Hey guys! Thank you for all of my reviews:D Anyways, I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while but I had winter break so I was doing stuff. I mean, I can't sit on my computer and write 24/7, lol. But anyway, here's chapter four. Just a reminder, cause some people were getting confused, Bella can only block mental powers. Enjoy and PLEASE review!!!

Chapter 4: Snow Day

BPOV

I had to focus all of my attention on Mrs. Belden to keep my thoughts away from my angel, who was sitting besides me. Liz, in a way was right. I had to stay away from Edward. That was the only way to keep myself from the hurt. However when I walked in, and I saw him there, I forgot everything. I tried desperately to not be myself when I was with him but I lost the battle in the end. It was so confusing though! He was acting like he actually cared about me, about Claire. And he was grieving my loss! The silly little, klutzy human girl that he left to 'protect.' Didn't he know that I could barely exist without him? When the class finally ended I quickly gathered my things and beat Edward out the door. I wanted to get lost in the crowded hallway of students, any attention would be better than Edward's complicated conversations that always seemed to reopen wounds. I wanted to get away from him and forget about what used to be. It was too risky to turn invisible when so many people could see so I plunged into the hall of students, for once wanting to be surrounded by people so that Edward wouldn't notice me. Soon enough three girls came over to me and introduced themselves. One was a blonde, with brown eyes and brown highlights, the other was a brunette with big blue doe-like eyes, and the last was a red head with sparkling green eyes. They were all quite beautiful, for humans, that is. They looked like the kind of girls that cared more about their clothes and their makeup than anything else, but I was desperate so I started conversation.

"Hey!" They squealed coming towards me. "You're new here right?"

"Yes, I moved here from Italy only two days ago,' I explained pleasantly, and secretly checking to make sure Edward wasn't anywhere near by.

"OMG!" The blonde exclaimed. "Italy! As in Europe? That is SO cool!" she cried out, more enthusiastically than Alice. What is she on?

"Oh my god I know!" the red head chimed in. "How was the shopping?" She asked, her eyes shining with excitement. Why not indulge in their fantasy world? I thought to myself. After all, you're not Bella anymore…

"You guys you guys, settle down!" the brunette exclaimed. "You're scaring the poor girl!" she said, before turning and flashing a pleasant smile at me. "Sorry about them, they get a little overexcited sometimes, anyway, I'm Amber Brown," she said warmly.

"Nice to meet you Amber," I replied politely.

She smiled. "This," she said motioning to the redhead, "is Stephanie West, and this is Amy Carver," she said, pointing to the blonde.

"Nice to meet you all," I said with sincerity. "I'm Claire Haynes," I said with a smile.

"Claire where are you going now?" Amber asked me.

"Umm…Advanced Chemistry. Where are you guys going?"

I saw a shocked expression on all of their faces.

"Advanced Chem.!" Stephanie exclaimed, "That's for like, really smart people! What year are you?"

"A freshman, why?" I asked curious.

"Wow…" Amber, Stephanie, and Amy chimed in. "That's amazing!"

"Well…I guess, but anyways I really have to get to class, but hopefully I'll see you guys again!" I exclaimed, walking away, from their stunned faces. I smiled silently to myself, and headed off to class. The girls had seamed nice, although Stephanie and Amy seemed a little well…shallow. But Amber seamed very nice, and I hoped I had another class with her. My next class was Advanced Chemistry. I silently prayed to god that Edward or Liz wasn't in my next class. My prayers were answered and I let out a huge sigh of relief when I found no one in my next class that I knew. I silently got in my seat and idly waited for class to start. I was doodling in my notebook when I heard the sound of the empty seat next to me, scratch on the ground. I smelt human immediately, and looked up to see a young man. He had short brunette hair that looked slightly tousled. His features were surprisingly perfect, for a human, and a warm smile lit across his face. Sensing my eyes on him, he turned and flashed a smile at me.

"Hi, I'm Brian Sullivan," he said, turning towards me. "You're new here right?"

"Yeah, I just moved here from Italy just two days ago," I explained.

"Italy!" he exclaimed, his face lighting up. "I'm from Italy too. Where did you live?"

"In Tuscany," I lied. Somewhere, a long time ago class started, but I paid no attention and neither did Brian.

"Really? I've always wanted to go there. I'm from Venice," he said, smiling at me again. "Parlate italiano (Do you speak Italian?)?" he asked.

"Naturalmente (Of course), " I replied casually, dazzling him slightly. I liked this guy, he seamed so…warm.

He smiled at me again and turned away, blushing slightly. It was then he finally realized that class had started and turned away from me. I chuckled and prepared to endure the wonderful world of Advanced Chemistry, in which I already knew, could never be more complex than the world of which I lived in and knew so well.

