Chapter 3

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"I'm going out on walks more often lately, must be getting old," I chuckled to myself as I slowly walked through the forest, my bare feet hardly making a noise on the leafy floor. The forest is my favourite place to think, it is so peaceful and yet so wild, and the subject on my mind are, of course, the Cullens.

They are definitely different from the other vampires I have met over the years, they seem almost…human. Their closeness to the humans at school and the colour of their eyes confused me to no end, were they trying to make the students trust them and plan a massacre? No, they wouldn't need trust for that, and they didn't seem the types anyway, well at least Alice didn't and she's the only one I'd really talked to, which was a stupid idea, let's just make friends with the enemy who I know nothing about. I almost cringed at my begging stunt earlier, honestly what had I been thinking?

My behaviour around that one was strange, I've never felt comfortable around a vamp before let alone joke around with one, I've killed so many of them and not one had a hint of humanity about them, are the Cullens different? They were making my head hurt until I remembered the wolves again, they must know about them, yet they've done nothing about it, I wonder why? Wasn't their whole reason of being to attack vampires and protect their people? And here's a whole coven right on their doorstep. I think it's time to pay them another visit, they never mentioned I couldn't come onto their land again when I left, with this decided I undressed, shoved my clothes into the bag on my back leg, shifted into my furs and headed for their lands again.

When I got to their awful scent I slowed to a trot until they noticed my own scent, it didn't take them long, only two wolves appeared this time and didn't attack me on sight which may have been due to the russet coloured wolf who I fought the first time. Both their teeth were bared as they stared at me obviously trying to figure out my intent, I sat down in a non-threatening posture.

"I'm not here to attack you, I just want to ask some questions." They looked at each other and I realised they must have been speaking telepathically, obviously wondering if they could trust me, I sighed.

"Look it's about the Cullens, can one of you please shift so I can talk to you?" The russet wolf's eyes widened before he retreated into the bushes to phase a boy no older then 17 stepped out, although the muscles made him look like a 20 year old he still had baby features on his face. He had short, cropped black hair like the Alpha and brown eyes, he looked at me and crossed his arms.

"What are your questions?" He demanded and I rolled my eyes at his commanding tone but I let it slide, they were the only ones I could ask after all.

"First of all I want to know why the vamps are involving themselves with the humans?"

"They only feed on animals, so apparently the humans are safe but I don't buy it, they can snap at any moment if only a single drop of blood is spilt too close to them leeches." The boy seethed, while I widened my eyes in surprise, vampires that feed on animals? I've never heard of such a thing, that may explain the strange eye colour and different scent.

"How long have they been here for?"

"Almost a year now I think, although they've been here in the past."

"And they've never killed or harmed a human?"

"From what we know, no, or they would be dead. There's still time for that to change though." He threatened, the wolf behind him huffed and nodded in agreement.

"If you want to kill them so badly why haven't you just done it?"

"Hmph, there was a treaty made with them a long time ago by our ancestors, if they never kill a human or step on our territory, we will leave them alone, we renewed it when they came back." It's a good job too; these pups would have been slaughtered.

"Do you know if any of them have any abilities?"

"I know some of them do, but I don't know which ones or which abilities." Interesting, I guess it's my mission to find out what they are, I racked my brains for anything else of importance but came up with nothing.

"Okay, thanks a lot, that's all I needed to know." With that I started to walk away before I heard him shout behind me.

"And what about you? What are you?" I turned my yellow eyes back to him and smiled showing off my sharp teeth.

"Why, I'm a panther of course." I said with a wink before taking off back to my house.

"Hey you!" I stopped suddenly at that voice smiling automatically and turned to the pixie vamp, who had her hands on her hips. I wonder if she has a special ability?

"Why hello there Tink! How're you today?" I said completely ignoring her stern expression.

"Don't you 'Hello Tink' me! I don't appreciate that stunt yesterday."

"I don't know what you're talking about." I said with wide innocent eyes.

"Hmph, whatever, you're too cute so I'll let it slide."

"I'm anything but cute darlin'" I replied waggling my eyebrows making her smirk.

"We'll see about that," She said seductively, wow, that tone was amazing, she has to use it more. What the fuck Isabella? No, bad.

"What classes do you have today?" I listed all my mundane classes of the day, at least sport will be a little bit interesting.

