The next morning at the Swan household, the residents were alarmed by the massive crash that followed the sound of the eldest sister's alarm clock. A groan was heard from Kira's bedroom and after rushing to her room, Charlie was only met with a still sleeping Kira, and the remains of the clock that had once been brand new, smashed against the wall opposite from where Kira lay. Charlie sighed, having been used to this behaviors from when he used to live with Kira. She may seem like a sweet, quiet child, but when something set her off, he often found that he temper could be almost explosive, though he had never known her to get physical with anybody. Kira knew this fact as well, and often worked to either keep her temper in check, or to find other, less stressful ways to release it.

Charlie walked towards Kira's bed cautiously, before gently shaking her awake, and leaving her to get ready for the day. Kira had been out late the night before with Jacob Black, and though they had a great time together, and their distance in the past years hadn't changed that, Kira found that Jacob and the other La Push residents had very strong opinions towards Jasper and his family.

Jacob and the others had made in quite clear to Kira that she should not be spending time with influences like him, and though she had not received the same feelings as Jacob, she had still promised to keep his words in mind, and be wary of the Cullens.

Jacob's insistence definitely left Kira with something to think about, as she had not yet considered that they could be dangerous to her in any way, but Kira attempted to push his words to the back of her mind for as long as she could, as Kira had larger problems to focus on.

Kira did not want to stay sitting with Bella and her friends at lunch. Bella was being nice by offering Kira a spot at their table, but Kira did not want to intrude, and strain the sister's relationship further. Besides, Kira did not enjoy sitting with Bella's friends as they were all a year younger than her, and would often talk about the people and events happening in their grade, leaving Kira feeling even more out of place.

After the short ride to school in Bella's truck, Kira bid a quick goodbye, before rushing into the building, hoping to reach her locker and first class without being stopped by anybody. Not that it was likely that anybody would stop Kira, as she had really only spoken to one person the previous day, but she made it her personal goal to avoid that one person for as long as she could, Jacob's words ringing loudly in her ears. On the way into the building, Kira had noticed that the Cullens were all standing around their cars, talking, but as she turned away, she felt more than one pair of eyes following her into the building.

Kira weaved through the crowds of teenagers, all chatting with friends or going to lockers, and quickly found her own locker. As she quickly typed in the combo and opened the door to begin putting in her books, she felt the closeness of someone leaning against the locker next to hers. Kira spared a quick glance over, surprised to find Jasper standing there, watching her as she unloaded her books.

Kira tried to force a small smile, but couldn't manage to escape Jacob's words, which, despite how hard she tried, would not leave her mind.

As Kira struggled to fit her many books into the small locker, Jasper spoke, "What's your first class?"

Kira glanced over at him, surprised that he was speaking. "So he does speak," she said. "If you must know, my first period is English."

Jasper was about to open his mouth before Kira cut him off, "I need to go to class now. And so should you." Kira slammed her locker door closed and turned to walk away, but before she had made it to far, she felt Jasper walking beside her. She looked at his out of the corner of her eye, but after seeing him watching her, decided to keep her mouth shut, and continue her journey to class. As Kira turned into her class, she felt Jasper stop and stand by the doorway as she made her way to her seat, only moving once she was sitting down and had started getting her books out.

Kira felt relieved that Jasper was no longer watching her, and instead turned to her seat partner, hoping that she could at least make one real friends while she spent her time here.

By the end of the class, Kira had discovered that her partner's name was Alyssa, Lyssa for short. She enjoyed music and books, and had offered to show Kira around the library and music rooms during lunch. Kira, having been looking for a way out of lunch in the cafeteria had instantly agreed, and after trading numbers and schedules, finding out that they sadly only had English together, Kira and Lyssa departed from English class, saying farewell until lunch period.

Kira made her way to second period. In the past, she had often enjoyed math, but was beginning to become annoyed and aggravated due to Jasper's constant staring, and the teacher constantly calling on her to answer questions about problems that she had learned how to solve many times throughout her previous schooling years.

Finally Kira found it unbearable. She raised her hand to be excused to the restroom so that she could get away from his stares and hopefully calm the anger beginning to brew inside of her. Kira entered the washrooms, thankful to find them empty, and proceeded to rinse her face under the sink. She waited for a couple more minutes, before finally feeling calm enough to return to class. She had been on a short fuse all day today due to the lack of sleep and the impending tasks she would have to complete after school. Getting a new clock being one of them.

As Kira walked back into class, she once again felt Jasper's eyes on her, but instead of getting aggravated again, she felt calmer than she'd felt since she got on that plane back to Forks. Kira sighed in content, before sitting through the rest of second and third period, incident free.

