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Chapter 3: Drake

The day that I first saw Bella, she was the new kid. Her first day. Funny how that kind of thing works out.

It was at lunch time, at our 6-12 grade school. I sat back, put my feet up on the table, and relaxed. I looked through the window of the middle school part of the school to the High school lunch area. Both parts had lunch at the same time, but in separate area's. I squinted to find my family, and wished that I was already a vampire. That would make it MUCH easier to do things like spy on the older teens. Sadly, I was still human, and had no friends. That sucked, because I never saw my family during school.

I finally found them, sitting at the very back. I grinned. That's just what I expected. Them sitting away from everyone else, isolated. Just for the fun of it, I sweeped my gaze through the crowd, looking at everyone I knew. There was Mike Newton, the jock that almost every girl liked, Jessica Stanley, who I was pretty sure REALLY liked Mike, and a couple of others. Then I spotted someone I had never seen before. It was a girl, probably about Edward's "age". She had dark brown hair and was wearing blue jeans and a t shirt. I shrugged. New girl. I looked over at the rest of the Cullen's, and wondered what they were conversing about. I sighed yet again. It was boring being separated.

I glanced around my own lunch area, weary of people watching ME, but nobody was. They were all playing on the black top, or hanging around, talking. I sat alone, at a double person table, wearing a black t shirt and blue jeans. I turned my head back toward Edward, and tried projecting a thought to him. Hopefully he would get it.

"Yo Edward" I thought as hard as I could " What do you think of the new girl. Is she hot?". Edward turned around and shot me an irritated glare. I just grinned. Even if he was older then me, there was no chance he would hurt me. Emmet and Rosalie would rip his head off. To the humans, Carsile and Esme were my adoptive parents, but in reality, it was and I guess technically still is Rosalie and Emmet that were my "parents". As I said, Rosalie had been having problems when she learned that, since she was a vampire, she couldn't have kids. So they got me. Thinking about that still makes me think about my real parents. But I try not to.

Back to the story. Soon, the lunch bell rang, and it was time to go back to school. I yawned, but went ahead and went to class. I was bored stiff, and it seemed like forever until the bell rang. But it did. I rushed out of the school and to Edward's Volvo to wait for another half hour before the high school students got out.

Another half hour, and high schoolers started flooding out the doors. Then the rest of the Cullen's came out. Except Edward. That surprised me. He WOULD be with them. Unless…it didn't matter. He would come soon.

"Hey Drake. Where's Edward?" Alice asked as she got in the car. I shrugged.

"Don't know. I was going to ask you the same question." I answered as they filed in. Alice got in the front passenger seat, and Emmet and Rosalie filled the back seat along with me.

About 5 mintues later, Edward burst out the door and slid into the Volvo. His face was set in some sort of mix of pain and frustrasion.

"Edward…!" Alice said in alarm as Edward flung the car into reverse. He just shook his head a her and started driving. Fast.

"What the hell happened to you?" Emmet asked. He leaned forward to look at Edward in the face. Instead of answering, Edward sped up at the street and hit 70 MPH. Everyone except Edward looked to Alice, who seemed consentrated on Edward. Finally, she gasped.

"Your..leaving?" She whispered. We all turned our heads to Edward.

"Am I?" He hissed. Alice seemed to go into another trance, then popped out, a solem expression on her face.

"Oh." She said, a look of fear coming over her face. I didn't know what was going on, but I knew it was bad. Then she said it again.

"STOP!" Edward shouted, and everyone else cringed.

"Sorry!" Alice said, still cringing. Then she got that trancy. After a few seconds, "I'll miss you, no matter how short a time your gone.". The rest of us exchanged glances as we turned the corner onto our house.

"Drop us off here. You should be the one to explain to Carsile." Alice said soothingly. Edward nodded, and the car squealed to a stop. I immediately hopped out, seeing as it looked like Alice wanted to talk to Edward privately. Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmet followed me out, and we started to jog to the house. Actually, they sprinted past me, and I just joged.

Another five minutes later, and Alice came in. I was sitting, watching TV, while Emmet and Rosalie were doing something with cards. I jumped up as Alice came in.

"What was THAT about?" I asked, totally confused. Alice sighed and sat down next to me on the couch, looking tired.

"That new girl at school…her blood…sings to Edward. You ever heard that term?" She asked me wearily. I shook my head, but I understood.

"So Edward… He's been in pain all day?" I asked slowly, slightly horrified. Man, I shouldn't have irritated him at lunch.

"Yah. And now he's going to go visit the Denali clan." Alice said. I grinned.

"Betcha Tanya will make her move on him again." I winked. Alice frowned at me, then closed her eyes.

"Can you go do something quiet? I need to make sure Edward doesn't decide to kill Bella Swan." She said softly. I nodded, then walked up to my room. So that was her name. Bella Swan.

And that was the beginning of the adventure. My recorder is running out of tape, so I'll end this quickly. If your out there and actually listening, know this. I didn't know it then, but that would be a the start of a crazy section of my life. So long for now.

END OF RECORD 2

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