A/N: Hey! This is my poll story! Finally! I hope you like it!
Thank you to the people that sent me title ideas, and especially to -oOoHeartOfDarknessoOo-, who gave me the title I used! Thank You!
Bella has been a vampire for 3 years and just moved to Forks. She attends Forks High, where she meets the Cullens. All of them are vampires, but Edward. He was adopted by Carlisle and Esme about a year before Bella came. He is paralyzed from the waist down and his real parents are dead. He hasn't been changed for the fear that it won't cure his paralysis and that is his dream. To be just like the rest of his family. Can Bella's new powers help him and let him be changed? And how was Bella changed?
Hope you enjoy this newest creation! And the chapter titles are songs that will (hopefully) fit the events in the chapter!
Finding Courage
On the Inside
My truck slowly started beeping louder and louder on the left side as I drifted towards the dividing line. I turned the wheel slightly until it stopped and sighed. I pushed the large power button on the radio and searched the stations until a song caught my interest. It couldn't have been more fitting.
Your life is like a crack in the mirror
Seven years of bad luck it ain't getting better now
Not
till all is said and done
Reflection
in the window is the same old face
Background small town
everywhere
you look around
Tell me what you're runnin from
Flip a coin and let it land in your hand
Heads you gonna stay but its tails
So you can move to another town
Hide where you're sure you won't be found
But it's still just you on the inside
You can pretend it'll be alright
Said it to yourself but you know it's just a lie
Cause it's still just you on the inside
Still you on the inside...
Nothing faster than the speed of your leavin'
A hundred miles an hour and there ain't no slowin' down
But you can't outrun yourself
Hey you can say you fit in like a joker in the deck
But now you're skipping like a broken record goin' round
you're the last to ask for help-
I quickly turned it off, trying to avoid the memories it would stir up. It was somewhat eerie, how well that song fit, but I stopped myself from thinking about it anymore. I concentrated on what I could make out of the road in front of me.
I had been driving for the last eleven hours, and was only about five away from my destination of Forks, Washington. I was only going about seventy five, so I could have been there sooner, but I wanted to seem somewhat normal with the other people driving on the road.
I was driving from Sun City West in Arizona, a little less than twenty miles from Phoenix. It was a somewhat small town. My dad was the Police Chief there, and my mom was a free lance journalist. She was a big gossip and he was always paranoid about safety, so they were in the right careers.
I went to high school, supposedly the perfect student from what my parents told me. I thought I could do better, but they were happy. I was, too, for a while. But nothing good ever lasts, does it?
No.
My family was destroyed, myself being the only survivor. My parents are dead, and I'm moving because nowhere else I go seems to be safe. I've lived in ten different cities, and that murderer keeps following me. He wants to finish what he started, and he knows the police can't catch him. The worst part is that I know him.
I loved him.
Until he changed…But that seems like another lifetime, now. It couldn't have only been three years ago that everything happened, but reality wouldn't let me convince myself of that.
The truck started beeping again, but this time from the right side. I was getting too close to the shoulder. I turned the wheel slightly before it got louder, and it stopped. I looked at the dashboard to find that another hour had passed while I was wallowing in my self-pity. My GPS hadn't said anything about turning, so I figured I was still heading in the right direction. Granted, it was a pretty straight drive. I sighed silently.
That's another thing that changed. I haven't spoken since he changed. Before he killed my parents. Before he tried to kill me. Before he made me almost completely blind.
Hello, my name is Isabella Swan. And I am a mute and partially blind vampire. How interesting.
A/N: I know, I know. The poll made it sound like Edward was the only one with major problems, but I didn't want to give too much away. I didn't want to give away a lot in this chapter, either, so a lot of questions may not be answered.
The song was On the Inside by Daughtry. Beware, you will probably be seeing that name a lot. They and 3 Doors Down are my absolute favorite bands.
So? What do you think?! I really want to know! I was sooooooooo excited about writing this story, so I just couldn't wait until I finished Unconditional and decided to post it now.
Please review! ;p