Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or any of the character's from the series. If you've read the book, this is VERY obivious

Warning: This is an ALL HUMAN Twilight-story, and it's kinda different from the books in general..



Esme Cullen could not believe the unfairness of her life. It had all started so good. A lovely childhood, a great school-life, jealous friends and what she had thought was the prefect

husband. They had been so happy. Or she had been so happy. Obviously her husband Lawrence hadn't, although she could not for the life of it understand why at the time. She was of

the right social status, had never caused a scandal and was a perfect wife. And most importantly, she had given the Cullen family three wonderful hairs, Emmet, Jasper and Nick,

beautiful and strong and all boys.

So why her husband had to ruin it all five years ago, she could not understand. All she knew was that her husband had cheated on her, confessed

and come clean. She had been prepared to forgive him, after all she was seven months pregnant with her third child at the moment and had nowhere else to go. She had been forgiving

all the way up to the day a woman named Elisabeth Masen started making a scene in front of her house, yelling that she was five months pregnant and that it was his.

She had stayed despite that. Of course she wasn't the same anymore, but she had still stayed. Lawrence had of course cut all contact with the dreadful women and he was even more

loving than before, fulfilling her every need and been there for here whenever he thought she needed it. She had even started believing it would be okay again as her youngest boy,

Nick, grew up, smart and handsome as his two older brothers. But that had all changed today. She didn't know why fate kept throwing things at her, but today it had gone too far.

Today, the day Nick turned five, the doctor had called for a meeting concerning him. Esme thought back at the meeting as she sat in bed now, only small bits of the conversation

reaching her. "..lungdisease ..no normal life.. .life threatening.. .. nothing we can do..". And as she thought about her dearest little boy washing away, she knew she couldn't take to

watch it, and that she would have to end it before that. Life could be too cruel she thought as she lifted the glass full of pills to her mouth and swallowed.


10 years later – The Cullen household

As the men of the Cullen family filled into the room of their youngest member, Emmet couldn't help but laugh at the carefree face of a sleeping Nick Cullen and his limbs spread all over.

The room was slightly chilled from the bright morning air, but just enough to wake one up a bit. Jasper quickly elbowed Emmet to shut him up from laughing so they could start singing.

The out of tuned version of "Happy birthday", preformed by three rusty, just woken up voices with no real talent for singing, jolted Nick out of his sleep.

"Alright, I get it okay? I'm fifteen, hooray for me. Just please stop making those horrible sounds!" He sleepy mumbled as he sat up in bed and opened his eyes. A grin spread across his

face when he saw the four presents carried by Emmet, lit up by 15 burning candles off the cake Jasper was carrying.

"Happy birthday, son!", his father smiled at him while bending down to give his son a hug.

"Thanks guys", he said as he answered his fathers hug and shuffled out of bed, "you even came home from your apartment for this, Emmet! Growing tired of living on your own already?" Emmet laughed out loudly at this, his brown curls shaking with him.

"Yeah, I'm so tired of having Rose over all the time and the guys coming over to watch a game, I just had to run back home from it all." Nick smiled as his brother faked a sad and tired face, knowing he wouldn't be able to keep it on for long. Emmet was only serious when thinking about his mother, something he didn't like to do often.

After getting dressed, Nick slipped out of his room and began making his way downstairs towards the front door, his schoolbag hanging of his left shoulder carelessly. The soft, white

carped gave away beneath him as he walked, and he wondered as so many times before, who in their right mind would make a wall-to-wall carped white. If it wasn't for the maid

cleaning it twice a day, it would be dirty as hell.

"Birthday-kid, are you ready yet?" Jasper popped his head out into the hallway.

"I'm on my way, don't stress." Nick answered as he made his way to the door.

"Did ya remember your inhaler? What, you've forgotten it before!" Jasper stated when his youngest brother sent him a death glare.

Nick was the only one in the family who had inherited the weak lungs that ran through his father's blood. The asthma attacks he suffered were vicious and painful, but had thankfully

been altered with the help off several operations and a very good inhaler. With it he could function normally and even play in sports, a feat his doctors had not thought possible at five.

It was heartbreaking that his mother had not known that her youngest would live life breathing fine and the only thing tormenting him would be the fact that his mother had killed

herself over it the day he turned five. 'I'm not going to think about it now', Nick reminded himself as he followed his blond-haired brother to the car.


"Hey, Masen, wait up!" Mike Newton yelled as he ran to catch up to the retreating back of Edward Masen, while trying to pas as many students as possible without crashing into them.

But being in one of Chicago's biggest schools, Anoma Middle- and High School, that wasn't very easy. He didn't succeed either. Edward arched an eyebrow as Newton stumbled into a

group of giggling girls, all looking his way. Finally standing in front of Edward, red faced and out of breath, he spurted out quickly:

"You have to play on the class' basketball team, you have to!" He said loudly, while a determined look formed on his face.

"No.", was Edward's calm reply.

"Come on, we've got nobody else, and you're good if you just put your mind to it, we all know that!" He exclaimed, catching his breath again.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have time. Why don't you ask Jacob Black or something?" Edward said as he turned to walk away, and immediately crashed into Nick Cullen and his group walking in the opposite direction.

"Sorry, I didn't see where..". Nick stopped apologising when he saw his half brother looking confused at him. When Edward realised who the other boy was as well, they both looked away, slightly bothered.

