Author's notes : Chapter 5 ! As a member wanted, there's a new character, a "female version" of Jacob, I hope you'll all like it.

Karine

Chapter 5 :

When I arrived at school the next morning, I was worried. Edward was smarter than the average and he certainly thought about what happened yesterday night. What else could have I done ? I wasn't gonna let him die, in the cold. So I put my family in danger, that was right. If Edward begins to ask himself questions, he will certainly search for answers. The first day I was close to him, I almost killed him then he noticed the difference in my eyes and made it perfectly clear that he was puzzled by it and finally, yesterday night, I should have had goose bumps, I should have been freezing because of the cold of the night. I'm sure he knows something is different with me, with all my family. I took a breath and walked to my first class. As I walked, I saw him going to his class ; he was frowning. Then he saw me. His face lightened a bit with what looked like amazement but then he looked down and ignored me. I didn't let it show but it deeply hurt me.

I came into the class room and sat. Alice came in a few seconds later. Maybe Edward had chosen to listen to Mike, that the Cullen family were freaks and that we were not worth it. And if it was this, I didn't know what I'd do. In 80 years, I never met anyone who touched me the way Edward does – without even knowing it – he didn't flee us like the others, he even asked questions about me. Anyway, we had this essay to finish so there will be time to talk again. I looked at Alice and she was looking at me with curiosity in her eyes.

"What ?" I asked her.

"What's wrong ? What are you thinking about ?"

He believes what Mike says.

Nope.

How can you know it ?

Have you seen his face when he saw you this morning ?? Bella, he's completely in love with you and he can't help it.

"What ??" I had said this quite loud and everyone was looking at us. The teacher glared at me.

What do you mean ?

It's pretty easy to understand. He's in love with you but he knows that there's something about you and actually he's kind of afraid of not knowing. And you are in love with him too.

But it's wrong !

It's unusual.

I sighed and decided to let go for now. I'll see what happens as time goes by.

She nodded.

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When Edward came into the cafeteria, he immediately looked towards our table. And he put his tray on his table, next to Jessica, and sat. I noticed that she was glaring at me again. And Mike was glaring at Edward. This was never going to end… I looked at Edward and he was looking at me, maybe even watching me. What could he be thinking ? His eyes had a weird expression, I didn't know if it was anger or curiosity. Maybe it was both.

I turned my head to Alice and said : "Do you think he told anything to his mother ?"

"I don't know, but he didn't say anything to anyone here."

"Really ?"

"Really, I listened to their conversations during my second class and no one talked about something Edward could have told them about yesterday night." She smiled.

"That's not normal," I said, glancing at him – he glanced up at me at the same time.

"Not normal maybe but you should be happy about it."

I raised my eyebrows for a second and said : "Yeah I know. I am in a way but I'm mostly wondering why he didn't say anything. Any other person would tell this story to a very good friend, are you sure he didn't say anything to Eric ?"

"I'm sure Bella. Oh that reminds me of something : When Eric and Edward were talking before the last class starts, Eric told him about Angela and then he asked Edward if there was someone he wanted to date. He blushed a bit and said : 'Er… No' And then Eric insisted and told him : 'Not even Bella Cullen ?' That made him blush even more and he laughed nervously."

"And what did he reply then ?"

"Nothing. And I guess Eric understood that Edward wouldn't tell him anything."

I thought about it for a minute and said : "Ok, but it doesn't solve the biggest problem."

"I know." I looked at Edward and met his eyes again.

The next class was monotone, Edward said hi to me but didn't say a word before the end of the class when I asked if we were working together this afternoon. He had replied :

"I'm sorry, I'm gonna see a friend this afternoon at LaPush."

No trespassing for me. "Oh ok, no problem. Have fun."

He had smiled at me and had said : "Thank you, what are you going to do this afternoon ?"

"Mmm… Alice and I will certainly go to Seattle. Movies or something."

He had nodded : "Good, have fun too."

"Thanks."

