Emma POV

As I got ready for school, I couldn't help but think about him, my brother, he must be here. He has to be or the move here was useless. I went downstairs knowing that no one would be there. It was too early for them. Max came downstairs, following me.

"Explain to me again, why we're going to school."

I shook my head at him, getting out some cereal, "Because it's a good way to get a sense of what this place is all about. If you're gonna whine, you know, you don't have to go." I took a bite of my cereal.

He looked at me with a knowing look, "You know why I agreed to go." Yeah, I did. Max is just a little overprotective of me.

As I finished my cereal, "Then stop complaining." I stated. That shut him up.

We finished up and left. As soon as we got to school, the bell rang. We hurried to class. Max and I were the last to enter the class, but we made it before the second bell.

I walked to my seat. Max right behind me. I was happy Max's desk was next to mine. He looked at me, I smiled at him. He smiled back shaking his head at something.

Class was too boring to pay attention to. I looked around the classroom. I noticed some boy in the back staring at me. He had black curly hair and pretty well built. His desk was closer to the blond girl next to him and he was holding her hand. I looked over to her. She was beautiful. Blond hair, perfect skin. They were a cute couple.

I looked away, realizing I was staring. Max passed me a note. I looked at the teacher, his back was to us. I opened the note:

Is that guy him?

I looked at him with a you've-got-to-be-kidding look. He shrugged.

No, he's too young.

I looked at the teacher and when it was safe I gave him the note. He scribbled something down then gave me the note. I opened it:

Oh, that makes sense. We'll look around after school.

I looked at him. He was always supportive. I wrote:

K J

I gave it to him. He read it and put it away. The rest of class was pretty boring.

Soon, it was lunch. The people here still stared at us like we were freaks. And it didn't bother me. I wasn't going to stay here for to long. We ate alone, well together, but will no one else.

Max turned to me, "Did you hear about the freaks of this school?" I raised my eyebrows, "Really?" I said interested.

"Yeah it's that group over there." He pointed out with his eyes, "They're actually a family." I looked over in the direction that Max was looking, where six beautiful people were sitting.

"What's their name?" Max mumbled to himself. "Oh, Cullen, that's their name." I cocked my head he side. "That's strange."

"What?" Max said looking at me.

"There a family? Like family?" putting emphasis on the last word. I was look at how couple-y they looked. Talk about incest.

"Oh," Max started, "No. They're like our family."

"Oh," I paused, "That makes much more sense."

I smiled at what Max said "'Our' family, huh?" I laughed. He shook his head.
I laughed even more. He rolled his eyes. "Yeah, OUR" he said moving his hand at the space between us, "family. Now, Eat you're gonna need the energy." It was my turn to roll my eyes. I took a bite of sandwich.

Soon, school was over and Max and I left to go look around. Forks was really, really small. A couple motels, a diner, a connivance store, a grocery store, a small library, and a police station.

We looked everywhere. We couldn't find anyone with the last name McCarty or someone who looks like me. I sighed, on the back of Max's bike.

"Let's just go home." Max accelerated home. When we got there, Max said, "I'm sorry we couldn't find anything." I looked at my feet and shrugged, "It is okay."

"We'll look tomorrow." He said hopeful. I shook my head looking at him.

"We're all going to go see Tom, remember?"

"Oh, yeah." Max said. Max was often forgetful. I smiled at his cluelessness.

We walked in. I did my homework. Made dinner, after dinner, we all sat around the TV. Around 10pm, I felt sleepy. I went up to Max's room. I usually slept with him when I didn't feel well.

I crawled into bed with him. He put his arms around me. I snuggled up against him.

"Max?" I said trying to hide the sadness in my voice. "Hmm" he said.

"What if the scorpions get us?" Max pulled away looking at me. "What?"

I immediately regretted asking. "Sweetie is that what's bothering?" I pulled him closer.

"I-I think we should leave."

"Emma, you're making no sense now. We just got here."

"I'm not sure why we're here anymore."

"Why?"

"Because, if my brother is here. Why should it matter? Sure, it would be nice to meet him, but" I paused, "you know as well as I do that it's hard to get close to people who aren't like us. And if I stay here, with the scorpions around, he might get hurt."

"Well, what about Tom? He needs help and the doctor here is highly recommended." He ended sourly. He didn't like doctors. All of us didn't like them or anything similar.

We wouldn't need that stupid doctor, if Max would let me help Tom myself. But I wasn't going to bring that topic with Max. "Fine, we'll stay for Tom."

I kissed Max and went to sleep.

Emmett's POV

I was so MAD! Japer and I were playing a new game on the PS3 and he was BEATING ME! Jasper and Edward were going to leave to go hunting. But then I challenged Jasper.

"I found it." I heard Carlisle say from his study. In a flash, he was downstairs. "I know what scorpions are." Everyone was listening.

"We'll what is it?" Jasper said.

"Basically," Carlisle started, "They're a group of vampires that experiment with vampire venom."

My eyes widened. "Whoa."

"They've been experimented with?" Edward asked.

"I can't say for sure, but that would be my best guess." My jaw dropped, "That's horrible."

I could feel my eyes turning black. "Maybe you should go hunt with Jasper and Edward." Alice said.

"Yeah, Honey," Rose agreed. "Better safe then sorry."

"Fine" I quickly packed my stuff and left.