This is my first story, and I think the plot-line is the first like it on FanFiction, but I havn't checked. PLEASE critque as much as humanly possible. I've never actually commited myself to completing a story, but I really hope enough people will ask for updates that I actually WILL this time. I know this chapter is short, but I didn't want to go writing a huge chapter unless I knew if anyone actually LIKED it... Anyway, enjoy!
-Dahli
Bella stepped outside, squinting as the cold winter sun glanced off snow piled thick on the drive-way. Even with the sun shining clearly in the sky, she was freezing. Her breath came out in clouds as she wrapped her arms around herself and let out a long sigh. Edward wouldn't be at school today. And it was even colder than normal outside today as well, to add to her troubles. Frustrated, she stomped through the powdery snow to her car, idly noticing the snow-chains on her tires. She wondered if it was Edward or Charlie who put them on this time as she slammed the door shut and shoved her key into the ignition. It took her a full minute to realize there was someone sitting in the passenger seat as the engine roared to life in the background.
Her breath hitched in her chest as Edward leaned over to give her a quick kiss on the lips that left her skin smoldering. She closed her eyes and took a second to collect her scattered thoughts. When she finally opened her eyes Edward was silently smirking at her, and she felt the blood rising to her cheeks.
"You caught me off guard." she said defensively. She paused a moment before adding, "I thought you were hunting today?"
She looked at his eyes and noticed the topaz she so adored was cruelly dark, and tinted red around the pupils.
"I wanted to say goodbye before we left. We'll be gone for at least two days, if Alice is right about the weather."
Bella glared at the steering wheel. "Alice is always right..." She mumbled to herself, although she was positive Edward could hear her anyway.
He reached a out and held her face in his hands, and stared at her long enough that she forgot to breathe for a moment.
"It's only two days, Bella." He leaned over and kissed her on the forehead and she closed her eyes. But she felt his hands leave her skin, and he was standing outside the passenger door when she opened her eyes; The cold wind rushing in and filling the empty void where he had been sitting. "Be safe, please." He said slowly, like she was a child that might not comprehend what he was saying. She nodded silently and he glanced to his left, down the street, before looking back at her and giving her a lazy, crooked smile. Then she blinked and he was gone.
She stared out her windshield. There was obviously something wrong, and she apparently wasn't going to know what that something was until it happened. It couldn't be too bad, though. Or Edward wouldn't have left her for two days. She leaned over the passenger seat and closed the door. She threw her car into gear, and started backing out of the drive-way. Just as all four tires rolled onto the mush-covered street, a shiny red corvette turned the corner at the end of the street, and started slowly progressing towards her own car. She sat gripping the steering wheel, completely befuddled, racking her brain for people she knew other than the Cullen's who could afford, or even owned a Corvette.
Before she could think it through, the Corvette slowed down even further, until it was at a complete stop next to her clunky old truck. The window rolled down slowly...
"Mom?!"