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Edward's POV

New Arrival

We had gone through the school day like any other. As soon as we walked through the door Jasper and I grimaced. The emotions of lust and the lust-filled thoughts sent my head spinning and were too overwhelming to handle. Jasper was just lucky that it wasn't directed at him. We'd already been here for a year and a half. When were the human girls here going to realize that I wasn't going to "date" any of them?

I heard the gossip as I entered the school building. Although, none of the humans conversed with us, we could practically taste the excitement in the air. The new student was arriving tomorrow. She had visited on one of the days that the entire family had skipped for fun. Surprisingly Alice didn't see her coming at all. It scared her senseless but to the rest of us it was hilarious; we didn't sense any harm that would come from some human. We're vampires! It's not like they could hurt us anyways.

None of the humans had looked straight at her so I couldn't' get a picture of her profile out of their thoughts. No- I could get a picture, but her scent still lingered around the halls. It was barely there since it had been a week since we'd been here and the other humans had masked it with their own scents. It was a familiar scent somehow. We all agreed that we'd smelled something like it before and we also agreed that it was near impossible that we'd ever met the human, which it belonged to, before. We couldn't figure out why it seemed like we knew it or where we knew it from, the weirdest part was that it was comforting. It was like since we knew it, it couldn't be a threat.

Besides, we didn't really have many enemies. As I was going through my thoughts, the obnoxious bell rang somewhere between a B flat and an A sharp- it was the most annoying sound in my daily life. I hurried out to my car before the other teenagers could even contemplate that the school day had come to a close. I stood beside my pride and joy of a car, which stuck out like a sore thumb in the mob of old Fords and Cadillacs. I quickly examined it, making sure nothing had damaged the shimmering exterior, and jumped in, awaiting my brothers and sister.

Even though Emmett was in my last period Spanish class, he had gone looking for Rosalie in her Science class across the school grounds. They arrived at the car and piled into my Volvo. I growled at Emmett when he slammed the door. We were nearing home, about 15 miles away when Jasper hissed in pain. His power worked over a longer distance then mine did. I could see in his head that the pain had been building for three miles back and he was trying to hold it in so not to scare Alice. She looked up at him in alarm. From the pain in his head I could tell that the immense hurt was coming from the direction of our house. I speed up.

As I got within about 11 miles of the house I began to see hear the mind of my mother. She was walking away from the huge mirror that hung in her bedroom. She went downstairs to find the mess in the living room that Jasper and Emmett had created last night while on a Guitar Hero frenzy. She cleaned up the room at vampire speed, sensing that this was all Jasper and Emmett's doing since she thought I wouldn't stoop to their level. I smirked in the rearview mirror towards the two immature boys. I stopped when words of undeniable rage filled her thoughts.

She had found her vase.

Flashback

Emmett and Jasper were going around with pillows after Emmett shoved a potato chip down Jasper's throat and Jasper wanted revenge. They had gotten just a little to close to the small table near the bottom of the stairs when Emmett swung a bit too hard and Jasper ducked. The pillow went on swinging into the vase. It fell to the ground with a CRASSSH splitting into five separate, but equally broken pieces.

"SHIT!" Emmett cursed.

"Well, you big idiot, what are you going to do now?" Jasper asked with a smug smile on his face.

"Me?" Emmett asked in surprise, pointing to his chest.

"Yes, YOU. This all started because you just had to see what would happen if I ate the disgusting human food." Jasper answered.

"It's your fault too. If you had just let me hit you then I wouldn't have hit the vase." Emmett said. "Therefore, it's not my fault but yours." He said. They bantered on like this until the vase was all but forgotten.

End Flashback

Esme had stopped cleaning and, now that she was done she put the glass in a plastic bag and began to jump on it- successfully smashing it to smithereens. There was no way that the two goofballs would be able to put it back together now. They were going to have to find an exact copy of Esme's favorite vase now. I could see in her head that she was going to let them struggle with it before she finally gave in and just said that they couldn't use the TV or Guitar Hero for a week.

Finally we got to the house and went to the front door. I stood in the front of it before turning around to face Emmett and Jasper.

"Watch your backs; we wouldn't want to lose you… would we?" I asked cryptically. Emmett and Jasper looked at me like I was crazy. I saw in their heads that they didn't have a clue as to what I was thinking about.

What are you talking about Edward? - Jasper.

Dudes finally gone and lost his mind. – Emmett

I looked at Jasper first since he didn't think I was completely crazy. Then I motioned towards the house. It seemed to dawn on him at that moment that they had left the living room in complete disarray and then he remembered that both he and Emmett were to blame for the broken vase. If he could have blanched he would have. I saw Emmett flinch as he looked towards Jasper, who was apparently putting out stressed emotions. Jasper was closest to Emmett, so the anxiety hit him the hardest.

Shit, damn it Edward, why didn't you tell before we got home?! – Jasper

I looked at him and smiled in the most angelic way.

"Why, Jasper, wouldn't that ruin all the fun?" I asked him. He looked murderously at me for a second before going and hitting Emmett on the back of the head.

"Hey! Isn't that my job?!" Rosalie asked him.

"Rosieeee!" Emmett whined at her.

