This is my first fanfic. Please review if you like it! Sorry it's a short chapter and there's not much of the Cullen's in it but bear with me, they will come! You can't go Cullenless for too long! Please read!
CHAPTER 1- Lucy POV, 20 years after Breaking Dawn.
First day back at school, I've been dreading this all holidays. I'd spent so much time thinking about how much I hated it there that I never had any time to enjoy the time I had off. Forks never stops raining, I've spent most of my life here with my Aunty, Dora. My mum's a travel journalist so I don't see her much. She writes books but mostly the travel sections of nameless big city papers. So while she's off travelling the world I am stuck in the cold and overcast town of Forks with all the dull losers who live for the clouds to float away, I live to GO away.
Unfortunately at school I'm the loser, even though they never see me. I stutter on almost every word when I talk to somebody I feel uncomfortable with, which is often as the teachers pick on me for day dreaming out the window. One day I wish someone would ask me what I was thinking about, but I guess it's not that hard to tell, getting 0-U-T.
So today I get up as I do every day, I pack my bag the night before; I guess I'm a bit of a dork. I grab an apple for breakfast and make my way to my red Mini Copper S, my mum's present to me for missing my birthday, again. I admit that I have been overly spoiled but the whole point is one day I'll drive somewhere to meet her.
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That day I first took it to school was the best day of my life, it was so cool to have a new car that nobody else had, a car that wasn't second hand. Of course people only wanted to be my friend to sit in the car but people were saying something to me that wasn't "oh sorry I didn't see you there". Sometimes my life is just a big disappointment, until on that day I realised I brought it upon myself for not trying to be cool earlier. Even the Queen was talking to me!
I don't like to pinpoint people but the queen of the school, Taylor, is the most painful person I've ever met and I can't help but be jealous of her because she has brains and popularity, she is everything I'm not. But she doesn't have a cool car, so she wanted to ride in mine.
About a week after I got my car they arrived in all their super car splendour. The Cullen's. They were the the strangest family I've ever seen, they were all adopted by their parents Esme or Carlisle and they we're all in couples. Rosalie and Emmet, Alice and Jasper, Bella and Edward, and Thomas who was the only one single (and the only one without a brain). Rosalie, Emmet, Alice and Jasper arrived in a Yellow Porsche while Edward and Bella arrived in a dated silver Volvo which was polished to look brand new.
It's not that hard to guess now who would rock up in an Aston Martin ONE-77 but the King of show-offs Thomas. And so marked the end of my popularity among my classmates.
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It was on that morning that I noticed it was sunny. I dread these days because more than ever I want to be somewhere else where I can actually feel the warmth of the sun. Ever since Thomas had started dating Taylor (surprise perfect match) Forks had had all these freaky sunny days. It's like the world was trying to bring me pain. Thomas unlike his brothers and sisters hung around casually with everyone in the school and quickly became a favourite of all students discounting me.
He would always be seen walking around with the latest iPod and phone; I guess he just felt more comfortable as a new kid compared to the rest of his family. I looked as if it was meant to be when he started going out with girl-of-pain-Taylor, the sun would come out frequently but they'd both disappear along with the rest of the Cullen's from school.
So I knew that after a month of constant rain and flood predictions that today would be another day off for the pair and family, I wouldn't be surprised if the family all ran off to Vegas to get married, they were all smart enough to get a job anywhere.
I pulled up into the car park, took a bite out of my apple and texted Dora that I was at school and safe as I do every morning, it's her way of making sure I'm ok as she gets up early to run the newsagency in town and doesn't get to say goodbye to me.
At lunch I sat at my usual table in the corner behind the entrance. Nobody else sat here but me. The table wobbled and some of the chairs had only 3 legs, instead of 4. However on this day there was someone else there. I tried not to make eye contact and avoid conversation but they had already planned what to say.
"Oh Lucy! This is the worst day of my life!" She knew my name, and I recognised her voice. "Thomas broke up with me last night, me! He told me that I was the reason the sun stopped coming out, that he couldn't bear another second with me because he was scared that..." Oh my gosh! It was Taylor! She was sobbing so much that she couldn't finish the sentence.
"Taylor I wish I could help, but I don't know what to say." She squeezed me hard into what I presumed to be a hug. "Thomas was a loser anyway, you deserve better than him, and look I'm sorry but I really can't help. What about Nelly, she 's your best friend can't she help?"
"Actually Thomas broke up with me because he wanted to go out with Nelly. She won't even talk to me; she thinks I broke up with him! As does the rest of the school, but I'm not a bad person, am I? Oh please tell me you believe me?"
I didn't care and I didn't want to help either. But Dora always tells me to make the most of any moment, so I decided to listen as even though it was wasting my time it was making the most of Taylor's.
I ended up spending the rest of my lunch time listening to her talk about how messed up her life had become. I didn't manage to note anything about her problems but I hung on every word about the Cullen's. I became intrigued about their strange behaviour she described. How they didn't go out in the sunlight. How Thomas's skin could have been icy cold.
I had zero interest in her rants about her mother's open and constant interest in the Cullen's; she said something about how she destroyed a lot of her dates with her 100 questions. I trailed off wondering if the perfection of Thomas could in fact be real, hmm... but my head started spinning, I wasn't going to fall for anyone. Especially not him.
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