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There is a New Girl at Forks High, her name is Lela.
She has long curly hair, dark skin and deep chocolate eyes. She's a shy girl, hiding behind her hair and glasses, and has a lovely smile and laugh, which has attracted the attention of most males, and some females, of the tiny school.
This is how she found herself sat at the, well she assumed, "popular kids" table. With a self proclaimed Queen Bee, a Quarterback (despite not having an actual team) and several other generic highschoolers.
The only one she actually liked, Angela, was unfortunately not loud enough for her to hear over the yammering of the mousy haired girl sat next to her.
"- which is totally lame, but then again shop class isn't made to be amazing now, am I right?!"
Oh god, think of anything to distract her!
She frantically scanned the room, trying to find anything to change the subject.
That's when she saw them. Possibly the most beautiful people she'd seen in her entire life.
There were two blondes, a man and a woman. The man looked in pain, glaring across at the lunch room door. The woman, no... supermodel, was angry about something. Next to her was a hulking giant, possibly the biggest man Lela had ever seen, who just looked bored. Then the fourth one, who -
Oh… my god. He's so… wow.
"Who… who is he?"
Mike, the lonely footballer, seemed to deflate.
"Oh, Cullen?"
Jessica (she thinks that's her name?) shot up for the conversation, raring to go. Maybe having a gossip next to her was beneficial. Lauren sighed and got her phone out, thank God.
"You noticed then, huh? Those are the Cullen's, well most of them."
"Most of-?"
"Yeah! That beautiful specimen is Rosalie, the painful looking one is Jasper. Like, he totally looks like maybe he needs more fruit in his diet or something, right? Hashtag: constipatiooooon…"
She paused, and Lela realised she was meant to laugh.
"Oh-! Haha?"
Jessica beamed.
"And the giant is Emmett, he's like, with his sister, weird right?"
Angela sighed.
"Jess, they're-"
"Adopted, I know, it's still gross!"
There's a murmur of activity, and Lela looked up to see Rosalie all but pounce on the now entertained Emmett. She had to admit, it was kinda hot.
"Ew… anyway, the stressed beautiful one? That is Edward Cullen. The only single Cullen who, you know, matters."
Edward…
She looks up and almost jumped out of her skin, he's glaring black at her, his eyes deep and terrifying.
"W-wow, he's kinda… intimidating."
He looks away.
"He's too beautiful to be scary, but I get it. Besides, it's the newest Cullen you gotta be nervous about!"
"Newest?"
"Yeah! Joined last year, came back from a trip or something. She's dating the other Cullen, Alice, who was like, totally sad before she came back."
Jess leaned in for effect.
"Also Alice was… you know, dating Mr Constipated over there, when they were kids, before Mr and Mrs Cullen adopted their newest. Bit awkward in that house now, I imagine."
Lela nodded, noting how Jasper looked more pained all of a sudden.
"But yeah, like I was saying, that one is the scariest, over there!"
"Where?"
"There! Walking in now!"
Lela turned, noticing immediately a small skipping supermodel walking into the cafeteria. She was grinning wide, practically floating as she held the hand of the girl next to her-
Wow. She didn't need long to figure out why this was the scariest Cullen.
This girl, wow... this girl. She was average height with long dark hair windswept back, like she had just ran through a hurricane. Her skin was the darkest out of all the Cullen's, tanned more than you'd expect from Forks. Her eyes were the most fascinating, a burning orange.
"Now that's Forks' Power Couple, imo."
Never knew people actually verbally used slang.
"Small one is Alice and the other one, that's Isabella-"
Angela huffed.
"Bella. She hates being called-"
"Yeah, whatever."
She was grinning, twirling Alice as she skipped and spun in the air, holding her hand firmly. A glint caught her eye on the girl's ring finger.
"Are they…"
"Oh yeah! Scandaaaal!"
She sang the word.
