a/n: this chp is longer than the rest and a lot of minor things happen ready to add up to something big. Oh and the reviews are great a lot of different thoughts on whats going on. School is starting tomorrow and I have a very hectic week so updates might not be coming as frequently as we would all like but Ill try. Enjoy....

8) Rumors

"Remember all your admissions essays must be in by next week." Mrs. Bernstein reminded us as we left English on a rainy Monday.

"I didn't even start mine." Jacob whispered.

"No problem yours will be taken care of." I smirked.

"Huh?" He asked walking backwards to look at me.

"No offense your not exactly the best writer so I thought I'd write yours to make sure you got in."

"I'll have you know I got first place for a creative writing essay back in La Push."

"Yeah what grade?" I asked.

"Fourth but that's besides the point."

"Right the creative part is where we go wrong. This isn't make believe it's serious. They have to know you want to go and if you don't you'd die."

"Right so I'll just say I'd die if I don't go because my wife's father would kill me if he knew what we were doing at night." He winked.

I slapped his arm causing him to stumble back a little. "This is boarding school not prostitute school."

"Lighten up would you?" He chuckled nudging my shoulder.

"Sorry. I just really wanna get in." And stay away from whatever was in the woods but I left that out for a very good reason.

"Did you have a fun camping trip while you were gone?" Mr. Crawford the evil science teacher asked when I stepped in.

"Yes. I did." I answered to the lie, like seriously what family goes camping every sunny day? You think we'd switch things up sometime.

"Good maybe you could identify some of the cell parts and their functions for us since you know so much already that you can skip classes."

"My dad wrote a note." I said back.

"I see that but I'm sure the other students know what the cell is all about because they were here working very hard while you were skipping through the forest." Somebody really needs to do personality checks on teachers before they become hired.

"I know I can." A very haughty sneer that could belong to none other then Ashlee emanated from behind me.

"See that is dedicated student." Mr. Crawford said still arguing well after the bell rang.

"Oh thank you." She jumped down from sitting on the edge of the desk and twitched over to us laying her hand on top of his. Was she really flirting with a teacher? "But I wouldn't be so dedicated if we didn't have such a wonderful teacher." Yes, I guess she was.

"I'm just doing my job." He shifted around uncomfortably moving his hand away. Lets be honest now, he was so around 43 years old, starting to show signs of grey hair through his brown and thining hair He had brown beady eyes and always some stubble, but not the bad ass kind the wanna be badass kind.

"Shouldn't you be teaching the other students not yelling at me if you're doing your job?" I asked.

"It can go both ways." He informed me, narrowing his beady eyes at me.

"Ok well you yelled at me can I sit down now?" I noticed Jacob had already taken his seat.

"Fine but next time consider yourself in detention." He pointed his finger at me. I nodded and sat down unfortunately next to Ashlee.

"Maybe you should check your hair for ticks if you went camping for so long?" She laughed in stereo version with another girl named Miranda, Ashlee's latest turn innocent girls into ho-bags project.

"Maybe you should check yourself for STD's." I heard Jacob coughing and I looked back to find him in hysterics.

"No need to worry I'm perfectly clean." She said to Jacob who looked utterly confused.

"That's good, it's good when people check." Yup, that was my man! I watched Ashlee twist her face into an odd emotion almost like disgust but more like disbelief.

"Ashlee doesn't like it when you talk about hateful and therefore untrue gossip." Miranda spoke up like a personal assistant.

"Well Nessie doesn't like it when Ashlee hits on teachers and taken men therefore making her a whore." I said in that annoying perky voice back.

"Girls!" Mr. Crawford yelled.

"Sorry." We muttered and he returned back to the lesson.

"You know maybe you'd be a lot less bitchy of you joined cheer you know at least then you could look like your trying to fit in." She handed me a flyer noting when tryouts were.

"Me? Bitchy? You're the one who seems to have a big bowl of Bitch-loops for breakfast every morning. Why can't you just leave Jacob and I alone and get it through your thick way to blonde skull that he will never like you or fuck you like Chris does in secret after school. So just shove this flyer up your ass." I screeched unfortunately not realizing until after I let some curse words fly that I had screamed in front of the whole classroom.

"Renesmee Cullen, step outside along with Ashlee, Miranda and Jacob." Mr. Crawford yelled turning his face red.

