Chapter Three

First Day

School…
Starts today…

"I don't want to go!" I whined as Yuuki pulled the bed sheets off me.
"GET UP!" bellowed Yuuki angrily.
"Shut up!! Why do you have to be a morning person!? You're such a morning person that you make people think that they go in slow motion…in the morning!"
I could practically see Yuuki rolling her eyes. "That is the worst insult I've ever heard."
I just grumbled… I was too tired to answer.
"…It is 7:45…15 minutes 'til school, dude." Yuuki warned me, closing the door behind her as she left.

15…minutes…15…minutes…wait, 15?! It takes me that long just to take a ¼ shower.
I suddenly rose up from my bed and ran towards the bathroom door.
"Argh!" I said in annoyance, as I went through the cold water in the shower… Yes, I take cold showers. Nothing is wrong with that.
"Ember~" Yuuki called out in a sing-song voice. "10 minutes~"

"SHUT UP!" I yelled at her angrily, as I turned the water saving water off.
I put on my clothes and fixed my hair.
"Come on, come on~! I'm already in the car!" Yuuki shouted at me, as I slammed the door to our newly found house.
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" I said, jumping into the passenger seat.
We then found out that the school was as close as the hospital was.

"It's pretty convenient of how we live close by the places we usually go to…" Yuuki commented.
"Yeah. It is." I said, agreeing. I couldn't help but notice that most of the cars here were probably used or hand-me-downs. It made me feel uncomfortable.
But then again, only a few cars were here…wait, only a few…?
"What time does school start?" I said, trying to level my voice.
"…9:00." Yuuki said, grinning.
"I. Hate. You." I pointed out to her.
"You need to learn to wake up earlier." she said to me, shrugging.

"I still hate you." I mumbled angrily. I am not a morning person.
"Whateve-" Yuuki started. "Dang! What is that!?"
I looked over to what she was gazing at.

"That is beau~ti~ful." I let out a low whistle. There, right there in front of us, was a shiny Volvo S60R…but not only the car…the people in it!
"…who are they?" Yuuki said in amusement.
"I don't know, but I bet we'll find out later… We always do." I said, but mostly to myself. I need to find out who they were…or maybe what they were.
I'm going crazy.

Yuuki and I went up to the front office to get our new schedules. We knocked once on the door and entered.
"May I help you?" a lady at the front desk asked. I soon found out that her name was Ms. Cope. There was a nametag right in front of her.
"Umm… We have to get some schedules for Emberlynne Phoenix and Yuuki Somoto." Yuuki said, stuttering a bit.
"Ah, yes. Hope you will enjoy it here at Forks!" Ms. Cope smiled; it seems that she was trying too hard.
"Okay…" I mumbled under my breath.
As we got our schedules, we compared them…
We only had 3 classes together.

Sure, out of 7 that's pretty good, but for us…not good enough.
"Dagnabbit." I said, annoyed. I was so used to me and Yuuki being together for like 24/7.
Yuuki just sighed. "Man, I was hoping your mom could do something about this."
"She probably could, but won't." I said to her. I felt my frown get a little smaller. I knew that she was in Gym, my least favorite class. And it was the last one of the day.

I sighed once more. "This sucks like…well, I can't think of anything. Oh, this sucks like expired chocolate!"
After I had finished that sentence, the bell rang. A little bit too early for me and Yuuki.

"Off to different classes…" Yuuki mumbled sadly under her breath. We were like attached at the hip when we were kids, and still are…hopefully, this won't change it.

"Bye…" I mumbled under my breath, as I headed of to English.

My schedule seemed so different compared to Yuuki's.

Only three classes together! Three!

First is Trig, then it's, Spanish, then lunch (Lunch doesn't count), and last but not least, Gym. Did I mention that I hated Gym?! And this year, it's with guys. We were always separated in Texas. Guys either outside or in or Girls either outside or in. Never together!
I entered the separate building and saw that my homeroom class…-

Was pretty small… I wasn't used to small.

I cleared my throat to get the attention of my teacher.

"Ah, yes. You must be… Miss Phoenix. Am I correct?" He had asked in a faded British accent. "I'm Mr. Mason."

"Y-yeah." I answered lamely.

"Please introduce yourself to the class, and then take your seat next to… Miss Cullen…?"

The girl he was referring to raised her hand and smiled.

I smiled weakly back; at least she was friendly enough. I started my introduction.

