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  Chapter 13: Where Creepers Meet.

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  In a cafeteria, where the sounds of teens, both boys and girls, cut the silence.

  “Edythe took Jasper hunting,” Rosalie said, while taking a bite of an apple, chewing it for a moment, then spitting it out on the paper bag beside her plate with swiftness. “Alice followed them, too.”

  “Why?” Edward asked from beside her, eyes occasionally drifting to Bella, who was seated afar, only moments away from glancing back.

  “Stop it.” Rosalie punched his leg, causing him to stumble and crush the tiles beneath him. “She’s human, why are you getting attached—”

  But Emmett grabbed her arm before she could throw another. “Baby, don’t do that, it’s causing a scene, they’re staring.”

  She frowned at his whisper, hand nearly nudging it off. But he kissed her cheek, then with his other hand grabbed her figure below the belt while pulling her closer.

  Then, unwillingly, faster than she would accept, she blushed.

  And Emmett laughed when some of the boys who were staring 20 feet behind them cursed under their breath.

  “She said something about not being ready.” He continued, leaning back in his seat.

  “For what?” Edward’s eyes didn’t stop their assault on Bella, and this time, Bella was staring directly back. “She never skips class.”

  Emmett shrugged his shoulders, and Rosalie shook her head.

  But in an instant, their eyes all turned to the door.

  “It’s the new kid.” Emmett was the first to speak, arm moving and slumping around Rosalie.

  “He looks—”

  “Weird,” Edward cut Rosalie’s words off before she could finish.

  “I was going to say, like us.”

  And on the other side, Troy turned his eyes toward their seats the moment he entered. It was clear what they were.

  His hands clenched into fists, his focus darting around them; they were the only ones.

  And Edward’s eyes widened at the sound of Troy’s sudden thoughts; he didn’t know what they meant, but he was smart enough to decipher what they referenced.

  “You good?” Emmett asked, and Edward nodded with a tad of uncertainty. “Is he gay?”

  “No,” Rosalie replied, gaze turned to Troy, who was taking a seat on a table far too close to the doors.

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  “Then why’s he staring at Edward like that?” Emmett laughed when he said it, offering a wave to the gym teacher, who was passing near the food stall for leftovers.

  “I don’t know.” Rosalie hadn’t turned her eyes from him. “But apparently, he was caught kissing the blonde girl, whose name is Honey.”

  Emmett chuckled under his breath, not even daring to comment on the blond girl’s looks.

  And Edward, the one who was seated beside them, whose eyes were also staring daggers at Troy, said nothing. His eyes were still widened, his ability still active, trying his hardest to read the boy’s mind.

  But, as though in replacement for thoughts, most of what he heard was numbers. Constantly in calculation, accounting for the smallest of numbers.

  From the speed of the wind to the velocity of its particles, it was all too overwhelming.

  But amidst those tedious thoughts, one stood out; a word he would never mistake.

  ‘Volturi.’

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  “Why are you staring at them like that?!” Gina dipped her fingertips in the water from her cup, then sprinkled Troy, who later turned toward her in annoyance. But then the annoyance shifted to a smile after Honey did the same.

  “You gotta be racist.”

  And they laughed at Gina’s words.

  “Stop staring.” Honey nudged him shoulder to shoulder when he turned his eyes toward them again.

  Then Troy’s smile softly vanished. “How long have they been here?”

  Gina’s brows rose at the question. And unknowingly to her, far beside them, all Rosalie, Emmett, and Edward raised their brows in sync.

  “Who… the Cullens, I don’t know, like… since forever. And why are you asking?” Gina combined her two pizzas into one and took a large bite.

  Troy smiled in relief, but Honey lightly slapped her on the shoulder, “We have a gig next week, you’ll gain.”

  Gina laughed and started purposefully chewing with her mouth open. But instead of receiving a reaction of disgust, Honey spat the gum she was chewing on her mouth.

  And Gina coughed out in that instant, pointing out a middle finger at Tyler, who was laughing while passing by the door and making his way toward Bella’s table.

  “Wait, you know him?!” On the other side, Jessica nearly jolted to her feet, watching as Tyler nodded his head at Troy, who slightly nodded back.

  “Yeah, we hang.” He lied, overtaken by the table’s amazement. But the person he was trying to impress was still, to that very last second, staring at Edward, who currently wasn’t glancing back.

  “I heard he had diarrhoea, you know… since he wasn’t here for the majority of the week.” The boy lied again and raised a brow at Emmett, who, for some unknown reason, was unashamedly laughing on the opposite end.

  “They aren’t here for the ‘majority’, stop spreading rumours, it’s nothing new.” Jessica threw a kiss at Edward, even though it remained unnoticed.

  Bella’s eyes turned, but this time they shifted to Troy, who was sipping a box of juice.

  “Stop it, Bells,” Jessica said with conviction. “His mine.”

  “More like Gina’s,” Angella said from beside them, while she turned to Tyler. “Isn’t Gina your Ex or something?”

  “Hell no!... I mean, yeah, but… he’s not with Gina.” Tyler’s voice was louder than it should have been. “His with Honey.”

  “Honey!” Jessica said with widened eyes, then turned her gaze to their table, and nearly dropped a tear when honey made Troy try the pizza on her plate; she was feeding him.

  Jessica’s eyes shot away from them, “Okay, she can keep him, I give up.”

  Everyone laughed at the words.

  “Why—”

  “Look at her.” Angela interrupted Bella’s soon-to-come question.

  Then suddenly, the world shifted when Bella turned her eyes back to their table, this time specifically at Honey, who, for some reason, had the clearest light-most-tanned skin.

  “...Wow.”

  “There it is.” Angela closed her eyes in pleasure, listening to Bella’s reply like a song, as though it wasn’t the first time someone had expressed the sight.

  Then once again, Bella’s eyes turned back to Troy, who now, unlike the first time when she saw him at the diner, was wearing a jacket. One thin enough to resist scorching heat, but at the same time long enough to cover all of his arms while leaving no space for visible skin.

  “But… why’s he covering the tattoos?”

  “He has tattoos?!” Jessica jolted upward at Bella’s words. Unashamed of all who turned their gazes toward her figure. “Flip it. I’ll try my luck.”

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