A/N: Sorryguys that it took a bit longer for me to update. I had been pretty busy in the past weeks and that combined with the fact that I have other stories to type for-despite the fact that inspiration just won't hit- just made the process of completing this chapter a bit longer.

Anyway, now it's there and done, which means this is the part where I'll have to thank the super-beta again justareaderfan- such a busy little bee :P

Now have fun reading... this chapter is again in Bella's Pov

I spent the rest of my Sunday with Sam and Leah. Emily stayed at the coffee shop- it was her aunt's and she had promised to help out.

Hanging out with Sam and Leah was almost like being back home in Phoenix.

Leah seemed to be fairly curious about my life in the sun.

Apparently, she had two cousins who lived in Phoenix as well but she never got to visit them.

When it was time for me to return the academy Sam offered to drive me back.

Leah blasted the stereo on full volume and sang along with each song, which made every kind of conversation kind of impossible.

"Be good, Bella. Don't let those kids get to you, alright?" Leah warned when she and Sam drove off.

Then she stuck out her head out once more. "Call me, we need to hang out again," she shouted.

I rolled my eyes at her and just turned to head into the school.

"Where have you been all day?" Victoria asked me.

"Out," I replied dryly.

"Okay." She dragged out the word and gave Irina a pointed look.

Irina didn't seem to care where I had been and simply continued reading her book.

I didn't pay any further attention to either of them and kept to myself for the rest of the evening.

The next morning, I actually woke up on my own. Victoria was just waking up herself and Irina had apparently returned from the bathroom.

Dragging myself out of bed, I cursed under my breath not really happy that I was starting to get used to this nonsense.

I got ready fast and was already heading toward the cafeteria before Victoria had even gotten dressed.

It was truly frightening how fast I had grown accustomed to my new schedule. Back at home I wouldn't be caught dead outside of bed at this hour.

Like so often in the past days, I was hit with a wave of homesickness. The week-end was just over and I was pretty sure that Felix and Zafrina would be calling in sick today at school, since they would be too hung over to even attempt to get out of bed.

Those two always competed when it came to getting wasted. The first one to puke had to pay for the drinks next time.

I told them about a hundred times that one of them would end up in the hospital sooner or later but of course they wouldn't listen.

End of the story was the usual whining about headaches and vomiting their guts out. I sometimes visited Rina on a Monday- it had not been pretty.

Finishing my breakfast, I got up and made my way to my first class of the day, still recalling various disgusting moments I had lived through together with Rina and even Felix once. Fate had really been cruel to me that one particular day, because I had dealt with both of them at once. Most of the others had been smart enough to stay away from those two on Mondays, but that one time both their parents decided to throw them out at the same time and they both ended up knocking on my door.

They were moody, whiny and that combined with all the puking was just not cool at all.

I had told my father that I had been sick, to explain the smell of vomit that just wafted through the entire house. It had been disgusting.

The studio slowly started to fill and I pulled out my iPod to drown out their senseless chatter. No need to listen to any more Ballet talk.

I started my stretches once the class started, frustrated with the fact that I could not just do my own thing.

I thought that music would help me with my boredom during performing those crucial stretches but all it did was frustrate me.

About 95% of the songs on my iPod were put on it for just one reason- to dance. Or at least appreciate the rhythm of the song.

Bending over and touching my toes definitely didn't do that.

It was truly troublesome that Ballet required such boring stretches. I had never liked them not even back when I was still dancing. I always tried to talk my mother into letting me dance without warming up but of course, she wouldn't let me. It would have been quite irresponsible of her to do so.

Even with Demetri and the others we did some warming up and those idiots were definitely not the sort who cared about proper preparation and precaution.

Come to think of it, the routine we had going for warming up had been forced upon them by me.

It was originally a series of moves that Demetri wanted me to learn in order to get rid of the 'rigid state' I was in.

He always made me dance in front of the others until I got annoyed with their comments and jokes and dared them all to do it better.

