(Jasper)

Things were bland. Dull. Boring. But then again, when wasn't it? Life was never exciting when you had nothing to live for, when you had nothing to smile at during the day. Sure i had my family, but they would exactly add up to a reason for exsisting. But what did it matter? I didnt deserve something to live for. I lifted my head from the book I was reading as the sun slowly peered in through my window, throwing diamonds around on my skin. I sat there and watched them for a little, the diamonds that marked me for who I was. I hated myself, I hated what I was, and I hated all that I had done in my past. Suicide was a constantly a looming thought in the back of my head, but something always held me here, held me to this place. I always thought it was the undeniable need to make up for the wrong I had done when I was a newborn. Maybe it was the fact that I thought a life of hell, a life alone, was fair enough trade for all that I had done. I was just living a life sentence; I would bear with it I told myself.

I got up slowly, I knew I was going to have to hunt before school if I didn't want to kill a school full of young children. I ran down the winding white oak stairs out to the open door and into the forest, smelling the air for the hint of a deer. I hated the taste of animal blood; it never made me feel full. But I had known only too well the draw backs of eating humans; I could feel everything they felt as I killed them. It was torture. So I stopped eating, I grew weak, and I wandered. That is until I met Carlisle who showed me this life and how I could live without feeling like a murderer. It made me feel a little better I had to admit. I smelt it then, pulling me out of my thoughts. A lion padding somewhere off in the distance, and I ran, I let my hunting side take over. I was going to be late to school I thought to myself as I drained the animal. But it didn't matter, I didn't even really need school, I already knew more than the teachers. But it helped make things more believable. And so every day I went the hell hole that was high school. I ran there today because I knew Edward had already driven the others in his Volvo, not caring to wait for me I thought sourly. I didn't want to be rude though, so concentrated only on what I saw in front of me instead of the distasteful things running through my mind about my siblings.

As I made my way into my junior level English I noted that everyone seemed a wee bit more excited then usual. I could feel it circulating around me like haze and as I looked towards the back of my room at my usual seat I saw why. Perched lightly in the seat next mine was a human. No more remarkable then the rest, but she was new. Everyone would find her exciting. She was small, fragile even for a human. Her hair was black and looked like a piece of bubble gum had gotten stuck in hair a while back and the barber did the best he could with what little hair he to work with. The skin on her body stood out in shocking contrast because it was so white. But her eyes were the most shocking, they were large and the color of the sky during midafternoon. She was nothing special, just a new human I would come to used to seeing everyday. As I waded closer I could almost taste her emotions, she was shocked and in awe. Of course she was I thought bitterly, my kind was beautiful to her. Hypnotizing. That way it was easier for us to lull them. I sat in my seat and tasted a change in the environment; the small girl next to me was having an epiphany it felt like. I turned to look out her from the corner of my eye, and in her eyes I could see everything, everything that was going on in her little head, but more than that I could see what almost looked like knowledge. But that was impossible, was it not? She wouldn't have guessed so quickly what we were, and if she had wouldn't she be scarred. Wouldn't I feel fear oozing off her body like a perfume? But there was none, I tasted the emotions around me again trying to get a good feel for the girl next to me, but there was nothing. I tasted again but there was a blank place where I knew she was, the place I could hear her heart beating from. I look over in shock as she starred heavily at nothing, like she was seeing something I had not. And than all together her emotions came flooding back like someone had built a dam and held the water off for such a short time but the water was too strong and it all came over flowing. She returned my gaze, with new found curiosity. So she had many questions too? We stayed like that for the rest of the class, starring at each other, trying to figure out what the other was thinking and when the bell rang I took one last glance and walked out of class.

The hallways were packed but then again when they weren't. I decided that I would wait for my brother Edward, and show him what had happened so that maybe he could help me understand, but than I saw her walk out of class and I could hear her and her "friend" were talking about me. Her "friend" Sarah was stabbing the poor girl with daggers with her emotions and I did not like it. I wanted to walk over and take the small girl away and protect her from Sarah's vile thoughts, I was taken aback for a moment, why did I care? I took one last glance at the small girl and walked away searching the halls for the familiar smell of my brother.

I could feel his emotions before I could smell him. Edward was just a little smaller than me, with unrully bronze colored hair he never bothered to pull a cob through, his arm was carelessy tossed around the shouldders of petite burnette girl whose wavy hair hung to her waste. They were beautiful, but we are were. He was happy of course and as he walked closer I could see why. Clearly he had cheated so he and his wife Bella had all their classes together.

"It's not cheating" Edward chuckled while Bells gracefully made her way over to me hugging me lightly around the waste, her head resting comfortable under my chin. Bella had been my best friend since the day she was turned and Edward had always been my brother, they were my family.

"What's wrong kiddo?" Bella asked playfully. I smirked; I was more than a 100 years older than her.

"There's a new girl" I informed them "and it's kind of life... she knows what we are? I don't know it's hard to explain. And for a moment in class just now, her emotions... disappeared" Bella's head cocked to the side as she scanned the hall for the so said girl. "I was wondering if you could read her mind, see what she knows" Edward nodded and also scanned the halls until I saw his eyes scrunch in frustration and finally close.

"I can't read her mind" He hissed. Bella and I turned to him in shock "I can't hear anything, it's like she's mindless!" oh boy. Someone was mad his gift was working. His eyes shot open and were immediately on me, "you have to babysit the human make sure she doesn't know what we are, or tell anybody and from what I can hear in other peoples heads, her name is Alice" Edward grabbed Bella's hand and walked down the hall a little fast for a human, while I starred down at the floor. Babysit the human? What did that mean? Stalk her? Become friends with her? Ugh! Why did humans make everything so complicated! Why did Alice make things so complicated?

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