I no longer walk alone

Summary – Bella Swan is a 900 year old vampire who has nearly always walked this world alone. That is until she meets the Cullen coven and her love for eternity, Edward. Its time for her to start a new chapter in her life but since when does anything ever go smoothly?

Author – xsarahx101 – Sarah Jane

Rated – T

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The first thing i noticed that morning when i stepped outside of my house was that the weather was dismal, in fact, that probably wasn't the best way to describe how bad the weather was. The sky was completely grey with no normal blue sky visible and above all it was raining, heavily. I gathered from this that it must be pretty cold outside too but that was irrelevant to me. It wasn't like i could feel it or anything. None the less, i made sure i was wrapped up with numerous garments such as a pair of gloves, scarf, jumper, rain coat etc. You know, all the things that would help me blend in with other people.

For me, given my situation, blending in is of up most importance. After all, i figured humans might find it weird to find a vampire roaming their world, let alone a 900 year old vampire. Although, its not like you could tell i was over 900 years old. I looked around 17 years old, as that was the age i was when i got turned into this "monster" as vampires look never ages. Never. And to be honest, thank god for that otherwise i would be looking REALLY old. Anyway, always looking around 17 does have some fall backs, for example, i can never stay in one place for too long, i mean, how strange would it look if i was meant to be 25 but i still looked 17? It's just not viable.

This is why i moved to Forks. I had "outgrown" my most recent place of habitation so, to avoid weird questions i decided to move. This was normal for me; I'd done it many times over. It does become monotonous and boring because who wants to re-live high school over and over again? But it's what has to happen and i like to roll with the punches as people say.

It was my first day at my new school, Forks High. I wasn't very optimistic. But none the less, i got in my car (another way to be human as i could have just ran there and gotten their faster but whatever) and began the drive to school. Forks high wasn't all that big if I'm honest as forks was only a small town. Which was alright but it was easy to see everybody knew everybody which meant that word about a new student (also known as me) spread quickly and when i pulled up in the parking lot because suddenly many eyes were on me, as if interrogating me. This was always the worst part, it felt like judgement time. Were they going to notice there was something different about me or not? Usually, this has never been a problem however, sometimes it has been a bit sketchy as my features can differ from those of humans, such as i have very pale white skin, golden eyes and my skin is ice cold. It can make things somewhat difficult.

So i bet your wondering how i could walk through the car park with all these people...these humans around me but not jump on them and suck their blood. Oh trust me it's not without great difficulty. I'm guessing you must all know the stories about vampires – we are blood sucking killers, we sleep in coffins, we die if you stab us with a stake. Yeah, not quite. I find it quite hilarious how humans choose to perceive us from the fictional stories they have read, oh believe me most of us are out right killers, but we don't sleep and it takes a lot more than a stake to kill us. But anyway back to the point, i don't feed off humans, i feed off animals. They aren't as satisfying as humans but I'm not a monster and i refuse to kill human beings, not anymore anyway.

I entered the school building, following the signs that led me all the way to reception area where i planned to get my timetable for my lessons. The woman behind the desk was short and elderly, she had grey hair that looked like it had recently under gone a very bad perm and her eyes were hidden behind a pair of huge red glasses that looked like they should have been thrown out years ago.

"Can i help you dear?" She asked me, her voice was high pitch and posh and i knew, if i heard it too much it could have become extremely annoying.

"Err yeah, I'm new today. My name's Isabella. Isabella Swan." I told her. My nostrils were prickling in disgust. The woman was wearing very strong perfume; so strong in fact her natural scent was almost invisible. How could people stand to be around her? How could she not realise she smelt so strong? I guess the heightened sense of smell i have because I'm a vampire may have been the reason why i was particularly finding myself in disgust of it but still, that smell is just not right.

"Ah, of course! Everyone's been expecting you. Here is your timetable, you have Mr Lee's period 1, and French I believe" She informed me.

I nodded, taking the timetable and walking away. It was rude, but the smell was indescribable. As i entered the main corridor, people were hustling and bustling, going to and from their lockers before first period started. I walked through the throng of people trying to find my first lesson. Naturally, like everybody on their first day, i turned up late. I entered the classroom, everyone's eyes staring beadily on me. I muttered my apologies and introduced myself.

"Oh yes, Miss Swan, well thank you for coming. Have you taken French lessons in your previous school?"

Oh if he only knew. I could almost guarantee i knew more French then he did. After all, i had lived there for 3 decades and i knew possibly everything there was to know about the French language, people and history.

