Okay! Well, for those of you that read my message that I was discontinuing this story, unless someone wanted me to continue it, good news! One person, yes that is all it took, one person asked if I was going to keep writing, so for her I will be continuing to write this story. :)

I know this is a shorter chapter, but I just wanted to post something and get back into the flow of this story. Enjoy~

Sitting motionless in the front seat of her car she watched everyone turn and look at her car. The tinted windows were her only haven, no one could see the irrational fear that was spreading across her face. She hated being looked at. It was obvious showing up in a brand new sports car wasn't her smartest idea. Eyes after eyes locked onto the bright paint and shiny rims.

She had already waited 15 minutes for a bell, any bell to ring and call these predators into class, so she could slip into the office unwatched. It was starting to become obvious that school started later than in California and she might as well just bite the bullet and leave her car.

Opening her door slowly she got out of the car keeping her eyes down. At least here it didn't seem like the girls all wore micro skirts and 3 inch heels. Adriana could feel their eyes on them. They seemed almost as shocked at her sudden appearance as she was. Quickly her feet came back to reality first and carried her as fast as possible to the closest building. The cool metal of the door handle brought back more of her senses and she felt like she at least was able to seek some refuge in the closed halls.

People's eyes followed her form inside classrooms as she walked past door after door trying to find the main office. It was as if no one in this town had a T.V. and she was their source of entertainment. Her heart started to race, that was a bad sign, panic attacks are the reason she had to move in the first place.

"Excuse me…Are you lost?" A boys voice snapped her from her troubled musings.

Turning slightly she hadn't even realized she had passed a group of people staring at her. "Oh, uhm…sort of…" Mumbling her words together she looked down the hall for an escape.

"Are you new here?" A girl this time, brought her back to the new group. She had blonde hair and was wearing a pink shirt, smiling and nodding she realized that there were barbies everywhere. "I didn't know anyone was transferring in, did you Angela?" The taller girl next to her shook her head no.

"Yeah, uhm, my family wasn't sure if this is where I would, we would move to, so we didn't notify the school until last Friday." Grasping for words Adriana tried to calm her nerves. She was normally much better at lying, but she was on to much edge, she needed to regain her confidence or she would be found out relatively soon.

"Oh…that's not…strange…" The first girl looked to the others for help, but was met with blank stares. "I'm Jessica by the way, that's Angela, Mike and Eric." The boys both nodded looking awkwardly at her.

Realizing she needed to cover herself better she plastered on her best, I'm perfectly normal smile and pulled on a casual stance. "Nice to meet you guys. I'm Adriana, from California. Little lost, although its kind of amazing I managed to get lost, my school back home is about five times bigger. I think you guys hide the office."

They all laughed awkwardly, but seemed to loosen up a little.

"California huh? What brings you from the sunniest place to…well Forks." Mike laughed at his own joke and Eric joined him while Jessica and Angela just seemed annoyed.

"My parents travel for work, so I came up to stay with my uncles and finish up school." That lie seemed much more believable.

"But they didn't know you'd be moving here until Friday?" Jessica didn't seem to be swallowing her lies as easily as the others.

"Well, my parents were supposed to be in California for at least another five months, so we would have had time to figure out which family member I was going to stay with, but they got assigned last Monday to go over sea's, and my uncles were the only ones with room for me on such short notice." The lies just flowed off her tongue like lyrics to a song. It was as if she had actually rehearsed it. Smiling at her own genius with lying she saw Jessica nodding her head in understanding.

"Wow, that sucks, well Forks isn't to bad. Not as much to do as what you're used to, but we have fun." Her smile made Adriana's face hurt. How did she manage to smile so widely for so long without her face protesting.

"I've visited before, it was always nice and peaceful, so I was actually excited when they told me I'd be here." Another lie delivered rather well. "So, the office?"

"Oh it's just down there, I'm headed that way, I'll take you." Eric stepped out from the others and grabbed her arm guiding her.

"People here sure do like touching a lot…" Muttering under her breath she tried to pull away without being to obvious.

"Sorry, what?" Eric had been chatting with her, well at her, while they had been walking.

"Oh nothing, you were saying?" Smiling again she saw the open window of what had to be the front office only fifty feet away.

"Haha, I was just asking what your friends…and boyfriend…thought of you leaving? So suddenly I mean?" His smile was blinding white as well. Everyone in this school deserved to be in a toothpaste commercial.

"Oh…uhm…" Her mind was reeling, lie or truth, lie or truth. "They were upset, but you know, there was nothing that could be done." Half truth masked in ambiguity.

"Wait so you do—" Stopping his forward motion, Adriana could tell she was about to be cornered.

"So is this the office?"

"What, yeah, it is…but…" He was blocking the only door into it and she needed him to move.

"Thanks!" Flashing another smile, she gave him a quick surprise hug, which seemed to throw him almost completely off balance. But that trick always worked on boys, any form of contact and they were like butter. Now just to get her class schedule and fade into nothing for the rest of the day.

The first half of the day had gone by rather quickly. Adriana had multiple classes with each of the people she had met earlier. This really was a small school. Standing in line at lunch she looked around, people were still staring at her from every table. As if being here wasn't awkward enough, now she had strangers looking at her while she ate.

"Adriana over here." Eric's voice pulled at her from the crowd, and she actually felt comforted a little.

Sliding up to the table she smiled weakly. "Thanks."

"No problem, what are friends for?" Mike nudged her winking.

"You guys are really gross, always with a new toy." Jessica pushed the boys away from her and smiled. "Ignore them, they're stupid."

"New toy?" Digging into what this school considered pasta she pretended to be interested.

"Hey, don't hate Jessica, you're just made because she actually eats food and us boys—"

"Men." Mike interrupted Eric to make a to pointed correction.

"Right, men, like a woman who eats." Looking down at his own two plates of food he seemed ecstatic.

"That's a great way to make me self-conscious of my eating…thanks." Looking at the other girls salad she was barely able to cover a laugh, she never understood how girls could do that, eat nothing, food was to amazing to pass up.

"Shut up Eric. And Adriana I didn't mean anything against you by it, just we got a new student about a year and a half ago, and these gorillas were all over her." Playing with her food she glared at them with disgust.

"Oh, was that you Angela?" Taking another mouthful of food she saw Angela bright up.

"Me? Oh no, it was a girl named Bella, but she doesn't really hang out with us anymore. She's part of the beautiful people crowd." Scoffing they all laughed at some inside joke.

"Beautiful people crowd?" Looking around confused, they seemed more interested in their inside joke than filling her in.

"Yeah, this family of—" Starting to explain Jessica was interrupted by Angela.

"Shh, there they are."

"Behind you, it's the beautiful people, they weren't interested in anyone until Bella moved here…" Jessica's voice trailed off in her ears but she wasn't actually listening anymore.

Five pairs of perfectly golden eyes were locked on her when she turned around to look at whoever had just walked in. Her heart stopped. She recognized the unflawed skin and instant attraction. The way they moved around the other students was a give away too. The girl with them seemed normal enough, she had to be Bella. Her eyes swept across each face, they were as uncertain of her as she was of them, her instant stiffening had given her away. But she wasn't unsure of them for any old reason, she was terrified that she had been found so quickly. She could feel her mind shutting down as they realized she knew who they were, what they were. Vampires.