"Hello everyone. My name is Emberlynne, that's pronounced Em-bur-linn, Fee-nicks or Fee-oh-nicks, I moved from Spring, Texas; and now live with my mom."

Everyone sort of clapped, and then I sat down in my assigned seat.

The girl on my right, the one who also greeted me before, introduced herself.

"Hi! My name's Emmaline Cullen; everyone was expecting you and Yuuki to come here to this school. I mean, there are no secrets here in Forks!" She said; smiling, her gleaming teeth showing.

"Oh, well, you should've heard my spiel. Emberlynne." I said, shaking her hand.

"Hmm, if you don't mind me saying, you smell really nice. Like…cherry blossoms…" She added.

I smiled. "Thanks for somebody noticing. I use it all the time." I laughed. "It's really a nice smell. My favorite one actually. You should smell my friend, Yuuki's. She smells like ocean breeze…!"

Man, somebody finally noticed! Cherry blossoms are my favorite! I thought to myself, grinning on the inside.

"That's nice. My favorite, specifically, is a lilac type of smell. Very sweet smelling to me." She said, laughing a bit.

Suddenly, something popped into my mind.

"Hey, did you ride a Volvo S60R today?" I couldn't help myself from asking. I was too overwhelmed to find out who they were.
She blinked in amusement. "Er, yeah. My brother's Edward's car."

"Oh…okay. I just saw the car, and it looked pretty amazing." I said, trying not to sound too weird.

"Shh. It's time to listen." She said, putting her finger to her lips. I saw that the room got darker, and a video started to play.

After the video was done, I was off to Government.

It was as boring as heck. (Not that heck is boring, I don't think it is… Morbid, maybe…)

Government…Not particularly my favorite subject, though time flown by, and I was already in Trig.

I smiled when I saw that Yuuki was already in her seat, almost jolting up when she saw me. She gestured me to sit right next to her.

"Ember! This is Jessica." She said, pointing to the girl in front of us. "Jessica Stanley, she's in my Biology class."

Jessica waved, and we talked until the bell rang. We asked her things about the school that we didn't know, and she seemed very helpful, but also…she talked a lot. Jessica gave us extra information that we certainly didn't need.

I was suddenly pulled out of my thoughts, when Yuuki told me to hurry up, she doesn't like being slow. It's in her nature.
"Ember… We're here already." Yuuki told me as we entered Spanish.

I noticed that someone was sitting there, waving. I saw someone who had the same eyes as her, but those (and the dark circles under their eyes) were the only things they had in common.

"Ember!" Emmaline called over to me, she didn't seem at all happy as she was in English…. I wonder what it was…

"Hey Emmaline…" I said to her. I was pretty timid right now.

Yuuki pushed my arm.

"Oh. Er, this is Yuuki." I mumbled to the people in front of me.

"Hi Yuuki. This is Alice. She's my other sister." Emmaline said to us.

"Um, not to bother you. But who else is in your family?" Yuuki asked the two girls. "I'm just a little curious is all…"

"Edward, Jasper, Hunter, Emmett, Carlisle, Rosalie, and Esme." They said simutaniously.

"That's a lot of people." I commented; I hit myself mentally. That sounded so stupid.

"Well…yeah. It is. I guess." Alice replied back, she seemed so...I don't know.

"Class is starting." Emmaline said quietly; Yuuki and I sat down in our seats next to the sisters.

The teacher blabbered on and on and on, geeze, some teachers never shut up! I checked the clock, only 10 minutes has passed.

After a long and agonizing hour, it was time for lunch. The reason I wanted to get out so much was because that I wanted to see Emmaline's and Alice's whole family.

I noticed that people were around them, and yet, they stood out like flamingos in a herd of elephants.

"Ember!" Jessica called my name. She probably noticed I was staring at the Cullen family. "C'mon, our table is over there." She pointed to another table that was far away from them.
This sucks so badly. I thought/whined as I took a seat next to Mike.

"Hey, Ember…Yuuki–!" Mike said to get our attention.

"What?" Yuuki asked, her tone sounding completely and uber bored.

"So, we're all hanging out this weekend at the movies. Wanna come with?" Mike asked both me and my best friend.

"I don't know. I think I'm busy." I said…and I was pretty much telling the truth. I had wanted to go out and see different places that I would usually go to.