"Yes" i nodded.

"Good good! Well i believe there is a seat next to Jessica over there if you would like to sit there"

I glanced around the room for the empty seat finding it almost instantly. Admittedly, Jessica looked pretty. She had brownie blonde hair, blue eyes and had this huge smile plastered on her face. I couldn't help wonder if it was fake or not but i would take what i could get. I really could care less if I'm honest.

I made my way to the empty seat and sat down, peeling the many layers of clothing off. Being around humans is always a challenge because there were so many things to remember to do like act like your breathing (vampires don't have organs, therefore no need to breathe) fidgeting (vampires can sit still or extremely long amounts of time without the slightest bit of movement) and blinking (vampires have no real need to blink). If any of these basic human necessities are left out people can easily become highly suspicious, which no vampire wants nor needs.

"Hi I'm Jessica, Jessica Stanley; it's nice to meet you Isabella." Jessica whispered as Mr Lees began the lesson.

"Its nice to meet you to. But please, call me Bella" i responded politely. I'd never liked the name Isabella...

"Oh okay, so where are you from Bella?" she whispered.

I went to answer but suddenly I felt as if I had a pair of eyes staring intently at me. "Urm I'm sorry can I help you?" I whispered looking directly over Jessica's head at the guy sitting next to her. He looked gawky. Perhaps that wasn't a good description but that's the first thing that popped into my head. You know the type, trying to be outgoing and liked but really looked like the complete opposite.

"Oh...erm...no, no I'm sorry, I was just interested in the conversation." he stuttered nervously. Bless him.

Jessica giggled staring almost dreamily at him before turning to me slightly, the look of infatuation dripping off her face. She obviously likes him "Bella, this is Mike, Mike Newton."

"It's nice to meet you" I smiled at him, but stopped instantly. The look that had been previously on Jessica's face only a moment before was now on Mikes but I had the strange feeling it wasn't be reciprocated to Jessica but more to me. Oh dear.

"Isabella swan" I heard my name being called from the front of the class. I turned
knowing what was about to come. I was ready.

"Yes sir?" I asked as once again for the second time that morning I felt the class's eyes on me.

"Perhaps you could do us the honour of gracing us with your attention and reading the sentence on the board in French?"

"Of course sir" I smiled before looking at the board. The board read - "when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade"

I almost giggled at that saying before replying confidently "Quand la vie vous donne des citrons vous faire de la limonade"

Mr Lees looked somewhat put out, knowing I had gotten it write. He cleared his throat before deciding to proceed on "well okay then that's correct but from now on, eyes on the front understood?"

"Yes sir"

The rest of that lesson went by painfully slow, as did the rest of the lessons until lunch; maths, social studies and history. They had all been pretty boring, it was nothing i hadn't heard multiple times before and i had no doubt in my mind that i could in fact teach the class better myself. By the time the bell had rung through the school building at the beginning of lunch, i was about ready to leave and go hunting or do something that was remotely interesting and i probably would have had it not been for Jessica and Mikes laborious questioning and begging to sit with them and their friends Eric and Angela.

As we entered the dining room where at least more than half the students were gathered, eating lunch, messing about and talking between themselves, i was hit by the mass of scents coming from all of them and the back of my throat ached; they made me thirsty. Admittedly, the thirst hurt but i could contain it, id had plenty of practice after all. As i joined the line for food with the others i stared around the room at the many people that were gathered there. It was just like any other school i had been to, with the usual cliques and groups of people that tended to gravitate towards each other. The jocks, the popular people, the nerds...you get the gist, usual phoney rubbish that you knew wasn't going to last longer than the end of senior year.

I breathed deeply and sighed which normally was such a usual human process that usually means nothing but just then, for me, i got to the shock of my life (Well not my life but you get the idea). I smelt something different, in fact it wasn't just a something, it was a number of something's. A number of different scents that were not human or animals. I knew exactly what they were and as I spun around my thoughts were confirmed. There, at the back of the dining hall sat five other vampires and they were all staring back at me. There were two females and three males. Of the two females there was a tall, golden haired one that looked like she had a beautiful figure, the kind you see on the cover of the Sports illustrated swimsuit issues, the kind that made every girl around her take a hit on their self esteem just by being in the same room. The other girl was short and very pixie like, thin in the extreme, with small features. Her hair was a deep black, cropped short and pointing in every direction. And then there were the three guys, one was big and muscled like a serious weight lifter, with dark, curly hair. Another was taller, leaner, but still muscular with honey blonde hair. He was more boyish then the other. However, it was the last that really caught my attention. He was lanky, less bulky, with untidy, bronze coloured hair. I can safely say within that one moment that i looked at him and he looked at me, he captivated me; it was a strange feeling but none the less, they all looked like they could be in college, or even teachers at the school rather than students. Apart from their scents i could easily tell they were vampires, everyone of them was chalklike and the palest of all the students living in this sunless town. Paler than an albino. They all had very dark eyes despite the range in hair tones. They all also had dark shadows under their eyes that looked much like bruises or shadows; they all looked like me.

