Bonjour, everyone! This is the new story!
I hope the wait wasn't too long.

So, this is how this story will work:
I'm posting this chapter and the next sometime soon. Depending on the feed back I get I will or will not continue it. I don't want to be writing something no one wants to read:S

Disclaimer: I do not own the any of Stephenie Meyer's wonderful characters! I do, however, own Carma, Toby and Mac!

Enjoy:D

Update Jan. 21, 2018:

Hey, new reader! I started this story in 2008 when I was still in high school. When I started university it got very hard to keep up with anything that wasn't school work, and because of that this story totally died. But now, I actually have some time to commit to it, and I'm reinvigorated! I know that these first few chapters feel pretty sporadic, and that's probably because they were written by a 17-year-old who had a lot of ideas and no idea how to get them down properly. But, I promise that a few chapters in it starts to streamline and feel less chaotic. If any one wants to join in on this revitalized journey, I'd love to have you! However, I think I'm going to try to finish off this story mostly for myself. If all goes well then I'll be getting up the chapter 22 tonight! I hope you still around!

Setting Up Camp

It was July and we were currently driving through a campground looking for our four sites. This was an annual camping trip. It started back when I was in third grade. Back then it had only been me, Emmett, Alice, Jasper, Angela and Tyler. And we'd only gone as far as Emmett's backyard. Now we were three hours from home and there were eighteen of us.

The people making up the eighteen now were: me, Emmett, his girlfriend, Rosalie; Alice, Jasper (who was now going out with Alice), Angela and her boyfriend, Ben; Tyler, his little sister Carma and his girlfriend, Lauren; Mike Newton, Jacob Black, Quil Atera, Embry Call, Claire Younge, Toby and his boyfriend Mac and Emmett's cousin, Edward Cullen. All of us – except Carma and Claire who are sixteen – are seventeen.

Alice is my step-sister. Her mother died just after giving birth to her. My mom, Renee, married her father, Charlie. My biological father disappeared a week after my mom told him she was pregnant. We're closer than most biological siblings are. We bring her mother flowers once a month and she helped me realize my biological father wasn't someone I should worry about finding back when I was ten.

Emmett is my best friend. He has been ever since he stood up to a bully for me when I was five. He knows everything about me. And when I say everything I mean right down to when I'm on my period.

I can hardly remember a time when Alice and Jasper weren't together. The first thing she'd ever said to him was: "Wanna be together forever?" and he'd replied with, "Yes." They've been together for eleven years. We all think they should elope and get married. They say they don't need marriage.

Jacob is Charlie's best friend's son. He's basically my brother. I've spend more summer nights there than I'd like to count. I spent a week there the first time he'd been dumped.

Angela is a sweet person who doesn't know how to be mean to anyone. Tyler, Jasper and Emmett used to be pretty close but Tyler has drifted away from them more each year. Mike has been asking me out once a month – at the very least – since seventh grade. Apparently he didn't get it when I said,

"Sorry, Mike. I don't like you that way. Please stop asking me out. It makes me uncomfortable."

Finally we found our sites. The living arrangements for the next four days were as follows:

Campsite A: 2 tents. Jasper and Alice in one and Emmett and Rosalie in the other.

Campsite B: 2 tents. Jacob and Bella in one and Claire, Carma, Quil and Embry in the other.

Campsite C: 2 tents. Mike and Edward in one and Toby and Mac in the other.

Campsite D: 2 tents. Tyler and Lauren in one and Angela and Ben in the other.

Jake and I had our tent up second last. With him so tall and me so short it was difficult for us to help each other. Usually it just ended in us rolling around in fits of laughter.

The last ones to get their tent up were Edward and Mike. That was mostly due to the fact that Mike kept glaring at Jacob and me laughing together. It was ridiculous because if Mike knew me at all he'd know that Jake and I were more siblings than anything.

It was only five when everything on each camp was fully set up. We still had about four hours for sunlight. Jake was lying in our tent nearly sleeping.

"I'll wake you up for supper." I told him as I kissed his forehead and then got up and left the tent. I had to go through Toby and Mac's site to get to Emmett's. As I went past Mike's tent I tripped on a particularly well hidden root. I started to fall forward so I put out my hands to brace myself and closed my eyes. But I never hit the ground.

Instead I hit someone's arms. I looked up to see Emmett's cousin. His eyes were twinkling with amusement but his mouth was set in a straight line. He pushed me back to a standing position.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, thanks for catching me. The ground and I are pretty good friends, but I wasn't really up to visiting him right then." Then a deep warm chuckle was coming from his mouth. My cheeks turned tomato red and I scowled at him. He put on a half smile.

"I'm sorry for laughing at you, but Emmett has told me a lot about you. Your relationship with the ground has come up a few times. I thought he was exaggerating. I see now he wasn't." my blush deepened.

"No, he definitely didn't exaggerate." I managed to squeak out. He chuckled once again as he ran his hand through his messy brow hair.

"We haven't really been formally introduced. Hello, I'm Edward Cullen." He reached his hand out and mine met his so we could shake hands.

"It's very nice to meet you, Edward. I'm Isabella Swan. But everyone calls me Bella."

"Well then, Bella, It's a pleasure to meet you. I hope we can talk and get to know each other a bit more." I giggled at his formal speech.

"I hope so, too." I told him and there was something in the back of mind saying, I don't want to let go of his hand! He pulled back first.

"I'm staying at Emmett's for the rest of July. We'll probably have tons of time to get to know each other." And the voice in the back of my head squealed like a little girl and started dancing. Why should I be so excited that he's staying? I hardly know him at all.

"Yes, we'll probably be together so much that you'll get incredibly sick of me."

"I don't think that's possible, Bella." he smiled at me and I blushed again while attempting to smile back and breath at the same time. Okay, Bella, get out of here before you make a complete fool of yourself!

"I'm just going over to talk to Emmett for a bit. I'll see you later."

"Okay, see you later, then." I threw him one last smile and then walked off to Emmett's tent.