I walked to my next class slowly, parting with most of the guy's in gym class that were begging me to join football, and soccer, and the swim team. To be honest, the thought of joining them all got me excited. I loved sports I couldn't just pick one. I had English next. My last class free of parents. That thought made me nervous. Wouldn't it be harder to be accepted in a class?

I walked into the class to find the desks were arranged in pods of 6 there was only two free seats so I took it, not bothering to talk to the teacher. 3 out of the 4 middle desks were taken plus one of the ones on the edge. Those kids were all angled to each other like they were shunning the other desks. I decided I would take a seat at the end but someone coughed at me. I looked up to see the 4 looking at me now.

"That seat's taken but you can move over here." One of the girls said. She had extremely long blonde hair and dark brown eyes. I nodded and shifted seats.

"Hi. I'm Ashley," the blonde one introduced herself. The other girl was Sara, and the two boys, Sean and Jesse. I nodded and we fell into an awkward silence.

"So… who sits there?" Ashley frowned and sat back while Sean spoke.

"Leighton Summers. She's a strange one she is." Jesse laughed while Sarah sighed.

"Guy's." Ashley reprimanded them before turning back to me. "She used to be my best friend, but last summer, she went to the states to visit family and when she got back she wouldn't talk to anyone, and she seemed all sketchy." I nodded while someone rushed in at that moment taking the seat next to me quickly. I looked at her to see her face was flushed under the slightly tanned tone of her skin. She was very thin, like swimsuit model thin, and she had long black hair that cascaded down her back in waves with a thick fringe of side bangs across her forehead. Her face was void of any make up, but her dark eyelashes made her large cerulean eyes pop.

She looked flustered but didn't spare a glance at me; she just put her stack of books down and sat quickly.

"So, Jett; your part of that large adopted family, that just moved here right?" I nodded and heard a gasp. From the corner of my eyes I could see that Leighton managed to knock her pencil case off her desk. I reached out and caught it quickly without hesitation, placing it out in front of her. Her eyes were wider now as she shrunk back from my hand.

"Nice reflexes man." Jesse laughed.

"Are you kidding me? I'm the slowest in my family." I chuckled half heartedly. Leighton seemed to shake even more but her eyes were curious now while her eyes studied my face like she was looking for something.

"Jett Cullen." I said sticking my hand out to her. She flinched back but slowly brought her hand up to meet mine. She stared down in shock at our hands before looking back up to me. My thumb felt cold for some strange reason. I looked at our hands and could see a faint shiny crescent scar by her wrist.

I could feel my heart beat race as my eyes flashed to her face. Quickly she yanked her hand back shoving it under the table. My mind was full of questions now. I had seen this scar before, Uncle Jazz had hundreds of them, but never on a human; no human, could have survived from this.

She seemed to know that too, or know something. I wanted to talk to her, no I felt I needed to talk to her. Could this be what happened? She went away on summer vacation and got attacked and now she's suspicious and frightened? But why isn't he a vampire if that is the case? I needed to talk to Dad; he's been a vampire the longest besides Grandpa and Grandpa wasn't here.

I found English class dragged and I couldn't keep my eyes off of Leighton. She was still shaking and would look around at random times; not as if she heard someone, but like she felt someone there.

Lunch was next and as soon as the bell rang Leighton ran to the door only stopping to look both ways before racing off down the hall. I ran into quite a few of the people I met, but names I didn't remember, all asking me to join them for lunch I politly declined saying that I was eating with family today.

I got to the lunchroom to see my family already set at a table near the back. I walked through the sea of people saying hello to the kids I knew while hurrying my pace. I could see mom looking anxious and I was sure that she was going to envelope me in a hug as soon as I got there ignoring her sister charade.

"We have a little bit of an issue." I said before any of them could react to me being there, which was a first.

"I don't understand…" Dad said, my thoughts jumbled enough. I knew uncle Jasper was feeling my confusion, I could see it on his face.

"Can a human be bitten and not changed?" I asked seriously under my breath taking a seat between mom and Alice.

"Not as far as we are aware." Dad answered still confused.

"This girl, Jazz she has your scars. Well one of them on her hand it's cold as if that scar is immortal. She seemed scared of me when she found out that I was part of our family, then just confused." Alice was suddenly frozen in her daze before she looked up to the door where we saw Leighton looking at us. She looked torn, and I'm sure she was trying to decide if she felt safe enough to stay in the cafeteria or go off on her own.

"She has decided she wants to talk to you, alone, not with us around." Dad whispered to me looking down at his tray, he frowned. "She has a lot of questions."

