Forks Academy for Special Gifted Students

by StarStrellaStar

Twins Isabella and Christabel are not your ordinary, everyday girls. At least that's what the teachers of FASGS, a magical school, say. Now, the two contrasting girls have to deal with their new lives and an unexpected secret that awaits them in the dark.

16. Interesting Outburst

A/N: God, I'm freaking great! Another update so fast. It's amazing how fast I can type

Okay, so right now I don't have anything to say...

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Chris POV

"Chris, we need to talk!" Damon entered my room with these words, not even bothering to knock or greet me.

I'd been sitting in my room with a book in my hands ever since Alice and Rose left. They thought I needed some alone time to deal with everything.

"Well hello to you too," I responded and looked at him in confusion.

"Chris, what's going on between you and Cullen?"

"Me and Edward? Well, he claims he's prettier than me, although we all know that's not true and—"

"Chris, I'm being serious here."

I sighed and put the book down.

"What's going on between you and Dylan?" Damon asked again, a little less patiently than before.

"Nothing," I answered immediately.

"'Nothing' can't be true. You kissed him, did you not? There must be something."

"Is eternal hate not enough for you?"

"You and I both know that you don't hate him. All I want to know is what's going on. If it's really nothing, then why are you running around campus arguing with him about your relationship?"

"We weren't. Wait, who told you that?"

"Half of the academy heard you, so practically everyone told me." Damon paced around my room with a frustrated look on his face.

I let out another sigh and ran a hand through my hair. "Well, I told you that Dylan likes me and we just kind of had a fight because I don't feel the same way about him." I wasn't sure whether that was the truth or a lie.

"Were you really going at it with Dylan when Emmett walked in on you?"

"We just...wait, what?" I shrieked and jumped up. "Of course not! I'm not that easy."

"So you're telling me that you're an easy girl?"

"No, but you're making me sound like one."

Damon released a frustrated huff while I started fidgeting with my necklace. "Just tell me the truth, Chris," Damon pleaded.

"What do you want me to say? That every time he gets close, I push him away just because of you? Because that would be what happened."

Damon was silent.

"God, you're all driving me crazy," I mumbled, rubbing my temples. For a second, I thought about Dylan.

That hadn't been a good idea because suddenly I was pulled away by a strange, somewhat familiar, force. I was surrounded by hundreds of colors before I was somehow standing in my closet.

"Chris?" I heard Damon's slightly muffled voice ask.

"Here," I answered and banged against the door which was locked from the outside. The door opened and I fell face first out of the closet.

"How did you get in there?" Damon asked, looking down at me in confusion.

"I have no idea," I muttered as I picked myself up off the floor and smoothed out my clothes. The stone on my necklace had somehow found it's way to the back of my neck, so I pulled it back to the front.

"Nice necklace," Damon commented, eyeing it.

"Thanks."

"I've never seen you wear it before."

"It was a Christmas present."

"From who?"

I looked away and said nothing.

"It was him, wasn't it?" Damon asked quietly.

I still didn't answer.

Damon let out a humorless laugh. "Interesting. He gave you a gift stone, didn't he?"

I merely nodded, still not looking at him.

"That is unbelievable. I mean...nevermind."

"It's not my fault," I defended myself.

"No, it's not, but I don't think this is going to work." Damon made his way to the door.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's over, Chris. It's better for the both of us," Damon answered before exiting my room, closing the door behind him.

I looked at the closed door and tried to make sense of what had just happened. Something inside me started to boil, but I suppressed the feeling and simply went back to reading.

Bella POV

Chris wasn't there for breakfast. I was starting to get worried when she came skipping down, motioning for me and Edward to come along.

"What's up with you, Chris?" I asked her.

"Nothing, why?"

"You didn't eat breakfast, but you're still skipping around all happily."

Chris shrugged and Edward got a little confused pucker between his brows.

"Good morning beautiful people. We should hurry to get to school because it's going to start snowing in about 5 minutes," Alice sang with her usual overly-cheery smile in place. She was wearing a cute brown coat with furry sleeve while the rest of us opted for normal coats.

"Snow?" Chris and I asked in terror and immediately started stomping toward the school.

"Snow really isn't that bad," Edward told us as he and the others caught up with us.

"That's what you think, but you were born in this town," Chris retorted.

"You'll have to get used to it since you're going to be spending at least two more years here," Alice said.

"Seeing as you're both good students too, you'll probably go to college, so it might even be six years," Rose added.

"Way to make a friend feel better," I muttered sarcastically.

"Where is Dylan?" Edward asked.

"He had to pick up Heidi," Alice answered.

"Who's Heidi?" I asked. It was the first time I'd heard this name being brought up.

"Heidi," Rose sneered, "is Dylan's new girlfriend."

"What?" I asked in shock and my eyes immediately darted to Chris. She didn't seem to be surprised, and when I reached through the bond, I didn't feel anything other than boredom coming from her. Why in the world didn't she care? She should be beyond pissed right now. Not only did Dylan have a girlfriend, but she also got dumped. I mean, how much worse can it get?

"That's definitely a surprise. I didn't even know Heidi was into normal human beings," Emmett joked.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Jasper asked curiously.

"She's a dog," Alice answered grimly while Emmett roared with laughter.

"A dog?" Chris, Jasper, and I asked in surprise.

"Animal Mimicry; the power to take on an animal's abilities. Heidi is a dog," Edward explained swiftly.

"So she runs around sniffing trees?" Chris asked with obvious amusement in her voice.

"She used to, but she's gotten a better grip on herself over the last few years."

"That's...interesting," I murmured.

"No, it's not. What's interesting is our classification classes. Apart from Specialized Magic being replaced every other week, we'll also have three individual dates per month." Alice jumped up and down excitedly as we entered the school building.

Once again, there was a huge crowd gathered in front of the notice board.

"This seriously isn't funny," Alice complained. Edward opened his mouth to speak but Alice cut him off by continuing to speak. "Introduction class will be today in fourth and fifth period, and we won't have lunch break, but we'll get a free period for the rest of the day," she told us excitedly.

"That means—" I started, but was interrupted by both Chris and Rosalie.

"No History, no French, and no P.E.," they both cheered happily.

"Great way to start the week off," Emmett said,

"Well, I guess I'll see Alice soon and the rest of you later," Edward said and then waved before he made his way through the crowd.

Emmett also disappeared and the rest of us decided to head into our class as well. It seemed like Alice wasn't the only one who was excited for the classification classes. The overall excitement was so strong that Chris and I couldn't help but feel the same way.

After sitting through Calculus, Physics, and Magical Arts, we finally made our way to the Elemental Room. Only, we didn't get in. The building was closed off. Instead, there were hundreds of students gathered in front of it.

"How many students are taking part?" I asked Alice.

"Well, every senior in high school, and every college student. Although the college people don't have to, but they do it anyway. There are only a few idiots who don't want to take part."

"And who's supervising this mess? I don't see any teachers," Chris said, trying to look around but there was just too many people.

"Oh, it's mainly the students' responsibility to arrange it. Every group has a supervising teacher of course, but the students still do most of the work. That's why each group has a council. And poor Edward is on it which means he has to take care of all those kids, and older ones."

"Wait, didn't Edward say he'll see you sooner?" Chris asked. "I thought you were a Special."

"Oh, didn't I tell you? Mr. Decour made a mistake. I'm a Psych, not a Special, which of course is kind of obvious seeing as I am a psychic."

"Okay, it seems we have some organization troubles. All students, please return to your classrooms," a voice shouted loudly throughout the crowd. A groan was the response the person got, but he didn't seem to care. "All of you get back into your classrooms and wait there. We will sort this out momentarily."

"Let's go back fast before they overrun us," Rose advised and we all hurried back into the school building.

"You know what I just realized? It still hasn't snowed yet," Chris pointed out when we went to sit in our usual seats. She was looking pointedly at Alice.

"It is snowing," Jasper said. "The school just put up the weather astrodome again to keep the snow out since we're supposed to stand outside."

"How do you know that?" Rose asked him.

"Some guy in the crowd was talking about it."

The classroom started filling and I heard our fellow classmates complaining about the council's lack of planning.

A few minutes later, a girl who looked a bit stressed out and a little older than us came in the room and stood in front of the class. "Anyone who belongs to the Psych group, go outside now and join the group that's standing in front of the building. There are two council members standing there and you are not to move anywhere without their permission," she said before stalking back out of the room.

A few people, including Alice, jumped up to follow the instructions.

"I'll see you guys later," Alice called as she quickly danced out of the room.

It was a little while until the next person came into the room. The guy didn't give off a friendly vibe at all, but that wasn't my problem. "Okay, everyone who belongs in the Physio group go to the Gym. Nobody else, just the Physios. The Specials meet in the auditorium and the Techs come with me."

