Sam's POV
Settling with the Cullens had been easy. They were all very accepting and welcomed me and made mw feel like I was truly one of them. Tough I admit that I did have some black moments, seeing as they were all always happy I did stand out among them. Probably that was the reason they were always asking me if I was alright. Especially after I had lost myself in a vision for five hours. They had been really worried, but after I came back to reality I informed them that it was quite normal for me.
Alice had reformed my wardrobe after she threw away almost half my clothes and dragged me shopping with her, Bella, Rose and Nessie. Apparently they all thought that I dressed too emoish. Well, whatever.
Today we were going to attend St. Cross high school for the very first time. I was looking forward to it as I had skipped High School in my studies. I was going to be Jacob and Bella's sister. Nessie and Edward would be our cousins along with Emmet and Alice who were playing to be brother and sister too. Our cover story was that while on a family vacation, the cabin caught fire and all our parents died, but we were not in the cabin so we survived. Then, Esme who was playing to be an ex-social worker took us all in. Rose and Jasper would be family friends who lost their parents too and Esme and Carlisle took them in too. Every couple got in their car; of course I rode alone in my new black Audi. We bee lined to the school with Alice and Jasper in the lead.
I laughed to myself at how we must have looked to the people outside, a parade of expensive cars. We entered the school's parking lot and parked smoothly next to each other. We got out of the cars and walked together to the information desk. I felt several eyes on me and what had before been a loud ground of noisy kids catching up had turned into utter and complete silence. I looked around me and saw many groups of teenagers huddling up and just staring at us. I swear I even saw some males drooling.
"Good luck." Emmet whispered from beside me.
"Oh, this will be a piece of cake. I'm not worried" I shrugged.
"That's not why you'll need the luck." he said, his grin getting wider.
"Stop teasing her Em!" I heard Rose say from behind him. "Don't worry Sam, you'll do fine" she said, "but yeah, I guess you'll need the luck."
"For what?" the curiosity was killing me.
"Oh, you'll see." Emmet said.
"I'll see what?"
"Oh, don't worry, Sam, we've got your back." Nessie said from the other side of our line.
"For what?" I asked her?"
"You'll see" they all chorused together. I shook my head, thinking hard about what I'll be seeing. I heard laughs vibrate from all of them.
The information desk wasn't far. We got our timetables and a little map of the school each and we were assigned our lockers. I checked my timetable with the others. I had second period with Bella and Edward which was biology and fourth period which was French (yeah, j'aime le français) with Nessie and Jake. Every period was forty minutes long, even lunch (sixth period), and I had fifth period free, which the secretary had strictly told us that it should be dedicated to reading or studying. I had seventh period with Alice and Jasper too.
I examined the map and found out that the physics- my first class- block, was east of the school. I parted ways with the others and started hunting down the physics labs. I did not mind looking around the school and having my nose glued to the map. It was actually new and exciting to me. I was not worried about classes. Since I had a photographic memory I had pretty good chances of acing the subject. Suddenly I felt someone next to me. I smelled around me and it most defiantly smelled human. Then I reminded myself that I was in a place filled with humans. Though the school was not very large and had a very small student body I had to remind myself that I would be constantly surrounded with humans. I looked up and found a kid, maybe two years older than what I looked now. I reminded myself that I had I had enrolled as a sophomore so this guy would be either a junior or a senior.
"Um... Hello." I said feeling very much stalked.
"H-hi... My name is Dean Harris. I'm on the welcoming team here at . I know you're knew here so if you need anything, anything at all just tell me and I'll make it happen!" he said. I started at him my mouth open in a little O. In my years I've never known anyone who would do anything for anybody without getting something back. This guy was way too perky for my tastes. He practically burst my personal space bubble. I mean seriously could he not feel the usual sense of preservation telling him to run away from me the minute he saw me? What the Hell was wrong with him? I stepped a few steps away from him only almost hit someone as I turned.
"Don't mind Dean. He can probably make fish feel out of water with his weirdness." the new person from next to me said. Not a very creative insult.
"Scram Junior!" he whispered low and menacingly enough for Dean to shudder. He smiled apologetically at me and run away. I felt pity for the kid. So it was true; just five minutes in the school had informed me that the same old High School clichés that I had read about in so many books were really true. Back when I was a living teenager I remember some people calling me a nerd, but I never took it seriously as only a couple of people believed in clichés, tough were I had come from it was more like a pyramid of fame than clichés. There were no jocks or cheerleaders or geeks or emos. It was really just how high you'd rank on the popularity chart. Where I came from I was used to an athlete sort of type befriending the artistic sort of type while still ranking high on the popularity scale. "So, what's you name? I'm Bill Marks." he said and extended a hand to me. I hesitantly shook it, trying as much as possible to keep our skin contact to a minimum.
