Here is the next chapter. I hadn't planned on getting it up this quickly, but I've been a little inspired. With the new series I'm reading and enjoying along with receiving a 103 on my Chemistry test. I'm pretty happy, which has allowed me to write several more pages to this story. More then I'm posting right now, enjoy.

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We walked silently to my truck neither of us continuing the conversation, but it seemed Noah already made a dead stand choice on moving. Unlocking the car doors Noah slipped into the front passenger's seat while Serenity and Katie hoped out of the truck bed, where they had been waiting. Serenity slipped into the back seat behind Noah, completely unmoved by Noah's angry presence or just not noticing. Normal Serenity behavior. Katie however, was cautious watching Noah intently knowing something was wrong. She looked up at me concerned, but didn't ask and slipped into the back.

The car ride back to the house was excruciating, nobody talked and the atmosphere was dense with uncertainty and fear. The only one unbothered about anything was Serenity, as usual, humming a tune the whole car ride long. Pulling up into the driveway I noticed that neither one of our parents' cars were here yet. I ignored my suspicions that something wasn't right. They should be home soon enough anyway they might have just got stuck in traffic.

We all stepped out of the truck and went our different ways. An unconcerned Serenity, a distressed Katie, and a sulking Noah all went inside the house while I walked through the backyard to my little home.

Stepping inside I went over to my desk and got started on my endless homework that I had been doing for years, decades. It was extremely easy as I had done the material, the assignments, several times before. No longer did I need to check for answers in the school books or look them up on the internet, but instantly wrote them down. I finished quite early with nothing to do, so I turned on my lap-top and decided to go on the web with no real purpose just scrolling through sites.

After awhile of reading internet articles dinner time rolled around. I turned off my lap-top and went up to the house. There was no dinner being made, absolutely nobody in the kitchen. I went to the family room to find Serenity scrawled on the coach flipping through channels on the television her homework spread in front her on the table.

"Have mom and dad arrived home yet?" I asked. My sister continued randomly flipping through channels.

"Nope," she replied popping the 'p'. Her gaze was locked on the television.

"What are Katie and Noah doing?" I asked as I sat down on the loveseat next to her.

"Katie is still doing homework. She's having trouble, but she's determined to do it without any help. As for Noah I'm not sure. He's…distant at the moment. He was actually making a ruckus in his room early, but now it's dead silent." Serenity clicked one final time on the remote before the television screen went dark. "It's a bit disturbing if you think about it."

"Did mom and dad call at all saying they were going to be late or something?" I asked as Serenity shook her head. "So I'm guessing none of us has eaten anything."

"You guess right, as always. So what's the prize this time, Ms. Guesser?"

"A meal, we are all going out for dinner tonight," I said standing up and walking over to the stairs.

"Wait, don't you have to head to your new job soon?" Serenity asked leaning over the coach.

She was referring to the job I had gotten here before we even moved in to the house. I hadn't even really meant my boss, only talked with him briefly over the phone at times. It was useful when you knew certain people, though this certainly wasn't a dream job or a hard job to get at all. Nevertheless, it was still a job with pay.

"Well it looks like I'm not the only one going to my job tonight. I'm going to get Noah and Katie while you can go wait out for us in the truck," I replied as Serenity sighed.

"Fine, but I get to be in the front seat this time." Serenity ran out through the door before I could add anything more, or approve of anything.

For the first time I went up the stairs and into the hallway heading straight for, what I remembered, Katie's room. Knocking on her door I heard ruffling papers. The door opened revealing Katie. Her hair was loose, several strands slipping out from the tight ponytail she had it in earlier. "Hey Katie, we're all going out to eat for tonight. Serenity's already waiting out in the truck, okay?"

"Sure…," she said coming out and closing the door. "But where are your parents? Shouldn't they be home, by now?"

"Yes, but they are not unfortunately so we're just going to have to fend for ourselves tonight."

"Going out to eat is fending, now?"

"For tonight it is, now go on out to the car and I will go get Noah," I said as Katie's worrisome face disappeared into a smile.