And just a moment later, it was just Chris, Dean, Nathan, and I left in the room.

"Are we seriously the only Pyros in this class?" Chris asked Dean in disbelief.

"Well, there are two others out in parallel classes, remember?" he replied.

"Oh yeah, those two." The look on Chris' face showed that she wasn't at all impressed.

"Okay, all of you who are Pyros..." a black-haired girl walked in and spoke before she looked up and let her voice trail off. "Okay, yeah, nevermind. All of you, come with me," she said slowly.

We all got up to follow her and the group of people she was already with. Added together, there was probably about thirty of us. The girl led us downstairs and in front of the school where she waited with us. She looked a little unhappy.

"Hey Meredith, what's wrong?" Chris asked her. How did she know her? That's when I recalled hearing her name once before and I thought I'd seen her with Chris too. That was when she hung out with Damon just to run away from Dylan. The good ol' days.

"Nothing's wrong. It's just all messed up. Normally we don't have classes come inside at once. Some kids just thought they could run in where ever they thought they should go and in the process they managed to create quite the mess, so we had to throw them out again and get the groups in separately. But there was just this huge crowd standing there, so Edward suggested we go through each class and collect kids from different groups while a few others fix the mess inside the classrooms. I ran through the whole college building, collecting all of their Psychs, which isn't a very fun task since there are literally hundreds of Psychs. And then I had to collect the senior Pyros and Hydros and some kids just didn't listen to instructions and they had to bring their group as well. It's really horrible," Meredith spoke quickly and with wild hand gestures.

Chris seemed to want to say something, but the conversation was interrupted by another group approaching us.

"I will so not be on the council next year," a blond girl called over to Meredith.

"Tell me about it."

"No, seriously. There were three drunk kids who forgot their classification — we had to take them to the hospital. The college students are just troublesome."

Meredith patted her shoulder lightly before she turned to our two groups. "Okay, we're going to divide you now,, even though we'll walk in the building together. Most of you should know how this works," she shot a dirty look at a few guys. "Pyros are with me, and Hydros are with Natalia over there. For the newcomers, I'm telling you beforehand that you shouldn't cause any trouble because every single person on the council is already pissed off enough, so just try to be nice."

Chris and I exchanged a look before Nathan came and dragged me along with him to join the Hydro group while the Pyros walked off. Nathan and I had worked together a few times in Specialized Magic together, so I didn't mind much.

There were only a few people in the group that looked at all familiar to me.

"Okay, first things first, Mr. Martinez is sick so he can't be here today, but if any of you even attempt to start some kind of stupid water fight or splashing game, I swear to God, I will freeze you in an ice block that is so thick you won't be able to move for two months," the girl, Natalia, warned.

Meredith seemed to have been right. The council members really were pissed off.

I briefly wondered how Edward was holding up at the moment.

"And if anyone throws frozen spit around, I will call the Pyros to melt your sorry asses, understood?" Natalia was looking at each of the boys who had slightly disappointed looks on their faces.

"You know, Natalia, you've been telling us this for three years already, and yet this kind of thing still happens. Why don't you just give up?" one boy asked her.

Natalia had already started leading us to the side building in which the classification rooms were located.

"Just shut up, Michael. I'm going to get my diploma next year, and then I won't have to deal with doofuses like you anymore," she called back.

We walked into the hallway, which was already familiar to me, and I saw Edward standing in front of one of the doors, talking quietly to a girl. It wouldn't have bothered me if she wasn't letting her hand travel up and down his arm. Edward caught her hand and let it drop, then looked up to see me looking at them. He sent me a wink with one of those crooked smiles I loved so much and all I could do was give a goofy grin in return.

"Is it true that you're with Edward Cullen?" a girl, who had suddenly appeared by my side, asked.

I flinched at her sudden close proximity but nodded nonetheless.

"Dammit. I was hoping it was just a rumor. No offense, but..." she trailed off, looking a little defeated. "I'm Carmen, by the way," she smiled.

"Bella," I responded slowly.

"Oh, I know. Everybody knows. If the school were to write a gossip magazine, you'd be on the cover at least once a month."

I stared at her with wide eyes.

We entered the room in front of us and for some reason, I suddenly got the feeling I was being watched.

The room was big. Very bigger. Even bigger than the Elemental Room. It was all white and silver mixed with blue.

The front part of the room, where we'd just entered, was arranged like a classroom, and a few people were already sitting down.

"Ah, I've been wondering why I had only a few Hydros," Natalia said when she saw them.

Three people were standing in front of a whiteboard, patiently waiting for us to settle down. Somehow I landed in a seat between Carmen and Nathan.

Apart from Natalia, there were two boys standing at the front. One had brown hair which was styled in spikes and his nails were covered in black nail polish. He looked bored as he looked at us. The other was dark-skinned and had a puma cut into his short hair. I guessed that if the two of them weren't wearing their school uniforms, they would look even more contrasting than they did now.

"Okay so, this is Bryce," Natalia introduced the spiky-haired guy, who nodded slightly at the mention of his name. "And this is Japree," the other one showed a half-grin to acknowledge us.

"They look kinda scary," Nathan whispered beside me.

"Most of you already know them, of course, but we've got a few new Hydros again this year," Natalia continued.

"Not as wacky as last year," Japree grunted.

"And since we didn't get to do this last year, we'll introduce our new members," Bryce continued and pulled the clipboard out of Natalia's hands. Before he even started reading, I feared being called up to the front. He flipped through a few pages before he spoke. "Okay, we have Nathan Adrian. Come on up here."

Nathan got up and walked to the front where Japree pulled out a chair for him so he could sit facing the class.

Bryce continued reading, "Christian Chase."

Christian went to sit in front as well.

"Eric Yorkie," Bryce read and Eric went to the front. "And last but not least, Isabella Swan."

I got up, ignoring all the eyes I could feel watching me as I went to sit next to Eric. He seemed rather eager about that.

"Well, my dears, you know how we welcome new family members. Remember, this is the only water splashing you'll get. Kiddos, you better know how to defend yourselves," Natalia said.

Water splashing?

"Water fight!" Japree yelled and suddenly everyone was bombarding us with water.

Without a second thought, I kicked into power mode and quickly dashed to the other side of the room. Meanwhile, everyone was splashing and freezing each other. I didn't have to do anything. Every time someone tried to hit me, I just gracefully danced out of the way. I mostly just watched them attack one another like wild animals.

I hoped that the Pyros weren't doing the same thing.

After ten minutes, Bryce called all of their attention. The madness stopped instantly and everyone turned to look at him. Even though he was dripping with water, his hair was still standing in perfect spikes. "Okay, like always, the winner is the one who is the driest," Bryce said and looked at everyone.

That's when it started again. All of them started shouting that they'd won the game.

I dared to move out of the corner where I was hiding and walked up to the front. "I think I won," I said quietly.

The monkey circus stopped immediately as they all turned to stare at me.

"Well congrats, you get veto right to decide what we do at the fair," Japree told me and clapped me on the back.

"Why her? Not only is she new here, but she's new to the whole school. I bet she wouldn't even have any good ideas," some guy started complaining.

"Doesn't matter. She still won. There isn't a single drop of water on her. As for the idea thing, need I remind you that we sucked the last three years?" Bryce looked at the one who had spoken intently.

"Hey, the waterslide was not my idea," he defended himself.

"Whatever Isaac, just sit down," Natalia said. "I'll get the towels."

I was only half listening to all of this because I was a little distracted by all of the water dripping off of everyone. I started to get the feeling that huge amounts of water just automatically responded to me.

I gently lifted my hand and saw how the water drew itself from everyone's clothes and levitated in bubbles over their heads. I held my hand out and the bubbles floated toward me. As soon as the water came in contact with my hand, my body sucked it in and I gasped in surprise at the feeling of utter might that went along with it. Soon, I had absorbed every last bit of water. I slumped back into my chair, feeling as if I had eaten too much, but the feeling wasn't only in my stomach, it was throughout my whole body.

"Well, I guess we don't need towels," Natalia said.

"Man, I heard you were awesome, but you're...really awesome," Japree said.

I shrugged.

"Hey, you know what, I bet we can beat the Pyros with her this year," Bryce burst excitedly.

"What?" I asked.

"Every year we have a bet running with the Pyros. If we Hydros get more visitors, they have to hand over five of them to be our slaves for three weeks, and if they win, it's the other way around."

"And every year we lose because the Pyros just have to set up a Hawaiian atmosphere and spit a little fire to impress people. Pyros and Hydros are the two smallest groups, and water is just a little less spectacular than fire," Natalia explained.