"We have art and sports together!" She said happily smiling up at me, "I guess I'll see you later on Bells!" With that she took off practically skipping down the hallway, how can she call me the cute one? As I made my way over to Biology I saw people looking at me and whispering about a Cullen talking to the new girl, guess they're not all too social with the humans which I count as a good thing. I sat down next to Bedward and felt him staring at me again, he riles me up so much.

Half way through the lesson I felt a tingling in the left side of my mind and it got sharper and sharper as it was being prodded mercilessly, I tensed up, my eyes instantly turned into my cat-slits and my canines sharpened as my body recognised the threat, the vampire was trying to get past my shield, it took all of my effort not to growl. At least I found a super-leech and from the feel of his attack it's a mind-reading ability, I haven't seen one of them in a few years, no wonder he's been staring, I must be driving him crazy if he can't read me. I tried to ignore it but my cat was getting angrier by the minute, I can't show him that I know about his search otherwise he'll know I'm different, but I suddenly shot up automatically as I felt an extra sharp poke.

"Is something the matter Miss Swan?" Mr Banner asked looking at me worriedly.

"Umm excuse me sir I don't really feel well, can I go to the nurse?" I muttered trying to hide my longer canines. I saw Mr Banner look at me for a moment through the red haze of my anger, he must have seen something in my face as he agreed without question, I gathered my things and walked out and headed for the girls bathrooms. Once I was inside I splashed my face with water, closed my eyes and took deep breaths to try and calm my mind, how dare he try to invade my privacy! How dare he attack my mind! I should go back in there and rip his nosey ass a new one.

Once I'd calmed down enough I opened my eyes and looked in the mirror to see my green contact lenses were back to normal human shape and I bared my teeth to show they'd gone back to normal too, I took one last calming breath before I left the toilets and headed for my next lesson.

"You had no right to do that Edward!" I heard Alice whisper shout at lunch time.

"I can't read her mind though and -"

"No Edward, just because you're curious about her mind doesn't mean you can prod around in her head, you don't see Jasper doing anything because he can't feel her, you even made her ill!" Feel me? I'm not sure I want to know what she means by that, but I'm glad Jasper can't do that, I took a glance at him before looking away again; the scars put me on edge even more than sitting next to his mate which was saying something.

"She might have been ill before that, you have no proof it was because of me, and humans can't feel me reading them anyway."

"We've never met a human you couldn't read so you don't know what she feels, I talked to her before class and she was perfectly healthy." Oh crap, don't think anything of it, don't think anything of it, I chanted in my mind.

"Whatever, I didn't mean to, I won't do it again. Happy?" Edward sighed looking irritated with the conversation taking his mate's hand in comfort and thankfully dropping the subject.

"I suppose so,"

"I don't know why you're getting so worked up over this damn human," Rosalie scoffed disgustedly.

"You're just pissed because she answered back to you," Alice smirked at her, avoiding the question. The blonde simply rolled her eyes and ignored her.

"Sorry babe, but I thought it was awesome! She has more spunk then I originally thought to stick up to you, no one has been able to look you in the eye when you're angry let alone make you look away first." Emmett chipped in, which made her angrier and she slapped him on the head, Alice wasn't kidding, her slaps look mean! Poor Emmett.

"It's like all her instincts don't work," Edward muttered looking in my direction, but my hair covered my face to make it seem I was listening to what was going on around my table. You can talk, you're going against every single one of your instincts blood drinker.

"Hey Bella, do you want to come?" Mike asked hopefully.

"Huh?" I replied dumbly not hearing a word that has been uttered at the table for the past 10 minutes.

"You wanna come to the beach this weekend?" The only beach I know of is on the mutts territory, although they haven't seen me in my human form, should I risk it? Not that I was all that worried about them finding out as long as they didn't tell the Cullen's and most specifically the Volturi, but I don't see them reporting to vampires any time soon. Ahh heck why not, getting to see chicks in bikini's? Sign me up! Yeah…I'm a pervert.

"Sure, just give me a time and I'll be there."

"Hey Bells!" Alice said with a huge smile as she sat next to me in art.

"Hey, having a good day?"

"Oh, yeah, brilliant," she replied voice dripping with sarcasm. She loves sarcasm, we could get along well.

"I know right! What is it about this school that you could possibly hate?" I said with a monotone voice and expressionless face.

"I don't know, it can't be all the wonderful students, they're all such angels." She clasped her hands together next to her face and batted her eyelashes as she said this.

"I know, especially this Alice kid, she's such a hoot."

