PROLOUGE:
My name is Ariana. I have a secret: I am a vampire. I'm not one of your regular vampires. I am one of the ancients, the sister of Aro, Caius and Marcus who call themselves the Volturi these days. We are treated as the royal family of vampires, ruling in the city of Volterra and keeping the vampires of the world in check. The role of the Volturi is important to keep the secret of our existence. We all know what will happen if the mortals knew of our existence. The world will be in chaos. Nobody wants that.
This all is supposed to be a very big deal, but I was bored of this royal life. I mean, who wants to be shut up into the towers of a castle everyday? In fact, very few people in the Volturi guards even know about my existence. My overprotective brothers had kept me a secret, all for my "own" protection. One day, it all became too much for me to handle and I escaped that heavily guarded prison. To be honest, it was the most exciting experience of my centuries old life.
It's been three hundred years, give or take, since my escape from Volterra and I have enjoyed every second of it. Although the risk of being discovered is always there, but that makes my life all the more thrilling. To let you in on another secret, I have a special talent. I can manipulate anyone's mind. Its been quite a useful talent in altering the spies' minds who've managed to find me and throwing Aro off my track. My talent also acts as a shield against all the other vampires' mind affecting abilities. Aro always knew how special my talent was and I wonder if this was the real reason he wanted to keep me hidden.
It's time to switch to a new life. I always have to change places before the humans observe that I don't age. Finding new places to settle is also a problem because vampires cannot come out during the sun. That's not exactly true for me though. Years of reading, researching and experimenting during my castle days, I invented a solution for minimizing the effect of sun on my skin and hide its true color. Still, it's a necessary measure to stay in a place where I don't have to use my "sunscreen" daily. Another problem with places like this is that they have less population which is another disadvantage for the blood feeding vampires because disappearances easily get noticed. Lucky for me, I don't have to drain the entire blood from a human to satisfy my hunger. After taking an adequate amount, I compel the humans to forget all about meeting me. That way, my secret is also maintained and no life is wasted. I can manage to survive on stolen blood bags from the hospitals in difficult times, but nobody likes stale food, isn't it?
In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. This sounds like a place I could settle for a few years. Now, I need a new identity. The easiest way is to steal an existing seventeen something girl's identity and live as her for a few years and brainwash the real girl to move to a new city. A few interrogations from the town's folks informed me of a new girl coming to this town tomorrow. What a perfect timing! This is certainly a great start to my stay at Forks. I'm informed that this girl is the daughter of the town's Chief of Police, Charlie Swan who lives alone till now. Well, nobody would suspect his daughter of being a vampire, perfect!
Isabella Swan is arriving from Phoenix so Chief Swan is going to pick her up at the Port Angles airport. I follow. I'm the first one to get to her. She looks a lot like me in appearance if you don't count my marble white skin or blood red eyes. I compel her to tell everything about her life and then I send her off to Washington DC on the next flight. I quickly put on the skin makeup and replace brown contact lenses then walk out of the airport to meet my new father. I find him and introduce myself. He doesn't suspect anything as I modify his memory of his daughter who he's only met a few times. So far, all is looking good for me. We sat in his cruiser and we started for the hour long drive to Forks. Lucky for me, my new dad is not verbose and Isabella takes after him. He tells me about a new Chevy truck he's gotten for me from his old friend, Billy as a homecoming gift. I thank him. He's also registered me for the high school. Looks like a whole new adventure is waiting for me. Isabella is quite a mouthful name, I think. I come up with a short version: Bella. Yes, from now onwards I am Bella Swan and my life begins today.