"What did you do last year?" I asked her.

"The ultimate waterslide, but it was just a random waterslide."

"And what are the plans for this year?"

"That's what we're going to decide now." Natalia seemed enthusiastic.

Japree led me to sit in front on the side.

"Okay, kiddos. Any ideas?" Bryce asked.

"How about a skating rink?" someone suggested.

"Do you know how much space we have? We have so much space and we already wasted it last year by building just one simple waterslide. You know what the Psychs do, right? They actually build a freaking fair."

"Well, I'm sorry but there's not much else we can do. Did you ever notice what we actually can do? We have freezers, water manipulators, fish mimics...what else?"

"Well, I produce water and freeze it," Japree said and produced a water ball in his hand which he froze a second later. He squeezed it and it turned back into water.

"Why isn't anyone taking notes?" I asked. Everyone stared at me, but then Natalia sighed and wrote the different kinds of powers we had in this group on the board.

"Water absorber," Bryce said when he looked at me.

"Um, no, actually I do more than that."

"That's true. She turns herself into water," Nathan called from somewhere.

"Seriously? That wasn't just a rumor?" Bryce asked.

I shook my head.

"Anything else you can do?"

"Yes, but I'm not really in control of it. I'm not sure if I can use it on other people, but I can heal myself."

"You're like a water goddess," Bryce said with an awed grin.

I rolled my eyes.

"We can build a throne for her and make her the main attraction," Japree joked.

"Nice idea," Natalia responded sarcastically. "What else do we have?"

"We have you, dear ice princess," someone called.

Natalia rolled her eyes.

"The Ice Princess and the Water Goddess," Bryce mumbled.

"I think Water Queen would sound much better in that case," I commented.

He looked at me. "You're right."

"Do you seriously plan to sit her on a throne?" Japree asked.

"It was your idea."

"It was a joke."

"Guys, can I suggest something?" I asked carefully.

"Shoot."

I told them my idea and they seemed to catch on pretty quickly.

"We'll need someone to sketch the plans," Bryce said. Some guy in the class volunteered to do that since his college major was architecture.

"That means we could add a skating rink, too," the girl who had suggested it earlier threw in.

"Yes, we could. And I really do think we should do this Queen and Princess thing," Bryce insisted. Nobody objected so it was added to the list.

"You know, we should tell Mr. Volturi to take the astrodome down to let the snow in. We'll need it. It's easier to keep the snow to use rather than creating our own ice," Natalia mused.

"Write that down."

"We should have a water show or something," Japree suggested.

"Sure, why not? Bella could do that along with a few others. We should get her a posse as well, but we'll need a few juniors who are willing to dress up."

Bryce grinned wickedly, but when he actually told us his idea, it wasn't even the least bit wicked.

"This is going to rock and the Pyros are seriously going to cry," Bryce said at the end of the day when we'd thrown hundreds and hundreds of ideas together.

"Yeah. And please remember rule number one: don't tell anybody about our plans. And always carry Psych Blockers around, 'cause I don't want anyone in your minds, especially not that Cullen kid," Natalia warned.

After that, we were dismissed.

I came out of the Hydro room at the same time as Chris left the Pyro room. Just then I realized that we had a serious problem.

"You can't enter my mind for the next few months," we both said at the same time, then looked at each other before we laughed.

"So, how was it?" I asked her.

"Awesome. I love Pyros. Did you know that we are in the two smallest groups?"

"Yeah, I know. We're also enemies now."

"I heard. But don't worry, I'll still love you even after you lose," Chris said in a friendly tone.

"So guys, how was your day?" Alice suddenly appeared behind us.

"Great, and yours?" I responded.

"The best. I can't wait for the fair! But it'll be so long until then. And we have to rehearse so much. The good thing about these preparations is that we're actually learning to use our gifts better because we'll be using them more than usual," Alice gushed.

"Hey guys, wait up!" Rose called just as we left the building. We all turned to see her and Jasper rushing to catch up to us. "It was awesome, and judging by your happy faces, it was just as great for you," Rose said and we all nodded in agreement. "Did you know that there's this one guy who tells the worst jokes but you have to laugh anyway? A completely useless gift, but I've never laughed so much in my entire life."

"That sounds really la—" Chris started but stopped short as she stared at something.

We all followed her gaze only to see Dylan and a girl with hair such a dark red, it was almost brown. Why in the world did they have to kiss in public?

"Come on, Chris, let's go," Alice said gently and went to pull her along, but she let go instantly. "Ouch. Chris, cool down."

To make matters worse, Damon had to walk passed us and cast a look at Chris.

The anger that came from Chris was so overwhelming that I couldn't even handle it. I suddenly felt dizzy and began to sway. I would have fallen if Edward hadn't appeared out of no where to catch me.

"What's wrong?" he asked worriedly.

My mind started to cloud and I felt this incredible bout of anger that didn't belong to me rise inside of me, despite my best efforts at suppressing it. I felt Chris try the same thing, but she didn't succeed either.

Nobody else seemed to know what was going on. They were just watching Chris as she stared Dylan down and me nearly fainting.

"Hey guys, I don't think I've introduced you to Heidi," Dylan said as he approached us, after having spotted us.

I looked at her and if I hadn't felt so weak at the time, I probably would have frowned when I saw that she didn't look like a dog at all. She was very beautiful — almost as beautiful as Rose.

"Um, hi," Heidi greeted with a small wave. Her voice sounded a little unsure, but other than that, it suited her beautiful exterior perfectly.

And then I heard an incredibly loud scream in my mind. It came from Chris, but in reality, she didn't scream.

She hissed like a wildcat.

Everyone turned to look at her in surprise, confusion, and slight wonder. I could see her struggling.

Chris, you have to calm down, I tried to soothe her in my mind. I didn't receive an answer, and when I reached through the bond in concern, I couldn't even hear one thought from her.

I looked at Chris while the others started backing away carefully. Her hands were blazing up like hot white iron and it started to wander up her arms. But the most frightening things were her teeth. She was growing fangs, and the hissing was definitely not helping.

There was no way this would end well.

Suddenly, I realized that Edward was letting go of me.

I felt something about me start changing, too. My thoughts were focused solely on Chris, so I wasn't paying much attention to things happening to me. Chris' hair was growing and it seemed to be winding around her body and fitting to it. I felt how my arms started to vanish and my body seemed to stretch itself.

Everything started to change. My body, my skin, my senses. I was pretty sure I didn't look much more human than Chris at this point, and she seemed to be turning into a Jaguar. She was no longer a human being when she dropped to her knees and stood there on four paws.

I knew her intentions immediately when she started to lunge in Heidi's direction. I moved so swiftly and fast that I surprised myself. I threw her back with my tail but Chris just got up and tried again.

Wait, my what?

The confusion about me having a tail seemed to get into Chris' mind as well. Suddenly the only thing we felt was confusion. I felt my body return to normal before everything went black.

Chris POV

I groaned before even opening my eyes when I woke up. The familiar scent of a hospital wafted through my nose.

I'd always detested that smell.

"Chris, can you hear me?" I heard a masculine yet soothing and calming voice ask.

I moved my eyes a few times before I managed to pry them open. The first thing I saw was Carlisle's face hovering above mine.

"Do you remember your full name?" Carlisle asked.

"Yes, of course," I answered, somewhat curious as to why he would ask me such a question.

Why would I forget my own name?

"Can you please tell me?"

"Christabel Haley Swan," I replied, still wondering what this was all about.

"When is your birthday?"

"Did you lose my records or something?" I asked.

"No."

"Then why do I have to answer these stupid questions?"

Carlisle sighed and turned to someone behind him. "It seems she's perfectly fine."

I looked to see who he was talking to and saw Bella leaning against the wall, looking at me while biting her bottom lip furiously.

"She should stay here for the rest of the week, though," Carlisle continued. "We need to seal her animal spirit, too."

"But I didn't have to stay a week," Bella retorted.

"Yes, but you also seem to be in control. The outburst came from Chris, and we're not sure what will happen when we close her off from it." With that, Carlisle left the room.

Bella was by my side instantly. Edward, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper entered the room too.

"You really scared the hell out of us," Emmett said as soon as he was inside.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, confused.

"You almost ripped Heidi's throat out — kitty style," Emmett said as soon as he was inside.

"What?"

"You kind of turned into a Jaguar. A very angry Jaguar at that," Alice explained.

I looked at Bella for confirmation and she nodded slowly to answer.

I didn't know what to say. I didn't remember anything they were talking about. The last thing I recalled was coming out of the Pyro room and meeting the others outside.

"Hey, where is Rose?" I asked weakly.

"She had to go to the washroom real quick, but she'll be here in a minute," Alice answered.