Felix, being his competitive self immediately jumped up and took over, adding some goofy moves into it. I had tried to keep with him which had been fairly difficult at first.

The others had only watched and laughed.

The next day, Rina decided to join in on the fun and danced with us changing the routine up a little because she thought it was 'too masculine'.

I smiled at the memory of Felix trying to move his hips along with Rina. Seth had tried to teach him how to do it but Felix was a lost cause in that area. There was just no sexiness in his hips.

I don't exactly remember how it had happened but at some point we had all been dancing. I think it had been the change of the song.

I almost laughed out loud when the song blaring from my ear buds changed. I had heard it so many times now but still, each time I heard it I just had to dance our stupid routine. I had made the whole crew dance to this song at the start of each rehearsal and at some point we all just randomly started dancing whenever we heard the song.

Once we had been at the beach when some guy was blaring it from his car stereo.

Immediately, we had all been on our feet goofing off to the familiar tune.

I sighed. I definitely missed my friends and their antics. The song was just not helping matters in this case.

I feel your fever
From miles around
I'll pick you up in my car
And we'll paint the town
Just kiss me baby
And tell me twice
That you're the one for me

I grinned to myself. It probably wouldn't do any harm if I just grooved a little to the music without really disturbing anyone.

The way you make me feel
(The way you make me feel)
You really turn me on
(You really turn me on)
You knock me off of my feet
(You knock me off of my feet)
My lonely days are gone
(My lonely days are gone)

The steps came easily to me, making me feel as carefree as always. There was absolutely nothing serious about this dance though. Just some basic steps with lots of goofiness.

Thanks to the shuffle function the song changed before I fully got to enjoy it. I would have put it back on when the other one didn't remind me so much of Felix and my routine ages ago. We never finished it unfortunately. Mainly because his ex-girlfriend had been jealous of me.

Without thinking much of it I sprang back unto my hands. When Felix had taught me this his ex Gianna had been furious because she had been certain that she had seen Felix grope my ass.

Truth was that he had merely been supporting me and when it came to dancing, personal space was non-existent.

I pushed myself of the ground with my hands landing gracefully on the floor with my legs in splits.

I looked up and was met with the sight of startling green eyes.

That was when reality came rushing back to me. I was in a Ballet Academy in the middle of Pas de Deux classes and I had just taken over the entire room in my dancing haze.

Could it get any more embarrassing?

Wait, I shouldn't even care about the things they thought. It wasn't like any of them could do it better.

I pulled out my ear buds and smiled apologetically at Madam Cope.

"Very interesting," she noted and gave me a curt nod.

"Err... thanks?"

"That was totally awesome you have to teach me how you do that," I heard Alice chirp behind me.

I turned around to look at the little pixie with raised eyebrows.

She stood there clapping her little hands furiously together.

Rose and Emmett joined in on her little applause.

"Well, class you are all dismissed. I will see you ladies this afternoon." Madam Cope announced when the sound of the bell was to be heard.

I was immensely grateful and dashed over to my stuff and attempted to get out of here as fast as humanly possible.

"Hey Bella, wait up!"

I sighed and turned around only to see Rose and Alice approaching me.

"What?"

"Do you always go in trance whilst dancing?" Rose asked casually, falling in step with me.

I just ignored her.

"I mean it's cool and all but also kind of freaky."

"Will you teach me?" Alice asked randomly.

"No."

"What?"

Looking at Alice I saw that her bottom lip started to quiver. What the hell?

"Stop looking at me like that."

"B-but..."

"Al, stop crying. You're not a baby anymore, remember?" Rose said dryly.

"Bella, I thought we were friends," Alice whined.

I looked at her surprise. "Since when are we friends?"

Alice looked at me with wide eyes. "We're not friends? Why are you saying that?"

I raised my eyebrows at her.