"Good luck with that, before it sounded as if a bull dozer was tearing up the place. Now it's as quiet as the dead. I've almost knocked on the door three times just to see if he was still in there. I'm not sure if he is." Katie went past me and started to descend down the staircase.

"Hey Katie, wait," I called to her as she turned around. "Is that your new hairstyle?"

Her hands shot up to her loose hair as she realized what I meant. "Oh."

"It's okay you can fix it in the truck. I'm sure Seren will help you." Katie nodded and disappeared down the steps while I walked over to Noah's room. "Noah, are you still in here?"

"Hmmm…" A muffled sound came through the door.

"We are all heading out to eat for dinner tonight. Are you going to come with us or stay here and starve?" The door flew open and closed in an instant as Noah headed for the stairs. "Okay," I muttered under my breath as I starred at the door for a couple seconds. Wondering what he had been doing, but then shook my head of the thought and followed after Noah.

Soon we were all in the truck driving off to Enchant Café. It was a thirty minute drive giving me only ten minutes to eat before my shift started. We entered the Café and ordered. Our drinks arrived shortly.

"So what are we suppose to do while you're working? You don't expect us to stay, do you?" Serenity asked while moving her straw around and around in her drink. She was bored, more than usual.

"Of course not, tonight you're going to have to entertain yourselves. In the Café or outside I don't really care. Except I want Noah and Katie to stay close by," I replied as Serenity and Katie nodded. They were both fine with it, however Noah was not which was expected.

"What why?" Noah asked a little outraged.

"Just to be on the safe side, you and Katie don't have to be in the Café you just have to be close by."

"What about Serenity? You're letting her have free range, right?"

"Yes."

Serenity smiled at this, which only made Noah angrier. Katie started to slouch down in her seat, uncomfortable with the arguing. Of course she would have to get used to that in this family.

"But that's not fair I'm older than her by several years. Decades even, but I have to stay close by you while Seren can go to Port Angeles for all you care."

"Noah, it's just precautions," I said trying to calm him down. It wasn't working very well, but he knew as well as I it was for the best.

"Yeah besides age just doesn't matter in this family. As you remember Wesley is somewhere in Britain, which is nowhere near here while Katie is sitting right next to you. So for right now I don't have to worry about my safety, but you and Katie do. Don't forget Noah you're still new to this," Serenity added taking a sip of her drink at the end. This only added to Noah's irritation.

"And what makes you a sudden expert. You've only been this way for two years, at the most. You still don't know what your unique power is," Noah backfired. His hands were clamped tightly into fists as Serenity glared at him.

"Hey, can you two please stop that. We are in public, remember. There could be eavesdroppers around," I replied. Searching for any unwanted listeners, but the place was pretty empty. I wonder if it will stay that for long.

"So what are we suppose to talk about if we're not going to talk about your unfairness," Noah complained his fists loosening. Serenity rolled her eyes and I heavily sighed.

"How about the Cullens," Katie suggested quietly a bare whisper not slouching so much in her seat. We all looked at her except for Serenity who starred up at the ceiling instead, confused. She apparently never saw them, but Katie had at some point.

"You saw them, when?" Noah asked a little angry but not at Katie.

"In the hallway while Serenity was talking to one of our teachers. I didn't see all of them. Just a short girl with black raven hair, Alice I think her name was. Along with a blonde guy who looked like he was in pain. I asked Melanie, another girl, who was standing next to me by the lockers and she just babbled on about them. They seem interesting…and different," Katie said as Noah straightened up and looked out the window.

"Noah, I doubt any of them are here," I said my voice tight as Noah looked back at us.

"Well I never saw them. Tell me about them," Serenity said a little demanding. Looking straight at Katie, who out of nerves, put the only loose strand of her hair now back behind her ear.

