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Chapter 12

Alice got us up at 6:45am, and we quickly got dressed.

"Makeup time!" She said, ushering us into the living room the second we were dressed.

This time, she and Rosalie did our makeup, at human speeds, so it took a while, but we actually looked great. Alice and Rosalie only did it at human speed because they wanted our experiences to be as human as possible. After that, we had a drink, and then we headed off to school with Alice in a car after picking up our bags and saying bye to Esme.

We were the first people there, so Alice accompanied us to the office.

"Hello, Mrs. Cope." Alice said to the woman at the desk.

"Now, then, what can I do for you?"

"Good morning, Mrs. Cope, I'm Carlisle Cullen's niece, and I'm starting here with my friends today."

"Oh, of course, here's your schedules, and everything you might need." She said, handing me 4 plastic wallets, each labelled with one of our names, I looked at mine and gave Anita, Jess and Lauren theirs.

That day, I had English first, with Miss Turner, followed by Maths with Mrs Prince, then Science with Mr Martin, Music with Miss Gordon, and French with Mrs. Sharp. It seemed like a nice, regular day. What I was ecstatic to discover was that we had lockers. We never had lockers back in England, just pegs and trays, so it was a new experience for us.

"Jess, what do you have?"

"Um... I have History, Geography, P.E., Music and French, in that order."

"We have 2 lessons together today, then. What about you, Lauren?"

"History, Science, P.E., Art and Art again..."

"Nothing with me today, then. Anita?"

"Maths, English, P.E, Geography, History."

"Nothing with you either. Alice, where do we go till classes?"

"Oh, just go sit in the cafeteria." She said, before twirling away.

We found the cafeteria pretty easily, mainly because there was a map at the back of our wallets, and we talked until the bell for lessons went, then scattered to our lessons.

I found English pretty easily, and I found a seat in the middle. I was one of the first ones there, and seeing as it was the first day of term anyway, there was no reason that I couldn't choose my own seat.

When the rest of the class had arrived, I found myself sat next to another girl. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance for an introduction then because Miss Turner had us all do introductions to the whole class. I volunteered second, with the first being a boy sat in front of me. I wanted to make a good impression, and I wanted to become more confident. I wasn't, however, comfortable with being the ice breaker.

"Hi, I'm Fred, some of you will know me from before, but for those of you who don't, hi, and welcome to Forks High. My older brother goes here too, he'll be a senior now." He said, before sitting down in his seat again.

I then went up to the front, and introduced myself.

"Hi, I'm Kaisha-Louise, but I don't normally use the –Louise, so basically I'm just Kaisha... I just came up here to stay with my uncle, aunt and cousins, and I bought 3 friends with me. Yes, I am from England, and if you're wondering about my hair, blame my amazing cousin. I don't have any siblings..." I said, before sitting back next to the girl. She just happened to volunteer to go next.

"Hi, guys, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Ashley, and like Freddie, I also have an older sibling who is a senior, my sister and I grew up here, and um... yeah..." She then sat down again.

The rest of the introductions were slow, and by the end of them, there were less than ten minutes left, so Miss Turner just said that there was no point in even distributing the books, so she just said we could talk for the remainder of the lesson. I took this opportunity to properly meet Ashley.

"Hi, I'm Kaisha, which you kind of know..."

"Yeah, hi."

"Who's your sister? I know a few seniors, who know more seniors, in fact I'm staying with seniors and my aunt, uncle and friends... oops... started babbling..."

"My sister is Jessica Stanley... we may have the same hair, but I don't think I'm that much like her..." Now that she mentioned it, she did have very similar hair to her sister, and a few similar features, but nothing striking.

"My cousin's friend knows her... I think they're friends or something..."

"Oh... cool. So, do you want to sit with me at lunch?"

"Yeah, sure, that would be great. So, what do you have next?"

"I have Maths next, then Music, Science and French."

"Wow... weird, we have exactly the same lessons today!"

"Yeah... some people have to, I guess. I'd sit next to you in maths, but I promised my other friend... if you want, I know exactly who to get you to sit with."

"Yeah, that would be great, Ashley."

"Come on, I'll just get you two properly introduced." She grabbed my hand, and took me over to a group of boys. Great, the first real experience with boys my own age since primary school...

"Hey, Ash, what can I do for you today?" Fred asked.

"Freddie, this is my new friend, Kaisha, and she needs a partner for Maths, and I promised her that I'd get her someone to sit with in Maths, which I know you have next, now I would have partnered with her, but I promised Allison, so can you partner her?"

