They Could Hardly Believe Their Eyes!

He Feels The Feel, But Why?

"What the hell Bella! I thought these vamps were veggies?" Eric says as he releases me.

"They are. He was fine until I walked in front of that fan! My blood must be doing something to him. Rewind until we walk down the corridor and tell me to shield myself, okay?" I say knowing I won't remember anything,

So we do it all again, Eric explains what happened and I make a note to read up on that phenomenon and this time Edward stays in his seat and is still smiling happily to himself. When I go to sit, he says,

"Hi, I'm Edward Cullen" and I nod before telling him my name.

Bob Banner has done his homework unlike the rest of us and we actually do a real class. The phases of mitosis or something like that! Edward seems to know this shit so I smile and say,

"Have at it buddy, I haven't got a clue!"

It doesn't take him long to write out the answers in lovely copperplate writing. I would have thought anyone trying to blend in would have attempted to dumb down a bit!

"Bella, Edward, have you finished already?" Bob asks and I smile,

"He's a whizz kid, Mr B, I didn't know one end from the other!" I said and he shook his head.

The day went quite quickly and lunch was a scream. Having to queue and eat weird-looking human food had some people looking a little pasty. Tomorrow I think maybe they should magic our stuff to look like human food, but only to the Cullens and because they won't taste it they will never know the difference. I'll suggest it to dad tonight; otherwise, Julie Hammond will be inundated with patients wanting to see the school nurse.

She's not that kind of healer; really she's more of a spell reverser or spell remover witch. Everyone thought it would be safer to have her in the school than at the hospital, just in case, someone lost control. By the end of the day, I was tired, hungry and desperate to get home, before we all headed over to Lauren's place. I think I'll start packing my own lunch, they do that, humans don't they?

"You okay darlin'?" A southern accent asked me,

I knew it was one of them, okay I knew it was him Jasper Hale or Cullen or whatever his real name was,

"Just tired, didn't sleep to well last night" I lied, not knowing what to say.

"You just feel a little down," he said walking away, mumbling to himself,

How does he know how I feel, I've got my shield up and his power is blocked? I need to speak to dad about this, like yesterday! I've got serious trouble if he can. But how can he feel my emotions and no one else's? That doesn't make any sense. So that glance back last night must have been him feeling my relief. Plus that was a close shave with the younger one Edward; I'll seriously have to read up on that phenomenon.

These Cullens are going to be trouble I can feel it in my bones and so to can Jasper whatever his name is, apparently! I realise how ridiculous that sounds and start to giggle, but there is a touch of hysteria in it and I stop, looking around panicked to see if he's there. Thankfully I'm alone and I gather my things climb on my bike and head out. He was watching me as I drove past them and damn did he just wink at me?

Dad seems awfully calm about all this, says maybe he just saw how I looked and connected how it should feel to him normally. Like compensating for his missing gift, or maybe a residual sense that will go in time. I'm not so sure, but as he says only time will tell. I whip up a quick meal for dad and me to stave off that hunger I'd been feeling and changed into something else.

Waving my hand at the room, to put everything back where it should be I decide to walk over to Laurens instead of teleporting. We are having to dial back on the use of magic because they are fast and could see something they shouldn't before we're aware. It's time to get over there and do some homework on how to be fully human, oh, joy!