Was it just me or did they all look at me with horrified expressions?

Even Bella looked scared as she held my hand tightly. I thought I even saw tears glistening in her eyes.

"I'm not scared of you. I'm scared for you," Bella reassured me, probably having felt my emotions through the bond. "You weren't in control at all and I'd never felt that much anger coming from you."

"I'm sorry for scaring you," I murmured quietly.

"It's okay, it won't happen again. Laurent will seal the spirit for you. You won't be able to use it, but you'll get a cool tattoo," Bella said, lifting her shirt up a bit and turning around to reveal a strange circle on her back. It really did look like a tattoo. It was a small circle that had about three more smaller circles inside of it. Between each ring were little symbols that I couldn't decipher. In the middle of the whole thing was a pentagram.

"It's kinda cool," I told her.

"Yeah, but it's also going to be kind of hard to hide from Mom and Dad. I guess we'll never go swimming with them again. I hope your seal gets a better spot."

She was right. She merely had to wear a shorter top and bend down once and the thing would be visible.

"Why did you let him put it there?" I asked her.

"I didn't choose the spot. Apparently the seal goes closest to the source of magic — yours could be in a completely different place."

"What is your animal spirit anyway?" I asked.

"Bella turned into the most beautiful water dragon. They're very rare and very snake-like," Alice gushed. "She had the most stunning blue scales I've ever seen."

"A dragon? Shouldn't I be a dragon with the fire and all?" I questioned.

"Water dragons don't spit fire," Edward told me.

I yawned loudly.

"I think we should let Chris get some sleep — she's exhausted," Jasper suggested.

"No, I want to stay here," Bella insisted stubbornly.

"Don't be ridiculous. Bella, you hate hospitals."

"So do you."

"Yes, but I have to be here."

"Okay, I'll go, but you have to call me if anything is wrong," she said with a slight warning tone in her voice.

"Will do."

"Night Chris," they all mumbled and turned to leave the room.

I saw Rose peeking in for a moment and waving at me. I smiled weakly at her before I fell into a dreamless slumber.

"Chris, I need you awake for this," a heavily accented voice said.

I opened my eyes and saw Laurent standing next to my bed. I started to feel the urge to get out of his reach as fast as I could, but then I saw Carlisle on a chair in the corner, relaxed.

"Strip," Laurent instructed.

"What?" I asked in shock and disbelief, casting a horror-filled look at Carlisle.

"Just take off the nightie. You're wearing undergarments underneath," Carlisle said in a more gentle manner than Laurent.

"Besides, it's not like we haven't seen it all before anyway," Laurent added. His accent was disguised again while he allowed a small cruel smile to crawl across his lips as I remembered the incident when he'd indeed seen everything there is to see.

I grudgingly took the long nightgown off after sitting up in the bed.

Carlisle suddenly got up. "I'm sorry, I'm needed elsewhere. I just got word that a kid swallowed bat wing powder." Carlisle offered an apologetic smile before leaving the room.

As soon as the door closed, Laurent pulled his want out.

I flinched back and pulled the cover up in a silly attempt to protect myself.

Laurent looked at me in confusion. "Uncover yourself. I need physical contact to see the source of the spirit. Just lay down on your stomach."

I did as he asked, suddenly scared that he would kill me if I didn't. Although he'd probably kill me anyway, or whatever it was that he and his psycho friends planned to do with me.

I flinched more than necessary when his cold hand came to rest on the middle of my back.

"Pardon," Laurent mumbled, probably thinking that I couldn't stand the cold. "Try to connect with your spirit."

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"I don't know, however you did it the last time."

"I don't remember."

"Well, as far as I know, you were angry about something. It must have been something that Heidi Schmidt did, because you were dead set on getting to her."

The name was all it took for me to recall the memory. It wasn't just her whom I was angry at. I had been pissed off at Dylan, Damon, and most of all, myself. All of this combined with the anger and hurt I had been suppressing led to a major overreaction. I remembered the pure rage inside me, although I did try to fight it.

"Ah, now we're getting somewhere. Your workings are quite fast, it's rather impressive," Laurent told me.

I wasn't exactly sure what he meant.

"Your sister was a little scared of me, did you know that?" Laurent suddenly asked.

I didn't answer him.

"Oh no, fear is not a good emotion for you, it seems. The flow slows down. It worked better with your sister, although I don't know how you came up with the theory that I want to kill you."

"You don't?" I asked in surprise.

"Hmm," he hummed, "it seems fear makes you less powerful. And no, I do not intend to kill you." His hand travelled up to my shoulder. "I would have thought you had the same source as your sister since everything seems to be similar with you two, but now I'm starting to see differences in your gifts, and even better, I can see more of it now."

"What does that mean?"

"Every power has a source center. There are supposed to be three in every witch. One for the normal magic flowing through the body, one that belongs to their main gift, although some people have multiple gifts but that's why they sometimes don't have a source for their spirit. These sources are not at the same place, though they can be close to one another, but with you, it seems that all your energy flows in the same direction," Laurent's voice changed between his teacher voice and personal musing. "Turn around."

I turned and Laurent put his hand back on my shoulder, seemingly following some kind of invisible trail.

"Is it bad if I have one source for everything?" I asked.

"I'm not sure yet."

I looked at him and saw that his eyes were definitely not focused on me, which was definitely not good, otherwise he would see what he was doing, that he was about to touch me in the second most inappropriate place for a teacher's hands to be.

Laurent's eyes seemed to return and he looked at me. "There's no need to panic, you could have just said something," he told me.

I hadn't even noticed that I'd started to breathe faster and more heavily. Laurent simply continued his search for the source on my stomach. For a moment, he didn't move his wand.

"It's amazing how much more power you have than your sister," he murmured.

"I'm stronger than Bella?"

"I didn't say that. I merely said that you have more power."

"Isn't that the same thing?"

"No. You are more powerful, but you're also the weaker one. Bella can control her powers, mainly because her sources are well separated from one another, but yours all end here." His hand was covering my navel. "Everything comes from one source, so it's really no wonder your emotional outbursts end so dangerously. You see, you have great power, but not the overall control it takes to handle that power. It's not your fault though." Laurent took his wand and drew a circle with it around my navel.

"So you'll just seal the animal inside of me?" I asked.

"No, I can't do that. Since everything is at once source, I can't close you off from it, it would—" Laurent suddenly stopped talking to stare at me in surprise. "I should have seen this earlier," he muttered.

"What?" I asked, feeling fear.

"Alice told me earlier that you had symptoms once that led her to the conclusion that you have over excessive magic inside of you, but that's not the case. I don't even think you're actually more powerful than Bella, I believe you're body is just being rebellious..." his voice trailed off.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Someone has already sealed your animal spirit away. It was quite a powerful seal, too," Laurent said.

"What? But I don't even have a seal anywhere."

"Yes, you do," Laurent pointed to where he had just drawn the circle. There was now the exact same symbol tattoo thing that Bella had on her back.

"But nobody ever drew weird things on me with a wand," I protested.

"Not that you know of," Laurent responded.

"So if it's already sealed, then why am I still dangerous?"

"A caged animal tends to get angry, and with your temper, it's no wonder. Your energy flows in the same direction because it's trying to break the seal. You have more difficulties controlling yourself than Bella because your magic already circles fast in your body. Your outburst today was an attempt at breaking the seal permanently. It was caused by an emotional reaction."

"And what does that tell me?"

"Well, if I see this correctly, then you did manage to rip the seal, so perhaps you'll just have to wait."

"Wait for what? Me to take a bite of someone the next time I get angry?" I was getting riled up much too quickly these days, but I just couldn't help it.

"No. Until we find a solution for this," Laurent replied strictly.

"Who is 'we'?"

Laurent smiled gently. "The people that are watching you."

"I hope you're not talking about Irina and her little clique," I grumbled.

"Irina?" Laurent sounded surprised.

"Yes, she killed Alistair," I replied. "Shouldn't you know that?"

Laurent eyed me for a moment. "If we're lucky, your moodiness will disappear once the seal is completely broken. Although, we may want to worry about who put it on you in the first place. It must have been years ago."

"Wait, wait, wait, I think we need to talk. If you're not on Irina's side, and you're not a killer, then who are you?" I asked, looking at him through narrowed eyes.

"I'm your teacher," Laurent stated matter-of-factly.

"That's not the answer I was looking for."

"I am not at liberty to divulge that information to you, unfortunately. They are watching you and as long as we don't know who exactly 'they' are, we cannot give you the answers you seek."

"What is with all the crypticism? Is that really supposed to be an answer?"

"Ms. Swan, I advise you try and keep your temper in check. It will be best for all of us." And with that, he simply walked out of the room.