"Good going dork." Ashlee muttered as we stepped outside into the hall.

"Yeah good going dork." Miranda repeated. It was seriously a scene from Mean Girls with these two.

"Bite me." I sneered back at them and heard Jacob chuckle.

"This is no laughing matter Mr. Black." Mr. Crawford yelling at us, as usual, after he closed his door.

"Sure, sure." Jacob said and I looked back at our science teacher and he certainly looked like he was going to bust an artery. No body understood Jacob's 'sure, sure' well I should say no human.

"Don't get smart with me your already in enough trouble. Now what went on back in my classroom?" He asked looking at all of us with an intense stare.

"Simple, Nessie is jealous of me and needed to show how much she actually loves me by calling me names." Ashlee played the oh so innocent part making me throw up a little in my mouth at the way Mr. Crawford actually seemed to buy it. Well two could play at this game.

"Renesmee is this true?" He asked, hell to the no it wasn't!

"Not exactly." I tilted my head to the side looking up from lowered lashes. "You see Ashlee was hitting on Jacob for quite some time and I just couldn't handle it anymore. I'm very sorry for the interruption and language but may I ask you why I would be jealous of someone who wanted what I have?" I bite my lip a little watching as a small bead of sweat dripped from his forehead.

"Well, I, uh, I'm, umm, hmm." He looked away taking a few deep breaths before starting over. "I'm not good with girl problems so you can work on that in detention."

"What?!"

"No way!" We all screamed after he said detention.

"You are all at fault here and maybe an hour with each other will teach you something. Now take these slips down to the Principal for him to sign and I expect you back up here in a timely fashion." He ripped each of us a pink slip and we muttered our yeah's and whatever's as we walked off.

"That was hot back there." Jacob said putting his arm around my shoulder.

"What me yelling like a mental patient or me having to flirt with our science teacher?"

"Both." He smiled kissing my lips.

"You know at least I don't make out in the middle of the hall way, I atleast get a room." Ashlee said as we turned the corner towards the Principals office.

"Atleast you admit to it." I responded and before she could have a stab at a comeback for me Ms. Bates, the principals secretary, opened the door to greet us.

"I got a call to be expecting you." She said showing us to our seats while we waited.

"If you could just write down your names and the number to call so I can contact your parents or guardians I would really appreciate it." She smiled handing each of us a pen and paper.

"What a surprise to see you Jacob and especially you Renesmee. Such good kids the Cullen's are never a problem well until now." She giggled. She was a very bubbly secratary to say the least. "Oh and could you tell Dr. Cullen again thank you for staying with my son for a whole hour after he broke his arm."

"Will do." I said.

"Thank you now who is this you want me to call Jacob? You have nothing written down."

"Es...I mean my mother...my step mother." He stuttered and I tried to control my eye rolling. "I just figured Renesmee would have it already written down."

"Oh yes she does. You can have a seat again." She motioned for Ashlee to go to counter.

"Edward's not going to be happy." Jake whispered.

"Yeah can't wait to deal with his rath." I said. I was pretty sure no body in the history of our family had ever gotten detetion for a few reasons I could guess. 1) People were afraid of the guys in our family and wouldn't dare do anything like try to start a fight. 2) People were intimadated by the girls in our familys looks. 3) We weren't that stupid to call attention to ourselves well until now and 4) If we ever did anything we alwayds tampered with the evidence.

"You can go into his office now." Ms. Bates called for us.

"First set of detention slips today." Mr. Francino said as he signed ours one by one.

"Make sure you are in the room no later than 5 minutes after the final bell rings or else it counts as a cut." He said before we walked out.

"I've never gotten detention before this is going to be awful. My dad is going to murder me." I complained taking the long way back to class.

"Don't worry its Monday which means Mr. Francino has the duty of watching us." Ahlee said and we all looked at her.

"What? I'm not a detention virgin." She said.

"Your not a virgin in general." I muttered.

"Oh shut up. You shouldn't be talking."

"Huh?" I looked at her in disbelief.

"Yeah thats right there are rumors flying about your sex life."

"What? What do they say?"

"What do you think they say? That your going to wait until your out of this hell hole and then have sex no your married of course they say you two have had sex. Its not that hard to figure out." She shrugged.

"Well shit." I said.

