A/N:Hey ho dear readers, I finished chapter three as you can see and uploaded it as fast as I could. This and the next chapter is written in Chris PoV. Then I'll switch back to Bella's view. I just figured you might want to know how Chris' mind works...
Well, I guess that's all I have to say for now. Oh no, I remember...I changed the rating, because I honestly don't know how to rate it, I just wanted to be sure.
So now you can enjoy the chapter
Chris' PoV
While we stood outside- waiting- I noticed once more that the stupid kids around us had again nothing better to do that pointing fingers at us.
I hated this kind of attention- it was one of the few things I had in common with Bella although she hated attention of any kind.
"I think we should show you around campus and introduce you to a few people. This whole finger pointing is just ridiculous. Don't they have own lives to worry about?" Alice huffed when she noticed the amount of attention we were getting.
"Alice, I thought that you said that they'd be here any second," Bella started to whine.
Alice frowned slightly while she stood on her toes, trying to see in the distance.
"They should have been. Maybe something came up."
"What? I thought you were a psychic?" I screeched not caring about the audience
"Yes, but the future changes once someone changes his mind which doesn't matter in this case anymore because the bus is right there anyway," Alice answered, pointing at the big bus that came to halt in front of us.
Dylan and Emmett jumped out of it and ushered everyone else out. Alice grabbed Bella's arm, who grabbed mine and dragged us to her brother.
"Hey, Dylan. We need your knowledge real quick," Alice tapped his shoulder.
"What do you want?" he asked without looking at her.
"We need to know in what room Bella and Chris are."
That got his attention and he turned.
"So we meet again," he said smirking evilly at me. I just rolled my eyes and huffed.
"Oh, have you met before?" Alice asked curiously, while Jasper started laughing. He was obviously feeling the annoyance that I felt toward Dylan.
"Yes, we met a the airport. If it weren't for Dad they would have been in this bus," he answered and gave me a funny look.
"You know, now that you mention it, it is rather strange that Dad drove you to school. Why did he do that?"
"He thought it would be better to avoid any more fighting between these two," Bella replied, pointing at me and Dylan.
"Why the two of you fight?" Alice asked in wonder.
"Christabel couldn't handle the rejection and set met on fire," Dylan simply stated in response, which didn't set well with me. It only made my temper flare up again.
"First of all, I wasn't upset over the rejection and secondly, I did not set you on fire. Plus, it was the sign burning not you."
Jasper seemed to find this to be very amusing because he was laughing harder while Alice was curiously looking from one to the other. Bella on the other hand seemed very disinterested and looked around to find something more interesting.
"Why can't you just admit that you didn't like being rejected?" Dylan teased me
"Because that's not why I got angry. It was you calling me a little girl."
"But that's what you are."
"If that's really what you think, then why did you ogle me?"I asked arrogantly. Dylan seemed to be at loss of words for a few seconds, but he recovered fast.
"I didn't ogle you, I was aghast at this sight," he shot back, gesturing toward my body.
"So the drool was your way to express your shock?"
"I didn't drool."
"Should I take the coat off, so that we can see your reaction again?"
"Do I look like a pedophile?"
"No, you look like a pervert."
"Oh please both of us know, that you think that I'm good looking."
"I also think that you should shut up."
"So you admit that you think that I'm hot?"
"Sure as soon as you admit that you were ogling me."
"Never."
"Fine."
"Fine."
"Great," Bella piped in."Now that's settled, what's with our suitcases? And we still don't know what room we are in."
Dylan turned to her and his expression changed to something much more pleasant. Apparently he was only an asshole to me. "You'll be on the fourth floor together with most of your classmates and your room is no. 403."
He waved for Emmett to come forward. "Isabella wants her key," he informed him.
"Right away," Emmett answered and started to search in the bag that was hanging from his shoulder.
"Hey Emmett," Alice greeted the big guy in front of us.
"Yo, shorty. What are you doing here?" he smiled broadly at Alice. He seemed to be a nice guy.
"Dad asked me to take care of the two treasures and you?"
Treasures? There's gotta be something better to refer to Bella and myself.
"Esme made me choose between showing the first graders around or picking up those, who arrived today." Emmett grimaced at the mention of first graders.
Yes, those can be horrible little monsters.
"What's up with Jazz?" Emmett then asked nodding toward Jasper. All of us turned to look at him. He was still laughing more or less silently.
"Gotta love 'em," Jasper choked out and gesturing toward Dylan and me.
"Did they go at it again?" Emmett asked grinning.