I mean me and Yuuki go to the movies every week, but… I can tell that she just wants to hang out without any other people.

Yuuki agreed with my statement. "I mean we would go, but… we're just gonna go study and read at the library."

…That doesn't sound as bad as an idea. Then we can go find a random ice cream shop. I thought, absolutely excited for the week to end.

Unfortunately, today is Monday. Monday and Wednesday are my bad days. It's when I get harmed (emotionally or physically) in some kind of way. Physical pain, I can manage. Sometimes emotional…just takes over for a while.

"Hey, Ember…" I heard a voice behind me…

I turned around, and out of nowhere appears Emmaline.

The girls at the table started to shuffle uncomfortably in their seats, and the boys were absolutely awed by her presence.

"…Yeah?" I asked, trying to look calm around the people around me.

"I was just going to ask… you know that project we have for English, right?" Emmaline had asked me.

"Y-yes." I said. I had actually completely forgotten about it!

She smiled her stunning smile. "I was wondering if you had wanted to be my partner on it. I mean, you're new and everything. If you want, Yuuki could work on it with us. Actually, I was hoping both of you could do it with me."

"Oh…" It had taken Yuuki and me a while to think. "Sure…! Of course!"

Emmaline smiled once again and said, "Great! So, shall we meet after school? At the library?"

It was like she heard Yuuki saying about going to the library…

Freaky.

So I replied, sounding more cool and calm then I really was, "Yeah, we'll meet you then…"

Once Emmaline was gone. Everyone around us started to chat on the double. There were oodles of questions, one after another.

"So, how'd you get so close to the Cullens?!" – Jessica

"Whoa, she is hot!" – Eric

"There was no way she was talking to you!" – Lauren

There were many others, and I wished I could answer these things (Besides the second one.), but I couldn't.
I looked at Yuuki for some help, but she didn't have anything to say. She just shrugged her shoulders and put on a confused expression on her face.

"…so it's official. We have plans…that are school-related." Yuuki said lamely. As if it being school-related makes it twice as important.

"Yeah. So we're probably going to be seeing you next weekend. Hopefully." I added, though they probably knew I wasn't making any promises.

Around the table was pretty quiet, and I looked through my dark curtain (in which I call hair.) and saw the Cullens three tables down, second to the left.

It had looked like Rosalie (the only other female there.) was ready to burst out at Emmaline.

How could I tell?
I don't know. I thought it was pretty obvious, because of Rosalie's facial expression.

Absolutely livid.

Emmaline looked so calm. I would've been shaking in my boots…if I was wearing any.

"Ember!" I heard Jessica yell at me.
I snapped my head around and saw that everyone was staring at me.

Jessica finally sighed when she found out that she had my attention. "I was just wondering if we could come with you to the library. You know, like a group project?"

I knew that this was just a way to get closer to the Cullens. Though I hadn't point it out… I looked at Yuuki for some help. Once she found my gaze, it looked like she suddenly had a great interest in her salad.

I looked at everyone around, overwhelmed by their heated gazes. "Err…I'm just saying. But had she mentioned you guys?" That sounded so mean. I slapped myself mentally.

"Oh. Right." Lauren said curtly, with a hint of agitation. "You did know that they're all adopted, right?"

"Yeah, we knew that." Yuuki answered before me.

"Oh, well did you know that they're all together? Like together-together?" Lauren said, with a smirk on her face. "Jasper and Alice. Rosalie and Emmett. Though Edward, Hunter, and Emmaline are all single. But none of them had said 'yes' to any of the people who asked them out. Apparently none of the people here are good enough for them."

I noticed that her smirk and smug look faltered for a while. She might've asked one of the guys out. Or both of the guys out. Though they said 'no.'. Sorry, I had to enjoy this moment. That's what she gets for being a total jerk/prep to Yuuki and me. Even when we didn't do anything wrong!

I tried to stifle a laugh, but then what came out was a distorted cough. Everyone looked at me, except for Yuuki.

I could almost see her laughing.

I caught Yuuki's attention and threw a large grin at her. Of course, she smiled back. This was too funny not to do anything about it.

I could practically see a vein throbbing in Lauren's forehead.

"Okay…just remember that nothing can happen between you and the male Cullens." Lauren said, totally aggravated by me and Yuuki.

"Uhh… Okay. Should I care?" I asked, not really getting the point.
I mean… Yeah, the guys were hot, but then I didn't want a boyfriend who attracted all the girls' attention. I would've been totally jealous, even if he ignored all of them.

