Hello guys! Okay, this is my first fanfiction ever, so this is all quite new to me.

I'd like to apologize in advance for grammar and spelling mistakes: I do my very best, but I'm from Québec (happy 400th anniversary XD), so my first language is french. I started to really learn english a few years ago. I'm bilingual when it comes to speaking and understanding, but I still make some mistakes when it comes to writing. If you see any, really, feel free to tell me: I won't be angry or anything. And if you have some things to say to help me improve my english, say it. It'll make me more than happy.

Disclaimer: Characters and main story belong to Stephenie Meyer. But, of course, you knew that.

Bella POV

"Cheer up Bella! Carlisle's family will be there in less than 5 minutes!"

That was Rosalie for you. When Tom told the family that his old friend Carlisle would be visiting us for a while with his whole family, she seemed to care just as much as I did. But, somehow, as soon as she learned that he had two boys our age who were single, her view on the subject changed drastically.

"Come on, Rose. You're not even interested in meeting the man. You just want to sex up his two kids." I retorted.

"Can you blame me? Honestly, look at us. We're immortal and more beautiful than Aphrodite herself! So, seeing male versions of us… I still wonder how you managed to stay a virgin in more than 150 years."

"I still wonder how you managed to have sex with every vampire that has walked on this earth but not with Jasper and Tom."

"Oh, come on. Jasper is like a brother to me, and Tom is as much of a father to me as he is to you. That's why. Plus, you're wrong." She said, proudly.

"Oh really, am I?"

"Well… I didn't have sex with Carlisle and his two sons." I sighed. "What are their names already? Edwin? What's the other one?"

Once again, I let out a sigh. "Edward and Emmett. According to Lisa, who met them 30 years ago, Edward's a weird, stuck-up pianist who doesn't care about anything but his music and Emmett is as big as a bear."

She took in their descriptions. "Oh well. That Emmett dude looks quite scary. But the Edward one… I guess he'll be a nice challenge!" She beamed with an evil look in her eyes. "What about the girl?"

"Alice. She's small, she looks like a pixie and she shops as if life depended on it."

"Nice. Guess I just found someone to help me into torturing you into shopping trips!"

"Ugh. Whatever."

Jasper ran into the room and started talking. "Well, girls, the Cullens just arrived. You'd better get downstairs before Esme, Tom and Lisa decide to torture you." Rosalie and I went to get downstairs, but Jasper took my arm. "Sis, seriously, cheer up."

"Yay!" I cheered, sarcastically. Jasper sighed.

"You've always wanted to learn piano, Bells. I heard one of the guys played it flawlessly. He could teach you." He seemed to wait for some sort of response from me. "You know, nothing is going to happen to you."

"You don't know these things."

"Look… Bella, I know you're still not completely open with men because of what happened before we got changed into vampires, but trust me. I won't let anything happen to you this time. You're stronger, we're stronger. Okay?" He waited for me to say something, but I just kept staring into his topaz eyes. "Look, Tom assured me that Carlisle was a great guy and that he wouldn't carry around bad guys. He's protected you just as much as I did all these years. A little trust in us would be nice."

I kept looking at him to find any trace of doubt, but I couldn't.

"Okay, Jasper. I'll try. I'll try my best, even. But as soon as one of them starts to get on my nerves, I'm kicking them out and nobody has a say in it whatsoever."

Jasper grinned. "Let's go then."

We got downstairs and our whole family was waiting. In addition, there were four people I had never seen. Tom was handshaking a tall, blonde man in his 20s. "Carlisle, my friend, it's just been too long!"

"Well, we're just glad to be there" Carlisle (I assumed), answered. "Lisa, you look absolutely beautiful."

"Thank you Carlisle. You don't look so bad yourself." She smiled at him.

"Oh, Carlisle, would you mind stop flirting with my wife?" The whole room laughed together at that. "Now, everybody, let's sit down and get to know Carlisle's family."

Carlisle started to speak. "Well, as you might have understood, I'm Carlisle Cullen. I was born in the 1640s and got changed when I was 23. Ever since, I've been on the animal diet. Just like Tom, I work as a doctor and blood doesn't intimidate me anymore." He turned to look at the girl standing beside him. She was a small as you can get, had black spiky hair and one of the biggest smiles I had ever looked at.

