Isabella Swan is just another normal high school junior who moved from the sunny beaches of Phoenix, Arizona to the cloudy, rainy town of Forks. All seems ordinary until she discovers a secret about the mysterious Cullens that puts her in mortal danger. Will she be able to survive? Will the Cullens find her disposable in their attempts to keep the secret hidden?

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, plots, similar events, etc. in Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn. SM owns.

Bella's PoV

It felt like eternity since I had moved to Forks, exiling myself from paradise. I longed for the dry, sandy beaches, the palm trees, and the hot, humid weather. Most of all I missed my mother. Sure, I had Charlie, but he was never home (though I wasn't complaining). He just wasn't my mother. I told myself over and over that I had to look on the bright side, there had to be a bright side, right? One positive thing was the abundance of friends that seemed to gravitate towards me. I was popular, though it was probably because of the scandal that followed me since I first moved here. The daughter of the chief's flighty ex-wife, come home at last. It was like the beginning of a soap opera. All of it was a bit overwhelming; the sudden change in climate for me, unwanted popularity, but the most surprising was the actions of my fellow boy classmates.

Eric talked to me first, Mike next. I swear the look on Eric's face when Mike offered to walk me to my next class; I thought I would be witnessing Mike's murder. Back home in Phoenix I was invisible, or just about. I never had a boyfriend or many friends at all, I didn't mind, I didn't need them. My mother was my best friend and even she didn't completely understand me.

The only people in all of Forks that didn't ogle whenever I walked into the room were the Cullens and Hales. The Cullens: Emmett, Edward, and Alice along with the Hales: Jasper and Rosalie, were all adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Cullen. Supposedly Jasper and Alice, Emmett and Rosalie were items, the only other scandal that would actually break mine. They all sat at a table in the corner of the cafeteria, far from where I sat. None of them ate their food, nor did they even look at each other. They stared out into their own spots in the cafeteria and said not one word to anyone.

Their strange behavior wasn't what was making me so interested, it was their unnatural beauty. They all had deathly pale skin, even paler than mine, but that seemed to be the only similarity between them. Emmett was a huge, brawny guy, someone who could intimidate a sumo wrestler. Jasper was leaner with adorable blond, wavy hair, just like Rosalie's though she was something else altogether. She looked like an angel, something you would see on your death bed. Her blond hair ran down to the middle of her back and she would've been the perfect girl if she had blue eyes, yet hers were a soft golden shade. Alice had short, dark, pixie like hair that spiked out at the end, it really carved out her face. Then there was Edward.

No matter how many times I stared at his perfect face, I couldn't get used to it. He had wild, bronze colored hair that made his golden eyes pop out. His lips were the perfect shade of pink and I could swear that if he smiled, it could knock out a super model. He was the skinniest of the guys, though when not next to his bulky brother you could see the muscles that shaped out his arms.

That was all I could do though; stare. The first day I came he looked at me as if I called his name, but then simply looked away as if bored. Jessica, my trig classmate, gave me fair warning when she was explaining the god-like creatures. i"I wouldn't even bother Bella, he doesn't date."/i The look on her face made me wonder when he had rejected her, and that was the end of the conversation.

He sat next to me in Biology, but paid no attention to me, something Mike found completely 'rude' and 'unordinary'. It was his attempt at flirting. I didn't care. I liked staring at him from beneath my curtain of hair that separated us from each other during the class. When we had group activities, he spoke just enough to be able to get it done. His voice was angelic, pulling me in, and making me forget to breathe.

By the end of the week I could spot him anywhere on campus. I wondered why no one else seemed to notice when he didn't show up for school one Friday. It took me all day to realize that it was because only I was so absorbed in him and it was pathetic.