Their Doctor and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids. They moved down here from Alaska, like a few years ago."

"They kind of keep to themselves." Angela said sharing a look with Jessica. Jessica took it up again, "Yeah cause their all together. Like together - together. The blonde girl, that's Rosalie and the big dark-haired guy that's Emmett, their like a thing. I'm not even sure that's legal." Jessica said however I was only paying half-attention to her now as I noticed the amused look that Rosalie and Emmett had shared as Jessica had described them it was almost like they had over-heard her hushed voice. I came back fully to the conversation when I saw the pixie come in through the door beside Jasper. "…the little dark-haired girls name is Alice, she's really weird. And she's with Jasper the blonde guy who looks like he's in pain." As Jessica finished her description of Jasper I saw him glance in my direction and gave him a small smile and head nod which no-one at my table saw but him. He gave me a small smile in return before his gaze turned away and I tuned back into the conversation as Bella spoke up again. "Who's he?"

"That's Edward Cullen. He's totally gorgeous, obviously, but apparently nobody here is good enough for him." Jessica said. I observed the smirk like smile that he gave as Jessica said that and knew that somehow he had to have over-heard what Jessica had said and more than likely Jessica had thrown herself at him and gotten rejected from her actions and tone. Deciding I had had enough of this waste of time since I obviously wasn't going to be able to talk to Bella about anything that I didn't want gossiped around before the day's end, I tapped Bella's wrist with my left index finger, my signal for *I'm leaving,* before standing up and taking my tray to the trash can.

After tossing the apple core, Styrofoam plate, plastic fork and spoon and empty water bottle away and then sliding my empty tray on-top of the stack of other empty tray's before leaving the lunch room and heading outside putting in my iPod ear-buds before I pulled out mu iPod and scrolled through the songs as I walked away from everyone and closer to the woods knowing I still had ten minutes left for lunch. Once I got far enough away to where I knew no one would hear me if I started to sing out-loud, I lean against a large tree as I listened to my iPod.

After a few minutes I heard the first bell and with a sigh made my way back into school stopping at my locker and putting my iPod and head-set away and changing out my ORION skeletal stilettos for the sneakers which I had put into my backpack before making my way to the gym. When I entered I found myself with a companion almost immediately it was Jasper. He didn't say anything but he stayed close to me. I started looking around for Alice but was save the trouble when Jasper spoke, "We don't have this class together." I gave him the 'O' look of understanding. I was a little disappointed when Coach Clapp said he had something else to do so he let us do whatever we wanted.

Since Jasper was apparently going to hang out with me and from my brief observation didn't like being around large groups of people I walked up the bleachers and sat away from everyone else so he would feel comfortable. I was only a little surprised when he finally spoke up, asking me what I had written on my Spanish notebook and what language it had been. "It was Russian and it said 'The day of the dead…is today." I replied with an easy smile. We slipped into a long conversation about different languages and the different cultures and myths that were connected to the languages. When he found out that I was self-learning Latin he offered to teach me as he had learned it a few years ago. I could see the surprise I felt at his offer reflected in his eyes but I grinned and agreed saying, "As long as Alice didn't feel like I was trying to worm my way in between you two I would love the help." We exchanged cell-phone numbers before we left Gym class and I knew that we were definitely friends now.

Thankfully my last class which was Government by Mr. Jefferson passed by quickly and soon the final bell rang. "I'm FREEEEEEE! We is coming precious we is coming!" I thought with a snicker as I hurried to my locker and pulled my backpack onto my left shoulder and grabbing my stilettos with my right hand before skipping happily to where I knew our truck was parked. I had gotten through the first day looking like a sexy vixen and acting cool, and now with the first impressions over and having gotten through the day without a physical fight I had won the bet and could be myself.

Humming happily to myself I reached our truck and not seeing Bella, I hopped up onto the hood of our truck and pulled out my cell-phone and in-put Jasper's number and checked my missed texts. I was surprised when I saw a message from the guy I had made out with the last day I had been in Tokyo. My first thought was that if it wasn't important enough for him to call me and leave a message it wasn't something I should call back for. Then I saw the number of missed calls and realized that my voice box was full so he couldn't leave me a message. Having nothing else to do and since the other voice-mails were from my friends I called him back.

"Lin o kon'nichiwa, watashi wa anata no messēji o uketorimashita." I said as soon as I heard the greeting on the other end. (English translations got online: Hello Lin I recieved your message. )

"Watashi wa watashi no sakuhin ni kyōmi ga atta koto o mi ninshiki shite imashita." I replied surprised. (I was un-aware that there was any interest in my piece.)

"Doyōbi no ka, nichiyōbi no watashi no tame ni saizen odeshou." I said when he asked me which day's would work for me. (Saturday's or Sunday's would be best for me.)

" Watashi wa genzai, watashinochichi to futago no imōto to fōku no Washinton ni kyojū shite imasu." I replied. (I am currently residing in Fork's Washington with my father and twin sister.)

"Jā mata aou anata ni Lin o arigatōgozaimasu. Sayōnara." I said before ending the call. (I will, see you then. Thank you Lin. Goodbye.)

"Gem?" I heard Bella say, I could hear the un-spoken question in her tone and I opened my mouth to tell her the good news when I decided to wait until I had the check in my hands so I could surprise her with a weekend of shopping. So I turned to her with a huge smile, "It's a secret!" I replied hopping off of the hood of the truck and pulling my backpack down off. I drove us home and as I drove Bella told me about how Edward had acted in Biology and how she had found him trying to switch out of that class which upset me as much as it upset her and we exchanged some colorful descriptions of what we thought of his actions and him.

When we got home I made sure to high-light the fact that I hadn't gotten into a fight and Bella reluctantly agreed to honor our deal to which I couldn't hold back an evil sounding laugh. That night Renee called Bella and before Bella could enter me into the conversation I grabbed my PJ's and all but ran to the bathroom shutting and locking the door behind me. Renee and I, well, we had our problems with each other and I really didn't want to have to talk to her.