Jasper nodded.
"It's great, isn't it?"
Jasper nodded again. I just raised an eyebrow at that, but didn't bother to comment it. Bella gave me a thankful glance. She didn't always appreciate my remarks.
"Emmett, could we get the key now?" Alice was getting impatient.
"Oh right, here you go Isabella," he handed Bella the key.
"Actually, it's Bella," Bella corrected him.
"Okay, Bella it is. Sounds much cooler anyway," Emmett said and patted her back a bit too hard with his giant hands.
"Right Em. I hope we'll see you later, but right now we have other stuff to do," Alice said, dragging me and Bella along with Jasper trailing behind.
"Err...Alice, where are we going?" I asked carefully.
"I'm going to show you around."
"Shouldn't we get our luggage into our room?"Bella piped in.
"Not necessary. The staff will take care of that."
"Wow. I'm starting to like this place."
I grinned at Bella. She only frowned slightly at me.
The following two hours were the most exhausting hours in my life. Alice dragged us from one shop to the next showing us everything and didn't let us look at things long enough. She was only interested in showing us what she liked. Jasper tried to calm her a bit, but when he even made step toward her she warned him to stay away or she wouldn't talk to him for a week. She showed us every Coffee Bar that she liked and introduced us to people that apparently were going in the same class as we did.
I only remembered a friendly looking girl named Angela. She was the only one, who didn't treat us as if we were some kind of freaks. So much to being the only normal freaks. In freak town, normal was freaky.
I started to worry about Bella. She was not looking as if she was comfortable. She only seemed to be genuinely smiling, when we were alone with Alice and Jasper. If these people wouldn't stop the staring soon, I would have to beat up the whole school. Alice also showed us some of her favorite places to hang out. One I liked in particular. It was a flower meadow near a beautiful little pond.
Well, after two hours of hardcore touring, Alice saw us off in front of our building, promising- more like threatening- us to hang out with us again tomorrow. Jasper smiled sympathetically at us.
Right after that we were busily looking for our room. We found it eventually and Bella unlocked the door. It was a cute little room with two beds in it. It was mostly pink, which was not necessarily my favorite color, but it was do for the beginning.
I was pretty sure that with a cool ability like ours, we should be in the mansion soon enough.
That was at least what I thought. If Jasper got in, we would to we only had to work on this Empath thing, but we already made it work a few times.
The room was halfway taken up by our suitcases, which caused me briefly to regret that I took so much with me.
"Should we unpack?" Bella asked sitting down on the bed on the right side.
"No, I'm tired. Did anyone tell you when we are going to get something to eat here?"
I flopped myself on the other bed.
"Yes. Alice said that we would have to go downstairs at seven for dinner. Breakfast starts at seven in the morning and on week-ends at nine. Lunch is during the week in school, week-ends at two o'clock. Anything else you want to know?"
"No, I'm good. It is almost seven, should we go downstairs?"
Bella sighed and nodded. We stepped out of our room and I noticed that we weren't the only ones, who decided to go to dinner a bit earlier. The finger pointing and whispering started again as soon as we stepped into the corridor.
"You'd think that those people had better stuff to do, but no, the most exciting thing here seems to be us. This sucks hard time," I complained .
"Yes, I know. It's like being in the zoo. Now I finally know what those poor monkeys feel like."
We went downstairs into the cafeteria. We had to line up to get our food and that was really the last thing I need right now. Everyone in the room seemed to be staring at us.
"Remind me to curse Laurent as soon as we see him again," I grumbled.
After five minutes of standing in line, we finally had our food and now had a new problem. Finding a table to sit. Preferably one where our fellow students weren't able to watch us as if we were a freaking science project.
The problem was quickly solved when I saw a dark haired girl waving madly at us. I was eying the girl warily, but Bella beckoned for me to follow her and so I did.
"Hey, I'm Jessica and you are our new students, right? This is so exciting."
She motioned for us to sit down in front of her. She wasn't the only one on the table. There was a blonde guy sitting right beside her and on his other side was a girl that was giving me nasty glares. To my right sat a pimply faced boy and I skidded a bit closer to Bella.
"I'm Bella and this is Chris," Bella introduced us. She was always the one to introduce us.
Jessica introduced the other people on the table to us.
The guy beside her was Mike and the disgusted looking girl was Lauren. Pimply face's name was Eric.
I pretended to care for once and send all of them a fake smile although I had to keep my eyes mostly on Mike, who was giving Bella strange glances.
"So, do you like it this far in our school?" Jessica asked.
