"Normal Talking" "[Whispered Talking]"
"Thought-Speak"
A/N: I do not own, or wish to claim ownership of the characters from Stephenie Meyer's books. I'm just writing this story for fun, my characters and plot are mine, there may be some elements from other Fanfic stories I have read but no direct copying.
Chapter 4: First Day Red
Getting home I shift to my human form. Carefully open the front door without breaking the knob off.
By eating my fill, in last night's hunt. My strength is higher than I'm used to. I got inside Closed the door. I headed for the bathroom, for a Quick shower. Then a change of clothes.
I walk out the door. Heading for the two vehicle garage next to my house. Unlock the side door. To unlock the manual garage door. To pull out my 06 Chevy Silverado LT3 Extended.
Once I drove it out, I went back to lock both doors. Getting back in the medium gray Silverado I drove the ten miles to school.
Getting to school half an hour early. Let me pick a good spot to park. I step out of the truck. I headed for the office building, to pick up my class schedule.
The desk had a name plate on it said Ms. Cope. "Ms. Cope, I'm here to pick up my schedule for the semester." "Your name is?" she asked. "My name is Jason Harrison" "Here you go." Handing me a piece of paper and a laminated card. Look at the card. It said reduced school lunch card. "Thank You" I turn to leave. Laughing to myself about it. Get a card to eat that disgusting school cafeteria food.
I noticed two more cars had showed up in the parking lot. One was a silver Chevy Impala LTZ and the other a silver Volvo S60R. Look down at my watch. Which deployed the exact time. Thur. Sep. 8 07:40:57
I got back in my still running truck. Putting the reduced lunch card in the center console. Looking over my morning classes. Biology, World history, Spanish 1, Study Period, Lunch, English 1, Algebra 2. I found a way to get out of Gym in this school. Also took an advancement test to get into Algebra 2.
Ten minutes later I shut off the truck. Grab my coat from the back seat. Headed to Biology. My first and second period was easy.
The teachers just handed out the text books and syllabus. Of course the books were old and falling apart. Biology book was just missing the first twenty pages, mostly the chapter references.
The cover was hot glued and duct taped. World history, someone must have hated the atlases section. They were all ripped out. I'm pretty sure the map in the book would have been outdated anyway.
World History cover print 1931.
I was looking at an over reprinted map of the school for my Spanish 1 class.
I crashed into a short girl with black raven hair, my 6′ human self stumbling around her. I didn't even knock her over, but it felt like I just smashed my left leg into a steel bollard.
"Hey are you ok." Her voice was high pitched, instantly hurting my ears. Trying not to cover my ears and stop my leg from shaking.
I bit down on my tongue to stop myself from laughing, and just nodded my head.
After the numbness had faded, allowing me to talk without laughing in her face.
"I should be asking if you're ok. Wasn't looking where I was going, crashing into you."
"I'm quite alright." As she looked up at me, I saw her face. She was 4′10″, short raven black hair, skin was pale like she never went into the sun, eyes completely rimmed in gold.
"I also should have been looking where I was going." her voice still had a bell ring to it that hurt my ears.
"You may be able to help me find my next class. My name is Jason Harrison, by the way"
"Sure, what class are you looking for? Ow, my name is Alice Cullen." she said. Sticking out her right hand.
I was not about to shake her hand, that would be a bad idea, right this minute.
After seeing her face my instincts took over, I'm not able to control my wolf powers.
With my power active, Enhanced Vision, Keen Hearing and Smell, Type 1 Durability, Enhanced Strength. My eyes will stay Indigo, but will have a glowing dark Violet backing.
The one that would give me away if I shook her hand is my healing power. When it activates, my body temperature goes from 102°F to 125°F and for a very bad injury, it gets up to 130°F.
"The class I'm looking for is Spanish 1 with Mrs. Goff." I told her.
"You were close, it's next door down, on the left." she lowered her hand, seeing i was not going to take it. As I walked away I heard her whisper. "[His eyes were glowing Indigo]." another low murmur. "[I still can't see anything for the last two hours of school]." I did not hear anymore as I closed the classroom door.
After Spanish 1 was my study period, I just checked into the library then went out to my truck for a nap. I decide to nap through lunch too, with my keen senses, people and the food in the cafeteria would make me sick.
With a two hour long nap I got ready to get out of my LT3 Silverado.
Grabbing the door hand I pull. There was a *Ping* as I broke the metal handle off the inner door panel. The handle was steel because I kept crushing the plastic ones.
