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There was a revolution taking place. Right inside her active stomach, she could feel it protesting and grunting annoyed and, honestly, she couldn’t blame him. She had missed lunch, completely, and yet she wouldn’t want to blame anyone for it, the only responsible was herself. She just didn’t wanted to go at the cafeteria and fell the oddly and curious stares on her, even knowing perhaps her only and really friend on the small and rainy town of Forks was there, but not even around Bella things would be easier. Those kids really did too many questions, and honestly Eve wasn’t such ha good liar as she wanted to… So the best strategy was avoiding them.

Avoiding their questions, try her best to be the most uninteresting and irrelevant person around and hope the curiosity of being a newcomer would decrease. That was for the better, it really was. If Evelyn would be completely honest for herself, they really should keep their distance from her. She was dangerous, not probably on the same way she knew she was supposed to be, but because her simply existence was a threat for everyone and potentially an danger magnet for those around her, but hopefully her stay on Forks would as calm, peaceful and discrete as the previous ones on other places over the globe.

Evelyn started walking toward the gym and took a deep breath as she felt her stomach ache and grunt loudly. However, she forced herself to close her eyes and ignore it. Food, it was loudly demanding for food. Normal human, solid and consistent food… Another ironic thing about herself. It was expected that someone, like her, with a father liker her, someone like her was probably supposed to drink human blood, a concept she had learn to find quite repulsive and that, hopefully, she had found a very good alternative and centered her diet round simple human food. And it was really good; chocolate was on her top list, actually, no matter how her grandmother would complain with that.

One faint smile crossed her lips as she remembered her grandmother’s opinion about her sugar rich diet, but it vanished quickly as she realized she had finally reached the gym and feared the other students would take her from some crazy and loony girl. Biting her lip nervously, she waited quietly the other students would arrive and, then, that the professor would start talking and explaining his plans for the day’s lesson… And what a plans!

It was just...perfect. Two classes would be together, like if it wasn’t already enough her own to stare at her, and they would paired up with students form the other class. If Evelyn wasn’t so tense, she would definitely start laughing hysterically. Didn’t she have already many complicated things on her strange and half-human life? Apparently not, that was how it seemed. The blond girl sighed loudly and stood there, quiet and silent until she saw the other students left change themselves and came again to pair up. There was good thing about skipping lunch: it would give you a lot of free time where you could already change yourself discreetly…

As the students started to arrive and pair up, she closed her eyes and prayed. Prayed there wasn’t anyone to team up with her… and when she opened again her eyes and saw everyone already paired, one bright smile flashed across her face. It was perfect, her personal miracle and… It was too good to be true. As she prepared herself to turn around and tell the professor she hadn’t any pair, she realized for the first time she wasn’t the only one left alone… One boy, probably older than her, with pale skin and blond hair, and she felt her hope vanish and walked toward him. After all there was going to be a pair for her...

“Hi…” She managed to say once she was closer to him. Why couldn’t her brain work a better thing to say on that moment?” It looks like, then, we are the only left, isn’t it?” Eve added and controlled teh urge to bit her tongue. No, apparently her brain simply wasn’t working.

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It were like endless years, those small seconds Evelyn took until she finally had been able to reach the boy that, irony of the fate or not, was going to be her partner on that gym class, and yet it had been enough for the small girl notice the strange behavior of him. Was it her simple impression, or did he really look like one of those military statues, unmoving and almost like if he was frozen, yet in a rather unusual gentlemanly way with his arms folded behind his back and Evelyn couldn’t decide if she should take that as a good or a bad sign, actually.

Evelyn didn’t want to become any focus of attention on the small and peaceful town of Forks, more than necessary obviously, and things weren’t starting precisely the way she wanted too. She had made a good acquaintance, something she honestly didn’t mind at all, but that girl was more shinny than any possible or existing spotlight, and she didn’t wanted the attentions on her to being turned toward her eventually. She had already too much to concern with than having to keep up good lies to hide her true identity, so she wasn’t definitely in position to being able to deal with more trouble.

