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Chapter Four

The Bell

EPOV

I looked to my wife as the early morning sunshine parted ways. Here in Forks, we could pretty much live as the humans we once were. The sunshine was no longer beaming on us as we approached our family's home. Our cottage sat nestled in the mountains in a way that the cloud bank didn't cover it. We would never be able to have human guests to our cottage at anytime the sun was out as we would be exposed. I smiled as I remember the first time Bella saw my immortal self in the daylight while she was still human. There had been a part of me excited to show her the real Edward and a part that was terrified that the real Edward would scare her away. Though, at the time, I was hoping that she would be terrified of me and run. I had to fight the smell of her blood for the longest time. Even after I had gotten past the smell of her blood and after the time when I had asked for the Volturi to kill me as I had thought I had lost Bella forever, it still set my throat afire. I knew that I would never harm her, but being with her physically hurt me more than she would know until she became immortal. I explained it to her on her first hunt when I had mistakenly allowed her to get way to close to humans. After that, she respected my love for her even more.

As Bella and I approached the house, Alice and Jasper followed by Emmett and Rosalie came out to join us. Alice had saw a vision of when to be out front and there they were. Having Alice for a sister when you are a mind reader made so many things much more convenient. We were rarely late, avoided any issues in road stops, and so much more. I looked to all my siblings and listened to all their thoughts.

I'm so excited! What I see says everything today will go well, just remember that you two need to tone down your uh PDA, Alice thought toward me. I grumbled and shot her just enough of a look to let her know that Bella and I were not children and it wasn't like we hadn't done this before.

I looked to Rosalie who was obsessed about how gorgeous she was looking today. Nothing new there in her thoughts. Emmett was hoping he would for once get PE with Bella. He had always wanted to be there in case she became the world's first vampire to fall down. I shot him an angry look to say lay off my wife. Sorry, bro. You know I'm only messing, Emmett thought, grinning his sinister smile that we all knew too well.

I looked to Jasper who wasn't really thinking of anything other than Alice. I had to stay out of those thoughts when he started going back to late last night… "Really, Jasper, please? I cant turn this mind-reading off, ya know," I pleaded.

If vampires could blush, Jasper would have definitely blushed. The mood had went from being excited and happy to a bit flustered then back to happy. Knowing that none of our regular cars would be something high school students would drive, I had purchased a new Volvo sport utility vehicle for my wife and siblings and I to drive to and from school. It would still probably be the most expensive vehicle in the lot but it would be better than all of us having to drive our two-seater sports cars to school. One Volvo or a couple Mercedes and a Porsche or BMW? I would say the Volvo would work better. And I had a special reason for choosing the Volvo, it would be another reminder of the first time we all were in Forks together. I even chose silver to take us back a little more.

We pulled in to the parking lot just a couple of minutes after leaving our home. I looked at Bella and smiled. "Welcome home, Bella," I said. We were a few weeks into the new semester so we were definitely going to be out of place. "Okay, lets go over our story real quick before we go inside." Our immortal memories would have not let us forgot any of our story but I had promised Carlisle just a few hours earlier that I would do this and I was a man, well an immortal, of my word. "We are Emmett, Alice, and Edward Cullen. Siblings. We are Esme's warded children from her aunt. Rosalie, Jasper, and Bella Hale. Jasper and Rosalie are twins. Emmett, Rose, and Jasper will all be juniors. Alice, Bella, and myself will be sophomores. The Hale children were adopted as a group when their parents were lost in auto accident. Carlisle had worked on the parents and could not save them. There was nobody else to take care of the children so therefore he took them in, adopting them." I looked around the car. "Are we straight?"

My siblings all rolled their eyes and looked bored with my talk. "Edward, how many times have we done this?" Rosalie grumbled. "Please, we could do this without even coming up with a story. And basically, we are using the same story we used the last time in Forks. Just added Bella."

I shrugged my shoulders at my sister's attitude. Her attitude toward Bella had obviously changed over the years but not her overall. She was still a conceited, vain person. My siblings began piling out of the car. I climbed out and joined Bella by the door. The other students had begun to arrive. It was better to get our presence made known as soon as we could. As usual, Alice had saw, the students would be curious quickly as always had been before.

We all started heading toward the doorway that would lead us inside and toward the office of the school. Alice was in front carrying a school map that Carlisle had gathered for us a few weeks earlier when he registered us for school. Jasper had arranged to have the appropriate paperwork and identifications drawn up for each of us so that there would be no question to our unique living arrangement. I want to know who the big one is, said one voice. Oh, I want to know who the red haired boy is, well, its not really red, but that's the one I want to know about, Tracy. The voices all around were going so strong and so fast as we walked along.

There skin is so pale. I have never saw such.

They look like family, but they are holding hands like they are together.

The one with the long dark hair, that's gonna be my new flavor. My lips bared my teeth slowly at the thoughts some guy name Andrew was having of my Bella. I would like to see him try to make her his flavor. Perhaps his flavor would be our dinner if he kept thinking that way. I had to fight the snarl coming from my throat. I could not behave like that today.

We all went into the office with Alice announcing our presence to the older lady behind the counter. "Hi, I'm Alice Cullen," she smiled politely. "Our father registered us a few weeks ago and he was told to have us just come in here and gather our schedules."