She was constantly smiling-which made me wonder if her cheeks didn't hurt- but her expression seemed to slip just a little when she saw the looks that Mike gave Bella.
I raised my eyebrows at that and suppressed a giggle.
"Sure. Why not? It's a great school," Bella answered Jessica's question, but I could tell that she didn't really mean it. She was poking around in her food while saying this.
"I heard that you were hanging out with Alice Cullen and Jasper Hale. How did you meet them already?"
Jessica looked at us expectantly and I started to get the feeling that she only waved us over to get this secret out of us. The way she had asked made it sound like it was something special to hang out with Alice and her boyfriend. The only thing I could say about them so far, was that they were a pretty strange couple.
"Her father asked her to keep us company, because we were here before the bus arrived with our things," Bella told her.
"Didn't he drive you? What have you done to deserve that?"Lauren asked the disgusted look still on her face and a nasty tone in her voice. I decided right then and there that I didn't like her.
"I didn't do anything," Bella defended herself, misinterpreting Lauren's obvious jealousy, "It was Chris who had a disagreement with Carlisle's son. I think his name's Dylan."
"You also know Dylan Cullen already? Talk about special new students, you guys rock."
Jessica found this far too exciting.
"What's so special about them?" I asked not really interested in anything that Jessica said. After all, they were just people. Okay, maybe strangely good-looking people that could work as teen models for any fashion magazine they wanted to, but still... just people.
"All of the Cullen children are black scarfs and have been rated as black scarfs in their in elementary school already. Normally, the higher ratings are for the older students, starting with the Junior in High school, simply because the younger ones are not really in control of their powers. But the Cull-"
"Are also not really in control of their powers," Mike interrupted with an annoyed expression on his face. "
"Of course, they are," Jessica argued.
"Last year Dylan Cullen was put under surveillance because of some incident in his Specialized magic class."
Jessica only waved him off and continued her speech as if Mike hadn't said anything.
Meanwhile I was wondering what he had just been talking about.
"Anyway, the three of them are like geniuses and they don't just hang out with anybody. Edward mostly walks around with Mason Silvers. Apart from Mason, Mason's girlfriend and whatever girl currently chases him, he only hangs out with his family."
"Emmett McCarthy and the Hales are also hanging out with him," Eric barged in, sounding like he wanted some attention on him as well.
What was wrong with those kids?
Jessica let out an annoyed sigh- which I found completely exaggerated- and rolled her eyes dramatically.
"I know that, but they could almost be considered as part of their family, since Jasper is dating Alice. And his sister is Alice's best friend which is why Rose's boyfriend hangs out with the as well. I don't think that Emmett would be part of the group if Rosalie Hale weren't his girlfriend," Jessica said that with an arrogant look on her face.
"Of course he would," Mike said, "Edward and Emmett had been hanging out a couple of times before Emmett got together with Rosalie. I think Edward used to tutor him or something."
I send a brief look in Bella's direction, who wore an expression similar to mine. It was definitely not normal that someone cared so much about other people's life and couldn't seem to shut up about it.
They all kind of reminded me of the group of guys in my old school that always sat together and discussed comics. I had always thought that they needed to get a life but seeing those idiots in front of me now, I decided that it was way better to be reading comics and argue about that instead of occupying oneself with the lives of other people.
"You should really get some more interesting topics than the Cullens. I've only bee here for a day and I can already tell you that Alice Cullen is pretty troublesome and scary, her boyfriend is oddly quiet and has a strange sense of humor and Dylan Cullen is an idiot."
I had been looking down at my plate when I had said that, so I didn't get to see the immediate reaction to my words until I looked up when I noticed that everyone was quiet.
Jessica had dropped her fork apparently and was now staring open-mouthed at me, Mike seemed to have forgotten how to close his mouth as well and Lauren had managed to change her disgusted expression to one of shock. Even Eric was staring disbelievingly at me.
"Are you freaking kidding me? Dylan and Edward Cullen are the two hottest boys in existence. Closely followed by Emmett McCarthy and Jasper Hale, who are both unfortunately not available anymore," Jessica informed us and Lauren bobbed her head in agreement.
"You can't call Dylan an idiot. Nobody does. Every guy wants to be him and every girl wants to be with him. Only exceptions are probably Alice and Rosalie," Lauren added.
"I'll make sure that this will be written on Dylan's gravestone, once I'm done with him," I mumbled. Bella elbowed my side and luckily neither one of the Cullen worshipers had heard me.
