Disclaimer: I don't own any Twilight characters, but, of course, I own my imagination and my OC's….

AN: many of you know that they are a lot of stories about what happens to Bella if Edward wouldn't come back in New Moon, well, I love the original plot but I thought about what would the Cullens do if they have never come back to Forks, what would Edward had done… This story explores that possibility. Enjoy guys!!

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Chapter one: "Visions"

Twenty years. Twenty years had gone by since the Cullen family had left Forks, since Bella's eighteenth birthday and Jasper's slip.

Five years after their departure, Alice had her last vision of Bella; she was still keeping tabs on her, making sure that she was somewhat better than the shape her brother had left her best friend on. This last vision showed Bella's wedding, she was happy and marrying Jacob Black, pregnant also, but she didn't know that yet.

Alice was careful when it came to Bella's visions, she always tried to be away from Edward, so he won't hear her thoughts or see her foresight but that last time she couldn't help it, the vision came and Edward was sitting right next to her in some random school. He saw everything. He looked crushed for a second but then he remembered that everything had gone like he expected it to go, Bella was safe, happy, getting married and starting a family. She had the future that he couldn't give her. Knowing that Bella was protected made him happy. His features turned into a weak smile, she was happy and now, maybe, he could start to heal.

The family lived around the States for some years, always in small, cloudy tows, pretending that the teens were high school students, that Esme was an interior decorator who had gotten tired of the city and her all too willing husband had gave to her wishes. Living up to the dull routine they had created, until Carlisle decided that maybe it was time to move to another country. After ten years of moving around the States, they resolved to go to Paris, much to Alice's joy. They all moved around France and Germany for another ten years until Esme declared that for Carlisle's 380th birthday they would move back to England.

The family agreed to the move, Carlisle was happy to move back to his birth country and they decided to start investigate where they could live. Since London was too big and had no forest near it, Esme started her online search for small, hazy towns. Her investigation came final when she found the little community of Clovelly, a village on the north Devon coast, England, about twelve miles west of Bideford with a total population of 1,616 people. It was built right into the green, tall forest that surrounded the bigger houses, every road overlooked the ocean and it had a school where the children, as Esme still referred as, could go and a hospital for Carlisle to work at. It was perfect.

Esme found the most beautiful house in the woods; it was a big, two-story house with white walls, tall windows, green roof and wooden doors and blinds. The house and its decoration was for Carlisle, it was his birthday present, so a week before the move she had every room ready. Their bedroom and bathroom were ornamented in a light shade of blue, Alice's and Jasper's room was silver and white, Rosalie's and Emmett's room was red and gray and Edward's room was painted in a light gold, almost a caramel color. Every single member of the family loved what Esme had done, she was fantastic. The rest of the house was white and light butter, the furniture was classic and colorful and the kitchen, not that it would be used, was painted peachy color.

Edward was in his new room, setting all his music, his LP records and Cds in his obsessive-compulsive kind of order, every single one divided by year, kind of music and alphabetical order of the singer's name, when Alice entered his room.

"Excited, brother?" she asked, dancing into the room and plopping down on the white leather couch.

"As excited as we can be" he sighed.

"Aw, come on, Edward, tomorrow we are starting at a different school" she threw a pillow at his back.

"We've done that for decades"

"I know but now we are in a whole new school, in a whole new country, things are bound to be different" Alice said, so sure of herself.

"Have you seen something interesting?" Edward asked, there was no other explanation for her enthusiasm.

"Not really, I haven't had a vision yet but I can tell something is coming"

"Something good or bad?" he asked, sitting on the couch with her.

"Good, I think" Alice rested her hand on his "good for all of us"

"I know better than to bet against you, sister" he grinned.

"Yes, you do" she smiled and got up from the couch "I'm going hunting whit Jazz, you wanna come?"

"No, thanks, Ali, I'm going to stay putting everything in order for tomorrow"

"Ok, I'll see you in the morning" she smiled and waltzed out of the room. She called for Jasper and they went hunting, running through the unknown forest, exploring the new proximities of the house.

The next morning arrived in just a few hours, Carlisle was out for his first day at Clovelly's General Hospital, the staff was so happy to have him there, such an important doctor in a small hospital like that one was big news and he had some explaining to do. The story was the same everywhere, Carlisle and Esme were married for about eight years and as Esme couldn't conceive, they had adopted all their children, finally after years of living in big cities, they had grown tired of it, moving to the quite country side.

The sky was beyond clouded and there was no other light in the Cullen house that the natural daylight that came from the tall, wide windows on the living room and kitchen. Edward rushed down the stairs, meting Esme as she sat on the couch, watching the news on the BBC.

"Good morning, dear" she smiled.

"Morning, Esme, why are you watching the news?" Edward smiled and sat next to his mother, he was waiting for his siblings to go to the new school. He could hear Alice delivering on what to wear, hear Jasper's non PG thoughts about his wife while she rummaged through their closets in just her underwear. He could also hear Emmett and Rose going at it like crazy in their new shower, they had this policy of christen every room in the house and luckily, they were only starting on their room.

"I want to find a job in some local Hotel, I've read that many people come here to celebrate their weddings and maybe I could be a Wedding Planner, what do you think?"

"That's a nice idea, you are good in all that and less pushy that what Alice would be" he smirked at her.

"I heard that!" the pixie vamp blurred down the stairs to smack Edward's arm, Jasper following behind her, his thoughts still R rated.

"You know I'm right" Edward said getting up, they all kissed Esme's cheek and went to the garage, where Edward, Alice and Jaspers got into Edward's new silver Volvo and Emmett and Rosalie got into her new, now purple Mercedes.

They drove through the forest, the roads having a view over to the sea and the traditional small houses. The school was just two miles away from the house, the trip continued peacefully, now that Jasper's ideas had settled down.

They parked next to each other, but when Alice was about to come out of the car, her eyes glassed over and her breath caught, finally, the vision was coming.

"What is it?" Jasper asked to his stunned wife "Alice, baby, what do you see?"

"Another coven" she whispered.

"What does she mean?" he turned to Edward, who was intently watching his sister's vision.

"Another, vegetarian coven lives in this town, three men, one woman. Their children are about our physical age, two boys and the one girl come to this same school" he explained, his eyes wide, not because of the shock of another coven living so close but because he could see the vampire girl in his sister's mind. She was beyond a doubt beautiful, so beautiful that his eyes turned coal black.

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