"Except for the fact that you have been totally snobby so far, didn't talk to me the whole last week and went around telling everyone that I'm a criminal?" I asked her sarcastically.

"We didn't say anything to anyone," Rose informed me.

"Am I supposed to believe that?"

"You don't have to. It's still the truth." With these words she disappeared in one of the dance studios without another glance in my direction.

"We really didn't tell anyone. I tried to figure out who did, it wasn't one of us. I would have killed the boys if they had been talking. And as for the not talking to you thing- you didn't talk to us either."

Seriously, why was everyone saying something and then just left? Well, Alice didn't leave but she went to join the other girls at the bars.

With a sigh I went over to my usual spot getting ready for the usual stretches. As if it did any good.

Classes flew by and apparently the whole school had no other topic to talk about except my dancing trance during Pas de Deux.

Apparently that only confirmed that I didn't belong here and should be going to some public school instead. Their words, not mine.

I sat down at my usual table at lunch ignoring everyone and everything like I usually did, when Alice plopped down on a chair beside me.

"What's up?" she asked in that cheery voice of hers. I wondered if she ever stopped grinning like a kid on a sugar rush.

Rosalie appeared on my other side, saying nothing at all.

"What do you guys want?" I sighed, not really in the mood to put up with the two of them.

"Eating lunch, of course," Rosalie grumbled.

"Right."

"We just thought it would be nice to join you," Alice chirped.

I didn't reply and just continued eating.

"You know, I really do want you to be my friend. I'm sorry if my reaction to your admission has offended you in any way I was just a bit shocked, you know. The most serious issues that I have ever dealt with were deciding what to wear at the show cases, so it was kind of weird to be meeting someone who has to deal with real problems."

I looked at her only to see a sincere expression on her face matching the tone of her voice.

"It must be hard to be trying to cope with something and not really succeeding."

Her words left me to gape at her. Why would she say that? What exactly did she know about me?

"I hope that one day you will tell me what it is that makes you so sad," she added and then smiled warmly at me before turning her attention to her food.

She confused me. How come that her words so dead on spot without her actually knowing what was going on?

Maybe she was a psychic. I shook my head at this ridiculous thought.

Her words kind of left me feeling weird, which made it difficult for me to continue eating.

Rosalie and Alice continued to stay at my side after lunch. We sat together in Musical History like we always did and they walked with me to all of my other classes. Mostly because they had to go in the same direction but when Rosalie was also waiting for me after my last class, I was convinced that the two of them weren't going to leave me alone any time soon.

"Let's go," Rosalie said, making a gesture for me to follow her.

She led me to the backyard and I noticed that most students were walking in the same direction as well.

"Uhh... Rosalie, where are we going?" I asked, confused why everyone was apparently heading for the same destination. Especially since classes were over now.

"First of all, it's Rose and second- didn't you read your schedule? We have gymnastics on Mondays."

Huh. Seemed like I hadn't read the schedule properly.

Alice joined us and we made our way to the Gym. I didn't have any sports clothes with me so I didn't change, which didn't matter really seeing that we were all kind of walking around in dancing gear all day.

Madam Esme was already waiting for us girls in the Gym. I had already been wondering when I would meet her in class.

"Ladies, I'm not really happy with your stamina these days. I heard a lot of the teachers complaining and I think it's time that we work on that again," Madam Esme started right away when all the girls were gathered in the Gym.

"Find yourself a spot with enough space around you and then be on your hands. We're working on that muscle tension that you all love so much."

The groans that followed showed the exact opposite.

I'd never had a problem with hand stands, but I wondered how this was going to work for ballet dancers- especially girls. As far as I knew most of the strength was required to be in the legs and not the arms.

About an hour later I had my answer. My arms had never felt more like jelly than they did now and every other muscle on my body was hurting like hell.

Madam Esme had us standing on our hands the whole time and gave different instructions. Stretching the legs and pointing feet. Splitting legs and still pointing the feet. Bending legs but never stop pointing feet and whatever else we had been doing whilst pointing our feet.