"Hi! I'm Alice. I don't remember anything that happened before my change nor during the change. But I love to shop and I'm excited to be here! Oh and, I can see the future."

Jasper spoke up. "The future? That's pretty cool. How does that work?"

Alice smiled widely at him. "Well, it's a bit weird. The future isn't made of rocks, it can change depending on people's decision. By example, I could see someone snatching your arm off, but if you decide to fight back, I would get to see a different outcome."

She turned to look at the guy beside her. God, he was huge.

"Hello! I'm Emmett. Got changed because a bear attacked me near of where Edward and Carlisle were hunting. I enjoy video games. I do a lot of pranks too. I'll try not to get the house destroyed. I'm pretty strong too. And that's about it. Next is…" he turned to look at the boy standing beside him.

I didn't really look at him when I first entered the room, but now, I was captivated by him. He had thick, disarray hair of a strange, unique, red-brown color that I could only described as bronze. I had always thought topaz eyes looked kind of stupid, but his were almost smoldering. He was truly beautiful.

"Edward. I got changed by Carlisle before dying of the Spanish Influenza in 1918, which makes me 17. I enjoy music…"

"Enjoy?" Emmett questioned. "That's the biggest understatement of the century, Eddie."

"Okay, okay, music is the center of my universe and I play piano. I can also read minds. But…" he slowly turned his head to look right into my eyes. I was glad I couldn't blush as a vampire, because if I would have been human, I would have bed a hundred shades of red. "… somehow, I can't read yours" he finished.

When I was about to answer this, Tom cut me.

"I'll explain that when I'll introduce our dear Bella. I'm Tom, the leader of this coven. I've been a vampire for more than 500 years, and my only power is to be completely immune to human blood. Beside me is my wife Lisa. Beside Lisa is Esme, who is Rosalie's godmother, who is standing right beside her. Rosalie has one power, and it is to know what a person wishes the most."

When he presented Rosalie, the eyes of all men except Jasper and Tom seemed to soften. Of course: we were talking about Rosalie Hale, the perfect description of beauty. Tall, perfect, blonde. And she knew how men got weak just by looking at her.

"At the end of the room are Jasper and Bella, who are real life brother and sister, even if they look like polar opposites. Jasper's power is to feel anyone's emotions and to alter them if he wants to. Isabella, now, is an odd one."

Wow, thanks Tom. Really, I thought.

"Somehow, she ended up with more than one power. She is able to know when a person is lying or saying the truth. Also, she can block anyone's power if she wants to. This is why…"

Edward interrupted Tom with his velvet-like voice.

"But, I don't understand… why are you blocking me?"

Tom, turned to look at me, not exactly knowing what to say to the boy. Well, you see, Bella just doesn't trust you and doesn't want to because of previous experiences with men. Sorry! Of course, he couldn't say that. He was Tom. But I didn't want to answer Edward, so I looked at the floor. As I expected, it was Jasper who broke the silence, probably sensing everyone's confusion and my shame.

"I won't really enter into details here, but she prefers to block people she doesn't know or trust. Esme and Rosalie moved in with us 19 years ago and she just let Rosalie know what she wishes the most a year ago."

Edward looked at Jasper, even more confused than before. "Then why is Alice able to see her future?"

I lift my head up before Jasper could have the time to answer his question.

"Because it doesn't imply me letting her in. By example, with Jasper and Rosalie's powers, they get to learn something about me that is meant to be private. My future, however, concerns all of us, unlike my emotions, my wishes or… my thoughts."

Edward looked at me as if he had just been slapped.

"I still don't understand. I'm obviously not there to hurt you. Why wouldn't you let me in? It makes no sense!"

Before I could even come up with a reply, I went out of the house and ran away. From my family, from Edward and from all my past, which kept coming back to me.

Author's Note

So this is my first chapter. Is it any good ? Of course, this is kind of dumb to ask already: this chapter is kind of a filler of some sort since I had to introduce all characters. I also added a power to Rosalie: I don't know why, but I just thought she deserved one for some reason. Just being beautiful apparently isn't enough, hehe.

I know Bella is frustrating here. She'll be frustrating for a little while, but you have to understand her; her background isn't exactly the prettiest thing in the world. But don't worry: she WILL come around and trust Edward.