Dawn's First Light

 

A/N: I completely changed the cafeteria scene and the biology scene. I need ya'lls help as for how I should do Edward Cullen's POV in the next chapter...Should I not do that chapter at all or for those of you that had read the story last time, should I change it to where it follows along with this chapter. Anywho, it's up to ya'll for the next chapter! =) And enjoy and please review.







Chapter 5: Talking about things



I got stopped for running in the halls a few times on my way to class. My next class was German and I didn't want to be late. 'How weird was that?' I thought. 



I was late for it anyway. By two minutes, damn it. The only reason I signed up for it was because Willow was in it. After getting my slip signed I took my seat by Willow. I was so confused by the end of class that I knew for sure I would need Willow's help on this. 



Willow smiled at me as we walked out of class. “So how did you like English?” 



I sighed. “Do you know why we have to learn from the same writers that we did in ninth grade? Wait don't answer that.” I laughed and continued to smile. “Anyway, I made a new friend. Her name is Bella Swan and she just moved here with her cousin Faith into her dad's house. Faith goes here too so you should be able to meet them for lunch.” 



“That's great Buffy! I am glad that you made a new friend. I made a new friend too. His name is Mike. He lived in California too until he was ten. So he knows how we feel about the sun.” 



“That's cool. I wonder where he lived?” I asked. 



“In Los Angeles, I think.” 



“Wow, my home town.” I smiled but got a little sad at the thought. “Well I have to run to catch Bella at her Trigonometry class. I'll see you at lunch Willow.” I smiled and waved at her. 



Then I was running down the halls again and outside into the rain. When I got to the Math hallway I could see Bella waiting for me. I walked up to her giggling all the way. 



She linked one arm around mine and smiled at me. “Wow that was fast. What is it that you are giggling about?” She asked. 



I continued to giggle. “I told you I'm a fast runner.” 



She laughed and we walked to our math class. For once I wasn't late. Giles was going to be mad when he finds out I was late for my first two classes at a new school. 'It's funny.' I thought. 'Even after Giles took the last name Evans, he refuses to let us call him that.' 



Walking into the Trigonometry classroom we gave our teacher, Mr. Varner, the slips he was supposed to sign. Who I now hated because he made us wait till the whole class was seated to introduce ourselves. 



I blushed a lot and tripped over someone’s foot that was in the isle while on the way to my seat. I glared at the girl who had tripped me and she didn't look at me for the rest of class. 



After two classes, I started to recognize several of the faces in each class. There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves and ask Bella and me questions about how we liked Forks. I tried to be nice about it and mostly I just lied a lot. 



When the bell signaled for lunch, Bella and I met up with Xander and a girl named Jessica. Xander met her in his first class. We also met up with Willow and Mike. Come to find out that Mike was in German with Willow and me. After giving the introduction speech, I finally met Faith. She was also walking in the rain on her way to lunch. Turns out we had a lot in common. Like the fact that we both had a lot of in energy to burn, and could eat all the carbohydrates we wanted and stay thin. 



It was there, sitting in the cafeteria, making easy conversation with my family and four new friends, that I first saw them. 



They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible, in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, although they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them. 



None of them were gawking at my family or Bella's, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to look at them without fear. 



None of them looked alike. Of the three boys, one was big, like a serious weight lifter, or maybe a football player. Definitely very muscular with curly hair that was cropped short. Another was taller, leaner, but all together still muscular, with wavy honey blond hair. He seemed to be the middle youngest of the boys. Last but not least, was one that was lanky, less bulky, with untidy, bronze-colored hair. He looked like the youngest out of the three boys. He was more boyish than the others, and at least an inch or two taller than them as well. 



The girls were polar opposites. The tall one had hair golden blond, gently waving to the middle of her back. She had a beautiful figure, curves in all the right places, the kind of girl that would blow your self-esteem up just by looking at her. 



The other girl was shorter, thin to the extreme, with small features. Her hair was deep black, cropped short pixie style and pointing in every direction. She looked like she could be a dancer or maybe a ballerina. She reminded me of Cordelia in a way. Not in a bad way of course, but she seemed to be the enthusiastic to the extreme type. The kind that you find in cheerleaders. I thought it was funny at first but then I was sad at the fact again. Cordelia had also been another one of Sunnydale's High School kids to be killed. In fact it was almost as if I had some type of connection to her, just by looking at her. 



As I put the thought of Cordelia aside I noticed one thing and one thing only. There sitting at that table was Edward Cullen. The boy, or vampire, I had a dream about this morning. That's when I started to pay very close attention. 



They were all exactly alike. They were all chalky pale, the palest of all the students living in this sunless town. They all had dark yellow eyes, despite the range in hair color. They also all had purplish bruise-like shadows under their eyes. As if they were suffering from a couple of blows to the face, except it was just under their eyes and nothing else; like they had no sleep what-so-ever. 



That's when I knew that they had to be the Cullen's: Vampires. I could tell because my body was screaming to fight or to take flight. 



That's when Willow noticed my stiffened reaction. “What's wrong Buffy?” 



Everyone at my table turned and looked at me. 'Great Buffy! Stay calm and play dumb.' I thought with a rush. “Who are they?” 