Madam Esme definitely made sure that we used every muscle our bodies had to offer and I was glad that I spent my entire time during classes with stretches otherwise I would be dead right now.

"I'm so dead," Alice whined as we slowly made our way out of the Gym.

It even hurt to walk.

"Tell me about it," Rose groaned.

I didn't say anything.

"Normally, I would ask if you guys want to go to the pool and let us enjoy the last bit of the day before dinner, but I don't think that I will be able to hold myself up. I'd probably drown."

"There is a pool in this school?" I asked wondering where it had been hidden this whole time.

"Yeah, the pool house is behind the Gym. We even have a spa there with hot tubs and yummy guys that love to rub ballerina's feet," Rose informed.

"Gross."

Rose only shrugged and then winced.

"Hiya, girlies," a voice boomed behind us.

We all turned to see Emmett, Jasper and Edward approaching us.

Emmett grinned widely as he joined us, entirely too happy for my liking.

"What's on the agenda for the rest of the day?"

"Dying," Alice and Rose groaned in unison. It sounded tempting.

"What did Madam Esme do to you?" Jasper asked with a chuckle.

"You don't even want to know. My arms will never be the same after this. I'll probably be able to lift Emmett tomorrow," Rose said to him.

"Oh, that should be fun," Emmett laughed.

"You don't look nearly as bad as the other two," Jasper noted, giving me a once over.

"I'm suffering on the inside," I replied with a shrug, which definitely hurt but I didn't wince.

"Yeah right, you have been stretching all week so your muscles have actually been put to use," Rose scoffed.

"Not to forget the dancing," Alice added.

"Which was pretty damn awesome," Emmett boomed.

"Thanks."

"So, we don't have any plans for the next two hours? We've been boring ourselves to death for weeks now," Jasper said.

My phone rang in that exact moment, interrupting the conversation that I was apparently taking part in.

"Yo."

"Bella, where are you?" Leah's voice shouted from the other end.

"At the academy, where else?"

"And why are you not in the parking lot, waiting for me and Sam to pick you up?"

"I just came out of Gym."

"Ew, don't even tell me what you guys did. You sound like you've been chewed and spit back out."

"Yeah, I kinda feel like it too."

"Well, you're still hanging out with us."

"What do you even plan to do?"

"Forks High is having a talent show and even some of the academy students are taking part. You should definitely come."

"A talent show?"

"Oh my gosh, the talent show is today, isn't it? I totally forgot about that," Alice gushed. Obviously, they were all listening to what I was discussing on the phone.

"Yeah, it's going to suck ass but I wanna go anyway and you're going with me. Emily is a good sport so she won't help me throw popcorn at those lame kids, which is why I need you to tag along. You are going to help me whether you like it or not."

"Throwing popcorn, huh?"

"Yup, that's the plan."

"Count me in. I've got nothing better to do anyway. Just let me get changed. I'm totally gross right now."

"We'll be waiting."

I ended the call and looked up only to find five pairs of eyes watching me.

"Who was that?" Alice asked, not masking her curiosity.

"A friend of mine."

"How did you manage to make a friend that fast?" Rose demanded.

"Thanks for putting trust in my social skills."

"Oh, come on. Don't act as if you care. You and I both know that you're pretty good at being anti-social so you must have found yourself some kind of weirdo."

"I wouldn't say weirdo," Emmett interjected, "I heard something about Popcorn throwing and that shit is just fucking hilarious. I always wanted to do that but all of these suckers won't allow me to do that."

I giggled. "Leah never had a partner for it either, so she's forcing me."

"Leah?" It was the first time I heard Edward speak up.

"You don't mean Leah Clearwater, right?" Jasper asked.

"Uh... I don't know?"

"Does she have black hair, tanned skin, is totally pretty, strange as fuck and a bad ass ballerina who doesn't even give a shit about it?" Rose listed.

