Chapter Two
Forks High School
Katelyn Rosalice Cullen
"You're such a dork." I argued to Edd as he sat in the back of my car with Liam talking about a random computer game he had just bought, the only reason they were in my car was the fact that Liam was Rennie's brother. I had only allowed them to come with us because of that reason, and that reason alone.
"And you're a bitch, but we don't complain." Liam stared me down, challenging me. I glared at Sarenee and she just shrugged her shoulders.
"I really don't know why you two just can't get on. You're cousins at the end of the day." Rennie complained, "And don't call her a bitch."
"She has issues, Rennie. Serious issues." Liam narrowed his eyes at me, I glared at him in the mirror of my car, our eyes met, his dark brown ones meeting my frosty blue ones.
"And you don't? You act about three when you're physically older than your mother!" I snarled slightly as I pulled into the best parking spot in Forks High School. I took the keys out of the ignition and then walked out of my car, slamming the door. "Get the fuck out of my car!" I yelled at the boys, mainly Liam though.
"Excuse me?" Liam asked very sarcastically, his eyebrows coming together almost comically.
"Get the fuck out of my car! Don't expect a lift home tonight!" I yelled at him, and then I grabbed Rennie's arm. "Come on, Rennie!" I exclaimed and then Rennie shook her head humorously and took off with me, her brother and our cousin standing in shock at my outburst.
"I swear you two fight like an old married couple." Rennie teased, I spluttered slightly and then looked at her, my face probably full of horror.
"You can't be serious!" I yelled, "You're brother and I do not argue like an old married couple! He is just rude."
"To be honest though, you are rude to him." Sarenee grinned and then placed a hand on my shoulder, "But hey, I don't mind having you as a sister in law."
"Don't be such an idiot. I think I'd rather die than be your brother's wife. In fact, I think I'd rather just have a werewolf to eat me right this second." I spat, picturing in my head a huge wolf ripping my apart, of course, the picture was not pleasant as my hair got in a horrible mess.
"Or I could just get a shape shifter to eat you." Rennie smirked and then glanced over at the next car to pull into the car park, in the second best spot. The car was a huge Land Rover.
"Eww, no. Shape shifters stink of wet dog! At least werewolves just smell sort of wild." I cringed a little at the thought of the smell of a shapeshifter, they didn't really smell too bad, just musky and a little like an animal, but werewolves definitely smelt better.
"Siena!" Rennie yelled to Siena as she stepped out of her car with her sister and a few of our other cousins. I walked over to Siena and she grinned back at me, Rennie, me and Siena were best friends and more like sisters than anything else.
"So, what are you guys going to do today"? Siena suddenly asked as she placed her lip gloss back in her bag, she must have just reapplied it in the car before she got out to meet us.
"What do you mean?" I asked a little confused at her random question.
"It's careers day, remember? There's going to be a few different people coming in to talk about our future careers and to give us presentations and try to get us to join their profession." Rennie raised an eyebrow at me, I didn't usually forget things like that.
"Oh, yeah." I rolled my eyes, "That dork fest. Brilliant." I grumbled as Siena pulled her phone from her pocket and looked at the screen.
"Hannah is going to be here in a few minutes." Siena rolled her eyes, "She woke up late apparently."
"That girl..." I muttered, Hannah was one of my best friends, she was a human, a particular beautiful human, she was funny and adventurous and sassy, but she was also very forgetful and could be extremely ditzy sometimes.
"She's late almost every day, I don't know why you expected any different." Rennie chuckled and then ran her fingers through her hair.
"I just think she would know how to get herself out of bed by now." I snorted, almost unattractively at Rennie's comment.
"Just remember she isn't supernatural," Siena whispered a little, "She isn't like us. We're more mentally mature than her."
"Or just more mental." Chloe snorted as she passed Chloe a book which must have dropped out of her bag. Chloe and Siena had major sibling rivalry issues between them. I smiled at the thought of what horror it must be for them to live under the same roof.
"Shut up. You're the mental one!" Siena snarled at her sister, looking as though she was going to bite her head off. All of a sudden she lunged forward towards her sister ready to deck her, but then Abby was in the centre of the two sisters who were staring each other down as Abby had her hands on both of their chests, holding them apart.
"Cool it you two!" Abby yelled at them, "You're both acting like crazy bitches!" She hissed, and then she pushed on Siena's chest a little hard and she stumbled back slightly, glaring at her sister and Abby.
