"I can have us packed up and ready to go in under in hour." Wren said as he drove me to school.
"For the last time we're not moving." I said.
"Kara, Someone saw you take down a deer and drain it's dead body of its blood." Wren said sternly.
"We don't know what they saw and if it comes down to it, its his word against mine. Chances are if he told anyone people would think he's insane and lock him up in the nuthouse." I said.
"We're the complete strangers from out of town that just moved in to the abandoned manor that locals think is haunted. Their father is considered to be a pillar of the community." Wren said. "Who would you believe?"
"It won't come to that." I said.
"I'll start scouting locations." Wren said.
"Wren, listen to me. We. Are. Not. Moving. I don't know why, I just know this is where we're supposed to be. The Cullens won't be a problem. We just have to continue acting normal and like nothing ever happened. If they decided to talk then they'll be dealt with." I said.
"Calm down, your eyes are red." Wren said. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before exhaling. "We're here, try not to kill anyone."
"I'll try." I said before getting out of the car.
'Act Normal, Act normal," I repeated in my head all day. It probably didn't help that whenever I passed one of the Cullens in the hallway they'd stare. Especially the twins, Rosalie and Jasper. Rosalie glared daggers at me and looked like she wanted to strangle me. Jasper just looked at me confused.
I just had to get through the day without rousing suspicion. Piece of cake.
I walked into biology and took my seat not bothering to give Edward a second look.
"Hello class everyone's here that's good because today I'm assigning you your teams for your group projects. This project will be worth a third of your final grade. You can pick the topic but I want a five-minute presentation with slides. I don't want something straight off the textbooks I want you to do research tell me why I should care about your topic. What use is it to us? Now as for partners your tablemate will be your partner. No asking to switch. In life you don't always get to pick who you work. You can take the rest of the class period to brainstorm." Mr Tanner said.
Well now I'm really screwed. So much for flying under the radar.
"Hi I haven't introduced myself, I'm Edward Cullen." He said offering his hand.
"I know… Small town." I said shaking his hand. Damn his hand was ice cold. "Kara Targaryean."
"I've heard." He said with a slight chuckle.
"Any topic stick out to you?" I asked.
"Uh they're all good for me." Edward said.
"Same here so want to open the book and which ever page it lands is the winner?" I suggested.
"Let's see what fate has in store for us." Edward said taking his book and flipping it open. "DNA Replication, splicing and cloning."
"Fun stuff." I said. "We've got like two months to work it all out. We can each do research through the weekend and meet up at the library during lunch or something."
"My Father's a doctor we have a huge library at our house." There was no way it was bigger than the one at the house. It had two separate wings for fiction and non fiction. "Why don't you come over after school?" He suggested.
Shit, I was not expecting this.
"I don't think I can do that today. Have plans I can't really move." I said.
"Of course another day. Want to exchange numbers?" Edward asked.
"Sure." I said tearing off a piece of paper and jotting mine down. By the time turned to hand it to him he was handing me his as well.
"So where you from?" Edward asked.
Hellia "San Francisco." I said. "What about you? You moved here a few years ago right?"
"Yeah moved down from Alaska." He answered.
"The change in weather must be nice," I said.
"Well we don't really get much sun here either." Edwards said.
"At least you don't have to worry about getting snowed in." I said.
"What brought you to Forks?" He asked.
"I wanted a change and it seemed nice here." I said.
"How do your parents like it?" He asked.
"They're not in the picture. I'm an emancipated manor." I said.
"Really? How'd that happen, if you don't mind me asking?" He said.
"It's just a really long, boring and complicated story." I answered.
"Don't boring and complicated contradict each other?" He goaded.
"Not really." I said not falling for it. "Though I do have to ask, do people ever stop gossiping? Seriously the looks and whispers could they be any more obvious?" I said in a whisper and he started laughing making the entire stare and whisper.
"Small towns. There's nothing else to do. The novelty will wear off… eventually." Edward said with a smirk.
"You mean eventually when there's a new, new kid?" I asked.
