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Chapter 7
I told you. I told you, told you TOLD YOU. The first second all the kids stared at me when I walked into the classroom, I knew that there was going to be trouble...
20 minutes earlier
Mommy and Carlisle both held my hands, one on either side of me, and smiled warmly at my new kindergarten teacher whose name I'd yet to learn. The teacher smiled back after a few seconds of staring at mommy for some reason and then got up to approach us. I didn't pay all that much attention to what he was saying after he introduced himself as Mr. Banner, I was too focused on the stares I was getting from the kids, four of them sitting at each of the seven tables except one that only had three kids. Those three, two girls and one boy, looked as though they were sizing me up, seeing if they could tell if I was gonna be a problem for them just by looking at me.
I couldn't help but blush under all the gazes and averted my eyes to the ground, burning holes into the toes of my Nike sneakers while the kids burned wholes into my head.
I guess Carlisle had been talking to me, cause he started gently shaking my shoulder, "Hey, buddy." he said. I blinked and looked up at him, "Huh?" All the kids laughed and snickered. I frowned and shrunk. Mr. Banner called them to silence and then turned back to me, putting a hand on my head, "Edward, would you like your parents to stay here for your first day?" YES! Oh, but if I did agree than everyone would call me a baby...
I shook my head, "Um, no. I think I can manage myself thank you." I said softly, barely above a whisper. Mr. Banner looked surprised. Whether it was from my polite decline or that I had declined at all, I'm not sure.
Mommy looked like she wanted to hug me but knew better than to do so in front of the kids. I wanted to hug her too, but that would be even worse. The last thing I needed was to have the rep as mommy's boy. "Okay hun, you have a nice first day." she smiled.
Carlisle mussed my hair, "Good luck kiddo."
Once they were gone Mr. Banner stood me in front of the class, "Class this is our new student, Edward Cullen. Edward, go on and tell the class about yourself and I'll get a chair for you." He then walked out of the building, probably going to the other next to the playground that said 'Lunch Room' on it in big letters that I'd seen when we pulled up at the school.
All eyes were once again on me. I gulped and fiddled with a strand of thread sticking out of my shirt, "Um, I just moved here from Chicago about two months ago-" "Why are you living with the Cullens? And where are your real mommy and daddy? How come they didn't drop you off here?" a snobby looking blonde girl asked, glaring at me. Man, what was her problem?
"Esmé and Carlisle are my parents now. They adopted me." I said simply. I looked at the front of each of the tables, where papers hung on the edge, each of them with a student's name on them. The snobby girl was the only girl at her table, so she must have been Lauren.
Lauren seemed unimpressed, "Adopted? Doesn't that mean that your real mommy and daddy didn't want you so they gave you away?" she smirked, crossing her arms and sticking her nose in the air like some princess.
"No, that's not-" "I bet that you were such a pain in the butt that your parents didn't want you anymore, so they dumped you on the Cullens." Now, it took a lot to get me angry, and this girl was seriously starting to get on my nerves. What did she know, she's never met me before in her life!
"No, I bet that his parents didn't want him because he was so dumb!" One of the boys at her table snickered. The paper hanging in front of him said 'Tyler'. Not wanting to be left out everyone else joined in, making snide guesses and insults as to why I was adopted. After a few more moments of this, I burst, "MY DADDY HIT ME ALL THE TIME AND MY MOMMY DIED! SO I RAN AWAY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. I was well aware that my new found bravery wouldn't last long, so I explained the rest in a rush, "My big brothers found me outside in the woods and brought me back to their house so that their daddy could help me," Everyone was now silent and looking at me with wide eyes, "After a while I finally told them what had happened to me, so they let me stay with them. End of story, happy?" I hissed.
There was a long moment of silence as everyone took that in. And during that silence I finally calmed down enough to realize what I had done. Aw man. Now what would they think?
"You're a liar!"
No more than two seconds after one of the girls yelled that the class was in an uproar. Everyone was shouting and throwing papers at me, saying that I was just making that up, that what they had said was true. I sighed in defeat and just stood there while everyone calmed down and went back to whispering and snickering to each other.