It only took a few seconds for Evelyn to notice the deep frown of concentration on her face, and as soon as she noticed it, the girl dismissed it replacing it with a simple and blank expression instead and allowing herself to take a more careful look at the older boy that was going to be her partner on that class. She had later described him as pale, but pale wasn’t an enough descriptive word for his white and, more oddly, marble white skin. He was even paler than her, and that was a difficult thing in someone due to her skin condition, but that wasn’t the only different thing about him. Now, comparing him to the other students around she had even to admit he was strangely beautiful, just like one of these movie stars of Hollywood, and outshining undeniably her irrelevant and uninteresting figure.

It was something really good, like his figure belonged to one of those Greek statues, and yet he was so incredibly alive, but above everything what really was more impressive was his eyes color. It wasn’t a color she was used to see, that gold and caramel mixture at the same time soothing yet so confusingly perplexing… Just like his momentary silence. Evie couldn’t avoid but be puzzled by his vague expression, like if he was deeply absorbed by any thoughts. Could it be that he too wasn’t particularly pleaded with the pairing? She couldn’t find a clear answer, but it it that was true she wouldn't mind. after all, she wouldn't blame anyone that would feel the need to be far away from her, because it was definitly the most reasonable thing to do actually...

“Hello... it would appear to be that way.”

The quiet voice startled her and, once again, Evelyn couldn’t avoid but look up confused for brief seconds. She was sure, positive actually, that he wasn’t going to answer. He seemed so silently quiet that, for brief moments, she had even considered the possibility he was going to stay there completely mute, and yet it had happened in such an evident southern accent, polite and so lightly, that it was completely impossible to ignore his unique and rather charming voice that had left her with nothing else to say or do beside her agreement nod.

It was a relief the professor had chosen to start speaking and giving new instructions, or else Evelyn feared they would both fall in an awkward silence, and so the girl listened to him more heartlessly than it even was needed even when a disbelief look flashed on her face at his words. They were supposed to tell their strengths and weaknesses? Meet each other?... Was the professor then going to ask them to take a tea together? That definitely didn’t look like a gym class, at the exception, of course, of the mentioned activities later.

Evelyn tried her best to not laugh bitterly as the professor finished her speech and all the other students started to talk with each other. What she was supposed to tell him? Hey, I’m a half-vampire and practically indestructible, so yeah... relax we had this won already! Well, the probably scared look on the boy’s face would be priceless, but definitely it wasn’t an option for Evelyn. So, instead she tried to say the most reasonable thing on that moment, at least that part still was a priority, wasn’t it?

“Such interesting ideas these gym professors have nowadays… “She said smiling shortly, hoping it would make their forced talk less uncomfortable than it already seemed to be. “Well, I believe it is rather important I present myself first. My name is Evelyn Travis… “Evelyn paused and then focused her light blue eyes on his golden ones. “…And who are you?” She added, trying her best to keep a normal and natural friendly expression and hide her tension from her partner. There was not point into making it more difficult than it was already.

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Confusion wasn’t, definitely, one of those feelings Evelyn was used to experiment on a daily basis, and so it was rather difficult for the girl to hide her thoughtful frown from her mysterious partner standing right beside her. He surely must have already noticed her lost expression, so why would she try to hide it now? Apparently, she couldn’t keep perfectly in check her feelings away from her facial expression but she still could try to achieve it, right? Biting her lower lip softly, Evelyn controlled the urge to look at her feet and kept staring at the boy standing beside her.

He definitely wasn’t like any other boy she had saw around on that school. Actually, he wasn’t like any other boy she had seen in any other school she had went to... And they were already quite a few, even in different countries. So, Evelyn was trying to figure out what was different on him, yet she still couldn’t find anything. Her head was empty of ideas and there wasn't any explainable reason why she had a strange curiosity about him. Probably it was only because he was intriguing, not only by his exceptional good looks, but also because of his unusually good manners despite his quiet personality.

