The New Girl with a Secret

First Day of School and New Friends

Chapter 1

(Jennifer’s POV)

          Today is my first day as a senior in a new school! I wish. I’m so excited. In fact I was so keyed up I got up a 4 AM this morning! I mean I get up at 5 AM every morning no matter what time I go to sleep, you know, because of the werewolf thing, but I got up a whole hour early just because of my nerves. Oh well, it gave me time to pick out a cute outfit, do my hair, and make-up and get my bag together. Right now it’s 6:30 but I don’t even have to leave until 7 so I guess I’ll just…

          “Jennifer! You better be up and getting ready or you’ll be late for your first day of school!” my (adoptive) mom called.

          “I am ready mother thank you!”

          “All right if you want something I’ll be in the kitchen if you need anything sugar!” she called back.

          “Okay!” I called. Well since I have nothing else to do, I might as well just head for school. I’ll get there really early but I don’t care. So I picked up my bags and walked downstairs to the kitchen, “Hey mom can I take my Ferrari to school?” I asked her hopefully.

          “Well it was your seventeenth birthday present so do what you want with it.” she said.

          “Okay thanks I’ll see you later!” I told her as I hugged her goodbye and picked up my keys and ran to the garage, where I jumped in my black Ferrari. Yes, I know what you’re thinking,”How did I get such an expensive car?” Well I’m an ‘only child’ and my ‘parents’ happen to be rich so I’m spoiled but I’m far from snobby!

          Fifteen minutes later I pulled into the school parking lot to everyone staring at me, I mean haven’t they ever seen the coolest car in the world before?! I locked my car and got out with a huge grin of excitement on my face. This is going to be a good year, I just know it, I thought to myself.

          A very pretty girl whom I could only describe as the ‘it girl’ came up to me and said, “Hi. I’m Alaina and you must be the new girl. Come on and I’ll go with you to get your schedule. I think we’ll be best friends by the end of the year.” she finished with a grin.

          “Cool. I’m Jennifer, nice to meet you Alaina and thanks for the help.” I told her honestly. She took my hand and led me up the steps and into the school, to the office. Okay, I thought to myself: 1 – no touching, 2 – I will SO rule this school, and 3 – I actually like her for some reason! WEIRD!

          “Okay you get your schedule and I’ll wait for you, then we can find your locker and classes together and who knows maybe we’ll be in some of the same classes?” she said. I nodded and went over to the desk.

          “Hello, I’m new here and I need my schedule. My name is Jennifer Dye.” I said sweetly with a friendly smile. She nodded and stated sifted through a pile of papers before pulling one out. I’m surprised that I’ve been able to go over three hundred years with the same name and information without the government sending someone to do experiments on me. Haha! Like they would be able to! I’d like to see them try!

          “Here it is sweetie, I hope you have a nice day.” she said.

          “Thanks.” I said, taking the schedule from her and going back to Alaina. “Here it is. If you want to look over it and see if we have any classes together, be my guest.” I told her as I handed it to her to look over.

          “Hey, look! We have every single class together except you have weight training and I have fitness. What sport do you play?” she asked curiously.

          “Softball,” I told her with a grin. “I’m the pitcher and an all-star hitter.” I added.

          “Wow that’s really great! Since we have everything else together you can just stick with me and I’ll tell you anything you need to know. All you have to do is ask.” She said brightly.

          “Wow, Alaina, thanks and you know what? I think we will end up being best friends before the end of the year too.” I said with a grin.

          “Come on I’ll show you your locker and I’ll introduce you to Peter and Nathan. They have every single class with you, so you’ll see a lot of them. They are both on the football team too. Peter is the quarterback and Nathan’s the running back. They are two of my best friends and I know they will REALLY like you and I think you’ll like them too.” She finished with a wide grin on her face.

          Okay is she trying to set me up with one of them? That’s fine with me as long as they’re not jerks and they’re not too bad looking either I mentally chuckled, I could get any guy I want, and I have too. She took my hand and led me down the hall to my locker which coincidently was right beside hers and Peter’s with Nathan on the opposite side of hers. Intriguing.

          I set my stuff up in my locker and turned around to find the two hottest boys on the planet grinning at me. They had the same body type: broad shouldered and muscular but far from fat. One had messy blond hair, tan skin, and gray eyes. The other had dark brown hair, pale skin, and brown eyes. I couldn’t help but check them out, but that’s okay because they were both obviously checking me out too and I knew what they would find: a girl with pale skin, straight brown hair with lots of blond highlights that went past my shoulder blades, clear blue eyes (when I’m not emotional at all), with a supermodel perfect body. I know, that makes me sound conceited, but those weren’t even my words they were someone else’s.

          I decided to sniff their scents to see if they smelled as sexy as they looked but as soon as I did I could feel my blood run cold. They weren’t human, which didn’t surprise me but I didn’t expect to run into any other supernatural beings here. I could tell that one was a vampire and the other was a bloodline Alpha werewolf. I t didn’t take a genius to figure out who was who though.

          The vampire spoke first, “Hi, you must be the new girl? I’m Nathan. It’s nice to meet you.” he said as he extended his hand for me to take. I took it automatically and he bent his head down to kiss it, which made me blush a little. What the HELL?! I DON’T BLUSH! EVER!  What’s wrong with me?!

          The werewolf, who had to be Peter, spoke next. “Hello, I’m Peter. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” he purred almost seductively as he also extended his hand for mine. As soon as he took my hand in his an electric shock went up my whole arm. Oh, shit, I thought. I know what that means, I just found my mate and by the look in his eyes he knew too. This is just great I groaned internally. His eyes locked on mine for what felt like hours until he finally broke away, realizing he still had my hand, which he dropped immediately.

          “Well it’s nice to meet you both. I’m Jennifer. Alaina told me that we have all the same classes together so I guess I’ll be seeing you both a lot.” I said still unable to take my eyes away from Peter’s, but he couldn’t take his eyes off mine either so it was okay.

          Ugh, having a mate will blow my human façade. No one knows what I am. Well only some of my enemies and some long lost but never forgotten allies, but no one here. I’ll have to tell him what I am, I just don’t know if I can trust him. Finally the bell rang and we quickly hurried to class.

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          The whole day went by in a blur thankfully. I sat with Alaina, Peter, and Nathan at lunch but I didn’t eat anything and I didn’t join in the conversation unless I was asked a direct question either. At the end of school I stayed after for some unknown reason I couldn’t explain. My mind told me to go home but my body was leading me towards the football field. When I got there I saw Peter and Nathan arguing over something and I could make out every word with my acute hearing, but I still went down farther to see what they were doing. Suddenly I was grabbed from behind by a pair of strong arms, but it didn’t matter, if I chose to I could have easily broken both of them without even using half my strength but I decided to see who it was and I looked up into the face of my captor. NATHAN?!