Chapter 2

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Bella's POV

I watched the clock, on the opposite wall, as its hands creped towards a decent hour, so I could get up without arousing Charlie's suspicions. I'd anxiously waited all night, nervous for the school day ahead but bored of pretending to be asleep. I got ready at the human pace that I had been practising and I even remembered to be clumsy in front of Charlie.

I gazed at my reflection in the bathroom mirror and sighed. Not only was I going to be the new girl and the daughter of a cop but I also looked so different. My pale bloodless skin contrasting with my scarlet eyes. I had considered telling everyone that I was part albino but Forks is too small town and it would eventually reach my Charlie's ears. So I had been wearing brown contact lenses whenever in company with humans.

As I headed for my truck I could feel the venom in my eyes reacting to the lenses already, this was going to be a long day.

I pulled into the busy parking lot. My truck, now emitting a loud noise, received many funny looks. I tried my best to merge into the crowd that was filing into, the grey stone, school but everyone's eyes lingered on me. I pretended not to notice and entered the quiet stuffy, main office. I grabbed my schedule and map and headed off to my first lesson.

As I stepped into the classroom, a blonde haired boy stepped in front of me blocking my path. I had to swallow the venom that was rising up my throat. I knew I would never hurt a human but if people sprung up on me I had to use my gift of self control and then endure the awful acidic taste. A smile spread across his face as he spoke.

"Hi I'm Mike Newton. You must be Isabella"

"Bella" I corrected him.

"Oh ok, well how about you join me and my friends at lunchtime in the canteen? He asked looking hopeful.

"Yer sure" I replied and I quickly took a seat on an empty desk at the back of the class.

The lesson was dull and dragged by slowly. Mike kept looking over at me and smiling or waving. I was pleased that I had seemed to have made a new friend so quickly however I was worried that it could be a bad thing because, all though humans knew nothing about vampires, their instincts should still warn them that I might be a threat, shouldn't they ?

Eventually we were free to go. In the corridor, I was shocked to find a group of beautiful people standing in my way. I instantly spotted the similarities between my features and theirs and knew that they were like me. Vampires…

I'm not sure why but I followed them down the corridor and out the back doors, to the yard where the school dumpsters were kept. Every instinct was screaming at me to run but for some unknown reason, I trusted them.

"Right" the burly dark haired male, addressed me "we know what you are and you know what we are right?"

I was still in shock and so I just nodded.

"What we want to know is why you are here?" the gorgeous blond asked me.

"Hang on a minute Jasper" the pixie like one interrupted "her eyes they're brown, but they were definitely red before"

My confusion brought my speech back and I blurted out "you've seen me before, when? How? I just moved here!"

"My wife, Alice, can see pieces of the future in visions, and she saw you with red eyes yesterday."

It was starting to click together now, they thought I hunted humans and that I had come here, with some plot against them. I let the venom seep into my eyes so that the lenses dissolved.

They all gasped as my eyes returned to their usual red colour and the blonde female, who reminded me of a goddess, exclaimed "ah lenses clever!"

Then I began to explain "I am a vegetarian vampire, I promise, I have never drank human blood, not once, but my eyes are still red because I am newborn"

"But it takes ages to master self control especially around loads of humans" Jasper replied looking a bit upset.

I hadn't planned on telling anyone of my gifts, I not sure why but I feel like I should keep them secret for now, but I had no other explanation and Alice would probably vision me lying anyways. Sure enough Alice gasped, the others looked at her and she tapped her nose and pointed to me. I could see she would be annoying but fun to live with.

"Well I have two gifts, one enables me to almost ignore the tempting smell of human blood. I call it my self control gift and my other gift is that I have a mind shield."

"Well that does explain that I suppose. However what I don't understand is how you know so much about our way of living?" the blonde goddess quizzed. I could tell she still didn't trust me even though the others had relaxed around me.

I had hoped they wouldn't ask this. I didn't want to drag my horrible past up, not yet. It was still too painful to think about.

"Rosalie, break is finished now and we don't want to make Bella late for her lesson, especially not on her first day. So how about Bella comes round our place after school and we can all explain things better then?" the dark haired male suggested. M

"Err I don't know where you live" I excused, but it wasn't a good enough excuse for them.

"Meet us in the parking lot and you can follow us home"

"Ok" I mumbled.

They headed off to lessons while I went straight to the girls toilets so I could replace my contact lenses.

I couldn't pay attention to any of the teachers during lessons. I was worried about telling them my story tonight. A loud ringing brought me to my senses and I realised it was the lunch bell. As I entered the canteen Mike bounded over to me, "Hi Bella"

"Hi Mike" I replied as I grabbed a plastic tray and loaded it with unnecessary food that I would never eat.

I sat down at their table while Mike introduced me to everyone. I nodded and smiled at each of them. Jessica a brunette girl scowled and flinched away from me, well at least someone listened to their human instincts. I scanned the hall and spotted them the other side of the cafeteria near the windows.

"Hey Angela" I said to the dark haired girl next to me "who are they, over there?"

"Rosalie and Jasper Hale brother and sister, then there's Emmett, Alice and Edward Cullen who appears to be absent today. Emmett and Rosalie are together and Jasper and Alice are also together."

"So they live together?"

"Yep, Dr Carlisle Cullen and his wife Esme adopted them all"

The bell rang so we dumped our trays and left the hall. Thankfully no one had noticed that I hadn't actually eaten anything.

I endured less stares on the afternoon and began to settle into the new school. I sat in my lessons and pondered over why Edward would be absent, as vampires don't get ill like humans do. When the school day was over I sauntered into the car park and saw the Cullens waiting for me. They were sat in a red convertible, phew they travelled in style. Rosalie started the engine as I jumped into my truck. I woke it with a defining rumble and followed them onto the road. I called Charlie on my cell letting him know I would be home late.

We snaked along the windy roads. The purr of their engine tiger like, compared to my thundering elephant made me worry that I could be stampeding into a trap…

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