The Cullens: My Favourite Subjects

Nothing had ruptured the bubble surrounding the town of Forks like the arrival of the Cullen family two years ago. Forks would be welcoming a new doctor, along with his wife, someone new for the housewives of Forks to gossip about, and five new kids at Forks high school. Not much was known about them, except that they lived in Alaska before moving to Forks. That alone rose questions in my mind, like why would they choose rainy, dreary, little Forks to relocate to? Surely, a doctor could be much more successful in a big city. Why choose a small town that has nothing but rainy days and seas of green to offer? Soon, all of my thoughts revolved around the Cullens as I tried to break the mystery of who they were before they arrived. People tend to be quite predictable, but not this family. Anxiety brewed in me for the moment I would first lay my eyes on them, to finally figure them out.

I met the five Cullen kids first, on their first day of school. Calling them ‘kids’ is a huge understatement. They were more like Gods as they stepped out of their expensive, shiny cars and glided towards the school. That was the first time I noticed something was obscure about the way they moved. Their walks weren’t casual or like the normal stride of the average teenager rushing to class. It was too perfect, almost forced. They strode along the pavement smoothly, but robotically, as if their bodies were capable of more than they allowed to be visible. On top of that, they didn’t seem to express any of the mannerisms many people do when heedlessly walking into a building, like the flip of the hair or licking your lips. There was nothing. Their expressions seemed to be etched in stone, failing to move in even the slightest twitch.

Rumours began to slither their way around the school and I caught snippets of them here and there. Some people claimed they were all models that were tired of the rich life and wanted to try their hand at being normal. Others commented on how some of them looked too old to be in high school, so they must be stupid and had to repeat the twelfth grade . The rumour was squashed dead like a bug when their academic excellence shone through as the school year progressed, each of them scoring in at the top of their classes.