Chapter 1

Bella Swan was only sixteen years old. She didn't know what her purpose was in life. But she knew there was something. but she hadn't found out...yet..

It was a hot summer day in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The sun was blazing. You could hear the Danver's children outside playing. All in all, it was a nice day. Bella got up, did the regular morning routine. Once she was done she went down stairs. She grabbed her Black and white backpack, put her favorite shoes on, and said good-bye to her mother.

She finally got to class, she looked around. There was a new kid, just as Mr. Caine said yesterday.

"Thank you for joining us Ms. Swan." Mr. Caine said bitterly. she was late for class. She blushed a deep red and walked fast to her seat.

She found out the the new boys name was Ash Carter, he was also sixteen. Ash was a very cute boy. Tall, thin, dirty blond, almost brown shaggy long hair with bright brown eyes. In the lab, there were only two seats left. One by Bella and one by Taylor, he was the biggest trouble maker in the hole school.

"Well.. I would put you by Bella" Mr. Caine said amusingly. She looked up when he said it. "But she's a bit of a trouble maker." he said with a smile.

"Ha-ha, very funny." Bella said, then she looked back down the the picture she was drawing. "Do you think you can handle it?" Mr. Caine said.

Bella smiled down at her paper, then looked up and leaned over to Mr. Caine and whispered, "I think I can handle it." She smiled and leaned back, starting to draw a new picture. Ash laughed and Bella looked up and smiled at him.

"Okay Ash, sit down and get out a piece of paper and a pencil." Mr. Caine said. " Bella , give him your notes from last weeks assignment and after he's done with that, tell him what we're working on."

She just shrugged and said "mmkk."

"Hi. I'm Bella Swan, by the way. But you probably already knew that." she said. He smiled a warm friendly smile. It was so friendly that she had the sudden urge to look down to see if she was in one of those dreams where you go to school and you forgot to put pants on.

"Yeah. I'm Ash Carter, but,uh, I guess you already knew that to." he said with a sweet tone in his voice. But the strange thing was, he didn't look away, not once in there hole conversation. It was the look football jocks gave popular girls. A look Bella never got from a guy. But there he was,just, starring. Once he noticed she saw him looking at her, his smile widened and he looked down at the notes.

"Somebody takes ALOT of notes." Ash whispered. Bella laughed. The bell rang and Bella stood up and started to get her stuff together. "Thanks for the, uh, note thing." Ash said. Bella smiled and said, "no problem. Hey, where did you move here from?"

after a long pause, he said, "Well,My dad's in the army, so we move around alot. But we just moved down here from Washington." he just stared down at the table.

So Bella said,"I bet it's pretty fun, i mean like, all the adventured. All the places you get to go to. I mean, a hole lot more exciting than boring old New Jersey."

Ash laughed "yeah, well," he said "like I said, we move alot so I have to pack up and leave all my friends." his smile went away. When the smile went away it was like a stab in her chest, so she said,

"ummm bummer..."

he smiled " yeah, well, I get to meet really nice people." he looked up at Bella and his smile widened. The smile made her warm. really warm, like he was the sun light on a nice day. She liked it... alot.

"If you don't have any one to sit with," Bella said, "You can sit with me and some of my friends at lunch." He smiled.

" Wow, an invitation to sit with the famous Bella Swan, I'm blushing." He said with a cute smile. "jerk" She said teasingly. Ash laughed.

"ASH CARTER PLEASE COME TO THE PRINCIPLES OFFICE, ASH CARTER." the intercom said loudly.

"Man boy, one day and your already going to the principles office." He smiled and leaned over and whispered in her ear,

"bite me" she laughed, and as he was walking away, he flicked a paperclip at her.

"like I said," she called after him."Jerk!"

He laughed as he walked out the door.

Of course, as soon as she walked in to the lunch room, see saw her friend Melissa bouncing up and down in her seat, waiting to ambush her with Questions. she signed and said

"Hey Lissa"- Lissa was tall, with shiny brown hair and bright green eyes. She was very different from Bella s pretty dark brown hair, pale skin, and brown chocolate eye's. Lissa was also taller than Madison, but then again, Lissa was taller than anyone in our grade.

"Hey Bells!" she said with a sparkle of excitement in her eyes.

"So, go on, start your question." Lissa looked to innocent.

"What questions?" she asked.

"ohh please Lissa, your jumping up and down like a kangaroo."

"okay, okay." Lissa said, busted. "What did you two talk about?" she asked.

"Who's us two?'' "

AAWW come on, Bell" Lissa's voice was full of eager and started to get whinny.

"okay...um we mostly talked about where he moved from and stuff."

"Where did he just move from?'' she asked.

"I think somewhere in Washington."

"What else did you talk about? she asked.

"I don't know Lissa, stuff."

"Did you talk about the part where I nailed you with a paperclip?" Ash asked as he was sitting down in the chair next to Bella .

"paperclip?' Lissa asked Bella but kept on looking at Ash. Bella smiled and Ash laughed. "Ash," Bella said, "this is my best friend Lissa Morgans, but everyone calls her Lissa.-Lissa this is Ash Carter." Bella said with a smile.

"nice to meet you." Lissa said quietly. Lissa was always quiet and shy around people she didn't know. She blushed and looked down as ash shook her hand.

" nice to meet you to." Ash said nicely. Lissa looked down at her watch and said

"Oh crap, sorry Bella, I gotta jet. Math class. hate it, but can't graduate with out it." she smiled down to Bella and nodded down to Ash, than turned around and walked away. Ash watched her as she walked away. than he said,

"she doesn't like me?'' his voice made it into a question.