"Umm, her hair is purple, she actually does have tanned skin, is quite pretty, the only normal person I met so far and I've never seen her dance. She said she's a student here though. A senior to be exact."

"Sounds like Clearwater to me," Alice noted. "Figures that you would like her."

"You guys don't?"

"Meh, I never really had much to do with her. We only get to hear the crazy stories, although they are quite hilarious."

"What crazy stories?"

"One time, Madam Cope asked her to demonstrate something for the class. She did and about halfway through she stopped. When Madam Cope asked her what was wrong she said she wasn't 'feeling it' and needed to go out for a smoke."

I grinned at that.

"Also there was this one time before the summer show case when she was bitching around all day because of something- I think she got in fight with Lauren- and just before her class was about to have their performance she spilled soda all over Lauren's leotard. It was hilarious," Emmett snickered.

"She also once threw a stone through Mr. Jenkins' car window. Nobody knows why, but Mr. Jenkins left the school and all Leah got for punishment was detention."

"What exactly was the point again in telling me all this?"

"You asked."

"Right. Anyway, I'm gonna go and change now and then I'll be off. See ya...or not."

I took off without another glance in their direction and sprinted to my room, despite my protesting muscles.

I dashed into my room, made a quick stop at the bathroom and ten minutes later I was getting into Sam's beat up red truck.

"Took you long enough," Leah huffed, looking at me with an accusing expression.

"Hello Bella," Sam greeted pleasantly.

"Hey guys. You know it only took so long because the fairies were giving me a Best of Leah."

"Oh really? What did they say... or more importantly who was telling you the stories."

"Uhh...my self-proclaimed new friends. Alice, Rosalie and the rest of them."

"Aww, you're hanging out with the good guys. How cute," Leah cooed.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"That you're hanging out with the good guys. I don't think I ever heard anything bad about any of them. Well, maybe Rosie before she was converted which is why I reconsidered my intentions of befriending her."

Leah shrugged casually and lit herself a cigarette. "Want one? They taste like chocolate."

"Not right now," I shook my head. "Don't you want to hear what they told me?"

"I bet it was all good, but spill anyway."

"It was really not as bad as I would have thought. I mean, walking out of Madam Cope's class is not all that mention worthy to me."

"It is to everyone else. Mainly, because I told Madam Cope to go and fuck herself. She was being a bitch to me and kept criticizing me to the point that I just wanted punch her."

"Lovely."

"I kind of feel left out of the conversation," Sam threw in.

"Then contribute something useful," Leah snapped.

"Did they tell you about the Lauren incident?"

"The soda spill? Yeah."

"Aw man, they make everything sound so harmless. Where were they when that shit happened?" Leah complained.

I looked at her in question.

Sam looked at me through the rear view mirror and explained.

"It was a bit more than just a soda spill. The two of them had been in each other's hair for weeks, because of some stupid situation that hadn't even been worth mentioning-"

"Not worth mentioning? She was practically throwing herself at you and was already halfway undressed. That is not something that happens accidentally," Leah cut him off.

"She wasn't throwing herself at me. She was just being... a bit..."

"Cheap? Slutty? Whorish?"

"Oh, come on, Lee-lee. Shouldn't you be over it by now?"

"I am over it, but that shit still pisses me off. I don't like people touching my property and don't call me Lee-lee again, or I'll chop something very precious off."

"Uh... someone mind explaining?" I piped up, having the feeling that I was missing something here.

"Oh yeah, the story. Well, like Sam said we had been having cat fights for quite a while 'cause she just had nothing better to do than hitting on my boyfriend and then she also got the solo that I was supposed to dance, only because-"

"Wait, wait, wait," I barged in. "You and Sam were together?"

"Um, yeah," both of them answered with a shrug.

"Wow, you really must have ended things on a friendly base then."