The rest of dinner was spent with listening to Jessica and Lauren talking about Edward, Dylan, Jasper and Emmett. But since the last two were already taken, it was mostly Edward and Dylan.
I noticed that Lauren's voice was awfully nasal and that was about it what I picked out from this conversation.
I was soon just as bored as Mike and Eric, who seemed to me like they had to listen to this a lot. Not even Bella tried to listen. Usually she did just out of politeness, but nobody cared if Edward Cullen looked angelic when he smiled and that he had "dreamy hair".
I might have cared if I had seen him in person but this was just boring. Bella and I hurried to finish eating and once we were done we excused ourselves and vanished as fast as we could.
When we were back in our room I quickly wrote an e-mail to Raven and then I crawled under the covers of my bed. Bella was looking for something else to wear and in the process she threw a pair of hot pants at me. I would have put them on, but I knew that they wouldn't fit me knowing that my butt was not as cute and normal sized as Bella's.
I stopped complaining about it though, because then Bella would start complaining about her appearance as well. It had taken me months to convince her that she was pretty.
What I actually said was gorgeous, but she only made it to pretty.
It was better than nothing, but still I thought that pretty was not the right word to describe my beautiful sister. Her beauty fit well to her being. She was calm and gentle. Not as forceful and bold as me. Sometimes I felt like the village idiot beside her.
Raven was the only one who knew about my little self-esteem issues, that came up every now and then, when I was comparing myself to Bella too much.
I didn't actually think of myself as ugly or anything like that, but Bella's presence always made me loose a few points. It was like putting a pretty little cupcake next to a fantastic wedding cake or something like that.
Raven always said that this was not true and that both of us were beautiful. It was just that we were so contrastive so we both were different kinds of beautiful.
I didn't really believe that and just settled for me being pretty and Bella being beautiful.
I got up and changed into my favorite black shorts and put on a white crop top.
"I don't want to go jogging," Bella whined when she saw what I had put on.
"You don't have to. You can let me go all by myself in this new school, where everybody is talking about me and where I could get lost," I answered.
Bella sighed and put on the same outfit as me.
"Oh Bella you shouldn't have," I giggled and put on my sneakers real quick. I liked to go jogging every evening but I had a feeling that these new weather conditions were going to demotivate me immensely.
It was the only sport I did voluntarily and I sometimes made Bella come with me. She didn't like sports any more than I did but we had to keep in shape somehow.
"We have to be back in the house at nine o'clock," Bella informed me when I dragged her outside.
"What time is it?"
"Almost eight."
"Then we have more than enough time."
We walked through the corridor and once again we were being watched closely. The whole house was quite busy and I rolled my eyes at everyone that stared at us. When we stepped out I shuddered slightly. This was much colder than Phoenix. Bella didn't seem to mind though.
"Aww, are you cold?", she asked mockingly and put an arm around my waist.
I stuck my tongue out at her and hugged her close to me.
"Yes, I am. Why are you not cold?"
I shivered again.
"I don't know, maybe I'm not as sensitive as you are."
"Hey Ladies, where are you going looking this hot?" Alice voice made me jump.
Several people were hanging out on the plaza again and Alice was one of them. She sat at the fountain with Jasper, Emmett, Dylan and two other people that I didn't recognize. One was a strikingly beautiful blond girl that looked like she just jumped of the cover of Sports Illustrated and the other was a boy with tousled bronze hair.
He was handsome, but I couldn't see too much of him from the distance. I quickly skipped over to where they sat and pulled Bella along.
Now that I was closer I could look properly at him. He looked like some kind of Greek god only hotter. His hair looked as if he had just gotten out of bed and his eyes where the most brilliant emerald green eyes I had ever seen. He was eying both of us curiously.
"We are invited to a secret party," I informed Alice and grinned brightly at her.
"What?" she screeched."How come that we are not invited? Is it one of those 'red house only' parties again. I hate those, I never get in."
She got up and started and was about to storm toward our house.
"Alice I was just kid-"
The sudden excitement I felt rushing through me was breathtaking. It was the strongest emotion I ever felt from Bella and it nearly knocked me over.
"Kidding?" Emmett offered to end my sentence.
I nodded silently completely dazed.
I looked at Bella to find out what the cause of her excitement was.
She was blushing deeply, looking at the floor.
I looked at her in confusion, but seeing that bronze-haired boy was still looking curiously at her I guessed where her excitement came from.
I couldn't blame her. The guy was gorgeous.
