Chapter One:

Btw, not owning any of characters, just the very random plot line.

That's all S.M.

Isabella Swan wondered down her street on her way home from school, her dark chestnut coloured hair tossing over her shoulder in the slight breeze, just like it had been, every other day. Today had been the first day of junior year for Bella, as she preferred to called.

Bella was a shy girl. With the ghost pale skin and the slender body she had, Bella was just one in the crowds and so kept to herself a lot. Maybe even the most opposite to the ever-so-outgoing and eccentric girl Bella called her best friend, Alice.

Alice was a tiny pixie like girl who was undoubtedly the most beautiful pixie to grace the world with her presence, not the mention the best dressed as well. She was petite, more so than Bella, and had inky black hair with an easy going grin and edgy outfit on at all times. They had been the best of friends since, well, forever.

The day had started well; Bella and Alice, along with their group of friends had had an assembly for their class at Thousand Oaks High, they had been given out their class schedules and started classes after lunch.

The most memorable part of the day; Edward Cullen, the hottest guy in Thousand Oaks High, and a senior, had finally dumped his stupid, conniving, strawberry-blonde bimbo of a girlfriend. Apparently some guys were bragging that they 'bagged' her and thank god she didn't have a boyfriend, 'cause they wanted to 'tap' that again. It wasn't exactly the nicest way to find out your girl has been cheating on you. Bella did think it was weird thought because everyone around school knew they were the biggest couple, which led her to believe that Tanya, was the one telling the guys that she was single, Bella chose not to voice this thought. Or maybe the guys was just really dense, who knew.

Never the less, he was finally free from her perfectly-manicured clutches.

Edward was absolutely beautiful in every way possible. I suppose it was only natural that he should Alice's brother, and therefore unattainable. No matter how much Bella could wish it to not be true.

His beauty was unbelievable, if Bella did say so herself. With his just-walked-out-of-bed hair and toned body, he was any girl's dream guy. Not to mention the absolute and utter kindness and sincerity with whatever came out of his mouth, amazing love he had for his family, mind blowing academic smarts and all round sports-star-ness. He was just, Perfect.

Edward had been Bella's crush all through high school and grade school. Even though their relationship had always been purely platonic, Edward had always been there for her, even on the very rare occasion when Alice couldn't be.

When Bella's parents - the Cullen's' best friends, had died in a house fire just over a year ago, Alice and Edward's parents had taken her in and all but officially adopted her.

When Bella stopped, the house she looked at wasn't the one she had been living in for the past year.

The brown patch of land that Bella sat down on was the remnants of the house she'd lived in almost her entire life, sixteen years of memories in one house, now unoccupied for the first time in a decade and a half.

Bella remembered how the house was just so beautiful, not in an expensive way, just a antique and special way where you would want to settle down and have kids and grow old. And that's what her very parents, Renee and Charlie did.

Bella remembered her parents too.

Renee the crazy and random mother who had a new obsession every week, but also cared and listened to me with whatever Bella said or did. And then there was Charlie, the local cop who always calm and a tad bit awkward when it came to Bella, and who went along with all the crazy things Renee thought of and did it happily, even the time she made Charlie go to her yoga classes with her. Oh how he had hated the phrase 'downward dog' after that. But he did it because he loved her. The adoration they shared when they were together was amazing. They completed each other, and they were a real family.

I thought I'd find you here." a silky voice floated from behind Bella.

She jumped slightly at the sudden noise, it was very different from the low sounds of some far-away birds. "Edward, what the hell are you doing here?"

"I came to find you, Alice said you were going to the library after school, and that was over two hours ago." He stated, his bronzey locks shimmering around in the slight breeze.

"Oh, guess I've been here longer than I thought, sorry Edward"

"It's okay; we know how hard the last week has been for you" he said as he helped me up "Come on, I'll take you home".

I am home. Bella thought, but let Edward take her hand and walk her to his car a few meters down the road.

Edward held her hand the whole way back to his house. Bella knew she should think nothing of this, it after all was just a friendly gesture, but couldn't help but get excited, as Bella did every time he touched her, or for that matter was near her within a 50 metre radius. Bella was also thoroughly surprised that he couldn't hear her heart beating away a mile-a-minute in my chest, or maybe he could, he just didn't want to embarrass her. Bella wouldn't have been surprised, the horrible beet coloured blush on her face whenever she was embarrassed was just plain gross making whatever had happened, just that much worse.

