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Chapter 1

Edward POV

The angry tornado of wind caught the rain up and struck it against the house, I watched glumly as I traced the pattern of the rain slithering painfully slowly down my window. Outside, the storm was picking up causing the trees to strain against the force of the gusts of wind; the storm though loud was hardly deafening to my sensitive ears, more like irritating background music. I huffed as I looked around my room and noticed my school bag and noticed those stupid, futile books protruding out. I had better finish all my work for tomorrow; it would upset my family if I endangered them by threatening our perfect facade in anyway that may cause suspicion among the people here in this small, confined town. I sighed as I thought of the reason for the façade. Our dark secret. That I could share with no one but my family, the Cullen's.

I wished to be a million miles away from here - this dark, depressing town - however it was because of that very fact that we came here, we would be well concealed with the average 235 days of rain a year we get here. No one would see what we really are...

I let my mind wander and I thought of how excited everyone in Forks were becoming to the arrival of a new girl to the town. Bella Swan. It was well known that she was the daughter of Charlie Swan, the chief police officer in Forks. The hyper and hysteria over her eminent arrival was pathetic to observe, the boys in my classes at school were practically thinking of her as fresh meat at our school, the thought of this comparison repelled me so much that I convulsed, shaking the chair beneath me, as well as shaking me out of my thoughts.

I finished the homework in a matter of minutes that would have taken humans hours to complete and stood up from my chair. I sighed deeply and ventured off to find the rest of my family and challenge Alice to another game of chess. Of course, I knew I would win...as always!

Esme POV – One week earlier

I wandered around the home furniture department of the mall in Seattle; I needed to find some new silk material to re-upholster the dining room chairs. After debating between two fabric patterns I finally chose my favourite and began to head to the counter to ask for the assistant to cut it to the correct measurements when I saw Charlie Swan. He was over in the linen section rubbing his temple, obviously confused and flustered over what bed-linen to purchase. I saw in one hand he held pink Barbie bed-sheets and in the other some depressing black bed-sheets, I sighed then muffled my laughter as I hurried over and patted him on the shoulder,

'Hi there Charlie! How are you?'

Charlie seemed very relieved to see me, 'Oh hello Esme, I'm so glad you're here! You see, umm... I'm a bit muddled, my daughter Bella is coming to live with me and I'm trying to choose some bed-linen. Do you know what bed-linen teenage girls like!?'

'Of course I'll help! Is she a girly girl?'

Charlie glanced down and scuffed his foot on the carpet, 'Ermm, I don't really know, I don't get to see her very often so I don't know what stuff she would like....'

'That's ok! I'm sure I can pick out something she'll love!' I jumped in, not wanting to embarrass Charlie, I could tell he was nervous about Bella coming and obviously wanting her to feel like she fits in and likes Forks. I led Charlie over to the latest linen that had been released and picked up a deep purple bed-linen set with a modern flower print on top. 'Here, what do you think?'

'Oh! That looks much better than anything I picked out!' He smirked then exploded into infectious laughter causing me to join in too, 'Thank you so much Esme! You've been so helpful; I'll make sure to tell Bella how you saved her getting any Barbie linen!!'

'That's quite alright Charlie! I'm pleased to help you, I do it all the time so its basically second nature to me now!'

'Well, I'm going to buy this now. Thank you again Esme, I'm very grateful!'

'That's alright! Bye Charlie.' I smiled to myself as I watched Charlie walk away. He was such a good father, trying earnestly to get everything just right for his daughter when she moves in. It was obviously a big move for her, it was practically public knowledge that Bella was moving all the way from Phoenix. I shook my head at the gossips in Forks, I could just imagine what it would be like if they found out our secret...

Alice POV

I glanced up from the chessboards to Edwards face, scrunching up my eyes, I saw Edwards's next moves however he did too and he picked out from my head the moves I would take back. This carried on for only a few minutes with Jasper watching us, chuckling every now and then. Eventually in exasperation I flicked over my King seeing that I wouldn't be able to win.