"Oh well, then it doesn't matter I guess. So this is my brother Edward by the way and this is Jasper's sister Rosalie," Alice said gesturing toward the blond girl and the boy that had been looking at Bella.
So that was Edward Cullen. Well, I had to admit that he was indeed one of the best-looking people I had ever seen. I quickly glanced over at Dylan and noticed that he didn't look much like his brother even if he might have been somewhat equally gorgeous- only not in my mind anymore, now that he was officially on my 'dislike' list. No pair of striking ice-blue eyes, no amount of dark- brown wavy hair and no beautiful smile would change y mind about that. Even if I had a thing for guys with chin-length hair.
Bella looked up again quickly to deliver her line.
"Hey, I'm Bella and this is Chris."
When she looked at Edward she blushed again, but I didn't comment on that because something else happened. The fountain stuttered and then spat out a bit too much water.
Emmett, Alice and Jasper- who were sitting on it's rim- were sloshed with water.
I laughed at the three of them, while Alice started screeching like mad.
"Chill, Alice. It's just water," I said to her and then I pulled Bella away so we could finally go jogging.
As soon as we were out of range from Alice and her clique, I attacked Bella. "So you are into Edward Cullen, huh? Your blush was so adorable."
"Oh no, was I blushing? Oh god how embarrassing."
"Don't worry about it sweetheart, it looked good on you," I reassured her.
She mumbled something, but I didn't hear what she said.
An hour later we returned from our jogging tour. Right on time.
We stood in the entry hall of our house trying to catch our breaths. Lots of people were walking in and out of the common room and of course they didn't pass us without eying us real quick.
Some pretty boy came up to me and said,"Hey, I'm Jesse."
I nodded not able to answer, because I was busily breathing.
He noticed that. "Maybe you should get something to drink, you look like you worked hard."
His eyes were roaming over my sweaty body.
The look Bella and I gave him must have told him that we had no idea were the kitchen was.
He beckoned us to follow him and led us to a door that was hidden behind the staircase.
Of course the kitchen was huge. It had to be, they had a few hundred students to feed.
Jesse went over to the big fridge and took out two water bottles that he passed us.
I pushed myself on the counter and emptied the whole bottle in one go.
"Hey."
I smiled breathlessly at Jesse. He was looking at me with a somewhat dumbfounded expression. "I'm Chris."
Bella cleared her throat.
"And this is Bella.", I quickly added without looking at her.
"Do you guys want to play pool with us?", Jesse asked smiling flirtatiously at me.
I was about to agree, when Bella dragged me from the counter.
"We would love to, but we are kind of exhausted. It was a long day. Maybe some other time. And thanks for the water."
Bella smiled a little too brightly at Jesse and pulled me out of the kitchen.
"Okay I'll catch you later," he yelled after us.
"Why are we not playing pool?" I asked.
"Because I'm tired and not in the mood for socializing right now. I wanna take a shower and go to sleep and you will do so as well," Bella said and opened our bedroom door.
I just shrugged and quickly grabbed my toiletries and my towel.
The bathrooms were on the end of the corridor.
I hated communal bathrooms, but right now the bathroom was almost empty.
A few girls stood in front a sink and brushed their teeth and others just walked out of a shower. Well, at least the showers were separated and had curtains.
I hung my towel on a hook beside the shower and stepped in.
I quickly undressed and threw the clothes out.
There was no way that I was walking around naked.
As soon as the hot water hit my skin, I felt like home again.
All my tense muscles relaxed and I actually forgot for once today where we were.
After ten minutes though the hot water was gone I was brought back to reality abruptly.
I stuck my head out of the shower to look for my towel and quickly wrapped myself into it.
I couldn't see Bella anywhere and when I called for her I got no answer, so I guessed that she was already in our room.
I quickly brushed my teeth and brushed my hair and then the thought that I should have taken clothes with me crossed my mind.
I silently prayed that no one would be out in the corridor, but of course it was fuller than it had been when we went into the bathroom.
Most people were now returning from downstairs.
I was preparing myself to fight through the crowd, but it wasn't necessary.
Everyone went out of my way and I strutted through the corridor only wrapped in a towel.
I heard a few whistles, but ignored them and soon enough I vanished in my room.
Bella was sitting on her bed and was typing on her laptop.
I guessed that she wrote the e-mail for Raven.
She looked up quickly and smiled amused.
"Did you really not take any clothes with you?"
"Nope," I answered and got dressed quickly.
As soon as I was in my sweatpants I felt how tired I actually was.
Bella finished typing and turned her laptop off.