"Come on, Clo." Abby said, grabbing Chloe's arm and dragging her indoors. I chuckled under my breath at their face off, it was always funny when Chloe and Siena clashed. I guess I just had a dark sense of humor.
The careers fair got off to a slow start, as the careers people arrived everybody seemed bored and very dull. People in white tents surrounded by leaflets, droning on and on in their fancy suits. I had to admit it wasn't the ideal thing I wanted to do on a day like this, a sunny day which was very rare in Forks. At least we were outside though.
I looked at my skin and smiled at the way it glowed in the beautiful sunlight. My glowing skin made me look flawless, enchanting and magical. I knew that most of the males in my year thought I was beautiful, they thought me and my cousins were all beautiful.
I walked down the number of white tents, looking for any kind of career that took my fancy. I had to admit, none of the careers really did appeal to be, managerial jobs and vets, doctors, nurses, police officers... they were all here to chose from and get some information, but then from the corner of my eye I saw one of my cousins in one of the tents.
I glanced over and saw Abby sitting in the military booth talking to one of the army careers men, the man she was talking to was older, maybe forty with a receding hair line and blotchy skin, but as the other man turned around, I found myself transfixed.
The man had dusty blonde hair with flecks of dark brown, cropped short. He was overly tall, around my grandpa Emmett's size, in both height and build with eyes the colour of butterscotch. His chin had a small cleft in it, his cheeks dimpled as he smiled with his full lips. I blinked once and then i felt my feet carrying me forwards towards the military booth.
Abby was just leaving as I entered, she gave me a look which seemed to say since when were you interested in the military? And then she shook her head as she saw me looking at the guy, but she was smiling to herself as she did so.
"Good Morning." The man said to me, he smiled and placed down his paperwork. "The Major is busy at the moment, but I'm free if you don't mind talking to me." He half smiled, he then looked me up and down, "Girls like you don't often want to join the army." He chuckled.
"Excuse me?" I raised my eyebrow, "That's rude. Just because I not wearing jeans and a hoodie and I actually look good doesn't mean I am not completely capable of joining the army!" I exclaimed, feeling very offended.
"You do look good, but your type doesn't usually want to join the army." He smirked and then pulled out a chair at one of the desks, "Would you like to sit?"
"What do you mean by my type?" I snarled at him, he chuckled again and then patted the table, motioning for me to sit down. I pulled out the chair and reluctantly sat down.
"I don't really know what I meant, but I can see you are not the kind of woman who would usually join." He grinned and then held his hand out, "I'm Captain Aaron Kyle."
I reached out and took his warm hand in my own, I was surprised at how large is was compared to mine, and how firm and strong his grip was for a human. As I looked at him, his gaze was warm and welcoming, but also firm and wise beyond his years.
After a few seconds he didn't let go of my hand, I smiled as he pulled my hand down onto the desk and kept my hand enveloped in his. "I'm Katelyn Cullen, but you can call me Kate." I smirked and then bit my lip, flirting with him a little.
"So why do you want to join the army?" He half smiled again, though this time his eyes scanned my face and not the full length of my body.
"Oh, you know. The pride of my country and what not." I rolled my eyes slightly.
"Uh huh. I can tell that." He grinned this time, humouring me. "So, how old are you?" He asked me, his eyes looking around the school.
"I'm almost seventeen." I smiled, "Next month to be in fact." I winked slightly and then coughed, "So how old are you?"
"I'm twenty six." He looked down at his boots and then met my eyes again, looking a little saddened at the age difference.
"Ten years older than me then." I blinked, he didn't look that much older than me, but the fact that he was a captain should have made that obvious.
"Well nine, seen as I only turned twenty six a few days ago." He smiled again; he had the sexiest smile I had ever seen. I gulped, what are you thinking?! You don't go for guys like him! He's in the army! He's probably not even popular!
"Oh, is that so?" I smirked and then pulled my hand from under his, looking at it, still feeling the warmth of his hand on my cool one.
"So, you go to forks high school, huh?" He grinned again and then looked to the school, "My mother went there when she was young. I lived in forks until I was five and then I moved to South Carolina."
"Well, that explains the accent." I laughed a little, his voice was so hot and deep, reminding me of a country guy.
"Yep, I guess you've lived here most of your life, because you have an accent too!" He exclaimed, chuckling to himself.
I felt my eyes widen, mortified at his comment, "I do not have an accent."
