Ok hello all, I just want to say this is my 1st story, I don't write, well I didn't think I wrote! I have been reading fanfic & listening to my I-Pod all week because I'm sick, stuck in bed and feeling sorry for myself. I had it on shuffle and a couple of songs that I listened to made me start to think of this story, after dreaming it a few nights in a row (and in pieces) I decided to let my fingers do some walking. As you will notice I am not very good with grammar and punctuation, so if you are going to PM me or leave feedback about that, don't. If there is someone out there that would like to edit this story so it looks polished and pretty just let me know :o) Thanks ALL!!

Oh & I Don't Own Any Of This Other Than The Story Idea!!

BPOV

We have been together 10 years, I thought we were making a life together..i was wrong. In the matter of one night my life as I knew it went upside down and I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to right it. My name is Bella, Isabella Marie Newton that is. I met my husband Mike online (before it was cool) 10 1/2 years ago. I'll be the first to admit that I have some self-esteem issues; well hell, honestly I have hardly no self esteem and much less self worth, but who new that friendships I made over 14 years ago would bring the best group of people back into my life and change who I thought, or rather who I was convicted I was. ..

**flashback**

1st days of High School- 9/18/94

7:25am -As Charlie pulled the cruiser up to the front of the school it finally sunk in that I was here, here, in Forks Washington. Dammit why did I agree to this? Oh yeah, it's that whole your mother married you step father and now ever since you hit puberty he won't stop hitting on your…ewww gross. So instead of putting up with that crap I decided to give Charlie & Forks a try.

Charlie turned off the engine and met my brown eye with his, "Isabella, you can do this, you are bright, funny & smart." "Everyone will like you, everything will be fine." I looked over at him and said "Thanks Char…I mean, thanks dad, but you are a worse lier than I am." With that I got out of the cruiser and walked into the front office to get my schedule and map. I was reading it when the 1st warning bell rung for 1st period. They were trying something new with the freshman this year, we would have what you call "Block" classes, it was someone's brilliant idea that the "core" classes, English, Science & Math needed to be hour-and-a-half long each and we would get to start school at the ungodly hour of 7:30am. So I made my way to the Science building to started my day with Bio-Science.

*1st period Bio-Science Think Lecture Style Room, 4 Long Table*

As the 1st period warning bell rung I hurried into the classroom, looked up at the assigned seating chart on the over-head and noticed that I was smack dab In the middle of the classroom. "Oh great, just what I love attention." I thought with a lethal amount of sarcasm. I ran over to my table, and up the first small steps to the second row but as per normal when I'm in a hurry what can go wrong, will go wrong. I tripped over a backpack that a student left out in the isle but luckily before I bit it and made a complete ass of myself I was able to catch a hold of the table and right myself. That's when I heard the huge boisterous laugh coming from the center of the room. "Great, now I have to deal with someone laughing at me all year." I hated being new, well we are freshman so I guess this school is new for all of us. I guess it just bugged me the most of these kids went to junior high together, at most they might ask each other how their summers went..but oh no, me being the "Cheifs daughter who fled from her flighty mother"..I'm sure I would get much more than "How was your summer questions." I slowly made my way to the center of the room, hoping that I didn't knock anyone in the back of the head with my backpack on my way in.

I turned to my seat and noticed the guy who was laughing before was just grinning at me, even sitting down he was taller than me, I'm wasn't too short I was 5"1 and hoping for a growth spurt in the near future. The boy had beautiful deep chocolate brown hair that seemed to want to stick one way or the other, the only reason it didn't was because of the mess of curls that weighed it down. His eyes were like sapphires, the deepest blue I had ever seen. I just stared at him, but not in the "I want to jump you now way" just like we were kindred souls and I knew that we would be great friends. "Hi, my name is Emmett Cullen." He said. "Bella." he took my hand in his huge bear paw and said, "Good to meet you, I thought I was going to have to sit here all semester being bored out of my mind, but, just by what happened our first day I can see you are going to be very entertaining." I looked at him, not sure if he really wanted me to take that as a complement or not. "Um..thanks I'm glad I can make your life a happier place." Then pulled my bag off my shoulder, took out my notpad and sat down.

The first part of class went by with no other "incidents of my klutziness" when we got our 15 minute break I pulled my back pack up and when I unzipped it to get my bottle of water my retainer case feel out, not just a normal one, when I woke up this morning and took my retainer out I couldn't find my plain one so I settled on my Thurndercats one. (A/N: Sorry guys but I'm of that generation so we're going to roll out references to stuff like Thurndercats & Voltron like nobody's business and if you're nice I might throw in some He-Man, She-Ra & Smurfs in these little flashbacks) "Oh, cool ." Emmett said, "I thought I was the only person who had a cool retainer case like that." I looked down "umm..how is it cool." He looked at me puzzled. "How is it not cool, I meant come it's Thundercats..oh look at mine, I have a Voltron one." I giggled at him, I couldn't help it, sure I had always been a tomboy and sure I liked most things girls didn't, but to see so much excitement in his face just over a retainer case..well it was priceless.

The bell rung to get us back going on Bio-Science when Emmett leaned over and said, "Hey, how long have you had yours? " "My what?" he sighed "Your retainer silly." I looked at him "Oh, about 2 months. " I saw him evil glint in his eyes. "I'm bored do you wanna have some fun?" I looked over at him . "Sure I guess, what?" he pulled out his retainer case and said "I dare you to ware your retainer for the rest of the morning. I've only had mine for 3 months and still can't say anything that starts with an "s" without it sounding dirty." I laughed and him and pulled mine out, popped it in and proceded to say "Smurftastic." oh he was right even saying that sounded dirty. We proceeded to go on threw out he morning this way going back and forth saying things with our retainers in, we had all 3 block classes together so by the time lunch came around I had tears in my eyes.

Emmett asked if I wanted to meet up with some of his friends for lunch, I told him sure. We walked up to a lunch table sitting outside the "Senior Walk" (we'll go over this later) a blond haird boy with icy blue eyes was sitting there waiting for Emmett. "Hey dork, how was your morning?" Emmett asked. The blond boy looked at him and said "Not bad, could have been worse." He looked at me and jumped down off the table, grinned and then took a bow. "Jasper Whitlock." He said. "Bella Swan." I said back to him. He then took my hand in his and kissed the top of it. I blushed of course. "It's nice to meet you little lady."he said with a southern drawl, that's when all three of us started to laugh. Emmett told me that Jasper was pretty new too, he only moved here the middle of 7th grade so he had already been through what I was going through.

**End Flashback**

That was the day that I met my two very best friends and really the only thing that got me through high school was our friendship.

I hope you guys like it, please let me know, i started writting this about an hour ago and i'm already starting on the next couple chapgers, i want to get them up ASAP!! :o)