March-Forks, Washington- Kara's POV
"Why am I doing this again?" I asked my guardian.
"Don't ask me, you're the one that wanted to come and live on Earth. Why you would want to give up the comfort of the palace for this I will never understand." Wren answered.
"I meant why I have to attend this prison disguised as a school." I answered.
"It's part of the terms of being able to live on Earth. Though I do have to ask, you could have picked anywhere in the world to settle down, London, Paris, Barcelona, why did you pick this pit stop in the middle of nowhere?" Wren said as he made a turn.
"None of those other places felt right. Besides Nora's house was just here sitting empty and it's safe from Kaien." I said.
"You still think she's going to come back one day? She disappeared over ninety years ago Kara." Wren said.
"Her body was never found and no one ever took credit for killing her. Someone with her reputation you know someone would take credit if they had done it." I retorted.
"That'd be the end of days." Wren said.
"I thought that'd be today." I retorted.
"Do we have to go over the rules again?" Wren said.
"No powers, No telling anyone I'm half demon, no killing anyone because they get on my nerves. No getting in trouble or calling attention to myself. No appearing smarter than I should be so only get perfect scores every once in a while." I repeated verbatim.
"Good, Now get out of the car." Wren said. "See you later."
"What are you going to do all day?"
"Fix up that shithole so you don't die in a house fire that's just waiting to happen." Wren said driving away.
"It's not that bad." I said. "Aunt Lucy and Sam have been keeping the property up."
"If you say so. Now go don't be late." Wren said. As soon and I stepped out of the car he drove off in the black Porsche Cayenne leaving me on the curb in front of the school. Everyone just stared at me.
'That's what happens when you're the new kid in a town this size' I thought.
I walked up the steps to the main office and went inside. The office was busy with secretary and administrators chatting away. One of the secretaries finally noticed me and ended the conversation she was having.
"Can I help you?" A red headed secretary said.
"Hi, I'm Kara Targaryean, I'm new here." I said.
"Oh right, you called a few days ago to set everything up. Where are you're parents?" She asked.
"I thought it said in my file… I'm an emancipated minor." I said remembering the story Wren had put together for her.
"Oh there it is…" She said typing it in the computer. "You moved into the old Sanctuary manor."
"Yeah," I said.
"That's quite a property. Didn't know it was sold."
"It's actually been in the family for a while, just never had a chance to use it until now." I answered.
"Well, it's one of the first houses built in town, I'm glad its being taken care of." She said.
"Me too." I said trying to cut the conversation short.
"Well here you go dear, you're class schedule and here's a map. I highlighted the best way to get around. "
"Thank you." I said before walking out.
I read my schedule and saw that I had English first period. I walked into the classroom and handed the slip I had to get all the teachers to sign. I looked at the board and saw the teacher's name written on the board. Mr. Mason I read.
"Here's the reading list and today's worksheet. We've already read most of these. I'm sure they're the same as your old school so you shouldn't be too overwhelmed. Let me know if you need anything." Mr. Mason told her before pointing towards an open seat in the back.
The lesson was pretty boring and a bit repetitive. I did her work and turned in the worksheet. The rest of the period I spent catching up on the assigned reading which for me was rereading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
When the bell rang a boy with oily sleek hair leaned over and to talk to me.
"You're Kara Targaryean right?" He said.
"Uh, Yes." I answered making everyone around them look at her.
"Where's your next class?" He asked.
I opened her bag and pulled out my class schedule. "Uh Government with Jefferson in building six." I answered.
"I'm heading over to building four, I can show you the way." He offered.
"That'd be great thanks." I answered with a small smile. 'He seemed nice… that or he was probably curious about why I moved to town or into the creepy mansion as the locals called it.' I thought.
"I'm Eric." He introduced himself.
We grabbed our jackets and my sleeve rode up a bit.
"Is that your…" he asked.
"Uh yeah." I said looking at the mark. It was a crescent moon over lapping with a star.
"It looks cool" Eric said. "So where you from?"
"San Francisco." I answered.
"What brought you to Forks?" Eric said.
"The sunshine." I answered. It took him a minute before he started laughing.
"That's funny." Eric answered.
The rest of the day went by like that. It wasn't until I bumped into someone in the hall that I felt something strange.
"Sorry about that." I said kneeling down to pick up my books.
"It's not a big deal let me help you." The big guy said.
"Thanks." I reached for one of the books at the same time and our hands met. At that instant, Kara's instincts were on high alert. There was something different about him.
"That's a cool bracelet." He said looking at the charm bracelet on my left wrist. There was a jagged quartz stone charm and a sandstone charm with her family crest, the three-headed dragon carved onto it.
"Thanks it was a gift." I answered.
"I'm Emmett Cullen." He said offering her his right hand to shake.
I just so happened to still be wearing a half sleeve shirt shook his hand and felt how cold he was. I saw him looking at my soul mark and immediately let go.
"Emmett," A blonde girl called over to him.
"Thanks for the help." I said before walking away. I pulled my phone out and texted Wren.
We may have a problem.
When I walked into Trigonometry the teacher, Mr. Varner tried to make me present myself in front of the entire class. If Wren asks I didn't have a choice.
I looked right into his eyes and made him change his mind.
"Mr. Varner a lot of my classmates already had me for my previous classes I'd rather not take time away from the lesson plan you worked so hard to prepare." I said.
"That's very considerate of you Miss Targaryean please take the empty seat next to Angela." He said.
"Thank you." I said going to sit down.
By lunchtime I wasn't really hungry but knew if I didn't at least get a few sips of blood in I would be easily irritated the rest of the day. Good thing I remembered to pack a thermos of blood. I was heading to the library when I ran into Eric again.