Being quiet wasn’t, actually, something that would bother Evelyn with all the honesty. Words were important, she knew that, but many times they weren’t simply enough. All the boys, older or younger than her, never seemed to be quiet, or at least not that quiet like this one. Some around her age would, eventually, try to chat her up, something that she found completely annoying and, definitely, something that Evelyn wasn’t particularly willing to. Yet, he wasn’t behaving like that. Not that she complained about it, she was quite glad he wasn’t acting that way honestly, but it was unexpected for her and it would only make her believe even more he was quite different from the normal type of boys she had meet.

She had already seen, for a small couple of seconds though, his body tensioning quietly just to return back at the normal in less than seconds. Was it because of her? Was she making him uncomfortable or it was only her impression? She had been wondering about already a couple of minutes, but if he was perturbed by her then why she could almost bet she had seen him smirking quickly twice? It didn’t make the slightest sense and, for the first time, it was when Evelyn considered another possibility she hadn’t even pondered yet: what if he too was been studying her? And not in a physical way, because he had already surely done that, but more like trying to picturing her personality, her true self… the part of her nature that was almost always well hidden from the world around her.

Instinctively, her body tensed for some brief seconds as she pondered her worst fears… The fear of being caught, having to move away again and cleaning up her mess. But that was impossible, there was no way he could get the slightest clue about of what she was, and so she allowed her body to relax or, to be more honest, she forced herself to relax using the fact the boy had spoke to focus on his words and use it to diminish her tension.

And it worked, not on the way she was expected though, but it actually worked when he presented himself back. His name was rather unique, and as she listened him presenting himself Evelyn couldn’t avoid but feel some pieces of the complex puzzle fit and make some sense.. That name wasn’t strange for her, not strange at all actually. She had heard about him and his brothers and parents… his family. The Cullens, she could remember now having some people talking about them, but yet it wasn’t something that had interested her particularly on that day, but now having meet one it seemed like if those feelings were really absurd.

But before Evelyn could go further on her thoughts, he continued talking and she did her best to listen to him until he finished and she stood staring at him shocked. Well, she was a little tense, but it wasn’t that big such of a deal he had been able to see that, it was more his following statement and questions that made the girl stare at him amazed and at the verge of starting laughing hysterically.

Ok, she knew it was a fair question and she did know, by the way people talked, many students were afraid of the Cullens, but why would that bother her? Not being able to hold on her chuckle, Evelyn found herself couching lightly trying to hide her somehow musical laugher and smiling amused. If there was someone that should be afraid was him of her, not the opposite. After all, she was typically half of a very dangerous and thirsty mythical creature…

“Afraid? Why should I be afraid of you? It isn’t like if you’re going to bite me or something. “Evelyn stated, smiling. “ So no, I’m not afraid neither unhappy, but indeed I’m tense. New schools are always difficult to get used to, and I don’t like to call others attentions.” The girl added truthfully, shrugging her shoulders. A little of truth wouldn’t hurt anyone, so as long as it wouldn’t bring her any trouble why couldn’t she be fairly honest with Jasper? “So we are supposed to tell our weaknesses, right? Does skipping lunch counts?”

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She never had expected it to happen, but gradually the small town of Forks was starting to be less predictable and uninteresting place as she had expected at the beginning. Suddenly, it wasn’t anymore just a single tiny place, cold and wet, her personal prison from the world outside where she was supposed to hide herself, instead there was something more… much more than she would ever imagine actually. Either it was because of her startling and mysterious partner, Jasper Hale, or the existence of some few and nice people on the small town, Evelyn could just hope that would mean an change on her typical boredom life.

How deep it could be the change? That she couldn’t tell and even thought it was something she should, probably, ponder about her attention or concentration on that particular day wasn’t the greatest. Instead, she couldn’t help but feel even more curious about her partner and trying to figure out what he was… yes, because he definitely had something else on him that she couldn’t put the finger on it. After all, it wasn’t that normal at all a boy, not much older than her, act this way toward her… it was almost life he was born in another epoch, perhaps more than a century ago, even thought it was completely impossible of course. And while any other single and normal person would find this rather perturbing, Evelyn couldn’t help but be rather fascinated and keep studying him curiously. Perhaps it was this special trait on Jasper Hale and his family that was so ‘scary’ for the rest of Forks inhabitants, but again the reason why they feared her didn’t slightly bothered her.

