Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, Stephenie Meyer does

Prologue

When Love comes to you unexpectedly, you never know how to react. Some people welcome it with open arms and some just throw it back. I experienced pain through love and joy and sadness. My biggest happiness came from my biggest love. This was the part I thought only existed in fairytales, but little did I know that my Prince Charming was coming to rescue me. Even though I am 21, I still like to think that dreams and wishes come true, because mine certainly did and heaven knows what I did to deserve the greatest happiness ever.

1. No such thing as Love

"Rose, can you turn it down a little," I asked without opening my eyes.

My name is Isabella Marie Swan and I live in Phoenix with my mother Renee and father Charlie who I dearly love. I moved a few months ago to New York to get away from my old life. And I mean get away! I have had a terrible past and I needed to spend time keeping myself busy. Believe me, when you see your fiancé making out with your close friend, it is not something, which leaves your mind too easily. I was engaged to a man named Jacob Black. I thought I loved him. I thought he loved me too. I worked in Pizza Hut near my house. My parents weren't too wealthy and neither was Jacob so I worked my socks off to earn some money for us after the wedding. One night I was on my shift and I didn't feel too well and my boss told me to go home. I walked in with a bunch of flowers trying to surprise my fiancé, I quietly slipped open the door and I heard a female voice moaning, I thought it was the wrong house. I was about to walk out the apartment when I heard Jake's voice. I would have rather preferred to have been stabbed several times all over by Jake than to see what I saw next.

It definitely was our apartment. I ran in to see my fiancé semi naked with my best friend Jessica. They both looked at me, not even with the slightest look of guilt on their face. It was as if Jacob was trying to make me jealous. He kissed Jess some more and looked up to me with a wide grin on his face.

"Enjoying the show Bells?" He asked laughing wildly. Jessica pushed him off her and she grabbed her clothes and looked at me apologetically.

"Sorry," she trembled with fear.

After that I can't remember much, apart from the fact that I felt like a complete fool. I spent my time thinking of something as foolish as love. I wasted my time, my effort, and my money on a man who claimed to have loved me but was just like every other guy. He cheated on me.

"Shurrup Bells. I can't concentrate with your moaning." Rose whined back, trying to mock me.

Rose and Alice lived in the rented house in New York. We all went to the same school, "New York School of Arts." We met a few months ago and decided that university apartments weren't all that to live in. Rose and Alice decided to rent a house near uni and we all lived in there ever since. We moved in two months after school started. It was pretty cosy here in the 4-bedroom apartment. The living room was massive and the staircase was on the end of the living room right next to the door. A small section was cut off with a sliding glass door; this was our small kitchen where Alice and I worked our magic with food. I loved Rose and Alice very much. They were totally like my sisters and they understood everything I went through with Jake. I wasn't even scared to tell them, like I was when I told anyone else. I just knew I could count on my beautiful mates. We were practically sisters. The only difference was that Alice and Rosalie were drop dead gorgeous and the most stunning people in the world and I was just Plain Jane.

Right now, I was lying down in my favourite deep blue hoodie (it went nicely with my pale skin and brown eyes) and my three-quarter shorts. I had a New York Yankees cap on with my hoodie on top of it. It was covering most of my face because I just wanted to hide from everything in my own secluded world. But right now, my ipod wasn't doing a good job of keeping Rosalie's loud music from disturbing me. I opened my eyes frustrating heavily.

"Why do you have to disturb me?" I grumbled at her.

She just laughed and carried on running on her machine, which was placed at an angle in front of the TV. Rose was very beautiful and I was so lucky to have a friend like her. For someone so good looking, you would expect her to be obnoxious and vain but she was totally beautiful inside and out. She saw me looking at her and she curved her hips teasingly at me even more and singing loudly along to the music. Her long blond her was tied back in a pony tail, swishing behind her. I just scoffed back. She was wearing tight white shorts and a red top, which was sleeveless and stopped halfway down her stomach.

"What are you staring at?" She asked looking amused and trying to sound sexy.

"I'm staring at you because you are sweating like a pig!"

"AAAAA" she screamed back and jumped off her running machine and attacked me with pillows.

"Hey... Rose... chill..." I laughed between her attacks, unable to fight back. I tried to get my words out but we were laughing too much.

"Yeah well that' what you get for comparing me to a pig." She fake scolded me, wagging a finger in front of my face. We both started laughing and then I leaned back in the soft couch trying to adjust to my position before Rose had attacked me. I closed my eyes and concentrated on my ipod. She sat next but soon it went quiet.

"Bells." She said in a low voice.

"Yeah??"

"You're doing it again."

I could feel her staring intently at me. I opened my eyes and saw her, she looked seriously concerned.

"What?" I replied confused by her gaze.

"Your hand"

I looked down to see my hand was subconsciously feeling and twisting and turning the wedding ring around my neck.

