A/N - Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I'm juggling two stories at the moment. I try people, I try! And yes, my first name is also Esther, but I am not doing a self insert. I just am using it because it is an older name, and it starts with an E, like Edward. Also this chapter will be short, but it's short for a reason. Longer chapters will come. MUCH longer.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Twilight!

I spotted a parking spot right up front as soon as we pulled in. I didn't need to grab a scedule from the front office, Mom had picked it up yesterday. Last night I stayed up late memorizing the map so I wouldn't look like a dork and have to ask for directions.

When I was parked, I looked to my left and saw, to my dismay, a shiney silver volvo. Ugg. what if this guy was in one of my classes? Well, he could be nice, I reasoned.

But what if he was a teacher? I shuddered. Living next door to a teacher, iven if he wasn't my teacher, would be bad.

Or if, I gasped, it was a math teacher? A Principal? I HATED math, and lemme tell ya, math wasn't all that fond of me either. I wouldn't be able to stand being neighbors with someone who liked it enough to TEACH it for a living.

I was close to hypervantilating by now. I will say this, I was a nervous wreck today, and when I get nervous, my emotions go on the blitz.

"Esther? What's with the gasping and twitching? Never mind. Will you just unlock the door, I don't want to be late." Grace was looking at me funny.

LATE! Omigosh! I was goinh to be late! I jumped out of the car, slammedd the door, and belted towards the school. Not many kids were in the halls, I knew the bell was about to ring. I was so, so close to first period Science! All I needed to do was turn that corner...

I took a sharp right- and ran headfirst into a wall. I fell backwards onto my butt and put my hand over my nose. The bell rang. Crap.

I had my watering eyes closed. I was so freaking mad, I started yelling at the wall.

"GOD! You friggen idiot wall! You stupid, stupid, STUPID wall!"

"Excuse me?" A voice like velvet spoke from above. Had I hit the wall so hard I went into a coma? That couldn't be it, everything was still the same as before, except the blackness.

Oh yeah, my eyes were closed. Can't slip one past me.

I opened my eyes, but my vision was blurry, my eyes were still wet. I could make out, however, that the wall was turning around. It was, in fact, a human. A human with bronze hair and white skin. I groaned. Then I wiped my eyes. And suppressed an intake of breath.

He was more wonderful than a human, a billion times more so. My eyes went from his untidy, shining bronze curls to his liquid butterscotch eyes; looking at me in amusment, but also something else. Confusion? Intrigue?

I looked at his refined nose and then his thin lips uplifted on one side in a crooked heart-breaking grin.

That was when I remembered my current position. Sprawled on a dirty concrete ground with my nose no doubt thrbbingred like a christmas-tree bulb. And I had just yelled at this "wall". My face tured a shde of red that but the beets to shame.

Unexpectedly he tensed up, and I could have swore I saw a flicker of black in those golden eyes. But it was gone in a second, and he bent down and held out his thin, white hand towards me. I reached out and grabbed it.

It was freezing cold, I didn't even flinch. Instead I grasped it firmly, and righted myself.

"Thanks. Um... are you usualy this cold? Your skin I mean." I said, blushing again, surprised I could speak so bluntly to him without stuttering.

He nodded and picked up my backpack in one hand, which also suprised me, that thing was FULL of books. He held it up to me.

"I believe you dropped this when ran into me and called me an, er...'friggen idiot wall'?

I slung it over my shoulder and said, "Again, thanks..." while blushing, remembering my earlier rant.

"Edward. Edward Cullen. And you must be Esther." I nodded, surprised that he knew my name. Then I remembered that this was a VERY small town, our family moving in must have been the gossip for a while.

"So, I'm late for class, I guess I'll see you later, Edward." I walked off, trying to seem cool and not completly dazed. I had made it all the way to the door without stumbling when there he was, infront of me holding open the door. He was also in such a position that it was impossible to walk past him without looking into his face.

His beautiful, perfect face. His lips were quirked up in that crooked smile again and he made a little florish with his hand as if heralding a queen. I rolled my eyes and walked in, late for my first class, on my first day in a new school, but yet still smiling.

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A/N - Yes very short, but I wanted this chapter to be just for their first encounter. As I said before, longer ones are coming!