A/N: I haven't updated any of my stories in a while. I'm sorry for that. But I'm starting to get back on track now, so I'll be updating sooner.

APOV

We went to visit the Cullen's. Rosalinda tagged along with us, leaving Bryan, Max, Joe and Nick in charge of the kids. We blocked our minds from Edward. I was able to break a shield, but no one but my family knew that.

Edward opened the door looking extremely frustrated. He decided to play smart and block his mind from me. I laughed inwardly. I lowered the shield to see why he was upset with me.

How can she block her mind? How can all of them do this? It's so annoying! He said in his thoughts. I laughed quietly. I didn't like going through people's mind, but I needed to know what was happening.

"Come on in" he murmured knowing we could clearly hear him. I greeted everyone; Rosalie was slowly warming up to me. She full out glared at Rosalinda.

Rosie shifted uncomfortably and Emmett wrapped his arm around her waist. Rosalie met his gaze and then turned away and walked into her room.

"Don't mind Rosalie" Uncle Carlisle said. "What brings you here today?" he asked.

"We need to talk to you" I said "about how we're going to deal with school"

"Yeah" Bella said. "How are we supposed to… act normal?"

"I mean, we've been home-schooled our whole lives" Belinda said. "The only real world connection we've had has been on tours or camps in which we guest host or something like that."

"Well, then" Carlisle said "we're going to have to teach you. Edward smiled and Jasper did too.

We went out and went shopping. It was nice to not have everyone gaping at us for being the Brandons who were extremely well known. I caught sight of one magazine. A girl was reading it and when she looked up she smiled hugely and then passed the magazine to her friends.

"Oh shit" I said as the girls started walking towards Emmett. One of them tried flirting with him and he was beginning to get annoyed. He wrapped his arm around Rosalinda to show that he was with her, but none of the girls paid attention. Rosie began to get annoyed. Bella, Belinda, and I were laughing. Emmett and Rosie kept shooting me pleading glances and I finally got bored so I stepped in.

"As much as we'd like to stay" I said looking at the girls "we really have to go now." They nodded before handing him their numbers and mouthing 'call me'. I laughed at my brother's face.

"Did they not see Rosie?" he asked. "She's right here!" he said as he pointed at her. We laughed at him and Rosie pecked his cheek. Rosalie was fuming.

"Hey Rosalie" I said. "You wanna check out that store?" I asked as I pointed to a random store. She nodded and I led the way. Once we were out of hearing distance, I started talking again.

"You like my brother" I stated simply.

"What?" she said, her eyes wide. I rolled my eyes at her.

"I don't need my gifts to know that you like him. It's obvious in the way you look at him, the way you get mad when Rosie kisses him, the way you were ready to kill the girls who just flirted with him" I said.

"Please don't tell anyone" she said, her eyes begging me.

"Fine" I said, "but I'm doing it for him."

"Alice." she said, "Your family, you guys are hiding something. I can feel it."

"I'll tell you when we get home" I said, "okay?" She nodded but said nothing more.

When we got home, we went straight up to her room.

"My name is Mary Alice Brandon" I began. "You may know me as Princess Alice, but you have never seen me. I have 3 half-siblings, Emmett, Bella, and Belinda." I told her everything, some things that even Joe, my best friend, didn't know. I left out the baby parts, but I knew I'd have to tell her.

"What does this have to do with you-know-who" she said referring to Emmett.

"Well" I started, "Emmett has a girlfriend, her name is Rosalinda, they kinda have a baby." I waited for her reaction, her face was blank.

"He has a daughter?" she finally asked after many minutes of silence.

"Yeah, we sorta all do" I said. "Don't get us wrong Rosalie, we're not ashamed of having them, they're more important to us than anything else, but we have enemies in this world, and our babies are our weakness, if this information landed in the wrong hands, there would be utter chaos. " I explained watching her face carefully.

She nodded understandingly, "Don't worry," she said, "Your secret is safe with me." I smiled.

"Thank you" I said honestly.

"Well, I suppose I should tell you my story" she said. I didn't need to use my powers to see that it still pained her to talk about it.

"You don't have to" I said, she smiled gratefully at me. Her story was similar to mine, except for the fact that she actually knew the guy who raped her. I was crying when she told me her story and she dry-sobbed at the end. We had so much in common; Rosalie was my new best friend.

First day of school…

Alice's POV

This was all new to me, I had been home-schooled my entire life, I knew everything that any mortal human being needed to know. Everyone knew I was a wizard already, that was no secret anymore, but we no one knew who the actually rulers were.

The principal called all freshmen to the auditorium, Joe came along with me. We received our schedules and I realized I at least 3 classes with Joe. One thing I was happy for. I looked around the room, searching for familiar faces and then I spotted one. It was Jasper (A/N: I know it sounds weird, but it would make Jasper seem like a total perv if he was to date a '15' year old girl- stereotypical, I know, but some people would be saying stuff like that. Jasper, is however '18' with the looks of a 15 year old, thanks to Alice) I waved at him, motioning for him to come over. He smiled at me and began to walk in my direction. I greeted him with a kiss on the cheek, and for some reason, I was delighted when he hugged me and placed a kiss on my forehead. He smiled at Joe, but my eyes were locked on his face. I felt jealousy coming off all the girls. Dammit, I heard on of the girls think, The Hale kid is already taken by Alice Brandon. The new girl, she is pretty after all. Do I know her? I laughed at her thoughts silently. Joe raised an eyebrow at me. I shook my head and smiled.

