Disclaimer: I don't own the characters nor Twilight.

Note: This story is loosely based on Twilight but with some changes in the story. Bella's a human-vampire hybrid, with Charlie as a tame vampire. She's never met Edward and the Cullen clan before.

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UNDER THE BLACKLIGHT

I looked out the window into the deep blue sky, with thick clouds hovering around.

No one knows who I really am, people see me from the outside, they do not know how I grew up, how I kept moving around until ten years ago, nor how I lost my mother. My dad and I, no, I mean, Charlie and I, we had each other for the past 16 years of my life. We lived differently from others and honestly, we were doing fine, Charlie and I, we were really really fine.

Then, he decided to move us away to this place which I barely even knew just because "he knows best what's best for me". I knew I couldn't defy Charlie because he has done so much for me. If he had to dodge a bullet for me, he would. And I knew I'd do anything at all for my father. I packed up ten years of my life in Forks and left, without telling anyone, without looking back. Heck, I didn't even get to say goodbye to people who looked after me for so long, like my best friend Mandy, or the old Mrs. Winstock from the corner of the neighbourhood, or Mr. Panini, the Italian breadman at the bakery.

I knew it wasn't easy for Charlie too; he was after all Chief Swan in Forks for almost a decade; everyone loved him and he loved everyone. But at the same time, his love for them could never dominate his love for me, his only daughter.

So we boarded the first plane out of the state, away from Forks before sunrise and landed in JFK three hours later. When the plane landed, you could feel how bitter the place was; with its gray skies and rainy clouds. And its people.

At the airport, everyone was bustling around and running and talking on their phones, in fact, I think JFK has more people than the population of Forks.

Charlie got us a place in midtown Manhattan, Riverside Drive, where it'd be closer to his station and to my FIFTH new school. We took one of the famous yellow cabs I usually see on TV and had our moving truck trailing behind. The apartment was fairly different from our old place, it's smaller and emptier. The walls were white and there's a fireplace in the hall. And when I looked out the windows, I won't be able to see our neighbour Mr. Kim and his son doing tai-chi in the backyard, nor the 6 year-old toddler from across the street learning to ride his bike and falling off constantly.

My room was across the hall from Charlie's. And if I had it right, the previous owner of the bedroom must have been female, because of its lavender coloured walls and an empty vase next to the bed. And I've always loved lavender; because it was my mom's favourite. I dropped my bags, when Charlie walked into my room, in exhaustion after carrying all the moving boxes up. "So what do you think?"

"The ignorant people? Or the packed place? Or the busy roads?" I looked out the huge window in my room, overlooking the main street where I could see a florist on the opposite side of the road and some coffee places with a bookstore and a bus stand.

Charlie sighed. He sounded somewhat guilty. "Belle come on, I know this is hard for you. But I promise you it will be fantastic when you get to know the place"

"Charlie, I don't even know why we had to move, we were doing fine!" Truth be told, yea, I wouldn't move if I had a chance because I thought that everything was alright in Forks, no one knew that Forks existed, 

no one. Charlie looked at me patiently. "We were, but it wasn't safe enough. They're tracking people like us down and if we don't - "

"People like us like what? We're just like them! Just because we have sharp teeth on four corners or could do crazy things, that don't separate us from them". Charlie may be right that we were different physically; we may have sharp teeth purring out of the corners when we want them to, Charlie may have superstrength when he needed to use them, I- well, I may move things with my mind as I wish, but it wasn't like we were going to plague the whole town; we're different. "Why can't we all sit down and have some coffee and be diplomatic for once?"

"Bella, it's different when you come head to head with it because no explanation is going to back us up or help us out of it. Even if we could talk it out with them, there could be others and more"

"You see, this is what I don't get. Besides, shouldn't they be in jail? After all, they took mom away from us". How clever of me to bring that up, because each time I do that, Charlie's expression changes and he would not go into detail any further. And his face fell, like what I expected.

"Isabella it's enough". He said sternly."I want you to unpack now, and you have school tomorrow. Get yourself ready on time". He walked out of the room.

I knew he felt guilty for not being able to protect mom, I knew he felt that he needed to take extra measures to keep me safe; in fact, I don't think he'd ever want me to know how mom died initially, until I accidentally heard him speaking to Aunt Cassie on the phone and he had to tell me everything.

I would never be able to understand the theory behind this understanding, nor its mechanics and perceptions that people have of us. I may not be normal, but I'm not that different anyway.