Bella:

My eyes flash open. What the heck? One minute I'm just walking down the street home from work the next I'm being burned alive and then what? I'm in a place I don't know. Things are weirder now than before.

I can see the dust particles in the air. The splinters on the hardwood flooring, I hear a radio playing. Is that in this place? No, it couldn't the radio station is only on car radios, I've heard it before. Wait. I can hear things in a car. This is wrong.

I sit up, disoriented.

"Lay down."

I jump. It's a voice from the corner. It's as soft as flower petals in the air. Why didn't I hear her heartbeat or her breathing if I could hear a car radio?

I listen intently. She's not breathing. She has no heartbeat. I look at her bewildered.

I see the features of her. She's gorgeous. She has blonde/red hair. It follows in curves down her back to about her chest. Her lips are soft and red, her nose small but decent, my mother would approve. The scary part of her is her eyes, they're bright red.

"Who are you?" wow. That is NOT my voice, diffidently NOT my voice. Way better.

"Danny."

Danny. Isn't that a guy's name?

"Who are you?" she asks.

"Where am I?"

"Don't answer a question with a question."

"Bella."

"My home."

Good now that that was situated. Who the hell was Danny and where is her "home?"

"Where is your home?"

"Canada."

Canada? I lived in Seattle. Seattle, Washington, USA.

She must have seen the look on my face.

"I found you attacked in Seattle. Bad part of town you were in. That place ruined you forever."

"Excuse me?"

"You're not the same as you were a few days back are you Bella?"

"No, everything is much clearer and my mouth."

The burning, oh the burning in my mouth.

"Oh yes, you need a human… mhh."

She trailed off in thought.

After a second she looked back at me.

"Come."

She flew out the room at lightning speed. I fallowed her. Just as fast, if not faster. We raced down the stairs and there on a couch was a man. He was VERY strong, when I came down I saw his muscles roll, and had lots of brown hair. His eyes were red as well.

He stood.

He was tall, taller than me, 6'7 maybe.

"This is Grant. My mate," she said pecking his on the mouth. He didn't even flinch.

"Bella," I held my hand out as if to shake hands, again, nothing from him. Not even a flinch.

I shyly put my hand down.

"This is Elizabeth, my 'sister.'" She said even using the hand motions.

She pointed to a petite girl in her teens, about the same age as me, 16. She had long dark black hair down to her waist.

I held out my hand for her and she came up and hugged me. Wow talk about friendly.

"Nice to meet you again, Bella."

"Again?"

"I found you with Danny. You mumbled 'help me. Help my family.' Before you eventually went limp."

My family, Tessie, my little sister, Mom, Dad, I could barely remember. Tessie was with me when I was going home. She was there; she came to walk home with me. Where was she? Was she safe with Mom and Dad? Was she here? Did they save her? I hope they did.

"Tessie." I mumble.

"Yes you said her name too. She was already gone by the time found you. I'm sorry."

I fell to the floor and cried, Tessie, my sister. She's dead. The only one I ever really connected with. Dead. No tears came out. I just cried tearless.

Elizabeth came down beside me and wrapped her arms around me. I felt better. I liked the way she cared so much.

"She's my, was my little sister." I finally squeaked out. It still sounded angelic, even as a whimper.

I got back up and stood, shaking. I looked around for the first time.

There were matching black square sofas facing each other and a flat screen TV against the wall. There was game controllers scattered about the couches. There was a door leading off somewhere and barely any windows except two behind the couch. Outside there were a white blanket of snow and a long driveway leading out to a highway of some sort.

There were 2 more people (or let us say people but they, us, were obviously not human. None of us had heartbeats or had to breath apparently) on the sofas, both male.

One stood, he had black hair as well. He had the same red eyes. He was tallish and sort of uncomfortable. I wondered why.

"Bella, it's nice to meet you. I'm Jason." Jason ehh? Why was he uncomfortable? Was there something on my face?

"Jason is Hannah's mate. She went out to find you a human." It was Danny again.

"I'm Max."

It came from the other male on the couch. He was BEATUIFUL. I know it's sort of weird thinking of a guy like that, but he was. Way better looking than the other three. He had red/blonde hair sort of like Danny. His nose curved perfectly down his face and his lips were the perfect color, a pinkish red color that captivated me. His voice sent shivers down my spine (or what's left of it in my body after the burning).

Something told me to run though. Like he was dangerous but I couldn't help myself. I held out my hand for a hand shake.

His hand was cold, but had a warming feeling that made me want more. It was different from Elizabeth's hug. It was tingly. And his hand fit into mine. Perfectly.

But that warning I got from my first look at him. RUN, yelled trough my head.

"Nice to meet you," I say, barely breathing. I hope he can't hear the shaking in my voice, but if he was like me I bet he could.

He laughed but held it back by a cough.

"Max is our odd man out, he's still 'on the prowl' for a mate."

I laughed at Danny's quotation marks in the air, Elizabeth, Jason and Grant laughed with me. Danny giggled like a girl.

Elizabeth finally choked out, "Harry, my mate went with Hannah."

