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It's All In The PAST!

This school was a lot smaller than my last one. My day actually went pretty well. I didn't really have to struggle to keep up. What they didn't know was that I was younger than everyone here by… a lot. If I were normal I'd be in 8th grade right now, but I passed that by going to my gifted classes in the high school Jason and Leah went to. Leah… apparently wasn't dead. I would see if I could find her after school. I wonder if she knows I'm here.

I met a girl called Jessica and this boy called Mike. Almost immediately I can tell that they're going to get together somehow. If only Mike would stop padding after me like some kind of whipped puppy I could set him straight. Same with Tyler and Lauren, only Lauren just assumed and poor Tyler is having a hard time getting her back on his side. He was just being nice. If he wanted to shove his tongue down my throat then he would have tried already and I would have kicked his butt to last year. Since that didn't happen, I'm going to help Tyler get his girl back. I like Tyler. He reminds me of Bryan. Poor Bryan… Mike is just going to have to get over himself. I can't stand Mike.

I saw the Cullens at lunch and when Jessica started gossiping I knew that we were going to have a problem.

"They're like, together, together. It's weird." The blond girl scoffed. I rolled my eyes. Everyone in the place knew full well that the ones who were siblings weren't together. Jessica was being ridiculous. I hoped they knew that. Maybe they were just shy about being in a new place or maybe they didn't like anyone. There were plenty of reasons for wanting your space and these people were being too nosy for my liking.

I had to leave. I couldn't take when people were like this, mean to other people because they were different from wheat most people considered normal. My own friends were different and I learned to be different just like them. I liked being different.

"Can I sit here?"

Every pair of eyes was on me as I made my way over to the Cullens' table where five kids sat and picked at their lunches. The blonde girl glared at me. I could tell we wouldn't be getting along much.

"I'll just go then," I muttered. The muscled boy on her left spoke up.

"It's alright. Rosalie's just not used to new people and usually when others approach us it's to spread rumors and stuff like that. Make yourself comfortable. I'm Emmett."

"Hi, Emmett. I'm Bella."

"Hi Bella."

"So what brings you to Forks?" The blonde boy to his twin's left asked.

"My dad lives here. I thought the entire school already knew." I snorted.

"We heard, but it seemed rude to just assume like they did."

"Thanks." I mumbled, nibbling at my seemingly edible pizza.

"Isn't your dad Chief Swan?"

"Yeah, is that a bad thing?"

"Nope." He grinned. I knew instantly that I would have to find out more about the blonde male. He has too many teeth, like J- like Andrew had when he was about to do something bad or tried to scare someone. I winced and blinked back tears. I didn't like thinking about Phoenix all that much.

"Are you going to be okay?" The spiky black-haired girl asked from the blonde male's side.

"Why do you ask that?"

"Well you're obviously not okay now. I was just wondering if you needed anything."

"I… I'll be fine." I told them. "Please don't tell your father," I muttered as an afterthought. "He probably already thinks I'm crazy."

"I'm sure he doesn't. We've all seen too many things happen to judge others by appearance." The bronze-haired boy I sat beside murmured quietly.

"I mean, you don't have to keep it a secret if it makes you uncoferabel- dang it!" I scowled.

"What's wrong?"

"At this rate I'll never get my words back!" I groused.

"I'm sure whatever's wrong will just take some time to get over." The blonde boy offered softly.

"Yeah but it'll take forever and I'll be stuttering for the rest of my life!" I snapped.

"I'm sorry," I sighed after a few minutes of awkward silence. "I just… it gets hard sometimes."
"Here, here!" The blonde boy huffed and made a show of burying his face in his arms.

"People are igorance like that, aren't they?"

"They sure are, little one," The blonde boy mused. "I'm surprised you know that."

It took a lot for me not to cry. Ja- He often calls me a whole bunch of nicknames. I'm only Bella when he's concerned and Isabella when I'm in trouble. If they saw, they didn't comment, and for that, I was grateful.

How do you like Forks so far?" The spiky-haired girl asked.

"It… it's definitely not Phoenix, that's for sure." But maybe that's a good thing? I need to write all this stuff down again. Who knows, maybe I'll let the doctor see it. God knows he's probably just like the other one who wanted me to talk. I scowled. I hope not. He seems too nice for Mom to have to chew him out. That's if she's even here. God I wish she hadn't left… maybe things wouldn't have turned out this way. The Cullens were giving me strange looks and that's when I realized that I'd said every last one of those words aloud.

"Don't ask." I growled softly. "Is bad enough I have to tell that doctor. He'll probably go home and complain for all of you to hear anyway. Did he tell you anything about yesterday?"

Copper shook his head.

"Good." I groused. "I don't like people as it is. Forget about gossips." I snorted. "You don't seem like the type to gossip, though, and that's good. I didn't mean to say it aloud so it can't leave this table, okay? I'm enough of a freak as it is. I don't need it bra- burr- I don't want the whole world to know, okay?!" I snapped. Why does this keep happening to me?! The blonde boy nodded.

"Your secret's safe with us." He assured me.

"Thank you… Is Jasper your real name?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"I like it. It suits you. You're a cat, like… like Andrew. He's my one of my best friends from Phoenix. Good at being.. sneaky, I guess you could say, but it's more like you're the type no one sees coming unless you want them to, but it's only you I get that from. Your spiky-haired friend-."

"Alice," The girl chirped.

"You're a dancer if I ever saw one. You can all be quiet but he's like a master or something. Can I tell you something weird?"

"Sure, we're good with weird." Emmett whispered.

"It's a secret."

"Scout's honor." Copper promised.

I kinda have this… gift for knowing this about… I guess you could say I have a feeling about the way people interact. I could tell just by meeting Jessica that if Mike would stop being such an idiot that they could be happy, and if Lauren wasn't so snooty then she'd see that poor Tyler's been padding after her just as much as she likes him. Angela and Ben are too shy to ask eachother out. With you guys… it's stronger. A lot stronger. Like Alice and Jasper would die for eachother and Emmett would kill for Rosalie type of stronger. I've only seen that once before… I miss it sometimes, that feeling. It's like… happy. That's all I can think of to describe it."

"And who's the one to make our Eddie happy?" Emmett grinned, nodding at Copper.

"Copper? I don't know. There are too many girls who like him already that it's hard to tell who he would really be with like you guys." Copper looked appalled. "I can, however, tell that it's no one in this place. You're too good for all these girls, Copper, so don't let them drag you down."

"I won't." He sounded amused. Yes! That means I accomplished my goal!

More amused looks….

"I said that aloud, didn't I?"

"Yes, Bella, you did." Copper chuckled. He… laughed? Wow. This year might be looking up.

She has her quirks for a reason, people. (Cookies to whoever can figure out what's wrong with her!) REVIEW PLEASE!