"Oh," I replied and dropped my hands. Rose reached over hugging me. I didn't want to fall in love and get hurt again so I placed my engagement ring on my necklace around my neck. It was a reminder to me that love didn't exist at all; it was all fake or too good to be true. I was always caught fidgeting with it and it made Rose and Alice upset, they always comforted me and it was nice to know they cared about me.

Trying to lift the mood Rose said:

"Hey listen. When Alice gets back we'll all go shopping tonight. Look at us guys, spending Saturdays inside, we need to go out and half fun."

I laughed back, "Rose, you know I hate shopping. And Alice is just going to drag us in thousands of shops and then she's never going to stop."

"Oh Yeah, forgot about that." She glanced down at my casual style; "She's definitely going to take the opportunity when she sees you wearing that though." Then we both cracked up laughing loudly at Alice's love for fashion and clothes and anything that was new. She always got annoyed at the way I dressed and she practically loathed my Blue zip up "because it doesn't show off your figure," She once told me when I asked her why she hated it so much. I loved it though, no matter what, even though it was a little big for my small body.

Right then, we heard the doorbell ring. Rose and I laughed even louder,

"Speak of the devil…" Rose mumbled through our fits of laughter. I got up to answer the door and laughed to myself. I flung open the door and I laughed and said,

"What now Alice, can't you find your keys in your purse again." I was about to turn around and walk in when my eyes glanced up for a millisecond. I could totally not believe what I was seeing. On my doorstep was this blond-haired boy. He was quite tall and he was leaning against the doorframe.

"Err, sorry, last time I checked I wasn't Alice." He replied laughing. I blushed slightly embarrassed at myself; I can't believe I didn't see him properly.

"My name is Jasper Cullen." He replied smiling, he looked so friendly it was like I had known him for ages.

"Hi, I'm Bella Swan. Can I help you?" I replied smiling back at this beautiful boy. He must have gotten the address wrong. But he carried on,

"My brothers and I have a gig to playa few blocks away in the venue. Our car's battery has died and we need some help. Could you help us recharge it please?" Someone from the back shouted in a loud voice,

"Hurry up Jazz, we're going to be late."

"Sure," I replied taking a peak at the guy behind him. Jasper also laughed and turned around to introduce his brother.

"This is my eldest brother, Emmett Cullen." Emmett wasn't wearing a shirt so l his big muscles were showing. My eyes widened as he looking up from the bonnet of the big jeep to see me. He looked up and waved and shouted "HEY."

I laughed back and replied with a polite hello,

"I don't really know about cars and stuff, I'll just call my friend out, she'll help you." I turned towards the house, "Rose," I yelled, "We need your help." Rose came towards me, with a water bottle ain one hand and a towel swung lazily over her left shoulder. I blushed when I saw her, she hardly had anything on! Suddenly I felt uncomfortable but Rose didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

Rose laughed and looked at Emmett and Jasper and she said, "Bells, are these the strippers we ordered?" We all laughed at them and Emmett flexed his muscles.

"Am I that good?" He replied back and we all laughed lightly, including Jasper who was silently laughing and shaking his head at the same time at his older brother.

"Hi I'm Rose" Rose confidently put her hand out in front of Jasper who shook and replied with "Jasper." I explained to Rose what had happened to their car.

"Wait a minute," she replied. She got inside and got the keys to my car. She stepped back out again and then her and Emmett were talking and charging the car at the same time. Jasper and I just stood outside in the cold; I was freezing since ¼ of my legs were bare!! When Emmett and Rose had finished, Emmett slammed the bonnet down and gave Rose a big hug, lifting her off the ground. We all laughed at that and before I knew it he had me in a tight hug too. "Thanks Ladies" He yelled at us excitedly. "For what?" I replied. Trying to find my balance against the wall behind me, I was clumsy anyway but Emmett seemed to make my balance a little more off than usual when he set me down.

"Your car." He shrugged. "Anytime." I replied.

"Then Jasper said, "We are playing in the Venue near here tonight. Please come if you have time. We are really grateful. Edward, our youngest brother is already in the venue setting up and he would have kicked our Asses if it weren't for you guys. Thanks." He replied, smiling sincerely at Rose and me. It was nice to see these two strangers who were so friendly and kind. I automatically wanted to go, I'm sure Rose wanted to go as much as I did. I could see she was excited too.

Emmett stopped him with "Heck Yeah. But little bro, we're going to be late."

"Erm, we'll see." Rose replied. "Our friend Alice hasn't come home yet and she'll freak out if we leave without her." Oh Yeah, Alice. I forgot about her, feeling a little guilty I said

"Yeah if she makes it on time then we'll come." Jasper and Emmett were already walking towards their big black jeep. Jasper sat in the drivers seat and Emmett sat in the passenger seat next to him. He rolled down his window and stuck his whole upper body out shouting,

"Hope you can make it ladies! See Ya!" He winked at Rose and we just waved back at Jasper and Emmett.

When their car went out of sight, Rose and I looked at each other. Both of us were grinning wildly. As we walked inside the house, something told me that this wasn't the last we'd be seeing of the Cullen boys.