A/N: Bella was diagnosed with Leukemia two years ago. She has been living with Charlie for a year. So you know I got this idea from A Walk to Remember:) So i hope you like it!

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"Bella, it's time to get up and get ready for school! It's the first day!" Charlie yelled through my closed door.

What he didn't know is that I've been up for the past hour looking at myself in the mirror. This summer was the last summer of my chemotherapy. Even if the doctors thought it was a bad choice, I gave up. My hair was still a lot shorter then it was at the end of school, but no one would notice because of the hair extensions. They would just think I got it cut when I was in Phoenix with my mother.

Once things started to get serious with my leukemia, I knew I needed to spend more time with Charlie before it happened. In hopes of getting quality time with Charlie, I transferred to the local high school, only going to my mother's for long holidays and summers. It was difficult at first being away from her but it was something I had to do.

When I decided to stop treatment there was hell to pay at each household. They both, and my doctors, all said that treatment was my only hope if I wanted to live. They both said the longer I do this the longer I'm going to live. But they don't see how much chemo affects me. I always had abdomen pain, random chills, nausea; also a lot of my skin was dry and irritating. I was so sick of it, and I figured I was going to go sometime right? So I might as well make my last days, weeks, months, and years, matter to me. Make them the way I want them to be, not some doctor.

I sighed looking at my short hair and then turned around to pull on some jeans and a midnight blue sweater for the first day of school. Ugh if I'm going to die soon, why do I need to go to school?

Well, according to Jessica, one of my best friends, going to school today was top priority because of the arrival of five new students. All of whom were adopted.

I, of course, didn't care. What's the point of getting close to someone I'd have to leave? Jessica, however, thought that this was huge! We never get new students in Forks, probably due to the constant rain.

I made my way downstairs to grab something to eat before I had to leave for school. When I got there, though, nothing looked good. I sighed and just walked out the door, grabbing my bag on the way.

I got into the truck Billy and Jacob gave to us this past spring and turned on the engine. A loud cracking sound happened, like always. But I didn't complain, because the dying old truck reminded me of me. Fighting just to start up.

When I got to school not many people were there. I did see Tyler's van parked, so I got out and walked up to his car noticing he was still sitting in it.

"Hey Bells. How was your summer in Arizona?" he asked as I opened up the passenger door.

"Same as it was last year. It was hot, and sunny," I said depressingly. I still haven't gotten used to the fact that the sun never shines here. "Did the new students arrive yet?"

He shrugged. "How should I know? They probably have the same type of car we all have, so how would anyone know?" He paused and then unbuckled his seat belt signaling that he was ready to meet up with the others

We both got out his car and made our way across the parking lot to sit on a picnic bench. Surprisingly it wasn't raining, but it was just as gloomy as ever. Jessica, followed by Angela, joined us shortly after.

"Bella!" Jessica and Angela yelled running over to hug me. "You're finally back! I thought you said you would be back a week ago so we could hang out before school," Jessica said. "We have loads to talk about."

I smiled and shrugged. "I wanted to spend a little bit more time with my mom and her fiancé." Man, telling everyone would be a ton easier.

"How are Renee and Phil? Are they getting married soon?" Angela asked.

"Yea, they are going to get married in Sept-"

"Oh my god! Look at that car!" Jessica said elbowing me. I groaned, thinking about the bruise that was going to appear there.

All of our heads turned to follow her. There was a silver, shiny Volvo parking right across from where we were sitting. "I bet those are the new kids," Tyler whispered to me."

Sure enough, five people got out of the car and looked curiously around the parking lot. There were three males, one with brown hair (extremely tall and muscular), one with blond hair (not as big, but still tall and toned)and the last one had reddish-brown hair (just a little shorter than the blonde but still looked powerful). There were two females, one with blond hair (Sharp features) and one with short brown hair that sort of spiked out (pixie looking). They were all extremely pale, I mean they made me look tan and I was practically half albino.

"Who are they?" Angela asked in awe.

"They look scary," Tyler said next to me.

"Whoa," Jessica said.

I just sat there. I tried to say something, but no words came to mind. It was just that they were so different, so beautiful, it was weird. I've never seen anyone like them.