And he had left. Obviously, I owed Alice to go to Seattle now. I rolled my eyes at her when I saw she was next to my car, smiling hugely and saying : "You're the best sister ever, you know that ?"

Edward's POV :

I got into my car and turned on the heater. It was pretty cold outside and the sky was quite cloudy. I glanced at Bella's car and saw that Alice was hugging her tightly, I smiled at myself, the affection between them was touching.

I made a U-turn and drove to LaPush, Jessie and her father were waiting for me at their home. Jessie and I used to make mud pies when we were kids, she was the only friend I had here before moving from Phoenix. Obviously, it began to rain a bit as I was arriving in town ; I parked in front of their house and ran to the door. I knocked.

"Hey Edward !" Billy said as Jessie opened the door.

"Hi Billy, how are you ?"

"I'm good, still rolling," he chuckled. "Remember Jessie ?" He pointed towards her.

I smiled at her and said : "Sure, you made me eat mud one day."

She laughed out loud : "Oh yeah, I had forgotten that, I'm so sorry, that was mean."

"I don't resent you," I added as she took my coat to put it on the coatrack.

Her long black hair went well with her russet skin, her black eyes were deep but warm. And her white teeth were like the ones of a model for a toothpaste commercial. She helped her father to go to the living-room and asked me :

"Would you like something to drink ?"

"No, thank you."

"So, how do you like it in Forks Edward ?" Billy asked me as I sat on the sofa, in front of him.

"It's ok, a bit too rainy and cold for me but I like it."

"How's school ?" Jessie asked me.

"It's fine, I have good friends." I cleared my throat, suddenly thinking about Bella and what happened yesterday night. I don't know if it was because of the cold of the air but her hand had been colder than ice when she had tapped my cheek to wake me up. Even my own hands hadn't been that cold. Another mystery about this girl.

"Edward ?" Jessie grabbed my arm.

"What ?"

"Are you with us ?" She laughed a bit, frowning.

"Yeah, er… Sorry, did you ask me something ?"

"Yeah, do you want to go to the beach this afternoon ?"

"Sure, yeah."

"Good, but don't expect palm trees or guys selling ice-creams, most of the people who go to the beach here are surfers," she added.

"That's what I thought," I laughed.

We stayed for a few minutes again, talking about my mother. Billy and her had a close friendship, they didn't really have time to see each other because of my Mom's job and he looked sad because of this.

"I'll tell her to visit this weekend if you'd like her to," I proposed.

"Yeah, that'd be nice." He smiled at me.

Then Jessie got up and looked through the window, she pouted : "We should go now because I think it's going to be raining in a few minutes."

I got up too and said : "Sure, let's go."

We took our coats and walked to the beach. It took us a little more than 5 minutes. When we arrived, I noticed that there were several surfers on the big waves.

"Wow, I didn't expect such waves here," I said, astonished.

Jessie laughed : "It's not Hawaii but we have waves at least."

We sat on an old tree trunk and she asked me about my classes : "So, are your classes going well in here ? Is it a lot different from Phoenix ?"

"In Biology we're doing something I already did in Phoenix during the first semester but apart from this, it's ok."

"What is it ?"

"Human cells, we have an essay to do, my partner and I's subject is the creation and growth of cells."

"Sounds horrible," she chuckled.

"It's okay, it's interesting," I replied quietly.

"Who's your partner ?"

"Isabella Cullen."

Her eyes hardened for a second and she didn't reply. She was looking at the horizon. I frowned at her but she didn't see.

"What about your classes ?"

"I'm going at the reservation, it's going well too, and everyone knows each other, it's kinda small you know," she replied. Her tone was bitter and I guess it had nothing to do with the classes.

Suddenly, her face lit up and she shouted : "Embry !! Come here !"

The guy called Embry ran to us, he wasn't even wearing a coat, just a t-shirt. He had very long hair.

"Hey Jess ! Hi…" He hesitated, looking at me.

"Edward," I replied, shaking his hand.

"Oh yeah, the new boy," he smiled. "So what's up ?"

"We were just talking about our classes," Jess said. Her tone was a bit ironic and then she added : "Edward works with Bella Cullen in Biology." She smiled.

