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The next day came quickly as I spent all night hunting. My belly was full and satisfied and made a slight slushing noise each time I moved, I gulped as I realized that I could be putting the Cullen's in danger from me drinking to many deer. If too many animals disappeared at once it would become noticeable to the humans.
"Your fine Ella, just make sure you hunt something else next time or don't go out for a couple of days." Edward smiled at me in reassurance as he glided past the sofa I was sitting on and out the front door.
'Keep out of my head!' I hissed to him in my mind. I knew he delivered my message from the hum of his chuckle that entered the house.
"Let's go," Alice called to me while nodding her head to the front door where everyone else was waiting for me. I really did not want to go to school.
I grumbled and reluctantly pulled myself onto my feet while swinging my rucksack over my shoulder. I glided my hands quickly over my outfit to make sure that nothing was creased. Today I wore black skinny trousers, black converse, a white shirt and the jumper Seth had gotten me. My blazer and tie were stuffed at the bottom of my bag.
I needed the jumper as the wind blew fiercely today and showers were dotted around in the air that appeared one minute and disappeared the next. I tied my hair quickly into a pony tail and stepped out the front door to meet the others.
Ness and Jacob had already left with Esme and soon as I shut the main front door everyone else was charging into the forest to get to the bus on time. I followed at a slower pace as I observed the scenery around me.
Small rain drops that held a ray of yellows, greens and blues held onto the leaves of the towering trees as the wind howled passed them. Creatures were not about but hiding from the damp weather that decided to appear last night. It was only spring but a constant chill ran down my spine each time I went out the house without a jumper. I didn't feel like this yesterday; that was how quick the weather had changed.
The bus ride to school was the same as yesterday, people still stared in curiosity but scurried away like ants each time me or any other Cullen looked at them back. I chuckled under my breath at their stupidity; they were so oblivious to the world they lived in. They were like innocent toddlers.
Registration with Mr Hue dragged on but it was bearable with Renesmee next to me. We were planning what we were going to do on the weekend as we both wanted to do something alone together; I was up for going to see the sights of London but Edward was too protective of her. I sighed at that fact as she pointed it out.
"Ella, may I have a word?" Mr Hue asked me quietly as everyone piled out of the room as the bell rang. I told Renesmee to go as I knew that she didn't want to be late for her first French class in high school.
I turned around to face my PE teacher and form tutor with a blank expression. Maybe I should start acting crazy? I didn't want to lose the bet after all.
"I have had a few complaints from other teachers about your uniform. I wasn't going to say anything and let it slide, however, as some students have come up to me to discuss their issues about it I have to ask you to please dress appropriately." I could feel Mr Hue getting slightly scared from being alone in the room with me although I wasn't sure if he felt it. His eyes would dart unnaturally to the door and he clasped his hands together.
I carried on staring blankly at him and sheepishly looked down while putting one foot on top of the other to look uncomfortable. I nodded shyly as I carried on looking at the floor and I reluctantly pulled my jumper off and placed the blazer on. I abandoned the mustard tie at the bottom of my bag in hope that he wouldn't make me put it on.
"Thank you," He enthusiastically smiled at me. "You can go now Ella," He opened the door for me and let me pass. I kept my head down and didn't speak at all as I felt him looking at me in confusion. I laughed quietly to myself as I walked past the other students alone; however I made sure that it was loud enough for the others around me to hear.
I was last to enter room 20. It was in a separate building to the main school and it only held one large classroom. It was the art room. I breathed in the smell of paint and relaxed straight away, this was my heaven at the moment.
The inside bricked walls were painted a light yellow, though it wasn't hideous compared to other shades of the colour (like mustard). Most of the wall space and ceilings were covered in paintings, drawings, models and masks that students had created. White wooden cabinets lined the perimeter of the room from off the floor while above them were lines of windows, six large tables were placed evenly in the room. Each table held eight students. At the front was a desk with stacks of paper and a projector was behind that for the teacher to use.
As I closed the door which made a bang from the wind pushing it I felt eleven pairs of eyes on me. I looked back at everyone to see some whispering to each other while others just openly looked at me. I concentrated on the teacher and began to make my way towards her slowly.
I have picked art as my option class unlike all of the other Cullen's, we had six lessons of it a week and at the end of the year I would have a GCSE at the end of it. Edward had picked music, Alice textiles and Bella, Nessie and Jacob had picked French. Rose, Emmett and my Dad were different as they were in the sixth form connected to the school; they could pick all of their classes.
