Hello once again. So yesterday I was dying my hair with all of my friends (we all died our hair purple). It was super-sick, but then an old guy at Starbucks was staring at me funny! Like I promised, I updated by the weekend and now I am updating again. I truly am happy with the feed back I am getting. Keep it up everyone! Now, to why you are all here…

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or New Moon or any of those character. (thought I wish very dearly that I owned Eddikins. My goodness, that would be great!)

Chapter 2

Burgundy? Or Blue?

We arrived at school within five minutes, thanks to the 150 mph speed Edward drove his car through town, gracefully weaving the silver Volvo through traffic and around curves and bends. My mini-nap had actually done me good because as soon as Edward gently shook me awake, I was actually alert and ready. I was amazed the dream didn't haunt me in my short nap, but was rather happy it didn't. Edward came around my door and opened it for me, carrying his bag and mine. He took my hand in his and pulled me away from the parking lot, toward the school buildings. I decided to not think about the dream right now, to just push it to the back of my memory. It was only a dream, after all.

The clouds over head were getting darker by the minute and I guessed that it would rain sometime soon. My rain coat was still in the car, but I was too preoccupied with keeping up with Edward to really care. Besides, It wasn't like I was going to be outside all day.

I walked along side Edward until we reached the cover of the over hang around the school. Most of my classmates were seated at picnic tables here and there, gossiping and talking to their friends. The skaters in one section, the band geeks, sporty people and jocks, preps, Goths, nerds, rockers, and the popular kids were all at different tables and places. As I looked at my classmates, I wondered where I would be if I had not been with Edward, if I had never been so fascinated by him or his siblings, if I had never talked to him. I would probably be with the popular kids, Mike's group.

The Cullens never fitted in here, or anywhere, I guessed. They were so beautiful and friendly, but it was human nature to shy away from vampires even if the human was not knowledgeable of the fact of what they were. It was their instincts ruling them from thousands, maybe even millions of years of practice.

I scanned the rest of the small high school population and quickly spotted a free table. It was in the far corner of the courtyard and we headed for it. I found it slightly funny. Looking around the school you saw: hicks over there, skaters in the corner, preppies in the middle, jocks by the basket ball courts, vampires and a human in the courtyard… It seemed amusing how among all these people, there were some that were not even human.

Edward looked down at my amused expression, questioningly. I merely smiled up at his perfect face and looked forward to see Alice bounding toward me. She looked sympathetic, but also happy.

"Hello," she sang, her voice song-like and beautiful.

"Hi, Alice," I called back. My voice sounded rough compared to the smoothness of Alice's.

"Bella," she chided, taking a hold of my other arm opposite of the one Edward was attached to, "I am so sorry! I should have warned you about the dream, I just thought it wouldn't be so bad. Do you forgive me? Please say you do, I have to take you shopping after school today."

The minute shopping was brought into the picture, I stepped out. I hated shopping, even more, I hated shopping with Alice. She was my best friend in every way, but I had nothing to repay her with. Money just sort of gathers when you live forever and your dad's a doctor. I grimaced before I spoke.

"I am fine Alice. The dream shook me up, but I am okay now," I skillfully left out the shopping part and the forgiving part for later. Maybe I could swing this to my advantage. Alice pouted and asked me again.

"Come shopping with me, please! It will be so much fun! And please forgive me!"

"I forgive you Alice," I spoke, 'accidentally' not hearing the part about shopping. Alice pouted again and looked at me with wide eyes-as if I had just hurt her feelings. Before she could say anything I turned to Edward.

"Edward, what was due in math?" Edward's stifled a laugh at my attempt to avoid the question and Alice scowled. He pulled me closer to him and bent down and kissed me on the forehead. I leaned into his icy touch when he moved a stray strand of my chocolate brown hair from my face, and smiled up at him. His eyes seemed to grow more golden in color before I looked away. The bell had rang and destroyed our moment, and we headed off to class.

The three of us took the last available seats which were at the front of the class. English. It was my favorite class, but the teacher could sometimes she wasn't good. The teacher I had right now was new teacher this year. She was a student teacher who took over our class for the second semester. She was short, with medium length dark hair and green brown eyes. She was pretty young, maybe 26 or 27.

Edward cast another glance my way before the teacher began speaking to the class about this year's objectives. I zoned out on most of what she was saying, storing the crucial parts away in my memory.

The other 3 classes before lunch passed in this fashion -Edward and I whispering to each other and sometimes passing notes, while Alice pretended to be very attentive to the teacher, but still managing to roll her eyes at us occasionally.

When the bell rang for lunch, Edward and I met Alice in the cafeteria before we lined up for food. He loaded a tray with food, enough for him and me. I protested when he pulled out his wallet to buy it for me, but he wouldn't even think of letting me pay.

"Half of this is for me, you know," he said with a sly grin.

The only person who could eat the food out of Edward, Alice, and I was me, of course. I guess they could eat it, but they would just have to vomit it up later. Blood was much more preferable for them.

I couldn't exactly say, "No, let me buy it, honey. Remember, you're a vampire and you can't eat it," in front of everyone so I let it go. We walked back over to the table that Alice was perched at. I grabbed an orange off of the tray and began to peel the outside. The rain had started and it pounded against the metal roof top. I looked out to the doors nearest us to see just how hard it was raining, but something else caught my attention.

Staring back at me were a pair of blue eyes. It wasn't the eyes that startled me; many students had blue eyes in this small town, but it was who those eyes belonged to. The beholder of those eyes was tall, extremely handsome, and extremely pale. A vampire.

Edward and Alice followed my gaze to the doors and stiffened in their seats. Edward let out a fierce, low growl towards this unwanted stranger, but he stayed in his seat. His hand automatically pulled me to him, wrapping around my waist and holding me protectively. I, however, did not notice his actions because one thing about those eyes frightened me.

Unlike the beautiful topaz of vampires who drank from animals, this vampire's eyes were blue. What would this vampire's diet be? Would this encounter with another vampire be like my ones before? Would Edward have to save me? Or like my dream had showed, would I have to save Edward?

Was this only a coincidence that my dream occurred the night before new vampires came to town?

This was a kinda short chapter, I thought. Let me know if it needs to be longer. I write for an audience, so the audience needs to tell me what they want. I thought this was a sorta confusing chapter. Ask me whatever questions you may have.

Please review! I won't update until you review!

-CJ

P.S. Gosh, I love purple! (So does my editor, Misery's-Toll!)