"I do not have an accent!" He repeated in a voice almost identical to mine. I felt my face screw up in disgust.
"I do not sound like that at all." I growled slightly.
"Yes you do." He smirked again and then chuckled at my scowl. I narrowed my eyes slightly and then he half smiled, "Chill, Katie. I was joking."
"Katie?" I raised an eyebrow at him and then blinked, I had never been called 'Katie' before, but coming from his lips I really liked the name.
"But you do really sound like that." He smiled and then laid his hand on mine again, I smiled back at him and then he took his other hand and put it into his pocket. After a few seconds he pulled out a card and then placed it on the table, pushing it towards me and glancing around to make sure nobody else was watching the exchange, "If you ever want to meet up, give me a call."
"Of course, Captain." I smiled and then I stood up, pulling down my top that had rode up a little as I had sat down, and then I brushed down my hair. "Bye, Aaron."
"Bye, Katie." He smiled again and then waved to the next man who was waiting to have a discussion about joining the army.
I walked over to Hannah who was stood at the edge of one of the marquees looking rather bored, "So, what were you doing over in the army booth? I never saw you as the army kind."
"I was talking to Aaron." I blinked and then smiled slyly, "He gave me his number!"
"That hot piece of eye candy gave you his number?! Damn girl. You seriously know how to pull a guy. Where do I get a cutie like that?" She asked, looking almost serious, but I knew she was joking.
"You already have a boyfriend." I chuckled, she then scowled and shoved me playfully.
"You're freakish dork cousin is not my boyfriend. Edd is unpopular and such a freak." She scowled again and then pulled her mirror out of her bag to reapply her lip gloss. She really was beautiful for a human with her flawless tanned skin, her huge sky blue eyes and her satin straight golden hair.
"Yeah, well. He seems to think you're his girlfriend." I grinned, nudging her with my shoulder, pointing my chin towards Edd who was standing at one of the booths watching Hannah with a dreamy look on his face.
"He is such a fucking freak." She snorted snobbishly, to which I nodded in agreement.
"Just like Rennie's brother." I said, watching as Liam joined Edd and pulled him away throwing me and Hannah a dirty look. I hoped that he could hear our conversation with his supernatural hearing.
"Yeah, but you two have lethal chemistry." Hannah stated. I snorted then, in complete disagreement.
"We do not have any kind of chemistry. None. Nada. Zip." I said, stomping my foot at the end of the sentence.
"What ever you say, Kate." She giggled and then looked to Aaron. "He is so hot."
"Yeah, I know. I scored right?" I flashed the card to her, and she squealed very girlishly.
"You definitely did!" She then proceeded to grab my arm and begin dragging me over to another worker in the cookery booth with a male chef who must have been at least twice her age, but I had to agree that he was hot.
Edward Masen Cullen III
"He is such a fucking freak." I heard Hannah say, I sighed heavily and turned around to see Liam approaching me. He glared at Kate and Hannah and then grabbed my arm roughly.
"Ignore those bitches." He said rather loudly, probably trying to make sure that Kate could hear him with her supernatural hearing.
"I don't even get why she doesn't like me. I've never even spoken to her properly, just because I like her." I rolled my eyes and then looked at Liam for support, "Why are women so confusing?!"
"I have no idea. Women are the opposite sex though, I guess we aren't supposed to understand them. I'm going to go to the hall, they managed to get a special scientist from Nasa in to do a presentation!" He exclaimed, "And the teacher aid the presentation will be on extraterrestrial life forms!" He sounded excited, which made me smirk a little at his geekiness.
"Ohh, that sounds cool. I might join you. Maybe they'll tell us that women are an alien lifeform and that they are really from Venus or something. That's probably why we can't understand them." I smirked again.
"Uhh, you know that's not possible, right?" He raised an eyebrow.
"I was joking, Liam." I sighed and then shook my head humorously.
"Oh, right." He face palmed himself, probably cursing that his logical mind seemed unable to comprehend a joke.
"Let's go then." I began to walk towards the hall, Liam didn't move and I glanced sideways at him. "Why aren't you coming?"
"Because it doesn't start for another half an hour." He grinned and then he looked around at the other booths, "We could have a look for some other jobs."
"Uhh, I'd rather not. I already know I want to be a games designer." I rolled my eyes.
"well unlike you I actually want to make something of myself and be an aerospace engineer." Liam said, actually sounding like my sister and her 'friends' for a second.
