Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

An Imperfect Life

By Midnight Dreamer

Chapter 05: The New Kids

(EPOV)

Walking into School was routine. Same old drab day after day. This person worrying about how they look, this one worrying about their new hair cut and if her so called boyfriend will like it. But today of all days there seems to be a strange buzz about a couple of new students. A brother/ sister pair. Their dad took over as sheriff, after Mr. Deets retired. The boys name is apparently Emmett. A rather tall muscular athletic type guy. Looks like he could play for the football team. The girl looks athletic also but not in the same way. She is petite and balanced. Toned muscles in her legs and arms. Looks to be track and field maybe. From the minds of everyone in here today they seem to be the talk of the town. I passed by their table at lunch, the boy or beast they call Emmett, his thoughts were pretty simple and relaxed.

God how I miss football,  the feel of the grass beneath my feet. The wind blowing around me. I hope Lil sis will finally be happy here. It seems like a great town.

His thoughts seemed to revolve around football and his sister. He must really care about her to think of her so often. He hopes she will be happy here and I see pictures of a time when she didn’t look happy. She looked painfully sad in the time he was remembering. She look tired and malnourished. Like she hadn’t slept or eaten in days. I wondered to myself what could have possibly happened to this girl for her to look like that.

I tried to hear the thoughts of the girl he referred to in his mind as his “Lil sis.” But I got nothing. Wait nothing. That can’t be right. I have never come across someone I couldn’t read. Maybe I’m just overlooking her voice. I tried again. Still nothing. Gggrrrrrr. This is getting frustrating. All of a sudden someone called my name.

“Edward”. It was Alice.

“What is it Alice?” I replied out loud.

“I was just wondering if you have had any classes with the new students yet?”

“No Alice I haven’t but it seems they are on everyone’s minds today”.

“Is that so?”

“Yes Alice why do you ask?”

“I’m only asking because I had a vision of you and the new girl, what’s her name?, talking quite heatedly if I may say so myself.”

“Well Alice her name is I Don’t know. Second of all why would I be having a heating conversation with a girl I don’t know? And thirdly I don’t speak to anyone, why would I start now?”

” I don’t know Edward, I’m just telling you what I saw. I wonder what she’s like? She seems to have good taste in clothing, wonder if she likes to shop? And as to your thirdly maybe you should start and then people might start thinking nicer things about you” Alice rattle on.

” I don’t care what people think Alice, and you know very well why I don’t talk to anyone. We need to keep our secret or we will have to move again, do you want that?”

This time Rosalie answered

” No way I’m not moving again. This is our second move in less then a year cause you two got too comfy around humans” she spit at us.

“Alright, alright. We will behave and keep our distance Rose” Alice replied.

“But what she don’t know won’t hurt her” she thought to me.

I chuckled in response. There is no stopping Alice once she gets an idea in her head, and the idea in her head was to make the new girl her new friend and shopping partner. Good at least now I won’t have to go with her.

” Edward. What is Alice up to?” Jasper thought.

I just nodded and send him mischevious feelings, he chuckled to himself but covered it up as a cough so Rose wouldn’t catch on to our private conversation. She hates it when we do that. Alice and I have Perfected it.  Jasper and I have our own version too of course.

Back to the new girl. She has me baffled. I can’t seem to hear her thoughts. I heard my name once again. I looked over to the table where the new kids where sitting and saw that Jessica Stanley was glancing our way.

“It seems as if Jessica is giving the new kids the dish on half the school, including us” I told my family.

“What does they think about us?” Jasper asked slightly amused.

” Well the tall kid Emmett thinks Rose is hot, and is thinking some thoughts about her I wish I could tune out” I said with a gagged look on my face.

“You have got to be kidding me” Rosalie said.

“Nope not kidding. It’s actually kind of gross to hear the things this guy is thinking of doing to you” I told her.

“What about the girl?” Jasper and Alice seemed to ask at the same time.

