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Chapter 10
(Isabella's POV)

Peter, Char, Jasper and I all drove together as Jasper drove in my SUV on our way to Beaver Creek High School. (A/N: Beaver Creek High School is a real high school in Beaver Creek, Montana. It is a relatively small town and 100% real! ) I could tell that Jasper was nervous just as much as he was excited to have this experience even though the school year was half way over.

I reached into my bag and handed Jasper one of the thermoses that we had brought with us and watched as he nodded his thanks before taking a few swigs of the animal blood that we had bottled before handing it back to me, allowing me to take a few swigs of my own. I, then, tucked it away in my bag to save for later.

We pulled into the parking lot, immediately noticing that everyone seemed to already be in class. We didn't mind though, because we were told to come to the office during home room to get out schedules. The school wasn't as large as my school in Phoenix, but more like the one in Forks except for the fact that it was far sunnier here. It was split up into three brick buildings with several picnic tables in the courtyard. There were numerous sidewalks that let from building to building as well as a few trees and shrubs decorating the property. The tree line leading into the forest was lined against the border of the grounds.

We found a parking spot near the back, since we were late and all of the good ones were taken, before turning off the engine.

"Are you ready, Jazz?" I asked him.

He continued to grip the steering wheel as he looked over at me and gave me a small smile. "As ready as I'll ever be." He swallowed.

"Don't worry, Major. I haven't gotten any feelings suggesting that you or Lil Bit here will slip up." Peter reassured him.

"And we'll all be here with you." Char added.

"Thanks guys," Jasper smiled before releasing the steering wheel, grabbing the door handle and exiting the car.

By the time I bent down to pick up my book bag, Jasper was at my door, opening it for me and extending his hand in a very gentlemanly fashion. I looked up and smiled graciously at him and placing my hand in his, allowing him to help me out of my seat.

"Thank you, Jasper." I said as I sent him my gratitude and reached up on the tips of my toes to give him a kiss on his cheek. He grinned humbly in return as he intertwined our fingers without releasing my hand before we made our way into the school.

._.-:'~ The Major ~':-._.

Upon entering the front office, we were faced with a little old blonde haired woman sitting behind the counter as she typed away on the keyboard in front of her computer.

"Excuse me?" Char asked as she announced our presence, approaching the barrier that separated us from where all of the desks and office equipment sat.

The little woman looked up from the computer screen and peered at us from over her glasses. Her heart beat picked up as she gazed up at us in what appeared to be awe and intrigue.

I gave Jasper's hand a squeeze, grabbing his upper arm with my other hand and looked up at him in concern to make sure that he was fairing okay since this was the first human that we had encountered since entering the school grounds. He shifted his gaze down towards me and gave me a small smile, indicating that he was fairing alright so far before placing his free hand over my own. I breathed a sigh in relief when I heard the woman's heart rate slow down back to normal and I leaned against Jasper's shoulder in relief.

Finally snapping out of her haze, she plastered on a welcoming smile and stood from her chair in front of her desk before approaching the counter. "May I help you?" She asked sweetly.

"Um, yes," I nodded. "We're the Whitlock's and the McLaughlin's. It's our first day." I smiled somewhat nervously, always hating the first day starting at a new school when others would stare and whisper. At least this time I was going to be starting with Jasper, Peter and Charlotte.

A look of recognition crossed her face as her smile widened. "Oh, yes! I spoke to your father on the phone when he called to register you four the other day!" (I know what you're probably thinking, but it was really Peter that called and registered us pretending to be Peter and Jasper's father who was also mine and Char's guardian.) She began to type something on her keyboard as she continued to speak. "Welcome to Beaver Creek High School! My name is Mrs. Leery and I'm the school's secretary."

"Thank you, ma'am," Peter drawled. "I'm Peter Whitlock and this here is my twin brother, Jasper." He introduced her before gesturing to Charlotte and myself. "This is my girlfriend, Charlotte McLaughlin and her sister, Isabella. My dad is also their guardian."

"It's wonderful to meet all of you. Our town is so small that it's rare that we ever get any new students at this school, let alone eight in the same school year! So prepare to be the talk of the school for a while!" She chuckled.

Eight? Who were the other new students then?

She used her mouse to click something on the computer screen, printing what looked to be our schedules. She then walked a few feet over to the printer and picked up the freshly printed sheets before making her way back over to us at the counter.

"These are your class schedules and here is your sign in card that you will need to get all of your teachers to sign for your first day before returning it here to me at the end of the school day." She told us as she gave each of us our schedules along with an index card sized pink slip that had a list typed up from period one through seven. There were long rectangular boxes surrounding each period along with the second one connected to it on the right for the teacher's signature.

"Just print each of your names at the very top towards the left next to where it says 'student' along with today's date on the right where it requires it." She instructed as she passed out six black pens with the school's logo designed on it. "You can keep the pens, by the way." She mentioned when Jasper tried to return his.

"Thank you, ma'am," Jasper drawled politely with a polite nod and the rest of us followed his example.

Her heart rate spiked just a bit at Jasper's chivalrous behavior. She placed her hand on her chest taken aback. "My, you all are so polite and respectful! Your parents sure raised you kid's right. It's so refreshing finding a bunch of teenagers with manners these days. It must only be the kids in this town that are on the more rowdy side, because the other new students were also very well-mannered."