"Well there are seven of them in the family. The two parents are Carlisle, who's a doctor, and his wife Es-me. I think that's how you pronounce her name. Well it seems that Es-me can't have kids, or at least I've heard that, so they have kind of adopted five. The oldest of them are Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper. Supposedly Emmett is this really big, muscular guy, Rosalie has looks that models would kill for, and Jasper is…strangely quiet and like I said before looks like he's in pain. Now all three of them are seniors the other two kids are juniors, Edward and Alice. From what I heard about those two Alice is said to be weird, but from seeing her she just seems to be…hyper. As for Edward he keeps to himself kind of like Jasper and doesn't date," Katie said as she took a sip of her drink. That was definitely the longest time I've ever heard her talking non-stop, but it was insightful.

"Do the other four date?" Serenity asked while I starred at her and Noah glared. "What? It's just an innocent question."

"Don't even think about it," Noah replied.

His fists were clenched tight, again. Only this time they were even tighter. Both of his fists took on a ghostly white and his veins looked like they were about to burst. Was it possible for him to get even angrier? Maybe I wasn't the only one who knew the Cullens secret. Maybe he knew they were vampires or maybe he didn't. Or maybe all he knew was that there was something wrong with the Cullens, an instinct feeling. I couldn't really tell at this point.

"Why, what's your problem with them?"

"I just don't like them, okay. There's something really strange about them," Noah said his eyes darting back to the window.

"Whatever," Serenity replied rolling her eyes again. "Katie?"

"Yes, and this is where it gets weird," Katie started as Noah interrupted her.

His eyes remained glued to the window though. "Everything about them is weird."

"Noah," Serenity hissed through her teeth glaring at him. "Let Katie finish. Katie."

"They're all together. Alice and Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, and, well, Edward nobody, like I said he doesn't date. Anyway, none of them are supposedly related except for Jasper and Rosalie, twins, who are foster kids, I think or were. They are both blonde and go by there real last name Hale while Alice, Emmett, and Edward take on the Doctor's name Cullen. They moved from Alaska a couple years ago, so they are kind of new here."

"So they're dating each other in the family. That is strange but at least they are not related, most of them anyway. Otherwise I think that would be illegal," Serenity replied as she stared blankly at her drink. "Unlike before," she said through her teeth, a bare whisper.

"You missed out on the strangest part, Katie," Noah replied as he turned to me. "Though I think only Isabella and I caught that."

"Which is what?" Katie asked.

"The way they act. Isn't that right, Bella?" Noah asked as all eyes were on me. I really hated the spotlight on me.

"Depends on what acting you mean," I replied fidgeting with my hands. I wanted the conversation about the Cullens to be over, but even more I wished it hadn't even begun. Even though interesting facts, to be noted came from the conversation. It was still treacherous water. Why couldn't my shift start already? Even though our food still hadn't arrived it was a slow time of the day apparently and yet we had slow service, great!

"Everything! They did not eat or even touch their own food, for that matter, in the cafeteria. They just threw it out while that was a big waste. They are extremely pale, unbelievably good-looking as Katie put it with Rosalie. Their eyes were black and they had bruises underneath, which seemed to be the only flaw-like qualities to them. They are too graceful, look nothing alike and yet look exactly alike to the point where it can make your head spin trying to decide between the two terms. Then there is Edward who, like I have told you before, had a look that just screamed that he wanted to kill you. Have you for dinner!" Noah said slamming his palm hard on the table. Luckily, not too hard to leave a dent.

Oh yes, my brother could be madder and I highly doubted right at this moment that he knew what I did about the Cullens. Sooner or later though, maybe when he's done piecing the facts together, he would find out. That certainly would not go over smoothly for him when he does.

"He looked like he wanted to kill you?" Serenity asked uncertain she heard it right.

"Yeah he kind of did, a little," I said as Noah shook his head and closed his eyes. "But Noah is exaggerating, somewhat." Noah mumbled something incoherent, but still kept his head down.

We all sat in silence until our food shortly arrived. The food somehow took out some of the tense atmosphere away as we began a heated debate about sports. After that I started my new shift while my siblings went off into different directions outside except for Katie, who seated herself on a bar stool watching a game on Sports Center. She at least listened to me and took my advice, which is good for Noah that at least one of them does. It will hopefully keep them both alive.

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