"They disappeared for about a month and a half, both had massive detentions at first but Mr Cullen sorted it, said they were both 'ill' or something. Buuuut, both came back much happier and wearing matching rings, so rumor has it they're-"
"Married?"
"Yeah! How'd you guess?! Weird though, right? They're like, 19 or something!"
"Lucky guess…"
She watched them sit down, not at the table with the others, but alone, holding hands and talking excitedly with each other.
With a start, Lela noticed Alice kept glancing over at her. Bella matching her gaze with a smirk. The brunette wasn't scary persay, but there was… something about her. Something that made her want to run away as fast as she could.
It was unnerving to say the least.
"But yeah, aren't they cool?"
Jess acted like they were something of her to be proud of, and in a way she did know a lot about them. Maybe she could be proud, or worried about herself. Either way, the other girl was useful.
"Yeah…"
The lunch bell rang, the Cullen's all stood and left. The youngest boy, Edward, stared at her as they left, his black eyes burning into her with a different type of intimidation to the newest Cullen.
"... very cool."
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Bella stepped out of the only class she didn't have with her beautiful wife, ignoring the shout of the nameless teacher as she left early. Unshockingly, Alice was already outside, and launched herself into the taller girls arms.
"You know one day we're gonna have to actually finish a lesson."
Alice looked aghast and put her hand to her chest.
"And be away from you? I'd rather die!"
"Flair for the dramatic much, my love?"
Bella smirked, a fanged tooth poking out of her mouth. She meant down and placed a gentle kiss on Alice's waiting lips.
"Hey! I didn't say you could leave Miss Cullen!"
Bella groaned and leant back, watching as students left the classroom, the bell ringing.
"Bite me, Garrison."
Alice giggled and took Bella's hand, skipping away as they walked down the corridor, ignoring his shouts from behind. The pixie's eyes glazed over for a second and she grinned.
"Detention, again."
"Not a shock."
"Don't worry though, I thought this might happen sooo…" she pulled a small green sheet from her jacket pocket, "I made sure to call Mrs Turner a prick."
Bella snorted, which turned into a barking laugh.
"I have corrupted you, my dear."
"In the best of ways, my Bella."
There was a huff and Bella rolled her eyes.
"'Sup, sex hair?"
Edward glowered at her and moved his gaze to Alice.
"Detention, Alice? Again? Why have you become such a nuscience?"
Alice pulled the tense Bella away from her brother, towards her glaring yellow car. She'd seen this happening, and decided it was best to separate them on the journey home.
"Get a mate, Edward. Then you'll get it."
Emmett laughed and wrapped his arm around Rosalie.
"That's right little sister! Brings the beast out in all of us!"
Edward glared at his smug brother, feeling a calm reassurance from Jasper at his side. He gave him a look of thanks, when the scent came back again. Edward closed his eyes as his beast smashed against his control.
"We need a family meeting when we're home. The new girl is my singer."
"Noted, brother."
He glared, unintentionally, at the girl across the lot. Staring as she fumbled with her keys to a small cheap looking car, pulling the rust away as she opened the door with an almighty screech. As the girl, Lela, slammed the door her scent went away a little, but was still strong to test his control. Jasper touched his elbow end guided him to his Volvo.
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"Week three without Edward, is it wrong that I feel more relaxed than usual?"
Alice smacked Bella's chest and tutted her.
"Bella, that's my brother your talking about."
"Hey I like your brothers! Well, one anyway. Edward is more stress than bless, and Jasper wants to kill me in a way that wouldn't upset you."
Alice shrugged and leant back to Bella's chest, reading her magazine as her mate continued playing her game.
"My only brother who likes you will change his mind if you beat his high score."
"Well he shouldn't leave his game unattended."
Alice giggled, and Bella relaxed at the sound. She out the controller down and scooped Alice up into her lap, kissing her neck and making her laugh again.
"Bellaaaaa, Carlisle will be home soon!"
"Then we beat be quick, right?"
Alice kissed her, slow and sensual. She pulled back, smirking at the pointed pupils in her mates eyes.
"You know as well as I do, we don't do fast."
A rumble came from Bella's throat, and she kissed down her mates neck. Alice matched it leaning her head back and sighing.
"Well at least take me upstairs then."
Bella grinned against her neck and stood, carrying Alice on her front like a koala. She stepped toward the staircase, feeling a heat burn in her chest as her heart started to race.
The front door slammed open.
Bella very quickly placed Alice on the stairs and turned with a growl, her now pointed teeth lapping over her lips as claws ached out of her fingertips. Orange eyes burned with a fire as she glared at the disheveled vampire in the door.
"Edward."
"Isabella."
She rumbled another growl, now starting to sound like a hiss. Alice stood up next to her, her own eyes a dark amber, and she was much calmer as she spoke to her brother.
"Edward, what is it?"
Her eyes glazed over, and he looked at her with a weak vulnerability. She came out of her vision with a gasp, and looked at her brother with a happy grin.
"She's your mate."
He shyly nodded. Bella's teeth retracted and she stood next to her, holding Alice's hand and leaning her head on her shoulder. She smiled, genuinely, and Edward found himself thinking how kind she looked when she was behaving civilly.
"Lela? Congrats dude, she actually seems nice. Are you gonna change her?"
He winced and walked past them to his room. Alice slapped Bella's side and she yelled painlessly.
"Hey! What did I do?"
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Rosalie's fist hit the table and she glowered at her oldest sibling.
"You told her?!"
Edward looked down and had the nerve to look guilty.
"Rosalie, she figured us out by herself. That is not Edward's fault."
Rosalie rolled her eyes at the family patriarch.
"No, but a first date revealing all but his favorite animal to hunt was. I can't believe you're taking his side in this! Again!"
"Rosalie-"
"Yeah dude take a chill pill. It's not like he turned his mate on their first date, like some vampires we know…"
Rosalie snarled at Bella, pointing her finger at the smug beast.
"You have not been in this family long enough to pass judgement on that! And you!"
She pointed to Alice.
"Keep your nosey mate out of my business before I make you!"
Alice growled, eyes darkening.
"Is that a threat on my mate, sister?"
"Mate? You gave up your mate for her. She's just a homewrecker!"
Jasper hissed alongside Alice. Bella grumbled, and Jasper paused when he felt guilt from the beast.
Alice noticed this too, and her growl got louder.
"Rosalie!"
Emmett stood between them, looking scarily tense for his usual demeanor.
"Enough!"
The room froze and all looked at Esme. She was giving them all a heavy look of disapproval, arms crossed.
"You are a family, act like one!"
Bella pulled Alice to her chest, her growl leading off into a purr.
Esme held Edward's hand, rubbing that back of it with her thumb.
"She knows, we cannot change that. Now Edward, tell us about her. When can we meet her?"
He smiled at his mother, squeezing her hand back.
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"I need to hunt."
Alice nodded, she'd noticed how pale Bella had become the past few days. She knew she needed to hunt, to cause some violence. Her mate was becoming stronger at resisting, but still needed her time to be in her nature.
"Okay baby, remember to be safe."
Bella nodded and kissed Alice's forehead.
"I'll try and be back in time for the baseball game this week. I'll see you then my love."
She stood from their bed and leapt from the window, disappearing with a blur of dark and blue. Alice stepped out of their room and down the staircase to the living room, sitting on the sofa with a sigh.
"Finally got a break from the beast?"
"Do you ever switch off, Rosalie?"
"Maybe, if you told me what it was we are actually living with."
Alice grit her teeth together, smiling at her brother who patted her knee.
"She will tell you when she trusts you. You're not exactly making a good case for her, Rose."
The blonde beauty huffed and violently flipped the page in her magazine.
"Well whatever she is it gave you that tattoo on your arm. Unless you found the world's strongest artist?"
Alice smiled and looked at her arm. The design was small, only a few inches tall, and was a curled winged beast. Blue with black tints.