"What, you know I love you Emmybear." She batted her eyelashes at him. Oh, jeez, my gag reflexes started to kick in.

"Alright, come on you lovebirds; let's get in the house so Esme can kill Jasper and Emmett already." Of course, Alice had seen this play out already. Rosalie looked like she still didn't know what was going on. How could she have missed seeing what the living room looked like this morning? It was like a pack of wolves had gone through there. We walked into the house and the first thing that I noticed was that Esme had cleaned everything up spotlessly. We walked into the Living Room and Esme was sitting on the couch. In front of her, on the coffee table, sat a bag of splinters, which were the remains of her favorite vase. She looked at me and smiled. She then looked at Jasper and Emmett and gave them a Don't-mess-with-me-right-now look. She motioned for them to sit on the couch across from her. She waved her hand at us to show that we could go on but Alice, Rosalie, and I stayed, wanting to watch Emmett and Jasper get hollered at.

"Does anyone want to explain to me what happened to my vase?" She asked in a deadly-calm voice. Her tone had changed and Jasper and Emmett were gonna piss their pants.

"See. Uh, well. We…were gonna fix everything… and uh," Emmett stumbled as he spoke.

"It wasn't that, um…broken when w-we left. There were only a couple of pieces and were gonna crazy glue 'em back together, but, we, u-uh couldn't and we had to leave so the… um, stupid h-humans wouldn't suspect anything." Jasper stuttered out. If mom got mad there was no way you were going to try and mess with her.

"Does it look like you could crazy glue it back together now?" She asked them.

"N-no." They answered simultaneously.

"Well then I guess you going to have to try really hard then, aren't you?" She smiled as she left the room to go to the kitchen. Jasper and Emmett put puppy-dog faces on. Jeez, weren't they a little old for that now? They looked their soul mates in the eyes and said only thing that could be said at this moment.

"Do you know where the crazy glue is?" Rosalie smacked Emmett on the back of the head and Alice just shook her head at Jasper in mock disgust.

"Sorry, Jasper, homework." I just happened to know that Alice had finished her homework in 7.5 seconds this afternoon in the library while the humans weren't looking. It was one of the topmost thoughts in her head since she had set her own personal record.

"Emmett, I already told you on the way here, I have to paint my nails." Rosalie was nearly laughing in his face, but she managed to hold it back. How? I have no idea. Jasper and Emmett then turned to look at me. I was their last resort at a time like this when they knew there was no way in hell I was gonna say yes to their pitiful puppy looks.

"Come on Edward, PLEASSSSSEEEEEE" Emmett begged me in a little girl voice.

"Edward you HAVE to help us." Jasper whined. This was hilarious! They were going to have to grovel on their knees and I still wouldn't help, but I wasn't going to let it go that far.

"No way guys, you got yourselves into this mess, now you have to get yourselves out." I snickered on my way to the living room, messing with them was too fun. As I walked into the kitchen I saw Esme sitting at the island in the middle of room. She was looking over some blueprints for a new company building up in Seattle and thinking about how they got too full of themselves to even notice the countless mistakes.

Everything she thought was tinged with pain. I had expected the person who Jasper was felling the immense pain through was Esme, but there was only one thing that would cause her to feel that way and I hoped that it wasn't because of her daughter. If it was I'd have to discuss it with Carlisle again.

Esme knew she'd need to call the egotistical humans but she also knew that later Jasper and Emmett were planning on prank calling people to pass the time. I chuckled at her side thoughts. Then she thought about the one thing I didn't want her to.

"At least he didn't hear me earlier when I was thinking about HER." She went off on herself then, thinking about how she hadn't wanted me to hear that last part. I could feel the air in the room still around me and my smile slid off my face. She looked up at me, but not directly into my eyes. I sighed and she knew I was going to speak to Carlisle. It's what happened every time I caught her.

"Please, Edward?" She asked in a tiny voice. She was begging me not to talk to Carlisle. I could feel my heart drop from the sad, hurt expression she wore. Someone as kind and sweet as Esme should never have to go through this kind of thing.

"Esme… you know that Carlisle worries about you. You had reason enough to kill yourself while you were human, it's no different as a vampire." Was it really any different as a vampire for her? Was there anymore reason to live? I didn't think there was one for me, but was Esme the same? Of course not, even now I could hear her battling against one side of her that saw my point, but she fought on. She had Carlisle and she wouldn't leave him for anything.

"Edward, I won't leave my family." She said in a strong voice. I smiled.

"I know you won't Esme, we won't let you. We love you too much." I said. I may have no reason to live, but Esme did. I didn't have a soul but I couldn't doubt that Esme did, she was good, kind, loving, and she was going to stay that way for all eternity.

"Have you heard about the new family moving into town?" I asked her, trying to move away from the dreaded subject of her lost child. She looked at me like she was confused.

"I have, but their case is not the normal one." She said in a puzzled tone that matched her expression. What did that mean?

"What are you talking about, Esme?" I asked her, genuinely confused.

"It's just that when Carlisle got their old records transferred from the hospital in Banner Elk (AN//:For all the smart-asses out there it's in North Carolina) they were strangely healthy. A little TOO healthy." Her tone implied that they were out of the norm for a group of humans.

"You mean vampiric health?" I asked her in wonder.

She nodded.

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