Chapter 1

The New Kid

Date: Wednesday September 16th 2098

BPOV

I was lying on my couch reading my teen vogue magazine that had arrived yesterday with my music turned up all the way to tune out all the happy couples. My feet were on the lap of my brother/ best friend, Jacob who had moved in about 50 years ago. Jacob and I were the only one in the house with no partner or imprint. Our whole family tried to get us together at one point but it never worked out. I mean we tried…….. kinda. Okay so it was one very awkward kiss and we both agreed that, that would never happen again. Then we heard a huge crack and Jacob and I both looked at each other and rolled our eyes. We knew what had happened. Edward and Rose broke their bed. Again. Its not that I wasn't happy for my siblings, I was. I just wish I had someone like that to love. I mean I had plenty of love from my family but I wanted more. I mean who wouldn't want me? I was completely and utterly perfect! Flawless body and features, great blue eyes, I was like an angel on earth. It wasn't fair.

While I was ranting in my head I hadn't noticed that all the banging, no pun intended, had stopped and standing in my doorway were Edward and Jasper, while Alice and Rosalie were down stairs. Edward sighed and sat down in front of me while Jasper turned off my music. I sat up and glared at them. How dare they disturb my self pity time? Edward spoke first "Well, I am sorry Bells, but I wasn't in the mood after listening to your depression and self love."

"You were in my head?" I screeched at him jumping to my feet not even caring my family were all in the doorway now. "Of course I went in your head! Your shield was down and Jasper was also wallowing in self pity so I wanted to see what was wrong!" He yelled right back at me jumping to his feet too. Then I felt waves of calm and Edward and I both yelled "Jasper!" at the same time while he mumbled a sorry. Aliced skipped forward and hugged me and said "Don't worry Bells, You won't be along much longer, I can feel it!" she winked at me so I started searching through her visions only to see she was blocking them. I looked over at Edward for a clue as to what she meant and he just shrugged and said "I don't know, she singing the Jonas brothers." He shuddered. Esme came forward and we knew exactly what this meant, so before she could force us together Edward and I both Lunged at each other to the ground in a big hug and started apologizing and fake making out. It was our routine after all our fights and our family was used to it so they all rolled there eyes and left.

After they left Edward stood up and offered me a hand and I said "I really am sorry." I told him honestly. He looked at me with sad eyes and said "I know, Bells, I know." And he put his arm over my shoulder and led me out to my silver Lexus LX 10. This was the only car that would fit us all so we took it to school meaning I got to drive.

I hopped into the driver's seat next to Alice who always sat up front. I put the car in reverse and sped down our 50 mile long driveway away from the eight story house.

We Lived in the woods about an hour out of Skaneateles New York, where Carlisle worked and we went to school. Ugh! High school. That place, just like every other high school I had gone to was more like hell with fluorescent lighting. I never actually paid attention in many classes because a rare, never happening event when I learned something new from the children that called themselves teachers. Last Friday I was in the hallway "laughing to loudly" said the crazy health teacher so she called me a young hooligan so I said I was old enough to be her grandmother. I don't think she got it.

I looked over to my right and saw Alice Bouncing up and down in her seat so I looked back to see why Jasper wasn't doing anything and he had a big goofy grin on his face and wasn't paying attention. I took my spare wrench from the glove department and hurled it at his head so fast not even a vampire would have seen it coming. "oof" I heard as it made contact with his head. I made a sharp turn into the parking lot and said "we're here!" in the happiest voice I could while Jasper just glared at me his wife screamed "Yaaaaay! Bye!" and ran off as fast as humanly possible towards the school. I just stared at her for a second then Jacob Said "Dude! You married a Psycho psychic pixie!" and jumped out of the car. "yeah that's news" I heard rose mutter under her breath then giggle. I smiled at her and she smiled back and gave me a big hug and Said "see you in art, right?" still smiling I nodded and she skipped off toward the English building for home room. Alice and Rosalie were pretending to be sophomores, while Jasper, Edward and I where Juniors, and Jacob was a senior.

