Never Forget

Disclaimer: See Prologue.
Rating: PG-13.
Beta: CeeCee


Chapter 2

Alice Cullen sat patiently waiting for her mate and her brother to get ready for school. They were only a month into their senior year and already she was bored. She couldn't count how many times she'd went through the senior year in high school, they all blurred together slightly and only highlighted by exciting moments or fond memories here and there.

The last year had been fairly exciting, if somewhat troubled… her brother Edward had encountered a singer and had almost instantly felt a nearly overwhelming bloodlust for the little human girl known as Bella Swan. At first Edward had tried to fight the pull of her blood and had left them to get away from Bella, but he'd soon been unable to stay away and had come back. Through sheer determination he learned to control the bloodlust. In a moment with Bella's life in the balance, Edward had saved her, showing his true nature as a vampire.

Bella had been surprisingly okay with this and they had begun a relationship. Towards the end of the year a rogue vampire, who had been intrigued by Edward's protection of the human, decided to hunt Bella for sport. A series of events led to Bella being injured, but not killed, and the rogue vampire learned the lengths to which the Cullen's would go to protect their own.

In a second Alice's eyes glazed over as a vision came over her. She saw images of a new family coming to Forks and settling in, they were different though Alice couldn't figure out why… and as they became a part of the town, the future began to change with their arrival. Possible futures flashed before her, some flashing for only a moment, others going into more detail. It seemed that one human in the new family was Edward's mate, and though Alice couldn't see everything, this human was a part of Edward's past and a child was involved… Some of the possible futures were happy ones, such as Edward and Bella getting married, Bella being turned and giving birth to a daughter. In another, Edward fell in love with his mate, but they were torn apart, and Edward turned Bella. Bella, in her wrath at being second choice, incited the Volturi to destroy the family. In a third, and for Alice it seemed to be her favorite of all the possible futures, Edward and his mate married, and after being turned, the mate gave birth to another child and they lived a very long and happy life together.

Alice even though the future was undecided, couldn't help but smile. Edward's true mate was coming! She had known for quite some time that no matter how much Edward believed it, Bella was not his mate, and would never be. He was lonely after going for so long without someone to share his life, having to watch his entire family slowly pair off with a mate, and still not finding anyone for himself. Edward cared for Bella, Alice was sure of that, but he didn't love her. Bella's singer blood confused the situation, allowing Edward to convince himself that she was his mate.

As Edward and Jasper came down, Alice jumped up off her place on the couch and bounced on over to them. "A new family is moving to town and the three teenagers will be starting school today! They're the ones who had that big house built a few miles away."

As her brother frowned at the news, Alice sang a popular song in her mind to keep Edward from reading her thoughts. Even though the vision was about Edward, she couldn't let him see it… the future was still unclear and Edward knowing what she did could change everything and she couldn't have that. Events would have to play out as they were meant to be, but Alice hoped that Edward and his mate were able to affect the future enough to allow them to be together.


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Thirty minutes later, after picking up Bella on the way, they arrived at school and got out of Edward's silver Volvo. On the way to school, Edward and his brother and sister had told Bella about the new students starting today.

"Oooo… they're about to drive up!" Alice chirped as she held Jasper's hand tightly. Jasper looked at her in confusion, as he could feel her excitement and happiness at the new students' arrival, wondering why she was so excited.

Just then, Harry pulled his green Porsche Cayenne into the school and parked it on the other side of the parking lot, away from Edward's Volvo. Hopping out of the SUV, Harry laughed and said "I did not speed 'Mione, I was going 48mph, the speed limit is 45mph." His British accented voice rolling over the words smoothly as he spoke.

"Harry, that's three miles OVER the speed limit!" Hermione said after she got out of the SUV, placing her hands on her hips and glaring at him.

Laughing again, Harry said "Okay, technically you're right as usual Hermione, but everyone else does it too!"

"Oh, and I suppose that same reasoning would be an acceptable excuse for all of Voldemort's followers? Hmmm?"

The three vampires frowned at the reference and Edward wondered who Voldemort was. Bella asked what they were saying and he quickly relayed the conversation. It was during this, that Edward realized that he couldn't read their minds; it was as if a solid wall surrounded their thoughts, keeping him out. His frown increased even more at this… he'd never been unable to read anyone's mind, but Bella…

Harry stopped laughing and sticking out his tongue, he gave 'Mione the finger as Ron cut in. "Mione, that's a bit below the belt even for you…" Ron walked over to his girlfriend and put an arm around her shoulders and kissed her temple. "Relax… this is just like any other school we've been too."

Hermione took a deep breath and then nodded. "Sorry, I'm just nervous… I don't want to look like an idiot because I don't know what they're talking about."

"Mione that's impossible… you purposely spent the last three days schooling us on any and all subjects we are going to learn here, I think my brains leaking it's so full!" Ron joked.

"Oh hah hah, I just wanted to be prepared." Hermione nervously chewed her nails as they began walking towards the school's main office.

As they entered the school, Edward turned and said "I couldn't hear their thoughts, not one of them."

"How's that possible? The only one who's ever been unreadable is Bella and she's the first one in 90 years… how can there be three now, and all grouped together too?" Jasper asked in confusion.