The blond boy grabbed the pixie's hand and as the big buff guy wrapped his arm around the blond girl, but the smallest one stood behind them all smirking at something. Then they all gracefully walked away.

"Are those the new kids?" Mike asked behind us.

Jessica and Tyler nodded, still staring off to where they were.

"Whoa, they seem to know how to make an entrance, huh?" Mike asked me, suddenly standing in front of me.

I opened my mouth, but I doubted I could say anything, so I just nodded.

"Um, how was your summer Bella?"

I cleared my throat before answering. "Good, same old, same old. How was yours?"

"Great. The store is getting some good business," he said proudly.

"That's good."

"So what's your first class?"

"Um," I started looking at my schedule, "English, then History, then I have break, then Spanish, Trig, Lunch, Biology, and Gym."

"Hey I have English, Biology and Gym with you," he said excitedly.

I smiled and nodded. Great, I thought, now he's going to be all over me like a lost puppy. It wasn't like I didn't like Mike, but he was just so loyal that he reminded me of a golden retriever.

Jessica always told me how much Mike must like me to be like this, but I told her a dozen of times I don't feel that way, and I don't date. I can't date, actually. I don't want anyone to get to close to me now that my time is numbered.

We all started to part at that moment. Tyler and Angela were walking off towards the Biology building, Jessica towards the Gym, and Eric running up next to Mike and me as we all made our way to English.

"So did you guys see the new kids?" Eric asked as we made our way to our seats.

Mike scoffed. "Yea, nothing special."

"That's not what I heard," Eric said smirking.

"What did you hear? They've been here for five minutes," I chimed in.

"Bells, you should know by now that news travels fast in a school this small. Remember the day you came to school? We all knew your name by second period!"

"That's true," Mike said nodding his head. "So what did you hear Eric?"

"All the girls want to get with the Cullen boy's, which is the family's last name except for Rosalie and Jasper Hale. The others are Emmett, Edward and Alice Cullen. I don't really know which is which but those are the names," he said smugly.

"How you hear all this, I will never understand," I said shaking my head in disbelief as the teacher called order to the class.

I didn't see the Cullen's or Hale's for the first half of the day. Jessica said that Alice call, the pixie girl, was in her second period class.

"She seemed very focused, it seemed like. But like not on the teacher you know? Like she was waiting for something to happen. She's quite odd," she said on our way to lunch. "Have you had any classes with them?"

I shook my head. "I'm sure we will have lunch with all of them.

Sure enough, when we got into the cafeteria, they were all there. They all had a plate of food in front of them, but they weren't eating it. Instead they were just staring off in all different directions.

They are odd, I found myself thinking. But I couldn't help notice how beautiful they all were. It was like they were Inhuman.

When we all sat down at our table; conversations of the summer started immediately. My appetite was lost at the idea of having to tell them my summer consisted of another round of chemo and a sudden decision to stop treatment on my part would be an immediate conversation killer. So instead I just stared at my food, picking it apart and pushing it around so as not to catch anyone's attention.

My eyes started to casually wonder through the crowds of people sitting and laughing with their friends, and then my eyes wandered to the Cullen's table. They were still all looking off into different spots.

I tilted my head a little to the side, trying to figure them out. They weren't talking with each other, and they seemed to be avoiding eye contact with anyone, not even themselves.

Suddenly one of the guys looked up and locked eyes with me. It scared me, but not the way it should have. I felt like he was trying to warn me off, but I was too stunned by his attention to me. Attention that I wanted from him.

"Hello, Bella, are you okay?" Angela's voice called to me.

I suddenly snapped back into reality and looked back down at the table feeling the blood rush to my cheeks. "What? Sorry, I didn't catch that…" I said breathlessly.

Jessica giggled next to me. "That's because you were caught staring at Edward."

"Who's Edward?" I asked.

"Edward Cullen, the boy with the reddish-brown hair over there," she said nodding her head to their table. "How did you not know? He's the single one of the group."

"I told you I don't date."

She sighed, frustrated. "And I told you, I don't understand why! Why wouldn't you want to go out Edward Cullen? Look at him! He's gorgeous!"