Who knew, perhaps, if it wasn’t this overconfidence that had sparked the boy’s curiosity? Evelyn wasn’t sure if it was because of that he had been kept staring at her so intently of the few minutes since they had started to talk, but the quickly hidden surprise on his features or his momentarily few seconds he had been apparently wandering so quickly through was enough of evidence for her. If he was surprised by Evelyn’s apparent lack of fear, then she really understood the reason for his curiosity… With so many people keeping their distance from the Cullens it seemed life it was obvious they were considered some sort of danger and yet, against any good judgment, Eve was treating him like anyone else so it surely would seem odd for him. Of course, he hadn’t the slightest clue about what she was, neither him nor anyone beside her own grandmother actually. Because if they knew then Evelyn was sure she would be the feared target around.

What she couldn’t understand, though, was the strange and quick wave of emotion that crossed Jasper’s face once she had replayed him later. It was like if he was, at first smug because she wasn’t afraid of just to, next, be frozen and slightly nervous with her words. Odd, what did I say to start such reaction? Evelyn wondered for herself perplexed. Had she insulted him in any way? Not, she hadn’t done anything that could possible be considering as insulting, but then why did it seemed like if she had been close to some deadly truth? It surely was her impression, of course, and instead of continuing torturing herself with questions, the girl pushed her thoughts away, and even shook her head lightly in order to keep focused on Jasper’s face words.

As she stayed focused listening at him, Evelyn couldn’t avoid but still notice how tense his body was, neither the way he moved his gaze from her while talking and, again, she wondered if she really had said something that bothered him. It was childish and pretentious, though, thinking she could perturb him that way, but what if it was true? And if it was true, what was the source of his troubled expression? It were on moments like these she just wished people’s thoughts were clear to her like water, but it just seemed to happen precisely the opposite.

But before she could figure out any possible reason, he continued talking and Evelyn did her best to listening. It was much better than staring at him oddly and look like an idiot when he would look back at her and waiting for some answer and she couldn’t say anything because she hadn’t pay attention. So, again she forced herself to pull away her thoughts and stared at him in disbelief when he said skipping lunch wasn’t valid as a weakness.

“Not a weakness? Believe me, it is for me… I need food to keep my metabolism working properly, so not having food equals to not having my body working correctly.” Evelyn argued and, like if her stomach wanted to give her more reason, she heard a small grunt inside and blushed lightly. It had been really low, yet she couldn’t avoid the concern he might had heard it even thought it was impossible… He would need to have supper hearing and, obviously, that wouldn’t be the case.

“Working solo… well, I see your point, but don’t worry about the demanding part. “ She started grinning softly. “ Believe me, I probably can be a lot worse than you on that aspect and if you add a very stubborn and obnoxious mind and until today no one was able to beat me up on this aspect. You can still try your luck, though.” Evelyn continued brightening her grin even more. “Besides this, I‘m rather fast and agile…Nothing too extraordinary.”

Vampire super speed and agility… surely nothing to extraordinary, she mused for herself but bite her tongue to avoid saying it out loud. They could probably win every game the professor had prepared due to that, but should she test her limits and use her abilities on the bare extreme of the humanly possible?

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For the second time on that class Evelyn couldn’t avoid but feel there was, definitely, something wrong by the way her brain was working on that day… Or at least Evelyn hoped it was it the reason why she couldn’t just pull away the strange sensation that something was missing. She couldn’t put the finger on what it was and, definitely, it was really frustrating feeling that. It was like if something was tremendously wrong, or that there was something she should see but simply couldn’t. No. Instead the only thing she was feeling was the huge and empty whole inside her, that anxiety burying her inside for not being able to find her answers. It was childish, she knew, feeling that smug only because there was something for the first time she couldn’t understand, but that was just the way her stubborn and determinate head worked sometimes.