I looked back at my brothers and said "alright boys! Off to class. Wouldn't want to tarnish the perfect Cullen record on only the 8th day of school now would we?" "No, maim!" Edward and Jacob shouted together rather loudly causing the whole parking lot to look over at us. They grinned and marched, literally marched off to class. I turned back to jasper who looked a little stiff like he always was in the beginning of the day. I grabbed his hand and pulled him to French. I could feel all the worry he was sending out by accident and abruptedly turned around, it was time or one of our special pep talks. I seized him by the shoulders and started shaking him "Get a hold off yourself man! You just ate breakfast! You can hold out till lunch!" I yelled in his face. Getting what I meant since we couldn't talk about hunting in school he smiled seeing and feeling my complete confidence in him and said "I am a growing boy, I need my food!" we both broke into laughter and walked off to class ignoring all the humans who looked really scared.

The rest of the morning went pretty slowly just like all of school until I met Rose in art and we did a painting where we had to paint the most evil thing we could think of. We both painted Alice. When we presented to the class we were the only ones who hadn't drawn the devil or satin except for Jacob who drew a horrible picture of a Vampire. When I started to present by saying "Well I drew a picture of the most evil thing I know of and that is my little sister Alice Cullen-" I was interupted by Jacob "Damn it I should have thought of that!" He shouted and the whole class looked terrified and the teacher was so scared she offered to let him redo it.

After art we were walking to lunch when suddenly my lab partner from last year who truly was the one kind soul at Skaneateles High came up to us. "Hi Bella, Rosalie, Jacob." She said I smiled and said "hey Angela!' and elbowed Jacob in the stomach because I could tell she was terrified by him. He grunted in acknowledgement and walked away. Alice, Rose, and I all dearly wished we could fit in and be half normal for once so we all adored Angela. She was so nice when we first came here last year she evn offered to be my lab partner. The one thing I could not stand were her friends. Jessica and Lauren. Yuck!

"How was your weekend?" she asked us. "Oh it was good. We went camping again how about you?" Rosalie asked. "Well I babysat my brothers and we went into the city to the big Toys R Us store. They had so much fun!" Oh that's so nice you can tell how much she adores her siblings just by the tone of voice she uses when she talks about them. "Speaking of the city, Esme, Alice, Bella and I are all going shopping there this weekend if you want to come." Rosalie suggested. Oh, how didn't I think of that? Angela was strangely comfortable around us. "Oh I couldn't impose." She said to us I put on my best puppy dog face that not even Alice could resist "But it won't be the same without you! And we need to get you a dress for homecoming!" She looked at us and said "But I don't even have a date." I shrugged "Neither do I. if no one asks you we can go together as friends. People do that right?" I asked and she knew she would never win so she agreed. "Goody! Anyway I heard Ben was going to ask you." Rosalie squealed and Angela said "I wouldn't have been so difficult if I knew that." While Rose and I laughed.

When we entered the cafeteria Angela waved goodbye and went to sit with her usual table except today there was an extra head. I pinched Rose as we were waking out of the lunch line with our props and she gave out a little scream causing everyone to look at us. The boy who was sitting there was completely oblivious that anything had just happened because he was drawing something in one of his notebooks. Rose smiled at everyone until they looked away and we proceeded to our table where our family was sitting. "What?" she asked me "Do you know who that kid is?" I asked looking over my shoulder. "Who the new kid at Angela's table?" I nodded and she said "no idea." Alice was jumping up and down saying "I do I do I do I do I do I do I do!" Jasper chuckled and said "I think Alice knows." I rolled my eyes while she nodded and said "I do."