I wasn't expecting her to say this, and I didn't understand the tone she was talking. But I didn't like it for sure. I glared at her.

Embry laughed out loud and told me : "My gosh, good luck with that Edward !"

He did a high-five to Jessie, who was laughing too.

"Why do you say that ? She's a nice girl."

They was a moment of silence and they laughed out loud. I felt hurt.

"Sorry Edward, it's not about you, don't worry," Jessie said, wiping her eyes because of the laughter.

"Have you already talked to them ?"

"The Cullens don't come here," Embry said, his face and his voice suddenly serious.

I frowned and looked at Jessie. She was looking ahead with a lost stare.

"See you later," Embry said before running to the water.

"What does he mean 'The Cullens don't come here' ?"

Jessie winced and said : "Er… I'm not sure I can tell you. I'm not supposed to talk about it."

"Come on, I won't say anything. Please, I wanna know." I looked at her with gentle eyes.

"Mmm… Okay. There are legends in our tribe. It's been a very long time since people started telling them. The first one is about us, the Quileutes, our ancestors are supposed to be wolves." She paused and looked at me.

"Wolves ? Er… You mean like the animals ?"

"Yeah, like the animals," she replied, laughing.

"Then, there are the others. We call them the Cold Ones. Once, several years ago, they were hunting on our lands and my ancestors made a treaty with them : If they promised to stay away from our lands, to never ever cross the line, we would leave them alone."

I thought about this for a moment and then asked : "What are the Cold Ones ?"

"The enemies of the wolves. You certainly saw this on tv or in books already."

"The enemies of wolves ? You mean, like v…" I couldn't say the word because it sounded unreal to me.

She nodded and said : "Yeah, vampires, bloodsuckers." She made a huge smile.

"What does it have to do with the Cullens ?" Though I guessed I knew the answer.

She shrugged. "Do you really need to ask ? They're the enemies of the wolves."

I nodded once, frowning. She tapped my arm and laughed : "It's just a story you know, nothing serious."

She truly didn't believe those stories. But Embry did apparently. He wouldn't have been so serious if he didn't. After a few minutes, I checked my cell and got up.

"Time to go home," I said.

"Ok," she replied.

When we arrived at her home, she told me : "See you later Edward."

"Sure," I said as I went into my car.

I couldn't stop thinking during all the way home. Vampires. That sounded so impossible, normally, they had fangs, they wore black clothes, they couldn't go out during daytime… And they drank blood. A shiver went down my spine as I though about this. I remembered how Bella had looked at me on this first day. Her eyes changed color, her hands were colder than ice and she looked really pale and she was inhumanly pretty. My heart raced as I though about her face, and her voice. Everything about this girl was fascinating. And I was completely enchanted.

I parked my Volvo in the front yard and went into my room. I opened the closet where my DVDs were and looked for Interview With A Vampire and Buffy. Vampires were supposed to be burnt by the sun, turned into dust if you put a stake in their hearts and holy water would burn and even kill them. It wasn't at all like the Cullens. I sighed and turned on my laptop. Maybe the Internet will give me more information. I waited for the laptop to display the log on screen and typed my password. I couldn't believe I was about to look for vampires on the Internet. I shook my head.

I opened my browser and went to Google. I typed the word vampires. The first link was from Wikipedia, I clicked on it ; in the first paragraph, it was written that vampires often visited loved ones and killed people in the neighbourhood they used to live in as humans. Their skin is supposed to be purplish due to the blood they drink. I found a vampire called Chupacabra (A's notes : Ha ha, it makes me think about Chupa-Chups ^^) who didn't kill humans but domestic animals. The rest wasn't matching Bella's behaviour or physical features.

I went back to the Google page and looked at the other results. The other site was full of folklore legends, like vampires couldn't reflect on a mirror, they couldn't appear on video or audio footage either. I sighed : I had seen the reflection of Bella in the windshield.

I closed my browser and turned off my laptop. It was rainy outside so I decided to work a bit on our essay.