Chapter 3

Lizzies POV

"So", Mrs Burkard, our class teacher said to Anthony and JacobII, "You two can sit down next to Lizzie". As she mentioned my name, they looked across the class room to me and as they saw me they just looked kind of shocked. Anthony turned to JacobII and whispered something in his ear. And they went on whispering into each other's ear until they got to their seats.

I was slightly distraught by this. Why did they whisper? Were they being nasty about me? But how could you nasty about somebody you do not even know? Maybe I had some dirt in my face. I quickly touched my face to remove anything hanging there. But there was nothing. I stroked my hair and was really puzzled.

As they sat down they both smiled at me with a very bright smile. I was relieved. Maybe they hadn't been whispering about me. Mrs Burkard started over with her lesson and as always it was extremely boring. School wasn't difficult for me. I only had to read a paper once and I would remember it my entire life. Math problems were easy for me too. I didn't know why this was like this but I have always been a little strange. I spent the rest of the lesson looking attentive but in fact dwelling on my own thoughts.

The bell rang and I got up to change to a biology room, because this was our next lesson, as I felt someone tipping on my shoulder. Actually this person tapping on my shoulder must have spent the last lesson, holding its finger into a mini fridge under his desk, because I didn't see another way, how you could get your finger so cold. I turned around and saw Anthony. "Hey, I just wanted to ask if you could show us the way to the next classroom?" he asked. I was pleased that they had asked me and not any other girl, to show them the way, because this was the evidence that this whispering hadn't been about me or at least not about me in a negative way. "Okay", I just answered and grabbed my bag.

As we made our way to the biology tract each of them was walking one side of me, and the other girls glared at me. JacobII and Anthony didn't seem to notice and started immediately questioning me. How old I was, where I lived, who my parents were. And when I said that I got adopted, they wanted to know why. What I really didn't know either. But the oddest question was why I was living in Germany. I mean I have been born here, at least I think so, so why would you ask this?! They seemed to notice that they confused me and let it based on this. The rest of the forenoon they didn't bother me anymore.

At lunchtime I sat down with the rest of my family and their friends. I didn't have real friends, because I hated talking about make-up and the boys in our class. All those teenie things were foreign to me. And the boys at our class were just immature and annoying. It was easier to talk to the friends of my siblings or nobody than with my class mates. Perhaps that makes me autistic, but I don't care.

As I began eating my salad, I saw them walking through the cafeteria, a girl with long brown hair, another one with short black hair, looking a little bit like a pixie and being very short and one with blond hair looking like a topmodel. And four boys, one looking a little bit like a bear, just because he had so many muscles and broad shoulders, another blond one, and one with bronze hair, looking a little bit younger and lankier but through not less muscular, and the last one just OMG. He had darker skin, like a native American and a body like a bodybuilder. I have never in my life seen someone with so many muscles! They were walking together with JacobII and Anthony so probably they were the rest of the Cullens. They were talking to each other intensely, but quiet and sat down all together at one table.

"And how are the two little Cullens?"asked Finn me, "Are they as reserved as the rest of them. I think they didn't speak a word to one of us". "Um," I mumbled. I didn't want to inform them about their unusual interest in me, so I just went on with my salad and glanced at their table. They weren't eating, only sitting there and observing the cafeteria. Suddenly my eyes met with the ones of the one with the bronze hair. I looked away quickly but could still feel his eyes on me. I got up, brought my dishes away and left the cafeteria.

I waited outside the cafeteria and leaned against a wall, those Cullens were so confusing. I had to find out more about them, who they were and where they came from because Cullen is not a German name. I would ask Jake or Anthony tomorrow, because today I wouldn't meet them anymore. Our last to lessons were Sports and girls and boys were separated in this subject. I decided to get my gym back from my locker.

When I locked my locker again after getting my things out of it, I saw the pixie girl and the one with long brown hair standing next to me. "Huuh, you scared me, I didn't hear you coming"

"Sorry," Pixie excused them, "We only wanted to introduce ourselves. I'm Alice, and this is Bella".

"Okay, hi I'm Lizzie. Nice to meet you. So you're the sisters of Anthony and JacobII?"

"Nice to meet you, too. And, yes, we are the sisters, but only adopted ones," Bella replied, but she didn't seem happy with this, when she said it. Maybe she didn't like to be adopted.

"I'm adopted too," I explained, "I think my adopted siblings are in your grade"

"Finn and Eva?" I nodded "Yes they are actually".

The bell rang, "Oh, I have to go," I recognized and gave them a last smile. They were nice, perhaps we would become friends, it would be great.

Sport was nothing, but a torture. We played handball and no team wanted to have me. Nearly everyone tried to hit my head with the ball and not the goal. I was happy when the lesson had finished and I could take the bus home where I would press a cooling pack against my head and do my homework. Hopefully I would be able to find out more about the Cullens tomorrow.