Ten minutes later I sat in the back of a classroom with Renesmee to my right. Colourful boards and posters tried to cover the white blue walls as they all habited random chips and left over blue tack.
The teacher at the front of the class, sitting on a wooden desk, was a middle-aged man and he was taking everyone's names in the class. The greetings to I and Renesmee had already painfully pasted and everyone was excitedly talking about what they had done over the summer holidays while openly staring at their new classmates.
I grumbled at them under my breath as Renesmee stretched out her elegant hands to look at my time-table.
"We have all of the same lessons!" She beamed at me with enthusiasm. "Well except the option lessons, I have French with Jacob and Bella while you have art." She pouted.
I couldn't help but laugh at her facial expression as her brown eyes were wide and hands were in the air as they held both of our timetables.
"What lesson have we got first then?" I asked while peering around the classroom to see that a number of students had stopped talking to listen to what Nessie had to say.
"Well this is registration with Mr Hue…." She trailed her finger over the white piece of paper. "Physics with Mr White in room four is next and I won't tell you the rest as you will probably forget and you can look yourself." She giggled at me as I was more interested in the table in front of me then learning what I had to 'learn' today. I was glad that she didn't take it into offence. "Cheer up school isn't that bad," She nudged my shoulder against hers.
I scoffed while rolling my eyes. The rest of registration went by quickly and I was soon following Nessie down the crowded halls. Everyone made way for us and stepped back which was what I was used to- humans were always wary of our kind even if they didn't know about us.
Renesmee confidently walked ahead with her bronze ringlets flaring out behind her, she eagerly waved at Edward and Bella who walked past us with ease. I to waved but more discreetly and while I was smiling at the married couple I didn't realise that Renesmee was staring at me.
"Come on! I am not going to be late for my first lesson!" She frustrated stomped her foot while tugging on my arm.
We arrived to class early which is what I expected to happen; I brushed the sleeves of my blazer down to get rid of the creases that had appeared as Nessie tugged at them.
"New students," An old man commented from the door frame as he looked over me and Ness as we stood with the other teenagers waiting to go into the room.
"Please to meet you Mr White, my name is Renesmee Cullen and this is Ella Whitlock!" Renesmee beamed with a wave- she was waving a lot today I noted.
The teachers head quickly turned to meet her eyes and smiled gently. "It is a pleasure to meet you Miss Cullen; I have high hopes for you."
I tried to hold in my laughter but it ended up as a cough. How could he tell that she was a brain box already?
"Miss Whitlock," Mr White shot at me as I walked past him into the room. "Uniform is not supposed to be that way, I expect you to be presentable for tomorrow or there will be consequences."
I rolled my eyes as I sat on an empty desk at the back, he soon moved me to the front where he could keep an eye on me.
Throughout the class, Renesmee was the one to answer most questions with another two people in the class. How could they be so eager? I sat staring at my book while drawing lines and whirls at the back page of it. It seemed that every minute the old man was picking on me as I did something 'wrong'.
My ears then perked up as I heard shouting coming from down the hall and I couldn't help but laugh as I looked at Renesmee.
"I'm in a school though I am crazy…" A voice I recognised as Emmett sang loudly while stomping his feet. "Is this a school? Or is this hell? You guys wear uniform and have no lockers! What is this life I have entered into?" He continued to sing over and over again and soon enough Jacob was with him. It took less than two seconds for everyone to get onto their feet and head out of the classroom to see what was going on. I shoved past the forever growing crowd as more people came out of the classrooms to get to the front.
Emmett was now on the floor and staring at the white lights in wonder while mumbling the lyrics that he made up on the spot while Jacob carried on singing loudly and jumping up and down on his toes in a circle.
"The show is over here so everybody get back to class!" I heard one of the teachers with authority shout over the laughter of the students. I was one of them laughing. I winked at them both before turning around and headed back into class. "Boys what do you think you are doing?" sharply snapped the teacher who had spoken before.