"Probably but what are the odds of that happening?" He retorted.
"I'm guessing not anytime soon." I said. This conversation is oddly not as awkward as I thought it'd be. Edward was surprisingly sarcastic and funny. Before I knew it, the bell had rung and it was time to head to gym class at least it would be if I hadn't gotten Wren to get me out of it.
"Maybe you can come over later this week?" Edward asked.
"Maybe." I said with a smirk. "Have a nice day."
"Have fun dodging balls." He said.
"I actually have a get out of jail free card." I said as my phone buzzed.
"I'm heading that way too, I'll walk you." He said.
"Sure." I said grabbing my coat and things before walking out.
"Are you heading home?" I asked.
"No, I'm waiting for my siblings." He said.
"Edward!" A short brunette with a pixie hair cut cried out.
"Alice. I thought you'd be in class?" He said.
"There was a faculty meeting. Free period." Alice said. "Hello."
"Hi." I said.
"You're the new girl Kara right." She asked.
"That's me." I said.
"It's so good to meet you. I've been dying to ask you where you got those boots from." She said looking at the brown leather knee high boots I was wearing.
"Oh they were a gift from my cousin." I said not a complete lie. Daya had a habit of randomly sending me clothes or goodies from wherever she was at.
"Well she has great taste. It matches your bag." Alice said.
"That I did pick out. Small boutique in Portland." I said.
"It is gorgeous." She said.
"Alice doesn't Jasper also have a free period right now?" Edward said cutting off whatever she was about to ask me next.
"He should be by the car." Alice said as we walked out of the building and into the parking lot. "There he is. It was nice meeting you Kara." She said before hugging me. "I have a feeling we'll be great friends." She said before letting go and skipping away.
"Sorry about her she can be a bit much." Edward said.
"She's certainly… friendly." I said before I heard a car honking. "That's my ride."
"I'll text you some links for any interesting articles I find." He said.
"I'll do the same." I said. "Bye." With that I got in the car and buckled in.
"How was school?" Wren asked.
"We got assigned group projects in Biology. Take a guess as to who I got paired with." I said.
"The brooding bronze haired vampire you were talking too?" He said.
"He invited me over to work on the project. I said I had plans." I said.
"Why'd the shorter one hug you?" Wren asked.
"I don't know she's friendly or weird, maybe both. She seems nice though she might be faking." I said.
"Thought you'd be able to tell the difference by now." Wren asked.
"I was raised to be polite and smile." I said.
"Oh the horror of sitting on a comfy thrown and listening to people going on and on about how much they adore you." Wren said.
"Appearances can be deceiving." I said.
"They can which is why you're going to say yes to his invitation and go act as human as you can." Wren said.
"You're joking right?" I said.
"Keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer." Wren said.
"Then why are we running away from Kaien?" I asked.
"Kaien you can't beat with strategy or with brawns, this you can manage." Wren said.
Third Person's POV-
"So How'd it go?" Alice asked.
"We talked." Edward said.
"Did you ask her?" Alice asked.
"She said she had plans." Edward said. "She was probably trying to get out of it without rousing suspicion."
"Did she tell you anything?" Jasper asked.
"She stuck to her story. She's nice, funny too." Edward said.
"hm…" Alice said.
"What?" Edward said before seeing what Alice was thinking. She had a vision of Kara with red eyes and pale skin like his family. The both of them were running through the forest smiling and laughing. "No… That can't happen."
"She is your soulmate." Jasper said.
"You saw her hunt in the forest. She's not human, so she can't turn into one of us. You can't even see her future just this vision." Edward said.
"There's a lot we don't know about Kara." Alice said. 'We should talk to her. Tell her who you are.' She thought.
"No." Edward said.
"He's right I don't think she's just going to come out and tell us all her secrets." Jasper said.
"Then we wait and catch her in the act." Alice said.
"She'll be more careful now that she knows we'll be onto her." Edward said.
"She'll slip up eventually, we just have to wait." Alice said.