Chapter 2

"Ah, you must be April Swan." My teacher exclaims as I enter the classroom. "Welcome, I'm Miss Reeves."

I look around and see that most other students seem to have arrived, and they were all now silently observing me as I shake the teacher's hand. "Hi." I say simply, hoping I'm not made to introduce myself. Of course, just my luck, that's exactly what I'm made to do.

"Why don't you tell us a fun fact or something?" Miss Reeves suggests.

I sigh and turn to the class, "Hello, my name is April. Fun fact about me is my dad is Chief of Police." I shrug and turn to the teacher for her approval of my brief introduction.

She seems satisfied, "Alright, wonderful. Go and take a seat at the back next to Emmett."

I look towards the back of the room and easily find my assigned seat. The only free seat is next to the buffest guy I have ever seen. If I were into men, I'd definitely swoon.

I take my seat and am unable to interact with my new classmate due to Miss Reeves immediately giving a presentation. However, half way through the class, we are made to do independent work, and it seems Emmett is eager to get to know me as well.

"Chief of Police, eh? You said that to scare aware all of the guys in class didn't you?" Emmett asked, turning to face me.

I smirk at him, "Very perceptive of you."

"Well, I'm Emmett Cullen." He chuckles gives a mock salute.

"Charmed." I say with a soft smile, "You're Carlisle's son?"

He seemed surprised, "Adopted son," He corrects politely, "how'd you know?"

"When I was visiting my dad last summer I fell and hit my head on a wall. Your dad treated me."

"Ah, then you were his first patient here. He came home from work very amused at some of the things you said." Emmett smirked.

My face began to heat up as I remembered the video my dad had made me watch a few days after the fall, "Hey, it wasn't me talking, it was the drugs."

"Sure, so you aren't strangely attracted to Hades from Hercules?" He challenges.

"Certainly not, Meg all the way." I retaliate, standing my ground.

This conversation is proceeded by a minute long staring competition (which I lost) before we both burst into laughter.

"I agree," Emmett said after we'd calmed down, "Meg's a babe."

My next two classes dragged on, both being subjects I had very little interest in - chemistry and geography. However, my mood immediately brightened when I saw Emmett stood outside my last class.

"Hey," I say with a smile, approaching his locker.

He turns to me and grins, "Hey, you just had geography?"

I roll my eyes, "Unfortunately," I lean against the locker next to his, "What a stupid excuse for a class. I nearly smashed my head against the desk."

He smirked, "You wouldn't want to do that. I'm sure the last thing you want is to crack your head open again and have to see Carlisle. God knows what stupid things you'll blurt out this time."

I glare at him, "Oh dear God. I shouldn't have told you, this is going to be used as blackmail material." He let out a jokingly sinister laugh and closed his locker before someone clearing their throat made us both turn. We were met by two gorgeous girls and a boy almost as handsome as Emmett. One of the girls is quite a bit taller, with gorgeous long, blonde hair. I was really struggling to take my eyes off her.

"Who's this?" The shorter of the two girls asked, skipping over to us with a smile.

Emmett began to speak "This is-"

"April." I interrupted, holding my hand out for the girl to shake, which she did.

"One of the new girls, right? I'm Alice."

"Yeah, one of the new girls." I say softly.

"Well, this is Jasper." She gestures towards the boy, who slightly nods his head in my direction, "and Rosalie." She says, something about her tone seemed to say that she was expecting something to happen after she said this.

I looked towards Rosalie and offered her a smile and a shy wave, slightly intimidated by her beauty as she looked into my eyes. It felt like she was staring straight into my soul. She narrowed her eyes slightly before offering my a small, almost unnoticeable smile. Emmett looked at Rosalie as if she'd grown two heads. Clearly, Rosalie wasn't usually the friendliest of people. I can soon change that.

I turn to Emmett, "Well I'd better go and find Bella before she does something questionable."

He nods, "Is she often doing questionable things."

I let out a laugh, "She's clumsy and awkward, and I can't have her showcasing that on her first day here. I'll see you in gym, I guess?"

"Yup." He replies, and I turn to go, sparing a quick glance at Rosalie, who hasn't stopped looking at me since she got here.

I enter the cafeteria and am immediately greeted by the sight of my sister walking about like a lost puppy.

"Bella, what are you doing?" I approach her, and she turns to me with a sigh of relief.

"This guy in my class offered to let us sit with him and his friends, and I can't find their table."

"Well, maybe if you actually walked around to look instead of standing by the entrance you might have a better chance of spotting him." I tease, gently pushing her forward.

She lets out a slightly embarrassed chuckle, "Right, sorry." She says before pointing to a table in the centre of the room. Great. "There they are."

I follow her unenthusiastically towards the table, "Ooo Bella, hey. Come and sit." A blonde guy says, standing and pulling out a chair for Bella. He goes to do the same for me, but I put my hand up with a smile.

"I got it." I state and sit down next to Bella.

The boy deflates slightly, disappointed at being shot down, but quickly regains himself, "I'm Mike. You must be April."

"That's right."

"Hi, I'm Angela." A cute girl next to Mike says with a smile.

"Jessica," Another girl offers.

I turn to the other occupant at the table and smirk, "Eric, we meet again. Did you manage to get an interview out of Bella?"

He chuckles, "No, not even close."

"Shocker!" I exclaim, and Bella huffs impatiently before something suddenly draws her attention to across the room.

"Who are they?" She asks, and we all follow her gaze.