EPOV

As soon as class started, I thought I had been sentenced to my own personal hell. We were seated by a window and the breeze from it seemed to taunt me with Claire's intoxicating smell. And not in the blood lust way but just plain stinking lust. Why!? I thought angrily. Why did I feel this way about her? Why do I have this urge to be close to her? Why does she remind me so much of my Bella? Oh, Bella… I'm so sorry. I hung my head in shame and stared out the window. Forgetting all about class my thought drifted back to Claire. She was such a puzzle, one second she seams mad at me, and the next unbelievably sad. Almost like something had died inside of her. And then of course, there was her Bella-like quality. Sometimes, I almost hated her. Almost hated her for making me feel this way, and for reminding me a Bella in this painful way. I took a quick glance at her. Her brow was frowned in frustration as she seamed to be concentrating incredibly hard on something. I turned my attention back to the window and before I knew it, class was over, and I was the last student to leave the room. I decided to skip the rest of my classes that day, and drive home. I needed some time to think, and let myself be reminded of Bella. When I got home I sulked to my room. I had done this man times before in the past and Esme was not surprised to see me home early, but concern was etched in her face.

"Oh, Edward! I thought you were over this…" her thoughts told me.

"I'm alright Esme, I just need some time to myself. Please keep Liz away from me," I pleaded the last line.

She nodded and I headed up to my room. Once there, I closed it, and locked it, even though it would be no use. Then I collapsed onto my bed, and reached around for Bella's book. Once I had it, I gently picked it up and began flipping through the pages. Grief and uncontrollable guilt hit me. It was my fault that the love of my existence had died. I had left her, I lied to her and told her I didn't love her. I hurt her, and now…she was gone…my beautiful Bella. I lied there, mourning my loss and beating myself up until the moon was out and the white light illuminated my room. My thoughts wandered off to Claire again. I found myself anxious to see her again, and wondering what she was doing right now. I was trying to put a word on the feelings I had about her, when realization hit me. I was in falling in love with her.

BPOV

The rest of the day went by quickly. I had no classes with any of the other Cullen's, especially Edward or Liz, thank god. However I was disappointed that Brian and I shared no other classes. He seamed like someone I could talk to. I saw Amber, Stephanie, and Amy during lunch and sat with them, pretending to listen to their gossip. I had made the mistake of a quick glance around the cafeteria and saw Edward staring at me. As soon as our eyes met we both turned our heads away, neither of us daring to look again. I had been well educated in the rest of my classes so it was hard for me to focus on anything but Edward Cullen. I couldn't get him out of my head! And it didn't help that in the one class that I actually had to pay attention in, he sat next to me. Sometimes it was so hard, to resist the urge to run into his arms and cry, and hold him close. I sighed, knowing far too well that that would never happen. This mission was proving itself to be much more troublesome and difficult than I thought. I didn't know if my poor dead heart could hold out any longer with Edward so close. My drive home was a blur, and before I knew it, I was staring at the beautiful mansion. I too another sigh and headed to my room, really needing to be alone. As soon as I got there, I closed my door and collapsed on my bed. I had to think of a new strategy on how to deal with Edward. From what I saw was that I had four choices. 1: Stay away from him. Well that worked out fantastically! I thought sarcastically to myself. 2: Act like a bitch and make Edward hate me. I could never hurt Edward though. That was eliminated. 3: Run away. No, I have a mission and I can't fail Aro. Especially if this Liz is as powerful as Alice described. And option 4: Give in. I sighed. As much as I wanted to give in, and act myself around him, and to not fight the feelings I was having, it was too risky. I knew if I gave in I would act like Bella. Like his Bella. I lied on my bed until the moon came up, sleep never came to me. My options swirled around my head, taunting me. When I couldn't take it anymore, quickly got out of bed, and turned invisible. Silently I crept through the house, Edward's room wasn't hard to find, despite the endless rooms. Carefully not to avoid any breezes that might catch my scent, I quietly sneaked into his room. The lights were off and the moonlight through the windows surrounding his room was the only source of light. Not that I needed it to see. I made out his figure, lying on his bed. I slowly, and carefully made my way over to a chair that faced his bed, and sat down to observe him. He was lying on his stomach, his head buried on his pillow and his arms lay under the top of his head. Beside him lay my old copy of Wuthering Heights and I saw able to make out painful dry sobs coming from him. I wanted to run to him, to sit next to him and comfort him, but I held myself back. And then he whispered one word, which made my dead heart stop.

"Claire."

I bolted out of his room, and didn't stop till I was safely back into my own. My decision was made. I was going to give in.

Apparently sometime last night we had had a snowstorm. I was too wrapped up in my thoughts so I was surprised when I woke up to see the ground covered in at least a foot of snow, and big flakes falling from the sky. I remained there, enjoying the snow from the inside, when Alice came running in.

"Claire!" she exclaimed. "Guess what?" she said, jumping up and don in excitement.

"What Alice?" I replied, trying to sound excited but wary. This better not be one of her shopping trips again.

"Snow day!" she squealed, dancing around my room.

"Really?" I asked excited now. I really didn't feel like enduring hours of learning stuff I already knew.

