Chapter One


Anna

I blinked before rubbing my eyes and sitting up. I looked at my alarm clock. The glowing white numbers said '1:01' I sighed again before sitting up and stretching. 'Another night where I've only gotten a few hours of sleep.' I thought tiredly before getting up and grabbing my towel. I walked quietly to the bathroom before shutting the door.

I looked into the mirror after turning on the light and grimaced at my reflection. There were extremely visible bags under my dead and worn out dark brown eyes. My face had lost the little color it had before too. I sighed again before turning on the shower. I waited for it to warm up before jumping in. I washed my body before washing my hair. I was gonna leave it natural today.

I turned the water off, instantly missing the warm spray. I shook my head and dried my hair before wrapping the towel around myself. I opened the door and walked back to my room. I closed the door before looking around my room, feeling as if something was...wrong somehow.

The walls were in a black and white checkerboard pattern. My bed was in front of my window and the back was pushed up against the wall. My desk was to the left of the window and my bookshelf was next to my bed. There was a small table on the opposite side of my bed. A black lamp was sitting on it along with my black and silver moon glasses case. My laptop was plugged up charging on the dresser at the foot of my bed. My main dresser was next to the door that opened up to be my closet. All my books, clothes and writing stuff were in their correct places. So what was wrong?

I shivered from the cold breeze as it brushed across my body. My bedroom window was open. My heartbeat stopped for a minute before it skyrocketed. 'I didn't leave that open last night' I thought nervously. I gulped loudly before slowly walking over towards the window. My small black lamp that was my only light, besides the moon, went out. I gave a small yelp, turning around to see what happened when I felt a presence behind me.

A cold hand gripped my naked shoulder and I let out a bloodcurdling scream. The presence behind me gave a sinister chuckle before turning me around. The figure had garnet colored eyes, extremely pale skin and a cold, hard hand. The moonlight reflected off of two sharp fangs?! I screamed again but the figure laughed before biting into my neck. I screamed in pain and terror as fire raced through my veins before everything went black...

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Anna

"Anna! Sweetheart, it's just a bad dream, get up!" I heard a gruff voice shout, while someone was shaking me. I gasped and sat up as my eyes popped open. I looked over to see my adoptive dad, Charlie Swan, holding onto my shoulder as he looked at me worried.

"Anna, are you okay? You just started screaming and I came in here to see what was going on. You kept muttering 'cold, fangs, blood' and 'no, it burns'. What happened?"

I shook my head and curled up in the fetal position. He sighed quietly, already knowing that I wouldn't talk. He kissed my sweaty forehead and rubbed my shoulder in comfort before walking to my door. He looked back for a minute before walking out and closing the door with a click. I looked around my room, seeing that it was the exact same from my nightmare.

I shivered and waited a few minutes before slowly getting up and walking towards the bathroom. I grabbed my towel and headed into the bathroom. I shivered again when I felt a cool breeze across my body. The bathroom was freezing cold. I shook my head and looked into the mirror. My eyes had bags, but they weren't as noticeable as the ones in my dream. My dull brown orbs lacked energy as I stared at my reflection.

I scrubbed my face with my hand and jumped into the shower after turning the water on. I washed my hair and body before getting out. I walked out of the bathroom and walked into my room, closing the door. I walked to my closet and slipped on my grey panties and black bra. I looked in the long mirror I have hanging on my closet door and my eyes were immediately drawn to the fat that was around my stomach. I could feel tears form in my eyes as the cruel thoughts came back.

Disgusting!

Ugly!

Fat ass!

No one will ever love you with a body and personality like that!

I felt the tears fall as I remembered their cruel words. Before Charlie found me, I was in an orphanage. The kids always mocked my more "plumper" body. I've lost some of the fat growing up, but my stomach still had that excess fat. Even though it was years ago, it still affects me and my thoughts...

I sighed before quickly grabbing my black pullover hoodie. It had chibi versions of all the Strawhat pirate crew from One Piece before the timeskip. It was so cute! I chuckled lightly before pulling on my black sweatpants. I slipped on my converse before grabbing my phone, messenger bag, keys, headphones and wallet.

