Senior year, for most of my friends in this god forsaken town means they are inches away from freedom. Their chance to leave this stupid town and experience the wonders that can only be found outside the town limits of Forks, Washington. I was born and raised here, just like my dad and my dads' dad and his dad, that can go on forever so ill stop there. Don't get me wrong, I love Forks. I love that everyone knows each other and that you do not need to lock your doors because the crime rate is almost non existent. What does sucks though is that everyone knows your business and its close to impossible to have any secrets.

I have always been the quiet girl in school. Its not that I am anti social or anything but its pretty hard to be normal around people when you can read their minds. Yeah, I know, what the heck right? I don't even remember when or how it started! I have learned to accept that it's a part of who I am and that even though it sucks to have to pretend I am normal around everyone else it does have its perks. For example, I know who the fake little bitches are in school (ahem Jessica and Lauren), and who are just trying to survive this town like me. Angela has been my closest friend since we were 3. She doesn't have one malicious bone in her body so I tend to gravitate towards her whenever I am sick of hearing all these egotistical hormonal teenagers.

First days of school have to be the worse. Everyone acts like they haven't seen each other in years even though we only have each other to hang out with during vacation.

I am debating whether to just lay in my truck in the parking lot for the rest of the day when Angela bursts in through the passenger door.

"Bella Bella Bellaaaaa! Did you hear about the new kids?" she practically screamed.

I just rolled my eyes at her. "Of course I did. How could I not? That's all everyone has been talking about for that past two weeks. Even Charlie caught himself gossiping! I don't get it though, what's so exciting about a bunch of new kids. Everyone acts like they've never seen outsiders before."

This was the exact reason I didn't want to leave the comfort of my truck. I may not be psychic but I do know how people are in this town. The whole day will revolve on whatever gossip Jessica can suck out of the poor souls. I actually feel a little sorry for them.

"From what I heard from Jessica, there's five of them but only two of them are seniors. She said that her mom overheard at the grocery store that the older three are going to start college this year in Seattle. I wonder if maybe that's why they moved."

"Angela its not okay to gossip!" I couldn't help but to start giggling, I knew that got to her. She pouted and stuck her tongue out at me.

"Very mature Angel"

"Anyways, what are you still doing in your truck? Class starts in 10 minutes and I will bet an arm and a leg that you haven't even gone to pick up your schedule." She gave me a pointed and look and I unwillingly got out of my truck.

"Fine! But this town is eating me alive slowly. I cant wait until we leave this damn place."

If anyone knew how much I hated this damn town, it was Angela. We always planned to travel all over the world to see what we had been missing out for the past 17 years.

Over the years I learned how to block peoples thoughts and I was almost to the point where I felt like maybe I could be normal one day but a thought or two would seep in and I was reminded again that I was a freak.

After I picked up my schedule from the office and decided that this years classes were just as horrible as last years I decided to head back to my truck. School would be here tomorrow anyways and I had been feeling off for the past two weeks. I never got sick. Never. My dad Charlie had always thought I just had a great immune system but I always knew better. There was something wrong with me but I never felt the need to worry the parental. He would probably send me to a crazy house. My mom died when I was two so the less trouble I could give Charlie the better. As I was turning in the hallway that led to the parking lot I felt this ridiculous amount of pressure inside my head. I was automatically on high alert. I looked around even though if there WAS someone I would of heard their thought from far away but nothing.

That's when I started to feel this pull. Its like my body was acting on its own and I couldn't control it. I realized, a little too late, that there was someone at the other side of the wall so when I basically ran into him head first I couldn't help the yelp that escaped me. He was so hard I could of ran into the wall and that would have been softer.

I was probably redder than a sunburned tomato so I kept my eyes on the floor. I tried to read his thoughts but nothing. That's when I felt the same pressure in my head, it was coming from him! I looked straight up at him to apologize and to also figure out why I couldn't hear what he's thinking when I was met with the most gorgeous guy I have ever seen in my entire life. Granted ive only seen a certain number of men since this town is so small but I watch TV too.

He had the blackest eyes that bore into your soul and he was so pale, paler than ME! His reddish hair showed it had gold where the light touched it and he had a slender yet muscular build. My brain automatically took me to a room where he was pounding me against the door, holding me up with his strong arms…

He cleared his throat and I came smashing back to reality. I would bet my left arm I was redder than a tomato.

This must be one of the new kids, interesting.

"I am so sorry! I didn't know you were standing there." I tried not to drool on him as I said my apology.

"You should watch where you're going" he said and simply turned and floated away. Yes, floated because he was so graceful on his feet it would be wrong to say he simply walked away.

