Katie POV

I woke up happy and rested, which was unusual for me, but what wasn't unusual for me was waking up before sunrise. It was part of the way I survived with my "dad". Get up early, come in late, stay outside as much as possible and inside as little as possible. I hop out of bed on silent feet, and realize Bella left me clothes on my dresser. She may be a little weird at some points, but her heart is always in the right place, I chuckle at the thought. I change into the clothes she left out grateful for their extra warmth since it's October. The outfit is black leggings with a long sleeved green shirt/jacket. I don't think they were supposed to be tight but, my body was much more built than my cousins. I appreciated them none the less. I looked at the clock next to my bed and it reads "6:05". I start to walk aimlessly around my room when my stomach growls loudly. Oh yeah, breakfast...probably should get some of that.

I walk downstairs with out making a sound, I try not to be arrogant, but I'm pretty proud of my "feline grace and agility" as my coach likes to call it. As I step into the kitchen I run into a disgruntled looking uncle. "Oh sorry, Katie, didn't see ya there. I'm off to work, Bells will take you to school with her, don't worry I already called and they are more than happy to accommodate you there." I'm momentarily speechless at his thoughtfulness, but manage to say "Thanks Charlie, that means a lot" I give him a wave as he heads out to work. At the same time I hear Bella's clunky steps and muffled curses as she stumbles out of bed and I into the bathroom, this time I laugh loudly, especially when she hits her foot and exclaims "stupid dang dresser! Always in my way! What did I do to you?"

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30 minuets later Bella and I hop in her clunker of a car, she then proceeds to throw a backpack at me saying "Book bag, notebooks, pens" I give her a smirk commenting "I see your love for mornings hasn't changed" she scowls at me as I laugh at her. We pull up in the parking lot and I jump out of the car, and Bella...well calling it a stumble would be generous. I thought she was gonna eat pavement, but just before she fell, a really (and I mean really, really) pale guy grabs her and pulls her up. Bella laughs it off, even though her face is burning and says "Hi Edward" "Morning Bella" is his reply, and Jesus, his voice, it was deep and mature and no way could it belong to a teenager. As I'm lost in my thoughts, he glances over at me. I straighten, stretch out my hand and say "Hi, I'm Katie, Bella's cousin." He reaches over to shake my hand and says "Pleasure to meet you" then looks to Bella and back at me, saying "you guys look nothing alike" "yeah we get that a lot" Bella replies taking Edwards hand. Oh...Bells has a boyfriend, I smile at how cute they are as I follow them in. Edward keeps polite conversation with me about my hobbies, interests, etc. But they eventually leave to go to their classes and I to mine. All alone on the first day...great. I walk into my first class a couple minutes late, due to never being here before and getting lost. And of course everyone turns to look at me and the Biology teacher says "Oh! You must be Katie, welcome, take any open seat, and here is your textbook" I grab the book and head to the back of the classroom next to this huge football dude. As I sit, he leans over and says "Hey sweetheart, I'm Chad, you are super thic, wanna hang out after school, we can go to my place." Well that escalated quickly and ew just ew. But, trying to be polite and diffuse the situation I say "actually I have track practice after school, but it's very nice to meet you" he answers saying "aw come on baby, you know you want some" Yuck. Great start to the day. Now I'm fed up and done with this bullshit so I snap back "yeah I want some. Some damn space to take the biology notes and get situated in peace, find someone else the annoy" He just sits back and grins, as soon as the bell rings I'm out of there.

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The rest of the day passes uneventfully and I meet Bella's other friends at lunch. A happy looking girl, Alice, her boyfriend Jasper, a scary girl named Rosie, her boyfriend Emmett. Gosh, are all people in Forks this perfect. I also meet some normal looking kids, Mike, Jessica, and a few others.

