**Disclaimer** Nothing is mine! All the credit goes to Mrs. Meyer for creating such wonderful characters for us to play with. If you recognize something, it isn't mine! I read a lot of fan fics and can't keep straight where I got some ideas from!

As I waited for the others to arrive, I contemplated what kind of sweet talking it took to get us into the Career Pathways courses. There weren't many high schools that offered programs like this, so I was curious to see how our schedules would be worked out. After all, we didn't start here as freshmen, and the school had no idea that we could teach these classes better than some of the "professionals" they hired.

Without our flashy cars, the usual fanfare of the new rich students didn't happen. Maybe there was something to Bella's observation after all. As we walked into the school together, there were a few whispers about how the students thought it would be "neat" if we were the Cullen family from the Twilight books, but they dismissed that as a passing thought, after all, those books were fiction.

The first day went as we expected. What's the saying, same shit different day? The longer classes were interesting, and since we were taking something different from the norm, it was a bit easier to keep up pretenses and pay attention, at least for now.

When lunch finally came, we decided to try something new that Renesmee had read about on some site called Fanfiction(dot)net. One of the fans of our story had come up with the idea of us bringing blood to school in thermoses for lunch. This way we would be eating, and not draw attention to ourselves throwing away food that was untouched. It took a lot of practice not to give into bloodlust with humans around, but we practiced until we were sure it could be done. Luckily, there were some really good thermoses that Bella knew about that would keep the blood warm for about 24 hours, so as long as we did a little hunting every night, it would still be palatable by lunch.

As we compared notes from our morning of classes, it was easy to observe the myriad of emotions coming off the student body. The predominant one was lust, followed by jealousy when they observed our table. Curiosity followed since we seemed so much like the characters in the books. What threw them off was another idea of Bella's. If we kept to our mates in public, it would bee to coincidental. So, we switched for show. Edward and Rosalie presented themselves as a couple. After all, that one made sense since they were originally meant to pair off. After that was Alice and Emmett, that one was put out there as a joke, but it seemed to work. Jake stayed with Renesmee, the wolf wouldn't hear of even pretending. Which left me with Bella. At first, I resisted, but her emotional cocktail proved to be enough to make it convincing. Little did I know at the time, this would be my undoing.

Rosalie and I still presented ourselves as twins. Emmett was presenting as Bella's older brother, and they were being raised by "Aunt Esme and Uncle Carlisle" after the death of their parents. Edward was pretending to be Carlisle's younger brother from a second marriage. Jake was posing as a friend of the family that moved with us because his father could no longer care for him. The rest of us were posing as adopted kids.

The disappointment from the female population was almost tangible when they realized that the new kids all came with existing relationships. I felt determination coming from somewhere, but dismissed it since our bond with our mates and our family was strong.

As we drank our "soup" and Jake and Renesmee ate from everyone's lunch, the curiosity died down. "So Renesmee, how was your first morning in high school?" I asked.

"Well Jas, it's been interesting. Not quite what I imagined from hearing all of the stories everyone has told. The teachers seem nice, if not overworked, and it's only the beginning of the school year. The other students don't seem like they care all too much about their classes, which seems interesting since we have to make the grade to stay in the program. I thought they would care more since this is a field of study program."

Renesmee had the full attention of everyone at the table while she pondered her classmates. Not having been around normal children before, she didn't realize this was fairly normal.

"I did meet some nice girls though, hey were in my two morning classes. They both want to open an antique car restoration shop after they get out of school. Apparently, their dads work together on project cars on the weekends, and it rubbed off on them."

At this Rosalie smiled, "It isn't common when women want to work on cars, but if they are any good, if you girls need a project car, I think I have some older ones in storage that need some work. I haven't looked after them in years."

Bella raised and eyebrow at this revelation. She had no idea, even after all the time with her, that Rosalie even respected older cars.

"No Bella. Don't even think about asking," she said as Bella began to open her mouth. "That hunk of rust you called a truck did NOT make it into storage. It really did become scrap, it just was not worth saving."

For everyone's amusement, I projected a bit of Bella's disappointment at this. For some reason, she really loved that truck.

To break the tension, Jake spoke up. "Did you know, as a junior in my program, I can choose to help out with a wildlife cause? Now I need to decide, wolves or grizzly bears. There's a recovery zone for the bears in the North Cascades Ecosystem of what they believe is 20 bears. I'm interested in helping to relocate new genes into the population."

Emmett smiled at this. He had to quit eating his favorite food a while back when we realized that those bears were getting harder to find. Luckily for him, black bears were abundant.

"Now, if I decide to work with wolves in the Washington and Oregon area, that is going to be harder. There is no plan to introduce them to the areas, and public opinion of them isn't great. It seems the reintroduction of wolves to the Yellowstone area in 1995 had some unexpected results. Apparently, wolves don't stay in park boundaries and they are following the easy prey!" Jake stated as he tried not to laugh.

His eyes twinkled and Edward looked like he was in pain.

"Jake, I do not need reminders that the connection between our families is unusual, and if you think about Renesmee like that again, I may have to remind you when we are home about respect," Edward growled out making the rest of us laugh.

"Jake, if you decide to work on the Grizzly project, let me know. You know that was the one reason I went into these classes. The opportunity to help bolster the numbers of griz in the area was exceptionally appealing to me," Emmett laughed.

As the rest of our laughter started to die down at this statement, the bell rang. I thought to myself, this was the most human like lunch we'd ever experienced in a school. Edward caught my thought and nodded. Maybe this year would be different, maybe we would get to enjoy something that we hadn't been able to in a long time, acting our physical age.