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Ok let me clear some stuff up. Yes the Cullens are vampires, but their pasts are different than the ones in Twilight. The couples are all the same, except Edward and Bella are not together. They were before but then something happened, and now they're not. Don't worry you'll find out all the sordid details later. So just be patient, it will all be revealed in good time. Just keep reading, and PLEASE review.
THE RAIN IN FORKS STAYS MAINLY…OVER BELLA'S HEAD
I'm singing in the rain, Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin', I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds, So dark up above
The sun's in my heart, And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase, Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I walk down the lane, With a happy refrain
Just singin',
Singin' in the rain
- Gene Kelly
Forks High School was a fairly small school, and seemed dull from the outside. The ever-present gray clouds outside made it seem all the more dismal.
Once the six Cullen siblings (Rosalie and Jasper using their own last name, Hale) had signed in at the front office, and received their schedules, they headed to their first classes.
Since the school wasn't very large, all of their classes were with at least one other member of their family.
"Ok, so who has History first?" Alice asked.
"Calculus," Bella said.
"Oh me, too," Emmett said catching up to Bella as they walked down the hall.
"I have History," Jasper said as he put an arm around Alice.
"Ugh! Latin?" Rosalie asked, shooting a wary glance toward Edward.
"Latin," Edward agreed.
"Great," Rosalie's voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Rose, try to cooperate," Emmett pleaded with his wife.
"Fine," Rosalie conceded with a sigh.
Bella knew she should try to talk to her sister, and soon. But, right now she tried to focus on school.
They all separated into pairs to go to the right buildings for their first class. Bella and Emmett went to the classroom they had Calculus in.
When they stepped inside everyone looked up from what they were doing to look at them; and they didn't look back down. The siblings were used to this reaction by now though.
"Well…hello," the teacher at the front of the room said, looking a little flustered. "You must be the new students," she said, composing herself.
"Yes," Bella said handing over their notes that all the teachers had to sign. "My name is Isabella Cullen, call me Bella, and this is my brother Emmett."
Emmett merely waved as a greeting. All of the students were still staring at them intently, and some looked a little intimidated by Emmett.
"Right, well, class as you can see we have some new students joining us today. I believe there's…six of you, yes?" the teacher said turning back to Bella.
"Yes, there's me, Emmet, our sister Alice, and our brother Edward. Then our mother Esme's niece and nephew Rosalie and Jasper Hale. We were all adopted by our father Carlisle Cullen, who is the new doctor at the hospital."
"Well, excellent. We look forward to getting to know you, uh, all of you," the teacher said.
"Thank you," Bella said quietly as her and Emmett took their seats in the back of the room.
Even though they were at the end of the rows that sat in, their classmates were still straining to look at them.
There was one boy sitting on the other side of Bella who gathered up his courage and attempted to talk to the beautiful new students.
"Hi," he said turning toward them. Both Emmett and Bella turned to look at this strange, human boy who dared to talk to them.
Their stares made his confidence falter, and he slowly receded. "Um, yeah, so welcome to- to Forks High," he finally stuttered out, with a shy smile, before turning back to face the front.
The two siblings turned back too, and that was the last person to speak to them on their first day.
When Bella and Alice arrived to lunch together, coming from their Debate class, they found the rest of their family sitting at small table towards the back of the cafeteria.
They both went through the line to get food they would never eat, and then joined the others.
Alice saat down next to Jasper who was sitting by Edward, and Bella sat on the other side with Rosalie and Emmett.
" I swear, I thought this one boy was going to faint when he saw me," Rosalie said. "So pathetic," she muttered.
"Just try to avoid them as much as possible. It's the best way to deal with it," Bella said. She knew Rosalie would have no problem avoiding humans.
"Oh, don't worry, I don't mind staying away from them," Rosalie said her eyes and words aimed directly at Edward.
"Good, then just ignore all the things they're bound to say about you. Like the rumor that was started back when we were in London, and everyone said you gave blow jobs for only 10 lbs.," Bella said trying to redirect her sister's attention back to her.
Needless to say it worked.
"Ha! I remember that. And that one geeky kid came up to and held out 10 lbs. And waited, like you were going to just start right there," Alice said smiling mirthfully at the memory.
"Shut up, Alice," Rosalie threw a piece of food at her. "You too," she turned on Bella then.
The six of them were the first ones out of the lunchroom when the bell rang. Rosalie and Emmett headed to History, while the other four went in the direction of Biology. Surprisingly, they all had that class together.
When they got there they introduced themselves to the teacher who told them to partner with whomever they wished.
Of course Alice and Jasper sat at an empty lab table together. Edward sat at the empty table right behind them.
Bella weighed her options to either partner with Edward or choose another partner. There were to other people in the whole class who were partner less.
One was a girl who was looked pretty and likeable, and Bella wonder why she didn't have anyone to work with. And then the girl knocked over one of the containers on her table, which caused the other four to fall also. Ah, she was clumsy, not good when mixed with science.