"I'll be back Charlie!" I yelled before walking out. I got into my black four-door Jeep Wrangler. Charlie got it for me when I got my driver's license. I plugged my phone into the speaker and turned to my music.

So I'll break it, knowing what you said

The pain is what you make it!

Sadly you are so mistaken

I will take you with a grain and step into the changes

Throw away the empty heart!

Right now, never wanna leave this place!

Right now, see it in a different way!

I grinned and sang along to this song. It's one of my favorite songs and I can connect to it so much. I drove to the gas station and bought a blue raspberry slushie and filled up my jeep. I jumped back in and texted Erika, my best and only friend at Forks High School.

Yo! Can we hang out today?

Sry Anna! I cant today, were out of town remember

Oh, that's right…

Sry sweetie! I promise when I get back, were gonna have the BESTEST anime marathon!

We better Erika!

She just sent me a smiling emoji in return. I sighed and started the jeep. I drove for about another hour before Charlie texted me.

Where are you? We're supposed to pick up Bella today

I sighed and ignored his text. I didn't really like Bella. She's Charlie's biological daughter. I remember first meeting her when she visited Charlie in the summer. She seemed whiny and spoiled. We were kids back then, but still, I just couldn't get along with her. I still don't really get along with her either, I mostly ignore her presence. It sounds really petty when I think about it, but that's just how I am.

I was really jealous back then too. She had everything I didn't in my eyes. Jacob Black, a Native American kid who hung out with Bella and I when we were little, had a huge crush on Bella, and still does. Part of my dislike for her was because of him. I had a crush on him growing up and it just made me mad since she was, and still is, completely oblivious to Jacob's feelings for her.

But as we grew older, my crush for him disappeared. I now have a new guy to crush on, who I know I will never have a chance with. Erika tells me otherwise, but I don't believe her. He's just too perfect for someone like me. I'm not one to believe in perfection, but I'd say he was the definition of the word!

I blushed just thinking about him. His name is Emmett Cullen and he is a senior at Forks High. He's really tall and is very muscular. He has dark curly hair and is really gorgeous. He has really pale skin and these amazing gold eyes. It's also kinda weird though.

He was adopted by Dr. Cullen and his wife, who also have incredibly pale skin and gold colored eyes. The rest of his siblings have pale skin and gold colored eyes too...it's odd. Their names are Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Robin and Edward. It was weird...it could have just been a coincidence but I don't believe in those. Everything happens for a reason I say!

I drifted off into my thoughts as I drove. Thinking about my life with Charlie, wondering how living with Bella would be like, thinking of my crush, how I'm gonna deal with eating lunch alone until Erika comes back, etc. I had a lot on my mind, and I just drove for what seemed like minutes but was more like two hours.

The music that was playing suddenly stopped and Charlie's name flashed across the screen. I sighed and picked up the phone.

"Anna? Where are you?! I've already picked up Bella and you're still not here!" He said angrily. I sighed.

"Sorry Charlie, I lost track of time. I'm on my way." I said he grunted before saying a quick 'goodbye' and he hung up. I sighed again turned my jeep around, heading back home.

Welp. Hopefully living with Bella won't cause me too much trouble. I already have enough on my plate, I don't need her incessant awkwardness to intrude on my life. Ugh, here I go on, talking about nothing. Whatever.


Hello everyone! If you've checked my profile lately, you'll know why I didn't update last week. It's fine if you didn't. What it really boiled down to was bad planning and a loss of inspiration. My writing muse hasn't been the kindest to me and I haven't had the best time writing. A New World and Buried Emotions will update this week though, so hooray! I'm also publishing this new story here, cause I wanna see if anyone out there likes it. So, I'll be posting the first three chapters of this, and I won't really update this "regularly" since I have other stuff to work on, but if people really njoy this, then I'll try my best to update. That's all I really wanna say, so enjoy the next chapters!