Writers Note: Hello all fellow Twilight fans. It's been quite a few years since I've tried writing a fanfiction, so I hope you all give me a little slack for not being the best at it. I do, however, hope that you enjoy my story and for those wondering, the chapters will get longer!

P r e f a c e

I was racing against time and if things were as Alice had foreseen it, I just might not make it. It wasn't often in my years on Earth that anything could beat me, but this time I could tell I would be facing something I never had in my whole life, if you could call it that, as a vampire.

But I knew I would have to make it. I would make it. It was all on the line for me. My everything, and my meaning for existence was on the line. Bella was in trouble, just how much she never knew.

C h a p t e r O n e

Ordinary

Tonight, I laid awake and stare into the sky for the longest while. This wasn't strange for me though. I was awake every night, and every day. I couldn't sleep. It wasn't because I was an insomiac or it wasn't any other psychological infliction. No, it was because I was something different. I wasn't like everyone else and most people seemed to stay away from me, as they should. Even though I was different from others like me, sometimes I was still repulsed by what I was. My family often discouraged me from thinking or saying such things, but they had it much easier.

My family had each other and it isn't I'm not apart of that family, it's that they had each other in a different way. They were all married, they all had meaning in their life and a person to share everything with. I often tried to not let it bother me, and the show I put on for my family seemed to fool them enough. Esme, my mother asked me occasionally if I was alright. I think she believed my assertion. The only one who knew the pain I went through was Alice, my sister, my closest friend in this world.

Lying here in the grass staring into the starry sky, thinking as I am made me feel as if I were almost normal. As if I were like any ordinary person. Almost as if I were human.

Then, just like that I heard rustling and before I even stood up, there in front of me stood a short, black haired girl who constantly reminded me of a pixie. She appeared as if out of thin air, a blur that probably couldn't be seen by a mortal eye. I stood up completely as I began to wipe the grass off my back side.

"I don't see what you like so much about lying in the grass" Alice smirked as her eyes twinkled which she looked up at me. She was smirking because I knew what she had come out here, to check up on me and make sure I was alright. I could read her mind really well.

I smirked back and responded politely. "It helps me get some things off my mind."

"You know what else would do that? Shopping! We haven't done that in a while!" Alice's eyes gleamed at the thought and I couldn't help but laugh. Alice was the type of girl who you would really think was an adolescent with the way she got excited about such trivial things. But I knew it was all with a good heart and what she meant was good.

"Where exactly do you plan on shopping at one am in the morning, Alice dear?"

Alice's eyes lit up again at the question. "Well, Edward dear" she began with the sarcasm flowing. "There is this thing called the Internet now, and with it you are able to do all sorts of things without ever leaving your house."

"Really?" I challenged. "Can we receive food from this internet world you speak of?"

"Actually" Alice began as we began to walk from the field out towards the darkened road. "You can. I was browsing this online auction site and these people actually had real blood for sale."

I raised my eyebrow at this, and Alice laughed as she looked over at me. As we walked the street, I thought about how ordinary it was. That food wasn't what it was for me nearly one hundred years ago. Blood was what I craved, it was all I ate and it was all I could stomach. For I, Edward Cullen, am a vampire.