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Title: Forever and Always

Summary: Bella Swan has led her life alone and unloved by everyone. When she starts her freshman year at college, she meets the Cullen's and Hale's, a group of friends that show her the meaning of love and family. But when someone from her past starts stalking her, her life is turned upside-down … once again. All Human, Alternate Universe. All normal pairings.

Prologue – Alone

Bella Swan

Beep. Beep. Beep.

I remembered that I had opened my eyes slowly that night. My head had been pounding, I remember, pounding so badly I thought it would burst. Where was I?

All I could see was a plain, tan ceiling. All I could hear was a beeping noise – an annoying, continuous beeping noise.

I remembered that, as my eyes focused on my surroundings, I realized that I was in a room with plain white walls and two chairs, a table, and machines. I remembered that there had been a bed to my right.

Then I remembered what happened – vaguely, but still clear as day in my mind.

We'd been driving home from dinner at La Bella, my mother, Renee, and my father, Charlie, and I. It had been storming out, I knew, and I was holding close to my chest the old, ragged teddy bear – Mr. Fuzz – I had had since the day I was born.

I remembered it had been dark. Charlie, my father, had been fiddling with the radio and hadn't seen the deer up ahead.

From there on, I don't really remember anything, except a sharp pain in my wrist, the squealing of the tires and then … blackness. Absolute … blackness.

Then I was in a soft, warm bed.

In the hospital.

Were my parents okay?

A nurse walked in, disrupting me from my thoughts. She saw that I was awake and came over. "Oh, you're awake. You've been out a couple of days," she said. She held something in her hand.

"What happened?" I whispered.

The nurse – I remembered that her name was Heather. She was very sweet and kind – got a sad look in her eyes and she said, "You'll have to ask the doctor that himself. I'll go tell him you're awake."

I remembered that she was halfway to the door when she stopped and turned, coming back over to the bedside. "Is this yours? It was found in your coat." In her hand was Mr. Fuzz.

It was that day I had found out my parents had died in the car crash … along with the deer. Renee and Charlie had been at the hospital for a half hour before they passed away.

I was seven when they died. They hadn't been able to escape, yet I had managed to escape with only a broken wrist.

After I was released from the hospital, I was placed in Social Services until I was ten years old when they put me through foster care homes. I didn't last long in each; no one seemed to … want me. I bounced from home to home faster than a bouncing ball.

I never made any friends. I didn't talk to many people, only teachers. I never told anyone what happened to my parents.

For some reason, I was really smart – it didn't help any that I had nerdy-looking reading glasses – and had skipped a grade. I graduated high school four months before my 17th birthday.

You know how when people always tell you that life doesn't really start until you graduate high school, and you're ready to move on and go out into the world because you're ready? Well, half of that's true … for me, at least.

When I received my packet for Seattle University, I had no idea what to expect. And there was no way that I had been prepared for the 'life changing experiences college gives you' that waited for me when I was barely seventeen years old ….

… And barely old enough to be on my own.

Author's Note: Well, there you have it – the Prologue. First chapter is already written, and will be coming your way very soon. Please review and tell me what you think and if I should continue!

See you next chapter!

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