That was weird, I heard Bella's voice in my head and jumped at the sudden sound. Sorry, she apologized.

You were listening? I asked her.

Yes, and it kind of worries me, she replied.

Join the club!

The next few days I spent in the hospital were more exciting than I would've thought. The group came over twice a day after school to give me anything I missed in class like homework, and in the evening they came to tell me all about their day. A few of the Pyros — Meredith, Janan, and Steve — came over to see me as well.

Janan and Meredith had to start working together without me and apparently it was actually going pretty well. They just need me now so we could level our gifts somehow. Steve just needed to take my measurements for the costumes, so he stayed around for a little while.

Apparently Dylan came to visit me once while I was asleep and Heidi came over once, too, because she had to "fight her hear." She told me that she had nightmares and she wanted to confront her fears. I apologized to her and that actually seemed to be all she needed.

Right. Confront her fears.

On my last day in the hospital, Esme and Carlisle came to visit me together.

"Chris, please say it's not true!" Esme pleaded as soon as she waltzed into my room.

"What?" I asked in confusion.

"Did Dylan make you a gift stone?" Carlisle asked me.

"Yes."

"Oh dear Lord," Esme sighed.

"I'm sorry. I wanted to give it back, but Alice said that I couldn't and I—"

"Chris, calm down," Carlisle told me gently. "We're not blaming you."

"Oh."

"He is such an idiot," Esme huffed.

"I agree with you on that."

Esme looked at me in concern. "What did he do to you, darling?"

"Nothing," I answered.

"Are you sure about that? I think someone's a little heartbroken," Esme replied.

"My heart is not broken," I denied. "It's whole and beating," I pouted, knowing I was being absolutely childish.

Esme laughed at that and stayed a while longer, conversing softly with me while Carlisle had to get back to work. He really over worked himself.

Third POV

Master looked at the piece of paper that Houdini had given to him with the prophecy written on it.

"Are you sure that this is the prophecy?" Master asked.

"It was in the wand boxes," Houdini replied.

"This tells me nothing!" Master smacked his fist on the table, causing Houdini to flinch back slightly.

"Master, may I have a look at it?" Nightmare asked.

He made a simple gesture telling her to do so.

Nightmare read through it over and over again. "It only tells us what we already know and the rest doesn't make sense," she mumbled.

"It does make sense, we just don't know the meaning of it," Master responded. "The first line is easy to decipher. We already know that the two of them denied what should belong to me," Master spat. "And the bonded ones have already returned to life. No matter how much I would like to kill them once more, I can't until we can get to the power. As for the clues…it's ridiculous. There are no clues and I already know where it is sealed."

"Maybe there's a riddle they have to solve to enter?" Blossom suggested quietly.

"That may be it," Master mused. "The light and the dark is obviously the power of life and death. The last line, however, makes no sense whatsoever."

"So all we have to do is get the twins to go with us?" Houdini asked.

"So it would seem."

"We'll need three months for the potion that brings us there," Nightmare pointed out.

"Well then, get to work. The twins should be more than ready to help us by then."

Bella POV

"We've gotten to the point where I should tell you what we like to call our creation story. It's only partially true, but you should pay close attention anyway as this will be part of the exam," Mrs. Alto said in her slightly squeaky voice. She held a book in her hand and flipped a few pages before she settled in her chair to read.

Chris and I exchanged a quick look before Chris shrugged and laid her head on the table. She was still a little worn out from last week's incident.

"And so it our Father created two more beings to wander our Earth. They were not much different than the humans that he had already created, but he'd blessed them with an incredible gift, one that he himself carried. The ability to create and to decide over life and death. It was a very generous gift, but the Father felt it would be safe with his two blessed children. The two sisters called themselves Heaven and Hell. Heaven was a gentle creature who never dared to hurt another being. Hell was courageous and feared no danger. While Heaven was mending plants and animals, Hell was gone to hunt monsters.

"Even though these two sisters seemed to be nothing alike, they shared a bond so strong that not even the vast distance could keep them apart. Yes, it seemed that their love was the purest of them all and that nothing could come between them. Although they had one another and indeed enjoyed the presence of humans, they felt there should be more of their kind.

"And so they used their gift of creation and the ability to give life to create another being like them. But when they saw that it was not what they had wanted, they tried it again. The two sisters had such different personalities and had gained such clashing abilities that they didn't have the same image in mind when they attempted to create this being. The first created was too much like Hell, the second resembled Heaven too much, but the third seemed to be just perfect. After a while, however, they both became unhappy. Yes, their third creature was well, but it was not what either of them wanted. So they decided to create one on their own, and soon demons were created by Hell while Heaven gave life to beings called witches.

"It seemed like these two races were unsuited to be living together, and so the demons left the Earth for they were unwilling to share their world with the humans. The witches, on the other hand, stayed, but hid themselves away from the humans because they too did not want to interact with humans. But the sisters weren't willing to separate from each other and so stayed together, letting their creations be. What the sisters didn't know was that their first two creations secretly went to poison their other children and told them about the great power the sisters held. Soon, each one of them lusted after this great might and went to retrieve it for themselves. The demons and the witches fought each other because each side want to have control over this gift. The third child created by the sisters saw the danger and protected them. He'd gathered those whose minds were not clouded by the promises made by the other two, and formed an alliance.

"A terrible war broke out but the sisters were protected long enough to seal their gift and kill themselves. It is said that they will return to retrieve their gift so they can take it with them and return it to their father.

"The demons and the witches who had fought viciously with one another nearly extinguished their races and destroyed half of the Earth. The two races swore to keep their distance and ever since, they've stuck to their word."

xXxXxXxXxXxXx

"I really don't see why you're obsessing over this Heaven and Hell story," Edward complained.

"Why not?" I whined for the millionth time.

We were on our way back to the houses when I once again brought up my theory.

"You know, in a way, Bella is right. That text must be connected to the story somehow. How else do you explain the similarities?" Alice chirped.

"But it doesn't make sense," Edward protested.

"Only because you don't want it to," I responded.

"Okay, then enlighten me."

"Um, well...what if the whole returning to life thing isn't exactly meant like that?"

"What are you getting at?"

"Well, Heaven and Hell died, so maybe they didn't mean returning to life in that sense, just that another pair of bonded ones has to be born to unravel the power they sealed away."

"Then why did nobody unravel it before? You're not the first bonded ones."

"Maybe they didn't know how," I offered with a shrug.

"Okay, and what does the rest of it mean?"

"I'm not sure yet," I said. "It sounds like there are clues that have to be found or something before we can find out where the power is. Or maybe just unravel it. And when that is completed, you'll have the power. I just can't figure out what the last line means."

"I don't think it means anything. Didn't Mrs. Alto speak of a pure love? Maybe the power is supposed to be a reminder of the times when Heaven and Hell owned it," Chris suggested with a yawn.

"Okay so you have to solve some kind of clue to free a long lost power?" Rosalie asked for clarification as we walked into my room.

"It seems so."

"What are the clues?"

"I don't know," I grumbled and dropped down on my couch while Chris started sniffing around the room.

"What are you sniffing at?" Alice asked her with a funny expression.

"I don't know, it just smells different in here than usual," she answered.

"Maybe it's the Snuffle," Rose said.

"No, I haven't woken it yet," I responded.

"Why not? Those things are so cute."

"I forgot," I defended myself.

"Well then do it now."

I sighed and went to where I'd placed the cage right beside my dresser, but I was distracted by something else.

The things on my dresser were not how I left them.

A few of the cream tubes were mixed up, laying down when they weren't when I left, and a small piece of my wand box was broken off.

"Has someone been in here?" I asked the others.

"When? We were all in school a few minutes ago, remember?" Alice answered.

"But someone's been in here," I insisted.

"How do you know?" Rose asked.

"The things on Bella's dresser are always upright," Chris explained.

"Well, maybe not today," Edward said.

"Even if that were the case, I haven't touched that wand box in weeks and it hasn't fallen off my dresser, so why is there a part broken off?" I frowned deep in thought.

Chris gasped suddenly and hurriedly dashed into her room. It seemed like she'd had some kind of epiphany. She came back into my room a moment later.

"Someone's been in my room, too. I put the box in a drawer that I always lock, but it was open when I just checked."

"Someone broke into your rooms to look at wand boxes?" Edward asked in disbelief.

"No," I shook my head. "Someone came to see the text inside of them."

"How would anyone even know that there was something written in them?" Jasper asked, confused. "And even if they knew, how would they know it was inside the boxes?"

I hummed as I thought about this.

"Well someone must know about the text in general, why else would people be watching us?" Chris asked.

"We're talking about Irina again?" Edward asked.

"I guess so. She is stupid enough to make silly mistakes like not putting things back in their proper place after she'd snooped around."