Jessica, the girl in Xander's History class, looked up to see who I meant, though probably already knowing from my tone of voice. Suddenly, Edward looked at her for a fraction of a second and then his eyes flickered to my own. 



He looked quickly away, quicker than I could, through a flush of embarrassment I dropped my eyes to the table. 



Jessica looked across from the table to the other side of the cafeteria, and frowned, her eyes growing cold. “The one that looked at us was Edward Cullen. The one sitting next to him is Emmett Cullen. Then there is Rosalie and Jasper Hale, and the one at the end is Alice Cullen.” 



Mike's smile was a mischievous one. “Yeah, they all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife.” 



I glanced sideways at Edward, who was looking at his tray now and picking at a bagel with his long, pale fingers. His mouth was moving very quickly, and I could tell he was speaking to the rest of the Cullen's very quietly. But my slayer senses could not pick up what he was saying, he was too far for me to hear. 



“They are... very good-looking.” I said trying to come up with a subtle way to describe them. 



“Yes, aren't they?” Jessica agreed with suck a fake smile that it almost looked pained. “To bad Edward doesn't date though. Apparently none of the girls are good enough for him.” She gave a superior sniff. 



I frowned, but luckily she didn't notice. That's interesting, I thought. 



Mike added in. “They are all together though. Emmett and Rosalie, Jasper and Alice, I mean. And they live together.” His voice held all the shock and condemnation of the small town. Although if this was Sunnydale, I had to admit that, even this would be gossip. 



Willow spoke up, “Which ones are the Cullen's? They don't look related...” 



“Oh, they're not. Dr. Cullen is really young, in his early thirties. They were all adopted by Dr. Cullen and his wife when they were really young. But the Hales are brother and sister, twins, and they're foster children.” Mike said, dishing out the gossip. 



“They look a little old to be foster children.” I stated. 



“Oh, they do now; Jasper and Rosalie are the oldest. They are eighteen, but they have been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She's like their aunt, or distant relative; something like that.” Jessica put in. 



“That's kind of really nice, for them to take care of all those kids.” 



“Yeah, I guess so.” Mike admitted reluctantly. 



I got the impression that he didn't like the doctor and his wife for some reason. With the glances he's throwing at the Cullen's I would have to say it's jealousy. 



“I think that the Doctor and Mrs. Cullen can't have any kids.” He added, as if that lessened their kindness. 



I just nodded my head and we went on to a different topic after that. I kept in mind that I would need to talk to Edward though at some point.



As I said that the bell rang, signaling for biology. We all stood up and headed toward our classes. Bella and I had Biology 2 together; Willow, Xander and Faith had English together. 



When we got to the classroom, the room was filled with kids sitting at black-topped lab tables exactly like the ones I was used to. Angela and Mike were already there, Jessica was sitting next to the boy I had met in English, if I remembered correctly his name was Eric. Mike was sitting next to a girl with braces and a bad perm. 



The only table left was with Edward Cullen and I wasn't going to let Bella sit by herself. Walking down the aisle to introduce myself to the teacher and get my slip signed, I turned my head, catching some hair in my hand that had fallen into my face; I caught sight of Edward again. Just as I passed, he had a curious look on his face. Like he was trying to figure something out.



Mr. Banner signed our slips and handed us our books with no nonsense about introductions. I could tell we were going to get along great in this class. Of course, Mr. Banner had no choice but to send us to the two open seats in the middle of the room. I kept my eyes trained on his wondering if now would be a good chance to talk to him. Maybe I could pass notes to him? 



I sat down next to Edward, so that it would be easier to communicate with him. The thing was that we couldn't stop looking at each other. It was like I was in some type of trance. His eyes, darker than they were in the cafeteria, were almost a golden brown and the most beautiful I had seen in all my life. 



I took out a piece of loose leaf paper and wrote, "I'm Buffy Evans, what's your name?" and tried to pay attention to the teacher as I wrote.



Fortunately the lecture was on cellular anatomy. Something I had already studied back in Sunnydale. This was the one class I knew I couldn't fail since I had already done the class. I know Giles wanted everything to be perfect here so we could start over, but that didn't mean I had to do my Junior year over again. I pouted to myself. 



When I passed the note to him, his eyebrows shot up in surprise. It was like he hadn't had a note ever passed to him before. After reading it he scribbled something on the paper and passed it back.



"My name is Edward." Of course I already knew that so I quickly wrote, "It's a pleasure to meet you Edward. Now I know that this is going to sound weird but I had a dream about you last night. We were in a beautiful meadow, and you were talking about someone named Vulturi. Do you know who that is?" and passed it back.



Again he looked up at me in shock. Then his face turned curious as he wrote his reply. 



"I know of them...why do you ask?" 



"Because I believe that you are in danger." I whispered to him, giving up on the note passing.



"Why don't you call me at this number and we can talk about it some more, the bell is going to ring anyways." Passing me back the note with his number on it.



Just then the bell rang. Edward gave me a confused half smile and walked quickly out of the room.



Well that went better than I thought, I wonder if he will believe me when I tell him that I am a vampire slayer, I asked to myself. Gathering my things I walked out of the room with Bella.