"Yeah, Ash, that'd be great."

"Ok, I think I'll leave you to it, then, see you in a bit, Kaisha, Freddie." Ashley said, before going off and talking to another friend of hers.

"So... you're from England, right?" He asked.

"Yeah, like I said, staying with friends and relatives..."

"Who is your cousin, anyway?"

"Um... I'd rather not say right now..."

"That's cool. So, what are you into?"

"Oh, you mean my hobbies? Well, I like reading, drama, music, story writing, stuff like that, and I also like animals... but I don't think animals is exactly a hobby..."

"Yeah. I'm into... a lot... so will you be signing up for any extracurricular activities?"

"Um... I dunno, it depends on what there is."

"Well, for a start, I know there's a theatre club and a creative writing club, and a newspaper club."

"Sounds great, Fred, I'll probably sign up for those..."

"Call me Freddie, all my friends do."

"Thanks, Freddie."

"Yeah."

The bell went right then, and I didn't get a chance to say anything else, mainly because there was such a rush, so I just went straight to Maths. Amazingly, Fred was in class before me. He had saved me a seat next to him. Sat on the next table across was a girl with rather nice, curly, dirty blonde hair in two low bunches, she was also wearing glasses. I also noticed that Ashley wasn't in the room yet, but I didn't worry, I just assumed that she went to the loo.

A few minutes later, the teacher distributed our class books and the textbooks, and introduced herself. Ashley arrived just after the teacher finished the introductions, and seemed a little worried.

"Sorry I'm late, Mrs. Prince, but I was just worried about... oh there you are, Kaisha! You see, she's just come over from England to stay with her uncle, and his wife and kids, and I waited for her to come out of English, but I guess she already arrived. Sorry, again. I was just trying to be a good friend." She then went and sat down next to the girl with dirty blonde hair, who I realised must have been Allison.

"Don't worry, we've all made mistakes like that, there's no harm done, we hadn't even started work, anyway."

At that moment, I began to like Mrs. Prince. She was young, pretty, and seemed to be fresh out of school. She had long brown hair in a loose ponytail, and she, like Allison, was wearing glasses, but was clutching a maths textbook, and was sat on her desk.

After Ashley was sat down, she talked to us a bit about what we were going to do in maths that year, before getting us to work on some problems, and coming to see us all, to see how we were doing. When she came to my table, she stopped a little longer.

"So, you're Kaisha, right?"

"Yes, Mrs. Prince."

"So, how are you finding America?"

"It's great, Miss."

"Is this work okay for you?"

"It's okay, I think I did this before, and I think that I did some harder stuff back home, but it's fine..."

"Oh, well if ever you want anything else, please let me know, I'd only be too happy to help you out."

"Thanks miss."

She then carried on going around the class and helping people who needed it. I helped Freddie when he needed it, and when we both finished, we managed to have a chat.

"So... you said you did harder stuff back home? How come?"

"I was doing my GCSEs. They're these qualifications you get when you're 16, but you start them when you're 14. After you do them, you go to college and you do your A Levels, which you get when you're 18, and if you decide to get more qualifications, you go to university and get a degree, and if you wanted to be, for example, a teacher, you'd go for about 4 years."

"Wow... how do you know all that?"

"I... don't actually know..."

