A/N: Well, at least I updated quickly this time. Not sure how good it is, but whatever.

Sorry for the delay, but we've been getting a lot of projects since school's almost over. And I would have had this up yesterday, but I was watching the epic LOST finale. I'm so sad! It's all over now.

And I had to retype this three times because my laptop was being retarded, so that's another reason why it's so late. And I'm lazy, so I didn't really want to keep typing the same thing over and over again.

Songs:

Get Higher- Paper Tongues

Give Me A Sign (Forever And Ever)- Breaking Benjamin

Cooler Than Me- Mike Posner - Love that song!

Hayley POV

I never asked for any of it. I didn't want to be special, I didn't want to have to deal with the fear and the memories for so long. I didn't know that that day was going to change my life.

But the truth is, there are things out there that shouldn't be. There's stuff that we pretend not to believe, tell ourselves it's all just a dream. Stuff of nightmares. We pretend it doesn't exist, pretend it's all lies and myths and stories told to scare the children.

But the truth is, it's out there. Even closer than we think.

And there's nothing we can do about it.

I should be utterly terrified. I should be hoping I can fade into the wall and wondering if I'll fit in with a good group.

Instead, I'm sitting in History, my third class, thinking about how I really want a glaze doughnut right now.

And then I started thinking about how I would really need something to drink with that doughnut. And then, for some reason, I started thinking about Seth.

Which was really weird, considering he was starting to creep me out. He had been in my first hour class and he was in this one, too, and he just spent the whole period staring at me.

Creeper.

All of the others from the HCWTBSG (Huge Creepy Way-too-Built Steroids Guys) table were staring at me too, though it wasn't as intense as when Seth did it.

I mean, I know that when it's your first day at a new school, everyone stares, but this was just weird. Like, creepy-stalker-going-to-kill- me weird.

And I don't really like that kind of weird.

Aidan and Lilly came and sat next to me at lunch, saying that they were taking a break from their own friends. Seth was staring at me again, so I looked down at my lunch, muttering, "Purple monkeys. Blue Unicorns. Green sea monkeys. Yellow turtles. Gold Adam Lamberts. Red doves."

Aidan and Lilly gave me these weird looks, so I said, "Don't ask. Just...don't ask."

Whenever I'm freaked out or something and need to calm down, I always start applying random colors to random animals. (And I always add Adam Lambert in there!)

"The staring is just really starting to freak me out." I said when I could finally speak.

Lilly raised her eyebrows at me. "So why don't you do something about it?" She asked in a challenging way, smirking.

I raised an eyebrow at her (She looked surprised. Ha! Take that!) and said, "You know, that's a pretty good idea, Lillian."

I'd just randomly decided to call her Lillian, but she gasped like I'd just called her the worst name in the world. I shot Aidan a questioning look, but his expression was amused and he wasn't looking at me.

I shrugged and stood up, walking over to the HCWTBSG table. They were all, of course, watching, and they stopped talking and set their food down, as if preparing themselves.

Good. I've been known to have a temper.

I was completely annoyed, and I had this whole shouting thing planned out in my head, but as soon as I got to the table, I knew exactly what I was going to do.

I walked right up to them, picked up the little Styrofoam bowl on Seth's tray, and dumped it over his head. Then I picked up his water bottle, dumped half of that over his head, and squirted the rest of it over every guy's tray.

That's what you get, creepers.

I stepped back, gave an evil little half smile, and put my hands on my hips. "Stop staring, please." I said sweetly. They all looked shocked, except for Embry, who was looking distinctly amused.

Creeper.

I stood there for a few more seconds, as if to reiterate my point, and then turned around and walked back to a laughing Aidan and Lilly, not glancing back.

"I can't believe...you just...did...that." Lilly gasped out between giggles.

Aidan looked at me in amazement, seeming a little shocked. "Those guys and their friends are like, legendary. They're basically the La Push Gang."

I rolled my eyes. "Just because they're getting fed human growth hormones or something doesn't mean they're going to come and gang-rape you." I winked at Aidan. "But don't worry, if they try, I'll be right there to protect you from the big man-boys."

Aidan gave me this look that said I belonged in a mental hospital. "Yeah, okay." He replied sarcastically.

I smiled and looked at Lilly, since she had finally stopped laughing. She was glancing back and forth between Aidan and I with a calculating look. Then she leaned over and whispered something in Aidan's ear as I shot them a confused look.

Aidan paled a little (actually, not really, considering he's all tan and Quileute so he can't really be pale, but that's not the point.) and nodded, glancing at me.

"Hey, Hayley, do you want to come outside with me for a little while?"

I nodded, saying, "Sure," Still completely miffed by what was going on.

We both stood up and walked out the cafeteria doors. There were a few people sitting outside and eating, but it looked like it could start raining any second. Aidan led me to the overhang of the front building and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"I'm guessing you didn't just come out here to find out if you would get gang-raped."

He rolled his eyes, relaxing a little. "Sorry, but no. You don't get to save me from getting gang-raped."

I raised an eyebrow. "I don't? I wouldn't be so sure if I were you." He rolled his eyes again and I said, "If that's not why we're here, whould you mind telling me? I kind of want to get back to my doughnut."

He raised and eyebrow too, saying, "What doughnut? The glaze doughnut that Lilly ate while you were busy with your food-murdering fest?"