The four of us exchanged uncertain looks but were unable to question her any further, because it was just then that the door to the office opened and in walked in Hannah with her dark red t-shirt and black jeans that had suspenders hanging down from her waist. She stopped in her tracks when she saw us before a smile lit up her face when she noticed who we were and waved.

"Late again, Miss Ross?" Mrs. Leery asked her as she trilled her nails on the counter top.

"Of course," she chirped before continuing her approach to the counter. She dug into her pocket and pulled out a crumpled piece of paper, smoothing it out before handing it to her. "It's my note from my mom regarding why I left early on Friday and why I was late today." She explained, though she no doubt wrote the note herself, forging her mom's signature.

Mrs. Leery sighed and nodded as she pulled out two slips, one from each of the stacks on her desk and began to quickly fill them out. She then separated the white copies from the yellow copies on the bottom and stapled the yellow ones to her crumpled note from home and tossed it into the bin that held a stack of similar looking papers.

"Here you go, Miss Ross." Mrs. Leery said as she handed her the two white copies, gesturing to one of the two. "You know the drill; give this one to the teacher that you have next and have your other teacher's from the classes that you missed on Friday sign the other one before returning it to me at the end of the school day."

"Okay, Mrs. Leery!" She nodded as she stuffed the slips into her pocket and headed for the door. She paused as she pulled it open and turned slightly as she looked over her shoulder with a smirk on her face, throwing a wink in my direction before slipping out the door.

I held back the grin on my face as best as I could at Hannah's antics. Looking over at Peter, Char and Jasper, I could see that they were trying to hide their amusement as well.

"I'm sorry for the interruption," Mrs. Leery apologized, bringing out focus back on to her. "You look like you know Miss Ross?"

"Yeah," I nodded. "I ran into her at a horse auction and we struck up an easy friendship."

She smiled a hopeful smile. "Well, hopefully you four will be a good influence on her. She is usually sent here to see Principal Green at least a few times a week." I couldn't help but laugh internally at that; Hannah couldn't be influenced by anyone and definitely not in any positive way.

She pulled out a bunch of packets from the stack on the side of the counter and passed one to each of us. "This is the school's rules and guidelines. We need you each to go over it with your parents and then you both need to sign the last page before bringing it back to me by the end of the week." She explained. "Any questions so far?"

We all shook our heads no as we scanned the packet that she had given us. She then grabbed a bunch of papers from the stack next to the school's handbooks and then handed them out to each of us once again.

"This last paper I am giving you is pretty much self-explanatory." She began. "It is a map of the school and all of the routes to the emergency exits are highlighted in pink. The map is yours to keep. Now, before I send all of you off to class, are there any questions?"

We all shook our heads once again and smiled at her, showing our appreciation in one way or another.

"Alright, then," she grinned. "I hope you all have a fantastic first day and I will see each of you at the end of the day to collect the pink slips with all of your teacher's signatures."

"OK," Charlotte smiled as we all began to head to the door. "Thank you, Mrs. Leery."

"You're welcome," she said before we left the office, shutting the door behind us. "Such nice, polite young kids." We could hear her say to herself after the door was shut and we crowded around each other to compare our schedules.

I was overly happy with my classes. I had all of my classes except for chemistry with Jasper, including lunch with all three of them. Charlotte was in three of those and Peter was in two. But luckily we all had the same homeroom, but we wouldn't get to experience that until tomorrow since the bell for homeroom had just rung.

Chemistry was the first class that I had and I had that class with Peter while Charlotte was in Jasper's gym class. I had been given the option to not take it since in this school you only needed two years of gym to graduate and since I still had a bit of trouble controlling my strength, we made sure to include the fact that I had already completed my two years. Instead, I opted to take an extra science class since I never got the chance to finish Chemistry in Forks and then has Physics at a later time during the day with Jasper.

"I'll see you next period, okay babe?" I said placing both of my hands on his chest and pressed a kiss to his lips. He nodded, placing both of his arms around my waist and gave me another quick kiss. I could tell that he was as reluctant as I was to be apart from each other, even if it was just for an hour. I was glad that Char was going to be there for him as Peter was going to be there for me during this period.

"Alright, you two," Peter smirked, "break it up. Come on, Lil Bit, you'll see the Major in your next class."

"OK, OK, I'm coming," I grumbled, holding on to Jasper's hand as long as I could as we separated down different hallways towards our classes.

Peter and I walked down the hall, checking the room numbers as we looked for A423. The classes all seemed to be in session already and we could see all of the active classes taking place as we passed the windows on each of the doors.

Finally, we came to the right classroom and exchanged a glance with each other before opening the door and stepping inside. Immediately, everyone had turned to us as well as the teacher, who stood leaning on his desk at the front of the room with one hand placed on his side and the other one the desk top, using it to lean on.

He was a middle aged man who stood about six feet tall. He had a full head of salt and pepper hair and wore a pair of black glasses on his nose that were hiding his brown eyes.

It was then as the fan moved from side to side that it pushed a familiar scent that had me instantly on edge. It was a scent that I had come to recognize for many reasons and I had to fight to remain standing rather than falling into the custom crouch whenever this strange scent reached my nostrils.

Vampire.

A/N: I think that it's pretty obvious at this point who the other 4 new students that registered that year are and that one of them is in Peter and Bella's class. Which one do you think it is? What do you think will happen during their first confrontation? Review!

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