After that, we talked a bit more, and we decided that we would get to know each other a little better. When we were talking, I didn't think it was quite the right time to say that my 'uncle' was Carlisle Cullen, because not everyone seemed to be the Cullens' biggest fans. However, I did tell him that in England I had left behind my precious little dog, Jake, who I really missed, more than other... certain family members, at least, my mum, Kelly, 2 uncles, Neil and Dean, my cousin, Luke, and a set of grandparents, Vena and Roy. He only had one brother, which was one sibling more than I had. He also told me that he was really good at sport, and, in turn, I told him that I really wasn't. Another thing he told me was that he had gone to schools with Allison and Ashley before, since they first started going to school, in fact, which I thought was really sweet, they'd known each other almost their entire lives, and they still managed to be close friends without growing sick of each other. He did also say that he had met Ashley before as their older siblings were friends, so they had a few play dates before they went to school, and Allison was her cousin's wife's cousin's daughter, so really, they all had connections before they started school. As it turned out, both he and Allison were also going to be in my science class as well, and because he and Ashley wanted to sit together, we arranged for me to sit next to Allison. She was rather shy, and only gave me a little smile, blushed, then shyly put her head down a little when I said I would sit beside her in science, but other than that she was very quiet and once she finished her work, she just read her book. Mrs. Prince decided that seeing as it was only the first day of term, we would be allowed to do whatever we wanted, within reason, once we had finished the work. This was because she wanted to ease us into the new school year, and she hadn't finished preparing the work for the next lesson, and the extension work wasn't quite finished either. I didn't mind, and I don't think anyone else did either. I was about to reread twilight, but I realised that none of these kids would have heard of it, and I didn't want questions being asked. I finally acknowledged my brain's existence at that point. I know, that makes me sound a little conceited, but, seriously, I do really stupid things at... certain points in my life, and sometimes it makes me think that I literally have no brain. Like this one time, I asked Jess what my name was, another time, I thought the date was March 32nd, and I put it on all my work that day... I guess I April Fooled myself that day, ant there have been... many times in my life which I don't think my brain was being used to its full capacity, and I suppose I took it for granted. Anyway, what I was saying was... the point is... I never realised that my brain really existed before then, and even though I was in all the top sets back home, to me, at least, it didn't mean I had a brain. In my opinion, having a brain doesn't mean being good at Maths, or Science, or French, or English, it means being able to use your brain to avoid being in such weird, stupid, and embarrassing situations... which I got into a lot. After my brain went through all this stuff, about a million times, I finally took a look at the clock. There were only a few minutes left of the lesson, and most people had already packed away their pencil cases, books and textbooks, so I packed my things away too, ready to go to my next lesson, Science.

"So... you kinda spaced out for a while there, didn't you?"

"Yeah, Freddie... I've kinda been doing that... my whole life..."

"No worries, loads of people do..."

"Thanks... so when was the last time you spaced out?" I smiled.

"Um... I don't think I'm the spacing out type. What I said was, loads of people space out, I never said I space out."

"Right..."

Then the bell went, and we all rushed out of Maths and to our next lessons. I arrived at science before Allison, so I picked out a table towards the front, and in the middle, because I didn't want to pick out a table that she didn't want, and that table seemed about right, and I was one of the first there, so if Allison arrived before most of the rest of the class, we could still change tables. Allison arrived less than a minute after I did, and she was, by the way, almost the same height as me, and she was happy with my choice of table, which made me glad. I let her choose which seat to sit on, but in the end, she let me choose. I chose to sit on the right because I was right handed, but as it turned out, she was right handed too, so it didn't really matter what side either of us sat on, but I still sat on the right.

Mr Martin was the first teacher we had that day to do a register, and for the first time in my life, I wasn't last in the register, I was right near the front. I was just glad that Mr Martin only did a first name register, because I still wasn't sure whether or not I wanted that whole school knowing... of course, I knew that it was inevitable that they find out sooner or later... I just opted for the latter option. Like all teachers, Mr Martin needed help pronouncing my name, and like I told my R.E. teacher back in England, I told him to pretend the 'i' was a 'y' because it's always bugged me when my name was incorrectly pronounced.

After Mr Martin had given out all the books, and set the work, which was, by the way, pair work, I discovered that both Allison and I both had a good idea of what to do, and we finished the work quickly, which was good, because I tried to get her to open up to me afterwards.

"So, Allison, how's your day so far?"

"It's fine..." She said, in barely more than a whisper.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, it's... I'm fine..."

"Are you sure, you look a little pale..."

"I'm fine... I'm really... feeling sick..."

I quickly put my hand up, and told Mr Martin that Allison was ill, so he excused us both to the nurse's office. Unfortunately, I didn't tell her in time, because Allison was sick all over the floor before we managed to get out the room, but I just carried on, the important thing was getting her to the nurse. I supported her as much as I could.

"Are you going to be sick again?"

"I... don't know..."

"Look, we can just take our time, there is no rush, and if you have to be sick again then that's fine, Allison."

"Thanks... but I just want to get to the nurses office..." She then slipped over, spraining her ankle. "I guess... it's just not my day today..."

"Don't worry, we've all had them. just put your arm over my shoulder and put all your weight between me and your other foot."

She did, and we managed to walk all the way around the corner before I found myself bumping into...

"Edward? Why aren't you in... whatever lesson you have now?"

"I, um... think it's healthy to cut class once in a while... who's your friend? Is she alright?"

"Oh, Edward, this is Allison, Allison, this is Edward, anyway, Edward, Allison's been sick and sprained her ankle, so I'm taking her to the nurse's office."

