School was boring. Of course, for someone like me, who’d graduated from high school countless times it would be.

I tuned out from the multitude of voices in my head only by tracing patterns in the plaster of the desk before me. Patterns which did not exist. The only way to rest myself from the gift I had.

Reading human minds was so easy for me. Not one mind eluded me yet, and this was good. Little did I expect this was about to change.

I had heard so many times that there was a new addition to the small student population here. Within my own mind I laughed that it took so little to stir them all up. It was just an ordinary human girl. Most of the human males were constantly picturing themselves in love with her. I knew this was only because she was a new thing for them to look at.

There were four voices that I tried to block out of courtesy, rather than distaste, my two brothers and two sisters. They were used to the lack of privacy with me around. I tried not to listen to them, give what privacy I could.

Though it was worth my time, because I did not need to hear them so much, I still knew.

Rosalie was always thing about… herself. She was so interested in her image; it was rare for her to think of anything else.

Emmett fumed over a wrestling match lost against Jasper late last night. He was waiting impatiently for the end of school today, so they could have a rematch, at home of course.

Jasper… he was suffering. I hid a sigh from this.

Edward. Alice, my last sibling, called my name in her head, and I turned my attention to her mentally in an instant. My head did not turn to her, but stayed as it was. Rarely did anyone catch us at these mute conversations.

‘How is he holding up?’ She asked.

I frowned, the set of my mouth changing very minutely. It looked as if I frowned out of boredom, nothing more.

I could see her watching Jasper with her peripheral vision. She was alarmed now, I could tell from her mental tone as she said, ‘Is there any danger?’