Time for School

7 years later…

Kathy's POV

"C'mon Kathy!" I heard Jazz call calmly.

"Coming!" I called to Jazz.

I grabbed my last binder and put it into my bag and went downstairs to see everyone else was waiting. Ah, the life of living with super-speedy vampires.

"Did you ever think it was because you were slow for a human?" Edward teased me.

I stuck my tongue out to him and he chuckled at my childishness.

"C'mon! Let's go!" Nessie squealed as she grabbed my arm and practically dragged me to the garage with Edward following us.

"Why do we even bother hurrying?" I asked getting in the back seat of the Volvo, "Edward's insane driving could get us to school in about 5 minutes."

"Or less," Edward added and the thought made me shudder.

Since it had been about 70 years, since the Cullens came to Forks High, they considered coming with Nessie and me, but we insisted that we wanted to go to school by ourselves.

In the end, we won the little argument and now we were about to start at Forks High School, in the middle of March, as juniors.

I felt the nervousness rush to me when we were in front of the school. Dad (aka Carlisle) had always been the one to teach me all the things to learn at school, it was usually either him or Jazz.

They were both great teachers, but I'd always wanted the actual high school experience and now I was about to get what I had wanted for such a long time.

"One of us will be back later to get you," Edward told us and we both nodded and got out of the car.

"Bye, Daddy," Nessie said lowly so no one else could hear the 'daddy' part. We'd told everyoe that they were brother and sister, since they looked so much alike. If I didn't know the truth I'd say thaey were siblings too.

She kissed him on the cheek and with a final smile, he drove off.

We both looked around and saw several people staring at us. This was going to be hard if people stared, I never liked attention, where as Nessie felt fine with it.

"Let's go in," she said and she tugged on my hand to get me moving.

As we walked to the main office, people continued to stare at us. I blushed and looked away when I saw a group of boys whistle at us.

Nessie gave out a sound of disgust and then, we were at the office.

We stepped in and saw a brunette woman who looked to be in her late twenties. She saw us and smiled warmly, "What can I do for you, girls?"

"Hello," Nessie said sweetly, "I'm Renesmee Cullen and this is my sister, Katherine Hale. We're here to get our schedules."

She shuffled through a few papers on the side and handed us two pieces of paper, "Would you like some maps as well?"

"Yes, please," I said shyly.

She laughed a bit at this and said, "Don't worry, the boys at this school will get used to you two."

Nessie and I giggled at this and she handed us both maps of the school and we were off.

Comparing schedules we saw we had 4 classes together. I frowned; I was hoping it would've been more.

"Looks like we won't see each other until 3rd period," I stated comparing our schedules.

"Yeah," she sighed, "I wish Jake could've come with us."

I smiled at her and shook my head; having a boyfriend must've been really nice. I usually wished I had someone special like everyone in our family did.

"Well, this is my class," Nessie said, looking at her schedule then at the room number.

"I guess I'll see you later, then," I said and she gave me a hug and entered her class.

Taking a deep breath, I turned around and went to try and find my class.

Fortunately, the school wasn't so big, so it wasn't a problem with getting lost.

Unfortunately, I was looking down at my schedule for so long I forgot there were several other people in the hallways and then-

Bump!

"Oh!"

"Oof!"

I had landed on my bottom like the 'graceful' little girl I was and then I heard all of the students around me laughing.

"Sorry, sorry!" I heard someone frantically say above me.

I looked up to see a boy with cropped brown hair and brown eyes.

"Here let me help you," he said as he extended his hand down to me and I took it gratefully. But when I was on my feet again he winced and pulled his hand away.

"I'm really sorry," he said, after a few seconds, his voice filled with concern, "Are you okay?"

I nodded and looked away, feeling extremely embarrassed that I'd fallen on my first day.

"Hey," he said trying to get into my view, "You're new here, right?"

"Um, y-yes," I said quietly.

"Yeah, I heard there were two new students today," he extended his hand to me, "I'm Luke Choler."

I took his hand and shook it slowly, "I-I'm Kathy Hale."

Before he'd taken his hand back, I noticed a bruise on his wrist. I looked down to see he was wearing a black hoodie and long, black jeans. But I couldn't see why; it was about 70 degrees today. Was he sick or something?

Then, the bell rang and I panicked thinking I was late on my first day, but Luke simply chuckled and assured me, "It's only the warning bell, we've still got 5 minutes."

I let out a sigh of relief and then walked on ahead, but he followed me.

"So, are you and the other girl related in anyway?" he asked, trying to make small talk, obviously, with his hands in his pockets.

"Yes and no," I answered him, surprising myself when I didn't stutter, "Our parents adopted the two of us and some others who preferred to be home schooled," I lied smoothly.

"So, you're sisters," he concluded and I nodded.

"What happened to your real parents?" he asked after a short pause.

"I don't remember," I answered truthfully, but then added on yet another lie, "But I do live with my blood brother and sister; Rosalie and Jasper."

"Who are home-schooled?" he asked.

"Yes," I answered.

After a few more steps, we were in front of my classroom.

"Hey, uh," I looked to Luke who had his hand behind his head, "Would you mind if I looked at your schedule?"

I smiled at him and handed him the piece of paper. He looked through it briefly and the handed it back to me with a smile, "We have gym, lunch and Biology together."

I looked down at my schedule and saw I had gym right after this period and smiled at the thought of knowing someone who would be there.

"So, I guess I'll see you later, Kathy," he said and he went off to the end of the hallway and turned.

With a deep breath I slowly opened the door and stepped in.

End of Chapter 5