Leah Turner came into the class and everybody hushed the minute they saw her. Clutching her books with her right hand, she walked to her seat with her head looking forward. Everyone noted that she was wearing a pale blue turtle-neck cardigan that has long sleeve reaching her wrist. But only Edward knows that underneath the left sleeve was a cut. At the instance she sat, Eric Yorkie drew up a chair.

"Hey."

Leah glances up. A look of curiosity was on her face. No one but Edward noticed it.

"Yes?"

"I'm Eric Yorkie. Nice to meet you."

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Eric."

A few of them giggled. "Where does she think she is? The president's office?" someone joked.

Leah darted her eyes at the joker. A look of menace was on her face. No one but Edward and the joker noticed it. He immediately shut up.

"Nah…don't mind Justin. He's just a lamer." Eric said. "So…why did you move to Forks?"

Leah's eyes were still on Justin when she looked back at Eric. "My parents are going through a divorce. So they sent me here until the divorce settlement is over."

"Oh….wow…I'm sorry." Eric stammered. The whole class became quiet. They may be jerks but they were humans too.

"So…so…you live alone? What about food and…and stuff?" A question Eric knew the whole class would want to know the answer.

"I withdraw money from the bank account. I can cook my meals. I'm fine on my own."

"Ahem!" everyone was so absorbed by Leah Turner that no one noticed Mr. West entered the class. "Leah wouldn't give you a thought, Eric, if you don't improve in your algebra." The class roared and Eric went back to his seat with a flush on his cheeks.

Everyone began their assignments given by Mr. West. The class was concentrating on their homework with the exception of Edward. His mind was figuring out Leah. So that was what she meant by "I've no parents at home." Edward focused on her inner mind. No doubt she was calculating the numbers. Her mind seems to be quick. She figured out some of the answers in probably 10 seconds. Not bad. He turns his head slightly behind, hoping no one sees him looking at her. Her hair was tuck neatly behind her ear. A slight frown was on her forehead. She was scribbling quickly on her paper. Okay…so 425 for question 3, 14 for questions 4, 0 for question 5. Then, all of the sudden, she wasn't thinking. Nothing was on her mind. How could that be?! There's always something on humans' mind. Anything! But hers' was blank. Just plain blank. He could read her, that's because his mind wasn't banging against a wall. He was inside her inner mind but it was completely empty. That can't be….it's impossible for anyone to think of nothing at all. Even Bella was thinking of something, only he can't read her that's all.

He peered at her. She was still frowning at something on her papers. She looked frustrated. The algebra perhaps? But she isn't thinking of algebra. She's thinking of nothing! Nothing at all.

"Alright students, time's up." Mr. West's voice rang through the class. "I hope it wasn't so tough. Now, is there anyone who is kindly to share the answers?" he cocked his head slightly to the left. "Leah. Can you answer question number 11?"

Everybody turned and stared at her. But she wasn't aware. She was still looking at her paper.

"Leah?" Mr. West called out again. From the front, someone threw a crumpled paper and it hit directly at her forehead. And she immediately jerked up her head.

"Alex, stop fooling around or I'll have you up in detention class!" and he looked back at Leah. "I'm not accustomed to students not paying attention in my class. So since you're new here, I'll excuse you. Now, question 11 please, Leah."

Without looking back at her book, Leah gave a quick answer. "43.25"

"That's very good. Considering I told you only to do until question 10."

Instead of blushing or looking embarrass, Leah look straight at Mr. West. No smiling or a sneering, just an expressionless look. "You asked, I answered."

He was a bit scared, Edward sensed in him. And he doesn't blame Mr. West. Leah Turner was definitely strange to the core. And to add to her strangeness, she was the only person Edward ever encountered in his life that has the ability to think of nothing. Intuition tells him that she wasn't here because of any divorce settlements. It must be something else that brought her here.

Mr. West pretends he hadn't heard her and continuing asking other students answers for the homework. Edward glanced at her. She was smiling at the direction of Mr. West, a smile that sent chills down his spine. Even for a human, Edward decided to be very careful with Leah Turner.

After school everyone gathered at the common hang-out place, which was the car park.

"I hate prom." Muttered Angela.

"Liar. All girls like prom." Jessica shot back, while texting a message. "Say again that you hate prom and I'll tell Eric you have a crush on him."

Angela showed her a look but remain silence. Just then, Anne came up, panting heavily.

"Hey…any of you guys seen Alex? I've been searching around for him." Alex Durham is Anne's boyfriend of 2 years. Everyone was betting they could last until graduation.

"Nope. Haven't seen him." Jessica shook her head, her eyes fixing on her phone. Angela does the same too.

"How about you, Bella?"

"Oh…no, I haven't seen him. Maybe he's in the library."

Anne gave a small laugh. "Alex could never be caught dead in the library. He wouldn't even wanna make out there. Alright. Never mind, I'll ask somebody else." And she took off.

A few yards away, Leah was very displeased with what she was seeing. Never has she been so disgusted in her life. Of all things human beings can do was that? She would fix it up like how Dr. Cullen fixed up her cut. Clean and efficient. She holds her books close to her chest and walked away.

At the corner of the car park, Edward was concluding that Bella looked exquisite in her orange sweater. She was chatting gaily with her friends. He was very contented to watch her from afar. But from the corner of his eyes, he saw Leah. She was standing behind someone's car, clutching her books, staring straight with a murderous look on her face. He followed her stare and realized that she was looking at the side of the school building. Before he decided to walk up to her, she left.

"Catch up with you guys in a sec." he told his siblings. Edward strolled to the position she was standing. He looked to the direction she was looking.

Straight ahead, Joanne Rice was leaning against the wall with her tongue sticking down Alex's throat.