Though it pains me to say, I do not own Twilight. You're looking for Stephanie Meyer.

I got through the day, mostly free of unusual events. I say mostly, because Edward had this intense look of concentration on his face all through our classes. It almost looked as if he were concentrating.

I didn't get to ask him what was on his mind though, because as soon as we sat down for lunch, all the other Cullens came to join us. We all sat together everyday, just us, because Angela, Jess, and the rest of my friends had long ceased to join us. It must have been their human instinct acting up, driving them away from the vampires. It seemed MY instincts were permanently out of whack.

The rest of the family looked at Edward strangely. His brow was scrunched up, and every few minutes he would shake his head as if to clear it. Finally I could stand it no longer.

"Edward, what's wrong?"

He turned to me quickly, as if I had startled him. "It's strange," he said, staring into my eyes, "I can't hear her."

"What?!" exclaimed Alice, leaning forward and talking under her breath, "The only person you can't hear is Bella. What does this mean?"

I turned to look at her, "Have you seen anything Alice?"

She shook her head. Jasper shrugged and volunteered the theory that she was so stupid that she didn't think and that she was so ordinary that nothing out of the usual would happen to her in the near future. If the atmosphere had been any less tense I would have laughed at that.

Edward cocked his eyebrow at him. Japer grinned sheepishly and said he was just trying to lighten the mood. Alice punched him in the shoulder.

As Edward smiled and shook his head, I felt something odd. It was as if electricity was traveling up my spine, fizzing its way through my veins and causing my hair to stand on end. I had the strange sensation of knowing for sure that the cause of this feeling was coming from behind me. I whipped around.

There she was, a pale girl with dark eyeliner and blood red lipstick. Her eyes were a shining green, and sparkled with some inner fire. Her hands were decorated with multiple rings and she held a tray from the lunch line.

"Hey," she said, mouth quirking into an ironic line, "is there a free seat?"

"Um, sure." I turned to Edward. He nodded.

The new girl sat down next to me, smoothing out her red and black plaid skirt, and settling the attached chains. After this preening ritual she turned to me and smiled. "Hi, I'm Isis Frey. I just came here from Massachusetts. Who are you?"

I smiled and responded, "I'm Bella Swan. I actually recently, well not SO recently, moved here from Arizona. This is my boyfriend," Edward and I smiled at each other, "Edward Cullen. These are his adopted siblings, Alice and Japer Cullen. They're together." (A/N Rosalie and Emmett have, unfortunately, gone away to "college")

Isis turned and stared at each of the Cullens. She nodded, but didn't smile this time. Her green eyes shone brightly into the Cullens yellow ones. She turned to Edward last.

They stared at each other for seconds, maybe minutes. It was hard to tell. The air between them sizzled with opposing energies, as strong as the ones that appeared between Edward and me when we were in the dark room that one time with the projector.

Suddenly, Edward jumped out of his chair, his eyes wide. He sped backwards at a speed that I felt was edging a bit on inhuman. Whatever Edward had heard must have been bad, because it scared him senseless enough to make him forget to pretend to be human. After a second or two, I was out of my seat and running (well, more like stumbling,) towards him. When I reached him, he turned to me and whispered, "Bella. She knows."