Bella frowned after Edward spoke. She'd always thought she was unique, because of the fact that Edward couldn't read her thoughts, special even… now three new people just arrive and their thoughts were hidden too? It made her nervous and she' didn't like that.

From the moment she'd met Edward her life had only gotten better… well, except for that vampire James. But, other than that, it had been good. Edward loved and adored her, spending all his time with her and making her feel special and worthy of having someone so beautiful be with her. The promise of him turning her into a vampire, making her just as beautiful and powerful as her lover, made it even more amazing. She was going to spend eternity with Edward as a seventeen year old vampire, eternally young and beautiful… whenever she thought about it she felt so happy that she thought she'd burst with it.

Now, though she couldn't explain it, the three new students were a threat to her and she didn't like it at all!


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Harry was ready to curse the next person who asked if he was single! Every girl, and even some boys he'd come in contact with, had glommed onto him like glue and proceeded to interrogate him on everything from if he had a girlfriend/boyfriend back home to how he got his hair to do that sexy messy sticking up thing it does…

Harry growled at a girl who just walked up to him, without even introducing herself, and asked if he wanted to go see a movie sometime. Seriously?! He stalked off down the hall towards the way the map said the cafeteria was, grumbling under his breath as he went.

After getting their schedules from the office, the three hadn't been too surprised when Hermione got mostly AP classes and only had one class with each of them. Harry and Ron had three of the seven periods together, two before lunch, one after. Harry hadn't really thought about the fact that he'd be alone for half of the day, seeing as since first year he'd had every class with Ron, and over half with Hermione. Now he was very much regretting agreeing to attend the school.

"Mate, what's wrong?" Ron asked as he walked up alongside Harry as they made their way to the cafeteria.

"I feel like its first year all over again and everyone wants to spend time with the Boy-Who-Lived… bloody people keep coming up to me and asking me stupid questions, like how I get my hair to do the 'sexy messy sticking up thing it does' or if I've got a girlfriend back home. I don't even know these people, and I've been asked out five times since first period. Why are they doing it?"

"Harry, mate…" Ron laughed and patted his back. "You're the new foreigner with the sexy hair, the dazzling green eyes and the British accent… you're a hottie, Harry! Or something like that…"

Harry gaped at his friend and then said, "How do I make it stop?"

"Can't really… guess you'll just have to suffer through it mate." Ron said sarcastically as they walked into the cafeteria.

Quickly getting their lunch, they turned around to see Hermione was sitting at a table in the center of the room filled with a bunch of kids, seeing them she waved them over. They took a place on either side of her as she whispered, "Sorry, they practically dragged me over here I couldn't be rude…"

Harry rolled his eyes and laughed as he began eating. As he ate one of the people introduced everyone and Harry nodded his head in greeting.

"So Harry why'd you guys move here?" A brunette by the name of Jessica asked, smiling at him in what he imagined was supposed to be flirtatiously.

"Just needed a change of scenery." He answered with a shrug.

"So are you guys brothers and sister or what?" Mike asked.

"No, we've just been friends for a long time, and when their parents died my godfathers adopted them."

They all nodded, but Harry was sure they had more questions as he hadn't told them much. Just as Mike opened his mouth to speak, Harry's attention was drawn to the cafeteria doors as four students walked in.

The first student to walk in was a small pixie-like girl with short and spiky dark brown hair, pale skin and golden eyes. She practically danced into the room, smiling at the blonde boy who followed her. The boy's face was pulled tight in a grimace as if he smelled something bad. He had the same pale skin and golden eyes and bruises under them. Each was beautiful in a timeless sort of way and Harry couldn't take his eyes off of them. A few seconds after that, a somewhat plain brunette girl with a smile on her face, brown eyes and gangly limbs walked in, she said something to the pixie girl, who only smiled and laughed as she continued walking. As the door closed Harry got a look at the last student, and he felt his breath catch in his throat as he looked at a near replica of Cedric.

Hermione and Ron looked at him as he gasped and then turned to see what he was looking at. They both frowned as if trying to figure out what they were looking at. From beside him he could hear Hermione gasp once they got a good look and Ron whispered "Bloody hell!"

The boy had wavy chestnut hair, pale skin and golden eyes with faded bruises under them… the same thin bubble gum pink lips and strong angular face… six foot two with a slim, but muscular build… Harry felt like he was dreaming, he had to be. He wouldn't be so lucky as to find Cedric after all this time. Would he? "Cedric…" Harry breathed quietly, so quietly the only people to hear him speak were Hermione, Ron and the boy, but he couldn't have heard Harry. He was over twenty feet away!

Edward turned as the name was breathed; a frown grew on his pale face as the name stirred something within him briefly. It was almost as if he knew that name, but it slipped away before he could say why. He continued to frown at the new student, and as his smell reached him, Edward's frown only increased. Not only didn't he smell like food, he smelled… Edward couldn't even describe the way he smelled. It was as if someone had bottled the perfect smell for him… warm and spicy with a hint of sweetness, Edward couldn't place it, but when he closed his eyes he felt at peace, as if he were home. He felt utterly drawn to him and fiercely protective of the smaller boy and he couldn't understand why.

