Happy New Year, everybody! This is something I had written a while ago and thought I'd put it out there. It's a little OOC but tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Twilight. That belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 1: Jasper

"Hey Bella, wait up!" I turned around to see one of my friends, Jessica Stanley, running towards me from the other end of the hall. I stopped to give her time to catch up. "Jess" is what we called her because nobody, except her mother ever called her Jessica – and the occasional teacher. She was about 5'1", had blue eyes with wild, curly, black hair that definitely made up for the height difference.

"Hi, did you do the Algebra 2 homework from last night?" was of course the first thing out of her mouth once she had reached me.

"Yes I did, but isn't that the question I should be asking you?" I retorted.

"Maybe…"

"Jess! You didn't do the homework did you?" Jess had always hated math, which explained why she was always trying to bring up her grades in that particular class.

"I just don't get it!" she exclaimed – a bit too loudly and earned us a couple of stares by some of the other students rushing to get to their first period class.

"Jess, you need to calm down! You do know that Angie and I will help you, right? We're not going to let you fall behind and fail! Especially, since it is only the second week of school!"

"Thanks Bella. I just really don't like anything that has to do with math!"

"I know! You say that all the time!" I reminded her. Just then the warning bell rang telling us class would start in five minutes.

My morning classes all seemed to go by pretty quickly, like one big flowing blur. It seemed different today, for some reason but I couldn't place why. Perhaps I was just anxious for the weekend to come. Of course it was only still Thursday but whatever. Soon enough it was time for lunch.

I was walking to my usual table with my best friend, since we were in diapers, Jasper Whitlock. Jasper's parents were friends with my parents since high school and all throughout college. So it was only natural that when my mom and Bianca, Jasper's mom, got pregnant around the same time that Jasper and I would be the best of friends. Though, we weren't our parents' first kids. He was the second child to be born to his parents and I was the third child to be born to mine.

Jasper has blond hair and blue eyes, not too dark but not too light. He was the kind of person that I could go to with whatever was on my mind and tell him how I really felt without worrying about him judging me. I was always that person for him as well. Of course I could never have the same calm façade that he always seems to have. My dad says that I'm the storm and Jasper is the calm before and after.

Jasper and I are really close. Yes, I did love Jasper but not like that. I loved him like a brother. He has been my best friend since we were babies, after all. I was protective of him though. You see Jasper has many admirers. There would always be girls following him around, asking him out, and talking to him. It got pretty annoying most of the time. Okay all of the time.

When we reached our table Jasper sat down at the corner and I sat across from him. Lauren Mallory, Kate Denali, and Angela Webber were already sitting at the table.

"Where are Jess, Tanya, and Heidi?" Lauren asked impatiently. She looked frazzled; her long, corn silk, blond hair looked as if she had been running her hands through it.

"They're probably still getting lunch." Kate replied calmly.

"What's wrong?" I asked, but as soon as the words left my mouth I knew I would regret them. Lauren looked up at me with her hazel colored eyes.

"Tyler is just being so… so… ugh!" I should have known. Lauren and Tyler have been dating since the eighth grade, but have had a crush on each other since forever.

"What happened this time?" Tanya Denali asked just now coming up with Heidi Del Rey.

"He wants me to spend Thanksgiving with his family this year even though I spent last Thanksgiving with his family!" She exclaimed.

"Why are you even worrying about this now?" I asked. Lauren just looked at me with that hectic crazy look that just makes you want to take a step back and walk away. "Well, what I mean is, is that it's not even the middle of September yet! School started barely a couple of weeks ago."

"It's still important to plan ahead, Bella! Everybody knows that!" Tanya exclaimed jumping into the conversation. I rolled my eyes at her.

"I still say September is too early to plan things like Thanksgiving but whatever." I could see that Tanya was about to say some sort of "snappy comeback" but before she could say anything Jasper came to my rescue, as always, trying to keep the peace.

"Well Bella does have a point." Which earned him a glare from both Lauren and Tanya, "There's nothing wrong with planning ahead," he continued, "but a whole two and a half months ahead?" he questioned.

