Hi everyone! I have always wanted to try writing a Twilight fanfiction so here it is! This idea has been stuck in my head for a few days already. I promise that I won't abandon the story halfway, and I don't mind any negative comments too. I want to make this fanfiction a good one. :)

Hopefully, you guys can help support/motivate me by leaving reviews, etc so that I can continue writing this story with ideas. Alright then, enjoy the first chapter! ^_^

Disclaimer (I'll say this once and for all): I do not own any of the Twilight characters but I do own the main characters here as well as those that I made up.

I'm Raine Anderson. A normal seventeen-year-old girl from Florida. As of today, I'm gonna live in a completely alien place. Well, maybe it's not all that alien, considering there would be people with human features, like me, living there too. But I would be living in an unfamiliar town, sleeping in an unfamiliar house, studying in an unfamiliar school and surrounded by unfamiliar people.

Did I ever mention how I was thrown into this madness?

Mom recently got a new job as an auditor. It sounded like a terrific news, but there was one problem-she needed to travel overseas frequently. She couldn't bear the idea of me staying at home alone, despite me reminding her a million times that I'm already seventeen and am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. She didn't want to send me to my Dad because well, she didn't trust that he would take good care of me. Especially when he has his "new family".

And so, she decided to send me to somewhere else to stay with my aunt. Like a town called Forks, whose name was the first time that I have ever heard in my entire life. I have no freaking idea where that place was. It could be somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean on an isolated island or in a desert where camels were roaming around. Or worse, it could even be at the North Pole.

As if the first bombshell wasn't miserable enough, she decided to drop a second one; I have to live there for two whole years until I finish my high school.

Great. Just great.

I quickly made up a list of reasons as to why there wasn't a need for me to go to Forks. When I opened my mouth to fire them off, Mom let out a tired sigh. Her pretty face that was radiant a few months ago, was now replaced with a haggard look. Dark eye bags encircled her eyes. This was the result of her working very hard for the past few months when money was tight. I cringed (of course when she wasn't looking) and decided to clamp my mouth shut instead. I didn't want to make things any more difficult for her.

And so, I did what all filial daughters out there in the world would do. "So, Forks, what's it like there?" I asked quietly.

Mom's eyes widened with happiness when she knew that I have given my approval. Clearly she was expecting me to kick up a fuss and pout in the house all day. "Oh sweetie, I've spent my childhood days there. The whole town feels like one big family since everyone grows up together. There's only one high school there with nearly four hundred students. Well, to be exact, there's probably three hundred and eighty-four..."

Three hundred and eighty-four students?! Who are you kidding with? At my school, we have more than one thousand students.

"...and I'm sure that they're really kind and friendly. You'll make good friends there really soon."

Hah, I bet I would be sticking out like a sore thumb real soon. Everyone there grew up and played together ever since they were babies. There was no one that they wouldn't know. Except me. The new kid from Florida. How on earth was I going to fit in with them?

And how on earth was I going to get through high school without my two best friends, Emily and Gloria, by my side? They were the ones who made my high school life amusing and fun. Going to Starbucks together after school, filling me in on gossips, driving home together after classes and sleepovers at each other's houses. I would be an insane woman if I said that I wasn't going to miss all the stuff we do together. I didn't want us to drift apart.

They were upset when I told them that I was leaving for two years. But after an hour of crying our eyes out (actually I was the one who cried my eyes out the hardest since they cried and consoled me), hugs and kisses, we pinky swore that we would keep in touch with each other and Skype on nights when we weren't busy. They were my sisters whom I have known for more than ten years. I was going to miss them so much.

"I'll drop by when I'm free," Mom promised at the airport. "Take good care of yourself, my sweetie. I'll call and email you." She crushed me in a tight hug as she sobbed. When she finally released me, Emily and Gloria threw their arms around me and hugged me tightly, saying a lot of "I'll miss you", "I love you" and "take care". Thankfully, I was taller than them. Otherwise I would have fallen backwards and smacked my butt on the floor in front of everyone else.

The tearful goodbye made tears escape from my eyes even when I swore not to cry in front of them. I swallowed down the hard lump in my throat. I hugged them back tightly and when I was done, I took a step back. Picking up my duffel bag and luggage, I waved goodbye to them and entered the departure lounge. The plane took off an hour later and headed further away from my old home and closer to my new home. Sitting alone on the plane, I've never felt so alone in my life.

I wasn't mentally prepared for this whole new place that I would be staying at. But nonetheless, Forks, here I come.