"So do we." I told him, or at least I did.

"You have your next 2 classes together today. She's going to confront you in biology." I nodded and looked back at Leighton who was still standing in the same place until a passerby bumped into her and knocked some things off her tray.

"Can't wait." I said jumping up, I was never very patient. I hurried over as Leighton was crouched down. She was wearing jeans and a long grey sweater with a white shirt underneath. Her hair fell over her shoulder and nearly touched the floor while she reached for her bottle of water.

"Here," I said holding it out to her. She gasped and jumped back almost slipping and falling backward. I reached out and put my hand on her shoulder keeping her upright. "Sorry." She grabbed it from me and stood up quickly.

"Where are you eating? I wouldn't mind joining you." I smiled at her trying to be pleasant. She tilted sideways to look around me at my family.

"Not here…" She whispered, her voice reminded me of Alice, twinkling even in the obvious stress.

"Why not? This is the lunch room." I said trying to drift the concentration off of my family. She glared at me then her face looking angry which was surprisingly a pleasant change from her usual fear stricken look.

"You know why." And she turned quickly coming back the way she came. I hurried after her keeping up easily while she rounded a bunch of corner's till we got to a door that led outside to a little garden type area.

"Is this far enough?" she finally asked.

"Far enough for what?"

"For them not to hear us?" I gave her an innocent look and the anger came back. "I

know what they are. I know what they do." She said vehemently her eyes glowering

back the way we came.

"Were different." I stated and she seemed sickened.

"We? You aren't them."

"I'm more them then you think." She stepped back taking this as a warning but still shook her

head.

"You warm, your eyes are green, and you're not that pale. You are faster than them, when

they have an audience anyways. You're not trying to be human, you are human."

"How do you know so much?" I reached out and grabbed her hand pointing to the

crescent shaped scar. "How did you get that?" she yanked her hand back like I burned

her. "Does it have something to do with this summer?"

"How do you know so much?" she retorted. I smirked at her.

"Humans tend to like gossip."

"You are human." I crossed my arms over my stomach stubbornly and tried to keep my face

relaxed.

"They are my family, if you're worried about them doing to you what whoever gave you that

did, you don't have to, you can tell by the eyes. They are topaz." Leighton scoffed and crossed

the space between us till she was nearly pressed up against me. I realized how short she was

compared to me, she had to be about 5'5. Her eyes glinted in the sun and so did her hair

showing a slightly red sheen under the black. In the sun, she looked paler than inside. She was a

very pretty girl. I could imagine how she used be, probably popular and dated a lot of guys, like

in movies that sort of thing.

"Some of them did have yellow eyes!" her voice was no louder than a whisper and her eyes

glossed over. I shuddered at the thought of my family harming another human. I know it had

happened before. Jasper went ravenous every time I got hurt as a child, but it never was that

big of an issue. Then it occurred to me that she said some of them.

"Some? How many?"

"Bigger than the group your with." She shuddered at the memory while tears flowed down her

face. I didn't know what to do, was I supposed to comfort her or just let her get it out.

"Here let's uh sit." She nodded and walked to a nearby table under a tree. We sat side by side

but she kept a good distance. "Listen, my family, they would never harm anyone. They are

vegetarians, now I know that might be hard to understand, but my family is good."

"Why do you keep calling them family?"

"Because that's what they are. My mom got pregnant with me and then my dad was changed,

and my mom got changed after I was born. She couldn't stand the smell of blood at all as a

human and now she still can't human's make her want to throw up, but she forces herself to

feed off of animals like the rest of them." I could tell she was having trouble grasping good

vampires, I couldn't blame her. "My family would like to talk with you, about how you're not

changed." Leighton sniffled rubbing her nose with her sleeve.

"What do you mean?" I reached over to touch the cool scar again, this time she didn't freak like

before, instead she watched my hand as I traced it.

"That should have turned you. Vampire venom does that." She shuddered again moving her

arm so that she could tuck her knees into her chest.

"I hurt so bad. The burning, I thought they decided to burn me alive." This time I didn't even

think about it. I wrapped my arm over her shoulder and pulled her to me. This was weird, I had

never been in a warm embrace before. It was a strange feeling.

"Can you, would you, be able to talk to my grandfather? Please, I know he is going to want to

hear about that coven, Vampires don't usually travel in groups larger than two." She didn't say

anything for a long moment before she jumped up and took off without a word. I didn't bother

to go after her, not that I would even have a chance, Alice, Emmett, mom and dad came rushing

in then Alice wrapped her arm around my shoulder.

"Don't worry Jett, She's thinking about it." I laughed, she could have said she that.