AN: Hi I'm Jade and this is my first Fanfic. It's my version of Twilight. It is different from Twilight but I will use certain events from Twilight. It is an Edward and OC story. I know that will automatically scare people away but this story is about putting myslef in Bella shoes and doing things differently. Besides this is FAN FICTION. Isn't this suppose to be about make a story your own and fulfilling your fantasies with it?

Oh well. I will do this story for me and not for the reviews. Though I really would appreciate and enjoy the reivews.

Here is a better summary that explains a bit more: Jade Swan was adopted by Renee and Charlie at eight-yrs-old. Eight years later she moves to Forks to get to know Charlie and to let Renee be happy with Phil. She has a past that no one knows about but herself and even then she doesn't allow herself to think of it. Until one thing happens, she meets Edward Cullen.

My head leaned against the window as I watched the plane descend through the clouds, the condensation building so that the tiny droplets shuddered across the window forced by the speed of the plane to drift away.

I was going to live with my adoptive father Charlie in a dreary town of Forks, Washington, in truth I had never met him before. Renee had adopted me when they were still married from an orphanage in Phoenix, Arizona, but Charlie had only come down so that they could claim they lived together when in truth he lived in Forks.

It was so that they could meet the requirements of the adoption and so Renee could have the daughter she always wanted. She wasn't a bad mother it was just you couldn't adopt as a single parent. I had seen him once at the end of a hallway walking out of the door as Renee ran toward to me to envelope me in a hug. He smiled at me and then walked away and now I was going to live with him.

I had lived a quiet life with Renee until she met Phil and then I became the one thing that held her back from being with the one she loved. I decided to graciously step out of her life so she could live it. I told her that it was simply so I could get to know Charlie and that I was never the one for big cities.

I was originally born in Alabama in a little town with no more than 1,000 people in it but I shipped off reluctantly to Phoenix when I was 8yrs old for a foster home, then to an orphanage and that's where Renee found me. I had never been this far north but it won't be much different for me. My name is Jaden Willow Swan; they never tried to convince me to change my name but I wanted to ease their minds, so I changed it.

They have done so much for me so when start school here I'm simply going to say my name is Jade Swan instead adding my last name which I haven't uttered or even thought of in years. I had long brilliantly light blonde hair with a strange tint of a copper-like gold that reached my elbows and very bright, very blue eyes which some have told me are extremely beautiful. Ha. I was considered a bit above average for a woman at 5'7" and I had a southern accent mixed into the tones of my voice.

The plane was slowly emptying so I got up, grab my things, and join the flow of the crowd getting quickly to luggage conveyer belt and all three of my bags before I glanced around the terminal looking for Charlie. My eyes landed on an average-looking man with curly brown hair and anxious eyes holding a sign that said "Jade Swan." I strode over, stopped in front of him, and smiled softly at him.

Oh my! Is that her? Wow! She's so grown up! Charlie's thoughts filled my head.

He stared in awe and I said, "Hi, you must be Charlie Swan. I'm your adoptive daughter Jade."

He was still in a daze, so I leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. He seemed to wake up after that and blushed at my show of affection.

"Oh! Sorry. Hi, it's nice to meet you and I'm glad that you decided to live with me. Here, let me help you." He said in a throaty voice that I found strangely comforting. He picked up one bag and almost fell over because of how heavy it was. I giggled at the surprise expression he had on his face and picked up the other two while he struggled with the one.

"That one has all my books in it. I like to read and most of them are rather thick so they are a little heavy. I want to thank you for everything, and I want you to know, how grateful I am that you let me stay with you."

He shrugged it off, smiled a grin that crinkled the corner of his eyes and said warmly, "I should be the one thanking you, Jade. I always wanted to have some company in that house of mine and now I have some and a daughter at that. Here we are." He said the last statement as we stopped in front of a police cruiser. Renee had mentioned that Charlie was Police Chief but I didn't expect him to bring it here.

