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Why Vampires Shouldn't Have Lab Partners

Chapter 1

I had never conceived I would be having this conversation with Carlisle. We didn't normally go on like this. This time it was something I really wanted and I knew I was ready for. I wished he would understand.

"I know it is dangerous but, I am under control. I haven't hurt anyone. I have been around people for years, I can do it!" I looked pleadingly.

He gave me the look he always gave me when I needed to be quiet, he would think about it. "Little Tabitha, it would be too dangerous. It could reveal everything!" He kept calm even while talking to me. His 300 year experience gave him wisdom to keep that way. "It is not safe!"

"Taby!" Alice called to me as she ran in the room smiling from ear to ear. She hugged me in a way I wouldn't have expected. She picked up my Red's hat I was wearing on top of my braids. Trying to hide her obvious happiness we only experienced when a good vision had come to her. She smirked at me. "Your wearing this again." I stared at her with a look that must have been readable. At least she wasn't Ed, I could never hide anything from him. I just happened to look predictable. "No it isn't about the slumber party!"

"Then what?"

"You will find out in time."

"You don't have to be so mysterious." I joked at her as she grabbed her school bag. She bounded over to Jasper and kissed him. I smiled at them then looked away to give them privacy. I looked at Carlisle. "So I guess I am not going!"

"No Little Tabitha, it is too risky." He looked at the bag he was packing for himself for work. "Tell that girl, Stella you can't go!"

"Fine!" I grabbed my banana yellow bag. Esme kissed me on the cheek.

"Don't forget a rain coat! Have fun Little Tabitha!" Esme always had a bright attitude about everything. Even stuff as stupid as Junior High.

"I will mom!" I made myself look convincing. She didn't know whether to believe me or not. As a vampire, I was one of those few who have gifts. I have the gift of convincing others of my emotion. Rosie says it is the gift of acting. I agree with Emmet more on his terminology, the gift of lying.

I got my bike out of the garage. I looked longingly at the mustang I was going to drive the year I was supposed to be 16 here. For now I just had to either ride with my family or ride my bike to that hell hole most define as Junior High. I hated that place. I had been to many, but this one I found most grotesque. Other Junior High's had the exact same type of puberty filled, zit faced, hormonal teenagers. This one had on the other hand, a line I couldn't cross in the cafeteria. The line that I as a Cullen was forbidden to cross. It would break the treaty and bye, bye Taby!

I rode to the end of the long hidden drive way.

The day passed like it did everyday, I went to Literature, Art appreciation, Algebra the list went on and on. I only spoke when spoken too and even then I didn't speak much. I couldn't tempt myself to open my mouth and talk to them, I might smell their blood. It was hard enough to hear their heartbeats. It was so hard to hold back the urge to kill them. I wanted their blood so badly. I was able to control it by thinking about my favorite old songs. I drove Ed nuts with my musical brain. He would be so sick of it that he actually hid my ipod for a while from me. Not very much help. I love having photogenic memory.

I was on my way from Algebra to Drama, when the one person that didn't care if I was a loner, had to come walking up. Stella McKlaster flipped her long curly blonde hair. Hold your breath Taby.

"So Tabitha," She walked up to me and stopped me in my path for class. "Are you coming to my slumber party or not?" I wished she would leave me alone.

I shrugged my shoulders. My thoughts were interrupted by the one smell I could go without anytime! The smell I can only describe as a mix of wet dog and wet sox. It was revolting and despicable as I care to describe. Seth Clearwater cascaded past me. Something in my stomach flipped. I didn't know what it meant. It may have been that I hated him, or was it something else? I didn't want to hate him. How should I know how I felt? He was going to become a Werewolf, just like his grandfathers before him. A mutt, a dog, an enemy. I should hate him! I stared in his direction. I didn't need to act to show that I didn't want him around. He also looked back at me in the same convalescent hatred. Stella took it the wrong way.

