100 years later…

I sat on my couch, staring at the walls around me. In the hundred years since that day, her face once again flashed into my mind. I had stored it away with flawless detail, from the depth of her coffee eyes to the blush of her cheeks…straight down to the smile that had always jolted my dead heart.

Edward, it's time to get ready. Yet another year at another school. Jasper thought.

I sighed, Jasper had always felt guilty about what had happened and no matter what I had tried to tell him, he never relented. I shied away from thoughts now, mainly my families; I refused to hear their pity and sadness. Jasper had been so willing to do anything that I needed for quite some time. I finally had to sit down and let him know that I didn't blame him for anything. It took awhile for him to understand, especially when he could feel the pain that wracked my body every minute of every day. But he had finally subsided. While I was still close to Alice, I had formed a tighter bond with Jasper; he was more reserved than all of us. He was quiet and more than anything, you could talk to him and you could be assured that the conversation would be filled with nothing but of him trying to understand.

I walked over to my dresser, yanking out whatever was on top. Sauntering over to that bathroom I grabbed my towel and turned on the shower. As I stood there letting the hot water warm my granite body, I groaned remembering that today…I started another year at high school. Not just any high school, Forks High School. The first place I had seen her, the first place I had smelled her, and the place where I had fallen in love with her.

Edward, hurry up! Alice screamed in her mind.

I sighed, turned off the shower and got out. As I dried myself and threw on my clothing, I ran through what my day could contain. When I wasn't able to think of anything worthwhile, I ran my hand through my hair and sighed again. Grabbing my school bag, I raced down the steps to find my brothers and sisters waiting for me.

"Shall I drive, or shall you?" I asked Rosalie.

She smirked and then sighed, "Why don't you go ahead and drive. You can take Alice and Jasper and I'll drive with Emmett."

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"Yeah, go ahead. I'll see you at school."

Relenting, I walked over and grabbed my keys. Stepping into the garage to my new Volvo, I slid smoothly into the seat. Alice and Jasper got in behind me and within minutes we were off. As we rounded the corner to turn into the school parking lot, I started to panic. I knew this would be a bad idea; too many memories were flying at me at a faster speed than even I normally drove. I pulled into a parking spot and rested my head on the steering wheel, willing my lungs to take normal breaths. I felt Jasper's hand on my shoulder and suddenly I started to feel myself relax. I turned and smiled at him, thanking him silently. He nodded and got out of the car. I opened the door and grabbed my bag, stepping out into the air, I took a deep breath. Alice was at my side within seconds, wrapping her tiny arms around my waist, giving me comfort and understanding at the same time.

Jasper smiled a sad smile and put his hand on my shoulder again, as Alice hugged me telling me that I would be okay. I knew better than to bet against Alice but, inside…I knew I wasn't okay. This was too much for me; I wasn't sure how I would take it. So, taking another unneeded deep breath, I stepped out of her embrace and smiled at my favorite sister.

"Alice, I'm not going to break apart." I said teasingly to her.

She grinned and danced over to Jasper, as he bent down to peck her on the cheek I felt my heart send waves of pain throughout my body again. He looked worriedly at me, and stood straight at once. Ever since I had come back from my hiatus, my family had done their best to try and not be overly romantic with each other. Even Emmett and Rosalie had tried. Tried being the key word, sometimes they would forget and I'd catch them in a full on make-out session. I tried to let my family know that it didn't bother me, but they knew better. And even though their efforts were sometimes broken, I felt immense gratitude that they would try to do such a thing for my sake.

I turned and started to walk into the front office, keeping in mind that I had to walk at a human pace, Alice and Jasper walked quietly behind me. Jasper sensing my pain and Alice searching for visions on whether or not I would have a mental break down. Before I had met the love of my life, this would normally annoy the ever living out of me. But since I had willingly broken myself, and because I had found someone who had loved me completely, it didn't bother me any longer.

Maybe it was because I knew what it felt to love and worry about someone, or maybe it was because I didn't care any longer. Whichever the reason…I let them love and worry about me without reservation. I allowed the touch of my family, something I had never allowed before. I allowed the sharing of how I was feeling, to no one other then Alice and Jasper, but…it also is something that I had never allowed before. I know for a fact that if it wasn't for my family, I would have gone and done something stupid to end my soulless life. Even vain Rosalie had helped me along. Something that I would have never believed unless I saw it with my own eyes.

I walked into the main office making my way up to the counter, for some reason feeling a little nervous.

Oh my goodness, he's so handsome! Oh…if I wasn't married I wou…stop that! He's young enough to be your son!

Were the first thoughts that hit me. Grimacing, I did my best to put on a smile that wouldn't let the receptionist know just how perverted I knew her thoughts to be.

"Hello, my name is Edward Cullen, I was just wondering if it was possible for me to obtain my schedule." I asked as politely as I could.

Smiling, she typed something into the computer sitting in front of her. As she walked over to the printer, another woman stepped out of a room and started assisting Alice and Jasper. After we all had our class schedules, we each went our respective ways with promises to see each other at lunch. The first half of my day flew by tediously, doing my best to block as many thoughts as I could, and yet somehow not managing to do it completely; by the time I got to lunch I was disgusted to learn that the futile teenage mind hadn't changed in the last hundred years. To my horror indeed, it had only worsened.

I was amused to see Rosalie and Emmett in what could only be described as a fruitless staring contest as I made my way to the table that they occupied. Alice was suddenly to my right and Jasper to my left when I noticed a group of girls staring me down. Uncomfortable, I thought to myself. I blocked their minds until it was just a hum that blended in with the heating ducts in the walls. As I took a seat I chuckled at the grunts of hello that were offered to me by my brother and sister. Alice grinned telling me in her mind that they had gotten into an argument on the way to school and this was how they were trying to settle the squabble. Jasper walked to the lunch lines and got trays of food for us, food that we wouldn't eat, food that we couldn't eat. Even if we wanted to. I chuckled again as when he sat down my tray I saw, the cafeteria food hadn't gotten any better since I was last here. The same thing was running through my siblings' heads as they too, stared at their trays in chagrin.

And so we began our ritual lunch hour, sitting, not talking, not even looking at each other. Emmett won the staring contest much to Rosalie's bemusement, so she sat sulking until the bell rang, signaling us to yet another tiresome set of classes. Repeating my schedule to myself, I remembered that I had Biology, and groaned inwardly. Somehow I had a feeling that the teacher wouldn't be able to give me any new information, at least not for someone that has three medical degrees under his belt.

By the time school was over, I was in desperate need of a scorching hot shower to wash the mundane thoughts that every teenage girl was having of me off my body and out of my head. I practically ran to my car and threw a CD in, hoping it would block out any other perversion that might find its way to me.

Alice hopped into the car grinning ear to ear, and for some reason I couldn't help but snicker at her expression. She had done so much for me, even when she herself was suffering from the loss of Bella. She had been her best friend, and even though she felt the pain of her absence as much as I did, she never made me feel like she blamed me. For that I was eternally grateful.

"What are you so cheerful about?" I asked.

"New students tomorrow! We won't be the new kids anymore!" She squealed.

I laughed at the lopsided grin on her face as Jasper crawled into the car. I didn't realize that they were looking at me strangely at first but when I did, it wiped the smile right off of my face. I hadn't laughed in a hundred years…I smiled. Most of the time out of courtesy, but never had I laughed. Even though it shocked them, it shocked me as well. I suddenly felt as if I'd betrayed my heart, and, turning out of the parking lot, made my way home.