Despite the silent struggle with her mental faculties, Evelyn did her best to not let it be reflected on her clear face. Why would she perhaps pass the wrong impression at Jasper, him that seemed still so uncomfortable around her? And it was her fault. Eve couldn’t help but be feel rather guilty considering the possibility that she, probably, might had perturbed him so much, but it was better that way anyway… wasn’t it? Actually she wasn’t that sure anymore of what was wrong or correct lately, especially when it concerned about keeping people away of her or not… And the sudden disturbance on her rather calm and monotonous life had been brought under the cover of her actually and more than probably best friend on town, Bella Swan.

It was undeniably that Bella had changed her point of view about Eve’s long lasting isolation from the world, and the very result of that was the fact now Eve was more confused than ever about her choices and that moment there was no exception. Should she allow herself to be more social with jasper, or was it a rather terrible mistake let anyone join her life and risk putting them, later, on unquestionable danger? She knew the answer at that one: no. She had lived her past sixteen years with almost a lack of social life, so she could surely keep her life that way… at the exception of Bella, of course. At least one friend, that she was sure she could manage, beside she doubted she could hurt Bella that way by keeping her away from her.

One small and sad sight escaped her lips as Evelyn recognized on herself the defeat. There was something really wrong on her head these days, and perhaps it was her in fact the way her head seemed to not connect with her brain by making her allow such closeness with Bella or any other student… just like Jasper. Yeah, it would have to be that, actually. What else could be, anyway? It wasn’t not like if there was a bunch on mythical creatures’ right above her nose and she couldn’t see… Just the thought of that was so ridiculous that Evelyn felt the urge to laugh shortly, but yet she decided against it. Perhaps it wasn’t a good thing doing that in front of the poor boy or else he would start to thing she was completely mental. He wouldn’t be that far away from the truth, but yet she would still rather keep herself on a normal status as more as humanly possible.

Forcing herself to wake up from her inconstant thoughts, Evelyn trailed her gaze again toward Jasper and remained silent while he replied her, feeling a very soft and shy tone of pink touch her pale skin. He had agreed with her about the lack of food weakness, yet that wasn’t what was concerning her. What really was concerning now Evelyn was the actually and reinforced possibility that him, almost impossibly, had been able to hear the protest grunt of her stomach. He hadn’t show any sign he had actually heard it, but still it was a rather strange feeling she couldn’t completely put away pr ignore. Ridiculous, it isn’t possible. It isn’t like if he had vampiric super hearing to have been able to read it, Eve… Just snap out the hell of it. She argued inside and controlled the urge to hit with her completely messed up brain against a wall. Him being able to hear it... honestly, hat was she thinking?

His replay had been only that. One agreement replay about her sentence and with no other ulterior meanings. Why would she keep bothering herself about it? So, instead she simply nodded in agreement at his previous words. Yes, serious things could happen like fainting, going to the hospital on her case, sometimes, get thirsty. Her body tensioned at the simple thought. It wouldn’t bother if her thirst wasn’t for anything else beside water, but the truth was that it wasn’t. That was the thirst that would make her remember, once in a while, where still part of her origins remained… because that thirst was for blood. But that was something she had learnt to ignore and replace a long time ago and it didn’t bothered her own her current days.

Snapping back from her thoughts, again, Evelyn was puzzled to find one grin on Jasper’s face. She hadn’t to be a genius to understand it, though. It was like if had accepted her previous challenge about seeing which one of them could be more demanding and annoying. One challenge that was all that she needed to cheer up her dark mood and Jasper Hale had just brought up a very interesting one. He hadn’t not clue, though, how annoying she could be, he surely didn’t really know what he was getting himself into… And it wasn’t his statement that he had been from a military background that was going to scare her, by the opposite. That would just make things much more interesting.

“A military background, I see… Well, that doesn’t bother me particularly. “Evelyn said, with her eyes glinting with amusement. “I should had though of it, though. This explains the fact you are always so rigid, tense and apparently intimidating.” Evelyn joked lightly hoping he would relax. That surely couldn’t be misunderstood as something offending, now could it? “And I would be extremely disappointed if you wouldn’t demand a high standard.” She added, smiling briefly.