He noticed my staring and smiled apologetically at me. "Sorry I don't have another car and I have to work after I drop you off. I know that I shouldn't really leave you by yourself but…" I cut him off before he could continue,

"It's alright Charlie I think I can manage for a few hours on my own, and besides I'm sixteen, that means I have been left alone before. When do you get off work?"

"I'll be home by eight." He said as drove out of the parking lot and started on the highway. The next fifteen minutes were filled with a comfortable silence. I knew I would like Charlie since he didn't feel the need to fill the silence with mindless banter.

Renee always talked enough for the both of us and usually I didn't need to say anything but I still listened to respect her. Charlie cleared his throat and started making small talk but I didn't mind since we would be living together for the next three years we might as well get to know each other.

"Renee told me you were a looker but I didn't expect you to be such a heartbreaker. You look so grow up and, if I do say so myself, you are the most beautiful daughter any man could ask for." I blushed and smiled at his statement.

"Thanks Charlie. I never expected you to be such a handsome man either." I joked with him lightly. He blushed and laughed a hearty laugh.

"You flatter me. I bet I'll have to get you some pepper spray for all the boys that will be chasing after you. I am warning you now, I haven't had the chanced to be a father so I will probably be a little over protective and will interrogate any boy you bring through the door as if he were a criminal."

I mocked groaned and then started laughing with him.

"Don't worry Charlie, I haven't really been interested in boys and I don't plan on changing that any time soon. I'm kind of a nerd, all I do is mostly read, do my homework, and work on my car tweaking it and making sure it's up to date with oil and everything."

Charlie whistled and smiled admiringly at me, "I never thought I'd see the day when a girl as pretty as you and girly as you would like fixing cars and doing homework."

I pretended to be offended and said sharply, "What girls aren't allowed to like cars and reading."

His face lost color as the fear of offending me filled his eyes and he started stuttering out apologies, "No it's not that! It's just that I didn't think girls- Wait! What I mean is that-" with that I couldn't control myself any longer, I burst out laughing.

He looked at me confused and then I gasped out, "Charlie, I was just messing with you. I understand what you mean, all the girls in Phoenix including Renee thought I was crazy but I can't help it, it's my hobby. I like the feeling of accomplishing something.

I also play piano, guitar, and violin. I like to learn things and technically I already graduated high school but it was home school and I did it when I was eight. Most of the colleges I want to go to don't accept home school diplomas so I have to repeat everything but I like meeting new friends my age so I don't mind."

By the end, I was breathing normally and Charlie was again filled with awe.

I giggled at his expression before I put on a mock serious face and quoted in a deep voice, "Alright, Chief Swan, I'm going to have to ask you to keep your eyes on the road."

He snapped out of it, turned to face the road, chuckled softly and said quietly, "Well you sure are one heck of girl, Jade. I know that I could never replace your biological father but I want you to know how proud I am of you and all that you have accomplished. I also want you to know that even after you go to college and move on with your life that I will always be here for you."

I could tell hard it was for him to express his feelings and I was touched by what he said so I put my hand of top of his arm that was on the armrest, squeezed it gently, and replied, "Thanks, Charlie. I really appreciate it. I really hope to get to know you better while I'm here. I have a question for you."

"Shoot, kiddo."

I smiled and said sweetly, "Do mind if I call you Dad?"

His eyes filled with pride and boomed, "Of course not. In fact I would love it!"

I chuckled at his enthusiasm and looked to see where we were. We were pulling down a street and then into the driveway of the house at the end of the road right by the woods. In the driveway next to the cruiser was a shiny, new, electric blue 2009 Chevrolet Traverse. Even though it wasn't a usual car for a teenager it was still so thoughtful and I loved the color along with the size. My mouth and eyes popped open as I stared at the car and Charlie laughed at the misty look in my eyes as I fell in love with the beauty of a car.

"Do you like it? Renee and I thought you would like a car so you don't ride around in the cruiser and I was a little concerned about you driving that everywhere." he said pointing at my blood red Suzuki Katana motorcycle sitting next to it.

"Oh thank you so much, Dad. I love it!" I exclaimed as I rushed out of the cruiser and to my new car. The first thing I do is pop the hood and admire to engine.