"Are you ready to go to sleep?" she asked me.
"Yay, our first night in Freak town city," I said with fake enthusiasm.
Bella giggled at that and turned the light off.
"Bella?"
"Hmm?"
"I love you."
"I know, I love you too. Sleep well."
"You too." And then I was gone.
The next morning came much too early for my taste.
Bella threw herself on me and sang,"Rise and shine, beautiful child."
"Don't you have any respect for the sleeping?" I mumbled and pushed her off of me.
I was still half asleep and had forgotten that our beds were not as big as they had been at home. So Bella fell on the ground with a loud thump. I heard her squeal, when she fell and I was immediately awake and by her side.
"Oh my god, Bella. I'm so sorry. Please don't hate me."
I was mumbling a hundred apologies, until I realized that Bella was laughing.
"It's alright, I guess I should start respecting the sleeping. Come on let's get dressed and then we'll have breakfast."
This time the bathroom was much fuller, than yesterday.
There were girls everywhere, trying to get a spot in front of a mirror.
That was just ridiculous and I just wanted to brush my teeth. Just like everyone else did, I pushed a girl away from the sink, since she was not even using it.
She was just applying her fifth layer of mascara.
So I pushed her away and made room for me and Bella.
I know it was rude, but I did say 'excuse me'.
"Are you crazy? I was using that mirror," I heard the girl screech.
I turned to smile sweetly at her.
"I'm sorry, we just need the sink real quick. We'll be gone in a second."
I looked at the dirty blond girl in front of me.
She looked like the classic bitch. The kind of girl that would make others feel bad about themselves and throws herself at every guy that was not running at the count of three.
"Are you not the Swans? Seriously, if I were you I wouldn't be so rude. You are not qualified to be here, so you should just keep quiet and try to fit in. You're not in your little normal world anymore. There's nothing special about you and that is what this school is all about. I think that-"
"I'm sorry, but we didn't even want to hear what you have to say. Maybe you should talk to someone who cares about what you think," Bella piped in and I gave her an impressed glance.
It didn't happen often that Bella voiced my thoughts in exact the same words I would use.
Maybe I was rubbing off on her. The blond girl huffed and turned arrogantly to walk away.
"Weirdo," I sang and Bella nodded in agreement.
We quickly finished and returned to our room.
I was about to put on my second ankle boot with a cute bow at the side, when someone knocked on our door.
I looked at Bella, but she was standing in front of the mirror straightening her hair. I hopped over to the door to open it and there was Alice standing, smiling brightly with Jasper behind her.
"Good Morning. Oh my gosh, these shoes are so cute! Are you ready to head out for breakfast?" she just gushed and looked expectantly at us.
"Good Morning Alice. Good Morning Jasper," Bella and I sang in unison.
I put on my second shoe and Bella finished her hair.
Both of us grabbed our jackets and and bags real quick and stepped out.
"Let's go."
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"So we are having breakfast with all of your friends?" Bella asked to make sure she just heard Alice right.
"Yes, of course. They all want to get to know you better. You are like the most interesting people in school right now," Alice chirped happily.
"So you only hang out with us, because we are interesting? And here I thought you liked us,"I mumbled not really offended. I didn't think that there was a single person in this school who didn't think of us as a shiny new toy.
"Well, I really enjoy your company and so does Alice, but still she's right. You are the most interesting persons in this school right now," Jasper commented. The way he said it was like he knew what I had just thought and he tried to reassure me that we were not just a new toy to them.
"I really don't understand what exactly makes us so interesting. I get that we are the only ones that are not born into this world and we don't know anything about it, but I still don't get it," Bella said.
The confusion written on her face made me giggle quietly.
Alice ushered us into one of the Coffee Bars she had showed us yesterday and there at a table were the others already.
I made sure to sit on the opposite side of Dylan, but because Bella chose to sit beside him, she was for once not at my side.
I sat between Edward and Rosalie and I felt a bit uneasy.
Jasper was meanwhile trying to answer Bella's question.
"The thing is that magic itself is being inherited from your parents. It's part of our genes and so the first thing we should wonder about is, why do you seem to have magic running through your genes, when your parents don't?" Jasper started to explain.
"We learned that is some kind of evolution. That humans who seem to have the same abilities us we do, are not quite the same as we are. You do have magic inside of you, but the source seems to be something different. It could also be that you might not be limited in the same ways as we are, or that you can't reach our normal limit. It is all possible, because nobody really knows anything," Edward just took over the explaining as soon as he noticed what we were talking about.