"I'm Samantha Cullen." I told him. I liked how the name sounded. I smiled a little to myself and he must have taken it that I was smiling at him as his grin got bigger. "So where were you staying before you came here?"
"Um... Pittsburg, Pennsylvania." I told him, sticking to our cover story.
"So... You're new in town... Maybe if you would like I could take you around sometime, grab some dinner..." he trailed off. Okay was it just me or were the boys in this town way too pushy.
Um... I..." thankfully I was saved by the bell. "…apparently got to go. Don't want to be late for my first day." I said and gave him a strained smile and rushed into the crowd of teenagers. His shouts got lost over the large crowd rushing off to classes and catching up and the gossip before classes started. I followed the map and arrived. The minute I entered class it was the parking lot all over. It was like someone had muted the sound. The teacher had not yet arrived so I would have expected chaos in the class room but they were all just staring at me. I look down at myself to make sure that I was wearing pants. Yeah, I was, so why the heck were they staring!
I entered the room and found an empty desk at the lower left side of the room. I sat down and stared right ahead at my hands. I felt many eyes still lingering on me. I mean seriously what was up with these teenagers? When I had been in university I could understand that the students would be curious in knowing why a girl much younger than them was talking the same course but amongst these teenagers I should blend in. I was wearing ordinary black knee-high boots over black skinny jeans a red knit top and a matching red knit hat. I wore a black trench coat over all. In my opinion my look was fairly normal, even tough the articles of clothing were all from very high brands. Well, I guess the whole vamp charisma would never allow me to blend in properly. Thanks god, the silence was slowly fading away, but many people started whispering. I focused on what they were saying.
"Oh my god! All the guys keep staring at her!"
"Yeah, right, I mean she's nothing special!"
"Come on, even you have to admit that she's got the stuff to be one of us if she wants too. Look at her, the guys are literally drooling over her."
"Yeah, her and all the others with her. But apparently there all together, together ! She's the only one who doesn't seem to date someone going to our school." I heard a bunch of girls say. I turned my head to look at them and not surprisingly they were a group of bitches you find in every school. I shrugged them off and mentally told them to go screw themselves.
"Huh, I bet she's still a virgin." I heard someone say. My head snapped at him, my eyebrows disappearing under the knit hat. My eyes met a guy, probably some brainless jock. He and his friends were looking at me as if they were… I don't know how to describe it, I'm not a guy… but it made me feel naked.
"I bet she won't be once we hook up." Not even in your dreams dude! And even if I was not a virgin I'm still virtuous. Even if we were not together anymore it would feel wrong and dirty to cheat on Alec. He's the one and the only I love and would completely give myself to. I felt myself smile sadly, now was not the time to feel sad. I sighed and looked up, only to find the jock who assumed I was still a virgin in front of me.
"Excuse me, have we met before?" he asked giving me a toothy grin. I stared at him, expressionless. "No."
"Are you sure? 'Cause if feels like I've known you all my live. Who knows, perhaps there is such a thing as soul mates." Really original pick-up phrase.
"Nah, I'm pretty sure I haven't met you before." I told him.
"Perhaps we can arrange that over dinner tonight at eight. By the way I'm Heath Lockwood, and you are…?"
"Samantha Cullen." I said. Man, would the teacher just arrive already?
"So, what do you think about tonight? Are we on?" He asked me.
"Sorry, I'm really busy with the moving and stuff. I don't really have time."
"How 'bout Saturday? Some of the guys are hosting a party after our football game, do you want to come with me?" he asked me. He wouldn't just take no for an answer and leave with his dignity, would he?
"Heath, baby, so I see you've invited the newbie to the party. I'm Tiffany, by the way. I don't think I've had the pleasure to talk to you." She said. My table was suddenly very crowded. Tiffany had brought along with her two other girls and well Heath was already the size of a mountain. It seemed that everybody was interested in my answer. I felt suffocated and well just slightly curious. My curiosity got the better of me so I checked what I had involuntary gotten myself into. I saw Heath and Tiffany do some heavy X-rated making out. Eww. I shook of the vision and went back to reality. So Tiffany was probably pissed at me for getting asked out by Heath. I sighed. I seriously did not need this drama in my life.
"Sorry, can't. My cousins and I go camping in the weekend." I told him. His eyebrows furrowed but Tiffany smirked. Fortunately, a middle aged teacher made his way to our room.