"No need to worry though its better than having people say you have sex with the whole football team when you really only slept with 1 guy and he doesn't even realize how much you like him. Its better to be attached to someone and being talked about then not being attached at all." Her voice was low and she looked like so vulnerable that for a very quick second I wanted to hug her but that went away when she spoke again. "So next time you go and yell at me remember that Lock Ness." I rolled my eyes and sighed as we stepped back into science. As I took the worksheet from Mr. Crawford and sat back down trying very hard to focus I looked out of the corner of my eye and found Ashlee chewing on her lip and quickly wipe away what looked to be a tear. She caught sight of me looking at her and as she turned her head I saw her eyes fill with water ready to spill over. I was about to to tell her it was okay but before I could she said, "Allergies.", and turned her head back to her paper. I just kept looking at her, watching her try so hard not to let the tears spill over, it was actually heartbreaking to watch.

"Can I go to the bathroom?" She asked still not looking up.

"Yes." Mr. crawford answered and in one swift motion she got up with her books and walked to the door. As she clsoed the door behind her our eyes met through the glass window and she half smiled at me while shaking her head and the tears spilled over. I was so overwhelmed with how authentically vulnerable she looked that I wasn't sure if I should run after her or let her be. Thankfully the bell made the decision for me. I collected my things touching Jacob's cheek brief enough to let him know he's going to have to walk to the next class alone.

"Ashlee?" I called when I opened the door.

"Leave me alone." She sniffed. I walked forward and found her re doing her make up.

"Look I'm not here to be besties with you but I don't want you hating me either." I said taking out my own lipgloss. She walked away slamming open all the bathroom stalls and locking the door.

"Look, I'm going to say this once and thats it. Before you and your family moved here I was the prettiest here hands down but as soon as you guys walked onto teh sceneI turned into a has been and yet they still find time to make shit up about me. Do you know what its like to be a has been?" I shook my head.

"Of course. You could never be. Your whole family is freakin gorgeous with flawless pale skin, beautiful hair, expensive clothes, the best bodies out there." My face turned red and Ashlee noticed. "Yeah thats right don't think I don't know you and your family have a killer bodies under your Armani jeans and your Marc Jacobs tops. Its like your not human you guys are all adopted and yet all perfect. Its really wierd and..and intimidating aand the weirdest thing is your all paried up and married. Even Carlisle and Esme are gorgeous." I gulped hoping this wasn't going to be a I know what you are moment.

"maybe if you didn't put on so much eye liner you'd look more natural." I interuppted as she put on eyeliner.

"That's it too! You barely have makeup on, let me guess eye shadow a touch of mascara and lip gloss and your set, no foundation or cover up?"

"Your guess is right." I muttered.

"Of course it is. You may not realize it but I envy you." I swore I almost choked on my own salvia when she said that.

"But...but." I stuttered.

"What can I say I'm a good actress. You have what I want beauty, brains and a freakishly devoted and of so yummy husband, well maybe I don't want a husband but I would like a bopy friend that treats me right."

"Maybe you should treat them right first." I smiled shly not sure if she was going to yell at me.

"Maybe, but I can't be crying every second someone starts a rumor or a boy breaks my heart. So I become a bitch, you don't think I know? Please I know I'm terrible but its the only way I know hurt people before they can hurt you."

"Makes sense." I said and she laughed.

"Do you know how many rumors are actually true?"

"No." I answered.

"Barely any. The one about me and Chris getting it on is true, the one about me and the football team isn't. I only made out with one other guy on that team other than Chris. Me getting a boob job false, like seriously its called puberty." I chuckled at that. "Though me getting a nose job is true because I was dropped by one of the girls in cheer and broke my nose not becsue I wanted to look like Lindsay Lohan. It gets under my skin a lot."

"Why are you telling me all this?" I asked.

"Because your the only person who will listen the only one who will actually tell me the truth to my face rather than getting back at me by gossiping."

"What about Torri or even Miranda?"

"Miranda is obssesed with the fake me and Torri is too afraid to say what she wants becasue she thinks I'll kick her out. Which I probably would. Hell, I can't even talk to my mother about it she just wants me to be little Miss. Popular because that is what our family is known for being the best. So here I am spilling my guts out to you my enemy."

"We don't have to be enimies we could be friends." I offered my hand.

