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Diclaimer: All characters in this story are the property of Stephanie Meyer. However, the plot is mine. No copying or translating without my written consent.

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Chapter 1: A Whole New World.

"Can I get you anything to drink ma'am?" The flight attendant asked with a sugary sweet voice.

I simply answered with a quite, "No thanks," before staring back out the window.

Life was absolutely terrifying to me right now. Everything around me was new and uncharted. I am moving to a place where I've never been before, with people I've never met. I feel so completely lost and scared.

You see, I was sixteen years old, and I had never before left the state of Louisiana…that was until that moment. Three weeks prior, my momma and daddy were killed in a car accident, leaving me with no one. Or so I thought. However, after two weeks in custody of the state, I found out that I have an uncle, who lives in New York. An uncle who I've never met…who I now had to live with.

My name is Bella-Marie. People called me Bella-Marie. I was shy, quiet and very reserved. I grew up in a little country town with a population of about 2,500 people. I'd had the same two friends for as long as I could remember, and I had to leave them.

I was moving to New York. And not just New York, but Manhattan, the Upper East Side to be exact. I didn't know much about New York, but what I did know what that people who lived in the Upper East Side where filthy rich. I might have been sheltered my whole life, but I had seen Gossip Girl before. I knew that people there were cold and pretentious and thought that everybody owed them something. How in the world was I gonna fit in there?

I swallowed the lump in my throat as the captain came on over the intercom thingy to say that we were making our final descent to the JFK International Airport. I wiped my sweaty hands on my worn jeans and tried to control my breathing. I would have to adjust. This man was my only family. He was my only way to stay out of foster care. And it was only for two years. Just until I finished high school.

Another twenty minutes passed before I felt my stomach in my throat as we landed on the runway. My legs bounced nervously as I waited for the signal to exit the aircraft. As I walked through the terminal, butterflies were wrecking havoc on my stomach. I made my way to the luggage carrousel and grabbed my single suitcase.

I walked back toward the exit, looking for my uncle. I wasn't sure what he looked like, but given that he was my mom's brother, I assumed he would have the same boring brown hair and pale skin that I had. However, what I found was a man in a suit with a sign that simply read, "Miss Swan."

I shyly walked up the him and smiled timidly at him. "I'm Bell-Marie Swan."

The man smiled kindly in return, "Miss Swan, I'm Peter. Your driver."

I simply nodded my head. I mean, what else was I spose' to do? A freaking driver? My uncle couldn't do his own drivin'?

"May I take your bag, ma'am?"

I smile and hand Peter my bag. "Thank you."

He quietly chuckled under his breath. I look at him completely confused.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but your accent is just adorable."

I felt myself blush ten shades of red. That was something I hadn't even considered. I my accent would immediately set me apart from everybody around me. I was going to sound like some country bumpkin from the back woods of Louisiana…which was exactly what I was.

Peter sensed my discomfort and quickly said, "Sorry to make you uncomfortable Miss Swan. It wasn't my intention."

I shrug my shoulders, still too embarrassed to say anything further.

Peter led the way outside to the car, and opened the door for me, before placing my bag in the trunk. As I sat in the large black sedan with completely blacked out windows, my nerves seemed to sky-rocket again. It was kind of creepy. I mean, why did somebody need blacked out windows? Wasn't that only for famous people?

After about a half hour in the car, we pulled up to the curbside of the hugest building I had ever seen in my entire life. Peter quickly opened my door and retrieved my bag. I swallowed down the ever present lump in my throat. I looked up at the building in front of us. Then I tilted my head toward the sky and watched as the building went up hundreds and hundreds of feet.

"Oh, my God. This place is huge." I say out loud, but mainly to myself.

"Wait until you see the inside. It will take your breath away."

"Oh, I haven't had a proper breath since my plane left the runway this mornin'."

Peter simply chuckled at me and instructed me to follow him. I stuck close to his side as we walked through the lobby of this massive building and straight to the elevator. Once on the elevator, Peter hit the button for the 56th floor and then typed in a code into a numeric pad on the wall.

"Mr. Brandon will have a code assigned for you to use this elevator. You can't get to your floor without one."

I just nodded my head, while my eyes bugged out of my head.

As the elevator made it way up floor after floor, I was feeling more and more anxious. What if they hated me? What if they thought I wasn't good enough to stay with them? Why didn't I know about him to begin with? Why didn't my momma ever talk about him?