"No, it was my fault anyway. I'm sorry." Edward mumbled as he made to walk past them. He hadn't known if Nick knew who he was, but judging by the reaction he received, he did. He

was a little surprised at that, and hadn't really thought Lawrence would tell his son who he was. Edward only knew because his mother had constantly whined about how she should

have the Cullen fortune, and he doubted that his existence was much talked about in the Cullen household.

"Edward, look. If you don't join the team, I'll tell on you for having a part-time job after school. At a bar non the less! Your excuse abou..", Newton said when Edward cut him of.

"Would you shut up about that! It has nothing to do with you." He snapped at his blond stupid, classmate, while trying to walk off again.

Mike was a little put out by the angry retort from Masen, he was after all known to be a pretty laidback guy, and snapping wasn't on the list of the Masen-fanclub of qualities he was

famous for. However, he wasn't put out long enough for Edward to get away, he was needed for the team if they were gonna have ha chance at winning. And the girls fanclub that

would undoubtedly watch was off course a big plus.

"Look Masen, I'm serious. I'll tell the teachers about your job if you don't join. The class needs you. And your excuse to why you work is thin as ice! If you mother was in hospital, your father should pay the bill, not y.."

"Alright, I'll play, okay. Just don't tell any more people. Geeze.", Edward interrupted him, cursing his luck for having to bump into Newton and his friends while working at the bar. He

walked away from the unwanted company, leaving a satisfied Newton and a curious Cullen behind.


As he sat at lunch during the big break, Nick glanced around at the cafeteria to study the other kids. His glance stopped at Jasper's table where his brother was laughing at one of his

team-mates while securely holding his girlfriend, Alice, in place on his lap. Nick felt a surge of jealousy when he thought about how well they fitted together, athletic built but polar

opposites, both in looks and personality. He really wished he had a girlfriend like that, but unlucky as he was, his year was stuck with girls like Jessica and Lauren, two stuck-up girls

who just couldn't be natural without five tons of makeup on.

Nicks eyes again started to search around the cafeteria, not stopping until he found the face of Edward Masen seated a couple of tables away. The boys at his table were goofing

around, throwing food and joking, and Edward seemed to be watching them with a smile, but not joining in. Nick noticed that Edward didn't have a tray with food in front of him and he

immediately started thinking about what Newton had said about his mother that morning. When Jasper had told him about Edward, he had of course been curious about the boy, but as

he checked around he didn't find much. Anoma Middle- and High School was a huge school, and although Edward Masen was fairly known for his brownish, slender frame, shiny hair, fair

skin and shockingly green eyes, Nick didn't find out anything of interest and had stopped asking long ago.

"Hey, earth to birthday-boy, who are you watching with such a concentrated stare?" Andrew Woodstock waved a hand in front of his friend and Nick snapped out of his thoughts.

"You were staring at Masen", Jacob Black concluded, being a disturbingly observant friend. Andrew though for a moment: "You know, I was thinking we could maybe go out this could go to the bar the Masen-guy works at and he would have to give us drinks, because we would rat on him if he didn't! It would be like a way to celebrate Nick as well."

He exclaimed, pleased with himself. Nick smiled at his exited friend. He had never told any of his friends about his half brother, mostly out of respect to his own family, but also because

Masen had never told anyone as far as he knew. He remembered something and turned to Jacob: "Jake, you're in his class, right? Is it true that he works at a bar to support his mother?" Jacob, busy at raising an eyebrow at Andrews plan, turned to him.

"I don't know about his mother, but I've heard Newton and his friends talk about catching him at work before. They're rather proud about the fact that they've been out when they're under aged. Why, you actually wanna go out at a bar Friday? We can just go crash a party or something."

"No, I'm just curious. Do you think it's true? About his mother, I mean." Nick again focused his attention on the brown-haired boy a few tables away that was actually his brother.

"Naw, I think Newton's got a point. If he was so alone in supporting his mother, the child service would take him away, right? He's only fourteen or fifteen. If is mother really is sick, I'm guessing his father would pay the bills, 'cause there is no way he would be allowed to live alone." Jacob concluded as he went back to his lunch.

Nick's eyes drifted back to Edward as he swallowed his last piece of sandwich. He knew only one thing for sure. If Edwards's mom, the woman who had driven his own mother to commit

suicide, was sick, there was no way in hell his father would help out.


Author's note:

I have never posted a story before, my teacher has always told me to stick to newsarticles and stuff 'cause I'm not very creative, so I would be really gratefull if you would tell me if I should continue or not. Honestly. I only posted now because my email account misses the alerts of updated stories! IT'S BEEN TWO DAYS WITHOUT A SINGLE UPDATE, and I've got like fifty stories up for alert.

If I continue, I promise I'll look for a beta, 'cause I'm not from an englishspeaking contry and that does create a lot of mistakes..

Oh, and I tried making a litte more spaces in the chapter, but somehow that didn't work i think, so now it's kinda jumbled togehter. Sorry.

And PLEASE tell me if this has been done before! I havn't seen anything like it, but if it has, point it out to me (both 'cause I want to read it and I'll stop writing of course). I havn't read much on the Twilight-fanfic so if I've just missed it, tell me!

As for the story, I pretty much know what will happen, but I was unsure of how much to put in the first chapter without spoiling anything. So if it doesn't make sense, do tell!

- FF