"But wasn't Irina in school?" Alice asked. "I'm pretty sure I saw her."

"Same, so it must've been one of her weirdo friends."

"But still, there's no way they could know about this," Jasper said.

"Yes, there is," I mumbled thoughtfully. "They know that there's text and they probably think it holds information as to where this long lost power is."

"Even if that's true, why would someone know about the text? Not just the text itself, but how would they know where it was?"

Chris made a sound of understanding. "Maybe someone did enter my mind that one night that I had a feeling someone was in it."

"As of now, I'm the only mind reader in the school," Edward said.

"Is mind reading the only way to enter someone's mind?" I asked.

"Not really. Dylan gets into minds too, but he can't read thoughts. Than there are people who can pick certain things like memories out of your mind, but not thoughts. There are quite a few people who can get into your mind to get information out of you, but if they tried it, you would know, and it doesn't really work when you're sleeping."

"Okay, well then I don't know," I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Maybe we can find out how they know once we figure out who they are," Jasper suggested casually.

"Perhaps, but Irina works for someone, and since she can't just leave campus to plan with this person, it has to be someone on campus, but Laurent seems to be in the clear, so it can't be him," I said.

"Why can't she leave campus?" Chris had a look of disbelief and confusion on her face. "She can grow out of the ground, can't she?"

"Yeah, she can, but the school is surrounded by a charm that keeps us in and intruders out. I doubt that Irina is magically strong enough to break it. That means she can only leave when the gates are open because that's the only time the charm is interrupted," Alice explained quickly.

Chris looked at her watch and sighed. "Well, I gotta go to practice now, but I have an idea," she said. "We could just shadow Irina." And then she just walked out of the room, leaving us to think about her plan.

"You know, that's really not a bad idea," Jasper said. "We find out who Irina is working with or for, and then we can find out how they know so much and get the evidence we need to actually tell someone. That way nobody will get killed," he started strategizing right away.

"And how exactly do we go about keeping tabs on Irina? She seems to be popping one Psych Blocker after another since Edward can't get into her mind," Rose asked him.

"We'll just do it the old-fashioned way," Jasper answered with a simple shrug.

"But she's not in our class so we can't even follow her around," I threw in, staring at him with wide eyes just like Rose while Alice told him how sexy he was when we was being 'dangerous like that'.

The following few days, we didn't speak about the plan again.

Our group was constantly a little bit smaller than usual because we all had "classy meetings", aka classification classes. Our schedules weren't the same anymore because all of us had to practice or do whatever they had to do. I should have known that there would be more meetings than just the ones the school assigned for us.

Edward wasn't very thrilled at first when Bryce and Japree appeared in Alice's room to drag me along and inspect the plans. He thought Bryce was dangerous. The funny thing was Bryce and Japree looked like some sort of troublemakers, but they were total softies. Bryce even more so than Japree.

One time, I asked Japree how in the world his parents came up with an unusual name like his.

"It's a ridiculous story and I really don't wanna talk about it," he'd grumbled then went back to reading the large book in front of him.

Now, he was being faced with the task of creating spectacular flavors. I, on the other hand, had to work with the other water manipulators while the freezers were having difficulties with their job. Ever since the astrodome had been opened, it stopped snowing, so they were trying to get the best they could out of the rain, only they weren't all that good at freezing. The fish mimics didn't have any specifically special tasks, so they just assisted the rest of us here and there along with a few juniors.

The first thing we all had to work on was the biger water fountain pool. We were going to have little fountains all over the place, but this one was so big because that was were I had to show off my water abilities.

We all had lots of fun working together and when it finally started to snow, much to my surprise, I actually enjoyed it.

The time passed very quickly and soon it was already Valentines Day. Alice had been anxiously and impatiently waiting for the day as if it were her birthday. As a matter of fact, she actually was waiting for her birthday, which just happened to be one month after Valentines Day, but at least she wasn't annoying us about it yet.

"Why is Valentines Day such a big deal?" Chris asked the evening before.

"Because people give you chocolate, duh," Alice replied in a tone that made it sound like the most obvious thing in the world.

"You mean people will just come up to me and give me chocolate?" Chris asked.

"No, not really. During lunch break, you go to the cafeteria where the seniors have a table set up and you give them money in exchange for a card. You write who you're giving it to and some sort of cute greeting on it and the seniors will stick it on a box of chocolate and deliver it to the person you wish to send it to. You can request for them to send a rose, too."

"Why do they get paid for that?" I asked.

"They have to buy the chocolate and roses."

"Isn't there going to be a huge line then?" Chris asked.

"That is why Alice will make us get up early so we can catch the seniors before school," Rose moaned.

I had hoped that was just a joke, but Alice really did wake all of us up an hour early. Well, except for Edward. He'd kind of made a habit out of appearing in my room early in the morning to eat breakfast with me.

"Seriously Alice, it's just chocolate," Chris grunted as Alice forced us to hurry to the school.

"No, it's not. People send chocolate to the person they like and you can see how many people are secretly in love with you by the amount of chocolate you receive," Alice sighed dreamily.

"You have a boyfriend, you do remember him, right?" I asked her.

"Yes, but it's still so romantic, and I get chocolate."

"So basically it's all about the chocolate?" Chris asked.

Rose sighed. "It's about the chocolate for us, but the rest of the school hopes to get as much as possible. It's like a game. The seniors crown the two most attractive people in the school judging by the amount of cards you get," Rose explained. That seemed to make more sense.

"Isn't it easy to cheat?" I asked.

"Well, there are rules. You can only send one card, and you obviously can't send it to yourself. There are people who try to get their friends to send them a card, but that doesn't work because before you get to send anything, you have to swear that you're not sending it to cheat, and it's pretty easy to detect a lie."

"Then don't, but I want to," snapped Alice.

"Why are the seniors already in school anyway? And why is Edward here then?" I asked.

"It's only girls who manage the whole thing that are there to check their stacks of chocolate, roses, and cards," Edward explained.

Pretty soon we were inside the school building.

"Where are they?" Alice demanded.

"Storage room," Edward told her.

Alice led us all to the room and knocked furiously on the door.

"We were warned that you might appear early," a blond girl said after she opened the door.

"Yes, yes, yes, let's get to work," Alice rushed seriously.

"Come on in."

It took about ten minutes because each of us were being called in separately, due to lack of space inside of the storage room.

"What now?" I asked.

"The basket will be on our doorstep later," Alice said.

"Basket?"

"Of course. Do you think you'll just get one card?"

"They'll collect all the cards, chocolate, and so on, put it together for each person, and then send it to them. Some people get nothing while others get a basketful," Rose explained with a sigh.

"How wonderful, though that doesn't explain why we're in school like forty minutes early," Chris remarked.

Of course she was right about that, but Alice being Alice insisted that it was better to be early than late.

After a thirty minute argument between Chris and Alice, the school started to fill with people and a red-haired girl walked up to us.

"Jasper!" she called.

"Who is that?" Alice asked, sounding displeased.

"Leonore, she's in my class." Emmett's voice was slightly slurred as he spoke. He hadn't said much today, and I figured it was because he was so tired.

"What does she want with Jasper?" Alice asked impatiently as she watched Jasper walk up to the girl, Leonore, and speak quietly to her.

"How would I know?" Emmett shrugged.

"It's Valentines Day, is it not?" I piped.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean she can talk to him. She should just send chocolate."

"Could it be that you're a little obsessed with chocolate?" Chris asked Alice.

"I am not."

"Yes you are!" Rose, Edward, and Emmett said at once.

Alice decided to be very mature about the situation and opted to stick her tongue out at them.

Jasper strolled back over to us then.

"What did she want?" I asked before Alice could snap at him.

"I asked her to keep an eye on Irina since she can actually use her invisibility unlike other kids in our class."

"And?" I pressed.

"Irina does nothing out of the usual during the day, but since Leonore only watched her during the day, I would guess that Irina creeps out at night."

"I thought there was an alarm system in every house to prevent sneaking out," Alice said.

"Well that's a really stupid thing, actually. The alarm system can easily be switched off with a spell," Edward answered her.

"Why do they use an alarm system instead of an alarm spell?" I asked.

"Because the school doesn't use powerful ones like the IDM, the students were able to find a way to sneak out. They still get out, so the school just gave up. But there are supervisors for every house, though they barely even appear, and the security guards only make sure that no one leaves campus."

"Anyway, I had a point here. We would have to follow Irina at night," Jasper intervened.

"Great, and how are we supposed to do that?" Chris asked.

"Sneak out behind her?"

"But she could see us."

"Well, Dylan, Emmett, and I could do it, but the chances that she'll see us are still pretty high," Edward said.

