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A/N: Yeah! I finished the First chapter! Please read and review. ;)

Summary: What if Bella was part of James coven but not accepted with the others? Her solution is to run away from them, where does she go? 3 guesses…

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Chapter 1. Appearances

"Get up you useless little piece of..."

"Victoria!" James interrupted. "Let's just move on. We're wasting time here" he said while sending me an icy glare.

I slowly raised myself from the ground, still wary of an attack from them. I quickly raked my hair with my fingers to dispel all of the debris I had gathered from my fall to the ground. Then we were off running again.

We were coming close to a town called Seattle on the Olympic Peninsula. One of the rainiest places in the U.S. We, vampires, tend to avoid sunny places or else we would gather unwanted attention because of our sparkling skin.

James, Victoria, and Laurent were now conversing whether or not to split up to feed. I tend to refrain from feeding, I only kill the innocent lives of animals when I nee to. In my human life, I had a strong aversion to blood and now I still think that killing the cute furry animals was wrong.

They decided to hunt separately. Good. I thought. Now I can hunt animals instead of humans without being too conspicuous.

When they were all gone, I slowly crept into the woods. I let the beast, so tightly bound within me, loose. My senses heightened and I caught the faint odor of deer heading toward me. I ran up to meet them. Picking up speed, I raced straight into their midst and startled by me, panicked. They stampeded in a frenzy. I managed to catch 4 of the animals. Quickly snapping their necks, I dank their precious life away. I hid the bodies of the mutilated deer and licked my lips to expel the blood that I had gotten on myself. I slowly walked back to our selected meeting place. They still didn't know that I drank from animals. In my human life, my eyes were deep brown. Since animal blood turns my eye color topaz, they thought that it was a remnant of my human life still in me but I knew other wise.

James was the first to show up after me. He walked over and sat himself down next to me. Laurent showed up about five minutes later. He was always hitting on me. He wanted me to be his mate. I've turned him down several times but he can't take a hint. By the time Victoria showed up, it was almost noon. We left then.

We were heading north toward Canada when we herd loud crashing. It was the sound of two very large boulders smashing together. It happened at odd intervals so it couldn't be a storm. James suggested that we go check it out.

We only had to run for a couple minutes before we came upon a clearing of seven vampires all running around. They froze when they sensed that others were near. James first left the shadowy cover of the beautiful forest but immediately fell back to let Laurent take the lead. Laurent was the second in command, but whenever we would come upon others of our kind he would act as leader to distract the others from James. Victoria stepped out next with her cat like grace and feline attitude. I stayed off to the side and let them handle everything. I looked over the other coven. They acted like a family. The tall blonde was apparently their leader. He had two teenage boys flanking him. One of them was tall and muscular and the other was slightly shorter and had a quiet demeanor around him.

Three women stood in the background. One had a motherly air about her. To her left was a short pixyish girl with spiky black hair and was bouncing on the balls of her feet, from fear or excitement I couldn't tell. The other girl was tall with blonde hair, a bored expression and was prettier than anyone I have ever seen, except the person I saw next. He was standing away from the main group. He had messy auburn hair and glistening topaz eyes. He was staring straight at me with a frustrated expression on his face. I looked him over and up his face. I finally came to his eyes and we stared at each other. I didn't known what was even going on in the other conversation.