I looked at her expectantly so she launched into her full tale "His name is Emmett McCarty. He moved here from Phoenix to live with his aunt, uncle and two little sisters. He lived with his grandfather after his parents died but then his grandfather was moved to a nursing home so he moved here. He's in my advanced French two class." I nodded and felt pity for the boy. I knew that it was hard on humans when someone close to the dies. Suddenly I heard a new voice I had never heard before ask "Who are they?" this caught my attention because I knew they were talking about us. The voice was one like I had never heard before. It was deep and clear and slightly too loud for indoors, but it sent a chill up my spine and made me feel tingly all over. Jasper raised an eyebrow at me and I waved it off wanting to hear more of this conversation and that wonderful voice.

The voice that answered wrecked the whole moment. It was nasally and annoying, oh the charms of Jessica Stanley. "They're the Cullens and the Whitlocks. They moved down here from Canada last year. They are the foster children of Dr. and Mrs. Cullen." The other wonderful voice responded and I swear my dead heart lurched. "Do they have names?" It sounded like he was asking different person this time trying to direct the conversation away from Jessica, smart boy. The voice that answered this time was a relief I was the caring the voice of Angela Weber. "Yeah, their names are Annabella, but she prefers Bella, Jacob, Rosalie, Edward, Jasper, and Alice." "Yeah and they're all together, like together, together. Rosalie and Edward and Jasper and Alice." Jessica's voice interrupted.

"They're not actually related, Jess." Angela's voice cut in this time. "I know but its still weird." "What about Bella and Jacob?" he asked. "I heard that they aren't dating but they have sex with each other every night." Jessica said and Alice gasped and Rosalie said "I will kill that thing!" I looked over at Jacob who was mirroring my horrified expression. Alice and Rose didn't even bother to hold down their husbands when they marched right up to Jessica Stanley and Edward tapped on her shoulder while us and the whole cafeteria watched, us horrified them scared.

She turned around ready to make a snappy comeback when she noticed who stood behind her. "We heard you make some very inappropriate comments about our sister and we would like to let you new friend know your secret. I could tell he was searching through her head looking for an embarrassing secret because she was stupid enough to believe him. He smiled with a cruel look of malicious on his face announced to the whole cafeteria "Jessica Stanley pays Mike Newton to you know what with her!"

After that I couldn't help it Rose, Alice, Jacob, and I cracked up while she ran out of the cafeteria crying. Then Jasper and Edward came back to our table smiling broadly proud of themselves. After that I heard a booming laugh coming from the new kid. He was laughing so hard he fell out of his chair and it was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. Wow. Once he got up he noticed Angela was walking over to our table and quickly followed. "Wow, new kid sure has confidence" Jacob muttered to fast for any human to hear and Edward replied by saying "Think that's confident you should see his head." And Jasper joined in by saying "I think he does it to cover his grief. There is a lot of pain coming from him and a lot of lust coming from Bells." But I was too busy staring at the new kid to care.

Angela came over to me and said "Stand up." I laughed seeing how serious she was but stood up non the less. Once I did she threw her arms around me and said "Oh Bella I am so sorry! I shouldn't have let her open her big mouth if I had known she would say that!" Then a pair of muscular arms pulled her off me and set her down then smiled at me "Are you Bella?" he asked me. Since it was pretty obvious I was Bella I decided to joke a little. "Oh, no. Actually I am Jasper. And that is Bella." I said pointing at Jasper. Alice came up to me grabbed my hand and said "Jazzy you promised to walk me to class." I looked at my siblings and Angela and Jasper or should I say Bella was the only one not amused. Alice and I walked towards the door giggling when we heard Emmett say "Bye Bella!" to Jasper and chase after us. Right when he was about a foot away I stopped and turned towards him.

"So Bella, I just wanted to apologize for what Jessica said" Emmett apologized to me and I was quite delighted to find he sneered the name Jessica too and also how he looked at Alice with obvious jealousy in his eyes so I let go o her hand and he muttered "Dang was I that obvious?" "Yeah." I Replied with a small smile. He looked at me confused and Alice looked at me with complete horror. That was when I realized I had unknowingly slipped my shield around him and that those words had not been spoken out loud. Oh crap!