I questions quickly disappeared as soon as I stepped off the elevator. It was the most beautiful place I had ever seen in my entire life. The walls were a cream and camel color. There was a magnificent chandelier that hung from what appeared to be like a twenty foot ceiling. Directly in front of me on the wall in the foyer was a huge portrait of a man who looked very similar to my mother, a very petite girl with almost black hair, and a woman who looked like she had never frowned a day in her life. I figured that they were the Brandon's. My family that I had never met.

I'm not sure how long I stood there before I heard the shrillest squeal of my life. I looked to my right just in time to be attacked by a small girl.

"Bella-Marie! I am so glad you are here. I have been waiting for you all week. We are going to be just like sisters, I just know it. I am Alice. I guess, since our parents are siblings, that makes us cousins, but I really want us to be more like sisters, all right?"

I felt like my stomach was going to fall out of my butt, and my eyes were going to burst out of my head. This girl was like a freaking ball of energy. She was scary as hell. Before I could respond to her, the man who looked so much like my mother - so much that it made my heart hurt- walked into the foyer.

"Alice, sweetheart, calm down. You are going to scare poor Bella to death," he said looking from Alice to me. "Bella, darling, I am so very sorry for your loss. It breaks my heart that I wasn't there to tell Renee goodbye. However, we don't want to dwell on that. We want you to feel welcome here. This is your home now."

I smiled tightly. There were so many questions that I wanted to ask, but I was just too nervous to voice any of it, so I simply said, "Thank you very much for having me."

"Oh my God! People are just going to die over your accent. Every guy at school is going to want some of the new Southern Bella," Alice shirked.

"Alice, why don't you show Bella to her room. Help her get settled in and freshened up. Have her ready to go out to dinner at 5:45."

Squeal. "Yay! Come on Bella-Marie. You are just going to love your room. I helped the decorator redecorate it for you. It was one of our spare bedrooms and it was just so sterile. Not at all what a sixteen year old would want."

I said nothing. I simple followed Alice across the huge penthouse to the other side where my new bedroom was located. Well, bedroom wasn't exactly the right word to describe it. It was what Alice called a private suite. I had a huge sitting area, with a leather couch and chair, and huge TV hanging from the wall. The bed sat in the middle of the room. It was the hugest bed I'd ever seen in my life. Then off to one side was a bathroom with a separate shower, and one of those crazy things next to the toilet that shot water up your butt. Gross. To add to all of that there was a private balcony.

"Come on, Bella. Come take a look."

I shook my head furiously, "Oh no thanks! I am terrified of heights. I think I would probably hyperventilate and pass out."

Alice giggled, "Your voice is just so cute."

I felt myself blush.

"Aww…that's cute too. The guys are just going to eat you up?"

"What guys?"

"The one's at school. We go to Pratt Academy. You will start on Monday. Most of the guys there are completely arrogant and full of themselves, but they will be throwing themselves at your feet. That adorable accent and your innocent blush is going to make them all stupid with lust."

I was confused? My accent was going to make people like me? I thought it would just be a huge target on me for teasing and ridicule. "What is cute about my accent? It is gonna make me stick out like a sore thumb."

"Exactly. Everybody wants the fresh meat. With you being from the south, it gives you this air of innocence. All the guys here will see you as a challenge."

"Oh."

"Anyway, enough about that. Let's get dressed for dinner. My boyfriend Jasper will be coming to dinner tonight. You can meet him. I am so excited about you being her Bella…Do you prefer Bella-Marie or just Bella?"

"Umm…I don't know. I've always been called Bella-Marie, but just Bella is fine too." I hadn't ever really considered it before.

"Well, Bella-Marie definitely sounds more like you're from the south. Just Bella, sounds short for Isabella, which is a more pretentious name. It's less likely to be associated with the south."

I smiled at her logic. "Just Bella then."

Alice smiled back at me. I couldn't help but feel a little bit better. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting and Alice seemed really nice. I really liked her.

Alice grabbed my hand and pulled me into the bathroom. "Come on, let's get pretty for dinner. I can't wait to show you off to everyone."

With that, Alice proceeded to transform me from "Back-woods Louisiana Country Bumpkin" to "Upper East-Sider."

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