"Well I actually heard she's pretty darn sexy, clever, funny and has great fashion sense."

"You got me at sexy." Alice laughed at this and I joined in unable to keep my expressionless face any longer as we carried on our meaningless banter throughout the rest of the lesson. I guess being friends with her won't be such a bad thing after all, she seems to be trying her hardest to be human, just like me, so there's nothing wrong with giving her a chance, my inner cat seemed to like that idea.

"Hey I was wondering if you wanted to come to the beach with us this weekend?" I asked Alice as we waited in the gym before realising a second after that she is not allowed because of the treaty, my slip made me sound more human though so I didn't mind.

"Errmm what beach is it?"

"I think the only beach near here is down in LaPush."

"I'm sorry Bella I'm going camping with my family this weekend." She said sounding genuinely sad she couldn't come.

"That's okay, maybe some other time."

"Okay!" Coach Clapp shouted, silencing the chatter going on in the gym. "We're gonna play dodge ball this lesson." A few of the girls groaned over this, I overheard Lauren complaining to Jess that she just got her nails done, seriously, why doesn't she just marry them? "Newton, Crowley, you're captains, we'll flip to see who picks first."

Taylor got to pick first, he looked over Mike's way giving him a triumphant grin before calling out my name, the look of despair on Mike's face was totally worth it, I gave Alice a helpless look as I marched over to stand next to my captain. More names were called out, Alice being on Mike's team and Jess and Lauren being one of the last of course, I noticed with satisfaction they were on the opposite team too, this is going to be fun.

The whistle blew and I flew forward keeping my pace as human as I possibly could, I grabbed one of the balls first and retreated slightly to avoid being hit, finding my mark within a second I curled the ball, reining in my strength of course, straight into Miss Mallory who was blocking her face with her hands. It must have caught at an angle since I saw two small pink objects fly into the air which were previously glued into place, the horror on her face was too much and laughter burst out my mouth, joyful tears coming not long after. Daggers flew from her eyes as she glared at me whilst walking to sit on the bleachers picking up her loves on the way, a ball flew past my head which brought me back to the game. I looked up to see Alice grinning at me in challenge, I grinned back before easily catching a ball coming my way and lobbing it towards the small girl, she danced out of the way gracefully and gave a fake yawn, brushing imaginary dust off her clothes, oh it's on girl.

The game lasted another 10 minutes with me and Alice being the last ones standing, everyone watched in amazement and I heard them whispering about how good I was at sport and commenting on my muscles but I had most of my attention on the pixie who looked pretty impressed herself, I guess she didn't think a human could be on par with her. She dodged another ball that skimmed just over her head, she's a smaller target this is so not fair! She used the momentum of the dodge to throw the ball in her arms, the speed surprised me and it hit me smack in the face and caused me to topple over, if I was human it would have probably broken my nose and she seemed to realise the extra power she used as she ran forward to check on me while Mike's team celebrated their victory.

"Oh shit Bella are you okay? I'm really sorry I didn't mean to throw it that hard! And I didn't aim for your face on purpose! Is anything broken?" I silenced her babbling by holding my hand out to stop her.

"It's okay Alice honestly, but that's one good throw you have there." I said as I jumped up twirling to show her I was steady on my feet and nothing was hurt, she nodded and apologised one more time before hanging her head. I punched her in the shoulder playfully and gave her a grin when she looked up slightly.

"Hey, no hard feelings, don't look so sad, you won the game! And it was a great game too." I held out my hand for her to shake which she did with a smile before gasping and tugging her hand away surprised by my extra body heat I suppose, her cold hand surprised me as well but it was the jolt like an electric shock running up my arm that made me gasp silently at the contact. I looked into her beautiful slightly darker eyes for a moment before smiling forcefully and walking away to join my team.

"Nice game Bella! You're awesome!" Taylor said as he slapped a hand on my shoulder.

"Thanks it was a close game, I need to get to the lockers to change, see you later." I escaped quickly and got changed before any of the other girls turned up and walked out of the locker room towards the car park.

I lent on Abigail and brought out my cigarettes, lighting one and watching the smoke as I exhaled, the good thing is that they help me relax and there is no risk of me getting ill. My behaviour around Alice is creeping me out, it's a completely new feeling that I'm unfamiliar with even after all these years, and I don't like knowing what the girl is doing to me. I saw people start to file out of the doors so I flicked my cigarette away and revved my engine scaring the crap out of some of the students nearby and drove off before any of the vampires came out.