With a sigh and turn of my head, I saw that the door was locked. Dropping the handle in the back seat, then sliding over to the passenger door. I carefully unlock the door and pull on the handle, which is also made of steel. Finally I'm out of the truck, and heading to English 1.
Mr. Mason was taking attendance, but did not call my name. "Mr. Manson you did not call my name, is this English 1." "What is your name and this is my English 3 class?"
"My name is Jason Harrison." He rifled through some papers. "You're supposed to be in my last class, let me see your schedule. I walk up to his desk and hand it to him.
"Yes, these two classes are backwards. Algebra 2 is this period and My English 1 is last." Using a pen he noted the flip, on my schedule.
I got handed a note to go to my correct class. "Mr. Mason, could you tell me how to get there?" "Yes, turn right, go to the end of the hall then take left out door E1. it's the first out building you come to." "Thank you."
Down the hall I opened the E1 door, just as I stepped out. I slip on a piece of ice on the other side. My hand shot out and grabbed the far end of the railing connected to the building.
With a *screech*, *crunch*, *ping* The railing broke away from the brick wall. The railing was connected in three spots, one at the top, never the door, another in the middle. Lastly, it used to be connected to the corner brick, of the building.
Where I grabbed the rail, it was now flat metal. The fork that bolted it to the wall was still holding on to half a brick. Looking around, I shift my claws out, then cut the rail in a way, to look like it broke from metal fatigue.
I also tried unflattening the once cylindrical rail. Shifting my hand back to human, I headed to my class with the broken piece of rail.
I managed to open the classroom door without breaking that too. Walking up to the teacher and handing him the note from Mr. Mason.
Mr. Varner looked at the note. "Aw Mr. Harrison, yes another student had the same mix up in schedules. Why don't you take the empty seat next to her in the back."
"Mr. Varner when I was coming out of door E1 I slipped, I managed to grab the railing but it broke at the bottom." placing the piece of metal in his hand. "Thanks for letting me know, I'll get maintenance on it. If you would take your seat.
The desks in the class were cheap two person wide work tables. I look at the legs of the table. One of the legs had two paperback books under, probably to make it not rock. My side of the table had a larger whole, it looked like a bunsen burner went through the table top.
I sat in the lumpy plastic, and it also had a burn whole through the seat part. The girl had a folding chair. It was wooden with a back and butt cushion.
I could not tell, but I think it had a cup holder in the left arm. None of the other students had a comfy seat, some were sitting on old wooden bar tools that squeaked.
Sitting back, the plastic back of my seat bent down, I almost went over the back of this death trap.
I was righting myself, the thing tried to dump me again. The back left thing it called a leg twisted sideways. Putting my hand onto the table it went through the F-ing whole. When my hand went through the table I caught myself by smacking my face to the table. Someone started giggling.
I finally got out of the now three legged trap. The girl was face down towards the left wall giggling. "Ms, would you kindly switch chair-error's with me. This one is more enjoyable to aaaa, to spend your last day in." I said with some sarcasm. She looked up at me, whole face was grinning.
"You should keep the chair-error, it's not boring like this one. It seems you can get way more enjoyment out of it than I ever would."
I could not detect sarcasm in her voice but she was smiling the whole time she said it. "Thanks Ms." she opened her mouth to speak.
"Mr. Harrison, would you please take your seat and start the worksheet. Ms. Cullen, you will have to share your book with him."
"Mr. Varner My chair." I did not finish when he cut me off. "It's the only chair-error available." He gave a little chuckle.
I scooted the death trap away, and just sat on my knees close to the girl. Leaning in closer to see the book, she was quite pretty.
Her hair was long, bronze color flowing just past the shoulder blades. Skin tone was lightly tanned or it was from the spray tan she had on. Average fit build could not tell how tall though, with her bent over the table to write on her worksheet.
"I have another worksheet here you go." She flipped the inside cover of her textbook. "Thanks, Ms. Cullen" "My name is Edythe. What is yours?'
Just as I was about to answer, when a piece of paper with a drawing on it slid out of her book in front of me.
The pencil drawing was of a tall tree running vertically up the page. Tree had some detail but the main focus of the drawing was a wolf crouching, staring to the right of the page.
I of course recognised it as me, in Red's form. The drawing even had lighter pencil lines where Red's amber underlined coat would show.
I tried not to flinch when she swapped the drawing for the worksheet. It was too fast for a human to see her hand shoot out to grab the page.