"Settle down everybody!" He said and frowned at the crowd at my table which suddenly dispersed. "Ah, I see we've got a new student. Welcome aboard." He said and sat down to do the attendance. Once that was ready he wrote in very ugly printing his name and today's lesson topic on the board. Alec would have been horrified at Mr. Johnson's handwriting. I remember him telling me, "Write as if you're describing who you are. Your handwriting shows the kind of person you are and what's going on in your mind." I remember laughing at him and telling him he was being way too farfetched over this. He had then looked at me with those piercing eyes and told me "Oh, am I?" Then we both burst out laughing and he wrapped his arms around me from behind and started tickling me…
"Miss Cullen… apparently you're the only one without a partner for today's experiment."
"I'll go with her." Many guys said at the same time.
"I don't mind working alone." I said confidently, ignoring them completely.
"Have you already done these experiments?" Mr. Johnson asked me. I glanced at the whiteboard and nodded. I had already done these experiments when I was human.
"Very well then." He said and turned to the rest of the class so that he could explain what we were going to do. We were supposed to find the specific heat capacity of water. He gave us the equation and did a demonstration. Then he instructed some guys to hand out the apparatus and we began. I worked swiftly and in silence and filled out the worksheet presented to me so that I could later fill in a report on the lab book. Many students groaned and complained that it wasn't fair to receive so much homework on the first day of school but guess what? As always the teacher didn't care. I finished among the first which earned me many disbelieving stares from the couples who were struggling with the heat losses in their experiment.
Class ended quickly and I had my report almost ready. I washed and put away the apparatus and disappeared the minute the bell rang. As if I wanted to be ambushed by some more 'good-doers'.
I checked the map, which informed me that my next destination, the biology lab was south of where I currently stood.
"Hi, I'm Justin Campbell. You are new here and I was wondering if you need some help, getting to your next class I wouldn't mind helping you." Someone said from beside me. Not again! I swear I'm using vamp speed next time!
"Hi, I'm Samantha Cullen but I prefer it Sam. I'm going to biology." I responded. His face lit up.
"Me too. We can walk together." he said. Our walk was quiet, though I the stares never subsided. When we arrived at the biology labs, I found Bella and Edward, practically receiving the same awed stares I was receiving. I sat behind them.
"So… did you figure out what we were talking about earlier?" Edward asked with a grin, even Bella smiled, though she seemed pissed before I entered the class.
"Hell yeah. I never thought I'd have to go through this. Everybody is way too friendly. It's creepy!" I said. They smiled empathically at me. "So how was your morning? From the looks of it, it was just as great as mine."
"Yeah well, some people are way too pushy. I mean seriously, some ho just had the nerve to ask him out, when I was standing hand to hand with him? How can you not get angry?" Bella said.
"Hon, we went over this. Being angry is understandable, growling at her, now that's not really smart." He told her. I laughed softly at how gooey goo they were acting. Suddenly I saw the fog and understood I was going to have a vision. Some girl would try to seriously flirt with Edward and Bella would wait after class and rip her head of. Literally. When I got back to reality, I shouted Edward's name in my head. His head snapped at me quizzically and I quickly informed him mentally about the vision. He nodded and mouthed thanks at me. I smiled as in to say 'you're welcome'. The teacher came in and unfortunately she made us introduce ourselves. Everybody listened attentively. We just had to say our names, were we came from and some hobbies. When we were ready a guy from the back, who seriously looked like someone who was in love with trouble raised his hand.
"Yes, Mr. Robinson?" Ms. Duke, our teacher asked, I heard Edward from beside me chuckle.
"I have a question for you." He said pointing at me. My head cocked to the side in confusion. What would he want to ask me? "Do you have a boyfriend?" He asked me. Had it been possible I would have turned redder than a tomato. "Um… no." I said doubtfully, I had a mate, that's bound to be out of the boyfriend bounds. Uh-oh stop thinking about it. Perhaps it would have been smarter for me to say yes so that they would leave me alone.
"She's free meat, guys." He said and fist bumped with some of his friends. I cocked my eyebrow in disbelief. Yeah, over the years I've learned how to do that.
"Excuse me?" I said putting as much power in my voice as I could. Ms. Duke stared at me in surprise and many flinched, clearly not expecting my reaction. Usually someone small like me would not be able to wield that much power in just two words.
"Very disrespectful of you, Mr. Robinson. Why don't you inform Principle Walsh about your latest discovery since you're going in his office. Now." She said, just as he was about to leave, she stopped him once more. "Apologize, Robinson." She told him sternly.
