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Chapter 1 has been edited to fit the story plot.

"Look, Masen and her father were old friends. They made some sort of pact, like – er – their children are supposed to get married or something like a…"

"Betrothal, Dad. So she is the one who is going to marry him, huh? The one you told me about last time?" Jacob shook his head.

"Whatever, anyway she is to stay with us for one term of your school and when she is eighteen before you guys all go off to college, she's going to marry that Masen's son."

Just this part was edited. What Jacob said - so Jacob has been told about the bethrothal of Edward but he didn't know who he was married to until Bella arrived.

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I've Just Seen a Face

Bella's POV

The class was relatively fun – time passed by slowly though and I felt the day dragging.

Finally it was the last class before lunch and I was wondering when I would ever see Jacob again. I didn't have Math today so I wouldn't have seen him anyway – I was starting to feel lonely. People would just stare at me awkwardly for awhile before looking away again.

Suddenly, I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around to see a girl with flowing light brown hair and matching twinkling eyes. Her face was sweet and pretty with a touch of breezy down to earth impression around her.

"Hi, you're the new girl?" she smiled.

"Yeah, that's right."

"Angela Weber, the freak," she reached out to shake my hand.

"Bella, the misfit," I teased back.

"So, how's your first day so far?" she asked thoughtfully while taking out our subject's text book from her bag.

"Like shit. Don't get me wrong, you have a really er – lovely school."

"Nah, I get what you mean. Our school isn't exactly the warmest school you'd ever see. We tend to be very closed up and the whole stick-to-your-own-kind rubbish," Angela shrugged.

Then she shook her head gravely and added, "And apparently there is an unspoken line about the poor and ragged meant to be at least three feet away from the rich and fabulous. Totally crap, so don't bother counting the steps you take around the hallways."

I laughed.

As the teacher came in she gave me a quick whisper, "Got anything during lunch break? You can sit with me if you want."

I nodded appreciatively, "Thanks!"

The cafeteria was huge. It stretched as big as half the size of a football field. One thing I noticed was that nobody really ate anything. It was rather a time to socialize than to get something to eat. Some do eat – but those that didn't eat were the ones that were making the sounds of the environment.

During lunch, for some reason I hadn't any appetite to eat so I just got a juice in a carton.

Angela's table was on the far end of the left wall together with a bunch of other "average" people – or that's what Angela referred to us as sarcastically.

As we sat down, Angela introduced me to her boyfriend sitting across the table with a colourful material in his hand. His dull eyes sparked up the minute he saw Angela.

"Ben – this is Bella. She just transferred in for our last term."

"Hey," he nodded shyly and asked, "How you going to cope with the exams though that's coming up in like about a few months?"

"I don't know, but there shouldn't be much difference. I've been through the day already and I found I haven't really missed out on anything. I've pretty much done the same thing as you guys so it's no big," I assured, opening my juice.

I looked over at Ben, "You like reading comic books?"

"I prefer the term graphic novels," Ben shrugged.

"Hey I hope you don't mind that it's just me and Ben. We don't really hang out with other people much. Mike and Tyler from Lauren's posse come over sometimes. But when they do, ignore Mike – he's a bit of a pompous at times but he doesn't realize it which makes it worse," Angela looked a little uncomfortable.

"Don't worry, I couldn't ask for better people to be with. Which one is Mike?"

Angela flashed me a happy smile before nodding towards a table not to far away. There was a big group sitting over there with a balance of guys and girls all gathered around there. There was nothing out of the ordinary about them except a girl with a shade of corn-silk yellow hair laughing her head off at something.

"The one with the pale blonde hair and the round cheeks. Don't be fooled by his well done up hair, it's not exactly original," she grinned.

Finally I saw him and I drummed my fingers on the table when I realized that the way he gelled his hair was in a very familiar way but I couldn't really place it in my head where I had seen that style before.

Suddenly, I saw two stunning girls walking into the cafeteria, one a little taller than the other. Both had yellow hair, one with bouncy strawberry blonde and the taller, model-looking one with striking long wavy golden hair that flowed to the middle of her back.

"Who are they?" I found myself asking.

Angela looked up and sighed, "Rosalie Hale, she's got a middle name but I don't remember. The shorter one is Tanya - both of them are like the teen queens of our campus. Thank God they aren't that snobbish as they look to be. They are pretty nice to everyone – but you'd never really know if they are sincere or not with those flawless faces of theirs."

"Gosh – they must give the boys some eye candy everyday huh?"

"Nah, they are taken. Well, Rosalie is, Tanya wishes she was," Angela shook her head.

"How come?"

"Rosalie and Emmett have -"

"Emmett?" – That name sounded really, really familiar.

"Yeah, Emmett McCarty, the sportiest and strongest guy in our school. He loves to compete with practically anyone in any form of sport that you can offer up to him as a challenge. He's pretty good looking if you like those brawny types."

Suddenly, Angela sighed again, "And the whole bunch of them are deadly with their looks and the amount of money they have."

"Where are they?"

Angela used her eyes to point across the area where the best seats were, in the middle of the whole cafeteria. There wasn't a very big group of people this time but they were the scariest people I've ever seen. Not only were they all beautiful, they were intimidating in every single way possible – their clothes, the hair and their gestures.

There were three girls sitting there, two of those stunning girls that walked in before and another girl I didn't recognize with short cropped black hair. She was even smaller and had small features with a pixie-like figure. Her face was absurdly stunning in her very own way that made me shudder a little as her movements were so graceful.

There were three guys sitting on the table as well, one rather big and brawny one that I immediately guessed was Emmett who had dark curly hair. Another one was also rather muscular but leaner than Emmett and he had honey blonde hair that looked dreamy in the dim lights of the cafeteria.