"You have a crush on Seth Clearwater! I should have seen it before, you both always stare at each other." She giggled. The only reason we stare is so to make sure neither of us are going to attack the other. He didn't know why though. I looked at Stella with the face of anger and frustration. Stella of course was convinced that I wanted her to go away. "Well I will see you in science!" She ran the other direction toward her friends. The only reason she actually knew me, was because we were partners in lab. I prayed I could get through the rest of the day and somehow skip science.

I walked into drama. We were studying the play of Hamlet. I knew it by heart. Ed and I had read it for hours while the rest of the family were doing, other activities. I of course, knew what I was doing with this play.

Mr. Darson stood at the front of the class smiling like an idiot. "Alright class, today we shall be going over the scene which fully expresses the mood and interest for the play!" He pulled out several scripts and handed them out. "The Scene in which Hamlet's dead father appears to him as a ghost. You will be put into groups of four to portray this illuminating scene. I will of course tell you whom you shall be playing."

He called random names and put them into either group A, B, C, or D. Drama was a very small class to say the least. I conveyed in my mind the hope that I would not be on team C in which Clearwater was playing Hamlet. He was a pretty good actor. "Tabitha Cullen! You will be on team C playing the Ghost." I stared at the teacher truly ticked. I knew it could have been worse, I could have been stuck with Jamison Weber who thought I was the hottest girl in existence. I walked over to the group and stared at Seth.

"Let's get it over with!" He said rolling his eyes.

After securing my bike to the top, I climbed in the car with Esme. She had willingly drove to recover me from school. She had her same cheerful smile, but she looked worried.

"What is wrong?" I asked as her foot hit the pedal of the small sports car. She worked the clutch changing the gear and looked back at me, her gold eyes sparkling into mine.

"Don't I get to ask you how your day was first?" She always had such a good attitude on things. I looked at her with eagerness to know what had happened. She let her smile fade and looked at the road. "Well Edward had to leave for Tanya's for the week. There was a new girl at school who apparently smelled better than any other human any of us had ever experienced."

"A whiff of a girl has sent him away for the week, that isn't like Ed! He was thirsty, but even then?" I asked.

"He was her lab partner. He almost killed her right there in the school! That is why he is leaving for the week." She stopped at a red light while children crossed. I knew why Ed must have left. That girl must have been so tantalizing. Plus it took me a few days to get used to the fact I had a lab partner as well.

"We are home!" Esme called as we walked in the doors. I dropped my school bag on the rack beside the door.

"Thanks mom!" I gave her a kiss on the cheek. I always thought of her as the mother I had never had. She liked to treat me like a younger daughter. She had always wanted children, and she had lost her real baby while she was alive and she jumped off a cliff. Carlisle had found her. When they found me, I thought she was an angel because of her sweetness.

I ran into the living room to start on my homework. Should be easy! I wasn't the only one who was going to be using the living room apparently. Alice sat on the sofa, homework she had done because she saw the answers before hand. I called it cheating, she called it being resourceful. I sat down beside her.

"Hi Taby!" She hugged me. Normal Alice. "How was your day?"

"Good, if dodging everyone all day and having to be stuck with Dog-Breath Clearwater is good?" I said sarcastically.

She smiled at me. "The others are out hunting. I didn't need to because you and I went yesterday!"

I rolled my eyes. "Your sure, I heard that girl smelled awesome!"

"She did!" Alice joked at me. "What I could smell of her anyway!" She bit her perfect lip and looked at me smiling. "So did you meet any nice guys today?"

"When did you suddenly get an interest in the guys at my… What did you see?"

She rolled her eyes laughing. "I wasn't going to tell you, but I saw you were in the house on the steps in this gorgeous dark purple dress. You were waiting for a date!" She giggled uncontrollably. "Isn't it wonderful?"

"No!" If I had a heart, it would have been racing. This was all wrong, I can't like or love anyone. I was too young when I changed.

She looked at me with shock. "What, why are you upset? This is good!"

"I just can't fall in love!" I showed my feelings at home so not to lose my families trust, well most of the time. Sometimes I hid what I was feeling for a break from the world. I was about to ask her more when her face went blank. She tensed then went back to normality.

"She becomes like us!"

"Alice, who?"

"That girl, Bella Swan!"

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