A/N: hello, fellow readers, this is my first ff and i would love for you guys to give me feedback! please dont feel hesitant to review or PM me. please enjoy the first chapter to my first story.

PROLOGUE

I smiled as the water whirled around my face; the beautiful Sea animals swimming freely around me always calmed my senses. This time was no different. The water surrounding my body was calm in a cloud of chaos; people were getting all worked up by the fact that it was fishing season again. Every year thousands of land-dwellers attached sharp and pointy metal thingies to a thin, transparent plastic ropey thingy, causing fish and other animals to disappear.

Everybody was getting ready for the season of relaxing and saying indoors. The law in this town stated that nobody was to leave they're homes for about two months during the fishing season. I was the only person to oblige to that rule. Being out in the open water with no one to bug you was almost better than feeling the warm sun on my fin.

It was two days until fishing season begins.

"Bella! Hello? Are you there?" my dad was waving a hand in front of my face, "can you please get the coral scrubber?" my dad was cleaning up for the big day, I sighed and swam over to the other side of the reef we lived on. "Thanks Bells!" he yelled.

I picked up the small contraption- I've never used it and I really hope that I will never have to. I shook my head at it and swam back to Charlie.

"Bella, did you know that Heather is coming to the reef for fishing season? I thought that you might want to spend some time with her." My eyes widened a little bit, he never spoke about Heather. Heather was my older sister; she moved away a year ago and ever sense my dad has been depressed- she ran off with some guy from another reef. She had him wrapped around her finger like sea weed on sushi.

Even though she was my sister, I barely knew her- she was beautiful I was dull, she was the favorite, I was the other. She got whatever she wanted with a blink, me, I had to work for everything I wanted. I never spent more than twenty-four hours with her.

Things have changed sense she left.

CHAPTER 1: CAUGHT

It's been two days sense Heather got here, and to my surprise, she brought her husband- Todd. He was gorgeous- I'll give her that, but looks isn't everything.

"So, then I was like, half dead, my arm was sliced, my fin was almost torn in two, that sea lion was vicious! We battled to the death- and obviously I won." Todd was such a show-off. I rolled my eyes and swam to my room. If his fin was almost split in two why wasn't there a scar? Well, whatever, he's just trying to impress my dad.

Once I was in my room, I shut the coral door quietly and slipped out my uncovered window. There was nobody out here, just me and the open ocean. There were some stray fish out but other than that I was alone. Ah, FINALY.

I snorted; there wasn't even any metal thingies out here yet. I swam north to the under sea caverns. I had found this place last fishing season; it was beautiful. There were reds, and greens, and purples, and blues, and oranges, every color coral imaginable. This was the only place that was safe for me to come to the surface. I swam around just mesmerized by the beauty of the coral cavern for maybe an hour or so when I heard two splashes. My eyes widened and my heart rate soared. Was I caught? Why were there people in my cavern? The thoughts swimming through my brain were jumbled and confused, I darted behind a large rock embedded into the coral.

As the bubbles from they're splashes faded I made out two human forms, one seemed to be wearing almost nothing and the other seemed to be wearing short pants. Humans were crazy.

I heard laughter and squeals through the water; they seemed like they were having so much fun, I wanted to go up there and have fun to.

"EDWARD! Stop it! Ed-ed- stop-Edward!" I heard a pretty, soprano voice squeal. He was tickling her, I could tell they were in love, just the way they moved together and the way they spoke to one another. My heart longed for what they had. Suddenly a big splash echoed through the water. There was a man swimming over to my hiding spot behind the rock. Luckily he wasn't looking at me, Justas the thought ran through my mind he whipped his head around and looked directly at the rock. I gulped; I shouldn't have been here; this was what my people were trying to stop from happening.

"Edward! Where did you go? Edward?" a worried voice rang out above the surface, just before Edward was about to look behind me rock. He looked back and forth between the rock and the woman he was with, and then went back up to the surface. I took this as my chance, and bulleted out of there.

The man was gorgeous; he had bronze hair, a lean form and was extremely pale. I would even go as far as to say that he was better looking than Todd. I wanted to brag about him to Heather; but I knew that I couldn't.

I stopped abruptly; did those two humans really just make me bolt out of MY cavern? Was I seriously scared of them? Ha! They can't breathe under water- they would drown easily within minutes without air. I started to swim back to the cavern, then I stopped again.

I had left for a reason, I thought. But was the reason a good one? My other side fought back, of course! Those were humans if you didn't notice! I started to head back to my home, stop what are you doing! You were there first! That did it, I was going back. There was absolutely no reason for me to get upset about humans, they were weak and helpless, and plus they couldn't hurt me. Oh, boy was I wrong.

When I finally got back to the cavern there was only one person; the male. I could see him looking into the water; he was sitting on a rock above the surface. I watched him intensely. After a few seconds he whipped his head to look in my general direction. He smiled and jumped into the water. My eyes widened, was her waiting for me? Oh no! Oh no! What do I do??!! I screamed to myself. He was treading water above me, looking through the water. Then, he dove. His face was beautiful, I sighed- which was a huge mistake. He heard it. I don't know how, but he did. His head whipped around and he swam- faster than I could have imagined –over to behind my rock. I tried to hide my tale, so I looked like just another human swimming.

I saw his hand grip the side of the rock, his head was next, he had seen me. I looked back at his face, he choked. I giggled softly but stayed where I was. He as looking at me intently. Oh, how I wished I knew what he was thinking. We stayed like that for maybe five or six minutes, he raised his eyebrow in confusion, probably as to why I didn't seem to need oxygen. I raised my eyebrow at him in response. Then I blew out air from my mouth. His eyes went wide. Apparently he didn't need oxygen either.

Soon after he pointed up, and pushed off the cavern floor, he wanted me to go up with him. I bit my lip, I really couldn't do that. What if he saw my fin? Would he tell anybody? I decided that I would go up to him and talk- he already knew that I was different; I knew he was different as well. What difference does it make? I pumped my fin twice and broke the surface. He was waiting, panting for air. I smirked, my breathing was fine.

"How do you do that?" he asked, astounded. His voice was like honey, it was delicious. I licked my lips, and ducked my head.

"Do what?" I asked quietly.

"not need air for immense periods of time? That was amazing!" he breathed, did he really want me to answer that? He dove back underwater to wet his messy hair, a large bubble of air exploded in my face, he saw my fin.

A/N: this is my first ff so i really hope that you enjoy it! please review! it would mean a lot to me! thank yo ufor choosing my story to read :) REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!

~Brittany aka, mrs-brittany-whitlock