"Do you need any help with that? I mean, you're both 14, I'm 17, I can help."

"Thanks, Edward. Can you um... actually you're too tall... I'll manage."

"Yeah, Edward, we can, but thanks..."

"Ok, then. Do you want to come in my car tonight, or do you want Alice driving you in a car that isn't hers?"

"Oh, I think you can drive me tonight, oh, and Edward's one of my cousins, Allison, that's why he's driving me home tonight, I'm not the kind who gets lifts with strangers."

"Oh, right... are you Edward Cullen?"

"Yes."

"My mum's cousin's wife's cousin, Jess Stanley, used to mention you a lot."

"Really?" I knew he would have already known, that mind rapist. And he gave me a lovely stern look after I thought that (!)

"Yeah, um, Allison, let's just get you to the nurses office."

And just like that, Allison was sick, again, all over the floor.

"Edward, clean that up."

"No, that's the cleaner's job."

"Edward... fine, I'll tell Esme and Carlisle about this."

"But... fine..."

"Thanks, Edward." I smiled.

I stayed there for a few moments, in case Allison needed to be sick again, and she did, next to the spot she had been sick in before, and we started walking again, just as I saw Edward coming around the corner again, ready to clean up her sick.

Quickly, we were in sight of the nurse's office, we had made it. Unfortunately, she was sick all over me just before we got in there. Still, I persevered, covered in sick.

"Excuse me, Nurse..."

"Nurse Edwards. Are you okay, dear?" Nurse Edwards had a weatherworn face, and seemed rather nice; and she had a few gray hairs.

"Um, well I'm feeling rather sick now, but it's my friend, Allison you need to worry about, she's been sick all over the school, and me, and she's sprained her ankle."

"Do the cleaners know?"

"Um, well I found my cousin, Edward, skipping class, so I made him do it..."

"Ah, well, Allison, is it? Do you want me to call your parents?"

"They're out of town on business... my older brother is looking after me at the moment, but he's staying with friends tonight..."

"Oh... well, is there anyone I can call?"

"Esme. Call my Aunt Esme. She won't mind, besides, we have plenty of clothes that she can borrow."

"Kaisha, are you sure?"

"Yes, it'll be... fine..." I said, before being sick all over my shoes... great (!)

"I guess we have two going home today then. And who is it I have to call?"

"Esme Cullen, Nurse Edwards."

"First time I've ever had to send a Cullen home, ill... so, are you a new foster kid, or..."

"Carlisle's my uncle, biologically. " I lied.

"Ok."

After that, Nurse Edwards bought over 2 sick buckets, one for me, and one for Allison.

By the time Esme arrived to pick us up, our buckets were both almost full, and Nurse Edwards had strapped up Allison's ankle. Oh, and Allison was covered in my sick.

It was the middle of lunch, but seeing as everyone was busy eating, no-one was around anyway.

Esme quickly got us in the car.

"So, do you think you'll be sick again, girls?"

We both didn't reply, neither of us really knew.

"Well, if you are, then just feel free to vomit all over the car, I'll have Edward clean it up, he needs more punishment for skipping class, so please, please be sick."

"Thanks... Mrs. Cullen..."

"It's Esme, dear."

"Sorry, Esme."

"It's ok, you weren't to know. Now, will you be okay with having one of my daughters' cast offs?"

"That's fine."

"Well, we have so many, you'll probably be able to have as many as you want. Alice and Rosalie have got through a lot of clothes. Oh, and Kaisha, we've got a surprise for you in the house. I had Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie do it earlier. They decided to come home from college..." She lied. They never actually went to college.

We were quickly back home, too quickly, in fact. However, to Esme's delight, I got rid of the last of the sick in my system in the car. Esme guided us upstairs, and I wondered why this was. She led me to a room that I had never been in before.

"Kaisha, this is your new bedroom. Surprise! We were all going to show you tonight, but... anyway, I had Rose bring all your clothes up, I'll bring a pile in for Allison as well, and I forgot to say, this room is for you, Lauren and your guests. Just opposite is Anita and Jess' room, those three will find out later. So, before I go, Allison, when are your parents getting back?"

"Friday night, but I can go before then, my brother might be in...."

"Nonsense, you can stay here as long as need be, and I think that is until Saturday morning."

"Thanks Esme..."

"Don't worry, dear, I consider it a pleasure, honey. And I'll be taking you to your home tonight to get your things."