"Not really. I was beyond pissed when Sam admitted that he had a thing for my cousin. I mean, seriously? My cousin? I totally bitched him out for that, broke things off with him and didn't talk with either one of them for weeks."

"I'm confused," I admitted.

Sam sighed. "Leah's pretty short-tempered. So she got totally worked up over it, threw tantrums like nobody's business and tried out the Medusa glare on everyone that passed her. It was kinda intense. Emily was worried that she would never talk to her again, since the two of them were pretty close. Closer than the rest of the whole cousin lot.

"I didn't even know if she would snap out of it. But eventually she must have cooled of, because she slowly started talking to Emily again. She still ignored me until at some point she spent more time in school and then when she hung out at home during the vacations, she had been over it. She met Paul and the two of them got along just fine and that was the end of the drama."

"Wow."

"Yeah, yeah. So as I was saying: Lauren had gotten the solo-"

"We're here," Sam announced bringing the car to a halt and interrupting Leah again.

She gave him a death glare, but he shrugged it off and just got out of the car.

Somehow I had a hard time imagining those two together. It must have been quite amusing to watch.

I got out of the car as well and was immediately assaulted by something tiny.

I looked down on myself only to find Alice, engulfing me in a tight hug.

"Err…"

"The Talent-show is going to be so much fun. Last year if had been pretty entertaining too, so this is going to be awesome. Maybe next year we'll do something as well," she gushed.

"Alice, where did you just come from?"

"Oh, I just got out Emmett's car. He, Rose, Jasper and I decided to go and watch the show as well. Edward didn't want to come, but that's his loss. I'm just glad I'm getting to spend this time with you."

Behind me I heard Leah coughing to disguise her laugh.

"Didn't know you were so popular with the ladies, Bella," she commented, earning a chuckle from Sam.

Alice looked up at the sound of Leah's voice and took a step back, finally letting go of me.

"Oh my gosh, you're hair really is purple," she blurted out and pointed her finger at Leah.

"It is?" Leah asked in wonder and turned back toward the car to look at her reflection. "Oh, look at that- my hair is purple. That's a shocker and what's that in my face? OMG, I think I have a nose."

The sarcasm in her voice was hard to miss and even if Alice seemed to have a talent for overlooking such things, she now frowned at Leah's statement.

Rose chose that moment to walk up on us and yanked on Alice's short hair.

"Ow, what the hell, Rose? What was that for?"

"Leave me alone in a car with Emmett again and I'll rip your hair out next time," Rose hissed at her.

Leah was playing audience and giggled to herself, while Sam excused himself for a moment.

"I didn't leave you alone. Jasper was there as well."

"No, he wasn't. He left to go and get your stupid popcorn because you didn't want to stand in line."

"He really did that?"

Alice's eyes glazed over.

"Hey, not the time to be having Disney moments," Rose waved her hand in front of Alice's face.

Leah leaned her head on my shoulder.

"Maybe I do like Rosalinda after all," she whispered.

"It's Rosalie," I corrected.

"Whatever. I'm gonna call her Rosie."

Rose's eyes snapped up at us.

"Call me that and you'll be waking up to a beeping sound, breathing through pipes," Rose threatened and then walked toward the school building.

She turned around after a few steps.

"You guys coming or what?"

"Don't mind her. She gets pretty aggressive after dealing with Emmett," Alice explained.

"I'm not complaining," Leah grinned at her.

"You like crazy people, don't you?" I asked her.

"Not crazy people, people who are not stable. It gets me off."

Alice's eyes widened and I saw a slight blush on her cheeks.

Leah saw it too and poked her cheek playfully.

"Aw, you're adorable. So innocent and blue-eyed," she turned to me, "Mommy, can I keep her? I promise I'll feed her."

I raised my eyebrows at her.

"Fine, I won't take her home."

Leah pouted and strutted forward, probably to go and annoy Rose.

"She's crazy," Alice muttered and shook her head.

"She's just a bit queer."