By lunch, the magic calm from second period had begun to wear off, but it still left Kira feeling infinitely calmer than she would have otherwise been. Kira met up with Lyssa and they began touring the school. Lyssa led them to the library, where she was able to show Kira all of the best places to spend her spare periods, and where all of the bests chairs and tables were in the room. Lyssa even introduced Kira to the librarian, who seemed very kind, unlike what Kira would have managed.

Next, Lyssa showed Kira to the music room. Kira had always enjoyed music, as she had been brought up playing guitar and piano, and she had been forced to choose a brass or woodwind instrument to play at her old school, leaving Kira to wonder if there was any possibility that she could spend her lunches in here, rather than in the cafeteria.

After a few more minutes in the music room, Lyssa received a phone call, letting her know that she was needed elsewhere. After Kira had promised her that she would be fine on her own, Lyssa left, leaving Kira by herself in the large room.

Not knowing what else to do, but knowing that she definitely did not want to return to the cafeteria today, Kira sat down on the piano's bench, and began to play a simple tune that she had learned in her early days of lessons. Kira soon found herself lost in the music. She often found that in the past, playing helped her calm her temper, but after she had left Forks, it seemed that Charlie had sold her piano in order to make room for Bella's stuff.

As Kira played away her worries, not once thinking about Jacob and his warnings or Jasper and his strange family, she did not sense the strange presence, until he made himself known to her by sitting on the bench next to her. This small action causing Kira to jump, and let out a small scream of fright.

Kira glanced over at the person, recognizing him as Jasper, before quickly jumping off the bench and away from him. The large room did not feel quite as large with Jasper in it with her, and Kira was beginning to feel stressed. At this sudden emotion, Jasper frowned, as if he could sense this, but was unaware why his presence would cause Kira such stress. Regardless, Kira felt the same calming presence wash over her as she had earlier, and instantly calmed down.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him, still not totally calm with the idea of being along with just him. It was fine when they were in a classroom with other students, but just the two of them was a different story.

Jasper seemed to sigh, before responding, "I came to check on you. You weren't in the cafeteria, and I was worried."

Kira felt her anger bubble up once again at his words. "What makes you think that I need you to check on me?" she burst out, feeling the anger flowing though her. "I've been taking care of my self for the past three years! I don't need some guy who I just met, and who I barely know coming to check up on me!" Kira yelled, putting quotes around the words "check up on me". No amount of calming that Jasper could do, could settle Kira's anger, and before he could take another step towards her, Kira yelled out, "No! Don't come any closer! And don't follow me either!" and with that, Kira turned and ran out of the music room.

Jasper began to follow her, but soon realized that following her would only make his situation worse as she was already very mad at him. He didn't understand why his powers had stopped working on her, but as he watched her run out of the school doors, he figured that, although he didn't like the idea, it was best if he let her deal with her anger on her own. He had struck a nerve, and Kira already being on a tight string, had only lost control of her emotions.

Jasper turned around and headed back to the cafeteria for the remainder of lunch, hoping that Kira would return for their shared fourth period.

As Kira ran out of the building, she looked around for anywhere she could go where she wouldn't be found. After she blew up at Jasper, she knew she had to be on her own for a while. Kira's gaze immediately fell upon the forest, whose border landed right next to the school. She quickly ran into the forest, running for as long and as fast as she could. Kira knew she had to run off some of the anger before she could return.

Kira ran for what felt like minutes, her anger slowly disappearing, but just as she was about to stop and take note of her surroundings, Kira felt her ankle getting caught on the root of a nearby tree. The speed at which she had been running, causing her to hear a snap and collapse on the ground. Kira felt the pain radiating from her ankle, and knew without even looking at it that it was bad. She grabbed at her phone, trying to find it to call somebody, but quickly realized that when she had run out of the school, she had left not just her backpack, but her phone and all her other belongings with it.

The sun was quickly setting and Kira had no way to call anyone for help. Running was completely out of the options as Kira had barely been able to haul herself away from the ground and lean against a tree trunk.

Kira knew she had made a stupid and irrational choice by running into the forrest without a plan or course of action, but that was often what seemed to happen when Kira lost control of her anger. Although she regretted her decisions and knew that she had to do something to get herself out of this mess, Kira could not bring herself to try to stand up. She had no clue which was was out, it was getting dark outside and she could barely see anything around her, and Kira felt to drained to move.

As the night turned even darker, Kira felt her vision turn darker too, the pain from her ankle taking over her senses and mind. As Kira was about to pass out, she heard shouting in the distance. she was able to make out the sound of faint footsteps through the blood pumping in her ears, and as her eyes closed for the final time tonight, she felt cold hands reaching out to pick her up, and a voice shouting to the others, before she felt herself completely lose conscious and pass out. A feeling of calm washing over her as she said goodnight.