"Kara hey, the cafeteria's this way." He said.
"I was actually heading to the library." I said.
"What, no you don't want to spend lunch in there come on I'll introduce you to my peeps" He said.
"It's okay, I got a ton of work to catch up on."
"You kidding, you have a ton of time. Everyone's dying to meet you." Eric said.
'Not yet they're not' I thought.
He led me to a table where a girl; from my previous classes was already sitting.
"Angela this is…" Eric said.
"Kara, nice to see you again." Angela said.
"Hi Ang, hope you don't' mind me tagging along." I said.
"Course not."
"You two met already?" Eric said.
"Yeah we sat next to each other in Trig." Angela told him. It was pretty obvious she had a crush on him.
"Oh."
"Hey you'll never guess who's in my govern… Oh hi." A girl from my government class said.
"Hi." I said waving awkwardly.
"I'm Jess I'm in your…"
"Government class with Jefferson?" I said.
"Yeah, you remembered me." She said smiling awkwardly.
"I'm good with faces." I said.
"Hey have you guys… Uh hi," A blonde boy greeted.
"Hi." I said awkwardly. They're all a bunch of gossip mongers… I wonder if it's too late for homeschooling?
"I'm Mike you must be Kara." He said.
"I am." I said. He tried to grab the seat next to mine but another boy, Tyler if I remembered correctly from English, took the seat before him.
That's when I noticed a group of five students including Emmett walking into the cafeteria and sitting at a table towards the back.
"They're the Cullens" Jess said.
"Siblings?" I asked.
"That's Edward and Emmett Cullen, and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. The one who left was Alice Cullen; they all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife." Jess said. I looked over at them and something about them just gave me the chills.
"They seem nice. I bumped into… Emmett I think his name was and he helped me out." I said.
"He actually talked to you?" Lauren another girl said.
"Yeah, I accidentally bumped into him. He seems like a chill guy.' I said with a shrug drinking some of the blood from my thermos. I heard someone slam their utensils against the table and a chair was dragged on the floor. I turned around and saw Emmett and the other guy, Edward grab Jasper and take him outside of the cafeteria. The blonde girl Rosalie just turned and glared at me before walking outside with her siblings.
"That was… weird." Jess said and the entire table just laughed. I wonder what was going on with them.
"So those were the Cullens." Jess said continuing with her gossip. "They're all together though — Emmett and Rosalie, and Jasper and Alice, I mean. And they live together."
"They aren't related? They don't look alike." I said.
"Oh, they're not. Dr. Cullen is really young, in his twenties or early thirties. They're all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins — the blondes — and they're foster children." Lauren added.
"Jasper and Rosalie are both eighteen, but they've been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She's their aunt or something like that." Jess said.
"They must be great people. Not a lot of people have the heart to adopt." I said. "Besides blood doesn't necessarily mean family." I said thinking about my family.
"I guess so," Jessica admitted reluctantly, "I think that Mrs. Cullen can't have any kids, though," she added, as if that lessened their kindness.
"That's really rude." I said. "It doesn't make her any less of a parent or them any less her kids."
At that moment my phone started buzzing.
"I have to take this, excuse me." I said getting my things and going to the hallway.
"Hey," I said answering Wren's call.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Wren asked.
"I'm getting this really bad feeling."
"Are you sure you're just not anxious?" He said.
"I'm never wrong about these things. Any chance you can help me bail out early?" I asked.
"What's wrong, mortals driving you insane already?" Wren said tauntingly.
"Biggest gossip mongers I've ever met and very rude." I said.
"They're teenagers princess they won't wait on you hand and foot." Wren said.
"Still, I'm very tempted to punch some of them."
"Well don't know powers and no attention."
"I'm trying."
"You have one more class left. I got you exempt from PE by saying you took the exemption exam at your other school. Just get through it and I'll meet you at the parking lot after class." Wren said.
"Fine but bring me another thermos, I need it." I said.
"Kay." He said before hanging up.
The bell rang and everyone rushed out of the cafeteria and headed to their class.
Just one more class, I can do this.
Angela saw and walked over to me.
"We have biology together, Want to walk together?" She asked.
"Sure, sorry about earlier." I said.
"No it's fine, Jess does tend to be a bit much sometimes." Angela said.
"Do you have PE after?" She asked.
"No I'm exempt." I said.
"Ah, lucky." She said. "I'll see you later then." She said as we walked in. I took of my coat and put it on the rack before going to introduce myself to the teacher.
Mr. Banner signed the slip and handed me a textbook before seating me in the only empty seat in the class, which just so happened to be next to one of the Cullens. I think his name was Edward.
I sat down and he glared at me. What did I do? I hadn't even talked to him. He moved as far away from me as the table let him. I elected to ignore him and just focus on paying attention to lecture, which was boring. It was dealing with basic cell anatomy, which was something I was taught in grade school back home.
I occasionally looked over and saw him as tense as ever. We started the lab and I reached over to get one of the slides on his side of the table. He saw the mark on my right arm and he froze. I knew I should have kept it covered. I did my lab and turning in the worksheet. The rest of the class I did some reading and when the bell rang Edward ran out of class like his life depended on it. What a weirdo.
I went to the main office where apparently Edward was arguing about switching out of biology. I really didn't care instead I went to the drop box and left my slip before going outside and meeting Wren. I got in the car and he instantly handed me another thermos.
"How was your first day?"
"Can I be homeschooled?"
"Only if you go back to Hellia"
"I guess I'll endure." I said.
"You know what'll cheer you up?" Wren said.
"What?"
"Dinner at Maestro's" Wren said.
"I could eat a whole cow right now." I said.
"That's better than draining one of these teenagers.
"That sounds so gross to me right now." I said making him laugh.