"The wolf looks so real, did you draw that?" "Yes, of course I drew it." She said a little snappy. "What is the wolf looking at?"
It looked like she was not going to answer. She slipped the pic from her book. "It was looking at me."
"What, when." I made sure I sounded curious. "Last night my family went out hunting, I was in a beautiful clearing when it started watching me from the frees line."
"Then what?"
"My older brothers Emmett and Jasper saw it staring at me, so they scared it off." "you got to see the wolf." "Yes, it's the most beautiful wolf I have ever seen."
I was inches away when she turned, our eyes met. Jerking back so quickly she would have noted, if my face was not filled with terror. "What's wrong?" shock expression on her face.
My instincts went haywire, the control on my powers, gone. Enhanced Vision, Keen Hearing and Smell, Type 1 Durability, Enhanced Strength all flooded into me. I could feel my body temp go up in preparation for healing.
Edythe's eyes were dark, with my sight now I could see some olive yellow in them. She was out hunting last night. Why is she so hungry?
Why did she come to a school full of humans like this? I even over eat a little too much, so i would not be hungry enough to eat some skinny kid.
To eat my fill with skinny meat less human, I would need to eat every student and their parents at Forks High School.
I moved over to the far edge of the table and began to fill out my worksheet. My pencil skimmed down the page writing in the correct answer. The fifteen questions took me two minute to complete.
I did all this while keeping an eye on Edythe. She had a shocked expression on her face as my pencil flew down and across the page.
Looking at my watch, class has only been going for fifteen minutes. siting on the floor, my head on my arm and table I spent the rest of class silently staring at Edythe. Fifteen minutes after I finished my sheet, Edythe finished hers.
Edythe laid her head down on the desk and stared at me. "Will you tell me what I did?" I remained silent. She asked me about my eyes and why I looked sad and afraid.
I'm not strong enough in my human form to take on one of her kind, even if she is hungry. That does not diminish their strength, as it does for me. To fight her I would have to shift to Red. This would give me teeth, claws, and the speed to stand a chance, this would expose me to the humans.
I stood up when the bell rang, headed to the front, handed in the worksheet and slipped out the door.
Before the student in the front could get their bags, Two people were heading towards me. Alice Cullen and a tall, around 6′2″, slim muscular build guy with bronze hair, same as Edythe. They walked past me and I heard them whispering.
"[I'm still in the dark Edward, for the next hour. I've tried contracting and there is nothing I can not see Edythe during that time. I can see her in the parking lot getting in her car and everything after that.]"
"[I know Alice, I've read your mind and seen this blank spot. I was even contradicting myself, by reading Edythe's mind all during her Algebra 2 class.]"
I stop walking away to hear what they are going to whisper about next.
"[Alice, Edward, What is going on?]" "[Edythe you know i can not see your future, during the last two periods of school.]"
"[Yes, is that why you're here?]" "[No, I was reading your mind during class. I could see you talking to that red head boy, you told him about the wolf that disappeared.
Then every mind in that classroom disappeared. It felt like a force shoved me out of the room.]"
"[Can you read their minds now?]" asked Edythe. "[Yes, the disappearance only lasted twenty minutes."]
"[Edythe, what happens when you were talking to that boy?]"
"[We were sitting close to each other looking at the drawing of the wolf I made. Told him how beautiful the wolf was, when I saw it in Emmett's mind. Then I turned my head to look into his eyes. He got a terrified look on his face and moved away from me at almost inhuman speed. Then he filled out his fifteen question sheet in two minutes. Spent the rest of the time silently watching me."]
"[Alice, you ran into the boy, this morning or he tripped over you?]" Edward said. "[Did anything strange happen when he looked at you?]" Edythe asked.
"[when we crashed into each other I felt it. Was like the time Esme hit us with the staircase railing after we broke the whole thing."]
"[you did not end up injuring him from that?"] Edythe asked. "[He did start biting his tongue, I think he was training not to laugh. I notice too, his eyes started to glow. They were Indigo then swirls of Violet started going around the iris.]"
"[Yes, his eyes were doing that when he was staring at me.]" "We are going to be late for class," Edward said out loud.
I move slightly faster than I should, when pretending to be human, I Remembered to be careful opening door E1.
As I grabbed the door to English 1, Edythe came up silent as a specter and said. "You're running late too."
I spun around and she was standing two inches away from me. She was the same height as me,6′. Eyes no longer had any color, just glazed black.
