Edward Cullen had hated Bella Swan for as long as he could remember. The two had grown up together in the small town of Forks, where the community was small, and their open mindedness even smaller. He was a senior, just one year left to go before he could escape this prison. That seemed to be when everything went wrong, when the thing you wanted most was just within sight. He could already feel the diploma in his hand, his hand in the pocket of his robes wrapped around the keys to his Volvo. He'd be out of there before they could even finish reading the name right after his.
It wasn't that Edward hated his parents, to the contrary - he had wonderful family. Carlisle, the famed head surgeon of Forks. It seemed everyone had something nice to say about the blonde, blue eyed doctor. And Esme his wife, she was a beauty. She always had a smile that reached her chestnut eyes, it would melt anyone's heart. And her cooking was to die for! As anyone would expect from the Cullens, they'd been within the community for years, and it seemed with every generation a Cullen patriarch more promising than the last would spring to the top of the family.
But behind closed doors, perfect wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Edward knew that all too well. Knew it as soon as he'd walked through that doorway and seen redheaded Renee Swan attached to his father. They were already in the process of getting undressed, her blouse littered the floor along with his tie. He'd never seen his father so happy, his eyes brimming with excitement. He looked like a teenage boy on his way to losing his virginity. And Renee was the hot, all too compliant whore to take it.
But Carlisle wasn't a teenager. He was a middle aged man, he had a wife for Christ's sakes! And a son that was still staring open mouthed at the couple. Before Carlisle could even remove himself from the slut, Edward had slammed the door. He heard the footsteps racing down the hall, and there was nothing to do to stop his son. Glancing out the window, Carlisle had watched as the Volvo pulled out of the driveway and raced down the street.
Ever since that day, Edward had wanted to leave. Carlisle had tried many times to talk to him, talk him out of his dreams of freedom. But he wouldn't have it. He wouldn't be constrained by a man who couldn't even handle such carnal needs.. He hadn't told his mother of what had taken place that day. He didn't want to.. He couldn't bare the sight of the expression on her pretty face. Even if Carlisle wasn't the perfect man that he seemed, Esme was truly a wonderful mother with a heart of gold.
The sight of Renee Swan, her arms wrapped around his father's neck and lips begging for more had been what had burned Edward's hatred into him. At first he had merely disliked Bella because of her friends. The girl hung around with such annoying girls, Jessica Stanley and Lauren Mallory. All the girls did was spread rumors, and gossip. And then there was the Swan girl, she was at their beck and call. Jessica and Lauren were the hottest girls in school, boys drooled over them wherever they went.. But Bella.. she was just above ordinary.
Today would be the day things changed though. Today was Edward Cullen's seventeenth birthday. And whether he knew it or not, big things were about to happen. The supernatural world was calling, and whether Cullen wished to or not, he would be forced to answer.