"You'd know what it was if you were nice to her for more than zero seconds, Rosalie."
"I'll be nice when she's proven herself, Alice. All she does is mock people, and do you."
"Ha!"
Rose ran her hand through her mate's hair, smiling at his laugh.
"Well it's not my fault my mate is exceptional in bed. Maybe she could give Emmett some tips?"
"Aw, hey!"
"He doesn't need tips, he's perfect as is."
"Then leave my mate alone, Rosalie. And I'll leave yours alone."
She stuck her tongue out at the blonde who huffed, clearly fighting a smile. She missed this side of her sister, and wished she could be like this more with Bella around.
"Oh by the way, we're gonna be playing baseball Friday. Big storm coming. Edward will bring Lela."
Rosalie smirked and leant back on the sofa.
"Excellent."
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"Wow, she's fast!"
"Edward's faster."
Lela watched in awe as Edward, her boyfriend, leapt 20 ft in the air to catch the ball, throwing it back at Jasper who dived and outed Rosalie.
"Lela…" Esme whispered, an amused look on her face, snapping the girl out of her trance.
"O-oh, you're out!"
Rosalie glared at her, and Lela felt her heart skip a beat.
Goddamn, she's too hot to be that mean. Stupid bisexuality finding that attractive.
She nervous laughed as the blonde marched past her.
"Hey, where's Alice's, erm-"
"Mate?"
"Yeah."
"She'll be arriving later I suspect, she likes to hu- explore."
Lela caught the slip up, but thought if it wasn't meant for her, maybe she shouldn't hear it.
Alice was suddenly in front of her.
"Yeah! Bella will be here soon, I'm excited for you to see her again! Best friend and my mate, it's gonna be awesome!"
Lela nodded, she was kind of excited too. The other girl was weird, she made the Cullens seem normal. For one she actually ate food, which blew her mind when she saw it last week.
She was determined to find out what the newest Cullen was, because she was certain Bella wasn't a vampire. She'd subtly questioned her friend on the Rez, Jacob. But he didn't know anything either, just something called a shifter or something was supposedly a real thing.
Huh, vampires, mates and shifters. Her world has gone insane.
Alice hugged her and ran back to the pitchers spot, winding the ball in to throw at Emmett and past Carlisle, who was batting.
This was when her eyes glazed over. The family tensed, Esme touched Lelas elbow gently and stepped closer.
Edward gasped and appeared in front of his mate, crouching down at the waist.
"Nomads! They heard us playing, came to investigate."
Lela didn't know why that was so bad, but suddenly the whole family was around her, Carlisle and Esme stood straight at her sides while the others surrounded them, keeping her in the middle.
So probably not a good thing, then.
Yikes.
"They want to play."
Edward's normally angelic voice sounded like an angry tiger. Rosalie shifted to be stood slightly more in front of her.
Aw, she actually does kind of like me. Sweet.
"They haven't smelled her yet, they won't know if we keep her scent away."
She suddenly felt calm and glanced thankfully at Jasper. He nodded and gave her a weak smile, still not able to breathe around her.
Suddenly they were there.
The rest was kind of a blur to Lela, she knows they almost got away with it, but the wind caught her hair and the blonde in the middle took a deep breath in.
"Oh, you brought a snack."
All of the Cullens snarled, crouching low again and snapping at the nomads. Lela jumped back and into Esme's arms as the red eyes became black, all three of the nomads sniffing heavily at her smell.
What am I, vampire catnip or something?!
The blonde man snarled and lunged to her, eyes black as night. The red head tackled Edward who made a move for him, leaving Alice in the crossfire. Her lip pulled back and she hissed, meeting Victoria head on in the middle. Jasper attempted to help, instead being knocked to the side by a flying Edward, courtesy of James.
Alice yelped, grabbing Victoria’s head and pulling her mouth off of her shoulder, glaring at the bite now scarred onto her.
“Now you’ve done it.”
A roar splits the fight, freezing the nomads and letting the fighting Cullens retract back to defend the human.
