"Athena, you must drive with caution. The roads are slippery, and I don't think Rose would want her new car ruined" Edward said as he entered the garage and opened his Volvo.

Athena gasped in realization, remembering the future happenings. "Oh no!"

"What's wrong?" Edward rushed, gaining skeptical looks from his siblings, and a suggestive smirk from Emmett. Noticing his slip he shook his head and frowned. Masking his face again.

"Tyler's van will slip on the ice at the school parking lot and head for Bella!" Athena rushed as she jumped into Rosalie's car. "We must make sure that she is not close to her truck when getting to school. The ideal scenario would make Alice approach her and walk towards school with her suggesting fashion or something to Bella. She prefers her style so she will most likely blow you off Alice. Which will give you an excuse to leave for your own class. When Tyler's van hit, it will only damage her car," Athena said so fast that it was a good thing the others were vampires, or they would have had a hard time keeping up.

"How do you know..." Jasper started.

"It's in the book," Athena explained.

"You never did tell us about them, the books I mean" Edward pointed out from inside the car.

"Well, time has pretty much been flying away from us. I can tell you some after school, if that is ok," Athena suggested.

The five vampires agreed and then they sped off to school.

Athena had never felt so out of place as they neared Forks High School. She knew the day was going to be a disaster and she really did not want to go. But what choice did she have? She could not just ditch them already, that would just be rude. And it wasn't like she had any way of returning home. No, she had to go this all out until the end – and hopefully she would not end – no matter what it would take.

Taking a deep breath, she opened the door to Rose's BMW. Something felt different from the first day at school. Rose was the first to step out and they were already drawing attention like always. Not just the car, but Athena could hear the whispers as Rose led her towards the office. No one came towards her like they did with Bella. No one dared to come closer, but they sure could stare and they sure could gossip. Only Mike had done so yesterday but out of nerve. She could heard most of it and she was not up to making many new friends. Ok, so maybe she was being strange and maybe even cruel and not giving them a chance, but it was not like she wanted to either. Most humans thought about themselves and she would not mix with them if she could avoid it.

Athena's eyes narrowed as she saw the orange truck arrive, then Alice who was skipping over towards it. So this would be the moment the book theory would actually happen.

"Come on, Athena," Rosalie said and frowned as she tried to gain the girl's attention.

Athena blinked as Rose squeezed her over normal human pressure. "What?" she asked and blinked. Bella's car door was about to open.

"Let's go, we do not have a moment to lose," Athena said.

"Er...right," Rosalie quietly agreed and followed after Rose.

Alice took one more look towards the office doors and approached Bella confidently.

"Hello, Bella right?!" Alice said happily, nearly scaring the girl. Her eyes glazed over and she seemed confused for a moment. "Bella? May I ask you a question? I'm Alice by the way."

Bella nodded and frowned as they started walking. "S-so what did you want to ask me?" Bella stuttered. Typical Bella.

Then the loud eerie screech came. Bella turned and Alice held her arm tightly. The van came so fast and flew right into her truck. Shocked she stood gaping, however, Alice tried making her go forward.

I could have been standing there, Bella thought horrified. I hope Tyler's alright...

"Come on, Bella. Let's get to class," Alice rushed.

Right at that moment Rosalie and Athena came out and their way.

"um I don't mean to be rude, but who are you? Not you name i-i mean-" Bella kept stuttering.

"I'm new. I was adopted by Carlisle and Esme a week ago." Athena and the others had not really made much of a story yet. The town would know of her by the end of the day. Despite this, she would be quite the mystery to most.

"O-oh no one ever said anything-"

"It was kind of a surprise to most of us," Alice rushed and covered it up with a smile.

Oh, no, do not be more obvious than that... Athena thought and kept herself from rolling her eyes.

"Maybe we should check if Tyler is ok," Bella said slowly.

"Really? Seems like most of the school is there checking on him already," Athena commented.

Bella's eyes narrowed and so did Athena's. 'Whats with her today? She was so kind to me yesterday-' both of the girls thought

"Athena," Rose said with a warning tone.

"Jazz! Edward!" Alice said happily, making both Athena and Bella look away.

"Hello ladies," Jasper said a bit stiff. When he neared them all and stood close to Athena and Alice, he visibly relaxed.

"Edward I-" Bella started.

"Athena, I suggest we get to class, no point in getting late on your second day," Edward said and motioned for Athena to go first.

"Okay." Athena looked one more time behind, noticing Bella glaring in Edward's direction and slightly glancing at her direction while Alice was grinning. Rosalie and Jasper had left as well. So this day would indeed get more and more interesting. Hopefully the school day would go better than what she thought.

Bella's father came and wanted to speak to her. Going to class now. Alice's thought reflected in Edward's mind as he walked beside Athena. He had not failed to notice Bella's stare as they left and Jasper had felt some harsh emotions from her as well.

"Are you ok?" Athena asked.

Edward looked at her with surprise. "Why are you asking that?"

"She's your singer, isn't she?"

"Your presence has made it very easy for us to be around humans. I can't smell any human's blood when around you, neither several hours after being in your presence. My family has it the same way. Sure we can smell scents clearly, but no one smells edible," Edward explained slowly, not sure if it was a good enough explanation.

"That's fairly interesting," Athena muttered lowly as they entered the classroom.

"Jasper is the most relieved-"

In that moment as he said it Athena suddenly remembered that Jasper usually could read all emotions, feel them... "I'm such a moron," she grumbled and hit her head.

"Don't hurt yourself," Edward said with a frown.

"Well, how could you all be so blind?" Athena hissed lowly. How could I forget? She thought to herself.

"What are you talking about?"

"Jasper's powers. No wonder he struggles more than you do. I mean, he feel all of his family's thirst as well as his own. If anything he might be the strongest out of all of you." The last she said with a bit of a smug tone making Edward's eyebrows raise.

"You mean..."

"It's exactly what I mean."

Edward groaned. "I can see what you mean." How did we never think about this? Any of us? He thought to himself.

The teacher walked into the classroom as Edward took his usual seat next to Athena. "Ok, class..." He stared at the nearly empty classroom. "Hm, I see this will not be the most normal day. However, I take what I get. Please open up on page..."

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