He was riding into school like a classic bad boy, and he loved it. It sent a thrill of excitement through his body.

Jacob was a fucking godsend.

When he arrived, he swerved and parked at the back before getting off and kicking down the kickstand.

It's March, and the middle of the semester, is not a good place to start, but I got this. Valentine thinks as a sister pulls up next to him. All eyes were on them, the new kids.

As Valentine got off his bike and Bella out of her truck, they look at each other, silently agreeing that they have to stick together. At least for the first day.

Valentine's is an okayish brother. He knows it's because instead of leaving Bella alone like he knows he can, he's going to stick with her and make sure she doesn't make a complete fool out of herself on the first day like every okayish twin brother would do.

Their siblings- no they're twins, which means if one makes it bad first impression, it automatically reflects on the others. He knows this because in elementary 5th grade when they moved to a new school. Bella tripped over her shoelaces on the playground. Kids are evil, so of course, they all laugh, but they not only laugh at her they laugh at Valentine too. That was a pretty mortifying thing to experience so Valentine wouldn't ever again let Bella make a fool out of herself again.

So, as you can see, his reasons may not be pure, and he'll be the first to admit to it, but at least it'll get them both free to have a normal embarrassment-free high school year.

Valentine walked to his sister looking almost indifferent.

"Nice ride." Some guy said it was obvious he didn't mean it.

"Fu-" Valentine was going to say before Bella had to be the goody two shoes and say "thanks."

"Fantastic, know they're gonna think you're a doormat- wait, you are," Valentine said rolling his eyes. His sister: always the nice one, while he was gonna tell the dude to shut the fuck up and chock on a dick.

Bella frowned but keep walking. They were almost at the entrance when a guy with a short wolf cut came and stopped them.

"You're the twins. Valentine and Isabella Swan, the new kids. Hi, I'm Eric the eyes and ears of this place. Um- anything you need, tours guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on?" Valentine guessed the last two were for his sister as they walked up the stairs.

"She's the more suffer-in-silence type, by the way- you're not smooth, work on your flirting," Valentine said and Bella did disagree.

"T-that a good headline for the paper- n-not the second part, b-but you know... anyways I'm on the paper and you guys are new baby. You'll be on the front page." The guy Eric said.

"N-nowhere not... uh- um- I- please don't have any sort o-"

"Whoa, whoa relax. No feature, what about you though?" Eric asked smiling just as sexual as he had at Bella. Bella looked relieved, at least she wasn't going to be the center of attention.

"Ha! No, I'm good. I don't like being news for gossip. But like is it really a paper or is it like a website and you guys just call it that?" Valentine asked giving a charming smile and a tilt of the head.

"The latter, we like to call it paper though, makes it sound more authentic," Eric explained, a smile of his own, it seemed almost flirty, but Valentine was not interested.

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They were in the gym, the boys playing basketball and the girls' volleyball.

Valentine's pastime was a good game of baseball with Phil, so he knew how to shoot and lay up.

His team was winning when the guy who had the ball dropped it from a hit on the head with a volleyball.

Bella, of course. She can't play volleyball for shits, but to be fair neither could Valentine.

Valentine rolled his eye. A sweet smile and an apology would get her out of trouble so Valentine when back to his game.

Another boy-crushing, a jealous girl, a face laugh, and awkward silence later it was lunchtime.

Valentine set at the table with Bella. She had made a few friends. One fake as hell. Valentine could see just by looking at her

"Hey, Mikey you meet my home girl Bella!" Eric said with a wide smile.

"O-oh o-oh your home girl." There were "yeah yeah," said he spoke this before a dude with dark skin came up. "My girl." He kissed her cheek snatched the chair from under Mikey and ran away and Mikey raced after him.

Valentine couldn't help the loud snort that left him.

Bella hides her face, embarrassed.

"Whoa, it's like first grade all over again. Your the shiny new toy." The fake one, Valentine forgot her name said.

"Stop. You're pretty. Don't be insecure, be confident. Know your worth. " Valentine told the girl.

He hates when young women forgot their worth. His mom did something before Phil.

"W-what." The girl blushed.

"Nooo, don't you dare get a crush on me. I'm one hundred percent into cock, but I'm telling you, don't let my sister turn you into a person you're not." Valentine said effectively stopping a girl's crush from ever happening and coming out.

Before any more could be said, another girl come up and took a picture of Valentine.

"Uhh- please delete that. I don't feel comfortable being in somebody's camera. Don't take it personally, I wouldn't even let one of my friends; a professional photographer takes a picture of me." Valentine said, staying calm.

"Sorry, I'll delete it. Trying to can it for the paper." The girl said to delete the picture.

"The papers dead Angela!" Eric said dramatically.

"I got your back baby," Eric said patting his shoulders and walking off.

"It's ok- but pictures and drawing- I've never been into that," Valentine explained.

"It's ok. Guess we'll do another tutorial on teen drinking."

"You can always go for eating disorders." Bella inputs drinking some water. "Speedo padding on the swim team." She said after a second, eating a celery stick.

"Actually, that's a good one," Angela said and the other girl seemed to agree nodding her head.

And then they came in.

"Who are they?" Bella asked seeming more entranced by them than Valentine was.

"The Cullens." Angela smiled flirtily.

"They're Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids." Jessica, Valentine remembered her name said eyes lustful.

"They moved down here from Alaska, like, a few years ago." She told Bella shaking her head.

"They kind of keep to themselves," Angela explained.

"Yeah 'cause they're all together," Jessica whispered excitedly, the chance to gossip seeming to excite her.

"Like, together, together." She told Bella, bobbing her.

"The blonde girl, that's Rosalie, and the big, dark-headed guy, Emmet there, like, a thing. I'm not even sure that's legal." Jessica said her eyes narrowed with some sort of glint in her eyes.

"Jess, they're not related," Angela said.

Valentine couldn't care less. It was their lives; they weren't actually related. They could do whatever the hell they wanted for all Valentine cared.

"Yeah, but they live together, it's weird." She said as if it put a bad taste in her mouth, but still, she continued to gossip.

"And oh, okay, the little dark-headed girl Alex. She's really weird, and she's with Jasper, the blond one who looks like he's in pain." Valentine was getting less interested by the second.

"It's so amazing of them to take on such a big responsibility," Bella said, ever the optimist.

"Yeah... But I don't think they can have kids of their own so....." Jessica trailed off, seeming as though she was trying to lessen the kindness of their deeds.

"But seriously dr. Collins like this foster dad slash matchmaker." Jessica giggled at her own joke.

"Maybe he'll adopt me." Angela smiled teasingly.

"Who's he?" Bella asked looking at Edward

Jessica smirked, eyeing the boy. " that's Edward Cullen. He's Totally gorgeous, obviously, but apparently, nobody here's good enough for him. Like I care you know?"

That was a bald-faced lie. Not even half as convincing as she thought.

"Yeah- Imma go. I don't care too much for gossip. See ya." Valentine said getting up and going to another table.