"What the hell is-"
There is a blur of movement, and Bella is in front of Laurent. She smirks at him, but the expression holds no amusement, and she snaps her teeth making him flinch back.
"What the hell are you? You're no vampire."
Alice slinks up behind her mate and stands to her right.
"Leave, nomads. Before you really piss us off."
Bella smirks wider, sharp teeth gleaming. Laurent gulps.
"James, let's go. James!"
James snarled and stood, clearly annoyed. Alice held her bite on her shoulder, grumbling under her breath. Bella turned her gaze to the redhead.
"You're lucky she isn't hurt too badly. I'll remember you."
Lela was chilled to the bone. That voice was not one she matches with the normally chill Bella Cullen. It was heavy, like two voices were speaking at once.
Victoria glared but ran off, followed by Laurent, and then James.
The Cullens relaxed, and Bella spun to examine her mates shoulder, Alice was quietly reassuring her, and the other vampires looked away to give them some privacy when a strange chirping sound started emanating from Bella.
Edward held Lela's hand, running the back of it with his thumb.
"We need to leave, I read his mind, he will be back."
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Honestly, she doesn't even know how this situation occurred. One minute she's playing baseball with her new family, next she's on a plane to her old home after breaking her father's heart.
"Lee, please, just tell me why you-!"
"Why? Dad, I don't want to go fishing with you, watch football constantly, eat pizza every night, laugh about dumb shit with Billy? That's you dad, it's not me. I'm going back to Mom's."
"Le-"
"No, this was a bad idea from the beginning. We don’t work. Goodbye dad."
The door slammed just slow enough for her to hear his sob.
Man, life can be shit sometimes.
While she was happy to have them with her, and she certainly felt safe, having Alice and Bella be all lovey dovey couple on the plane wasn't helping her mood.
Man, she missed Edward and his dumb broody self.
They land in the terminal, Bella with her arm over Alice, who'd linked her arm with Lela to make sure she kept up.
"Hey, don't tell Edward but I need to go for a cigarette. You guys cool with me going?"
"Yeah of course! I'll be right in here getting our luggage, Bella will be sat right by the door!"
"Great, thanks."
Bella snorted and looked at Alice.
"Oh, he knows."
"I know, you can smell it a mile away. But he loves her, and its not like risk of lung cancer is an issue when she'll be a vampire soon."
"True, besides I smoke all the time and it's fine."
"Har har, such a comedian."
She gives her a quick kiss, which accidentally became several minutes long, before managing to pull herself away, much to the disappointment of the people watching.
"I need to get these suitcases- keep an eye out for her!"
"Will do, pixie feet."
Little did they both know, Lela had received a very threatening phone call, had already hailed a cab and ditched the pair of them.
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"Ahh this was a bad idea."
She ducked around the corner as the vampire chuckled, appearing to her right and grabbing her shoulder.
"Yes. This was a bad idea."
He throws her into the wall, blood drips down her forehead and into her eye, she hisses and wipes it away.
"Not only did you run away from the vampire, but also that… thing. That beast."
She grimaces as he steps closer, now focusing on her once more.
"No matter, I'll finish with you and hunt her down myself, find out what makes her tick, how to get her… going, before I finish her."
He ran his tongue across his teeth.
"So, where was I? Oh yes-"
He lunged forward and bit her wrist. Lela screamed, her head leaning back in agony as fire coursed through her veins.
James grinned, looking at her agonised face as her beautiful blood sang to him.
Glass smashes. James looks up to see, what he assumed, was a Cullen. He took in it's silhouette for a mere half a second before it was on him.
A large heavy hand grabbed his neck, launching him up and over in an arch, pinning the vampire to the ground. He gasped in pain, cracks spreading across his neck, Lela's screams tearing from the other side of the room.
It was her, the weird Cullen. The enigma.
"What- what are you?!"
