A/N: Yes, another story, but this one is different. I finished this one a while ago and have been meaning to publish it for a while. Each chapter is done to a verse of Taylor Swift's I'd Lie and is told from Victoria's POV. For updates, I will be updating once a week depending on how many reviews I get for each chapter. So, if I get one review tonight, I will put up one chapter next Monday; if I get two reviews tonight, I will put up two chapters on Monday etc. Now, sit back, relax and have a read. Hopefully you won't be disappointed!

Chapter One

~ I don't think that passenger seat

Has ever looked this good to me

He tells me about his night

And I count the colours in his eyes ~

I'd Lie by Taylor Swift

"...Bella was full on crying, and Bella just doesn't cry, ya know, V? She always keeps her feelings inside and dad was yelling and mum was threatening to leave... fuck! I just wish they'd divorce already! I know that sounds like an awful thing to say but their plan of 'let's give it a year or so more' just isn't working and..."

I let James rant, knowing he needed an outlet for all the anger and frustration that was the by-product of living with Charlie and Renee Swan. Charlie and Renee Swan had got married straight out of college and had James the year later. Renee always liked to tell James that he was 'quite a surprise' and she never said it in a nice way, translation: My nineteen year old husband knocked me up when I was eighteen and I forgot to get an abortion.

I was glad that Renee hadn't got an abortion; otherwise I wouldn't have had my best friend sitting next to me right now in my car. My car.

It had been a very unexpected eighteenth birthday present. My parents had gone to work early, as they always did, and had left a note on the table saying 'Happy Birthday Victoria, your present is outside. Love mum and dad' on top of the note had been a car key. Totally unable to believe it I'd grabbed the key and dashed outside to find a beautiful, dark blue Mercedes sitting there waiting for me.

Somehow, I'd managed to stuff down some breakfast before packing my bag, putting my key on my keyring and driving to James' house and bounding up to the door to his house; just in time to hear his mother screaming at his dad. He'd come out with a hand on Bella's shoulder and stared at the car and I'd felt like a moron for bringing it. In his hands had been a very small silver wrapped parcel.

"Um, do you mind, giving Bells a ride too?" he'd asked and I'd nodded wordlessly, my face flushing with embarrassment at bringing the stupid thing. Bella had climbed in the back and I'd driven her and her brother to school in silence.

After school, Bella had gone to see her boyfriend Edward - who James hated and Edward's feelings were mutual - and I'd driven James to my house. He'd said he wasn't ready to go home yet and he'd given me the present I'd seen him carrying that morning. It had been a silver necklace with a 'V' dangling from the end. I'd smiled and he'd smiled back.

That had been two weeks ago and, from the way James was talking now, it appeared as if the situation with his parents hadn't got any better.

He turned to face me when we stopped from the only red light in Forks and he said, "Bella walked to school this morning, or, she said she walked to school this morning. I saw that possessive prick Edward Cullen sitting around the corner in his fucking Volvo waiting to pick her up."

I clucked my tongue in sympathy. Edward Cullen had not been a good choice for Bella to make out of the two men who had been vying for her affections. Edward Cullen was rich and fairly good looking and his father was a well known doctor; but he was also possessive, hypocritical and wouldn't let Bella see her long time friend from the Quileute reservation - and his only competition for Bella's affections - Jacob Black. Jacob was the complete opposite to Edward with copper skin and long, silky black hair. He lived quite modestly with his father Billy as his mother had died in a car accident when he was younger and his two older sisters had moved out of home a few years ago. Jacob was Bella's best friend, he'd helped her get through depression last year when her mum left for a while and Edward had broken up with her to move with his family to L.A. for Carlisle's job. Jacob had even pulled Bella out of the Pacific Ocean when she'd attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff! She'd been in hospital for two days and, at the end of that two days, Edward Cullen had come bursting in demanding that his father give her a thorough check up because he didn't trust any of the 'cheap shit' doctors that 'you lot could afford considering that I doubt you have health insurance or anything of the sort'. James, Jacob and Charlie had all been there and Charlie'd had to pull James and Jacob off Edward when they'd both attacked him. All three brawlers had been thrown out of the hospital until they calmed down and then Charlie had gone out to inform them that if they couldn't get along they'd have to learn to like each other in the holding cells at the police station for a night.

Needless to say, the Cullens had returned and Bella, the stupid girl, had gone running straight back into Edward's arms.

"She's just so stupid, Jacob called the other day when Edward was around and the arrogant bastard answered the phone and said that Bella was busy and hung up! Edward Cullen hung up on Jacob in my house on my phone and Bella didn't even do anything about it!"

The light turned green and I reluctantly looked away from James' face and continued towards school. I could die happy looking into James' eyes, usually they're a beautiful, light blue, but, during the course of a day, they can change so many times. Stormy grey when he's angry, a darker blue when he's thinking, a glittering crystal when he's happy... I could so easily get lost in James' eyes.

I was ashamed to admit it, but I'd known James Swan for sixteen years and had not once even hinted that I loved him... but I did.

A/N: Well, how many chapters do you want next? Remember, updates are being done on a review basis because this baby is already finished. So, if you want to read the next chapter, leave a review.