"no, she likes you, its just Lissa gets nervous when she meets new people. You should of seen her when are mom's introduced us. It was bad." she said with a smile. He laughed.

When she finally got home, she kicked off her shoes,took off her jacket, grabbed her backpack, and ran up the stairs to her room. She heard a soft knock at the door.

"come in!'' she yelled. When she turned around, she saw her older sister sister was very pretty. She was eighteen. She had naturally curly dark brown (almost black) hair that she ALWAYS straitened. Hazel eyes, she was also very tall. She looked more like there dad, even thought Bella only saw pictures. Her dad left with he found out her mom was pregnant. But not until he beat her. Bella was glad she never meet never wanted to. She also had a 19 year old brother named Shane, but after he turned 18, he was out of there. Sure, every once in a while, she'd get a phone call, but she still missed him. Bella could of sworn Alyssa had some kind of radar for something good.

"Hey squirt. How was school?" She asked with a smile.

"Are you sure your not a psychic?'' Bella said. Alyssa laughed.

"yeah I'm sure. So? Who is he?" Alyssa asked. You could hear the curiosity in her voice.

"well" Bella said "His name is Ash Carter. He's tall, Has deep brown eyes with really dirty blond hair. And he's really cute." Bella told Alyssa about her hole day. She didn't inter up at all. she just smiled and nodded every once in a while.

When Bella was done, Alyssa said,"dang girl, it sounds like you like him. And I think he probably likes you to." Alyssa smiled.

"Do you really think he dose?" she asked. Alyssa smiled and said,

"Oh, totally!" They shared a smile. "Just be yourself around him. It's working already."

Bella smiled. "Thanks sis."

Bellagot off the bus and started to walk to her first/second period. Eager to talk to Ash again.

"Hey!" a voice said from closer behind her then she expected. She yelped, jumped and turned around. There was Ash, smiling the biggest smile Bella had ever seen. " Did I scare you?" he said than laughed.

She smiled that said, "I don't know, ask me when my heart starts up again." He laughed again "your in a extra happy mood today." Bella said,

Ash smiled and said, '' yeah. I guess I had a good dream last night."

"What?" Bella asked.

" When ever I have a good dream, I'm in a good mood the next day." he explained.

"oh" she said.

" You of all people should know about that." he smiled,

than she said, "Um, well sorry I didn't know that a dream makes you happier the next day." She smiled,but she still thought she was missing something.

"I mean come on! Your the mooder." He whispered.

Than she said "mooder?" she asked.

"ssh" he put his hand over her mouth. "God girl, are you trying to expose yourself?" she was still confused.

"Exposed from what?" Ash cocked his head to the side and said,

"You don't know what a mooder is?" she didn't trust her voice, so she just shook her head, because, truthfully, she didn't know. His eyes widened and his mouth opened a little.

"um,OK. I have to go talk to my, um, parents. I forgot to tell them something this morning. Will you cover for me?" When she hesitated, he added, "Please Bella?" She sighed, resigned, than said,

"Doctor's Appointment?"

He smiled, then said,"thanks!" he took hold of her shoulders than, to her surprise, kissed her cheek than turned around and ran the opposite direction of the school. She just stood there and watched him run to the unknown.

"Well, well, well." a new voice Bellawasn't expecting. She whipped around, and there standing was Skyler, the meanest girl on campus, with her followers Zoey and Kylie. "look who it is, little miss desperate, watching a guy she'll never get." Zoey and Kylie laughed. Bella just stood there and glared at them, than finally she said,

"What do you want Skyler?"- Skyler gave her a cold smile, so cold, it could kill a fish. Than she said,

"Look, I don't like you, I never did. We both know that."

Bella nodded and than said, "Yeah, and?..." Skyler glared than said,

"I don't like you, I like him. So you need to leave him alone". Skyler gave another fish killing glare. "Or what?" Madison Challenged. Skyler smiled a sweet smile. Anyone that knew Skyler, knew she was her most dangerous when she was sweet.

"If you don't stay away from Ash you and your friend Lissa are gonna get whats coming to you."

Bella just stared at her. Finally she said, "Why Lissa? She doesn't bother you."

"No, your right she doesn't bother me. But she's friends with you, and if anything happened to your sweet little friend, it would kill you inside, because you would know it was all your fault."

Skyler dropped her smile and said, " Look, just stay away from him. If you even talk or hang out with him, and I find out, your gonna get hurt and than it's Lissa's turn."

She gave Bella a huge bratty smile and said, "Bye loser!" and turned around and walked off with her followers right on either side of her. Like a V. Bella just stood there, frozen in horror. She was afraid. Not for herself, of course not. She could give a punch as good as she could take one. She was afraid for Lissa thought. Lissa was never the one to find in the middle of a fight. She was the "keep peace, not war!" kind of girl. She couldn't protect herself, so Bellahad to. So if that meant staying away from Ash, that was exactly what she was going to do. Not matter how much it hurt.

A/N: I knowww, it totaly is suck-ish, but I just wanted to write this quick, and if you liked the idea, I'll put up more, and I promise they'll be better(:

BTW. If you randomly see the name madison in this story, its because when I first orginally made this story, the girls name was Madison, not bella. so, if you do see it, sorry, I'll try to fix it.

Love Always,

Lissa(: