The way that they brought me back to reality was rather spectacular in fashion. It consisted of the vampire running towards me and stopping just short of my face.

Those amber eyes were all that were visible.

Not liking the proximity, I stepped back. Which garnered a satisfied smirk from him. Crap, I had shown what he would take as fear, which would diminish the strong character I had worked so hard to create.

Furious, I took that step forward and got as close as possible to the worthless blood-sucker, trying desperately hard to tell myself that he needed to be alive for the time being. Knowing that my control would not hold out for long I began speaking as quickly as I could.

"I had no choice in the matter. After you let your true nature show during the incident that occurred over the weekend…" I knew that reminding him of the gang would help him to forget me. Which worked, seen in the immediate wince that was visible on his face as soon as the words left my mouth. I continued, "…it was impossible of me not to see the signs that you were not normal." Knowing that Bella was in hearing distance I opted to add truth to the tale. "After Bella had discovered your secret she found me in the restaurant and proceeded to tell me everything, believing that I had a right to know." Blaming Bella was also a successful way to quell Edward's hatred of me at the present moment. Something that I had to do in order to avoid him attacking me and my control snapping. Not the time or place. "And that is how I am standing before you now." I almost ended the sentence with the word vampire, but held myself back at the last second just in case the blood-sucker was aware enough to hear and turn his attention back to me.

Knowing that I was becoming less and less necessary by the second I decided to make my escape while they were distracted. "Now if you will excuse me…" I then proceeded to turn around and walk away, leaving the two love-doves on their own. At this point two outcomes are highly likely: the vampire is so angry at her for telling me that he eats her effectively ending my problems, or they end up having a heart-to-heart which I definitely did not want to witness.

…

I got back slightly late to class. My sudden appearance was heightened by the fact that they were all silent, taking the test that I used as an excuse to leave earlier. Sensing that everybody was staring at me, including Barbie and her boy-toy, I kept my head down as I apologised to the teacher while saying that I had suddenly felt ill and needed to go to the nurse. He bought it, I was an amazing student after all, and allowed me to go to my seat.

The vampires, however, did not believe that for one second.

As soon as the teacher's back was turned, Rosalie turned towards me with a clear question in her eyes. To answer I mouthed 'later' and focused back on my paper. I could hear that she repeated what I said in vampire whisper to the male and then they also continued writing the test. Although I despise those two I knew that this was a conversation that I needed to have, considering the fact that I had lied to them about where I was going.

Besides, better of them to get my point of view before love-sick puppy tells them a twisted version and gets all the facts wrong. He would do anything to put me back into what he thought of as my 'place' on the hierarchy. If only he knew.

The rest of the test passed by without incident, apart from the time that the teacher had caught one of the human's attempting to copy from his neighbour. I was almost not able to hold in laughter at the stupidity of the man who is called our 'superior'; he was unable to catch the boy until he peeked for the tenth time. Talk about hopeless. Still holding the laugh in as the teacher collected our tests and dismissed us, my smile transformed into a frown as I knew that I had to actively converse with two vampires that I disliked.

Yippee.

To show compliance I followed the two as they lead me to their cars. Which were rather nice, I had to admit, even if I thought of cars as pointless. There are faster ways to transport that humans are not even aware of.

The two turned to face me, curiosity evident of their faces as they waited impatiently for me to begin. I decided to go get straight to the point: the less time spent with them the better. "I know what you are." Not even the words were mine, having had recycled the human's words to the love-sick blood-sucker from earlier, showing how much energy I was willing to use in the conversation that was not worth my time. As little as possible.

To say that they were surprised was a colossal understatement. The perfect oh of the Barbie's displayed openly showed that she was not expecting that to be the case. She was most likely expecting me to say that I was on my period, or pregnant. Anything girlie. As if.

Her mate just looked clueless. Stupid boy.

Knowing that they did not believe me, I hate it when people do not take my word for things, I explained. "I left to follow Bella and Edward. We had both figured out yesterday after Edward lost control on his emotions earlier." These emotional beings should be able to sympathise. Or hate his guts. I do not mind. "We both confronted Edward, who showed us we were correct. I left them alone." Trying not to shudder when thinking of what the two had done when I jumped ship, I scanned the vampire's expressions to see if they were now convinced.

All my words turned out to be useless when Alice and Jasper showed up, having been told by Edward earlier. Jasper smiled at me while Alice confirmed the truth of my claims. I found myself grinning back, his moods were highly infectious, which came with his emotional controlling abilities.

I have recently found myself to begin to genuinely like this particular vampire. Part of this was because of my lack of contact with any sort of creature (comes with the profession). However, I find him a genuinely likeable and laid back personality who does not get on my nerves due to over-sexualised hormones or oversized egos. He was more than the least annoying Cullen, he was the best vampire that I had ever had the chance of meeting.

He was in my good books, unlike a certain puppy and his sappy human.

I am indeed aware of the fact that I am beginning to refer to the vampires by their given names. This is unfortunately due to the amount of time that I spend around them since I became friends with Jasper. I am never aware of when they will suddenly drag me into a conversation that requires me to use their proper titles, meaning that I am beginning to call them that in all aspects of life. An annoyance, but one that was necessary.

My thoughts were interrupted when I heard the pixie mention that she had a vision of the proceeding earlier. Which was a huge problem.

As a superior being none of the vampire's abilities can effect or sense me. Although I was often proud of this fact: it is part of the reason that Edward hates me as much as he does, it also means that I did not show up in this particular vision.

I had to think of an excuse that was believable but displayed no threat.

"By the way, I have been meaning to ask, why did you not show up in my vision?" Alice asked me in a kind fashion due to Jasper being in the vicinity, but I could see that she was suspicious. Time to lie in a brilliant fashion that will make her sorry she ever doubted me.

Smiling innocently, I explained. "I did not appear in your vision? I honestly do not know why that it, although it may have something to do with the fact that Edward cannot read my mind." Realising that I was only now supposed to know about the powers that they vampires had, I hurriedly saved my own skin. "He told me about his abilities in the forest."

I must admit that this may indeed make my top ten worst lies that I have ever told. I know from experience that the denial claim is horribly cliché and is almost never convincing. On the other hand, it would become far less believable if I changed it. I was stuck with this excuse now, for better or for worse.

Jasper did seem to believe me. "I cannot manipulate her emotions. She could perhaps be like Bella." He turned to his 'siblings', hoping that they believed me. He truly does trust me, something that I am ashamed to say caused me the smallest amount of emotional pain in how I am deceiving him. He is making me soft. If I did not have a mission to complete I would leave right at this moment before I begin to feel emotion.

Rosalie, pixie and newborn were not nearly convinced. I know that this has cost me their trust, a blow to my goal of acting human. Yet I knew that they would not say or do anything as they cared for Jasper. Nevertheless, I knew it was only a matter of time now.

Knowing that they had acquired as much information from me as possible, the three Cullens piled into Emmett's excuse for a vehicle and drove off, leaving me and Jasper alone in the carpark.

What on earth could he want?