The lady smiled behind the counter. The doctors' children. All fine looking children with excellent transcripts. How much good genes can one family have? That young doctor cannot be the father of these children. No way. "Yes, yes, we were expecting you. I am Ms. Winthrop. I am the office aide here. Edward Cullen?" I reached out to take my schedule as she said my name. In turn Emmett, Rosalie, Bella, and Jasper all did the same. Polite children, seems well behaved. And gorgeous. Though I wouldn't mind giving these boys a spanking or two. Ms. Winthrop began to blush as the thoughts went through her mind. If had blood in my veins, I would have joined her with the blushing.

All of us walked out of the office together to make our way to our classes. We compared schedules to see who would be in what classes together. We always preferred if we could have at least one of our group in each class with us but that rarely happened. We all had compared schedules and I made the way down the hallway with Bella. "Love, did you see what class we have together after lunch?" I smiled and gave her a wink.

Bella looked over her schedule again and then stole a look at mine. "Biology," she began to laugh. Biology was the first time I had to be in close proximity to Bella our first go at high school in Forks. I had about broke the table into two pieces on my quest to resist her blood. She had walked , no fault of her own, by a fan and I had smelled her blood from the draft. It had set my throat afire and I had barely been able to contain myself. I left class only to runaway for a few days to Denali to get a hold on myself. "How ironic."

I heard all the voices and thoughts around me. The usual of people wanting to know who we were, where we came from…I looked into my Bella's eyes as I saw the boy who had been having less than chivalrous thoughts about my wife. I pulled Bella close and gave her a kiss that she would not forgot and neither would the boy that wanted to have her. "Edward!" she said with shock in her voice. "You have never…not at school!"

I laughed and then smiled, "I was just letting that boy standing just to the left that you are taken is all." Bella lulled her eyes at me and returned my wink. I knew that I had nothing to worry about with her, but these human men with their testosterone wouldn't be giving me any peace until the newness of our presence in their school would wear off.

The morning past rather fast for it being our first day at school. Nothing much had changed about the school to my shock. Usually schools would undergo renovations every decade or so, but not here in Forks. I met Bella outside her classroom and we walked to the cafeteria to began our human food eating façade. Even though we would not be actually consuming the horrid food, we still had to purchase some to keep up the pretense. We found the others sitting at what seventy plus years ago had been our normal table. Our normal table where I sat when I first did not hear the thoughts of the intriguing new girl. Everyone had trays of food, unopened, laying in front of them. Bella had suggested that we open things and pretend to actually eat it. She had told us that was one of the first things she had noticed about us. So here we were, with a napkin laying in front of us, picking apart food and placing it in the napkin. Alice and Bella had practiced and gotten this particular act down to a science.

As we all sat there, in our own conversations, in our own little world, the presence of someone approach brought my head up fast. I'll just walk up and say hello to them. Why not? I'm the popular one and its my title to. Plus, the long haired chick is a babe. I looked to Alice to see if she was having any visions and she nodded. What she saw was that everything worked out, but what I heard made me want to twist his head off of his neck.

The kid standing in front of me looked familiar and I recognized his thoughts as the ones belonging to the Andrew boy. He had no clue that the table he was approaching had a combined age of more than a millennium and that the babe he was checking out was as old as his grandmother and her husband was old enough to be his grandmother's great-great grandfather. I chuckled a little to myself and stopped when Bella raised a quizzical eyebrow at me. "Hey everyone," the punk said. The punk. That was what I was going to refer to him since I didn't officially know his name. "I'm Andrew." Never mind. Venom increasingly dripped into my mouth as he looked at Bella. "I just wanted to come over and say welcome to Forks and welcome to the school. Any of you guys play sports?" Andrew looked at Emmett. "Football?"

Emmett grinned halfheartedly. He loved playing but there was no way he could play with the humans, much too dangerous for them and for us. "Just around the house, man," Emmett responded.

I looked at Andrew and tried to remain as polite as possible. "We are a studious family," I shrugged. "Sports isn't our thing."

Andrew was unrelenting. He wasn't going to leave until he gets a little information. "So, uh, what's your names? Ya'll look kind of like Hollywood so how'd you end up in Forks?"

We were not use to getting direct questions so quickly into our first day at school so my siblings and Bella all look to me to answer. "Well, I'm Edward Cullen," I started. I pointed to Alice and Emmett, "this is my sister, Alice Cullen, and my brother, Emmett Cullen." I looked over to the rest, "This is Jasper, Rosalie, and Bella Hale…my father adopted them several years ago." I placed my arm around Bella and hugged her close, kissing the tip of her nose. I'd make this boy see that Bella was mine. "And well, we aren't Hollywood, don't understand why you refer to us as such, but we moved here because our father, Dr. Carlisle Cullen, took a position at the hospital. We moved here from Massachusetts."

Oh, I get it now, they aren't all related, but they sure look a lot alike. If their father is a doctor, he must practice on them so that they all look alike. I guess this guy is with this Bella girl…hmmmm. She really looks familiar though. "Well, I'm Andrew Newton. Its nice to meet all of you. Do you all have family around here, Bella? You look very familiar. Like I have seen you before somewhere."

I wasn't liking the way Andrew's thoughts were going. And not just about Bella but about her looking familiar. Newton…Newton…Mike Newton? Could they be related? I would have to make a mental note to find out. Just as Bella opened her mouth to answer his question, the bell rang. It was time for Biology. Newton threw a hand up and ran off toward his class. We truly were saved by the bell.