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P.E turned out to be okay. Dawn made tentative friends with a shy, quiet girl named Angela Weber and a weird Asian guy called Eric, who was sort of a sleazy-nerd, if such a thing existed. They seemed pretty nice, though, and by lunch time Dawn was finding that her new school wasn't really so bad.

"Oh! Look, there's Jessica," Angela said, gesturing to where a pretty girl with light-brown hair was waving to her. "And that must be Isabella…"

Dawn studied the other new girl. She looked nice and a bit shy, with long dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. He face was heart-shaped and her skin was very pale. "Where's she from, again?" Dawn asked Angela, noticing this.

"Pheonix, apparently. In Arizona," Angela was winding her way through tables in he crowded cafeteria.

"Really? She doesn't have much of a tan," Dawn felt self-conscious of her brown skin among all the pale-skinned students.

"Hey!" Jessica said excitedly. "This is Isabella!"

Isabella shifted in her seat. "Uh, it's just Bella," she said quietly, but Jessica didn't seem to hear her.

"Isabella, this is Angela, and…?"

"I'm Dawn," Dawn put in, smiling nervously. "I'm new as well," she sat down between Bella and Angela, wondering if the other new girl was enjoying her day. She turned to her, she was there to make friends after all. "So, how d'you like Forks so far?"

"Uh…" Bella looked a little miserable, actually. "It's so… green," she confided to Dawn in a low voice. "And wet and cold and… just ugh."

"I agree, the place is lacking some sun," Dawn nodded, deciding to just ignore her shyness for once, seeing as Bella seemed to have enough for both of them. "But green is pretty, and it means in Spring there'll be all these awesome flowers and stuff."

Bella smiled. "I guess so."

"Hi Bella," Angela leant around Dawn to talk to Bella. "I think you're in my Spanish class? I saw you before."

"Yeah," Bella nodded.

"Ooh, I have Spanish too," Dawn glanced at her timetable. "Second period?"

"Yeah," Bella nodded again. "And you have Trig with us too, with Mr Varner. How come you weren't here in the morning?"

"Well, my sister is the new social counsellor, so we had to get her set up," Dawn explained.

"Wait, you're Buffy's sister?" butted in Eric. "She's so cool."

"You've met her already?" Dawn asked. Wow, he must have some serious issues, she thought, to be going to the counsellor first day of term.

"Yeah, I… uh… saw her before," Eric, realising he must seem a little weird, flushed and subsided into silence. Dawn glanced around the table and saw that two other boys had joined them. One had blonde spiky hair and a cute, baby face; the other was dark-skinned and had close cut hair. Jessica spotted Dawn's gaze.

"This is Mike," she bubbled, gesturing to the blonde guy. "And Tyler," she said, nodding at the other. "Guys, this is Dawn and Bella, they're both new."

"Hey," Tyler said, smiling a little sleazily and checking out them both. Bella flushed a brilliant tomato red at his gaze. Mike smiled at them both as well. He looked a bit like a puppy dog, Dawn noted.

"Who are they?" Bella suddenly asked to the table at large. They all followed her gaze to a table in the corner, where a group of five people were sitting eating lunch. Or, really, moving their lunch around their plates, Dawn noticed. None of them seemed to actually be eating anything.

Dawn could tell why Bella had singled them out. They were all ethereally beautiful, with perfectly clear, porcelain skin and movie-star looks. There were three guys and two girls, all equally stunning. The guys were all muscular and tall, but they were different. One was so big and muscly he looked as though he could take on an elephant and win. He had dark curly hair, a complete opposite in shades to the guy sitting next to him, who was blonde and leaner, but still muscular. The last guy was lanky, less bulky, with untidy bronze-coloured hair. He seemed more boyish than the others, as if he actually belonged at the High School.

The two girls were opposites of each other. One was a tall, statuesque blonde, with supermodel looks and perfect, full lips. The other was teeny and pixie-like, with short, cropped black hair. As Dawn and Bella watched, the small girl rose from her seat and left, dumping her tray and gliding away with the walk of a ballerina.

"That's Edward and Emmett Cullen, and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. The one who left was Alice Cullen; they all live together with Dr Cullen and his wife," Angela informed the two new girls under her breath.