"You sound like Siena, Kate and Rennie when you say stuff like that. I want to be a game designer because it would be something I would enjoy, not because I am not capable of anything else." I gritted my teeth, hoping that he wouldn't be snobbish to me again.
"Yeah, right. Sorry." He looked down looking a little angry at himself for saying that being an aerospace engineer was better than been a game designer. Sure, it was a more academic job, but to me it wasn't a better job because I knew which I would enjoy more.
Chloe Renesmee Cullen
After school had finished, I had decided rather than getting in a car I would run home. I was just as fast, if not faster because I didn't have to follow any roads and I could also run in excess rather than having to abide by speed limits.
As I arrived home, my mom and dad were both in the kitchen, dancing about as they cooked a meal. I sniffed the air, smelling spaghetti bolognaise. My favourite! I grinned and walked into the kitchen with my head high, pushing my hair behind my ears, glad my sister wasn't here yet to degrade my confidence.
"Hey, sweetie." My mom said to me, turning her lapis lazuli blue eyes on me, I smiled and then walked over to bury my face in her hair. That's when I realised that she smelled different.
"Momma, why do you smell different?" I asked in confusion, she still smelled like my mom just different. I couldn't quite place my finger on the odd yet familiar smell.
"Uhh, well... there's something we need to tell you, Siena and Edd together." She answered and then she turned around, her tight top clinging to her slender figure, and yet, her stomach seemed to slightly bulge from between her hips. I felt my eyes widen in realisation.
"You're... I mean... I'm going to be a big sister? Again? I thought getting pregnant was dangerous for you, mom. What about the pregnancy with Me and Siena? I almost died. What if this is twins again like me and Siena? What about Edd? You were sick for two weeks with him! You were really ill!" I exclaimed, panicking slightly.
"Chloe... we can't help this. Sometimes protection doesn't work and... this..." She motioned to her stomach, "Happens. Just like with Edd."
"But... momma. What if you die?" I felt tears begin to fall down my face a little.
"Now, Chloe. Listen to me," She pulled my face to look at hers, my topaz eyes met her dark sapphire ones, "I will not die. You're father wouldn't allow it and neither would the rest of this family. This baby isn't like Siena and Edd, and it isn't twins. I'm having another hybrid like you. Another little girl." My mom smiled and touched her stomach.
Then my father came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her and placing a kiss on the nape of her neck, and then on her lips, a little too passionately for my liking. "Ughh. Dad. No parental mauling while I'm in the room please. That's what got you into this mess in the first place."
"It takes a little more than mauling to make a baby." My father's eyes sparkled with humour as he looked at my mom with pure adoration in his eyes.
"Eww. Too much-"
"Shut up, loser." Siena said as she walked into the kitchen, "So, what's for dinner?"
"Excuse me, I'm pretty sure you left your manners at the door, young lady. Maybe you should go back outside and get them." My father said to my sister in a voice warning her to not be so rude.
"What ever. I'm off upstairs." She yawned theatrically and then began walking up the stairs, her footsteps light and delicate as she went.
"And I'm not a loser!" I yelled after her as she slammed her door a little too loud. "I swear I'm going to punch that attitude out of her one day." I growled to my mom and dad.
"Don't stoop to her level, Clo. Just ignore her." Edd said walking in and placing his bag on the kitchen side, "Do I smell spag bol?" He grinned.
"Yes!" my father grinned, pulling away from my mom and then walking over to the cooking pot and stirring the bolognaise part of the spaghetti bolognaise.
"So, what did you think of careers day today?" Edd asked with a smile, I loved my little brother, it was a shame that my sister couldn't be more like him.
"I thought it was cool, especially the presentation on extraterrestrial life. Abby and Izzy really enjoyed it too, and I even saw Rennie sneak in five minutes into it." I chuckled, "Seems that the cool kids have a geek among them."
"Really? Rennie listening to a Nasa presentation? Are you sure?" Eddie looked a little sceptical at my revelation.
"I am positive, and I'm sure I saw Hannah take a peek every so often too. Maybe they aren't so bad after all." I elbowed him in the ribs teasing him, "Even your girlfriend might not be so terrible."
"She is not my girlfriend." He scowled.
"You want her to be!" I teased a little more, prodding him in the stomach and making him giggle like a little school girl.