I smirk when I see Emmett gliding across the room, taking a seat at a table in the corner. "Oh, that's Emmett, why?" The whole table turn to look at me with raised eyebrows, "What? He's in my English class."

Jessica sighs, clearly expecting a more exciting story, "They're the Cullens. An attractive bunch, right?" She smirks at Bella.

I zone out as she fills Bella in, only to be pulled out of my own thoughts by a tugging feeling in my mind that forces me to look towards the entrance. I watch intently as Rosalie enters, walking through the tables like she's on a catwalk. As she walks past our table, her hand lightly brushes my shoulder and a shiver runs down my spine. Once she sits at her table, I let out a breath I wasn't aware I had been holding in, and my heart stops when she looks directly at me. I recollect myself quickly, not wanting her to think I was rude for staring, and offer her a smile. This time, the smile she sends back is most definitely noticeable and had it been any bigger it would have been a full-on grin. We continue to stare at each other until Alice and Jasper take their seats, and she pulls her gaze away from mine to talk to her sister.

"That's Edward Cullen." Jessica states, lust evident in her voice as she turns and looks pointedly at Bella, who seems lovestruck as well, "Don't waste your time. None of the girls here are good enough for him, apparently."

I smirk, "Got rejected, did you?" Bella elbows me softly, trying to stifle a laugh.

Jessica clears her throat, before glaring slightly at me, not responding.

After lunch, I made my way to my penultimate class of the day, Maths. I struggle to hold in a groan as I check my timetable. It's not that I'm bad at maths, I just find it horrendously boring and unnecessary. However, when I enter the classroom, my internal complaining comes to a holt, as I saw Rosalie sat next to one of the windows.

"April Swan, is it?" The teacher asks, forcing me to look away from Rosalie.

I struggle to suppress a sarcastic tone, "Well, given that I'm the only new student here. I guess that must be me."

Luckily, the teacher doesn't seem to notice the deadpan undertones of my response and lets out a soft chuckle. "I guess it must be, why don't you have a seat next to Rosalie over there." He says, gesturing towards the window. I grin softly and stroll over to the empty seat next to her.

She looks up at me as I approach a ghost of a smile graces her lips.

I throw a crooked smile her way as I pull out my chair, "Looks like you're stuck with me for the rest of the year."

"Oh dear, how will I ever cope?" She replies, I smirk slowly growing on her face.

I turn to face her as she throws me quick glance before opening her book, "Forgive if I'm wrong, but why do I get the impression I'm the first person outside of your family that you've ever interacted with?"

She sighs, before facing me, "You're not wrong. I can't stand anyone here."

I raise an eyebrow at her, "I mean, they're not the most interesting people in the world, I'll give you that." She huffs in agreement, "Whereas I am just brimming with charm and likeability so..."

She chuckles, and it sounds like the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard, "That has yet to be determined."

I am unable to reply as the teacher begins the lesson, and I spend most of it glancing at Rosalie not paying attention to anything he is saying.

Rosalie has clearly caught on to what I'm doing as she leans towards me slightly and whispers, "You know, you won't stand a chance at the test tomorrow if you don't pay attention."

I quickly turn to face her, "There's a test?" I mutter, panic evident in my voice.

She smirks, "No, I just wanted to make sure your brain was still functioning."

I roll my eyes at her as she rises from her seat and gathers her things, which is my only indication that the lesson is over, making me look around surprised to see most of the class has already left. I follow her out and we are greeted by Emmett waiting for us, a smirk on his face which makes me narrow my eyes at him, "What's with your face?"

His smirk only grows, "A lot of things, now come on, time for me to kick your ass at basketball."

I shake my head at his antics and turn to Rosalie, "See you later then."

She nods, gives us both a wave and turns to walk away.

"Told you I'd kick your ass." Emmett guffawed as I rolled my eyes, "If you roll your eyes any more they'll get stuck like that."

"Good, then maybe you'd finally get the message." I respond.

"What message?"

"That you're extremely annoying." This only seems to amuse him more.

"Yeah, whatever Swan, you're just butthurt."

I smile softly, "Correct. I don't like losing."

He offers me a pat on the back, "Well, you'd better get used to it." He says as we walk through the entrance of the school towards the car park. My eyes are instantly drawn to Rosalie, who is leaning against an extremely fancy car talking to Alice.

"Is that car yours?" I ask Emmett, who smirks.

"Well, technically, it's just Rosalie's, but she lets us all drive it sometimes." I stare at him, my mouth hanging open, before turning my gaze back to Rosalie, who is now watching Emmett and I approach.

She rolls her eyes, "Emmett, stop with the car talk."

He holds his hands in surrender, "Hey, she asked first."

"Okay then, both of you stop with the car talk."

"But it's so pretty." I coo at the car as Rosalie lets out an exasperated sigh.

"Whatever, come on Emmett, we need to go." Alice speaks up, "Edward needs to talk to us." She steps forward and pulls me into a tight hug, "See you tomorrow, April."

"Yeah, see you tomorrow." I smile, turning to Emmett, "I look forward to our rematch."

He laughs loudly, "As do I, your reaction to losing will always be entertaining."

"Yeah well, you won't be seeing it anymore. I won't be losing again."

"If you say so," he responds and climbs into the car leaving Rosalie and me.

She looks at me with narrowed eyes and pursed lips. "Do I have something on my face?" I question, sporting a raised eyebrow.

She ignores my query and simply turns to get in her car, "See you tomorrow."

She drives away, leaving me extremely confused with her behaviour. "See you." I mutter softly to myself.