"Oh my goodness! Charlie! This is awesome! Wait! What's wrong with my bike?"

"Well nothing it's just I don't trust them and prefer it if you had other transportation." He said, frowning.

"That's okay. I'll only drive it on special occasions like maybe when it's sunny." I chuckled, "But I'm sorry to say that I won't neglect it. I really love it and most motorcycle accidents are done by hot shots that drive over the speed limit and try to cut people off when the people can't see them. I would never do that and you can trust me to be careful."

"I know that and I won't stop you but I need you to promise that you will be careful." He whispered softly. I walked up to him, wrapped my arms around his neck, and hug him tightly. He was surprised but responded immediately.

"I promise, Dad."

We pulled away and I smiled brightly at him.

"Can I have the keys? I think if it's still early enough when I'm finished unpacking, I'll go for a stroll around town and get use to it. Might even check out the school. Is that O.K?"

"Of course. Oh! By the way, your first day of school is tomorrow. If you're not too tired from your trip."

"No, I'm fine."

"Well, I have to get to work so let me show you to your room and then I'm off!" he said as he unlocked the front door. I just then noticed the house and I realized that I loved it. It was a soft white three-bedroom house that had a bright green well-kept lawn.

I noticed as entered the town that everything was green and I didn't mind one bit. My absolute favorite colors were blue, green, purple, and red. I sighed in content and followed Charlie into the house and up the stairs.

He led me to the end of the hall, to a door marked with a cute sign sporting my name, and opened it to reveal my new room. The walls were a beautiful blue with lime green crown molding along the top and bottom. On the opposite wall from the door was a beautiful bay window with a comfortable looking cushion that was a reader's dream and I absolutely loved it.

The bed was in the middle of the wall to the left; the sheets and comforter was the same green as the crown molding. There was a desk, dresser, bookshelf, and vanity all the same green to offset the blue as well; even the door to the closet was green.

The only thing that didn't fit in with the style of the room was the old chest I had kept from my biological family that sat at the end of the bed reminding me of who I really was but providing the feeling that did not forget my family and past. The dresser sat in the far corner right beside the bed; the bookshelf against the wall by the door; the desk was opposite to the bed by the closet door; and the vanity sat on the other side of the bed.

I walked in and looked around loving the way the sun hit the blue on the wall lighting the room with what little sunlight that came in to the room. Excitement coursed through my veins as I took in the sight of the empty bookshelf waiting to be filled with my books.

Originally hidden by the bookshelf, my keyboard sat in the corner where I could move the stool from the vanity to it easily. I then turned to Charlie waiting anxiously in the door, realizing he had my attention he whispered softly, "Do you like it?"

I walked slowly towards him and hugged him exclaiming excitedly, "No!" his face fell before I added, "I love it! Thank you so much!"

He chuckled and beamed, "Renee told me your favorite colors and I had the lady at the store help me pick out stuff and she designed it so that it could look like a girl's room." I kissed him on the cheek and smiled hugely at him as he rub the back of the head, a clear signal that he didn't know what to say.

"Well, if it's indication from today, I guess I'm going to have to get use to the hugging thing."

I laughed and said lightly, "Don't worry Dad. I don't normally hug people all the time. You have just given me reasons to hug you today." He laughed a fatherly laugh and looked at his watch.

"Go on, Dad. I won't keep you." He grinned before he handed me a key ring with two keys one for the car and the other, I assumed, for the house.

"I will be home at eight and the other key is the key to the house so if you do go out be sure to lock it." He said as rushed out the door and toward his cruiser. With that, I was left alone in my new home.

I decided to unpack my books first since it was easier so I grabbed the suitcase Charlie plopped down by the door and got started with my clothes first. I was done within fifteen minutes and I moved on to clothes and it took me with ease about an hour because I was OCD, so everything was organized so that one suitcase was filled with clothes that went in the closet and the other went to the dresser. They were all so organized by weather appropriate, color, style, comfort, and likeability.