"Okay, then I'll think of something else," Jasper told us.

xXxXxXxXxXxXx

"I want all of you in my room in ten minutes with your Valentines gifts," Alice instructed when we parted ways in front of the houses.

Chris and I nodded and went upstairs to our rooms.

There was indeed a basket standing in front of my door, filled with red heart-shaped cards, chocolates, and roses. Chris had one too, and it seemed that our baskets were about the same size.

"That's just weird. Don't they have other people to crush on?" Chris asked.

Ten minutes later we were both carrying our baskets to Alice's room. Everyone was already there when we arrived, even Dylan and Heidi who had been keeping their distance from us.

"Why are your baskets so big?" Alice asked the second we entered her room. She was definitely overreacting. Our baskets weren't that big — they were a little smaller than picnic baskets. Alice was seated on the floor sitting in front of a cute little basket, her mouth smeared with chocolate.

"Alice, you are a monster," Chris said rather than answering her.

"A terrifying little monster," Jasper agreed. He too had a basket which was roughly the same size as Alice's. Both Rosalie and Emmett had baskets which looked a little bigger, but Rose's was filled with more presents than Emmett's.

Dylan and Edward's baskets were both overflowing while Heidi's was the same size as Alice's.

"This sucks, I used to get a lot more," Alice complained.

"I think some people finally realized that you and Jasper will probably get married," Rose commented.

"So? They can still send chocolate," she pouted.

"Did you count?" Jasper asked her.

"Yes, 25," Alice replied.

"What's your problem then? The average person gets five or ten."

"But I wanted more," Alice whined.

"Here," Rose sighed and tossed her a box of chocolate.

"You already ate all of yours?" I asked in disbelief.

"Why else do you think she looks like that?" Emmett asked.

"Forty-three," Rose suddenly announced. She had apparently finished counting all of her cards.

"What?" Alice shrieked.

"Don't worry, Tinkerbell, I'll give you more than half of it."

"Let's get to counting then," Chris sighed and started to count with Rose's help.

Alice helped me and soon all of us were counting how much were in our baskets. Jasper had twenty-seven, Emmett had thirty-five, and Heidi had nineteen.

Then finally Edward, Chris, Dylan, and I finished counting. Chris had sixty-one, Dylan had seventy-three, Edward had one hundred and three, and I had eighty-six.

"What the hell? If half of the school is crushing on those four, what about the rest?" Rose asked.

"It's not half the school, it's an eighth," Jasper corrected and Rose sent him an icy glare.

"You can have my chocolate, Alice," I said and pushed my basket over to her.

Alice squealed like a little kid and immediately dove her arm into my basket.

"Well, if I had to guess, I would say that Bella and Edward won, but we'll know for sure tomorrow," Rose said.

I really didn't care about being the most attractive girl in school and to be honest, I was rather surprised that I had more cards than Chris. I'd been sure I had no chance against her.

"I always told you that you were nuts when you said I was the better looking twin," Chris commented on my thoughts.

"I don't think either of you look better," Heidi said.

During the few occasions we had to spend time with Heidi, we all did our best to ignore her. Chris always had to bite her tongue to prevent herself from saying something but I heard ever swear she screamed in her head each time we went near Heidi. It wasn't much better for the rest of us. None of us seemed to like Heidi, although I couldn't think of a reason why. Every time she spoke, Alice grimaced, Rose rolled her eyes, and Jasper looked away. Emmett and Edward weren't as bad, though I sensed that Edward didn't like talking to her either. He once said something about unpleasant thoughts. Dylan seemed to be oblivious to all of this and just grinned happily whenever she was closed. Although sometimes I thought I saw him roll his eyes too.

Once she asked Rose if it was okay for vegetarians to have oral intercourse. We'd all groaned and rolled our eyes at that. She also wondered what butterflies have in their tummies when they are in love.

She seemed relatively normal until she asked questions like that.

So now was one of the moments when nobody answered her and we just carried on with our conversation. It was mean and I did feel kind of bad, but I couldn't help it.

At the end of the day when we all left, Alice waved us goodbye from her giant pile of chocolate. Rose had decided to give her all of her chocolate as well along with Edward and Dylan. Chris, however, ate a few herself before leaving the rest for Alice too.

Alice was grinning like a Cheshire cat and I was pretty sure that we were going to regret that soon.

The next morning we all regretted letting Alice have our chocolate. She had apparently eaten more than enough just for breakfast, which caused her to be even more hyper than she usually was for the rest of the day.

"Alice, you're getting on my last nerve," Chris growled as we made our way to the classy rooms.

"Jazzy, did you hear that? Chris is being mean! She's always mean. She never says anything nice to me. Hey look, someone built a snowman! I love snowmen. It's not very pretty though, but do you know what is pretty? Me! You think so too, right? I mean, of course you do, I am your girlfriend, and that's why you have to beat Chris for being mean to me. Don't worry about beating a girl, Chris won't mind. She deserves it for being mean. Ew, the snow is getting in my shoes! Now my feet are wet. That's—" and she went on and on and on.

Thank God only Edward and Dylan had to put up with that.

I made my way to the Hydro room only to find the backdoor open. Apparently they started working without me.

"Yo Bella, you're late," Japree greeted me. He was standing next to the door, watching the others run around working. In front of us were about seven people shaping a booth out of snow.

"Sorry, we had to deal with our pixie."

"No worries," Japree replied with a nonchalant shrug. "You can go help Natalia with the souvenirs. I think she's going crazy."

I crossed the giant place and entered the one booth that we'd already finished.

"Bella, thank God you're here. We need more stuff to sell but I can't think of anything. We have these special made snowballs with you and me and those scepters, but I don't know what else to put on the souvenirs list." Natalia was hysterical, sounding as if she were about to cry.

"Did you forget about the ice skates?"

"No, but that's not my responsibility. I'm thinking about souvenirs and such," she motioned toward the hundreds of cartons behind her.

"How about we create a perfume and call it 'eau de glace'?" Cynthia suggested, appearing from somewhere behind the cartons.

"Well then get to work and create the perfume. Oh, and tell the guys you'll need a perfumery. Try to think of other stuff as well," Natalia instructed and Cynthia was out of the booth right away.

Natalia and I spent the rest of the day coming up with new ideas and by the end of the day, I felt like my brain was going to explode.

Chris POV

"More fire!" Jensen yelled as he watched Meredith, Janan, and me practice. The guy was definitely hot enough to have me wonder why he wasn't constantly on fire, but he was just such a pain in the ass. He was one of the council members in the Pyro group and he just loved to drill all of us, even though he was kind of a cool guy. When he wasn't throwing around instructions at least.

As a fire dancer, it was easier for Meredith to dance with the fire, but she had more problems when the amount of fire was increased.

Janan, on the other hand, had no problems with the fire amount, but the dancing while holding the fire was a completely different story. Since she was just a fire manipulator, she constantly had the fear that she was going to burn herself.

She handed the fire over to me so I could increase it.

"Okay, and can we see the whole thing again now please?" Jensen asked.

I sighed and got back into the starting position. The music came on and we had to go through the whole dance again.

"Nice work, ladies!" Jensen praised us when we finished, then left to look at the progress the others had made.

"It is so freaking hot in here," Janan gasped and dove for her water bottle.

She was right about that. We'd gotten our own astrodome to keep the rainy weather out and we'd created our own weather inside. We were nearing temperatures that occurred in the Sahara.

After the dancing practice was over, the three of us had to go try on our costumes.

"Since when do you have a tattoo?" Steve asked.

"Don't even ask," I grumbled in reply.

By the end of the day, I was so exhausted that I could've slept for more than three days straight. Like so often before, I met up with Bella outside of the Pyro room just as she exited the Hydro room.

"How was your day?" I asked her.

"Full of ideas," came her reply.

"Nice." Suddenly my phone rang. I looked at the screen to see that I'd received a text message from Jasper.

Alice's room in one hour!

It seems Jasper's begun to pick up on Alice's bossy habits.

"I'm gonna need a long shower," I sighed. "We'll meet in Alice's room in an hour," I added to inform Bella but it seemed like she'd gotten the same message.

When I entered my room, I was greeted by a big cuddly cotton ball in my face. It made odd squeaking noises and sounded like it was excited. I caught the flying thing just as it was about to go out the window, which was for some reason open, and stomped over to Bella's room.

"Would you mind telling me why this thing was in my room?" I asked her.

She looked like she'd just been looking for him. "Eddie!" she exclaimed when she saw her Snuffle in my arms. "I've been looking everywhere for you." She took little Eddie from me and cuddled him fiercely.

"I still don't get why you named that thing Eddie," I wrinkled my nose in distaste. "What in the world is wrong with you?"