All of them were joking a laughing with each other except one of them, which the last figure was sitting at the edge. That figure was motionless and seemed to be preoccupied with just minding his own business – his long slender fingers picking through his food.

My eyes rested on that final boy who had a strange shade of bronze hair. I held my breath as I realized it was Edward Masen. Even though we parted in bad ways, he still very much had this effect on me.

"So – what can you tell me about them?" I tried to speak as calm as I could.

"The whole group of them, Tanya, Rosalie, Alice Brandon, Jasper Whitlock, Emmett and – Edward Masen are really tight. All of them don't really talk much to anyone else but if someone does talk to them, they are really intimidating in the sense that you just feel really uncomfortable because they are all so perfect."

I raised my eyebrows suspiciously. Angela had hesitated a little before saying Edward's name.

"Rosalie and Emmett have been together since – no idea. They've just been together since a really long time."

"Jasper, the one with the honey blonde is with Alice. They are the sweetest couple you'd ever meet. Alice is really nice, maybe even the nicest of all of them but her too, and is intimidating with her delicate eyes and sharp features. She's got that sexy look linked with her petite frame."

"Which one is that bronze hair boy? He seems superior to the others," I asked.

"That's Edward. Yeah – he's gorgeous isn't he?" Angela lowered her voice a little, making sure Ben couldn't hear.

"Tanya – like I said before wishes she was taken. Everyone knows she's madly in love with Edward but no clue why he won't accept her. I mean – they seem pretty close at times but other than that, no idea. So basically he doesn't date, and if he won't date even Tanya then no way any other girl has a chance."

"He's got this nickname called Prince Charming here. He's a really sweet guy, nice too. I mean – he could go out to party and drink down the booze all night with the whole bunch of them but he actually goes home to take care of his mum and aunt."

I titled my head in surprise, "Really?"

That was unexpected. The encounter this morning with him didn't seem like the person I was hearing about today. Not even the same person Jacob was referring to as well.

"I don't know which girl doesn't have a crush on him. Even Lauren, she's obsessed about him ever since the seventh grade when they had one same class for the first time."

"He's really talented too. The three guys there have a band but they don't really perform for anyone to see but when they do – they are amazing. Edward is the main guitarist and man…" Angela hesitated and giggled.

"He blows you away you know?" she laughed.

Suddenly, without warning, Edward suddenly looked up but not directly at me (yet).He just scanned the entire cafeteria absent mindedly and suddenly his eyes rested on me. His face didn't look a bit annoyed or hostile like this morning, it looked frustrated and interested. His long slender hands began to run through his hair again as he continued to stare at me with the same frustration and curiosity.

"I wonder why Edward is staring at you that way. Do you know him already?" Angela suddenly broke my dreamy mind state with a touch of suspiciousness in her voice.

I bit my lip and quickly looked down but looked back up as I saw someone familiar entering the cafeteria. I saw Jacob coming into the cafeteria with two other guys who were rather tall as well, following behind him.

"Do you know them?"

"Who? Jacob Black? Yeah – he's a real trouble maker. Those are two of his friend, Quil and Embry and all three of them seriously love causing havoc around school. They are pretty funny though – I guess."

"But he and Edward really can't stand each other since like – forever!" Angela added.

I pretended to look surprised, "Oh – why?"

"Well, it's all Jacob's fault. I heard that he spread this rumor about Edward that Edward is totally off limits to every girl because he was already married."

My eyes widened, "Is that true?"

"No – don't think so. Jacob said like he was meant to be married to someone already but this was like when we were all in fifth or sixth grade. I think everyone forgot all about that already but ever since then, Edward and Jacob are just – well you know."

"Edward just dislikes everything that has to got to do with Jacob – including people who are related to him. People who are friends with Jacob – er, I think those are fine. But he seems to dislike anyone who has Black blood running through their veins."

Angela suddenly looked serious, "This is all really top secret, so you can't tell anyone. People talk you know, so I sometimes just hear…"

I laughed, "Don't worry, my lips are sealed."

The bell rang and break was over.

Just before Angela and I parted ways she called across the hallway, "What do you have now?"

"World History!" I hollered back.

"I'll see you tomorrow then!"

The last thing I needed was to be late and I found myself lost on the third floor trying to find the History's room. The hallways were already empty and deserted. It made me even more nervous as I realized I was late yet again.

Finally I found the class and I stumbled in and everyone stared at me.

The teacher, Mr. Ruck stopped talking and shook his head at me, "I do not favour late students."

"I – I'm sorry. I'm new and I didn't know the way around," I stammered trying to find an empty slip to give to him to sign.

Mr. Ruck's frown eased as he took the slip from my hand, "Oh, then that's fine. Don't repeat it next time though. Name?"

"Isabella Marie Swan – but Bella, please."

Mr. Ruck handed me back the slip and pointed to the only empty seat in the class and said, "Alright, Ms. Bella Swan. Please – take a seat next to that young man over there."

I heard the class suddenly filling with whispers, and what annoyed me was it was majority girls whispering. Couldn't they keep their gossips about me till later? – I grumbled. I placed the slip back into my bag and looked up to see at where he was pointing. I found my breath suddenly stuck in my throat.

The only empty seat in the entire classroom was next to a beautiful bronze hair boy who was looking at me with piercing green eyes while resting his left cheek perfectly on one of his palms with his elbow placed neatly on the table.

So this chapter was just all about getting to know who is who in this story. I couldn't reall give Tanya a surname :( Can't figure out what to give. Any ideas:)

Read and Review! More will be revelaed. I'm trying to make Edward as perfect as the original Edward but ofcourse in a more realistic way. I didn't mean to make Edward sound so discriminating of Jacob but its the only way that my story plot will make sense but this will tone down later - the hatred and all I mean.

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