They were old-fashioned, unpopular names, Dawn noticed. The closer she looked, the more she noticed the rings under all of their eyes, and the complete whiteness of their skin. Somewhere in her mind, a small voice whispered 'vampire'. As she watched, the bronze-haired boy tensed immediately in his chair and spoke to the others quickly. They all looked at Dawn.

"They're looking at you," Jessica noted. "What's up with them?"

"I don't know," Dawn shrugged, although she had a shrewd idea what. "I don't even know them."

"They're so weird," Jessica giggled. "They all live together, and they're, like, together. Emmett and Rosalie, and Jasper and Alice. The only one who's single is Edward, but he doesn't date," she sniffed and regarded him critically. "Apparently none of the girl's here are good enough for him."

Dawn was trying not to think about anything to do with the supernatural. She had to tell Buffy straight away, but she had an idea that the bronze-haired one could read minds. What the hell were they doing in a high school? Maybe they were planning some huge killing spree. Dawn realised that she was thinking again and stood up abruptly. She had to get to Buffy straight away, and maybe ask Willow for something that would block mind-readers for school the next day.

"Dawn, where're you going?" Eric asked. "Do you need someone to show you the way?"

As he spoke, the bell rang. Angela and Bella had biology with Dawn and they dragged Dawn off before she could mention Buffy's office. She didn't want to be late on her first day, either.

Angela already had a lab partner, and there were only single spots free. Dawn was shown to a desk near Mike by Mr Banner, the wheezy biology teacher who looked like he had asthma or something. Bella was told to sit next to Edward Cullen, a table behind. Under the pretence of fixing her hair, Dawn watched Edward closely. When Bella walked past the fan he stiffened and shifted his seat completely away from her, glaring at her with a hostile and furious expression.

"Attention, please," called Mr Banner. Dawn reluctantly turned back to the front, her senses on high alert. If the vamp couldn't control his bloodlust, they were all in for it. She could hardly concentrate on the lesson, and when it ended she watched closely as Edward Cullen leapt up from his seat and glided gracefully and quickly out of the classroom. Bella was sitting at the table, still, seemingly stunned.

"Son of a bitch," Dawn muttered. Now she had a problem: did she warn Bella that Edward could be a vamp, or did she ignore his weird behaviour? She had to get to Buffy, pronto.

"That was… weird," Bella murmured on the way out of class.

"What was?" Angela asked obliviously. She'd been sitting up front and obviously hadn't noticed.

"That boy… Edward? He seemed to hate me or something. He acted," Bella flushed. "He acted like I smelled awful."

Dawn tried to make light of the situation. "Well, you smell fine to me," she said, mock-sniffing Bella's hair. "Hey, guys, I'm going to check on my sis, okay?"

"Sure, bye," Angela and Bella walked back to the front office and Dawn hurried along the walkway to Human Resources.

"Hey Dawnie!" Buffy said cheerily. "How did your first day go?"

"Fine, fine," Dawn glanced around. "Can we be overheard here?" she hissed.

"Uh… no, we can't," Buffy glanced around as well. "What's up?" she asked seriously.

"I think… well… I think there's vampires here," Dawn said, keeping her voice low. "Like, not normal ones, but definitely weird. And I think one of them can read minds!"

Buffy looked at her a little confused. "Vamps can't read minds!" she exclaimed. Then her expression changed. "Uh oh. Remember when Giles told us about those, like, weird vampires? The ones that are totally hard to kill and are, like, unbeatable? They don't burn in the sun, either. They," Buffy giggled. "I think they sparkle."

"Are you serious. How lame is that?" Dawn rolled her eyes. "Are they all crazy beautiful?"

"Yeah, when they change they get all these model good looks, it's so unfair," Buffy moaned. "They're all super fast and they get to be pretty and sparkly," at her last word both sister snorted with derision. "But, Dawnie, it's bad if they're here," the Slayer said on a more serious note. "I mean, they're pretty hard to defeat, and even though they're all weird they still live on humans. Although, they have weird rules. Like, they have a leading coven in… Italy? Greece? God, I miss Giles' knowledge. And they have to stay hidden, they can't just kill everyone. Who are they, maybe I can call them in and find out?"

Dawn told her sister about the Cullens and the Hales, and about Edward's reaction to Bella. This made Buffy sit up straight and look very Slayer-ish. "If they can't control they're bloodlust I'm gonna have to kick their asses," she said. "Try and keep your friend Bella away from them, ok? Now, I think we both have to get to the Front Office to hand in some slip thingy."