My art teacher was about twenty-three. She was about the same height as me: 5'11", her hair was a dark red and was placed in a bun at the top of her head with a paint brush and pen in, a few strands dangled over her eyes that she kept tucking behind her ear. She wore black trousers that flared out at the ends, green dolly shoes and a green t-shirt that was covered in a cream apron that had paint and clay splattered across it. Her make-up was plain and simple with blush on her checks and a red tint to her lips. Her earrings where the boldest thing about her, they were green ovals that dangled to about half way down her neck, they sparkled in the light from the classroom lights.
"You must be part of the Cullen clan," She beamed at me friendly. I couldn't help but smile back; the first person in this school that I had connected with.
"Y-yeah," I stuttered as I remembered that I needed to act shy so people would notice that something was wrong with me. I looked down at the floor that was light wooden laminate. I joined my feet together just like I did in front of Mr Hue. "I was erm… with…" I stuttered as I pretended not to know my for tutors name, I talked to myself for affect. "What's his name now? Erm… Mr He? Mr who? "
"Mr Hue," One of the students called to me that I recognised from my registration class.
"That's it!" I shouted as I acted over the moon that I finally knew his name.
My art teacher laughed at me but in a kind way just before she spoke. "It's okay dear I understand, don't fret about being late just grab a stall on this table here." She gently tapped an empty space on one of the front tables next to her desk "I haven't started the class yet."
I smiled at her without showing my teeth, I didn't want to make them fear me, even though I knew that they wouldn't know that they did in their minds it would just be a natural instinct to them.
"As most of you know my name is Miss Flow and I am the only art teacher at this school. All of you have shown an interest in the subject and have picked it as your GCSE class which I am delighted about as you have chosen it I expect all of you to try hard." As Miss Flow spoke as she twirled around the classroom and maintained eye contact with everyone. I realised that she was a fun teacher but at the same time cool and collected.
"Today I want to get to know you guys as we have six hours together a week and maybe some lunch times if you don't get work done. This is a small class meaning that I can work with each one of you individually which is beneficial for you to get your target grade." Miss Flow made her way over to the large white board at the front of the class and grabbed a pen to write on it with. She simply wrote the words 'individuality' and 'style'.
"This…" She gestured to the two words behind her while looking around at the class "Is what I want you to find in the two lessons we have today. I am going to let you do whatever you want, as long as it is art related," She rose her eyebrows at three boys at the back of the class, I guessed that they normally got into trouble around here and only took art to get out of the educational subjects. "Use any equipment you wish in this room. Hop to it." She smiled brightly at the class while going off to her laptop on her desk. "I'll remind you that you have two hours to finish your work. I will be walking around to check on each of you to know what style you use and what you like to do." She shouted above the noise of the class.
I sat and stared around at everyone as they began to raid the cupboards for supplies. Everyone seemed to know where things was which was an advantage of going to a small school for three years that only had one art room.
"Are you alright Ella?" Miss Flow asked smoothly as she came to stand behind the stall I was sitting on.
"Yeah… I'm just thinking." I popped to her as I stood up and rushed to the cupboards but at a human speed.
I looked through the variety of things to use while clicking my tongue. What could I do? Everything I did at the minute related to Seth. How could I sit and draw a man repeatedly and not get questions fired at me?
"A collage…" I spoke to myself-making sure that the humans heard. I grabbed a box that had stacks of magazines and grabbed a few of them. On the way back to my desk I also piled a A3 piece of paper, scissors, a glue pot and a black felt tip back to my desk.
I sat for the next half hour going through the magazines and cutting pictures out that were black, white or grey. After this I piled the pictures up neatly and stuck them down in the shape of a wolf that was howling to the sky. I looked at it to realize that although it was made out of magazine pictures and words the wolf looked like it was in pain. I gulped.
"You like wolves?" A girl opposite me stated but it sounded more like a question.
I shrugged in response while standing up to get rid of the the scraps of paper that I didn't need. "I guess," I mumbled as I passed her to put the glue away.
I stared at the clock to realize that I still had twenty minutes of the lesson left; the collage really didn't take me long.