Finally it's the end of the school day, I meet Bella at her truck, throw my bag in her car, and tell her "hey I'm gonna run home" she looks like I just told her I wanted to run naked through the school and exclaims "It's five miles! You must be joking" after I explain, that I am not, in fact, joking, she drives off muttering about stupid athletes. I go into the bathroom to change into my running pants and a purple running top ( and jog off into the woods. I know that I just have to stay close enough to the road and it's pretty much a straight shot home. After about 10 minutes at a steady jog, I hear a car zoom up the road, I snort and think of how obnoxious that the driver must be to be that loud. Then the car screeches and pulls over on the side I'm running on. And none other and than Chad and his football dudes climb out. Shit. Shit shit shit. They turn to me and start sprinting my way. Instinct taking over, I turn and sprint away deeper into the forest. I nimbly jump and dodge fallen trees and branches, these football guys are huge, about 150lbs heavier then my lithe frame, but damn they are fast. I hear them screaming behind me "no one denies us bitch! Come on we know you want it, just come with us baby" yeah right. I'm fast, but I'm a built for distance, not speed, like these guys who are built for sprints. I hear one of them before I feel it, the heavy breathing then a solid push on my back as one of them lunges forward and tackles me to the ground. I grunt as my arm bends weirdly and my face scratches the ground. I scramble out from under one of Chads friends and try to find my footing. As I'm trying to run again, Chad runs up and grabs my arm, I turn around and say with steel in my voice "Let. Me. Go." He just smirks and try's to pull me closer. Try's because I swing around and punch him in the jaw, a good solid punch that has him recoiling. "Bitch" he hisses at me, then smirks again saying "well boys we got a fighter on our hands". I survey my surroundings trying to find out any information that will help me. There are 8 guys in total, all much bigger than me and have already shown their speed. I can't hear the road anymore, and to get back their I would have to run through the boys. And, I realized as I surveyed the forest, I'm also lost. Great just great. My thoughts were cut off as three of the guys rushed me. Against instincts taking over, I jumped back to dodge the first, adrenaline poured into my veins as I ducked and spun, then kicking one in the stomach hard enough for him to collapse. One down seven to go. I punched the other one, feeling the skin on my knuckles splitting, he reeled back but charged again. I flip back and blindly kick out my legs, nailing him in the gut. Unfortunately, the third one slams his fist into my temple, I fall back. Something hot and sticky dribbles down my face, blood, my blood. "Oh you're dead" I snarl at him and charge tackling him to the ground and knocking him unconscious with a few well placed punches. I look over and smirk at the shocked expression on Chads face. But it quickly dissolved into anger and he gathered the last four boys and they started to stalk toward me. Oh shit...I was already having trouble focusing, my head throbbed from the cut, and from the amount of blood, it was probably deep. But I poured my strength into my legs, turned and ran. I started shouting, in hopes a passing hiker or someone might hear me yelling "HEY! Anyone!!! HELP! I've got a couple of lunatics on my tail! HELP!!!" More of the forest passed in a blur and I realized my shouting was in vain. No one would be out this far. "Ah!" I yelped as something heavy hit me from behind and slammed me into the ground, not something, I realize, someone. I struggle and twist trying to shake him off, then the other guys catch up and help him hold me down. Three hold down my limbs and chad come up to pin me, sitting on my stomach holding my arms down as well. He gives me a smile that sends me shuddering from how vile it is. He smirks at my discomfort and brings his hand up to trace lines on my face. He then says "Look how much better you are without that horrible mouth yapping, and finally sitting still". His fingers were so violating and gross that as he neared my mouth. I opened my mouth and bit down on them. He screamed and shouted at me, but I didn't let go. Chad drew his hand back and slapped me, but I still didn't let go. Finally on of his idiot friends who was holding my arm, grabbed it and yanked, dislocating it. Hot, white blinding pain shot straight from my arm, the pain was so intense I thought I was gonna pass out. I was screaming through the pain. During this, out of the corner of my eye, I see something move in the bushes. Great. A bunny to the rescue. Glad to see my sarcasm wasn't hurt in this instance. Chad looks down at me and purrs "Now there's no one to here you scream, so we get to have our fun". Red washed my vision as anger boiled my blood. As Chad leaned down, to do what, I don't know, I brought my knee up and slammed it into his groin. He swore low and vicious at me and brought his arm back to punch, the bush rustled louder this time, drawing my attention. The look over cost me, Chads fist came down hard and black spots danced in my vision. But I summoned all my arrogance and said "Does this make you feel powerful? Hurting a younger and smaller girl? Forcing her to have sex with you because you can't convince anyone else to suck your tiny dicks? How sad. At least you guys can suck each other's" I finished with an innocent smile. With his anger making him vulnerable, I scampered out from under them and landed a hard kick to the face of one of them. Chad grabbed the front of my shirt and cocked his arm back to punch, I flinched expecting the impact. But it never came....