Mr. Banner came in holding a blue plastic chair that I just now noticed most of the boys were sitting in. Others had green chairs, and the girls had pink and purple ones. Mr. Banner put the chair at the table with only three kids, "Sorry I took so long kids. There's a lot of stuff in the storage closet, so I had to really look for this thing," he explained, "Edward you can come sit here. I'll get you some paper so that you can make yourself a name tag." Mr. Banner gestured to the names on the tables.
A blank white paper and a box of crayons was put in front of me, "Okay sport, all you need to do is write your name here and then draw pictures of the things you like around it. Be creative and put whatever you'd like on it." Mr. Banner grinned and left me to it. I picked up a blue crayon and wrote my name in big letters, mumbling each letter to myself in my head, E-D-W-A-R-D. There. Wait, did I need to write my last name too? I looked at the other name tags to double-check. Nope, only first name.
Now, what did I like..? Oh, cars! I drew a sloppy car that was meant to be a Volvo, and colored it in gray. Now what? Hmm... Shadow! He was my only friend before I met the Cullens. Oh wow, that sounds really bad when I actually say that to myself. I sighed and drew a picture of a puffy tiger-striped kitty. I could draw a book now, because I love reading. Out of ideas I once again turned to the other name tags for help. Most of the girls had rainbow and unicorn stickers on theirs' and a few princess dresses on some of them, plus various other things. But I'm not a girl. The boys had race cars, dinosaurs, flames, dogs, etc. Finally, I spotted that someone had put their favorite foods. I was about to get started on that when something hit the back of my head.
I frowned and reached back to brush it off, but instead I just rubbed something wet and sticky into my hair. Looking at my hand I saw that it was glue. I whipped around to look at the table behind me. That Tyler kid was holding a bottle of Elmers Glue, the tip pointed at me while the others snickered. I glared at him and felt something else hit the side of my face. Purple paint mixed with pink sparkly glitter. Great, just great. This time it was the girl sitting across from me, Jessica. When I turned to glare at her too, I couldn't help but notice that she looked familiar. That's right, I'd seen her at the store. She tried talking to me and holding my hand, batting her eye lashes but I had only been with the Cullens for a few weeks then, I barely spoke to anyone but Emmett and Jasper at the time. I guess she was still mad about the brush off.
Mr. Banner looked up from his desk to see what was going on and gaped at me and my painted face and sticky hair. I sighed and sat back in my seat, just waiting to see what would happen next.
"Jessica, Tyler, Edward, come with me please." Mr. Banner said sternly, standing from his chair. The other kids 'Ooooo'ed as we followed him outside to the hall.
He lined us up against the wall and demanded to know what happened. "We didn't do anything!" Jessica pouted, stomping her foot. Tyler nodded, "Yeah, how come we're getting in trouble jus' 'cause Edward can't stay clean?"
Mr. Banner narrowed his eyes, "Your hands tell me different." I looked at both their hands, as did they. Jessica's palm was covered in the same paint on my face and Tyler was still holding the glue bottle. Ha! That's what you get for making fun of the new kid.
Mr. Banner told me to go to the nurse to get cleaned up, and to hurry before the glue dried. I walked at a fast pace to where I had been directed and knocked on the wooden door. "Come on in." I reached up to turn the handle and stepped into the nurse's office, "Um, I have a bit of a problem." I muttered, closing the door behind me. A lady with bouncy curly black hair looked at me from her computer and gasped, "Oh, not another paint fight." she sighed, getting up.
TWILIGHT-TWILIGHT
Once I was nice and clean again the nurse sent me off to lunch and the rest of my first day at school kept getting worse and worse. It felt like forever until I was finally standing by the pick-up bench in front of the school. Emmett and Jasper were supposed to pick me up after school, so I had another ten, maybe fifteen minutes until they got here. Then, I could go home, kick of my shoes, and sleep for the rest of my life.
"Hey, new kid!" I instinctively turned around without thinking and saw a group of older guys that looked to be in second or third grade. In that group was the Queen of the snobs herself, Jessica Stanley. I could tell what would happen if I didn't run just by their angry faces. One or two of them had to be Jessica's big brother or something, and she probably told him that I got her in trouble today. I made a break for it and ran down the sidewalk. The big kids were running after me and gaining. Jessica had stopped and was cheering the group on, as were a few of my other classmates. Why did they hate me? I just didn't understand.