"First of all, food-murdering fest? I mean, I know I wasted some food over there, but it's not like anyone eats the mac and cheese anyways. It's too rubbery." I scrunched up my nose in disgust as I thought of what the food at my old school had been like. Someone had dropped a hot dog on the floor, and it had literally bounced right back up, practically right into his hands. "And second of all, she better not have ate my freaking doughnut. I can make her death look like an accident." I huffed.

Aidan chuckled. "Yeah, okay, so she didn't eat your doughnut. But I didn't bring you out here to talk about non-accidental accidental deaths." He turned a little more serious, and I looked at him curiously. He took a deep breath and said, "I wanted to know if you'd come with me to Nicole's party this Saturday."

"Who's Nicole?" I felt like an idiot asking this, but it was first day here, so at least I had an excuse.

And then I realized that he'd just asked me out.

He waved a hand dismissively. "She's just a girl in our grade. She's got one of the biggest houses in La Push, and she has a party like, once a month."

I nodded. "Well...Sure. I'll go with you." I didn't really even think about, and the dazzling smile he flashed me just made me feel like I'd made the right decision.

We walked back inside, and Lilly was grinning madly.

Well, I guess she approved.

Not that it really mattered that much, but...

.

I was going on a date. With an actual person. With my own free will.

Embry was so going to kill me.

Or start dancing around the room singing about cabbages since he's so happy I finally found someone worthy.

It all depends on whether or not he likes Aidan.

Not that I really care all that much.

My next class, Honors Biology, was with both Brady and Collin. And yes, they stared. But Brady was funny and Collin was kind of quiet, but when he did talk it made you just immediately like him.

Thankfully, Seth wasn't in that class.

But after that, I had study hall. And Seth was in that class. And what do you know? He down right next to me as soon as he walking into the room and saw me.

Study hall was held in a classroom near the back of the school, which was different because I was so used to having study hall in the library. But this school barely had a library, so they held this class in an old science room full of lab tables that they crammed together.

The teacher wasn't even in the room, and from what I could tell, it seemed like he hardly ever was. (Or was it a she?) Seth took out a few books but just talked to a few guys in the class while a few people came up and introduced themselves.

When a few people finally decided to do homework, Seth turned to me, giving me that intense look that made it seem like I was the only thing in the world to him.

Creeper!

"Can I help you?" I asked, kind of snidely.

He gave me a half grin. "Nope. Unless you know anything about the periodic table."

I rolled my eyes; I'd learned about that two years ago. But he didn't need to know that. "Sorry, I don't. But you can go ask someone else." I hinted, not so subtle.

He just gave me that look again. I got little butterflies in my stomach and was tempted to just stare back into his warm brown eyes, but I broke his gaze and looked down at my math homework.

All through that hour, I could feel Seth's eyes on me. There were a few times when my gaze met his, but for the most part I resisted looking at him.

The sad thing was that I knew this was probably going to be a reoccurring thing.

I bolted when the bell rang, happy that the day was over.

But I, having the horrible luck that I do, ended up crashing straight into some girl.

She looked down at me in rage, but when she got a look at my face, her expression turned a little more evil. She helped me up, saying, "Hello. You must be the new girl."

I raised an eyebrow disdainfully as I brushed myself off. "I have a name. It's Hayley."

She smirked. "Yes, I know. I'm Carly." I finally got a good look at her. She was obviously beautiful, with the same tan skin and black hair, but hers was glossy and wavy and she had light blue eyes that contrasted in an interesting way. "And this," She continued, gesturing to the girl standing slightly behind her, "Is Emma." I looked at Emma to see that she was also tan, but not in the Quileute way. She had white blond hair and these kind of creepy brown eyes, so close to black that you could barely see the pupil. They were both tall, (Though everyone was taller than me) and both almost as slim as I was.

I raised an eyebrow again. "So?"

Carly smirked. (It was pretty obvious she did that a lot.) "We just thought it was important to tell you to stay away from Seth and Aidan. Sorry, they're both taken."

I snorted. "Sure."

"It's true. I've had a claim on Seth since we were freshman. We dated for a long time, and you can't go after someone's ex."

I rolled my eyes, knowing this girl was completely insane. "Yeah, well, that's great. But I'm not interested in Seth."

Carly smirked again and said, "Too bad you can't have Aidan either. He's Emma's, for the same reasons."

This time I was the one that smirked. "Well, that's just too bad for Emma. Because he asked me out this Saturday, and I don't plan on canceling just because the two of the school bitches tell me to."

They both looked a little affronted. "You're going to wish you never said that, freak." Carly hissed.

I turned around and walked away from the most cliched scene ever.

Later, when I got home, I thought about what Carly had said. Freak.

I didn't really care what she thought of me, but she was right about the freak part. That day made me a freak.

Mankind always finds a way to explain the supernatural things that exist, always find a way to avoid the truth, just because they 're too afraid of it. Vampires become homicides and serial killers, witch attacks become freak storms, wolves become bears and Bigfoot.

They're what we call excuses. Humans have to find other ways to explain the things they've been taught shouldn't exist.

But they do.

And I'm one of the few 'freaks' who knows that.

I'm sorry it's so sucky! I'm just not happy with this chapter, but I figured that I should get it out so I don't feel so guilty for waiting so long.

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