Dia Cullen

She's 15. She's half-vamp. And she's running with the Cullens.

I walked to the cafeteria alone. I didn't know anybody-a friend or even a friend of a friend-who had gym after recess and before lunch like me.

I looked around the crowded room when a bunch was crying, "Over here, Dia!"

At the same time, I just caught sight of my family and they were seated far away from everyone else.

I would have just walked straight to them but that would've been rude. After all, my welcoming committee did see me see them already and I didn't want to make a bad first impression so I walked towards them.

"You can sit next to me," Wyatt offered.

The table was composed of Wyatt, of course, Elizabeth, Veronica, Diego, and 3 other new faces who stared at me intently.

I turned away from their eyes and said, "Sorry, guys, but I think my family's calling me."

Wyatt groaned-just being his annoying self again.

Veronica and Diego simply nodded and only Elizabeth gave a response, "No problem, Dia. Maybe next time. Have fun!"

I waved at them one more time and stalked towards the farthest table.

"You could've saved me from them," I hissed at all of them in a voice too soft for the busy non-vampires to hear.

"You wanted to be saved?" Edward asked sounding completely stupid.

"You of all people should know that by now!" I snapped.

"So how was your first half-day of school, Dee? Had fun?" Bella asked.

"It was terrible. Everyone was looking at me like I'm a total total stranger. And then their eyes would just fix on you and it was all so darn frustrating! The teachers were worse. They always bargained their signatures for my class introductions-every single subject!"

"That doesn't sound so bad," Alice piped in.

"Uh-huh and guess what? You made English even worse, Alice!"

"What did I do?" she went for the puppy dog eyes.

"You told Miss Matthews that you have a 'baby sister' in the freshman year named Dianara. You had to tell her my full name? Everyone in my English class called me Dianara and for sure, they'll call me that until I graduate high school!"

Alice and Bella giggled.

"Alice," Jasper shook his head and used his lecturing voice.

"Think about it this way, Dia. You still have 3 more subjects to go. Wouldn't that be fun? Making new friends and-" Emmett was cut off.

"Friends?! She can't make new friends!" Rosalie nearly shrieked-but nobody heard our strange conversations anyway. "You know that Dia, don't you?"

"She can have friends, Rose. Carlisle and Esme just told her to keep it on the down low," Emmett intercepted for me.

She calmed down a little and then sighed. "Stop it, Jasper."

"Sorry, twin older sister," Jasper chuckled and we joined him to Rosalie's dismay.

Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice, Edward, and Bella had trays of food in front of them. They wanted to look normal but they weren't successful. We weren't successful, for that matter. There were always dozens of eyes on us as we made quiet conversations to each other. Maybe some other family could've pulled off the same story with less attention but not us. We all had to be dead pale, topaz-eyed, and inhumanly beautiful. We posed as the Cullens and we were all foster kids of Dr. C and Mrs. C and I was the youngest who was a freshman and Alice, Edward, and Bella were the juniors and Emmett and Rosalie and Jasper were the seniors. Jasper would've wanted Alice to be in the same year as he was but she couldn't pull off the senior look with her uber petite features and he couldn't have pulled off a junior look. Not that anyone would actually ask us personally. But we tried our best to look as normal as we could. And Rosalie and Jasper were supposedly the Hale twins as Mrs. C was supposedly a Hale when she was single. Bella said that this was the exact story the Cullens posed too during their first acquaintance.

Edward chuckled darkly and we all looked at him with suspicious eyes.

"What's so funny?" Bella asked him teasingly.

"Don't get mad at me, Dia, but I didn't have anything to do and so I decided to pay attention to your friends' thoughts," he chuckled again.

I was picking the toppings of a slice of pizza one-by-one. "Spit it out, Edward. What did you hear?"

"Looks like that brown-haired boy has a thing for you."

"Awe, Dia's got a secret admirer!" Alice crooned.

"It's not really a secret. I mean, he was so annoying at Algebra-telling me about his California-complexion and he was even trying to connect with me using the weather forecast," I grumbled.

"Really now? What did the boy say?" Rosalie asked-slightly amused.

"Oh forget it. It's just not fair. I mean, you guys don't seem to be bugged by these humans at all. I don't even think they bug you at all!"

"They really don't bother to bother us," Emmett chuckled.

"See what I mean? Rosalie doesn't get bugged by annoying guys who try to flirt with her ..."

"They're all too afraid of Emmett," Jasper pointed out and Emmett gave him "The Stare".

"Partly true," Rosalie smiled.

"I'd tear them apart like a grizzly bear and-" Rosalie silenced Emmett with an elegant finger.

"Shh. I know. You love me. I got it."

They were about to kiss when Emmett complained about somebody kicking his leg and Edward whistled.

"None of that here. It's disgusting!" I complained and the two just giggled.

"Let's get out of here or we're going to be late. On our first day!" Alice jumped.

I finished two slices of pizza originally from Alice's and Edward's plate.

The contents of the others' plates just went to the trash.

I stood up from my chair unwillingly. They all had each others' backs and I was on my own with no one to protect me from possible harassments.

Worst case scenario playing in my mind right now.