Chapter 1- THE START OF THINGS

I looked around at all the clapping and cheering that surrounded us, and smiled.

So this is what it's like to be famous and well known? I thought to myself smiling widely. We had just played for the Forks High School dance and were getting a loud ovation from our fellow students.

"Thank you Forks High School! I'm Edward, and we are THE BLOODSUCKERS!" I turned around and pointed out everyone else as they smiled and played a little piece to end our time on stage. Myself, Edward Cullen the lead singer, Alice Cullen, who was my little sister playing on guitar and her boyfriend Jasper Whitlock playing bass behind me. Turning around more, I found my brother's girlfriend Rosalie Hale on the keyboard, and my brother Emmett Cullen banging away on the drums.

Emmett and I had started little bands and done things from the time we were young, but we never really got serious until we got older. I mean Emmett had started playing the drums when he was 5 to deal with anger problems and aggression and I had wound up singing along most of the time because I was bored. Then in 9th grade, Alice and Emmett starting dating Jasper and Rosalie, and we realized that together we had enough people and instruments to make a band. So we stated practicing together and writing song ideas.

After a while, we hit junior year and were getting to be pretty good. We decided to do a few random gigs and try our luck at things. To our surprise we were actually getting pretty good reviews and a lot of people came to the little shows we did at clubs. Of course this led to our next dilemma, at that point we were still calling ourselves JEERA, just the first letter of everyone's name. But it wasn't good enough, we needed a real name. A solid name we could stick with. So we all sat down one day and talked it out.

"Maybe we could do something like The Backstreet Boys?" Emmett suggested laughing to himself. Rosalie hit him upside the head and sighed.

"Unless your going to give up one of your drum solos, and get up and dance for us…I think NOT" she responded with a nice amount of acid resting on her tongue.

"Okay…okay…just an idea. Sheesh, it's not like anyone else is coming up with anything that's any better." He pouted to himself.

"Give us a moment Emmett!" I snarled at him, grabbing the bridge of my nose with my thumb and forefinger trying to control my anger and think clearly. Doesn't he understand? It's not that easy?! Picking a band name is a big thing! I continue thinking in silence until another interruption came bursting through the door at us.



"Oops! Sorry!" I heard it was my mother, Esme. "Didn't realize anyone was in the family room right now. I was just coming in to watch that new vampire movie that came out onto DVD recently!" she held up a DVD box with a man and a woman in a sort of protective embrace on it.

"OH! Is that the one with Rob Pattinson in it?" I heard Alice perk up right away. Esme only smiled.

"Of course it is! I mean he is only the hottest vampire to ever live! Oh, his rendition of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE is almost as good as Stewart Townsend in QUEEN OF THE DAMNED!" She handed it to Alice to look at.

"Robert who?" Jasper looked up and I joined him. Why was my mother getting all gitty and over the top while talking about an actor? Her and my father, Carlisle are happily married.

Why else would they have had 3 kids? I took the box from Alice and looked that the man on the cover. Alice gasped and I looked up at her.

"YOU! You look just like him Edward?" She motioned for me to hold up the DVD box for comparison and I did.

"He does!" Esme agreed. Great, I looked like another uptight, over the top, untalented Hollywood actor. Just my luck.

"So does that make me an undead vampire?" I asked her innocently enough. Starting to be less and less amused by this little stunt every second.

"Yes it does! Wow, I helped create a vampire for a son!" Carlisle was standing in the doorway as he spoke. Great so he was in on it to.

"Guess that makes us all vampires huh dad?" Emmett agreed. "Haha….we're all nothing but a bunch of bloodsuckers." That caught my attention as soon as he had said it.

"Emmett, what did you just call us?" I asked again, mindlessly handing the DVD box to Alice who was staring at me now.

"That we were vampires….and a bunch of…bloodsuckers…." He looked at me funny.

"I LIKE THAT!" I yelled at once, scaring everyone else, including my father who seemed to jump off the door and falter a bit. "The Bloodsuckers!" I repeated again to myself, but Alice heard.

"Yeah, I like that to. The Bloodsuckers….." Everyone started nodding in satisfaction and we seemed to have decided. We were vampires, undead creatures of the night. We were THE BLOODSUCKERS!

The memories ended as I could hear the cheers dying down, but one person was still as loud as ever. I turned to see one girl starring at us with the most respect I had ever seen.



Isabella Marie Swan, our first real groupie. She had been following our music ever since Emmett and I had starting things out. Clipping articles and going to every show we had ever played in. She was dedicated and really into the band. She was our age, in the same grade, and I had known her since we were first together in 2nd grade. Actually, I had and still have a little bit, okay A LOT of a crush on her.

When we first met in 2nd grade, her big brown eyes, wavy and somewhat curly hair had attracted me, even at such young an age. By the time we hit 7th grade, I was hitting on her and being her friend at the same time. I did my best to hint things and try and take her out, but she was continually interested in either just the music, or my sister's boyfriend Jasper. Of course we stayed good friend and I knew that she always had my back and was trying to help the bend 110 but, couldn't she like me for just a bit?? Every other girl had done anything they could for my attention and to try and ask me out. But the one girl I wanted, Bella Swan was the only real friend I had, and the only girl I had ever really wanted. I mean she always smelled so good. Something about her was alluring to me, and I could never figure out what she was going to do next, or what she was thinking about. Every other girl was so predictable, but not Bella. She did what she wanted when she wanted, was impossible to guess, and that made her all the more attractive to me. Someone who I could not just assume things with. I liked that in a girl.

Even if all her attention was on my sister's boyfriend Jasper, I sill held on to a shred of hope that maybe one day I could catch her attention. Still, I kind of knew she would never give me the time of day when it came to dating.

Ugh, why does life have to be so unfair? As I walked offstage, and into the waiting arms of my classmates and my band.