I headed to my truck and drove home. As I pulled into drive way and I sat there for a while until it finally hit me. I couldn't read his mind!

I have always been able to read people's minds, I have never been able to control it. Usually I would be able to ignore their thoughts after I got a feel for the person. Sort of like putting the radio on the lowest volume. You only hear the buzzing.

Why couldn't I hear his thoughts? Maybe I'm turning into a normal girl! No more Bella the freak! Okay I shouldn't get my hopes up. Nothing good ever happens to plain old Bella. I probably didn't notice his mind because I was too busy groping him in my mind.

"How embarrassing!" I groaned out loud to my steering wheel. I have never had a boyfriend but I'm pretty sure running into them then staring at them like they're a piece of pie is NOT a good first impression. Maybe I should just buy my 12 cats now and go live by myself somewhere. I glanced at the dash board and after having a mini heart attack at the fact that I had been sitting in my car for almost two hours I rushed inside to start on dinner for Charlie.

Charlie came home an hour later and found me in the kitchen setting the table.

"Hey bells, how was school?"

"It was good...I sort of ditched." I tried my best puppy dog eyes on him.

Charlie isn't really my dad. Rene and him took me in when my parents passed away when I was 2. My mom Clary was Rene's best friend since they were toddlers. Rene has a huge picture book of my parents and she pulls it out every year on their death anniversary. I don't remember them but Rene has told me so many stories about them I know they were good people.

"Oh bells you need to go to school. Rene will be back from visiting her mom next week and if she knows you ditched under my watch she will kill me!"

"Charlie, you're the chief of police I can't believe you're scared of your wife!"

We both started laughing because Rene WAS scary when she was mad.

"Okay bells ill just tell her you felt sick so you came back home. Please don't do it again though, okay?"

"You got it Charlie!"

I took out the pasta from the oven and we dug in. All the day dreaming sex I had today made me hungry I guess.

"Soo," I started, Charlie raised an eyebrow at me. I wasn't a big chatterbox and I hardly ever started a conversation unless I needed something.

"Something bothering you bells?"

"Nope. It's just everyone at school has been talking about the new kids that just moved here and since you're the biggest town gossip I though maybe you had some top secret info that hasn't hit the grapevine yet."

Charlie choked on his pasta and glared at me.

"I am not the towns biggest gossip, Mrs. Stanley has held that position for years! I'm second in command." He winked at me.

I couldn't help laughing because he was right. The Stanley's knew everything about everyone. That's why I stayed away from Jessica. If she suspected that I had some freaky power she would have me committed!

"Hmm Bella isn't much for gossip, I wonder if she likes that new boy." Charlie's thoughts broke into mine.

"I was just wondering what the big fuss was about them! Not that I care or anything. I haven't even met them!" I could feel myself get red by the second.

"We'll let's see, Dr. Carlisle moved here with his wife and two adopted kids. From what I heard at the station they have three other kids but they're older and they're the reason why they moved to Washington. They're all going to the university of Washington but the doctor didn't like the high pace of the city for the younger two so they moved to forks. I also heard they're all good looking." He wiggled his eyebrows at.

Ever since I turned 12 Charlie has tried to set me up with any available boys in the town. So having him have these ideas in his head scared me to death!

"Oh no Charlie! Please don't start! You said so yourself they were all good looking so I probably don't have a chance in hell!" As I said this the truth of it all hit me harder than I thought I would. I mean I've met the guy once and it wasn't really a "meeting" more like a run in. The only time I ever had anything near the crushing area was last year when I was 16 and I started hanging out with Jake from la push. Jake was Charlie's best friends son and we soon became butt buddies. He was younger than me by almost two years but he grew at an abnormal rate. He actually looked like he was older than me. That was actually one of the reason we hit it off so well. We were both freaks. Of course I never told him what I could do though. That's why when a couple of months ago he started developing this weird obsession with wolves I started distancing myself. He never verbally let me know of his new found love for wolves but when I would visit him his mind was off. I would get thoughts of him running through the woods like a wolf and one time he actually had a memory of him eating a poor raccoon! That's the day I went home and began to ignore him and his calls. So what's the lesson I learned from that? Even the good looking guys have issues and me being a mind reader and all have the luck of seeing it all first hand.

Charlie sighed and burst me out of my internal rumblings.

"Bella you are a beautiful girl and extremely intelligent, any guy would be lucky to have you! Don't ever think you're not worth it."

I smiled at him and kissed his cheek. He might not be my real dad but he was my dad where it mattered. I took my plate to the sink and headed to my room. As soon as I entered that strange pushing feeling started in my head again. I grabbed a book and read until I fell asleep. I only dreamed of the new boy twice that night. Great.