'I give up! You are so annoying Edward! I hope you know that!' I jumped up and twirled round to see Jasper watching me with an adorable smirk on his face. I flitted to his side; I simply smiled at him, looking deep into his golden eyes, they were like large pools that I constantly fell in, as I was overcome by his beauty. He was so gorgeous and it surprised me daily – how could I be so lucky that this God was mine? Before I could say anything to Jasper, Edward was soon ruining our little moment, as usual. I huffed.

'Oh stop being so melodramatic and soppy Alice!' I spun round to glare at Edward, god what was his problem!

'I'm not the one with a problem!' I heard Jasper growling from behind me but I ignored him and looked at Edward straight on, staring at him straight in the eye. I was certain that Jazz could feel the anger radiating off us, it was bad for Jazz to feel this, it hurt him so much and it made everything harder... I hated it whenever he felt like this but I couldn't stop myself. Edward was just such a moron sometimes.

Oh yeah? Whatever Edward... I'm not gonna' be sorry that I have someone to spend the rest of eternity with and you don't. It's not my fault! It's your own. Man! You've had hundreds of girls that were in love with you! Throwing themselves at you! And what do you do? Oh yeah, I remember Edward. You just ignore them, you look the other way. No, actually it's more than that Edward. You don't even notice them. So for god's sake, don't have a go at me if I'm happy! I mean don't I deserve it? Is that it Edward? Huh?

He didn't say anything; we just stood there looking at each other in awkward silence.

Oh don't you dare go all quiet on me now Edward! Come on! Spit it out.

I felt Jazz's hand grip me round the waist, ready to throw me out the way in case this turned ugly. But I knew better, Edward wouldn't do that. Of course he would be an idiot and piss me off anyway. Edward's chest began to rise and fall much more rapidly as he got angrier at me. I waited patiently for him to explode, for some reason slightly smug.

'Shut the hell up Alice. I don't want one of those pathetic girls anyway; they just want to have a boyfriend on their arm. I'm not gonna be with some fake blonde who just wants to use me to be more popular. It's just...' He trailed off with a grunt in disgust of most of the girls at our school.

How true he was, all the girls here in Forks, well not just here but everywhere. They were all needy, fake girls who felt like they had to prove themselves to the school by having a boyfriend and therefore becoming popular. I understood where Edward was coming from. They all dyed their hair bleach blonde – so unattractive and usually incredibly badly, causing several girls each month to be walking around with a green blob on their head – and spray tans that were ridiculously obvious as we lived in rainy Forks, they were all on 'diets' which basically meant they were starving themselves. They wanted to be the next top model; it was a rarity to find someone who had a serious aspiration. I only knew of Angela, she was a sincerely nice girl, and I knew she wanted to be doctor as she loved to care for people. I sighed, if only everyone was like Angela... Edward might actually like someone like her... I suddenly imagined Edward with Lauren hanging off his arm and I folded in half clutching my stomach in a fit of laughter. I couldn't help myself, it was hilarious. And impossible. No matter how much she fluttered her eyelashes at him. There was no way he would go out with her. I was engulfed in another round of laughter then and fell to the floor dragging Jazz down with me as he still had a firm grip around me.

In the next split second, I was no longer shaking with laughter. Instead I was writhing in pain. I clutched my head as the agony coursed through my veins, but the central source of this pain was from my head. My body was trembling as ripples shuddered its way through my body. What...What was happening!

'What the fuck is going on?!' Edward shouted but I only managed to hear him, it was as though the pain was slowly beginning to shut out my surroundings.

'Alice! Alice, what's wrong? What happened? Tell me! Alice!' I felt Jaspers hands shake me gently, anxiously wanting to help me but with no idea of what was happening.

I felt as though I would burst into tears if it were possible. This pain reminded me of so long ago. My transformation it was nearly as painful as it had been then. I looked up into Jaspers eyes, terrified. I tried to sit up slightly and I peeled open my lips and managed to squeak out a single word. 'Bella.'

Just as I spoke I fell back to the ground and lay in a heap of limp bones on the wooden floor. Allowing the images to flit through my mind as I lay there, helpless.

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