I sat my laptop on the desk, plugged it in, and saw that it was fully charged, Renee probably. I smiled at the memory of Renee telling Charlie all the requirements if I was to live with him.

"Now Charlie, if she is to live with you must get wireless Internet and the fastest you can get. I want to be able to speak to her through emailing and if possible IM. She has her laptop so all you must do is get a modem and maybe yourself a computer so you can get with this century."

I giggled when I heard that one. I checked if I had any email and realized that my hair-brained mom wouldn't have sent me email two hours after I landed because she probably thought I was still settling in. I checked the clock and realized it was four and I still had four hours until Charlie came home so I decided to have a snack.

I went to the kitchen and looked for some snack food quickly figuring out that Charlie had no food, period. Therefore, I took some money I had with me and went to go find a store. Relishing in the fact that I had a perfectly good reason to test drive my new car, I found the grocery store with in minutes.

I loved being in a little town again with all the friendly faces and warm welcomes. There was just something about the way you could drive from one end of town to the other within minutes that gave you a sense of comfort; the less big something was the less unknown you had to deal with.

I bought snack food like cereal and pop tarts then I decided that if Charlie was anything like Renee I would get ingredients for different types of dinner since I didn't want to pizza and takeout 24/7. It had been awhile since I had cooked a good southern, home-cooked meal and I'm sure Charlie had never had one before so I was going to make one tonight as a thank you for all that Charlie had done for me.

I smiled when I made up my mind what I was going to make, my special homemade hamburgers. I had an old family recipe that gave it a special seasoning and I would make as a side my from-scratch, coffee bean fries. I grab all the ingredients and went home to get all the food put up before I just relaxed until Charlie got home.

I spent the next few hours in my room lounging around and reading my books. An hour before Charlie was home, I started getting dinner ready balling up about four burgers setting them into the pan and adding the seasoning. It took about 30 minutes for them to reach the right wellness, with that done I put them on a plate and set them to the side to start on the fries.

I sliced the potatoes, turned on the fryer, and added grease and the spices for flavoring the fries. They weren't technically coffee bean fries because I didn't make them with coffee beans, that's just what they taste like to me. It took about 20 minutes to heat the grease and cut the potatoes after that I added the first batch to it.

When the batch was finished, I shook them out and put them in a bowl, and added another one. As I was doing this, Charlie came through the front door and called my name.

"Jade, are you here?"

"Yea, I'm in the kitchen." I called, as I made sure the burgers were still warm but they were too cold for my taste so I popped them in the microwave. Charlie walked in looking like he was following his nose, I laughed.

"Mmm… What smells so good?" He said as he grinned.

"After looking at your kitchen, I decided that you needed a homemade meal so I'm making some fries and burgers."

"Did you just say you're making fries and burgers from scratch? I knew there was a reason I would love having you living with me."

I rolled my eyes.

I finished the second batch and decided that was enough for two so I took out vegetables like tomatoes and lettuce to chop up and put on top of the burger; and pulled out some cheese and did the same. I took the burgers out of the microwave and put them on buns with the other things got a bottle of ketchup and mustard out and set them on the table.

"Charlie, dinner's ready!" I called out.

He walked in and looked at the table with a shocked expression on his face.

"Did you do all this from scratch? Wow!"

"Well not technically since I didn't slaughter the cow and grow all the vegetables but you get the idea." I said jokingly. He laughed as he took his seat.

"I can tell I am going to love having you here. You have such a good sense of humor I think I might take you in to the station one day so you can loosen up some of those rookies we have."

I laughed along with him and the rest of dinner followed suit with pleasant banter. I went to bed soon after dinner and slept a dreamless night thankfully. Usually when I had dreams they were nightmares, so I was glad they didn't come tonight.

I woke to a greenish light and to the smell of something burning. Memories flooded into my mind and I fought to keep them back, the last thing I needed was a breakdown and self-wallowing.

I quickly jump out of bed and ran down stairs following the scent of burning. It led me to the kitchen where Charlie was trying to salvage some burn toast. The toaster looked like it had blown up and was smoking, and as I took in the rest of the kitchen it wasn't much better.