Jasper and I compared our schedules and it turned out he was in almost all of my classes, I felt like doing a little happy dance right then and there.

Our morning classes flew by pretty quickly, in the classes I had with Joe, I'd sit next to him, but if Jasper was in them, I'd sit right next to him instead of Joe. Joe didn't seem to mind though, or he didn't show it. I got to know Jasper a lot more, thank God for our super-sensitive hearing because no one noticed how fast and low we were talking and yet how we could still understand every word.

I felt like an actual 15 year old girl again, having a crush on one of the cute boys in school. I laughed inwardly at myself. For once in my life, I wished I was actually 15, I didn't regret anything that happened, but still, this year, even if it was at Forks High, was a good year so far.

Jasper's POV

I was glad that Carlisle has made sure I had the majority of my classes with Alice. We already knew everything the teachers taught us. Sometimes I'd get called and she'd whisper the answer and I'd do the same to her. Everyone thought we were dating. In fact, our families were on the front page of the school newspaper. Well, everyone knew that Emmett and Rosalinda were together but besides that everyone believed that Edward was with Bella, Joaquin with Belinda, and Alice was together with me.

I rolled my eyes inwardly every time someone would whisper something at Alice and I like "Aren't they such a cute couple?" Alice just ignored everything; she must've been used to stuff like this.

She told me everything about herself and her family. I knew everything, Rosalie did as well. I was pretty glad she trusted me with everything. I felt as though I have known Alice forever. I watched her face as I told her the story of my past. She felt no disgust, she wasn't scared, terrified, or horrified like she should've had felt. Instead she felt anger, concern, and rage. I couldn't help but wonder why she cared so much.

"Is Maria" she said Maria's name like it was poison, causing me to smile internally, "still alive?" Alice asked me, her eyes locked with mine.

"I don't know" I replied honestly. "I don't know and I don't care. Why?"

She shook her head in reply. "Why do you care so much?" I asked her.

"No one deserves to be treated that way" she said not looking at me, but I knew she was embarrassed. I lifted her chin so that she would have to look at me.

"Nice try. But I wasn't born yesterday" I said, smiling at her. She shook her head.

"Obviously" she said smiling at me.

I rolled my eyes. "Oh come on, it can't be that bad can it?"

"It's not that, it's just…" she said trailing off.

"What is it?" I asked. I wanted to know what she wanted to tell me.

"I care about you Jazzy" she said after several minutes of silence. "What Maria did- what she did to you was horrible." She didn't look at me while she said all of this. "Why would she do that to you of all people?" she asked herself quietly, probably forgetting that I could hear her. I had a huge smile on my face and as she slowly looked up, I tried to look less happy about what she had just said. I failed miserably at that but I didn't mind much.

She smiled shyly at me and then hugged me. I hugged her back and for the first time in my life, I felt my dead heart beat. When we pulled away, we smiled at each other and then looked away.

We head towards our next classes, it was one of the classes I didn't have with Alice and it was Algebra I. The class was boring without Alice by my side. The only thing that kept me from leaving the classroom was that I knew I had my next class with Alice.

Every time you smile, I smile. That was trueAlice was different from everyone else I knew. It was so easy to get along with her, I found myself laughing and smiling a lot more often now that I befriended her. I didn't know what it was about her that made me open up to her, I told her everything. Things that not even Edward, who had mind reading ability didn't know. There was just something about her that made me want to tell her everything and once I did, I didn't regret anything. Her eyes were never full of sympathy, something I was grateful for, but instead full of concern for me. I loved that about her.

In the classes I didn't have with her, I'd be thinking about her, the way her eyes shine when she sees me, the way she always skips wherever she goes, how she finds ways to get what she wants. She was all I thought about, and I didn't mind.

Alice's POV

Every time Jasper touched me, whether he hugged me or held my hand, my heart rate would increase. I was starting to fall in love with Jasper; I noticed how his golden blond hair fell into his eyes and how he'd unconsciously move it out of the way and many other things. I observed him carefully, watching the way he viewed the world. He caught me a few times but he'd just smile, but it would be a special smile, my smile. The thought of that made me feel all warm and special inside.

Life couldn't get better than this. Jasper was my best friend, and I wanted to keep it that way, but my heart had other plans for us. I didn't wanna lose Jasper, I barely knew him and I was already afraid to lose him. How pathetic of me. I just hope he feels the same way I do.

A/N: It's starting to get all sweet and fluffy, and this is probably one of my lighter stories. It is possibly one of my favorites, so review please? Tell me if you hate it, love it, or if you think I should fix something.

-Kathy ~ ~