Preface
My name is Isabella Swan. I'm an orphan. My dad left. Mom died. I'm seventeen. I ran away from the orphanage. They didn't like me. Couldn't blame them. All the guys wanted to date me. I don't know why. All the girls hated me. Why shouldn't they? They couldn't get a guy to notice them! I had no friends. Every person that adopts wants a baby. Not a seventeen year old girl with guys drooling after her. All the staff thought I was a tramp.
So here I am. In my stolen car. Texting the only friend I have since my mom died and I had no other relatives'.
Chapter 1 The Accident
It just happened. I can't explain it. One minute I was sitting in my parked car texting Jessica from my old school. They came out of nowhere.
The next thing I knew my phone went through the wind screen. The airbag stopped me from going through to. But I was still hurt pretty bad.
I blacked out. When I came round I wasn't in my stolen BMW. I was in a house. No. scratch that. I was in a house. But I was in someone's arms. He was carrying me upstairs.
I looked at his face. Pale white. He looked down at me. His eyes were golden. His features were perfect. He had blond hair.
"Carlisle," a woman asked. "Is that you?"
"Yes, dear." The man answered.
"The children went out hunting so- do I smell blood?" she said.
Hunting? Blood? That's when things clicked and memories of the accident came flooding back. I had forgotten about the pain. Well, not forgotten about it. I was just preoccupied with wondering where I was.
The man went into a room that looked like a study with a woman sitting hunched over a desk with a pencil behind her ear.
"Well there was a car accident and she's going to die. We can't let her." He said as the woman looked up.
Her features were also perfect with wavy hair and the same golden eyes.
"Oh my word." She gasped. Her arm swept across the table and knocked off all the papers on it.
He quickly set me down.
The woman looked at me and said, "where's your parents', child?"
I felt so dizzy but somehow managed to whisper, "Don't have any."
She looked back at the man who was pacing. "Well? What should we do?"
"I don't know, when I found her, her injuries were much worse. She seems to be healing rapidly. The possibilities of her living are increasing every second."
"Can we keep her?" The woman asked looking at me with loving eyes.
"I'm not a dog you know." I said sitting up. I don't know how I did it though because there was a stabbing pain in my back. "I get a say in the matter."
They both stared at me in shock.
"What? I heal quickly." I said shrugging my shoulders. I winced.
"What do you mean buy you "heal quickly"?" he asked.
"Wait a second." I said. "Considering you kidnapped me shouldn't I be asking the questions?"
They were still staring at me. I rolled my eyes.
"Let's see… I think I'll start with what are you?" I asked. "Where am i? Why did you kidnap me?"
"Why did you say "what are you?"?" the man asked.
"Well because I know you are not human. You're kinda like me in some ways. I hit seventeen and stopped ageing. I heal quickly. Guys follow me everywhere practically drooling after me. My eyes and hair change colour." I said. "Then there's you. Pale white, ice cold, extremely strong. And I can sense it."
"Well, when I lived in the orphanage. Nuns owned it. Sister Mary Angela was my teacher and she would always tell me I was different. Said she could sense it. I could to. I knew I was different. But she said I was the devil's daughter. Satan's helper." I explained. "So are you gonna tell me?"
"I'm Carlisle," he said. "And this is my wife, Esme."
I nodded to them both.
"My name's Isabella, I prefer Bella. Now why am I here?"
"Well I thought you were dying. We were going to save you." Said Carlisle.
"How?" I asked honestly curious now.
"Well…" He hesitated looking at Esme.
"Oh, come on! I told you my little secret!" I said.
"I'm a doctor. I would have taken you to the hospital." He answered simply.
"But instead you decided to take me here, where you have no bed, or medicine, or any medical equipment?" I asked.
"Just tell her." Esme said.
"I and my wife, and my family are … vampires." He said.
I nodded. Waiting for them to continue.
"You believe us?" Esme asked in disbelief.
"Yeah why wouldn't I?" I was playing with my hair when I realised it changed from brown to ginger.
They stared at me. "Now you see why I would believe you?"
Carlisle and Esme continued to tell me about their lives and their children and how when they were dying Carlisle would change them.
"So you were going to change me?" I asked.
"Well, yes." Esme answered.
"OK." I said. "It's a shame you didn't. That would have been interesting."
They stared at me in shock.
"Sorry." I mumbled.
Their door opened. Five people walked in.
"Carlisle, I think we need to have a family meeting." Someone called up the stairs.
"Yes I think that would be a good idea." Carlisle said.
"Come with us Bella." Esme said. "I'd like you to meet our family."
"Sure." I said walking down the stairs after them.