Hey guys/gals! I know that I promised y'all that I would start writing that Avenger's one-shot but this plot bunny popped into my head a few night ago and I just couldn't get it out so once I decided to start writing it I just couldn't stop. As most of you probably know by now, I never post on a set time schedule, I write when inspiration (read:boredom) hits so it may take some time before this is finished, but don't worry I will not forget to write what was promised. Anywho I hope you enjoy this!
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, if I did it probably would have been a lot different. Blah, Blah, Blah.
F.Y.I. This takes place after the events of Twilight but before New Moon.
It was a rare and happy day at Forks High School, the sun was shinning, the birds were singing, and every single student had a smile on their face. Well almost every student, there was one girl in particular who was not in a smiling mood. In fact she was in a bad mood, a very bad mood.
It had all started that morning when she slept through her alarm and ended up being late for her first period class, Biology, and as luck would have it, she missed a very important test. During lunch she ended up tripping over a misplaced backpack and landed quite harshly on the floor, her new white blouse getting covered in the schools mystery meatloaf, and spraining her wrist. The nurse had stepped out to run a quick errand and the girl just missed her. While she was running to her old, beat up truck for a change of clothes, the bell rang, making her late for her next class, which was gym. The girl tried to explain to the coach why she was tardy and why she couldn't play dodge-ball today with the rest of the class, but he wouldn't let her slide "just this once", seeing as she had no note from the nurse. This led to her trying, but ultimately failing as she tried to dodge the red balls that were being thrown at her. Thankfully she didn't have any classes after that and she counted her lucky stars that she was able to go home and try to relax.
Of course, her stars were not lucky that day as she was cornered by the local high school has-been waiting to happen, as she walked across the sunny parking lot towards her car. He made the usual innuendos and not-so-subtly tried to ask her out on a date before his girlfriend made her way over to the pair and started to whine about him never spending time with her. The surly girl used this to her advantage as she attempted to walk away unnoticed, which actually worked.
She stumbled a few times over potholes and her shoelaces, but eventually made it into the safety of her truck, where she took a few million deep breaths before starting it up and driving away from the hell-hole towards her home.
The sun shinning off of the leaves helped to remind Bella why she was in such a horrible mood in the first place. Since Edward was a vampire the sun had a curious effect on him and his family. Bella liked to say that their skin shone like diamonds in the light, however Emmett, Edward's brother, preferred to call himself a, "blood-drinking disco ball, with muscles and curls." This normally was followed by a loud smack on the back of the head by either Edward's other brother, Jasper, or Emmett's wife, Rosalie.
Bella spent the rest of the drive to her family's home lost in thought. She normally would have listened to the radio but it had stopped working about a week ago for no reason. Or so Edward told her. He hated her truck with such a passion that Bella was almost 100% sure that he had something to do with her radio's untimely death.
As Bella pulled her truck up to the house, she noticed that there was a package sitting on the front step. Hopping out of the driver's side she walked up to the box and bent to pick it up, assuming that it was just some clothes that Alice had ordered online, but was shocked to see that it had her name written on the top in big, bold, black letters.
She quickly ran inside, the box in her arms, and she gently placed in down on the dinning room table, before scurrying up to her and Edward's room on the second floor.
She pulled her phone out of the pocket on her jeans and quickly speed dialed number one.
Edward answered on the first ring, "Are you okay love? Alice saw you all nervous and on-edge, what's the matter?"
"N-no...yes...I don't know!" Bella exclaimed into the device, "You need to c-come home right away, s-s-s-something just arrived and I don't k-know what it is b-b-but it has my name on it."
Edward's tone grew more worried as he answered her. "Stay in our room and don't go outside, we will be home in a few minutes. Alice already called the others and they are headed that way now."
"Please hurry," Bella whispered into the phone, and followed it with a hasty, "I love you," before snapping it shut and running into Edward's closet and locking the door behind her.
It wasn't but five minutes later that his soft voice came whispering through the door, "Bella, love, I'm here. Can you please open the door for me?"
Bella flung open the door and flew into her soulmates rock-hard arms which wrapped tightly around her. She looked up into his face which was filled with the worry that she had heard in his tone over the phone.
"Did you see it?" She asked him as he pulled her further into his embrace.
"No, I came straight up here through the window. Jasper and Carlisle are looking at it right now. They are waiting for us to come down to open it but from their thoughts I believe that it is a book."
"A book?" Bella asked him and started to pull away. "I feel kind of silly now for making such a big deal over a book."
"You felt scared," he responded letting her go but still keeping a firm grip on her hands, "You should never feel silly for feeling scared."
They stood there for a few minutes, hand in hand, until Bella quietly muttered, "I think that I'm ready to go downstairs now."
Less than a second later Edward had lifter her up and carried her downstairs to where the family were sitting around the dinning room table, the package was still sitting in the exact same spot where she had left it. Instead of setting her down on her own feet, he carried her over to his normal chair and sat them both down, with Bella sitting in Edward's lap. Carlisle picked up the package and handed it over to Bella. She took a deep breath before slowly opening it up, pulling back the edges one at a time until the contents were completely unwrapped and sat in her hands.
As Jasper and Carlisle had predicted it was in fact a book, there was a note as well which Bella passed over to Esme, who read it aloud for the whole family to hear.
Bella and the Cullens,
This is the first book in a series that I feel that you should read. I hope that you will take this information and use it to change the future for the better.
-S
"What does it mean?" Rosalie asked, "'Change the future'? And what series are they taking about?"
"I don't know," Alice answered, "I guess that we will have to find out by reading the book. Bella, what is it's title?"
"Twilight", Bella read aloud before flipping in over so that she could read the back, "About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a..." her voice immediately halted and she refused to read anymore.
"A what, Bella?" Emmett questioned
The human girl just shook her head and handed the book over to Edward who finished reading the quote on the back.
"Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him- and I didn't know how potent that part might be- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."
The room was so quiet after he finished that pin drop could have been heard by Bella, whose face was buried in Edward's chest. She remembered thinking those words so long ago.
"It seems that this book has to go with the two of you, " Carlisle stated after a few minutes, "And because of that fact, I believe that it is up to the two of you to decide if we really want to follow this S person's advice or if we should ignore it entirely."
The people in question looked at each other and held a conversation with their eyes only for a moment or two before they answered at the same time.
"Read it."