"No, no. Thats a must I already claimed I hated you and I wouldn't let my people down." SHe was back to her old self gathering her makeup. "But if you promise not to say a word of this to anybody I'll let you live your life and maybe I could talk to in secret sometime."

"Are you making a treaty with me?" I asked stunned.

"I guess I am." SHe smiled taking my hand and as soon as our hands touched she jumped back.

"Your hand is burning." She looked at me frantically. CRAP!!! Was the only word going through my head right now.

"Huh? I gotta get to class." I called but before I could escape she grabbed my arm. She put her hand to my forehead and I just stood there swallowing very loudly praying she'd think I had a fever.

"Your eyes aren't like the rest of theirs." She whispered. "Yours are brown and theirs are gold or are they black? No defintley gold but Alice had black eyes today." She started talking to herself about eye color. "And your skin is all pale except for Jacob." She whispered again still not letting go of my arm. I pushed my hair back trying to cool off from the intentisty of the conversation.

"What perfume is that?" She asked.

"I don't know Alice found it." I lied.

"Nessie are you in there?" I heard Edward call from the other side of the door.

"Yes." I answered gathering my things and rushing out.

"Detention?!" My father exclaimed walking right next to me in the hall towards 8th period.

"Yeah and could you keep it down bro." I emphasized the last word hopefully making him understand the hint.

"Alright then sis." I guess he did. "You know your father won't be happy about this."

"I know but maybe he could try and hear what she was saying." He paused taking his time to go through and then his eyes got really wide.

"She was asking you about that?" His voice cracked.

"Yes."

"And you just stood there?" He said between gritted teeth.

"Yes. What was I supposed to do knock down the door that wouldn't be suspicious at all."

"Renesmee." He sighed. "This is your class try and lay under the radar."

"Please excuse her lateness I had to tell her some important family things." My dad flashed his smile and of course my art teacher excused me.

"What went on back there?" Jacob asked.

"Nothing." I said and as easy as that we didn't talk for that whole period about Ashlee.

"Alright here are the rules." Mr. Francino said as we sat down for an hour of detention. "No talking, no passing notes, no texting or any communicating with the rest of the class. You have to sit and you can do homework. Now lets update your report cards." He smirked signing onto his account on the computer. So much for getting into boarding school, I thought becsue no way were they going to take someone with detention next to their name.

"Mr. Francino, we need you in the faculty meeting." Ms. Bates called. He looked around and it was only Jacob, Miranda, Ashlee and me in the room.

"I'll be watching." He warned stepping outside the room.

"Well this totally looks bad on my application." Ashlee said.

"Yeah mine too." I muttered.

"Me three." Jacob said. I rolled my eyes and noticed our principal still had the report card link up. So in a desperate attempt to get away I risked my life and walked over to the computer.

"What are you doing?" Jacob asked.

"I want in and I will get in." I whispered. Jacob's name was up first and so I got to work on taking off the detention note and also changing his grades, we do homework together I don;t know how he gets worse grades than I.

"Your going to get suspended if they catch you." He said looking really worried.

"Atleast I'll die trying." I said.

"Very rebellious today Nessie Cullen." Jake laughed.

"Yeah." I said bringing up my name next.

"Your going to fix my name right?" Ashlee asked walking towards me. I was about to say no but I saw a plead in her eyes and after her rant in the bathroom I couldn't at least try.

"Might as well do as much as I can before I get caught." I sighed bringing up her name next and fixing her grades and the many detention notes. I clicked save and headed back to my seat. I saw Ashlee trip over a desk and watched Jacob catch but instead of flirting with him I saw her jerk back with the same expression when she touched my skin. She looked at me before looking back towards Jacob and taking a quick sniff, with a confused look she walked back to her seat.

"That's odd." She said thoghtfully.

"What is?" Miranda pipped up.

"Nothing." She said and then whispered into my ear, "Renesmee knows." I whipped my head around and was not only surprised to see she wiped off some of her eye liner but how intuitive she could actually be. I could almost see the wheels turning trying to put something together although luckliy things weren't adding up for her. I took a deep cleansing breathand said, "Your right I do, you hate me." I smirked and before she could speak again Mr. Francino walked in leaving Ashlee in a whirlwind of thoughts and me very proud I still had a chance to get in.

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