"I guess it is a little too early to be planning out Thanksgiving." Lauren amended.

Tanya just pursed her lips, threw her curly strawberry blond hair over her shoulder, and started eating her lunch. That's when Jess, Tyler Crowley, Mike Newton, and Eric Yorkie came up to the table with their lunches. Looks like the gangs all here, except for Ben Chenney, Angela's boyfriend. Just as I was about to mention Ben's absence Jess beat me to it.

"Hey Angela, where's Ben?"

"He wasn't feeling well this morning, he texted me earlier saying he wasn't going to be here today." She replied while twisting her shoulder length brown hair into a bun. Jess nodded her head and was about to say something when Tanya interrupted her.

"Did you guys here about the two new students that are going to be coming here on Monday?"

"Yes, I believe everybody knows that they are coming here Tanya. It's a small town, remember? Small towns mean no secrets." I said. Angela chuckled out loud at this. Tanya threw her a look.

"Well," Tanya started, "did you know—

"—that their father is taking the position of the head surgeon at the hospital and their mother is an interior designer." Kate cut in, "we also know that they are both juniors and fraternal twins." Tanya looked upset that we had taken all of the good new away from her. I looked over to Jasper and said, "Do you wanna tell or can I?"

"Well your parents found out first, I think it's only fair that you tell them."

"Ok cool." I turned to everyone else who looked very curious right about now. "So my parents found out that the new students have lived in Italy for the past five years."

"Wow, that's so cool!" Lauren said.

"Have you guys ever met them?" Angela asked. Both Jasper and I shook our heads. We were both Italian and had been to many parts of Italy over the past seventeen years of our lives. But I don't think we have ever met them before.

Then before I knew it the bell rang. Time for some more torture—I was thinking of my chemistry test coming up in fifth period. Surprisingly though, fifth and sixth period – the last two classes of the day – went by pretty quickly.

"Seriously what is Tanya's problem?" I found myself asking Jasper after school once we were in the safety of his 4x4. "I mean it's like every chance she can get she tries putting people down, ganging up on someone or she just has to know your personal business so she can go around and tell everyone she knows!"

"She's just jealous."

"Jealous of what?" I questioned. He just shrugged his shoulders. "Seriously though, she tries to be best friends with Lauren, Heidi, and Jess. But when it comes to Victoria, Angela, Jane, and Kate—her own sister—and myself she's just impossible!"

"Well we all know she never liked Angela from the start. She doesn't like Jane because her brother, Alec, turned her down because he had a crush on Kate back then. It's the reason why she doesn't even like her own sister. She doesn't like Victoria because she is your sister and she doesn't like you because… well… you know I don't really know why she dislikes you." He said. I could see his eyebrows knit together in confusion. I sucked in a deep breath of air and slowly let it out.

The truth was I did know why Tanya disliked me. It was only a couple of years ago when we were freshmen. Jasper had started getting, well basically love notes in his locker and he told me about them. In reality, he had no clue who had sent them. Neither did I, at the time.

It was only a couple months later Tanya was telling all of us girls that she had a serious crush on some guy but wouldn't tell us who the guy was. Then it grew more of into an obsession with her and all the guys knew of her crush. She talked of nothing but him most of all the time. We all ended up feeling sorry for this guy—whoever he was…

Then one day I was passing the hallway where Jasper's locker was located. Who do I see but Tanya stuffing a note into Jasper's locker so once she left I quickly unlocked it. The note was right on top. I grabbed it closed his locker and left for my next class.

Now what did I do to possibly make Tanya hate me so much? I confronted her. Basically though, I told her flat out that Jasper wasn't interested in her and probably never would be. Cold, yes. Necessary, definitely. I couldn't have my best friend going out with Tanya of all people. She just liked to really play games and mess with their feelings. The notes soon stopped after that. The only bad thing was that she was still obsessed with Jasper.

"Do I even want to know?" Jasper asked, breaking me out of my reverie.

"No, no you don't." I said quietly. I knew he wouldn't ask—for the time being anyways.

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