"So?!" He exclaimed through a laugh, and then he smiled, "I can't help it. She's beautiful, and I know she is really nice too."
"Oh, yeah. Because she has shown her oh so sunny personality to you?" I asked sceptically, placing my hand on my hip for a little effect, trying to sound sarcastic in the same flawless way my sister did.
"No, but I've seen it." He smiled like a love struck teenager and then sighed happily.
"You sound like a love sick fool. The girl is an asshat like Siena and Kate." I frowned, placing an elbow under my chin and resting it on the kitchen counter.
"What about Rennie? She hangs around with them too." Edd looked a little curious at why I didn't include Rennie.
"Yes, but Rennie doesn't act like she is better than everybody else. At least she is down to earth and not stuck up her own ass." I rolled my eyes, a little sarcastically. Maybe I was a little like my sister, but at least I wasn't bitchy like her.
Edd smirked and nodded in agreement, "Fair comment. Rennie does have a better attitude that Siena and Kate."
"But not Hannah, because you love Hannah." I teased again.
"Maybe I do." Edd looked a little sad then, and I suddenly felt a little sorry for teasing him, my mom stopped her cooking and turned around to glance at Edd worryingly.
"You're in love with this girl?" She asked sadly.
"I think so, but she doesn't love me or even like me back." He sighed heavily.
"Well then, the girl is a fool." My father suddenly said, his voice strong and powerful above everybody else's in the room.
"Everyone is intitled to love who they want to, Eddie. Not everybody who you fall in love with loves you back." My mom said quietly to my father. I frowned slightly and then folded my arms.
"Yes, but I'm not just anyone. I'm a vampire and I don't just fall inlove with anybody. I think she might be my soulmate." Edd sighed, running his hand through his short hair in an expression of stress.
"I don't think she can be your soulmate is she doesn't feel the same way about you." I agreed with my mom, trying to make Edd feel a little less saddened.
"What do you mean? Of course she might be my soulmate. I just need to make her see that she is my soulmate." Edd folded his arms stubbornly and prepared for a fight, not a physical one of course, but a one of wits. I could see he was adamant that Hannah was his soulmate, and who was I to say she wasn't? What did I know of love? What did I know of having a soulmate?
"I don't think making her see is the right thing to do, Edd. You may just want to wait for her to come to you. She will eventually if she is your soulmate." My father said almost soothingly now, trying to calm him down as he became a little distressed.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Thanks, dad." He sighed and then half smiled at me, "Sorry, Chloe." He mumbled and then he stood up and lumbered to his room at human pace, his footsteps unusually loud in the now silent house.
"Mom... do you think that Edd might find his soulmate in Hannah? I mean... the girl is a grade A asshole." I frowned, a little worried that Edd could be telling the truth or that he may have been right.
"i doubt it, sweetie. He's too young to know what love feels like." My mom answered me.
"I was in love with you from the first day I met you. From the first moment I saw you I knew that I was supposed to be with you. What if it's no different for him and Hannah? Maybe she just doesn't want to admit she has feelings for him because he isn't in her social group and she doesn't want to lose her social status. It's arrogant, and a little unethical to chose love over a social status, but she is only a teenage girl and you can't expect her to pick love, not yet anyway." My father said with a frown coming over his face.
"So... basically you think she could actually like him, but she might just be hiding her feelings because of her high social status within the school and Edd's... not so high social status?" I sighed, "That's just stupid and selfish if you ask me."
"But you can't really blame her, she's just a simple teenage girl at the end of the day." My mom shrugged sadly, "And often teenage girls don't know that they should pick their hearts over their heads."
"Aunt Maddie says that you should follow your head and your heart equally, because sometimes your brain can be the proper voice of reason." I answered my mother, frowning.
"Aunt Maddie is also very stubborn but very wise. Aunt Nessie always follows her heart because it leads her right, I always follow my heart because it always leads me right, but when you have uh... when you're... like Maddie you tend to consider others and over analyse things. In her case she needs to listen to her head as well as her heart." My mom looked to my dad and then smiled, "And in your dad's case too."
"Head strong people tend to use a combination of both." My father smirked.
"So when are you going to tell them about..." I trailed off, motioning a baby bump on myself.
"Not yet, I'm surprised they didn't see if you did, but I guess they're not as observant as you. Siena never has been and Edd has his head in the clouds." My mother sighed and began to dish up our dinner. I smiled as she passed me a plate and called down my siblings to dinner.
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