I rolled my eyes at her. I would love to be able to do all this normal teenage girl stuff, but I just couldn't. "Ange, what were you saying?" I said trying to change the conversation.

"Oh, right, I was asking when your mom is getting married. You never told me this morning," she said.

"Her and Phil's wedding is on September 23."

"Wow, that's happening soon. Are you going home for the wedding?"

"Of course, I'm going to be the maid of honor," I said happily. "I was trying on a ton of dresses over the summer. It was torture!" I grimaced.

"Oh Bella, you're such a drama queen. You are probably the only girl who hates to try on dresses!" Jessica exclaimed.

I scoffed as we all got up to throw away our trash. On our way out of the cafeteria, I got one last glimpse of Edward as he made his way to one of the buildings for the sixth hour. If only…

Mike and I got into Biology just in time. Mr. Banner was already assigning seats for the rest of the year. Mike got to sit next to a girl named Molly Worst, who had glasses and short blond hair. He gave me a wary look as he went to his desk.

"Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen," Mr. Banner said pointing to the seats.

My eyes went wide as I made my way back to the desk in the last row of the right side of the room. On my way there, however, I tripped over Nicole Nova's bag. Luckily I was able to catch myself, but I did notice her giggling quietly to herself.

As if my life wasn't complicated enough. I'd probably kill myself just by being a klutz before the cancer gets me…

As I sat down I quickly glanced at Edward hoping he didn't see my trip right in front of him. When I looked at him though I almost jumped out of my seat, well I would have if my feet didn't feel like they were attached to the floor.

He looked like he was in pain of some sorts. His hands were gripping the desk so tightly I though he might actually break it. His eyes were so dark; they looked black against his skin. They were glaring at the top of the table. He had purple bruises under his eyes. Yet after all of this, he was still beautiful. It didn't seem right.

I quickly looked away from him and put my hair over my shoulders to make a curtain for myself. As I looked through my hair though, I saw him looking down on me. Like he was trying to figure something out; like he wanted to eat me. Weird.

Every time I looked up at the board I could feel his eye burning into me. And every time I looked over to him through my hair, he was glaring at me with such a hatred I wondered if existing was some major sin. This class couldn't be over fast enough.

I looked around the room to see if anyone else noticed the disgust that filled his eyes as he stared at me but no one was looking at us. Not even the pair besides us. They were all paying attention to whatever Mr. Banner was talking to us about.

Maybe my mind was just playing tricks on me. Maybe I was just imagining all of this, or maybe I was still sleeping in my bed and this was just some bizarre dream that seems so real.

Well, it was confirmed that I was not dreaming when Mike and I made our way over to gym. We were playing dodge ball for the day and when one of the boys on the other team hit me, I felt the pain in my arm so I knew I couldn't be dreaming.

But maybe I was still just imagining things with Edward. Maybe he was just wondering why I was acting this way around him. Maybe I was the freak to him. Well, that's much better. Ugh. It's not like I was exactly normal.

"Bella, are you okay? You got hit pretty hard by Dustin," Mike asked me after class.

"Yea, I'm fine. I just wasn't expecting it, you know?"

He nodded as he opened up the gym doors. The cold breeze hit my face making my hair wave behind me. It felt so nice. The smell of the rain lingered in the air. It was one of my favorite things about Forks.

"So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil, or what?" Mike asked as we walked across the parking lot to our cars.

Great, so I wasn't imagining it. And he really does hate me, I thought to myself. "Um, no I didn't. I guess he just doesn't like me."

"Why? What did you do?" Mike asked offensively.

I raised my eyebrow as I unlocked my door. "I don't know and I really don't care." I opened my door and started to climb in. "Sorry Mike, but I'm exhausted. I really just need to get home and rest. The first day is always the worst."

He nodding, thinking I was just talking about spending seven hours in school was too long a day after two and half months of summer vacation. What he didn't realize was that I was exhausted from just being active all day. I'll probably go home and sleep till tomorrow, and I was just fine with that.

I just wanted to forget Edward, and everything he makes me feel, even if he doesn't feel that way. Its better this way, the little voice in my head said, it's one less person you will hurt. It'll be easier this way.

I knew the voice was right, but I just wanted a chance.

A/N: Tell me what you think of it and if I should continue!