Opening his eyes again, he found the boy still looking at him, an unreadable expression on his face as they stared at each other. The boy's heart was beating rapidly, his breath coming out in shallow pants, as their eyes stayed locked on one another. He was captivating and beautiful, both fragile and strong somehow. He had messy black hair, longer on the top and cut close the scalp on the sides, emerald green eyes, that sparkled in a way Edward had never seen before, pale creamy skin and a full Cupid's bow mouth. From the look he got in the parking lot, Edward guessed he had to be about five foot six at the most with a slim body build.

The attraction he felt for him was strong, so much more than his initial bloodlust for Bella, and that made him feel confused and guilty. Bella was his mate… he shouldn't be so drawn to another person, it wasn't supposed to happen. A mate was everything to a vampire, the very purpose of their existence.

"Edward… Edward… Edward!" Hissed Bella from beside him.

Edward broke his stare with the boy and followed her over to the lunch line to get his usual lunch. When they sat down at the table, Bella laid her head on his shoulder and stared up at him lovingly as she turned his face towards her and kissed him.

Bella purposely laid her head on his shoulder, trying to keep his attention on her while she tried to keep her anger tampered down, very aware that Jasper's empathic abilities would pick up on it. Edward had stood there for over a minute just staring at the new boy, either ignoring or unable to hear her call his name.

She had already felt Edward slipping away from her before the new family … it had all begun in simple ways really. The more they got to know each other the less they realized they had in common. Bella tried her best to be what Edward wanted, hoping that with her being turned their problems would fade away with her old life, but now with the boy drawing Edward to him like that she knew he could wreck everything!

Smiling down at Bella, Edward began pushing his food around, trying to keep his eyes from wandering back to the boy.

Jasper leaned over to him and spoke so quietly that Bella couldn't hear him. "Edward are you okay… your emotions are all over the place?"

"The new student with the black hair, he looked at me and said the name Cedric like he thought I was someone else… and his smell, it's different. He doesn't smell like food and his scent, it calls to me, but not like Bella's does." Edward replied, his frown deepening as he spoke.

Jasper turned to the new students and inhaled shallowly, he then turned back to Edward, his eyes black with hunger from all the human blood nearby, a frown on his face. "None of them smell like food…"

From Harry's table he had watched the boy who looked like Cedric get his food with the brown haired girl and then sit down with the other two. It all felt surreal and Harry couldn't figure out if the was real or not. Did he finally find Cedric, and now he had to witness him with another person? This wasn't happening, it couldn't be happening!

"Harry that isn't, it couldn't be…" Spoke Hermione, her voice filled with uncertainty and confusion. She stopped speaking and frowned at her friend, not knowing what to say.

Harry continued to stare at him, his heart hurting as if he'd lost Cedric all over again. Finally when he couldn't bear watching the girl hang all over Cedric or whoever he was anymore, Harry stood up and quickly left the cafeteria with Hermione and Ron not far behind him.

Edward turned as the three new students left, wondering what was going on. He could see them outside through the window, standing close together. Listening he heard the other new boy speak.

"Mate, you alright?" He asked gruffly.

Harry didn't reply.

"Harry… I don't know what to say." Hermione paused, swallowing heavily and then continued. "What are the chances tha-"

Her voice cut of mid word, and no matter how hard Edward tried, he couldn't hear anything but mumbled words that he couldn't distinguish.

"-t it's him, Harry?" Hermione continued after she covertly cast a mufflato spell around them.

"Look at him Hermione; unless that's his doppelganger then it's him!" Harry nearly shouted and then muttered "Sorry, it's just seeing that girl all over him and him kissing her… Merlin, even if that's not him, just seeing someone who looks like him kissing someone else hurts."

Hermione frowned and then spoke again. "Did you see them; well all except the girl with the long brown hair… they were really pale and golden eyes and bruises under their eyes… I think they're some kind of magical creatures."

"If it's him, then that doesn't make sense, Cedric was pure human." Harry shook his head.

"Not if he's a vampire now…" Hermione said softly.

"A vampire?" Ron gasped as he turned back towards the cafeteria with a scowl on his face.

"Wait that still doesn't make sense, they have golden eyes 'Mione." Harry stated.

"I read this paragraph in a book about magical creatures at Hogwarts. It talked briefly about rumors of two small covens of vampires who, instead of drinking the blood of humans, drink from animals. When they do that they had golden eyes, except for when they are hungry, then they have black eyes. If a vampire drinks human blood their eyes are crimson." Hermione explained.

"So what, when he disappeared someone found him and turned him and he decided not to come back to me?" Harry whispered.

"I don't know Harry, maybe, but this could all be a coincidence and that might not even be him…"

Just after she spoke the bell rang for the next class. Sighing, Harry said "We can talk about this when we get home after school; we need to get to the next class anyways."

"Kay Harry, but it'll be okay, we'll figure out what's going on…" Hermione whispered as she hugged Harry and then headed off to class.

"Come on mate, time to get to class." Ron said as he steered Harry towards their next classroom.