And he was fats himself… Evelyn couldn’t help but be rather pleaded by that. This way, she wouldn’t have to push her limits, since she wouldn’t need to cover for him. But before she could analyze further those advantages, the professor called them and Evelyn looked up surprised. It had already passed five minutes? That was strange.. she barely had noticed the time passing by on their small yet unusual talk…

“Well, it seems it is time for each of one prove who can be more anti-social or demanding.” Evelyn stated looking briefly in the direction of the professor only to just in quick seconds look back at Jasper’s golden hues. “Now tell me just one thing, please… Had he already explained anything about the games? I can’t remember now… “And why? Because there had been on part of that strange class that she had been panicking… but that was an unnecessary explanation for her to add. It wasn’t like if he needed to know that small detail….

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Could anyone resemble, faintly, a marble statue cursed with an almost imperceptible excruciating pain craved on his beautiful features? Evelyn hadn’t ever considered before that strange and improbable possibility, yet this was the way she couldn’t help but use to describe Jasper’s Hale actual behavior. She couldn’t picture what had happened and, again, she could dismiss the strange and slightly annoying possibility that she could be remotely related with it. And it was tremendously frustrating, especially if after how many countless times she would try to think again on their exchanged words she couldn’t fin anything less ordinary or slightly responsible for his odd reactions. So, instead of starting her mental arguing once again she focused on Jasper, trying to for the first time read his body language.

Again, she was assaulted by the statuesque figure and his soft features craved by and incomparable pain, but there was fairly much more on him that now she could see on him. Hs body was like if frozen and tenser than ever, like if there was something inside he needed to hold back away from everybody. If it wasn’t for the notorious lack of transpiration, she could even say he was nervous… but there wasn’t any possible manifestation of such involuntary body reaction. And now that she was seeing it, she hadn’t ever seen on him any sort of body unwanted response. That, of course, wouldn’t probably mean anything and she knew she couldn’t simply take that as a fact when she barely knew him… But it still was relatively untypical.

That wasn’t, though, her worst concern on the present moment. Instead, it was the way he looked at her, like if he was seeing something he had never seen and, after, the way he looked briefly toward any other student just to look back at her and take a closer attention at Evelyn’s features once again leaving her with the deepest sensation that she had just been compared with someone and that, at the clever and observant eyes of Jasper Hale, he had found something different and very wrong on her. For the first time since that class had started Evelyn couldn’t help but feel like if one invisible nervous and tensioning force had caught her on its traps, and she actually forced herself to move her gaze away from the golden hues of the boy standing right in front of her to help her restart her face and compose herself inside.

His look was, though, craved on her memory and she couldn’t simply send it away, but it was then, away from the strange and golden eyes of Jasper, that she could perceive on his memorized face that there was also something else on his expression. There was one edge of protectiveness and concern, and as crazy as it might sound, like he too had himself on secret he was very overprotective off and couldn’t fully hide behind his slightly darker golden eyes. Like if it wasn’t already enough confusing his way of reacting, now Evelyn would have to start, as well, wondering what rather inexistent and simply imaginable secrets he could hold for himself. And that wasn’t, by any way, a reasonable or logic coherent thing to do. No, the expectable of her was, particularly her, to not hold on any curiosity interest by anyone, because she was a trouble magnet.

“Of course…that’s understandable.” He said making Evelyn snap back from her thoughts quickly and look back at him. Had he said anything else, she really hoped not… And what she was supposed to say now? Her brain was still off, apparently, since she couldn’t simple manage any coherent trail of words, so she simple nodded and hoped he would speak again. She couldn’t be more relieved to know that, somehow, her prays had been heard “We’re going to be racing. The team with the quickest finish time is the winner. We’re going to be racing to see who can climb that the quickest…of course without breaking our necks in the process.” He said, answering her one previous question she had almost forgot of.

Her blue eyes followed the rail of Jasper’s hand and she frowned her face when they fell, ironically, on a long an thick rope. At that sight, Evelyn did really have to control her nervous reaction at its sight. How was she supposed to have her ‘qualities’ on check if the professor would be assigning them such activities? She couldn’t be too slow or appear clumsy, something that could make her fall and create a great damage on the floor, neither she could have total free movements since it would look... unnatural! She would have to chose a middle term and, well, that was going to be awfully difficult to achieve, especially now when her thoughts were wandering far away from the class she was attending.

