++ DISCLAIMERS FIRST GUYS: Okay, so I don't own Twilight. If I did, Bella wouldn't have been turned in Breaking Dawn because I never felt that was good decision making on the part of the Cullens. Anyway, I don't own the series or the canon events loosely mentioned and changed in this fanfiction. I only own my original character Aria, who is Bella's younger sister and the things she gets thrown into during the course of the fanfiction.

DISCLAIMER BEING OUT OF THE WAY.. THOUGHT OF HAVING JACOB PAIRED WITH ARIA BUT I ALSO THINK PAUL'S PRETTY WICKED. SO YES, I'M NOT SURE WHICH WOLF WILL ACTUALLY IMPRINT ON HER BUT ONE OR THE OTHER WILL. IF YOU LIKE, YOU CAN THROW A NAME AT ME. DON'T BE SHY. AND YES, I AM AWARE THAT SISTERFICS ARE OVERDONE, THAT OCS ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS AND YADA YADA. I'VE ACTUALLY READ QUITE A FEW BRILLIANTLY DONE ONES THOUGH.. HOPEFULLY YOU GUYS WILL GIVE MINE A CHANCE?

So, here it goes.. A twilight fanfiction written by a lukewarm (at best) fan.. This should be interesting, right? BTW.. this will be shapeshifter centric. And by the end of it, yes, sister bashing sister will most likely occur but mostly because I personally did not like Bella Swan. G'head, throw pitchforks and stuff. ++

CHAPTER ONE

I finished brushing out my hair and my eyes caught my older sisters eyes in the mirror. I raised a brow and Bella walked in, flopped down onto my bed. "Just come in and sit." I muttered dryly as I slicked on lipgloss, I was getting ready to go out to a movie with Mike, this older boy at Forks High.

"Has Jacob been acting weird to you lately?"

I thought her question over and had the passing thought 'If by weird you mean not stuck up your ass then yes.. To you, I suppose he has. To me? No weirder than normal, I mean given his fascination with saving you taken into consideration. Maybe, Bells, he just gave up.' but wisely, I kept it quiet and chose to answer, "You mean weirder than the norm?"

"Yeah.. Like he's not coming around as much."

"Maybe he really is sick, Bella. I mean Billy told you he was sick. Just because he's not coming or answering your calls and stuff.. It doesn't mean he hates you." I tried to reassure her, though I didn't believe a word that came from my own mouth even as the words came.

My sister is weak. She needs to hear things like that. I've never really understood why she seems to focus solely on other people for her own bliss, but hey, that's just how she is. And obvious problems with certain aspects of her character aside, she's my sister. I have to love her and part of that apparently is building her self esteem up.

Not that she'd do it for me if I needed it.. But then again, I don't take things the way she seems to. If a guy doesn't call, it's no skin off my nose. I just go to my little black book and move on to plan B.. Or I stay in and do homework.

Either way, you're not going to find me coiled in the fetal position on the forest floor because some douchebag breaks up with me and leaves town.

Then again.. I have been accused of being a cold hearted bitch because I handle things the way I handle them.. Quite a few times, actually.

"So.. You're going out with Mike again tonight?" Bella asked.

I stiffened. I sensed either a lecture or a self imposed invite coming and I wanted no part of either thing to be quite honest. I finished brushing out my hair and then looked up at her again and nodded as I said casually, mostly in joking, "If you wanna take my place.."

"Mike Newton? No thanks. I think I'll stay in, finish reading." Bella muttered. She looked at me, hopeful for a few moments. I bit my lower lip, pretended I didn't see the begging in her eyes. I felt like the worst sister in the world as I did so but I've literally tried everything I know to make her come out of this comatose hermit unless Jacob Black is involved frame of mine she's in, but nothing's worked.

Now she wants to start going on my dates.. With me? I think not.

"Your loss." I muttered finally, avoiding her gaze. I saw the disappointment in her eyes because I hadn't asked and I was not about to fall smack into another guilt trap. My sister is nothing if not manipulative. She's damn good at getting everything she wants. And lately? I've sort of realized that maybe that's her whole problem. She's so used to it she doesn't think she's supposed to have to deal with the normal ups and downs of life or with hearing the word no for that matter..

I broached the subject with Charlie earlier and he pretty much said he felt the same way, then admitted that yes, he probably should have been more involved when she first started seeing Cullen, the previously mentioned douchebag.

He also said that maybe she just wants to spend time with me.

I'd love to spend time with her.. If she were the Bella who used to actually give a damn about people other than herself. But she's not and she's forgotten how to be so until she remembers? Not gonna happen.

She's used up all the sympathy I did feel for her.

Now it's just tedious to deal with, really and seeing her like this, yeah, I'm not heartless like everyone seems to think so it does kill me.. But I also see what the things that she does when she's not like she is right now, when she's happy and things are going exactly the way she wants them, i've seen how that affects people around her.

A horn blew from outside and seconds later, my father called up the stairs, "Aria! Mike's here!"

"Don't wait up for me, Bells." I joked, giving my brows a suggestive wiggle as I slid my feet into a pair of heels and ran down the stairs, out the door.

"Ready to go?" Mike asked as he smiled and slid his arm around me.

"Duh." I said as I smiled, let him lead me to his Jeep, open the passenger door so I could get in.

I glanced up and Bella was standing in her bedroom, watching me.

Like I said, it's her loss.. If she weren't the way she was, maybe Jacob wouldn't have stopped coming around.. Maybe her friends wouldn't all be calling her crazy right now. Maybe I'd want to stay home and try to help her through all this one more time.

But, she's not the same girl she used to be. She doesn't want to be helped.

There's nothing anyone can do to save someone who doesn't want saving. And maybe Jacob finally realized that. I know I did, it took me nowhere near as long as it took poor Jacob, though.

I think I realized it when I overheard her telling Edward she only wanted or needed him and something else I couldn't quite make out because it was muffled, the kicker of it was that he was gone then, he'd left town.. I mean she's 17 for God's sake.. She's got no business even pretending to know what she wants or needs at that age. I'm 16 and I'll be the first to tell you that I can't decide what I want from one second to the next. And the fact that she's so delusional that she 'talks to him' while she's hidden out in her bedroom? Creepy. Whatever voodoo or mind control Edward's done, I have to say.. he's done a bang up job in fucking her mind.

Mike pulled into the driveway of the vacant house beside my father's to turn around and out of the corner of my eye, I saw it standing there in the bushes, tall and magnificent, it's fur coat sort of gleaming in the last rays of sunlight.

It watched me and I watched it for a few moments, my teeth grazed my lower lip.

Mike said something to me and I was distracted. When I looked back to where the wolf had been standing seconds before, the wolf was gone.

I put it out of my head, I mean we do live near a forest and yes, on occasion, wolves will be seen in city limits.. I had no idea that what I'd just seen was sort of this precursor for events that lie ahead shortly.. And that I was about to be dragged kicking and screaming into the madness my big sister calls her daily life, whether I wanted it or not.

I didn't, if you're curious.

Okay, so maybe in retrospect, I got something out of all this.. Or someone, rather.. But it still doesn't mean I asked to be dragged into all the crap that unfolded almost two days after this failed attempt of a date with Mike Newton.