"No, she's crazy. But that's okay. It makes her more bearable than other people. Crazy people are less judgmental- at least in my opinion."

I looked down at the tiny girl, who just kept throwing around wise words.

She looked back up at me.

"You're not really going to throw popcorn, are you?"

"Probably not. It's not really my style."

Alice smiled brightly.

I came to the conclusion that it was quite easy to make Alice smile and for some strange reason it pleased me to be able to do that.

Whatever happened in the course of one day, it definitely made me soften up.

We made our way into the school and just followed the crowd.

Apparently, the talent-show was going to be held in the Gym.

Rose and Leah re-joined us and pulled us along to get seated in the first row where Emmett, Jasper and Sam were already seated.

The boys had gotten the popcorn and Leah somehow ended up sitting next to Emmett, since he was the only one who shared her enthusiasm for throwing the white stuff around.

I settled for eating it and as did Jasper and Sam, who sat on either side of me.

The show started and I leaned back ready to endure whatever was coming for me.

I quickly came to the conclusion that the kids in Forks were pretty talentless.

Some girl named Jessica honestly believed that her interpretation of the song 'Listen' was bearable, judging by the way she was smiling and grinning while she tortured us with her horrifying sounds.

By the time she was done 'singing' my ears were bleeding.

"She does that every year and nobody dares to tell her that she can't sing," Jasper told me.

"Why not? Does she have an older brother?"

"No, but everyone fears that she would just start singing again. She could totally make a self-defence technique out of that screeching."

I chuckled in agreement.

Next up was some skinny white dude, who thought that putting on some major baggy pants and a golden chain, made him a bad ass rapper. He beat boxed his death sentence right then and there because I was pretty sure that a lot of people wanted to kill him after that performance.

"You suck," Leah called and threw her popcorn on the stage.

Emmett threw his as well, laughing hysterically.

It was just plain weird.

When the kid just kept on going as if the phrase 'the show must go on' had been meant for him, other people joined in on the popcorn throwing, telling him to get the hell off the stage.

It was pretty mean but I didn't have time to feel bad because the next act was up.

A boy and a girl dressed casually stood there talking to each other for a moment.

"I didn't know that Paul was participating," Sam mused quietly.

I looked at the boy again.

He had the same russet skin as Sam and his black hair was also quite short. He was a bit burly but not much- just enough to go along with his height.

"That's Leah's boyfriend?" I asked trying to picture them together. Somehow, I couldn't quite come up with a picture. It had nothing to do with him not really looking suitable-because he didn't, but more with the fact that I was not picturing Leah cuddling with anyone really.

"Yeah, the two of them are actually quite good."

Just then music came on and for a moment I was wondering why in the world martial arts would be something that people performed at a Talent-show. Then the music changed and I wanted to laugh out loud when I recognized the song.

It was one of the songs that I had been dancing to earlier today.

I watched them dance and quickly came to the conclusion that those two were pretty damn good.

The girl could probably teach me lots of stuff especially since she seemed to be more flexible than normal. I wasn't even sure if I could twist like that. She definitely had the crowd cheering in no time, making Paul look a tiny bit more like a prop than anything else. He was still good though and I especially liked the Western theme they had going on.

As soon as these two were done and left the stage I was certain that no one would be able to top those two.

"What is it with all these hip-hop dancers these days?" I heard Rosalie ask, but it didn't really sound like she was expecting an answer.

Of course, I was right with my assumption. Not one of the following performances managed to top Paul and whatever the girl's name was.

Well there was this one girl, who had some pretty impressive speed stacking skills but other than that it was just awful.

Emmett and Leah ran out of popcorn pretty soon and I was beyond thankful when the last act was announced.

A guy rolled out a giant harp, lulling everyone to sleep with the soft tune despite the fact that it was actually good.

In then end Paul and his partner won, the speed stacking chick got the second place and some magician dude was third.