Edythe was looking at my right hand. "Um" she pointed to my hand. Then we heard a *Thunk*. I lifted my hand up to look at the door knobs, while keeping Edythe in my sights. She stepped forward and I stepped back against the door.
I moved to the left, out of the corner of my eye, I could see the door. The door had a whole where the door knob went.
The thunk sound was the other knob falling out and hitting the floor inside the classroom. The door looked to have no other damage.
It looks like I pull the straight, shearing of the two screws that hold the knobs together. The one I was holding had the rod, used to operate the latch. I reached over, put the knob back in the door and pushed it open. Leaving it in the door, as I backed into the room.
On the other side of the door Mr. Manson was reaching down to pick up the other door knob. Once Edythe was in the room too, the students all started whispering.
"Mr. Harrison, what did you do to the door?" Mr. Manson said, shaking the door knob. "It was Cullen," I said, pointing with my thumb next to me. I walked to the back, sitting in one of the empty chairs next to an eager looking girl.
Focusing my keen level of hearing. I made out the ridicules story about trying to open the door and the door knob just came. Edythe's voice was all sweet and convincing, totally different from her normal voice.
After her tail she glowed at me as she took her seat with a boy. He was probably going to have a heart attack, because it was beating fast and skipped a few times when Edythe sat down.
"Hi my name is Jennifer, but I go by Jenn." "Well then Jenn my name is Jason." I told Jenn. Jenn was looking like she was going to ask something. Thinking how to phrase it most likely.
I was staring at Edythe, When Jenn asked her questions. "Jason, do you want me to move so you can sit with your girlfriend?" Jenn had a downer expression and was looking at her hand, rubbing them together.
I can use my mind power to talk to multiple people if I do not talk, most people do not notice other mental presence. It only lets me hear inner monologue and emotions.
Edythe had her head turned back to stare at me. She and the rest of her family had extra gifts. In overhearing their conversion, Edward could read the minds of everyone around him, this makes me constantly have to block mental spying.
"No, Edythe is not my girlfriend". Is said in a normal tone. "Ow , I thought you're staring at each other and you both came in late." Jenn said with more enthusiasm, like it was good to hear this.
"We did get stuck in the hall when the door knob broke, there may have been a moment when we were standing inches apart staring into each other's eyes." I said this in low wishful vice. Looking at Edythe and back quickly to Jenn.
Jenn looked more disappointed. "Did you try to kiss her?." "That was straight forward, why do you ask?" "When you came into the room She had a pissed look on her face."
"Now that I think about it she did try to put her arms around my neck." "um, she was probably trying to kiss you." "You, think so?" I said this will make my eyes bigger and look embarrassed.
I know it was more likely Edythe started to get hungry. Being alone in the hallway with a supposed human. Probably pushed her close to the edge.
Looking over, her head was in the crook of her arm on the desk. Well the chatterbox boy was still breathing. While I was thinking whether Edythe was trying to eat me in the hallway, Jenn slid her hand over the table onto mine.
~Jen's Future~
I was in a car, trees were either side of the dark road. The speedometer read 50mph, little fast for driving down a road that a large animal could step out into. *aaah* I heard Jenn make a little scream.
The vehicle suddenly began skidding to a stop. I Looked up from the displays to see a man standing in the road.
From the vehicle headlights, he was short with blue hair in all black. Black sleeveless t-shirt, paints and shoes, Eyes were a dark red. I could not tell Jenn to drive in my state as an observer.
She rolled down her window, "Are you ok, do you need help?" the man smiled, revealing fangs and the next instant he was at the driver's door.
*Aaaaah* Jenn screamed loudly as the driver door was ripped open and off the vehicle, tossed into a tree ten feet off the road.
Jenn sobbed and cried as the man grabbed her, unbuckled her seat and pulled her from the car, she tried to get away.
*Crunch* Sounded as he broke something in her arm. She screamed even louder.
I had to look around quickly before she was too far away from the car. On the passenger seat a shopping bag with Seattle Washington printed on it, looking new. Not some garbage bag she keeps in her car.
The time, I had to find the date and time. On the center console above the radio 18:13 I could not find the date before I pulled after Jenn.
The man pulled Jenn off the road tourdes the tree line. He was looking at her facing away from the trees. Jenn was staring past the man crying at the trees when she stopped and gasped. Something stepped out of the trees to come up behind the man.
The lycan was 8′ muscled all over with dark fur covering his body. His tail was flufed 3′ wiping slowly back and forth. "Guardian, help me." Jenn sobbed.