"Lights…" I heard Emmett's voice drift out just before I heard a clamber of him standing up and running down the halls with his brother in crime.
So they were going for the loud, rebellious act. I didn't know what my Dad or Edward was doing so I was just going to wait. I wanted to get a feel of the place before I acted all crazy. I wanted to see what teachers were cool or strict before I started acting mad. That way I would get the right reaction…
"I'm not going to participate with you four." Edward commented while 'drinking' from a water bottle as we sat in the canteen at lunch.
The family had managed to grab the only big enough table and we all crowded around it with the canteen food.
"Eddie, you cannot back out now but if you think mine and Jacobs's skills are at a higher standard than yours and you think you're going to lose its okay to admit it." Emmett nodded his head in sympathy while patting Edward on the head hardly.
Edward gritted his teeth "No, it is because I didn't think you were going to go that far and I will not be involved in childish behaviour."
I giggled with Alice as we both ignored Edward dropping out (apparently Jasper had done the same before heading off the bus). We both shared our experiences from first class with Emmett and Jacob, apparently before they came over to mine and Renesmee's class they had both ran around the school with toilet paper. The teachers who had to clear it up were furious. I was surprised to hear that no one had phoned Carlisle and had given the boys a detention at break (They had already completed the time). Everyone blamed it on the change from America to England and with them knowing that we were all adopted they all looked at us with sympathy.
After physics with Mr White I had had ICT, than break and Maths. I had just come out of English. Throughout the day I was reminded of uniform. I didn't reply to anyone just nodded as I still didn't know what I was going to do to act crazy.
"So how are we meant to live without lockers?" I wondered as I thought of the corridors that held bare walls and not small metal doors.
Everyone looked at me and laughed "We carry things in our bags," Bella piped in.
"Obviously," I laughed with everyone else.
"PE is not cool," Renesmee moaned as we both got changed in the gym kit that we had to borrow. It was a yellow polo shirt with black shorts.
I laughed humorously while folding the uniform up and placing it on the bench. "Welcome to high school," I beamed at her with the same amount of enthusiasm that she had been using all day though mine was fake, I actually didn't mind gym at school.
"It's just everyone warned me about strength and what happens if I mess it up?" She questioned me while scrunching her eyebrows in thought and worry.
"You'll be fine, if Emmett can do it then so can you. He's like a bull in a china shop." I rubbed her back soothingly as we headed to the indoor gym.
People were setting up badminton nets in groups while others were hanging around talking.
"Guys, gather around!" The teacher shouted as he headed through the double doors.
I pulled Renesmee with me as we joined the circle that gathered around the man that I recognised as our form tutor – Mr Hue. It took me a few moments to realise that he wasn't dressed like other teachers in a shirt and trousers but instead wore black shorts that went past his knee, trainers and a black polo shirt with the school logo on. A whistle was strapped around his neck and swung each time he spoke.
"Today, we will be playing badminton. Don't forget to use the skills I taught you last lesson as you play…" He drowned on and on as he explained to everyone. The next thing I know I was being dragged by Nessie to a court who told me to do some warm up stretches.
I did as I was told although they wouldn't help me and we began to play. We had to play two on two so it was me and Renesmee against another two girls who were nice enough. I didn't speak to them just mumbled a few words so it was Renesmee doing all of the talking.
We ended up winning evenly – meaning I and Renesmee made sure that we look human.
"How did everything go today?" My Dad asked as he sat next to me on the bus that was just about to leave the school grounds.
"It was school." I huffed as I remembered the couple of homework sheets I had to complete. It was the school's first day back and we already had homework! I thought it was outrageous.
He chuckled to himself and the rest of the journey I spent looking out the window in silence.
"I'm going for a hunt." I told everyone as we all entered the front door. I placed my bag on the sofa and excited the house.
What do you think of Mr white and Emmett and Jacob teaming up to win the bet?