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Chapter One:
I stood in the parking lot at Forks High school in the pouring rain. I am not cold, I am not uncomfortable... but I am not human. It has been ninety years since my senior year at this exact school and yet I am here again about to undertake my freshman year – how many people can say that? Well, eight of us it appeared. We were all here again; myself, Edward, Jasper, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, Jacob and my darling daughter Renesmee... Who is now eighty nine years old, but looks a youthful eighteen at most. Jacob also has the ability to not age... as long as he doesn't give up his alter-ego as a wolf. The wolves who we all knew when we were last in Forks have all passed away. They had all imprinted on humans and wished to live out their lives, and move onto the next life, with them.
I took a deep un-needed breath, it un-nerved me to be back here. What if people recognised us? Recognised the name? Carlisle had ensured me that it wouldn't be the case and of course we had Edward and Alice to keep an eye out. I remembered that discussion as clear as a bell.
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We were living in Alaska. Myself, Edward, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and Jasper were all 'at college' and Renesmee and Jacob had just finished their senior year at the local high school. We had been there for six years and it was time to move on.
"Carlisle and Esme are considering going back to Forks" Edward whispered to me. Memories, both good and bad, came flooding back to me in a split second... My father, the wolves, the school, our meadow, our house, our home, Victoria, the clearing, the Volturi, the fight that could have been... a tear would have appeared from my eye, if it was able to.
"Would it be safe? What if we're recognised?"
Edward tapped the side of his head. "It's not the first time we've moved back to Forks Bella." He replied. "But they are worried about your feelings. They don't want to upset you."
"I'm not upset Edward, I just... I'm just..." I lifted up my shield.
Edward kissed the side of my head, "Bella, I understand that you're worried, but we have done this before. Yes, we know that the Quilulites will probably produce a few more wolves, but we have Jacob – There will be no quarrel."
Suddenly, Alice flittered down the stairs. "Oh Bella! Thank you!" She wrapped her arms around me. "The future was all foggy but now I can see it... We're really going back to Forks?" She asked Edward.
He laughed. "It would appear so Alice."
"Esme! Carlisle! Jazz! Em, Rose... Ooh can I tell Ness?" She closed her eyes and paused momentarily. "Ah she's going to be so excited! Renesmee!" Everyone appeared in the living room. "We're going back to Forks... again!"
A smile stretched across everyone's faces, apart from Carlisle. "Bella, are you sure?"
I thought about that question deeply but of course it only took a split second to say the answer. "It would be nice, I miss our home."
"Right then, I'll enrol you all in the high school now." Carlisle said, finally smiling.
As he walked away, Renesmee ran after him. "Grandpa, I've had an idea..."
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The sound of thunder brought me back to the present day. I focused on the brickwork of the main entrance that hadn't changed in the past ninety years, I looked at the parking space where Tyler Crowley's truck nearly killed me, I looked east to the window of the biology room, and I looked behind me to the seven unchanging faces of my beloved family. Nothing had changed – and yet everything was so different.