She then left, came back, carrying an enormous pile of clothes, just for Allison, I had to learn not to be surprised by the size of clothes piles.

Anyway, the room was painted pale blue, well furnished, and had all my games consoles, books, and... everything in it, and, of course, everything that Lol had too. It had 2 single beds in, one at each side, and a few (more like a lot) camp beds and airbeds pushed to the sides of the room. I bagsied the one nearest the desk, where I changed. It also had some mini fridges, and an absolutely huge flat screen TV.

We both got changed at opposite ends of the room. When we were finished, Allison took a proper look around the room.

"Whose is all this stuff?"

"Mine and my friend Lauren's, I guess... so, why do your family leave you on your own all the time?"

"They never cared about me... I'm even stuck making up a brother..."

"Then who looks after you?"

"Me... I'm a bad cook, so I live off Pot Noodle and things like that most of the time..."

"Really? That's horrible!"

"I'm fine, it's..."

"Don't worry. I'm not going to tell."

"Thanks..."

"So... do you want any food in the next few hours, or a drink?"

"I'll have a glass of water... please..."

"I hate the taste of water, personally... I like juice."

I looked in the fridge, and gave Allison a bottle of water, and I had some juice for myself. To be honest, the Cullens were giving us far too much, but I wasn't going to complain.

A few hours later, Esme bought us down from the bedroom for when the others arrived home from school. This was because she wanted the rooms to be a surprise to everyone else later. She also got Rose, Emmett and Jasper down in the living room too.

The five of them arrived home just after 4pm.

"Are you okay now, Kaisha?" Edward asked.

"I'm fine, but I think you'll find that there's a car which you have to clean out. Esme said if we were sick again in the car, you would be responsible for cleaning it up, as punishment for skipping class."

"Thanks..." He said, before walking out of the room.

"Jazz! Why haven't you gone off to college?" Alice asked. Of course she knew why, but this was purely for Allison.

"I... couldn't go without you... I'm waiting till next year..." he said.

"That's so sweet." She gave him a hug.

"Oh, right... Jasper is Alice's boyfriend, Rosalie, the blonde one, is Emmett, the big one's girlfriend, she's also Jasper's twin. Oh, and a girl at our school, called Bella is Edward's girlfriend. Oh, and the only real siblings are Jasper and Rosalie. They're all foster kids..."

"Oh, right... that's a little weird..."

"Oh, right, guys, this is my friend, Allison, she'll be staying with us till her parents get back from a business trip, Esme insisted..."

"Hang on, weren't you in my History class?" Jess asked.

"Yeah... I sat near you..."

"So what would you have had today?" Anita asked.

"History, Maths, Science, Geography, and French..."

"You would have had Geography with me, then." Anita said.

"And French with me and Jess... oh, wait, I forgot, Allison, these are my friends from England, Jess, Anita, and Lauren."

"Hi..."

"Oh, wait, Lauren, there's something that Allison and I have to show you, and Rosalie, Alice and Esme have something to show you, Jess and Anita. Can we show them now?"

"I suppose so, come on, let's go upstairs, girls."

We all ran upstairs to our room, but before opening the doors, Alice and I counted down.

"3...2...1... taa daa!"

We opened the doors, and Lolly was amazed. I would comment on Anita and Jess' initial reaction, but I couldn't, seeing as we were on opposite sides of the hallway.

"Oh my God! This is amazing, thank you!"

"Don't thank us, thank Esme and... everyone..."

Just then, Anita and Jess ran into our room.

"Oh my gosh, have you seen our... wow, your room is..." Anita said.

"I know, cool, right?"

"Have you seen our room?" Jess asked.

"No, come on, you two, let's take a look." I said, going into Jess and Anita's room. It was as big as mine, and it also had lots of the same things, except it was painted purple, and there weren't any games consoles. I did notice, however that there were 2 new laptops for Anita and Jess, and a bunch of other stuff.

Just then, Lolly ran in, carrying a laptop of her own.

"Look what I found under my bed!"

"Wow! Now all 4 of us have laptops!"

It was an interesting day to say the least, our first day at Forks High, for dinner that night, Allison and I only had some soup, because we were still feeling nauseous. We hardly got any sleep, because we had a movie marathon, and we finally got to sleep at 4am. Allison and I were the only two not to go crazy on snacks, except Alice, obviously. Rosalie chose not to join us.

I literally just finished this chapter, so Ihope you enjoy it. Hope you enjoyed reading it, and a belated happy new year. :)

Kaisha :)