"Compulsion, or to compel, is to make somebody do something by force," defined Alice, the nerd.

"I really don't think she was asking for a literal definition you geek," Emmet teased her. "Why do you ask?"

"It's the new kids," I explained. "Rose was here with her boyfriend and she was scolding him for using compulsion, whatever that is, and they also mentioned something about the queen being outside."

"I'm telling you, they're not human!" Alice insisted.

"Honestly, I think we need to investigate this further," I admitted. "But we should wait and talk about it with Carlisle."

Rose POV:

I know I'm not the religious sort, but I was literally thanking God for everything that was happening. I was still alive and the Queen hadn't ordered my execution. She just yelled at me for dressing like a blood whore, which actually offended me but I sure as hell wasn't going to let her know that. All she wanted was to drop off guardians for us, surprisingly only three. I had assumed she would go into crazy overprotective mode and send like fifty.

I barely had time to meet them because I had to get back to school, but there was one girl and two guys. One man was in his fifties while the other was relatively younger, but I wasn't sure exactly how old. The girl's name was Alessia and she looked fresh out of high school but I saw that she already had three molnija marks.

Anyways though this all took much longer than I thought it had, so I didn't get back until lunch. I scanned the cafeteria searching for Lissa and Christian. Finally I found them over at a table with Mike, Angela, that bitch Jessica, Bella, and some other people I didn't recognize.

I headed over and plopped into an empty chair between Christian and a guy who introduced himself as Tyler and then asked me out. I rolled my eyes in disgust and turned to Christian, who looked quite bored.

"Guess who visited me?" I said.

"Don't know, don't care," he said.

"Ignoring that," I retorted. "Anyways, I think you'll be interested. It was the Queen Bitch."

Christian looked startled and Lissa whirled around and gasped, effectively shutting up the girl she was talking to.

"Tatiana visited? What did she want? Are you in trouble? Is she still here? Did she ask to see me?" she asked, not even bothering to keep her voice down. All eyes turned to us.

"Yes, tell you later, not really, yes, and yes," I said answering her questions. "She's coming over for dinner tonight."

"Rose! This is a big deal, you have to tell me! Is she sending Christian and I back to the Academy? What's going to happen to you?"

"Did you get in a fight with her guardians?" Christian asked excitedly.

"Whatever are you talking about?" said the soft, melodical voice of Alice Cullen. "And who is this Queen Tatiana you speak of?"

Damn it we were so screwed. Those Cullen kids are onto us and I know Edward won't be hesitant to use any information he finds out against us. I thought they had left for the day!

I did some quick-thinking on my part. "She's Adrian's great-aunt and before you ask who Adrian is, he's the adult who's staying with us. Rosalie, Edward, and Bella met him already. But anyways we call her the Queen because she's super rich and she thinks that she is the most important person in the world. And well, the guardians," her I faltered for a moment and Christian thankfully jumped in.

"They're her security guards at her mansion, but she always has one with her. She's very paranoid."

Alice continued to scrutinize us, and I could sense Lissa cowering under the intense gaze but I refused to be intimidated.

"Interesting," she drawled. "Well, I must be going."

"She's such a freak," said the blonde girl who had been talking with Lissa earlier.

"And what you aren't Lauren?" mocked Tyler.

"Shut up, you asshole," said the blonde who I know knew to be Lauren.

"Really that's the best comeback you could think of?" I scoffed.

Lauren's mouth formed a perfect O that was quite comical.

"Hon, you might want to shut your mouth before a bug flies in."

I soon found out that I wasn't the only one who thought the girl was a bitch and a whore. Tyler used to date her, but quickly dumped her. Bella only said that they didn't get along, but I sensed that she really disliked her. Angela refused to say anything bad, but did admit that Lauren was a bit of a handful at times. However, Angela saying that is pretty much equal to calling her a bitch.

At the last period of the day I returned to Mr. Molina's class for the meeting Mike had told me about earlier. I must have been early because the only other person there was Mike. Well, Mr. Molina was there to.

I plopped into the seat next to him. We chatted and even talked with Mr. M, who was actually pretty cool.

The class soon filled up. I had been intending to save a seat for Lissa, but when I looked around I realized that all the desks within a 5-foot radius were filled with guys. Ah, you had to love boys despite their lacking subtlety.

Mr. M started once everyone had arrived. "Okay class, today's topic is…wait for it…homecoming!"

Excited giggles and conversation erupted throughout the class. And I swear, I just think five guys asked me to be their date.

"I know it's early but we have to elect our homecoming representatives. As you are the senior class there will be 10 elected, 5 girls and 5 boys. And two of you will become the Homecoming King and Queen!"

Lauren Mallory smiled smugly as if she had already won.

"I'm sure most of you all ready know how Homecoming Court works, but I'll just run through it for the new students."

"Four students from freshman and sophomore years are elected, six from junior year, and ten from senior year. There is one prince and princess from freshman, sophomore, and junior years. The rest are Ladies-in-Waiting and Valets-of-the-King."

"And now, our Senior Class Vice President would like to make an announcement. Miss Stanley the floor is all yours."

"Fellow classmates, I have a very exciting announcement to make. This year's homecoming them is Arabian Nights!"

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