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Changes

EPOV

Everything was packed. My life was once again reduced to a pathetic number of boxes shoved into the back of a truck. I had won the battle with Carlisle regarding my bed and that was in pieces packed into the truck as well. Carlisle had wanted us all to fly into Seattle and make our way from there, having our cars delivered to us, but I refused. A long drive is just what I needed. In truth I was looking forward to having my music blaring out of the open windows as I left behind another home.

I had started the roughly 1800 mile drive early on the day before the others left, Emmett had voiced his interest in coming with me but I had thankfully managed to dissuade him. As well as we get along, sometimes, I don't think I could handle his company for days on end.

Esme had insisted on pre-booking accommodation for my journey, making sure that I would not push myself too hard and drive through some nights. It was going to take me around 4 days and I was eager to start.

Mile after mile of road disappeared under the wheels of the Volvo just as song after song boomed out from my speakers. I tried to drown out my thoughts, those of my past and my sure to be bleak future, at least for the next two years in Forks anyway. She, however, would not stay from my mind. It did not matter that I tried actively to forget her, whoever she was. The dreams had been getting more graphic. Every night there was a little more detail, a little more nuance in her response and her moans. The blush that crept across her cheeks as I touched her creamy skin was something that I could not forget in my waking state. I was thankful that Esme didn't ask questions when I took it upon myself to do my own washing, the changing of my sheets in the morning was getting more frequent and I didn't want to have to answer some awkward questions. I could just imagine how that conversation would go.

"Edward, why are you washing your sheets every day?"

"Because I am a teenage boy dreaming about having sex with a beautiful girl every night, without fail, and when the walls of her sex are massaging my twitching cock in my dreams I ejaculate onto my sheets. Often more than once in the night."

"Oh."

Yeah, I didn't think I wanted to have that conversation with the woman who had been a mother to me for the past ten years. At least Carlisle was a doctor and he would understand. He had been through the same stages in life. One would hope. But I wasn't going to talk to him about it either. I would sort this out on my own. The dreams had to stop at some point.

Tonight was not the night they stopped. Making myself comfortable in the sterile hotel room I allowed sleep to blanket over me and when I did I started to dream.

BPOV

Jasper was positively giddy about his old friend coming back to Forks. If I hadn't known any better I would have said he and Alice had swapped personalities for the day. Obviously this hadn't happened as Alice was just as happy. I watched them almost bounce up and down with happiness for almost an entire week, indulging them with a look of amusement on my face. At least I thought it was amusing until one morning outside school Alice asked,

"Why are you frowning?! This is good news!"

"Um, I didn't think I was frowning."

"Turn that frown upside down butterfly!" She giggled. At that I rolled my eyes, and plastered a massive smile onto my face.

"Do you even know this guy Alice?"

"A little bit, he left not long after my family moved here. But, he is Jaspers best friend and when Jasper is happy so am I." She smiled at me.

"And as I'm happy when my best friend is happy, then I guess I'm....happy?" I managed a weak laugh.

"Come on, you two will be late for English if you don't get a move on." Jasper interjected, giving Alice a quick kiss, affording me a wave and disappearing to his own class.

Alice kept talking as we walked to English, telling me all the information she had on Jasper's friend, this Edward Cullen.

"....then Dr Cullen and his wife adopted him and moved him here. They stayed for a while but Carlisle, that's Dr Cullen, uprooted them and they went to Alaska. Jasper said they have moved around quite a bit. And they adopted another son, I forget his name, but he is a senior. "

"Right." By the time we reached English I was well versed in the life and times of Edward Cullen. I wasn't great at meeting new people. I wasn't great at liking new people. This guy was going to absolutely upset the nice little dynamic of my life and my routine. I really shouldn't hold it against him already though, what kind of person did that make me?

The whole school was buzzing by the time lunch time came around. Of course it would be. In a town as small as this a new family moving in was Big News. It didn't matter that they had already lived here, and that most of the kids had known Edward from before. It was still a topic to be dissected and examined from all possible angles for the rest of the week.

Jessica and Lauren talked about it nonstop. They actually had no other topic of conversation. Every time I passed them I would hear some snippet of inane conversation.

"He used to be really into me, but we were just kids, y'know?" Lauren claimed at one point.

"I hear the older one is pretty hot, the jock type, my type." Snickered Jessica in response.

From whom she heard that I have no idea. The only person to have even seen a picture of Edwards's brother was Jasper and it was unlikely that he would have exclaimed that the guy was hot and the jock type, unless he had an awkward conversation with Alice coming up.

Lunch was, for me, sometimes excruciating. Some days it was perfect. It was little hit and miss. Today was a miss. Today I was remiss about avoiding Newton, thinking about how much things would change with Cullen in the mix, and he managed to sneak up on me.