When she'd awakened the over-sized cotton ball, Alice insisted on naming it right away. I told her to call it Snuffy or something, but she'd picked the name Eddie instead.

Who on Earth names their pet after their boyfriend?

Even Edward wasn't thrilled about that, which was why Eddie was merely the Snuffle's second name, though Bella pretty much always called him that. After a long discussion between Edward and Bella with the occasional comment from the audience, namely me, she'd decided that it's name would be Eddie, but since the rest of us disagreed with the name, we called him Rick.

Rick-Eddie was currently squeaking happily in Bella's arms while I watched the two of them cuddle.

Then I remembered that I wanted to take a shower, so I quickly informed Bella I was leaving then went to the showers. After my nice long, warm shower, I got dressed then made my way to Alice's room with Bella.

"So, what's the sitch?" I asked when we entered Alice's room.

"Ya'll should really thank me," Jasper said in his southern drawl. It seemed like the Christmas break had reminded him of the good life in the south.

"For what?" I asked.

"I got Heidi to track Irina's every move, and the only place that seemed a little odd was the school's conference building," Jasper explained.

"How did you convince that dog to do that?" Rose asked curiously while Emmett chuckled at her wording.

"I told her that Chris might get angry if she doesn't," Jasper answered with a shrug.

"You threatened her?" Bella asked in disbelief.

"Jazzy, you really are the sexiest man alive," Alice cooed.

"Which is why he's naked in your world," Edward grumbled. Alice was wearing her pink glasses and had been smiling happily until a second ago.

Emmett and I instantly burst out laughing while Alice blushed and Jasper quickly removed the glasses from her face, probably to prevent Edward from seeing any more.

"He was not naked," Alice defended.

"My apologies. Half-naked," Edward corrected with a sly grin on his face.

"Could we get back to the topic at hand?" Jasper groaned, ignoring me and Emmett as we tried to catch our breath.

Just then, Dylan stormed into the room.

"Jasper, why the hell are you using my girlfriend as a tracking dog?" he asked angrily.

"Why not? Isn't that what she's good at?" I asked, still not fully recovered from my laughing fit.

Dylan's eyes met mine for a brief second. "Was it your idea?"

"Me?" I asked, mocking shock, then innocence, "I would never do such a thing."

"You used the fact that she's scared of you, didn't you?" Dylan asked.

"Did you not just hear what I said?"

"It's hard to believe someone who's never serious."

"We've already had this conversation," I noted.

Dylan narrowed his eyes at me but when he caught sight of the necklace that I still wore around my neck, his expression softened.

"Dylan, it was me. Chris didn't even know anything about it," Jasper came to the rescue.

"And why'd you do it?"

"So we could find out where Irina walks around at night," Jasper stated. "And I think we should go check it out."

"What? Now?" Bella asked.

"Yes, just to see if there's anything there," Jasper answered.

"What are we supposed to do?" Edward asked. "Are we supposed to all just storm in there?"

"No. I think two people should be enough. According to Heidi, Irina seems to be upstairs most of the time."

"And who's supposed to just walk into a building that's hardly ever used?" Rose asked.

"Well, it's wise if we send Alice, since she'll be able to see if there's any danger, and it'd be best to send Dylan with her for a quick exit."

"Let's do it then," I sighed.

A few minutes later, we all stood at a deserted area of the campus. In front of us was a building which was easily high enough to allow someone to overlook any specific part of the campus.

"Why is it so high?" Bella asked.

"The IDM used to have one of their offices here," Edward explained.

"I think the coast is clear," Alice announced after she closed her eyes and rubbed her temples in a circular motion. Dylan and her disappeared a moment later.

"Is it really wise to be standing here?" Rose asked after a little bit of silence.

"We should move to the side of the building so we can keep an eye on the front door," Emmett suggested. Since it was a rather smart idea, we did as he said and watched the door with anxious eyes.

After a few more minutes, Alice and Dylan reappeared beside us.

"If we really want to know what's going on in there, we need to be here when Irina goes in again," Dylan said.

"Alice, do you see anything?" Jasper asked her.

Alice concentrated on her power. "No," she sighed in annoyance. "Apparently Irina is still popping Psych Blockers."

"So wait, you're telling us there was nothing in there?" I asked.

"Yes, there was. It looks like a normal office combined with a conference room, except for the fact that whoever uses it seems to be making a potion because there was a giant kettle with bubbling liquid in the corner," Dylan explained.

"And the file that was stolen was on a desk," Alice chirped. "The IDM didn't seem to have any evidence at all, but your statements are in there and..." she looked back at us and it seemed as if she was waiting for it to click inside our heads too.

It didn't.

"Guys, they know about the wand boxes because of our statements," Bella explained with a light roll of her eyes.

"Ahhh," was the collective reply.

"Nice to have that explained," Rose mumbled.

"Hey, I wanted to say something else. I can't go in there with Alice tonight. Well, at least, not without them seeing me," Dylan said.

"Why not?" Jasper asked.

"There are no hiding spots except for the big round table, but I'm too tall for it."

"We could always walk in there—" Rose started but Jasper cut her off.

"No, we don't know what there is and could be, and it might be too dangerous for us to just walk in there. How are you supposed to get out fast if something goes wrong?"

"So what do we do then?" Emmett asked.

"Why not let Emmett go?" I suggested.

"Because Emmett is too big and loud," Alice answered and Emmett grimaced.

"What about Edward?" Bella asked.

"Same problem as Dylan. We'd be seen in there, and I think it's better to actually see the people rather than just listening in on them through the door."

Dylan looked thoughtful before suddenly suggesting, "Chris could do it."

"What?" I asked loudly and looked at him as if he'd lost his mind. "Bella's much better with her powers, so she should do it."

"What am I supposed to do? It's not like I can turn people into water or something," Bella protested.

"And I could burn Alice."

"I didn't mean your powers, Chris, I meant mine," Dylan barged in and looked pointedly at my necklace.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Emmett asked, confused.

Jasper, however, noticed the look Dylan gave me. "You didn't seriously give her a gift stone, did you?" he asked in disbelief.

"A gift stone?" Emmett shouted. "Dude, are you crazy? You of all people shouldn't be giving anyone a gift stone."

"Well I did," replied Dylan. "Now can we just focus on the problem at hand?"

"I can't use teleportation. I accidentally used it once and ended up in my closet," I objected.

"Sounds like Dylan in the fourth grade," Edward murmured with a chuckle.

Dylan shot him a dirty look before looking at me. "I can teach you how to use it."

"Oh great," I grumbled sarcastically, unsure of whether I was looking forward to private lessons with Dylan or not.

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A/N: Okay first of all, sorry that I jumped around with the POVs so much. Also am I sorry for writing such an all-over-the-place chapter (at least that is what I think it is) I'm currently struggling a bit with filling these chapters with words. I know what to write but not how to put it in the chapter. And I'm kinda getting nervous because it's getting closer and closer to the end... So I just noticed that I didn't even say who won Valentine's King and Queen (that's how the Senior girls call it) It was not Bella and Edward, sadly :( The winners were two of the College students called Collin Sanchez and Miranda Phils, in case you wanted to know that. So this brings me to the next thing...it happens that I let little details slip, because- let's face it- I'm neither Stephenie Meyer nor J.K. Rowling. Yes, yes I know it's a surprise for everyone, but that's jsut the way it is. So my point was actually, that if you have any questions about anything that has been already written just ask and I'll answer. You know things like: When is Emmett's birthday?

Then I'll say: Well, Emmett's birthday is two weeks after Alice's on the 1st of April. And to just tell you the truth I'll write Alice's birthday in the next chapter, but I think I will only mention Emmett's in a shourt passage, because I honestly don't want to write two birthdays-.-

Yes, I know that's a very long answer, but if you would ask something like: Does Dylan like marzipan?

The answer would be: No, he hates it!

Okay, I guess I don't need to explain that any more...

Well, to express my gratitude for all your reviews, I have a niece little preview for you

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"Chris, did you even listen to anything I said?" Dylan asked exasperatedly.
"No, I'm sorry, I was distracted by the dog sniffing your butt," I replied sweetly and watched Heidi's outraged expression with a smile on my face.
"Chris, can't you just be nice for once?"
I got up from the couch and went over to Dylan's king-sized bed. I threw myself on it and stretched my body in a very cat-like manner.
"Sorry, I can't do that. I'm just a naughty girl," I purred with a wink.
Dylan stared at me wide-eyed and I was pretty sure he was close to drooling.
I looked at Heidi with a triumphant expression. If she ever walked up to me again to tell me that I was meaningless to Dylan, I would have to remind her of this moment.

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Sooo, after reading this, you should review even more to make me update faster.