“Oh… I see. So the professor wants half the clad dead by the end of the day. ” That was all she could manage to say once she looked the rope and, gladly, the professor come to rescue for her strange mute moment.

“Ms. Travis and Mr. Hale, would you mind go first?” The professor asked them and Evelyn couldn’t avoid but wonder why they would have to go first, looking around at the other students faces. She would, so much. Prefer to go in last, but yet what could she do?

“For me, that doesn’t matter.” She lied, softly and then dared to look at Jasper to see his response.


OCC: eww this sucks o.O I didn't know what Evelyn could possibly say. empty head, my apologies

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Wasn’t it for the fact her attention was, on that exact moment, completely focused on the tremendously big rope standing some meters away from her, and Evelyn would actually notice the strange concentration frown on Jaspers’ face but at that particular reaction the girl laws completely oblivious for once. Right now, at the very verge of having to run and climb the rope, Evelyn’s thoughts were far away from the unique persona of Jasper Hale. Instead, her unfocused gaze was staring oddly toward the rope and her thoughts were flying thousand of mile per second in a clear attempt of find one way, any reasonable and possible way, that she could do her task without doing any mistake. Because, in all the truth, her problem wasn’t her inability of completing the requested exercise, the problem was doing it without showing up the outstanding gracious of her movements, her impressive strength or even her remarkable speed.

Yes, that was on that precise three aspect where her main problem remained. Not showing up and battling against her natural and instinctive tendency of using her inherited vampires, especially when she would have two classes of students plus professors as witnesses… Batting her lip nervously, Evelyn mentally studied her path carefully and theorized the amount of time she would have to force herself to do in order to keep one normal and random image of herself, the one that would hopefully allow her to stay unnoticed and have a small yet calm stay on the little Forks. Five minutes to climb up and down the rope? That seemed already a fairly good time and practicable time, for a girl… Of course, though, she knew the great amount of them wouldn’t even finish it so it was already a little pushy from her to allow herself finishing it, but it wasn’t neither fair to not give her ‘best’ on the class.

There were, however, still many things she should take in consideration while the overall task and she couldn’t, ever, allow herself to relax, but there was not too many time for her to think about them once her attention was brought back to the reality when she felt the strange and odd sensation that she was being observed. Looking up hoping it was her simple impression, Evelyn knew she shouldn’t be surprised to find his team mate staring at her oddly. Probably, he was thinking she was just like all the other girls, obsessed to not broke their nails and making u the most terrible excuses to not do the exercises assigned, but little did he knew about the real truth… Obviously, he was more than probably quite far away from the real motive why she was staring with such distress at the rope and Evelyn didn’t surely mind that. She was just tremendously relieved he wouldn’t, ever, be slightest close to the actual truth beneath her actions.

His amused chuckle at Evelyn’s past morbid and dark remark were, actually, the perfect way into helping her to put up plans together at once. For that, Jasper Hale didn’t know how grateful she was because, strangely enough, his words played the strange trick to calm down her anxiety for brief seconds, not matter how strongly her suspicious of his abnormal perception were getting bigger by the second. So, when he replayed her back she couldn’t help but grin back while follow him the way down to the rope, getting some strange stares from the other students toward her direction. Between roll her eyes or ask them what was their problem, she chose none and simply let her frustration and slight annoyance hidden from everybody.

“Try or die treeing… Quite lovely” Evelyn said shortly, looking at the distance that she would have to climb and crossing her arms around the chest. “Seriously, do they have to stare always like this? It’s nerve wrecking…”She still mumbled for herself, not intending to say it out loud but it was too late. She doubted anyone else could have heard her beside her partner, and she wasn’t sure if that was a god or bad thing. Not hen he seemed to react so strangely at anything she would say. “And you definitely go first… I need to prepare myself first for my young and sad death. Start the list with my last wish, those sorts of things, you know… “She added seriously, but yet one faint smile crossed her lips. “I will be on your side, partner.”