"Hey Bella." He all but whispered in my ear as his hand caught my hip. I hated the way he said my name, I hated it more than being called Isabella.

"Hey, Mike. How are you?" As much as I disliked the way his hand was grazing my hip, and was that little bit too close to my ass than is polite, I couldn't be rude to him. I just wasn't brought up that way.

"I was wondering when you would agree to that second date? How about this weekend?" I sighed.

"We didn't have a first date. We had a group outing that a lot of people bailed on. Remember?" I took a look around me and spotted no one who would step in to rescue me. His eyes narrowed at me.

"I call it our first date, Bella."

"How about you call it our only date? Ever." I tried to sound jokey but was getting more than a little annoyed.

"How about you stop being a tease and just agree?" I rolled my eyes and spotted Jessica, who was looking at Mike's hand on my hip with an undisguised fury.

"How about you take your hand off her you cretin?" Shocked I looked up and found Jasper's sister, Rosalie, glaring down at Newton. "How about I kick your ass? Because we both know I could."

His hand snapped away from me and he stalked away in humiliation, Rosalie had practically screamed at him and everyone in the cafeteria was looking our way. My face got hot with embarrassment.

"You alright?" Rosalie tightly asked me.

"Yeah, thanks." I knew there was a pathetically puppy like look of adoration on my face but I couldn't help it, I was supremely grateful.

"Jasper and Alice just came in, go sit down and they will be over in a minute." She dismissed me with a wave of her hand and sashayed back to her own table, where the rest of the popular athletic girls sat.

Rosalie terrified me and enthralled me in equal measure. She was almost the same height as Jasper with the same blonde hair, but with brown eyes instead of Jaspers blue. She was, without a doubt, the most beautiful person I had ever seen outside of a magazine or movie. There was a grace to her that was indescribable. In short, I wanted to be her. There was always a retort at the end of Rosalie's sometimes acerbic tongue, always a flick of the hair and flirty comment at the sight of a good looking boy. And while she was never downright horrible to me, she never sought my company either. There were only the rare occasions like this when she would step in and say what I could never.

Alice and Jasper rushed over to the table with frowns blighting their beautiful faces. Jasper growled at Newton as he passed him and Alice took my hand when she sat down.

"You ok? What happened? We just saw Rosalie towering over Newton, who had his hands on you. Not the sight we expect when we come to get lunch."

"He was just...um...bugging me. Rosalie told him to back off. In fact, she told him she would kick his ass and win." A giggle burst out of my mouth and I clamped my hand over my mouth, a little shocked.

"Well, it's true." Said Jasper as he sat down, smirking to himself. "Edward emailed, said he was driving from Chicago and would be here at the weekend."

"Oh, that's good!" Sang Alice, planting a kiss on his cheek and weaving her arm through her own, removing her hand from mine.

"How many miles is that?" I asked, more to myself than the others.

"It's around 1800, as the crow flies." Answered Angela as she sat with us. Angela rarely sat with us, despite being a friend to us all. "Jessica and Lauren are really boring me, it's Edward this Emmett that. Excuse me for using my brain cells for something other than being a whore." We all snickered at this last statement. "Are you all excited Jasper? You must have missed him. You two were inseparable when you were kids." She looked up at Jasper and waited for his answer as she bit into her sandwich.

"Yes, I am excited and yes, I did miss him. It'll be good to have my partner in crime back."

"Hey, I thought I was you partner in crime!" Alice admonished, smacking his arm.

"You are my...um...sexy partner in crime." Alice grinned wickedly at this statement as Angela and I laughed. "Edward was my friendly partner in crime. Like Bella is to you." Seeing the logic in Jaspers statement Alice nodded and seemed satisfied.

"Well, good catching up, I have to head to the library before class. Catch you later." Angela gave us a warm smile and hurried away, she had barely swallowed the last of her lunch. She was definitely on a mission to get to the best college she could and as far away from Forks and its inhabitants as possible.

"So, Bells, how have you been sleeping? Having any disturbing dreams?" Jasper asked evilly whilst trying to keep the smirk off his face.

"Sleeping like a baby, thanks for asking Jasper." I answered sarcastically, throwing Alice a frown, whilst the hotness burned across my face again. "I knew I shouldn't have said anything to you." I mumbled in the direction of Alice, sighing. The fierce green eyes flashed into my head and suddenly I couldn't wait to get sleepy.

A/N: Please read and review, if you're that way inclined. I'm Scottish so if I have managed to hugely mess us any Americanisms then please tell me so that I can fix them to make the story better. Constructive criticism please people. Thanks.