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Chapter
Two
The Cullens
The drive to school seemed to be incredibly long, even in my brand new truck. But for some reason, I couldn't wait to get to school today and I didn't know why.
I felt as if something exciting would be happening to me today that would make my junior year of high school stimulating and I had the gut wrenching feeling that whatever had me so excited would happen in less than five minutes, when the bell for lunch would ring.
"Did you hear about the new students?" I heard my friend, Jenna, ask me. I turned my attention to her and shook my head. I didn't really care when new students came to the school. They were always coming from Oregon, Forks or Seattle. We probably had a new student every two weeks. After a while, you become bored of being the welcoming committee.
"Well," Jenna continued. "They were adopted by a doctor and his wife and they're all together, except for their youngest son. I guess he likes to be a loner or something." I looked at her, curiously. I wanted to know more about these new students and hopefully Jenna would be willing to tell me more at lunch.
I wanted to cover my ears when Jenna and I entered the loud cafeteria. I scanned the entire room, hoping to find some of the new students. If only I knew what they looked like.
We stood in the lunch line, filling our trays up with not-so-appetizing food. We ended up stuck behind a burly looking kid. Actually, he looked like he shouldn't even be in high school. He was probably using steroids for football or something. As he walked, I couldn't help but notice that he was talking to a beautiful blonde.
"I can't believe he hasn't gotten over her yet," the blonde said. She didn't sound too nice.
"He loved her, Rose," the burly man replied. "We all loved her." The blonde scoffed before stomping away to a table in the east corner of the cafeteria. The burly man quickly followed her.
I shrugged and headed over to the usual table with Jenna. "Tell me more about these new students," I urged Jenna. The heads of my friends who had already been sitting turned in my direction. I was even shocked myself. I never took a huge interest in the new people.
Jenna searched the cafeteria and I followed her gaze. It landed on a table in the east corner. "Those are them," Jenna whispered. I studied the new kids. There were three others, the burly man and beautiful blonde woman. I couldn't help but notice how sad they all looked, excluding the blonde. She was too busy looking in her mirror. Neither one of them touched their food.
"But who are they?" I whispered. We quickly turned away when a boyish boy with bronze hair looked in our direction. It was if he knew that we were staring at him clear across the cafeteria.
Without looking back, Jenna continued, "The one with bronze hair is Edward Cullen." I gasped at the name. I had just heard the name Edward Cullen in my dream! Could I have known this Edward Cullen before? I looked back up from my tray and sighed when I realized the one identified as Edward was no longer looking in our direction.
"Who are the others?" I asked.
Jenna also looked back up and replied, "The small girl is Alice Cullen. She's with Jasper Hale." I looked at her, confusion visible in my eyes. "Jasper is the boy with blond hair." I nodded and went back to staring. "Then there's Emmett Cullen and Rosalie Hale. They're together." I nodded and my eyes widened. Emmett and Rosalie had been the ones in front of us!
"They're all very beautiful," I murmured, not being able to break my eyes away from the group.
"They are aren't they?" Jenna asked as she went back to her food. "They were all adopted by Doctor Carlisle Cullen and his wife. Rosalie and Jasper are twins." I looked back up, examining Rosalie and Jasper. Except for their blond hair and piercing gold eyes, I didn't see much of a resemblance between the two. I sighed and went back to my food.
"The Cullens don't look like they're related," I said just as the beautiful bronze-haired boy looked back up at me. He looked confused, shocked, happy, all at the same time. His topaz colored eyes bore into my brown ones. For not being biologically related to Rosalie and Jasper, it was amazing how they all could have such a strange eye color.
Jenna giggled when she realized Edward and I were staring at one another. "The Cullens aren't related at all," she replied. "Just the Hales." I nodded and actually began to eat my food.
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Edward talking to his siblings and I happened to notice that none of them were eating either. Weird.
I couldn't get Edward Cullen off of my mind. I felt as if I knew him from somewhere but I couldn't remember.
"You're not worried because you're headed to meet a house of vampires, but because you think the vampires won't approve of you, correct?"
Vampires?
I groaned quietly. Even when awake that voice of velvet haunted me. I sighed and plopped my head down onto my book, not really caring what Missus Quaid had to say about the American Revolution.
I prayed for a miracle to arrive just so I wouldn't have to listen to her boring monotone voice teaching me. I perked up at the sound of knocking on the door. Stout Missus Quaid made her way over to the door to open it.
And when she did, I knew that my miracle had arrived except my miracle was in the form of Edward Cullen!
"Edward is it?" Missus Quaid asked in her fake English accent. Drama Club was totally destroying her.
"Yes, Ma'am," Edward told Missus Quaid and I felt my heart quicken at the sound of his voice. His voice was so similar to the one in my dreams.
Missus Quaid looked as if she was fantasizing about Edward and I cringed inside. I knew that most girls would fantasize about a God like Edward Cullen but it was very disturbing to even think that a teacher would fantasize about a student! That's illegal! "Please take a seat by Miss Swank," Missus Quaid instructed Edward.
The beautiful boy nodded and proceeded to take a seat beside me. My heartbeat quickened and even though I had prayed for a miracle, I would've rather had my miracle in the form of Emmett Cullen. I'd even settle for Rosalie Hale.
"You smell like freesia," Edward whispered to me as he opened up his textbook. I rolled my eyes and propped my head back down on my book.
As much as I wanted to get to know Edward and his siblings, I didn't think it'd be like this. I didn't think that he'd smell so good or look so beautiful. I didn't think my heart would react the way it did just at the sight of him.
"Are you alright?" he whispered. I looked at him; my eyesight blurry from lack of sleep. I simply nodded and smiled. He seemed pleased with my answer and let me be at least for the rest of class but I could still feel his gaze on me the entire period.