"The fur is great, I love the way that you piled the pictures together to make the wolf look kind of 3D." She carried on speaking to me. When I sat back down at my desk with watercolour pencils I looked over at her appearance.
She looked like an ordinary human: not ugly but not overly beautiful either, not to skinny and not overly fat. Her black hair was in a bob and her fringe was dyed a dark blue. She had bright blue eyes to match.
"I'm Naomi," She greeted me while looking at my appearance.
"Ella…" I mumbled back while acting shy.
The teacher took that time to speak to Naomi; I averted my attention back to the paper that I had grabbed with the watercolours.
I drew a beach as I blanked out everything around me though it wasn't the normal sunny beach that you imagined as soon as you thought of the summer but in fact it was quite dull.
The sky was a dark grey that the sun couldn't penetrate through and the beach was mainly pebbles. The waves crashed together with a feeling of anger though they weren't going to high. In the distance black rocks stood from the ocean. I frowned as I looked at the picture I finished just as the bell rang. I had cut out the wolf collage and stuck it onto the beach background. I recognised the scene though I had never seen it before.
I walked to chemistry on my own as it was my second lesson. Nessie had saved me a seat next to her and I easily joined her as I greeted Mr Jack.
I sat and stared out the window the rest of the lesson as I thought of the beach scene. Where had I seen that picture before? I scrunched up my eyebrows as I thought deeply.
I didn't realise the bell was ringing until Nessie put my bag on my desk and put her hand on my check, she showed me a picture of me in deep thought and she showed that she was worried about me.
"I'm fine." I whispered to her while gently smiling "I need to act a bit crazy remember," I laughed as I made up an excuse.
After that we both walked downstairs and into the canteen where Renesmee constantly spoke to me about her French class. I rolled my eyes at her, how much longer until she starts to hate school?
I stood up quickly and walked to the middle of the canteen where I just sat in the middle of the floor while other people stopped talking as they looked at me weirdly. I took a bottle out of my bag and began to drink from it while slightly swaying and humming to myself. I looked down at my crossed legs as I did this.
"That's just going to get you stood on not get called crazy." Emmett whispered to me so my vampire hearing picked it up. I looked at him from across the other side of the room and simply smirked. I continued to sway while my humming changed to a song. I only made the noise coming from my mouth louder as the other students carried on talking with their friends (about me mainly).
"What is she doing?" I heard a girl hiss to her friends.
"I can't believe she is sitting on the floor, think how dirty it is." Another girl scrunched her nose up.
"She was laughing to herself this morning," A boy joined in with everyone else's whispers.
"Ella," I heard Miss Flow chuckle as she gently stepped up to me "What are you doing on the floor. I could find some friends for you if you wish."
I looked up at her with a confused expression and stopped singing "Family." I mouthed to her simply before standing up and joining the other Cullen's who were discreetly laughing at me.
"Does Carlisle know about the bet yet?" Jasper asked as I continued to sway and sing lightly but this time I was on a chair.
"Nope and we are keeping it that way." Emmett cheekily smiled at his 'brother' while taking a bite out of a cake. He swallowed it with a grimace like all the other vampires were doing.
"I'm dying to see the Docs reaction when he gets called in." Jacob smiled while scoffing down a slice of pizza.
"You won't see his reaction, you will only hear about it after I win." I laughed really loudly so the humans next to me could hear. They stared at me strangely as everyone else in my family wasn't laughing as much.
"She's crazy," I heard with everyone else as a younger boy walked past our table with his mates.
I pointed at the boy who said that and laughed harder. The boy turned around and looked at me with shock as a guilty expression filled his face, he quickly scurried off.
"Remember we only have until Friday Emmett and Jacob and it looks like I'm already winning, you may want to step your game up." I giggled while standing up and headed to my next class of the day: art.
By fifth lesson Emmett and Jacob had received another detention which they had to complete tomorrow lunch. The 'devil twins' as teachers were calling them had ran around school with under wear on their heads, shouted random words out in class to make everyone laugh, ran up to people to ask what year it was and then say that they had slept to long, told teachers they were pregnant and looked up at the sky together while shouting 'come back!'
The boys really were going for the rebellious act. Meanwhile I continued to sit or stand in random places, stared at people, laughed to myself, sang well known theme songs, hummed a bit and only spoke one word answers to people if they spoke to me.
I had heard the word 'crazy' surround me a lot today.
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