"No, one is here to save you little girl." He hissed. He leaned forward to bite her. *Aaaaah* she screamed.
A large clawed, right hand snake around the man's head, it slides though the left side of his lower jaw, taking it off. In the same move the lycan's claws sliced off the arm holding Jenn.
~Vision Ends~
"Jason, you are so hot." I smiled at Jenn "way thank you. Jenn turned scarlet. "No, I meant your hand."
Jenn began sliding her hand up my arm, across my shoulder to lean on me. She put her head on my shoulder. I was deciding to wrap my arms around Jenn's waist.
A low annoyed growl, sounded from the table in front of us. Jenn and I look to see Edythe with her head down and using her nails to dig groves into the table.
Jenn slid away from me, and began picking up her stuff. She stood up and walked over to Edythe. "Would you switch seats with me?" Jenn asked sweetly.
"No, I don't mind." replied Edythe, getting up and heading over to my table.
Mr. Manson started handing out the book. We would be reading for the class semester. Getting to my table with only one book. "I seem to be short on copies, you two will need to share for now."
Mr. Manson said, placing the book on the table. "Have you read this before?" I asked Edythe.
"Yes, it is about a Vampire woman who falls in love with a Werewolf". "So it's a romance, happily ever after." I asked, looking into Edythe's dark sunken black ringed eyes.
"No, it is a tragic love story, the Vampire drinks all the Werewolf blood he dies." Edythe said looking into my eyes her hand started sliding over to mine.
I move my hands off the table. "Well that is depressing, and we have to write some kind of report on this." Move my hand back up to snatch the book. I opened the book and started reading. As I Turned to the fifth page.
"We are sharing the book you know." She reached over, grabbed the left corner of the book and pulled. I let the book slide from my hand, so we did not tear it in half.
"I know, it's just you said you already read this book and I have not." She put the book in between us and scooted herself closer to me.
Edythe flipped to the first page skimmed through until she was on page five. "There, we are now on the same page. Tell me when you finish and I'll turn the page. She smiled at me and took a deep breath.
We spent the rest of the class sitting an inch apart reading. Edythe kept fidgeting, she would try to lean into me and I would lean away.
She also kept taking deep breaths, properly taking in my scent. I tried it with her, but the fake tan spray she was wearing had a strong chemical smell that made my nose twitch.
The bell rang, I packed up my things. Edythe handed me the book, making sure I did not touch her. "You should take this, I have a copy at home."
"OK, I'll see you tomorrow then." I started towards the front of the class. The teacher and other students were having trouble with the broken door.
"I'll get that." Blocking the view of the door knob whole. I popped the latch and pulled the door open.
Heading to the door leading to the parking lot I parked my truck in. I noted someone following close behind, the sound of their shoes on the floor was a little quiet for a human.
Pushing open the exit door, I walked to my truck. Next to my truck I turned, expecting to find Edythe standing there. I did not expect the 6′2″ bronze hair guy who was talking to Alice and Edythe after Algebra 2.
Scowling down at me he demanded. "Who are you, and what do you want with my sister?"
looking up at him, I played dumb. "Who are you, and which one is your sister? You should not march up to someone demanding, name and sister agenda without intruding yourself first."
His golden eyes got darker "My name's Edward Cullen and the sister I'm talking about is Edythe Cullen. Now tell me what you did with her."
I was confused and showed it on my face. Using my Keen sense of herring, smell and taste of the air. I detected Edythe over by the silver Chevy Impala LTZ.
"What do you mean she is over by the silver Impala." Edward gritted his teeth.
"I mean what did you do in class with her?" He was most likely spying on Edythe in both her classes with me. I must have been mentally shielding us
I gave Edward a smile. "Well in Algebra 2 we sat together, talked a little then worked on a worksheet for the rest. In the hall to English, we made out and then sat together.
We sat close together to read a book."
"YOU DID WHAT?" Edward shouted. Wiping the smile off my face.
"We read the book for English together." Edward's eyes got even darker, he started clenching his hands like they were around my neck.
Alice comes running up "Edward we need to get going, we are helping Esme with dinner tonight. Hey Jason." Alice waved at me. "It's nice to see you without running into you this time."
I smiled at him. "I have to get going too. Don't worry, I already gave Edythe my goodbye." Alice giggles at Edwards annoyed growl.
I started my truck, and waited for the parking lot to empty. After twenty five mines I pulled out. Heading for home.
Parking in the garage locking everything up. I headed into the house for a shower and bed. Without sleep for four days I was dead on my feet.