There was flour everywhere, broken eggs on the floor, failed attempts of pancakes stuck to the ceiling and Charlie himself was covered head to foot in every different breakfast he tried to make.

He looked up with a frazzled and slightly crazed expression on his face and said hurriedly, "I am so sorry! I didn't mean to wake you. I was just trying to make you breakfast for your first day of school and I guess I failed miserably." All of this was said in one breath and when he finished with an anxious expression on his face, I burst out laughing.

He looked around then down at himself and soon joined me in laughing at the scene. When both of contrasting our laughs ended, I said breathlessly,

"That's O.K. Dad. I think it safer for both of us if I cook breakfast for now on. I will admit that you're not much worse than Renee is. She would always know how to cook the food but would always think the original recipe was boring and 'spice it up a bit' as she like to say and would make it non-editable. This is definitely the funniest attempt though." As I said that, he blushed and I snickered at his obvious embarrassment.

I helped him cleaned up then showed him very slowly how to make eggs. He caught on and smiled triumphantly that he actually knew how to cook something and I told him tonight I would show him how to make spaghetti.

He smiled and thanked me, even admitted that he was a little wary and that he didn't think he was ready for that. I reassured him that the difficulty was to make sure it didn't over boil or burn. We finished breakfast together after have a pleasant small talk.

Living with Charlie was as easy as breathing, we had a lot in common and he seems to know how to stay oblivious to anything from my past. I knew he wasn't going to push me to tell him anything because he didn't care what led me here; all that mattered was that I was here and I was some what happy.

I smiled at how lucky I was because I knew how most kids end up when they go into the system. I washed the dishes knowing I had time since I woke up so early. I went up stairs to take a shower and got out within 20 minutes. I picked out an outfit. I picked out a navy blue spaghetti strap shirt, a short black jacket over it, some skinny Capri jeans, some ballet flats, and my leather jacket. I grab my unisex windbreaker and picked up my messenger bag with all the notebooks I bought for my school. I grab my keys to my bike and decided to give the residence of Forks High a real first impression.

The school was fairly easy to find right off the highway like every other major thing in town. I pulled up into the parking lot and slid off my helmet slowly and doing the little sexy hair shake. I glanced around at all the staring faces and smirked. I love messing with people and I think I accomplished it. I strutted toward the building marked front office and was met with wonderful warmth. The red head secretary in a purple t-shirt glanced up from her papers and did a double take.

My goodness! She is sure to steal the hearts of all the boys in town! Charlie has one beautiful daughter., she thought. I tried not to blush at that and

walked slowly up to the desk and said politely, "Hello I'm the new student, Jade Swan."

Oh my! She is so polite and what an unusual name., she thought then said,

"Yes, we have been waiting for you. Let me see…." The last part she muttered as searched her desk for my schedule and a map. Although, I doubt I would have trouble finding my way around. She quickly found and explained how I had to get a sheet signed by all my teachers and even highlighted my classes and the best route.

I thanked her greatly and walked out of the warm little room while studying my schedule and map so I didn't have to have my nose in it all day. I folded it to put it into my pocket and walked in the direction of my first class, English. I loved how my first class was my favorite.

I made it to the class just as the bell rang. I walked to Mr. Varner, my teacher, told him who I was and gave him the slip to sign.

Every class after that was the same, get stared at, get slipped signed, and play around with the students emotions by telling completely bogus things about myself. I made it to lunch and managed to be invited to a table by a talkative brunette who was short but her crazy curly hair made up for the height difference.

I walked into the line; grabbed a piece of greasy pizza and some lemonade; and sat with the girl, Jessica I think. She introduced the rest of the table as I sat picking at my pizza. The door swung open with a sudden gust of wind and I froze. The scent carried by that gust made me freeze in my seat. Vampires.

AN: So I hope you like it! I did a little revising and made it easier to read. I realized how overwhelming it had been so I changed it and I hope you review! Please! I need to know how good of a writer I am because I am not so sure if I am even good at all! So review and please tell me your opinion! The button is right there!