"We're looking forward to stay single, thank you very much." Yuuki said, trying to make sure that everyone got that straight.

"Hmm." Lauren mumbled. I knew she was trying to ruin our day, but it certainly was not working…okay, maybe it was, but ah well.

The bell suddenly rang, telling the kids to head off to their next class.

I was off to Biology…whoo. My favorite subject. Note the sarcasm. I, of course, with my total smartness and knowledge, did not get lost…!
Yeah, right. I needed to ask directions how to get there, and still ended up lost. I guess my sense of direction is wearing off today. Angela, being the nice person she is, showed me how to get there.
I thanked her and stepped into the building, and most of the students were there, and the teacher was there too. It looked like I was late, but I wasn't.
I went through the whole 'introduction' again. Which I began to hate, I didn't like repeating myself. No matter what. I threw a small smile to where Mike was sitting, he looked sadly over to the spot next to him. Someone was already sitting there.
I turned to an open seat by the window on the right side. It looked like the only seat left open…someone was sitting next to that empty space.
"Hi." I said awkwardly.
He didn't even look at me, all I could see was the back of his head, and that his hand was on his face.

It looked like he was covering his nose…does he need to sneeze?
I realized that I, the nerdy dork person, was sitting next to Edward Cullen. Yeah, the Edward Cullen.
"Hi, you're Edward right?" I whispered. The teacher wasn't starting his lecture yet.
He didn't even take a moment to look at me. What did I do wrong? He barely knows me, and I didn't do anything, but he acts like he hates me.
I felt a strong negative feeling taking me over. It felt like…rejection? Not a common feeling to feel, but here I was soaking in it. He hurt my feelings… and I actually cared.
I felt my lower lip tug, and I was pouting before I realized it. Yeah, I was childish, but there was no reason for him to hate me.
The teacher started to talk, and I turned my attention straight towards him. I felt something in my eyes that I didn't recognize until a few moments later were salty tears.
How'd they get there? I wiped them away and tried to get Edward off of my mind. Trying to forget he's next to me.
But that's sort of hard…when I could feel his heated gaze practically piercing right into the side of my head. I began to grow self-conscious and almost pulled my knees up to my chest, but I was in school. I couldn't do that, and so, I decided to turn my head to the left.
But when I looked, all I saw were onyx eyes… Absolutely dark, scary, and…indescribable. He finally broke the gaze when the teacher asked him a question about something that I wasn't listening to.
I turned my head too, and when I heard him answer the question, my mind was all in a haze. His voice sounded amazing… like something so sweet… Honey was like vinegar in comparison to his voice.
When he finished talking, the teacher told him he was correct, and carried on with the lesson.
Then, once again, I felt the gaze that burned my skin. How something so… burning and uncomfortable…be exerted from someone who seemed so… perfect?

The lecture finally finished, and the teacher told us our assignments.

Before the bell even rang, Edward got out of his seat and then suddenly, a few milliseconds later, the bell rang.
But Edward was fast and out the door in no time. I frowned and smelled my hair. Is there something wrong with it? Is he allergic to cherry blossoms?
I pondered over these questions when walking through the hallways, and into the gym. Phys. Ed… not my best subject, though some people say I'm pretty good. Yuuki's good too, but we're not the best.

I met up with Yuuki, and she had a face that was white and partially green.
"What's wrong?" I asked her, really concerned.
"I don't want to go to English anymore." She stated, on the verge of tears it looked like.
"What? Why?"
"I sit next to a Cullen boy, and he… well, he scares me. He acts likes he hates my guts or something! But the worst thing is, is that I carethat he hates me! It's freaky!"
My mind was suddenly in a whirl. The same exact thing…what's up with the Cullens? Emmaline and Alice seem nice enough; do the rest of their siblings…have problems with us? This was the best first day in the world, notice the sarcasm.
We were starting badminton in class; Yuuki and I were, of course, partners for this activity.
We owned all people who went against us, even though we had a million things on our mind.

Class was finally over, and school was out; I raced towards the car in the parking lot, and with Yuuki at my heels.
I looked two parking spaces to the right of me, and saw the Cullens were backing out of the parking space and onto the road, it seemed like they were in a hurry.
Yuuki and I went home in silence; we were wondering about the events that happened today.