Taking Chances Chapter 1: A discovery, a twilight fanfic

Chapter 1 of Taking Chances

By Jacqulin

Authors Note: This is my first Twilight fanfic so please no flames. I know that this chapter is a little bit short because I want to see the response that I get for it. Read and enjoy…..

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, the genius Stephanie Meyer does.

"Do I still have to keep my eyes closed?" Edward asked me. I sighed, he was getting a little impatient.

"Just a little bit longer," I said as I grabbed the albums from the box that Mom had shipped to me. "Ok, you can open your eyes now."

He looked at me and then at the photo albums with his sparkling topaz eyes. "What are those?" he asked with a slight grin that flashed his Greek god face with a heavenly light.

"You are dazzling me again."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to."

"I know, I just need a human minute." I took a scrapbook and sat next to him on the old sofa that Charlie had gotten before I was born. He looked at me while I took in a breath and then let it out. I looked down and blushed as I saw that he was still staring at me.

"I just love it when you take a big breath in like that," he said.

I grinned, "Of course, I do feel bad when someone doesn't tell me that they like the way I breath."

"So, what's with the scrap books?" he asked me again a second time.

"Well," I said. "I wanted to show you more into my life. So I got this great idea of having Mom ship me all of my pictures. She thinks that I am moving myself away from her, but she has copies of all of my pictures so there isn't any need to worry. I showed some of these to Charlie last night and he thought that they were all really cute."

He looked at me and scowled. "I really don't like photos, but since they are yours I guess I can bear it."

"Why," I asked. "Wait, don't tell me. Vampires can't appear in photographs can they?"

"Myth"

I grabbed a pale pink book and gave it to Edward. "Here, this is my first photo album. It has all the pictures of when I was a baby."

He flipped the book open to the first page. In big bold letters it said 'ITS A GIRL'. He chucked at that. The next page was the picture of Mom and Charlie holding me at the hospital.

"That's you," he asked as he pointed to the pale thing that was wrapped in a tumble of blankets.

"Yup"

The next page was the picture of me when I was two and I was at my house. Mom had gotten me into a pink jumper that went really well against my skin tone and the red hair. "You look cute in that." Edward said.

I grimaced.

"No you really do." he insisted.

The next album had was all the pictures from my dance class. "How did your mom get you to do dance if you hated it?" he asked me.

"You don't want to know! Trust me on this one" I took in a breath of air before I started to continue talking. "You know how in ballet you are supposed to be all graceful and everything. Well, I wasn't! I used to mess up every time, but my coaches were really supportive."

He nodded as in a silent agreement.

We spent the next few hours going through the twenty or so albums. "This is the album from the year that I moved to Forks." I said.

"You are gorgeous," Edward said. "Are you sure that you didn't have any boy friends or at least a couple of admires?" He asked with a worried face.

I just love to see Edward get all worked about someone else liking me. "I'm pretty sure." I said not wanting him to suffer any more.

"Well, in that case…." he leaned to kiss me, but pulled back. "Charlie is in the drive way."

No sooner had he said that I heard the rumble of keys and then saw Charlie walk in. I turned around and Edward wasn't there anymore.

"You are home early." I said to Charlie.

"Yeah, there weren't that many people on the road today so I decided to come home. So what were you doing?"

"Just looking through some photos." I said as I twisted my fingers behind my back. I pulled a fake yawn before he asked me any more questions. "I think that I will turn in for today." I walked to my room and closed the door shut. "Edward," I whispered.

"Here," he said as he walked out from my closet.

"I am going to go to sleep now."

"I am going to start humming." he said as he grabbed a chair and put it by the bed and then sat in it.

"Ok," I said. I was used to Edward humming me to sleep. I climbed into bed and tucked myself in. I rolled onto my side to so I could see Edward.

"Edward…", I said. "Do you have any pictures of yourself, you know before you became a vampire?" I asked him.

"No." His reply was cold and unfeeling. Even though we were in a dark room I could see his eye color turning from topaz into a dark brown. His answer was obviously a lie.

I rolled over as the sun hit my face. I woke up remembering that Edward was still watching me. Looking around, I saw that he wasn't in my room.

By my bed stand there was a little note. It said:

Bella, I had to go hunting today with Rosalie and Emmet. I will be back tomorrow. Remember, you are going to go shopping with Alice. See you tomorrow.

Edward

I sighed. Alice was really excited on taking me shopping although I really didn't know why. I looked at the clock and saw that I was running late as it was. I quickly grabbed a purple shirt and a denim skirt that came down to my knees.

I ran downstairs and saw that Charlie wasn't home either. I thought that today was his day off of work. The house was empty and noiseless. I realized that this was probably the first time that I was alone in my house since I had met Edward. I walked over to the kitchen and saw a little post-a-note that was written with hard to read hand writing.

This one said:

Isabella, Billy called last night after you went to sleep and invited me to go fishing with him and Jacob and I just couldn't refuse. I thought that you would be busy all day since you were going shopping today. See you around dinner time.

Love Dad

I grabbed a granola bar and started walking towards my truck. I knew that it was pretty dangerous to eat and drive at the same time, but today I was desperate.

The Cullens house was in a little secluded area in the forest. I pulled up in their enormous driveway and saw Carlisle and Esme planting some flowers. They waved to me as I got out of the car. They both looked like super models even though they were wearing faded yellow overalls, and gardening gloves.

I walked into the house and saw Jasper watching some TV. You could say that I was a bit surprised because it was a human thing that he was doing. He acknowledged my existence in the room with a little nod towards me and then went back to watching the tv.

'Men', I thought 'They are all the same when it comes to television.'

Alice came in through the little hallway and squealed with joy as she saw me. She was wearing a turquoise top and white shorts that showed off her legs. "Can you wait for a few more minutes more. I was just looking for this thing in my room that I had gotten who knows when, but I can't find it so it might take a while until I find it ", she said with a pleading look in her eyes.

"Sure," I said. I walked towards Edwards room. This was the perfect time to do a little snooping. Edwards room was perfectly clean and looked like a bedroom that was a movie scene rather than a 17 year old vampires.

I walked over to his music collection and looked through some of the stuff. Then I walked towards his drawers. I opened them. A small book at the bottom of the pile caught my eye. I took it out and opened it. On the front it said, 'Family Album 1915'.

I felt guilty as I turned the page, but I had to know what Edward was keeping from me. On the first page was the picture of Edward and 3 other people. At the bottom of the page in a small writing it said: Mom, Dad, Edward, Isabella January 4, 1915.

I gasped, that was weird. Edward knowing someone who had the same name as me. I stared longer at the picture. Edward looked happy and warm. The girl, Isabella, was she pregnant? She was, I could tell clearly now.

I turned to the next page. It was a picture of Edwards grandparents and the girl Isabella. The date was March 16, 1915. I could say confidently now that the girl was at least 3 months pregnant now.

I turned to the next page. My eyes got blurry as the tears stinged them. The picture was Edward, Isabella and a small baby girl. At them bottom it said Edward, wife Isabella and daughter Isabella Marie. The date was November 19, 1915. I dropped it on the desk and ran out of the house.

I turned my truck on. No it couldn't be true. Why had Edward lied to me for this long. I swerved out of the drive away and drove. Esme and Carlisle turned their heads and looked at me wondering what was wrong.

It must have been about 20 minutes I had been driving. I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do. I didn't want to talk to Edward or even look into his eyes any more. Suddenly, I knew what I was going to do and who I was going to talk to and it certainly wasn't going to be Edward.

Authors Note: Ah, a cliffy…..