"Bella, you are in SO much trouble" Alice screeched when the pair came of herself and Edward walked into the house, that damn little pixie just never seemed to run out of energy. "Where did you go? You said you were only going to be a few minutes at the library! When you didn't show two hours later, big brother the totally over-protective best-friend," She nodded to Edward's shape, still clasping her hand "was totally frantic and raced out of the house in like two minutes flat after I'd said anything!"

Bella flushed a bright red. "Sorry?" Bella said, but it turned into more of a question, and she tryed to hold back a giggle.

Alice could never hold up an argument against anyone except her brother, and never stayed angry for long - especially not at Bella.

Alice burst into laughter, her carefully styled disarrayed spikes bobbing about. Both of them were in hysterics soon enough.

Edward - whose hand was detached from Bella's by this point - was the first to voice his opinion; "Okay, I may be a hit with the ladies around here-" He winked at her, just causing tears to come streaming down her pale face from laughing so hard. Bella couldn't help it, no matter what he could make her laugh, even when doing the stupidest things. "But I draw the line at knowing what you two think is funny, if you need me, I'll be in my room."

And with that he turned around and trudged up the staircase behind him.

After their laughter had subsided and Bella and Alice had relocated to Alice's perfectly-in-order room at the top of the stairs, Alice posed an unanswered question.

"So where were you, you know, when Edward found you?"

Bella didn't want to answer the question; because she knew that Alice had loved her parents almost as much as Bella had; after all, Bella had had my father, Charlie Swan, wrapped around her teeny-tiny pinkie. The death of my parents had hit almost everyone that had known them pretty hard. For this household, especially since the one year anniversary of the accident had just passed, her parents had become almost a taboo subject.

Bella braced herself for seeing tears in her very best friends eyes, "I went back home." Bella admitted, knowing honesty was the best policy with her, as Bella was often told her face was an open book.

Alice's eyes fell.

Wrong move. Bella thought. She had been trying extensively to make Bella happy lately, when Alice found out that her older brother was also attempting to do the same thing, they had together worked together to make that vile baby faced Mike Newton finally just leave Bella alone. He had never seemed to grasp the concept of Just leave me alone. Alice had continually said that Bella wasn't forceful enough for the 'likes' of him.

Bella just didn't want to break the deluded kid's heart.

So the stunt had been pulled off in an attempt to make the perfect opportunity to help her temporarily forget about my parent's death.

"Alice, say something!" Bella was worried; She hoped she hadn't disappointed her, as Bella couldn't stand to see her sad.

"Say what? Say it's alright for you to go back there once in a while? I don't know Bells; I know it's hard for you more than any of us."

Bella crawled off the beanbag chair she had been occupying for the last few minutes and got on to the bed that Alice was sitting on, back against the wall, legs folded into her. Alice's stylish spikes were falling everywhere, and not in her normal casual but just a plain disarray. So she sat next to her, saying nothing. Alice looked up at her silently and pulled Bella into a bone-crushing hug.

Right then and there, they were more like sisters than best friends.

It was a few hours later before someone disturbed the pair. Edward knocked at the door with caution, he had obviously heard the earlier talk between her and Alice, then opened it.

"Hey guys, Esme and Carlisle said that we can do take-out tonight, I have to go get it, you want in?" Edward looked at Bella hopefully, his beautiful green orbs for eyes shining, how could Bella even dream of resisting that?

Alice spoke first. "Yeah I suppose we can go for a drive, I call shotgun though, sorry Bells."

"Fine then, Bella can sit on my lap instead of being all alone in the back seat." He retorted with a smirk at his sister, he didn't actually want Bella on his lap, it was more to just get at his sister, thought Bella was fine with it either way, and so Alice evidently surrendered herself to the back seat in order to comply with her best friend's safety.

In the car, Bella sat quietly in the front seat next to Edward, listening as the two siblings argued over which take-out that they should get. They decided on burgers from the local shop. The two also talked into stopping in at local ice creamery for dessert. They argued over that too. They were true siblings, right down to the core.

Erm, so this is just a random story, it really had no point, I'm just writing and seeing where it leads at this point.

It's not in Fork btw guys.. Please review, I would love it. thanks. (: