TWO

Alice and Jasper would be easy to convince, they were both happy with going to school. Or so Edward told me.

But by the time we got to the house, the Denali clan was already there…

Tanya was just as I expected her to be, the typical kind of perfect stereotype: Twenty years, strawberry-blond long curly hair, curvy but not too much, white smooth skin, Barbie-like full pink lips, long light eyelashes and high cheeks.

Above all, she was smiling, and that made it difficult for me to hate her. Or maybe it made me hate her more, I am not sure.

Kate had pale straight blond hair, she was the palest of all, she was tall and had a happy presence, just like Alice, she just made you smile because she was just so perky and from her skin emanated loads of happiness it made you happy too. She looked like she was a bit older than me, eighteen or nineteen.

Carmen and Eleazar were a weird couple; I liked them, even though they had a royal air that made you not able to look directly to their eyes. They definitely were Carlisle's age (talking about appearance, of course. Who knew how old they really were?)

They were a lot a like; they both had dark black long hair and nice big eyes.

Irina was amazingly beautiful, she had weir kind of personal space around her that nobody dared to touch, she never touched or kissed anyone, she hardly smiled and was always talking in short dry sentences. She made me think of Rosalie in some kind of way.

"Oh, hey" was what I said when I got to the house and found them all sitting in the living room, talking with Alice and Jasper.

"Bella?" Tanya said.

"Hum, yeah" I said smiling shyly.

"I am Tanya" she smiled her Barbie smile.

"Oh, nice to meet you"

And then, all of them introduced themselves.

"I am Carmen and he is my husband Eleazar"

"I am Kate" Kate said.

After a short silence, Kate looked at Irina who was staring impassibly at the high ceiling.

"She is Irina" Kate finally said.

I found the house was a lot like the Cullens, just this house had a bit of red here and there. I think the majority of female components of the family affected the décor.

"Bella has something she would like to share with all of you. It is important knowing that we will stay here for a while, as we can't return to Forks" Edward said, he squeezed my hand and smiled.

"Well, I want to go to finish school, and I know that Edward is going to go with me. And now that we are here, you might like to go or not."

Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie and Emmett entered the room in that instant.

"I am surely not going; Emmett and I are going to go for a while to South America, to the Amazonas. Emmett wants to fight anacondas" Rosalie said rolling her eyes.

"I think it is wonderful, even though I am going to miss you" Esme said.

"We both are totally going, Bells" Alice said with a big grin talking about her and Jasper.

"I would like to try it, at least for a while, you know? It would be interesting. Tanya had never wanted to come with me, she says she's too old or she already knows it, or some crap like that" Kate smiled "Liar!"

Tanya broke laughing and soon Kate too.

When they both calmed down, Irina talked.

"Don't count me in."

She only said that and went to her room.

"Well, we are truly sorry to inform you Bella, but we are teachers in the local University, so…" Eleazar said.

"Oh, right" I said, and surely, if I was human, I would have blushed.

"You have to think how you are going to introduce yourselves to the school before I call" Carlisle said "I have an interview with the local hospital, so I must go. Call me when you are ready."

"It is really simple," Kate said "Jasper and I are brother and sister, last name Whitlock if you want" Jasper nodded "Alice and Jasper are a couple, Alice and Bella are sisters, your last name would be Swan and finally Edward would be a Cullen. Of course Bella and Edward would be a couple."

"You Kate think fast!" Alice complimented her.

"Thanks." Kate said.

Carmen and Eleazar were already going to the university; Carlisle had already left with Esme who had asked to come and try to work as a nurse in the baby's department.

"Do you think it is going to make her any good?" I heard Edward ask Alice softly.

"I think it will ease her pain for a while, but knowing not one of those is hers will obviously break her heart. Trust me Edward; it is better this way, her way."

She had answered with a really shocking sincerity.

Jasper had called Carlisle and he had called back and told us a little later he had already arranged everything.

He had said, "Welcome to Elaine P. Hazard High."

Emmett had even joked about it a bit, "Doesn't the name scare a bit the students? I mean I would never go to a school were "hazard" was included."

"Em, you love danger!" Rosalie said laughing; they were already making their plans to leave.

"I meant when I was younger and ephemerally human" he casually said.

"So you were a coward" Kate alleged laughing.

"You little blondie thing, I would smack you if it wasn't I fear you scorch me with your little pixie hands" he told her.

That made her laugh even harder.

"Elaine P. Hazard high?" I asked Edward "Do we start tomorrow?" I asked hopefully.

"Affirmative" Jasper said passing by with Alice in his back, covering his eyes with her hands. They were playing "The unseeing vampire", a game that was really funny and a bit destructive.

At first Alice hadn't told Jasper where to turn right and they had knocked against a big couch causing it to whack against the closest wall with a loud thud.

So, here we go. I though while I laughed hard watching Alice give Jasper wrong directions and causing him to hit a lamp and break it.

Elaine P. Hazard High? Here we go!