All rights go to Stephenie Meyer and Rick Riordan. Also thank XxxBellaBellaxxX for the storyline which I wouldn't have come up with. Oh and the title.

Edward's Point of View

High School.

Or was purgatory a better word? I don't know if it is like this for every kid on the planet. Or God is just making me pay for my sins. The latter is most probable since I could read the other teenagers minds and I didn't read torture from their minds. Sigh

Well at least there was something different today. Not really. It was just another addition to the school population. A female. Of course almost every male here was already imaging themselves in love with her . It was like she was their shiny new toy they had to win or something. I had to tune out the males thoughts even more, after today. I was interested though what did they see in her? I mean she looks plain enough to me. Rather dull green eyes, black hair nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe the most unusual thing about her was her name, Andromeda Jackson. Which was the name of the girl in Greek mythology that was chained for a monster as a sacrifice. That is until Perseus saved her.

I could hear from across the room that Jessica Stanley was giving her all of the dirty laundry on the Cullen clan. I was going to read Andromeda's mind when I heard nothing. I mean literally nothing. I even checked to see if she was still there. She was, but then why couldn't I read her mind? Jasper must have felt my frustration because he raised an eyebrow at me. I just shook my head at him. I turned around and looked at her, trying to read her mind again. I thought maybe I needed to see her when I read her mind. It didn't work.

When I thought I had just gotten a whiff of her thoughts. I was pushed out of her mind. I mean like literally pushed out. But I mean she couldn't do that could she? As I was pondering this she gave me a look that said Quit trying to read my mind. To say I was stunned would had been an understatement. It must have shown on my face because she just threw me a half-smirk that was both dangerous as it was innocent. Does that even make sense?

I turned to Jasper after Jessica had regain her attention.

"Can you feel her emotions?" I urgently asked him. He quirked his eyebrow at me and said "Yeah," I inhaled breath oxygen I didn't need, "Why? Can't you read her mind."

I shook my head. His eyes widen, which could have been quite funny if it wasn't such a serious situation. It was a serious situation because we didn't know if she knew our secret or not. That was what my job mostly was. Checking the mortals mind to see if they knew our secret, if there was just a vague suspicion then we would have to move. Before the vague became a full one.

By the end of lunch period we were where we were at the beginning. Without answers and full of questions. Fortunately my next period, biology I had with her. Also being that every desk was filled except mine. Giving me a chance to study her more and perhaps get some answers. I had already put my family up to date. So they knew what kind of trouble we were if she knew something.

Two minutes after I had sat down. Andromeda came in with Angela. Andromeda didn't look like much of a talker or a hoarder of attention. Which would have made them instant friends. Which I couldn't understand. Why was she hanging out with Jessica Stanley of all people? Was she trying to get information about us? Whoa, I had really become paranoid. I mean she doesn't know anything about us. For God's sake she had not even been here a day.

When she presented her slip to Mr. Banner. I overheard him telling her about how he will help her since she had ADHD and dyslexia. Maybe it was good that she was sitting next to me so that I could help her. When Mr. Banner finally let her go, she finally came to sit by me. She had not even crossed half of the space between us when I smelled her. She had such an overpowering smell. She smelled like the sea. Salty, and something that can be described as uncontrollable, and unpredictable. In all a very nice smell.

I leaned toward her and said, " Hello my name is Edward Cullen and I have to say welcome to our school."

She laughed at the last part and said "Hi my name is Andromeda and thanks for the welcoming." When I stared at her I realized that her eyes weren't a dull green at all but rather a green that seemed to be alive and full of humor. Though if you went past that you also saw pain. Who was this girl?

By the end of the class. I learned that there was nothing alarming about her. She has dyslexia, ADHD, a great sense of humor, she was all selfless and completely loyal. When I arrived to my car I saw that my family was already there. Jasper immediately asked me, "Well, what did you find out?" All the while the rest of my family had anxious expression well except Alice. "She suspects absolutely nothing. Well from what I gathered from what she said, and anyway we overreacted."

"WE overreacted?" Rosalie asked incredulously. I threw her a look "Fine, maybe I overreacted." I huffed. While I was saying this Jasper wasn't looking so convinced. I gave him a questioning glance and he finally spoke "I truly don't believe she is normal, I have a feeling that she is hiding something. She I don't but she reminds me of a soldier. I I can't explain it, weird, huh." We all believed now that there was something that Andromeda was hiding. After all we all trusted Jasper's hunches. It was rare thing when he was wrong. The part that was most intriguing to me was the soldier comment. Could she really have served as a soldier? Who was Andromeda really?

As we drove off, we all watched as she climbed onto her ride. We saw as she drove on her way to La Push. Was she going there just to see the beach? So many questions not enough answers.