"What am I?" I asked after an awkward pause.

There was another quite moment.

Then I smelt something. My head snapped up. It was sweet and sour like… like a candy. My eyes widened.

Jason and Grant grabbed my arms and held me back before I could go after it. I growled at them. Wait. I growled at them? What the hell? These were people I didn't even know. But that smell. The candy…

"Bella, stop," Grant hissed.

I squirmed. Elizabeth came and took my face in her hands.

"Bella, a human is going to walk in that door. You are going to be released. You will want her. You will want her bad. You will go after her neck and kill her. Do you understand me? It will help your mouth. You are going to have the burden of murder on your soul. Do you want that?"

"Yes," I hissed anything to fix my mouth.

Jason let go. Grant still held me by my shoulder. I showed my teeth. What was wrong with me?

Grant looked at Elizabeth, then Danny, then Max. Then finally he looked at me.

"Are you sure?"

"Just let go of me," I spit.

"Let her go Grant," Danny said, putting her hand on his shoulder.

Grant slowly released me.

"Maybe she won't be so cranky now," Jason mumbled.

I hissed at him as I ran to the door.

Outside there was two people (or whatever we were), a male and a female. They must be Harry and Hannah. They had red eyes and brown hair, but that was all I noticed. In the middle of the yard was a girl, about 19 or 20. She smelled wonderful. She was wearing a light blue t-shirt that said bite me and jeans. And bite her I did.

I sunk my teeth into her neck, slicing my teeth easily in her flesh. It was like a knife on paper. No problem. I drank her dry. When her blood was gone I tossed her body to the ground. All I could think was I just killed that girl. I killed her.

I looked at the girl I presumed to be Hannah. I'm sorry. I mouthed at her.

"It's okay. Everyone does this. It will be hard at first but you'll get used to it. Think about it as, if I don't drink her I'll die."

By then everyone was on the porch watching me. I could feel my body (or whatever this thing was) shutting down.

Hannah went to go stand by Jason. Elizabeth came to my side.

"We'll take care of you. If you don't like the way we live there is another clan of..." she turned to the others. They shook their heads. "us. We are all here out of choice. You could become a Nomad or try a different lifestyle."

"What are we?"

She looked back at the others. "Jason, Max could you take care of this?" she asked waving her finger at the girl I killed.

"Of course," they mumbled.

Elizabeth ushered the rest of us inside. She sat me on the couch against the window, I presumed so I didn't have to see Max and Jason dealing with the girl.

The girl I killed.

"We are umm…." She trailed off.

"Vampires," Grant finished for her. "What? You were going to take all day. There's a hockey game I want to watch."

My new brain took about 3 seconds to process this.

"Vampires?"

"Yes. Vampires." I could hear the venom filling her mouth and the glare she shot Grant looked as if it could kill.

For the next hour she and the others explained the basics of being a vampire, the vampire Rulers, the Volturi, the new way of living off animal blood that a doctor Carlisle Cullen came up with, what and who I should avoid, where I should go, what I could do, that I sparkled in the sun, and how I wouldn't be able to stay in one place for long. And one more thing, keep the vampire secret, at ALL times.

I understood that. We couldn't have the Military swarming in with torches trying to kill us all.

I thought about Carlisle Cullen and his "family" Elizabeth mentioned. She said that they would probably accept me if I went now. They lived in Forks, Washington. I vaguely remembered that place.

"Who is in the Cullen family?" I asked

"Let's see… Carlisle of course, his mate Esme, Alice and Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, and Edward I think."

"And they survive off animal blood?"

"Yes, essentially yes. They have human jobs and go to High School as well. It's sort of bizarre if you ask us."

"Could I go there and check it out? I mean I would come back if I wanted, but could I?"

"It's entirely your choice," it was Max who said this.

"Did you ever go?" I asked him.

"No."

It was short and made the air bleed.

"But be careful they have wolves that can kill vampires nearby, so stay away from that and the people. Stay away from the humans. Maybe we should have Max go with you, just to be safe," Danny mumbled.

I got up.

Max did too.

"Goodbye. And thank you, for saving my life. I owe you a lifetime. You know where I will be if you need a favor."

"Oh I'll miss you Bella," Elizabeth gushed.

I got a few hugs and a few mumbled "Byes" and "I hope I'll see you again."

Lastly I stood in front of Danny.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"You could have left me to die. You didn't. I thank you for that. I owe you, lots. If you EVER need anything, please come contact me."

She slipped me a tiny cell phone and a wallet. In it were a few hundred dollars and a driver's license under the name of Isabella Swan.

"These were in your pockets. I already put all of our numbers in it."

I slipped the wallet and cell phone into the front pocket of the sweatshirt that Danny gave me.

I hugged Danny and whispered too low for the others to hear, "I'll miss you. You saved me. Thank you."

With that Max and I ran down the stairs and into the woods toward Forks.

A/N Alright I'm still figuring this out, so please excuse me for messing up. I also realized that I'd really like some reviews! I really would like some criticism! Thank you.

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