Bella looked at him in awe.
Oh Bella, just stop gazing at a guy like that, I thought to myself shaking my head.
Bella looked at me in sudden surprise.
"What?" I asked.
"Did you just say something?" Bella asked confused.
"No."
"But I heard you talking."
"Maybe you imagine it. I didn't say anything."
"Hmm...maybe my inner voice sounds like you," Bella joked weakly.
Everyone at the table was looking back and forth between us.
Edward was looking at Bella intently, while she seemed to be thinking hard.
I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine her voice, I heard Bella say.
"Yes, you did," I answered lazily and wondered why Edward seemed to get all excited.
"Who?" Alice asked confused.
Now I was confused as well and actually everybody except the grinning Edward seemed to be confused.
"What do you mean?"
"You were just talking."
"Yes, I answered Bella."
"But she didn't say anything."
I frowned and Jasper looked like he was having a headache.
"You guys should stop feeling so confused. It gives me a headache," he groaned.
"Speaking of headache," Bella said and rubbed her temples, "I have this annoying tingling feeling in my head."
I just raised my eyebrows at her.
Edward looked at me and his excitement didn't seem to have died down. I wondered what he was so jumpy about. Surely, it couldn't be that Alice just snatched some of his bacon of his plate.
Just then I felt some kind tingling or something like that in my head.
I frowned and sort of pushed the thought of it away and turned to Edward to ask him what his problem was.
Meanwhile Bella had stopped rubbing her temples and looked kind of relieved, while Jasper was now giving Edward funny looks.
All of this kind of creeped me out.
I didn't even know why.
"Would someone mind telling what is going on?" Rosalie asked annoyed, flipping her hair over her shoulder. "You all just keep making strange faces and they change each second."
"Well, it seems that the twins have an ability that they didn't know of," Edward answered her.
"Huh?" Bella and I asked at the same time, looking at Edward with dumbfounded expressions.
"Edward, could you stop confusing them so much, I'm feeling a bit dizzy," Jasper groaned.
I quickly looked at Jasper and realized what Edward must mean.
"If you're talking about the empath thing, I already knew that. I just wanted to wait until we know more about our abilities," I said.
That made Jasper and Alice looked up in surprise.
"Empath?"
"Yes. Bella and I are Empaths as well."
"Not two more of them.", I heard Emmett groan. Meanwhile Edward shook his head and Dylan grinned strangely.
"You're not empaths..." Edward started.
"Of course we are. I get an amazing insight into Bella's emotions and she into mine," I shot back defensively.
"That's not how it works,"Dylan said in a scholarly voice to me. I rolled my eyes as soon as he started talking.
"An empath doesn't just feel the emotions of one single person. He gets the emotions of every person in his range. And he can also influence them to a certain extent. Also is this a very rare gift and Jasper is right now one of three living empaths of which he is the only one, who can actually influence the emotions of others. It's actually his fault that the definition of empath had to be changed."
Dylan shot me an arrogant look, when everybody, except Bella, nodded in agreement at his explanation.
"Well, maybe we just work a bit differently. I thought that we as normal borns tend to have different limitations than all of you." I quipped and crossed my arms in front of my chest.
"Chris, I think that Edward already knows what our ability is. Maybe you should just let him talk," Bella scolded me.
I ground my teeth together in annoyance.
Edward looked back and forth between us and looked as if he was trying to read us.
Then I remembered something. Wasn't he supposed to be a mind reader?
I didn't want my thoughts to be read.
Can you push a persons out of your thoughts?
Maybe I should get some sort of helmet to protect me
"How did you do that?" Edward demanded, looking like he was on the verge of finding out the secret of life.
"Do what?"
"You already did it the second time and I want to know how."
"What are you talking about?" everyone at the table asked at the same time.
Bella looked curiously at me, but there was something else in her expression that I couldn't place.
"You just pushed me out of your thoughts... again," Edward exclaimed, bringing my attention back to him.
"Really? How did you do that?" Dylan asked.
"Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you," I hissed at him.
Dylan glared at me for a second and then he simply asked Edward the same question again.
"Whoa, before you explain that. You should explain the other thing," Emmett said, sounding a bit lost.
Edward was taking a deep breath and was about to start when Alice's phone rang.
"Hey, Dad."
Everybody at the table groaned at the interruption.
"Yes, we'll be there in a sec."
She closed her phone and quickly got up.
"There's no time for explaining right now. Carlisle wants the twins for specialization class right now."
"I thought classes didn't start until tomorrow," I started to whine right away.
"They don't, but since no one really knows what you can do, you have to take extra classes starting now."
"Can we come along?" Emmett asked.
Alice closed her eyes for a second
"Sure."
"Do we have to?" Dylan groaned.
"No you don't, but then you won't hear what Edward will tell Carlisle about the twins. It's quite fascinating."
Alice smiled brightly at me and Bella.
Right now I was really starting to feel like a science experiment.
In the end all of them were coming along and all of us walked to the school.
Emmett was joking around with Bella the whole time and Rosalie just rolled her eyes at him.
He really was childish, but I liked him. At least he made Bella laugh.
Edward was behind them, watching them with a strange expression and Dylan was walking beside him, talking eagerly to him about things that I didn't deem important.
Alice and Jasper were walking in front, wrapped up in a conversation.
If you saw them like that you wouldn't think that they actually have a relationship, they look more like best friends, which was probably what they were as well.
I was walking somewhere at the side of all this watching each of them.
I didn't feel exactly left out, but somehow I felt strange. A little out of place.
It wasn't exactly the people, but being here, made me feel just a bit different and I didn't know if it was good or bad.
Rosalie seemed to get bored with Emmett's lame jokes and stories and walked over to me.
"Hey," she greeted. She had seemed a bit intimidating to me earlier, but right now she was smiling beautifully and I felt a bit better.
"Hey, yourself."
"What's wrong?" she asked, frowning a bit.
"Nothing. Why are you asking?"
"Because you seem a bit off. Scared of classes?"
I thought about it.
Then the school came in sight and my heart suddenly jumped and I started to feel a little sick.
"Before you mentioned it, I wasn't," I joked weakly.
"Don't worry about it. You'll do just fine," she reassured me.
"I'm not so sure about that. All of you already know what you can do and know how to handle it. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do. So maybe I am a fire manipulator, but I don't even know how that works. I have never done it before, so I wouldn't know what I should do,"I started to rush the words and my voice got a little high pitched.
I noticed that everyone was now focusing on me and Rosalie.
Alice chirped from where she was,"You know, none of our abilities are easy to control, but we managed it, because it's just a part of who we are."
"Wow Alice, you sounded like you just jumped out of the Lion King movie. It's not as good as Mufasa though, because I'm still not feeling better. Sorry."
Alice looked like she was searching for the right words, but Rosalie spoke first.
"I think what Alice was trying to tell you is, that it's not as hard as you think. These powers belong to us, it's like a natural instinct. It's the same as walking and talking or breathing. It's just there, you only need to train it a little. This is far easier than learning how to write and read."
"And considering the fact that we already learned to read and write when we were four, you shouldn't worry so much. You said yourself that we are geniuses. And you actually told me that we'll be at the top of the class in no time.", Bella said softly.
She seemed to be just fine, she was now only concerned for me.
"Yes, I said that. But that was to make you feel better, because you didn't seem too happy and at the time. I didn't really take all of this seriously, so it was easy to actually believe these things. Now I feel like I'm going to fail miserably, disappointing everyone who has some kind of faith in me and wasting everybody's time."
By now we were almost in front of the school. Bella was at my side in an instant.
"First of all you couldn't ever disappoint me, because you are a great person and you already did so many great things. I know that you mainly came here, because I wanted to. And secondly, nobody should complain, about you wasting there time, because the school wanted us here so it's their own fault."
Bella gave me a fierce look while saying that.
This actually made me feel better. I smiled gently at my lovable twin sister
We stood in front of the school already and I pecked Bella quickly, but I was aware of the strange looks that Edward gave my sweet sister and I tried to ignore Dylan's goofy expression. I didn't even know what the hell made him look that stupid just then
"Awww, you guys are so sweet.", Alice cooed and pulled both of us in a hug.
She was even stronger than Raven and I had to gasp for air desperately.
"Alice, let them breath, Carlisle wants them alive," Jasper said gently, prying her away from us and smiling fondly at us.
Rosalie had a similar expression on her face, but it changed and she looked as if she remembered something.
"Didn't you guys already perform magic? If you did, you really shouldn't have any trouble with this."
"Well, apparently we already did, but I'm not too sure about it," Bella answered hesitantly.
"If these stupid incidents were really magic, then it would mean that I set the school on fire," I said thoughtfully, thinking back. "I should do that again!"
A/N: The chapter is a bit shorter than the previous ones, but I hope you liked it anyway. I don't have anything to say, so please make my day, by reviewing ;)