The big kids were right on my tail and I was forced to toss my backpack so that I would lose the extra weight and run faster. Yes! They were slowly falling behind, but I took a turn around a corner and zigzagged through a crowd of adults. I turned around to check. Crap! Whoops... Mommy would kill me if she heard me say that. But come on man, how could they still be after me?
I sighed in frustration and kept running and running and running, not paying any attention to where I was going...
Even after I'd lost sight of the big kids I still looked over my shoulder, not slowing down until I finally noticed that it was darker than when the group of big kids had started chasing me. And not only that, but I was in the woods. Alone. Without a building or house in sight. Jeez, talk about de`-ja`-vu`. Scared out of my mind I started running again, faster this time, until I bumped into something rock hard, "Oof!" I grunted, falling back on my butt. I groaned and rubbed my head, looking up at what I'd bumped into. Scratch that, who I bumped into. Three adults stood in front of me, one woman, and two men. The lady had thick, fiery curly red hair with leaves sticking out of them, and had a very pretty, almost feline like face. The blonde man looked like someone from Rosalie's tool magazines, with peach fuzz on his chin and shirtless chest. Wasn't he cold like that? Just like the lady, he was very pale, almost white. The last was an olive-skinned man with long black dreadlocks and a thin mustache above his lip. The weirdest thing about these people was that they all had bright red eyes that gleamed down at me like I was a piece of meat.
I gulped and was quickly on my feet, "Oh, um, sorry mister." I stared to slowly back away. The blonde man flashed me a dazzling smile, his white teeth sparkling, "It's fine. Accidents happen."
The woman crouched down to my level and curled a finger under my chin, "And whats a little cutey like you doing out here?" she asked me in a small, almost childlike voice. I wanted to back away from her touch, but when my brain told my legs to move, they only twitched and stayed glued in place. The lady was very pretty, yes, but there was something about her that made me scared. She was dangerous, as were the other two.
Apparently my mouth didn't want to listen to my brain either, "A bunch of big kids were chasing me. I ran in the woods to get away from them." I squeaked. Darn it Edward, shut up!
"Oh, you poor little thing." the lady cooed, pouting. The man with dreadlocks was suddenly behind me, his hand on my shoulder, "Don't worry little guy," he had a British accent, I noticed, "We won't let the big kids get you."
The blonde man placed a hand on my head. They were all touching me now, with their icy cold hands, "That's right kiddo. We'll protect you." I sure as heck didn't feel safe around these people.
"Umm, thank you, but no thank you. I have to get back to my family, they're probably worried." I shrugged off their hands and finally got my legs to work and back away.
"Oh no you don't," the lady chirped and was suddenly behind me, "We don't want you running into anymore trouble."
"Please, I need to leave. My mommy doesn't want me talking to people I don't know." I said in a shaky voice, my lip bottom lip quivering. These people were really scaring me. I wanted to go home!
"Our bad." The blonde man chuckled, "Please, excuse our manners. I'm James. And these are my friends, Victoria," He gestured to the red-head lady, "And Laurent." and then the olive-skinned man.
"Nice to meet you." Not.
Laurent circled around me, "And, you are?"
The others joined him, walking in a small circle around me, keeping me from running anywhere. Though something told me that even if I tried to escape I wouldn't get far.
I kept my lips zipped tight.
"Aw, come on honey. We told you our names, its only fair that you tell us yours." Victoria pleaded, running her long fingers through my messy hair. I swatted her cold hand away, "I'm small, not ignorant." I snapped. It was so annoying when people automatically thought that they could trick me just because I was a little kid.
Victoria smirked, "Well, aren't you a smart young man. That's quite a big word you just said. And you used it in the right sentence." she praised.
"Stuff it!" I snapped. Wow, that's never happened before. At least, not with an adult.
Victoria's eyes flashed and she sneered, "That's not very nice. I think I might just have to punish you for that." "Yes, it's very rude to talk to a lady like that." Laurent nodded, looking down at me in disapproval.
I quivered and backed away from them, on the verge of tears again. They were going to hurt me. I found myself pressed up against a thick tree, with nowhere else to go.
The three bad people with red eyes closed in on me, ready to pounce.
And then howling could be heard in the distance.
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