"Fine. I'm sorry, Cullen." He said, and it was either his shrug or smug tone that made me hint that he wasn't really sorry. To top it all off he winked at me, gave me a devilish smile and walked away. The nerve of him!
I wondered how he'd feel about it if I whipped his ass in front of the student body. Humph, calling me free meat! That at least would give them something to talk about for ages. I don't know if it's just an evil side of my personality - cue the evil laughter – but one of the things I really like is trashing people with big egos. I mean seriously, the way their faces fall, or the look of astonishment on their faces, or the though ' take that, bitch!' in my mind. The class finally settled down and we went back to our seats. I listened to Ms, Duke's lesson but I could not help how my mind would slip off to how I could humiliate Robinson. It must be the bloodlust turning me violent, I decided. I should have gone hunting with the others yesterday. I made a mental note to go hunting tonight.
The lesson passed swiftly, so I saluted Edward and Bella, who were still laughing their heads off about what happened in class and went to my next class, World History. This ought to be interesting. I had studied European History and I remembered it like the back of my hand back when I was human. I had read several books about American and Asian History. This is going to be easy , I thought, which in fact it was.
After history I had French with Nessie and Jake. Fortunately I caught a seat next to them.
"So, I don't know if you've noticed but you and some guy called Daren are the buzz of the school. Tell me everything I've been dying to get the full story." Hmm… so that's Robinson's name. I wasn't up to tell her so I put her hand as inconspicuously as I could to my temple and gave her the full story.
"Seriously? He called you free meat?" she asked horrified. I nodded.
"Well, even though he's a douche bag at least he's cute." She said.
I furrowed my eyebrows. "I'm sorry; I was too busy being pissed at him to notice his cuteness." Yeah, now that I think of it he was a little bit cute. He had light brown hair and when he gave me that smile of his I noticed he had dimples. He was probably about six feet tall. Yeah, Nessie was right but in no way would I compare him to Alec. Alec was well… perfection in my opinion. Sure he wasn't that tall but to me he was just the perfect size.
"Should I have any reason to get worried about this 'cute' guy?" Jake asked Nessie. "Of course not, baby." She told him. They looked as if they were about to start making out in class.
"Um… guys. I'm no critic but if you want to get hot I'm not sure French class would be the room I'd suggest you to get. Well, on the other hand le français est la lange du l'amour." I said matter-of-factly. They both laughed hard. "Oh, lighten up!" Nessie said and playfully punched my arm.
French class passed like a blur. It had become like a second language to me. Huh, I wondered if English had become my first tongue where that would leave my native tongue. I hadn't used it since Emily had given birth to Damon, and I had used it during a lapse of dirty vocabulary to curse the universe. Yeah, nobody would declare me a patriot but whatever. I wondered if it had given me an accent. Probably not. Nobody ever said anything to me that my English had an accent.
I rejoiced as now we would have sixth period. Nessie, Jake and I went in the classroom where a bored teacher was reading some gossip magazine and found Bella and Edward already there. We greeted each other and sat. I wanted to finish my homework fast so that I would have the rest of free period to myself. Many kids around us were still whispering and staring but I had grown accustomed to them. I had just finished the report and was about to start my French homework when somebody sat in the unoccupied seat next to me. I was too busy to look up, but I had to when Nessie elbowed me in the ribs. I looked up and scowled at her, only to see her wagging her eyebrows. I wrote "WTF?" on a rough piece of paper and she only drew this:
I looked that way and my scowl pronounced when I saw who it was.
"So, how's it going Cullen?" He said to me. If it wasn't my new friend, Daren.
"Fine." I said to him. The class had hushed. Apparently everybody wanted to listen to our hushed conversation.
"Want to know how my day was so far?"
"Not really." I said frankly. He chuckled.
"Thanks to you I got detention." He said matter-of-factly.
"And am I supposed to care about this because…?" I asked him, getting more annoyed by the minute.
"I wouldn't normally bother to get detention for a girl but there's something about you…" he said and looked intently at me. I looked up at him from my homework.
"Leave me alone." I told him.
"Oh, come on baby, you and me one date, you won't regret it." he said. I took my time and finished the last sentence of my essay. Then I wrote something on the rough piece of paper and held it up in a way that only he could see it. The piece of paper said:
Screw you, meathead!
He looked at the paper, probably shocked that I turned him down. I crumpled the paper in a little ball, smiled an obvious fake smile and just as I had timed, the bell rung that moment. I shoved my stuff in my bag and followed Nessie and the others out for lunch.