"Bella, Bella...Bella!" Jessica called snapping me out of my stare.

"What?" i asked annoyed.

"Your holding up the line" she replied also looking annoyed that obviously i was stopping her from eating.

"Sorry" i replied as i followed the rest of the students into the food serving area.

Five minutes later, after buying some pizza and a apple (which had been entirely pointless considering i had no plan of eating it. Human food tastes like dirt.) i sat at the table with Jessica, Mike, Eric and Angela as they chatted away about their plans for the weekend, however i wasn't listening. Instead i was deep in thought.

It had been a considerable amount of time since i ran into a vampire, let alone a group of them and who was to say they were the only ones? What if there were more? Should i approach them?

My thoughts were very mixed. Should i leave now and avoid any possible contact with them? Or do i go introduce myself and find out about them? Finding out about them definitely seemed like a more enticing option. Like i said, it wasn't very often i ran into vampires and i was okay with that but i couldn't help but feel that it would be nice to meet some of them again, especially the one with golden hair. There was something about him that made me need to know about him and speak to him. But why?

I looked up towards their table once again to find they were still staring at me, all looking confused and shocked which is probably how i looked also. The golden haired one had something else in his eyes, something that almost looked disturbed but I couldn't figure out whether it was frustration or disappointment and it annoyed me.

"Who are they?" I asked no one in particular rather randomly. Everyone seemed to look up to see who i meant.

"That's Edward, Emmett and Alice Cullen, and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. They all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife." Jessica stepped in and told me. I glanced sideways at their table once more, they were all talking very quietly and quickly, their mouths barely moving and they were looking shiftily in my direction. Cullen – That name rang a bell.

"So what's the deal with them?" I wondered

Jessica giggled, obviously loving being my source of information "They're all together – Emmett and Rosalie, and Jasper and Alice, i mean. And they live together." Her voice held all the shock and condemnation of the small town, i thought critically. But of course they all live together. Why would they have a need to live apart?

"So which ones are the Cullens?" i asked. "They don't look related..."

"Oh, they're not. Dr Cullen is really young, in his twenties or early thirties. They're all adopted. The hales are brother and sister, twins in fact – and they're foster children."

Of course, what a well thought out story. I decided to play along. "They look a little bit too old to be foster children surely?"

"Well they are now, both Jasper and Rosalie are 18, but they've been with Mrs Cullen since they were eight. She's their aunt or something like that"

The plot thickens it seems. Now to my count that's a total of seven vampires, most definitely a coven. The Cullen coven. "That's really kind of nice – for them to take care of all those kids like that, when they're so young and everything."

"I guess so," Jessica admitted reluctantly, and i got the impression that she didn't like them for some reason. With the glances she was throwing at them, i would presume the reason was some kind of jealousy. "I think that Mrs. Cullen can't have any kids. Though" Duh.

Throughout this conversation my eyes flickered again and again to the table where they all still sat, talking and looking. "Have they always lived here in Forks?" I asked.

"No" she said in a voice that implied the obvious. "They moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska."

"Who is the one with the golden brownish hair?" i asked.

"That's Edward. He's gorgeous, of course, but don't waste your time. He doesn't date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him" she said, obviously implying that he thought he was too good for anyone. His name was Edward...what a perfect name, how could it be anything else?

Obviously, they had gone through a great deal to orchestrate such a story so they could all live together as a family but also, some as mating partners. And obviously, they were not a harm to humans otherwise everyone here would surely be dead? Did that mean they fed on animals like me? I was seriously interested. In all my years of roaming this earth, i had never ever met another vampire that fed off animals, let alone 7 of them. I needed to know more about them.

And with that, i found myself standing up, pushing my tray of untouched food away and making my way over to the group of vampires and right then... i had the feeling that my life was going to change. How? For the good? For the bad? I had no idea.

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SaraahJaane