” I don’t know” I said ” I don’t understand, I can’t read anything of her. It’s like she’s not  there. I can clearly hear her voice talking out loud, but mentally she’s mute” I confessed to my family.

They all looked stunned for about half a second.

“Wow” said Jasper and Alice together. It’s often creepy when they do that.

Rosalie just looked pissed off. We have never had to deal with something like this before. I am intrigued. I wonder if maybe I should speak with her, it might help me sort out her thoughts.

“Yippy…does that mean I can talk to her too!” Alice thought.

I shook my head NO. Alice’s face dropped, Jasper saw and just shook his head. He knew something was going on but he won’t ask until we are alone.

The bell was about to ring so I would have to debate this later. Right now I have to head off to 6th hour A.P. Biology. It’s not like I don’t already know all of this stuff, but it is part of our charade. So as the bell rang I said my partings to Jasper, Rose and Alice. Alice was still pouting about not being able to befriend the new girl. It would just have to wait, until I can figure out  how she is blocking me. I won’t put my family at risk again.

I headed down the hall and entered the biology room. I of course have a table to myself. For some reason no one wants to sit with me. * pouts dramatically* I wouldn’t know why!*chuckles* For some unknown reason humans just tend to shy away from us. It may only be an unconscious decision but it still keeps them away.

I settled into my seat for the next hour of hell. Just as I got comfortable, something caught my attention. The most delicious smell came wafting into the room. As I looked toward the door to see what it was, There she stood! How can this be? The most delicious smell in the world was coming from this common place girl. My mouth started swimming with venom. I could feel my eyes widen within the sockets, in order to take every inch of her. My hands clung to the side of the desk, how can I keep myself from giving in and destroying my family’s faith in me. I don’t want to kill this girl, but my body says otherwise. I need to get out of here. What if someone sees me looking like this?

I looked around the room and the only pair of eyes that were on me, were that of the new girl herself. They were large and round as if taking in her surroundings as a scared animal would. The deep pools of chocolate were almost invisible as her pupil was enlarged to observe and capture every minute detail in the room. She was frozen in the doorway. Unable to move. We continued to stare at each other until Mike Newton, the pathetic creature that he is, came up behind the girl and bumped into her. Bringing her out of the trance that we were locked into. She then proceeded to the teachers desk at the front of the room. As she walked I noticed the gracefulness of her step and the elegance as she walked.

She handed a small note to the teacher. He read it over quickly and then handed her a text book. Oh wait, no he can’t do that. The only seat left in the room is the one next to me. Crap. Okay don’t panic act as if everything is normal. I gathered up my things and stacked them neatly on my side of the table. She sat down in the chair beside me. She looked nervous. I wonder why? Then It dawned on me, everyone is nervous around me. Or I could be wrong and it could just be because it is her first day. I hate that I can’t read her thoughts. This would be so much easier if I knew she was thinking. Wait why am I worried. I shouldn’t care either way. Whether she is scared of me or just nervous because it’s a new school. But I do care, that in itself is strange. It’s like she has become a science project, an obsession. I must study her and find out how she works, what makes her tick.

As if sensing that I was staring at her she turned her head slightly to look at me. When I saw my reflection in her deep chocolate eyes, I felt suddenly ashamed of myself. I have never been this rude before even to my food. I must rectify this as soon as possible. I won’t be able to unravel the enigma that is this girl; if I scare her away. But just as I was about to speak to her, the teacher started class. I would have to wait until he finishes. The class dragged slowly. I never knew an hour could last that long. Then finally he wrapped up and gave the class their homework assignments. I was about to say something to her when all of a sudden the classroom was empty. She turned to me with a sharp glare and spoke.

” What the hell is your problem. I don’t even know you and you have been giving me dirty looks and staring at me all period. If you have something to say, say it. If not then keep your eye balls to yourself and mind your own business,” she said as her face turned red with anger.

But before I could respond to the outburst, She grabbed her books and disappeared out of the room.