Bella's teeth gleamed in the moonlight. Her skin was black and shiny, her mouth was bent out like a muzzle, her feet and hands snapped and distorted into painful looking shapes with sharp pointed claws splitting from her toes and fingers.
She didn't verbally answer, instead her mouth opened and a screeching roar tore from her throat. He winced and pushed her off of him, only managing to make her stumbled several feet as he leapt up.
Bella stood, orange eyes glaring at James. It was now he realised the woman had grown, and was now almost seven foot tall.
"Werewolf? Shifter? What- what are you?!"
Two dainty legs fell on his distracted shoulders, Alice's arms fell around his neck and she snapped it. James’ head spun and detached from his body.
His knees buckled and Alice leapt from his torso, rushing over to Lela, who was watching the whole scene.
She looked at the blood on Lela's hand and stopped breathing.
"We need to be quick- Bella! Finish him off!"
Lela was starting to black out, feeling another mouth on her wrist bite down and start to suck the fire away.
She screamed, looking back across the room to the dark beast, astonished to see her holding the still moving head of James. Bella tilted her head, and James looked quite terrified.
Suddenly he was aflame, his head and whole body was, and Lela had no clue where the flames came from.
Before she could figure what she was seeing, Lela blacked out.
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Bella threw the grape in the air, catching it in her mouth, and throwing another one.
As she wasn't a vampire, and not a working doctor like Carlisle, she was the only one capable of being sat in the bloody hospital full of humans to keep an eye on Lela.
She threw the grape, pause, caught it.
She threw another.
"Bella?"
She chokes, spitting the grape across the room.
"Lela! You're awake, cool, how's the head?"
Lela stared at her, still not quite awake.
"... What are you?"
Bella tensed, smiling despite herself. She patted Lela's hand and tilted her head.
"Haven't you listened to any of my brothers and sisters? Or even my dear wife? I'm a beast, Lela. I wouldn't recommend looking into it, I fear it'll be too much for your brain to take in. Vampires, werewolves, shifters and… me."
She leant back in her chair, offering a grape to the young girl, who shook her head.
“No thanks.”
“Okay but I will most likely have them all.”
She threw another grape in the air and caught it.
“Besides, you should be thinking about what you’re gonna say to your dad, and Alice when she gets back.”
She tutted Lela, a small smirk pulling at her lips.
“She isn’t happy you got past us you know.”
Lela felt tired, her head throbbing. She fell backwards into sleepiness, staring at Bella Cullen, who was catching another grape.
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Lela and Edward walked in from their dance under the canopy, and honestly she never felt more loved in her entire life. He was so gentle with her, she loved it.
They stepped into the hall, and paused in amusement. Emmett was having a dance off with Bella, and they both seemed to be losing. The girl looked so beautiful, orange eyes alight with humour as she laughed and thrusted to every song as inappropriately as possible.
Lela leant on Edward’s shoulder, watching this dance. Rosalie looked like she wanted the ground to swallow her whole, while Alice was cheering her mate on. Bella had a red flush on her cheeks, and her hair was becoming a bit sweaty, but she still looked ferocious.
“She isn't like you guys, is she?”
Edward shook his head, no, offering her a drink from a nearby table.
“No, she isn’t.”
“Will you tell me what she is?”
Alice jumped into Bella’s arms, and the taller girl spun her around in a big extravagant circle.
“I would give you whatever you desired, my love. But that is Bella’s decision. I only know because of my gift, and Alice is the only other to know.”
Lela frowned and took a sip, thinking back to that terrifying night in the dance studio, and what it was that killed James.
Tall, black skin, fire.
“Bella!”
It was definitely her.
“Hm, I’ll think about it another time. For now…” she took Edward’s hands and walked him towards his siblings, who were now the centre of attention once more, “I’d like to dance with you and your family.”
He grinned and spun her around fancily, she giggled, coming to an outstretched stop next to Alice.
The pixie leant over.
“I just knew we would be best friends!”
Lela smiled back as they were both pulled away by their respective partners, ready to dance the night away.