Okay so I'm not quite revealing anything about halflings yet but ALL IN GOOD TIME PEOPLE and Fish to your post there will be some violence in here later trust me its a crucial point to my plot. Alright so another chapter tcha! This is where things start to get a little more interesting, if they weren't interesting enough already. Who is this mysterious new kid? And boy is he hot…-cough- uh anyways…NEW CHAPTER R&R

Halflings?

Chapter Six: Ready, Set, GO!

Mira came out from the locker room dressed down and ready to go, her curly, jet black hair pulled up into a high pony tail. They were going to run down at the track today. She caught someone approaching her out of the corner of her eye and on reflex turned her head right as they appeared by her side.

"Hello." a tall male figure greeted her. She looked up to see he had a messy mop of dark brown hair and bright grayish blue eyes. Mira felt immediately stunned.

"Hi…" she mumbled feeling quite stupid for not saying more. "I'm Mira." she added on.

"I know." He chuckled, his voice deep and inviting sounding like he was saying the sweetest thing in the world instead of just I know. "My name is Josh. How are you enjoying the school?"

"It's nice. People here are…nice." she said shyly keeping her gaze to the ground as they walked. So many people were talking to her today. She didn't like all the attention but it was nice to know that there were some guys that thought of her as at least girlfriend material. Not that she was looking for a boyfriend of course.

He smiled and only took his gaze off of her to watch where he was going. "What kind of purfume are you wearing? It smells absolutely delicious." Josh's voice had a hidden meaning to it. At least that's how it sounded to her. Something about it was dark and malevolent yet it still held its attractive quality. If anything the mysterious meaning behind what he was saying just made him more appealing.

"I'm not wearing any perfume. Any kind I wear always ends up smelling like pine anyways..." she muttered sort of angry at the last part, yet Josh seemed fairly amused.

"You do know that those fragrances mix with your own scent to create another scent right?"

"Of course I do I'm not stupid." Mira said indignitly while walking closer towards Josh so she would not run into a pole.

"Then you must have a smell of nature to have all of your purfume end up smelling like pine. Although that is very rare for ALL perfume to smell like that. Perhaps something else would smell differently?"

She simply shrugged and walked out onto the track. "Who knows."

"So have you made any friends?" He asked sitting down to stretch. She simply watched, eventhough she should probably have been doing some stretching of her own. His were just much more entertaining.

"I think so." She said with a soft smile sitting down and stretching now thinking of Edward.

"Ah, might I know them?"

"You might. Edward Cullen. He's been very nice to me today. Even if I did almost run him over..."

Josh almost fell over laughing. "You almost ran him over? Oh I wish I would have been able to see that. The bastard deserves to be run over." Mira just blinked slightly confused that someone would say that about Edward.

"Why? How could you say something like that about him? He seems like such a nice person..." She finished her stretches and just sat on the soft grass staring at Josh.

"I know him. You shouldn't bother with Edward Cullen." Josh said in a serious tone getting up and helping Mira up as well.

"Why?"

Josh sighed. "Because Mira, he's dangerous."

"How so?" she asked curious. Everyone had continued to warn her, and it seemed as if even Edward himself was saying the same thing. Mira had had enough beating around the bush and if she had to be a detective, then so be it.

"The guy is kinda unstable. He has some pretty bad mood swings. I wouldn't trust him to be alone with anyone. Especially a beautiful girl like yourself."

She blushed slightly, which it seemed to Mira that is was getting easier and easier to do. "Why does everyone insist that I am beautiful?"

"Because it is true." he grinned. "You have a very unnatural beauty about you. And an extremely odd skin color." he had been walking closer as he said this and brushed his hand across his cheek.

"Certain pigments in my skin are light and some are slightly darker. I'm surprised it doesn't make my face look all splotchy or anything."

"It looks fine." He chuckled jogging off. She hurried after him.

"Honestly though...HOW is Edward dangerous? I won't drop it until you full explain to me."

Josh smirked and sped up a little. "I'll make you a deal."

"What kind of deal?" she asked in confusion not about to succumb to something without knowing what it was.

"I will tell you, if you beat me in a foot race." He smirked and his eyes flickered with something that Mira couldn't catch, she was too busy focusing on the track. Then she smirked.

"I'm not stupid, if I loose? A deal is a deal and I want to know all the details." she sped up a little and he matched her speed, after all, they were only supposed to run until class was over. They were getting ready for some sort of endurance test.

"Oh how unfortunate, it is only fun if you don't know anything." he sighed. "Perhaps it'll be fun anyways." he chuckled yet, again something undetectable was in his voice.

"Before I agree you should answer my question or you can forget your race and I will ask someone else what I need to know." Mira threatened. In her mind, if he was as interested as he seemed, he would avoid the subject for long.

"Alright." he sped up slightly passing her. "If you win, I will tell you want to know." he broke out into a grin. "But if I win, you have to kiss me."

Mira could see no harm in that other than a few rumors, of course Mira was a lot smarter than she seemed. "Alright I'll take that bet." she sped up. "Ready, Set...GO!" She made sure to stay ahead of him yet restrain herself so she was not using all her energy.