A/N: I don't own Twilight or any of its characters mentioned. Only Naleigh.

The way 'Naleigh' is pronounced (or how I seem to pronounce it) is Ney-lee. Like Hailey but with an N. Say it however you think is best.

Chapter One. "Natalie" Year 2001.

I didn't like the feel of today. Deep inside I knew something was about to happen, me being only eight years old, I ignored it and belted out the chorus to N'sync's Bye Bye Bye's song, all three of us were having too much fun courtesy of Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, eating junk food and laughing till we coughed and our eyes watered. I turned to see my mother and father's hand entwined next to the car shift stick. My mother's marriage ring gleaming with the little sunlight there was.

We all sat in the back seat of my dad's truck heading to Seattle and somehow ended up in La Push Washington. Instead of arguing, we were happy to see the beach we came across after a day's worth on the road, we were kids, we did not know about boundaries and the native rules that pertained to such a place called First Beach.

Natalie and Nina both played by the shallow end of the shore, both looking for the prettiest shell. While I was still recovering from a motor scooter accident from a month ago, it had left me with a fractured leg and numerous amounts of scars on my thigh along with ugly scrapes and bluish purple bruises. I was unable to join them for the fear on my leg getting infected by the sea water but I was content on seeing their smiling faces.

"Look! Nana! I found a blue one it's so pretty!" Nina bounded up to me her long dark brown hair shining in the hot sun. I grinned at her. Nana was their short way of saying Naleigh. I examined all the shells in her small hand as she grinned widely at me. "yeah! It is! Show Nat!" I saw Natalie wave over to me and Nina showing her the most favorited baby blue shell in her hand. I sat on the soft grey sand, alternating my stare to the blue sky and both of my friends.

Nina was the loud one, always having to voice her mind, she was stubborn as hell, but sweet.. when she wanted to be. Nat was a kind soul laced with a vicious temper sometimes. She was wild and carefree, but always looked through the worst and found the best in oneself. A bit of a spoiled princess growing up but I loved her all the same.

Nina had found a string of seaweed and was dangling it by a stick close to Nat's face when she squealed in fear and ran off laughing.

Natalie always seemed to know what I was thinking, at first I thought it was weird that she would finish my sentences, sometimes we would even speak at the same time but then we slowly got over it and got used to it.

Got used to each other.

After what seemed like hours, our faces red from staying in the sun so long, all three of us laid in the sand having heart to heart conversations on what eight year olds talk normally talked about. "hey Nana, would you ever get married?" asked Nina. I wrinkled my nose. "Marriage is for old people." I told her and laughed. Natalie looked serious. "But they're happy.." I looked at her and shook my head. "Were happy too, we can't we get married?" I murmured. "because we are girls silly duhh!" Nina said and giggled as she went to pick up some more shells leaving Nat and I alone. Together. She took my hand in hers, "it's okay, we'll get married. Just you and me" she said quietly. Nat's blue eyes stared into my own. I smiled at her.

"I'm gonna grab a Capri-sun, ask Nina if she wants one." I called out to Nat, I wanted something to drink badly, the sun combined with its heat had made me parched. The sun hit Natalie's honey brown hair just right. She looked very pretty in her lilac colored sundress. She merely smiled at me and nodded once more, I turned to grab three Capri suns out of the cooler, taking my time picking out the others favorites. When I turned I saw only Nina on the shallow end but Nat was nowhere in sight, I hobbled up and down the sandy shore, the cold wind biting my cheeks, my eyes searching for Nat. After leaving deep tracks on the sand where I must of walked over and over again, Nat was no where to be seen, I felt a pang in my chest and chills down my spine. A sense of dread.

"Nina! Where's Nat?" I called out. She shrugged her shoulders at me, looking around, calling out Nat's name.

Hours had gone by, I begun crying and screaming where somewhere in between I had a panic attack. I wanted Natalie, I wanted her with me! How could she just disappear?

My parents including Nina and I searched for hours and yet nothing as the moon appeared, lighting the darken beach with it's soft glow. I walked up to the water, with tears running down my face, waist deep in the salty water staring at the moon, pleading. At that moment, I didn't care about my injury. When I felt my fingers tangle in what seemed like the softest seaweed I had ever felt. I looked down slowly and screamed.

Natalie's lifeless blue eyes and torn dress was before me, her small body bobbing up and down with the motion of the water. I didn't pay attention to the two puncture marks on her neck or hearing the animals in the woods, filled with low growls and sadness in their eyes as they watched us from the shadows.

All I could feel, even to this day, was Natalie's hair wrapping itself tightly around my hand, as if she never wanted to let me go.

This chapter is un-beta'd I apologize for any mistakes you may have seen.