"Come on, Bella. You totally have to meet Paul," Leah instructed just when we were walking out, pulling me along through the mass.

Somehow the whole group ended up hurrying after her.

Much to everyone's surprise Leah was not leading the way to the parking lot but went around the school with us, discovering Paul, his dancing partner and a few other kids behind the school sitting on a wall, smoking.

"Yo Leah," the group greeted, while Alice was saying something about lung cancer.

"Hey, guys. You all should seriously quit smoking- it's unhealthy."

"If anyone should stop it would be you. You're the 'athlete' among us," one of the guys said, making air quotes at the word 'athlete'.

"Fuck you, bitch. I am an athlete. Don't make me punch you."

"Stop with the empty threats already," the girl said, yawning and stretching before she jumped off the wall. "Just tell us who these little cuties are."

Her gaze was definitely fixated on Jasper and I could have sworn that I saw Alice stiffen.

Huh, so the pixie had a crush on Jasper. Interesting.

"Well...for the most part they are dancing machines like myself. But they aren't all that important-"

"Hey," Emmett protested, crossing his arms.

Leah rolled her eyes. "Emmett is a kickass popcorn throw partner and Rosalinda is totally bitchy."

"It's Rosalie," I threw in, although not even Rose seemed to care. She had heaved herself up in the wall and looked bored.

"This is Bella," Leah continued, ignoring my comment. "She's new in Forks and guess what?"

"What?" the girl asked, looking me up and down with a calculating expression.

"She loves the academy just like I do and she dances Hip-hop," Leah squealed.

I don't know what she was expecting. It wasn't like people were jumping up and cheering when they heard that they shared an interest.

"How come I've never seen you before?" the girl asked me, throwing her long black hair over her shoulder. She looked like she was from Latin origin, but I couldn't be too sure. I didn't exactly care either.

"Just moved here?"

"Moved here?" one of the guys repeated. "How come we haven't seen you in school yet?"

"Jared, you're such a moron. Obviously, she's at the academy. Not everyone goes to this dump that you people call a school," Leah snapped.

She was now sitting together with Paul, leaning against him with his arms around her whilst sharing a cigarette. Seemed like she was into cuddling after all.

"Academy, huh? Too bad...our little group could definitely use another girl for the lunch breaks. It's horrible to be alone with these boys sometimes. I'm Chris."

She held out her hand for me to shake.

I shook it and smiled at her.

Slowly but surely I was starting to get used to the people here. Not just Leah and Sam, but I had a feeling that the friendship with Alice and Rose might work after all. The two of them were staring at the phone display of the other guy that was hanging around with Paul and Chris.

Alice looked up and grinned at me.

She really was adorable and even if I got along with Leah the best, I somehow liked Alice the most.

I guess I really was starting to soften up.

A/N: Yay! Everything is awesome... or something like that. I totally improvised towards the end of the chapter although the lack of Edward-ness was intentional. First we're building up friendships, then we go and deal with the beast.

Okay, so there are two songs in this chapter. First one is- The Way you make Me Feel by Michael Jackson. For some reason I keep listening to this song... it's been like this for weeks now. And in case you where wondering what had inspired Bella's little dancing haze go and watch this vid:

http:/www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=bljgJrCSW2w

The dance just kinda put me in a good mood and someone asked me to come up with some videos, so I did. Although Bella's dance was different seeing that I had been improvising at some point while listening to the song.

Also there would be Paul's and Chris' performance:

http:/www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=T9lGGp5eq4w

I love SYTYCD and I have been browsing through those vids for weeks... this particular performance just got stuck in my head, mainly because of the song- it's kinda catchy when it's combined with dancing.

Alright, now have I said everything that I wanted to? I think so... there is not much left for me to say. I'm just gonna sit here and wait for your reviews and I'll answer to as many as I can ( althoug sometimes I don't really know how to reply or if I even should...)

Lots of love to all of you and thank you for reading :)