The other person was a boy with brown hair and blue eyes who could have been in a Hollister ad, but only as an extra, not quite all- American enough to be the leading model.
In the end, Bella chose the Hollister boy. She could see the surprise in her family's eyes when she approached him. Even Edward looked like he had been expecting her to sit with him.
Well, ha, she would show him.
He looked up when she was standing at his table. His eyes widened in surprise. "H-Hi," he said quietly.
"Hello. I'm new, but I guess you know that. Do you mind if I was your partner?" she asked.
"Uh…" the boy looked as if he thought he was being punked or something. He actually took a quick look around him, as if expecting Ashton to jump out.
When that didn't happen he said, "Sure, yeah, of course. My old partner just moved so I've kind of been abandoned."
Bella smiled, which almost made the boy fall off his stool, and sat down beside him, "Great."
When she sat beside him his sent hit her like five-ton boulder. He was absolutely tantalizing. If she had no self-control she would have jump him right there.
But then again she could kill him quick, and her three siblings were there to help with the other. It would barely take three minutes.
Oh God and to be able to sink her teeth into his soft skin, with all that warm blood beneath. Mmmm….
"I'm Ryan by the way," the boy said breaking Bella's concentration. He held out his hand in greeting, and Bella looked at like it was a weapon of mass destruction.
After a minute she finally took it in hers and tried not to pull it up to her mouth for a bite. "Isabella Cullen. Call me Bella," she had stopped breathing all together, and was trying to move as far away from him as possible.
This had never happened to her before. She had of course tasted human blood before, had craved it and taken it many times; even though in the end she followed her father's choice to only eat animals.
But this boy, this Ryan, his blood was like nothing she had ever encountered before. It called to her, almost begging to be drank. The craving to have him was so intense it hurt.
She actually wished she'd sat with Edward instead. Or, even the clumsy girl.
They didn't talk at all for the rest of the class, and when the bell rang she hurried out the door without looking back, even though she heard him whisper a confused "bye".
She was already outside when Alice caught up with her. "Hey, what's up with you?"
Bella stopped, and reluctantly turned toward her sister. She sighed and said, "Nothing. I just…I don't know. I guess I'm still a little upset with Edward." It was a lie, but a lie that would appease Alice.
"Oh, honey, I know. He's just a stupid jerk, you can live without him," Alice said, trying to comfort her sister, though the want for them to be together was blatantly obvious in her eyes.
Bella smiled at her, and looked totally sincere when she said, "I know. I'm just being silly, clinging to the past like this."
They both walked to their last classes together until they finally had to separate, not to see each other till the whole family gathered at Edward's Volvo to go home.
That night Bella was in her room watching one of her hundreds of movies.
She could hear music coming from Edward's room, on the end of the hall. She sighed as she thought how she wished she could be in there with him listening to music.
They would fight about what to listen to, and in the end she would win, though he would constantly tease her for her taste in music, even though he loved it too.
They would just lie together, sometimes humming or singing, but mostly just enjoying each other's company.
But, that wouldn't happen anymore. They wouldn't tease or play or fight anymore; and they would never lie in each other's arms again, like they used to.
Someone knocked on the door.
Without permission Rosalie walked in and sat down on the bed with a dramatic sigh.
Even though she really didn't want to, Bella asked, "What's wrong?"
"I'm just trying to take a break from Emmett right now. He's just being so damn upbeat and positive; he's really starting to get on my nerves," Rosalie said with a wayward glance toward her bedroom.
Bella wanted to point out the fact that being upbeat and positive was better than the way he was acting when they were in the city, but she didn't.
"He's just trying to get you in a better mood," she said instead
"I know," Rosalie said exasperated, "And I'm not mad at him, it's…him that's bugging me." She motioned to the bedroom at the end of the hall.
"You really shouldn't blame him that much, it's not all his fault." Bella almost gagged at her attempt to redeem Edward. Why did she keep doing that? Huh, old habits die hard.
"I just don't see why we have to suffer for his little…indiscretions," Rosalie said.
"If I remember correctly, we always help you out with your little indiscretions," Bella said, peeved by the fact that Rosalie had all of a sudden taken a mightier than thou attitude.
"Yeah well my indiscretions don't have a body count," Rosalie replied.
Bella just snorted at that. "Since when?"
Rosalie rolled her eyes in a whatever move. " Ok, not all of mine do. Look, I got to get back to Emmett. We're going to break the bed in… again," she said with a giggle as she exited the bedroom.
Later she heard Carlisle come home and go into his bedroom where she was sure he immediately fell into his wife's open embrace.
Jasper and Alice were unnaturally quiet in the next room, which meant they were also having time to themselves.
Even Edward had the Beatles to share the evening with.
It seemed like everyone had someone to chase the clouds away; except Bella.
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-BlueEyes