"Yes silly! You wouldn't bet against me know would you?" she said, still prancing around my room. "Oh this is going to be so much fun! OMG! We should have a snowball fight! Oh, yes, I can see it! It's going to be great! I'm going to get the others, meet downstairs in five minute Claire!" she said, running out of my room at full vampire speed. Same old Alice… I thought to myself. I smiled to myself, washed up and got dressed. I wore a long sleeve shirt with a knit hat, and a fashionable scarf Alice bought me. I put on my favorite pair of Levi jeans and a pair of Uggs. That really was all I needed, considering I could never get cold. Once I ready, I headed downstairs, I was actually a little excited. I mean, a snowball fight with vampires? It would be infinitely better than with humans. Maybe I'll even get to nail Emmett in the face. I thought darkly, and then laughed at the thought. Once I was downstairs I saw that Alice had gotten the whole family ready, and they were all waiting for me. Esme and Carlisle were together, as well as Jasper and Alice, and Emmett and Rose. I turned my head slightly to see Edward, a little further away from the rest of the family. He was leaning against the banister, with his head down. Suddenly, he lifted his head and our eyes met making my dead heart beat faster. And then, breaking our gaze came Liz. She was dressed the most flamboyantly out of all of us. She had a designer jacket, with high heel boots and a matching Burberry hat, gloves and scarf. High heels? For a snowball fight? I mean, I know you have the grace of a vampire but still…I thought to myself. Our eyes met, and she flashed me a fake smile, before running up to Edward and putting her arms around him.

"Hey Edward!" she squealed, in a girly way, snuggling against him.

I gagged at this and glanced at Alice, whose head was turned away.

"I missed you last night," Liz said flirtatiously at Edward. Trying to dazzle him.

I took a glance at Edward, his face was hard, and I could tell that he too was trying to hide disgust.

"Oh, I'm sorry Liz. I needed some time to myself last night," he replied curtly, and took a discreetly step further away from her. I chuckled in my head at this.

"Alright you guys, come on!" Alice exclaimed excitedly, breaking the awkwardness of the situation. She pulled Jaspers hand and ran outside to the forest surrounding the house. We all followed her at vampire speed and came to a clearing. The clearing reminded me of the meadow back in Forks. It was a perfect circle, and the dense forest around it hid us from any humans that might get too close. I was interrupted by my observations when Alice started declaring the rules and teams.

"Alright!" Alice exclaimed, getting our attention. "The only rule is that no powers are allowed. We wouldn't want to make it unfair for you Emmett," she said teasingly. "And since we have an uneven number of players, we're starting off every vampire for his or her self. You can form teams if you want," she declared.

"Alice!" Emmett whined. "I don't think that that's fair to us, I mean, I can't hit a girl!" Emmett complained.

"Oh, really?" Rosalie spoke up. Or are you just too chicken that I'm gonna whoop your butt?" Rosalie challenged.

"Okay Rose," Emmett said, putting his hands up in defeat. "Just remember that you brought the wrath of Emmett on yourself!" he exclaimed.

We all laughed at this, and Rosalie rolled her eyes.

"Okay, the fight starts in three, two, one go!" Alice exclaimed. I quickly began to form a wall around myself. At vampire speed I managed to create a whole fortress in less than a minute. I snowball whizzed over my head and I saw it had been Liz. She gave me a little wave and I glared back at her. Throwing a snowball at her direction, so fast, it was barley visible. I nailed her on the side of her head, and she turned around to give me a glare, and I imitated her wave back at her. I looked around. All of the couples had formed teams and were working together to chuck as much snow as they could at the other teams. At vampire speed, the snow was flying so fast that human eyes would only see a slight blur of white. To us though, it was a war zone. I heard cries of laughter and anger as the snowballs hit their marks. At one point I saw Rosalie turn against Emmett and pour snow down his back while it was turned. I laughed and quickly dodged another shot from Liz. I had prepared for that and quickly shot a round of snowballs at her, and enjoying her seething in anger. I gave her a fake smile and continued with my fight. However my attention was drawn back to her when I saw her crawling over to Edward. Edward, already probably reading her mind, dashed away and surprisingly came over to me.

"Mind if I join you?" he asked, His bronze hair was more tousled than usual and had a few flakes of snow in it. I managed to nod, and tried to pull myself out of his dazzling spell. I started to make snowballs and handed them to Edward while he through them.

"So what brings you over here?" I asked after a while.

"Well…if you haven't noticed Liz, seems to find pleasure following me everywhere and acting like an annoying little pest," he explained, still throwing snowballs at the other teams.

"Oh really?" I asked, still focusing on the creation of the little white spheres that were to be hurtled into the air. "I haven't noticed," I finished sarcastically. He laughed his musical laugh that I missed so much over the past years, and I wished I could make him laugh more.

"Well…anyway, I realized that she didn't particularly…favor you," he said wary, waiting for my reaction.

I laughed at that. "You can say that again," I flashed a smile at him, trying to dazzle him as much as I dared to.

He seamed to be taken back at that and paused for a moment before continuing.

"Well anyway…I figured, I'd be safe with you, from…her," he shuddered at the word 'her,' making me laugh. Even though I knew the meaning of his words I couldn't help but feel a tingling feeling shot through my body. He felt safe around me… Were the only words running through my head.

"Don't worry Edward, you're safe with me."

Okay, there it is! I hope you guys liked it! Review if you have a heart!