Stephanie Meyer owns all of the characters, I'm just borrowing them for awhile.
Chapter 1
"Bella! Start movin' or you're gonna be late for your first day!"
I groaned into my pillow. It was just like Charlie to act cheery in the hopes that I would too. Not much chance that'll happen while I'm in Forks.
I groaned again before getting out of bed. There was nothing Charlie could do to make me dread this day any less. Being the new girl was bad enough. Being the new girl in a town that had a smaller population then my old school was a nightmare.
I showered and got dressed deciding to wear my favourite hoody over a green blouse and black denim jeans.
"Morning Bells," said Charlie as I came downstairs and into the kitchen.
"Mornin'" I mumbled, fumbling with the milk and cereal.
"Looking forward to school? Not too nervous I hope."
I gave a noncommittal shrug as I sat down to eat my breakfast and he left it at that.
I finished my cereal and took it over to the sink to give it a rinse. Charlie stood up, looking eager to leave.
"Well, I better head off to the station. Most mornings I'll have gone by the time you get up."
"No worries Ch- dad. I'll see you tonight."
As Charlie left I decided I had better get going too if I wanted to have time to sign in at the office before class.
"Well, here we go." I said to myself under my breath.
Driving to my new school for the first time I noticed how everything was green. And wet. Yuck. I hated rain and everything to do with being cold and wet. And unfortunately forks consisted entirely of things that were either wet, damp, or cold.
Not like Phoenix. In fact Phoenix and Forks are basically at opposite ends of the spectrum. Not just in the weather categories either.
At my old school there where thousands of students. In fact my year level alone had more students than forks high school had all up. It was quite possible to go through high school in Phoenix and still not know everyone in your year.
I doubt the same could be said for Forks unfortunately. Everyone knew everyone. Being the new girl was going to suck. I wouldn't be able to just blend into the background here like I did back home.
Home. Forks is home now. I've got to stop thinking like I'm on some sort of holiday here and accept the fact that I'm living here now.
I finally got to school without causing any major accidents. I'd made sure I was the first person here so I'd have time to go to the office and check in before class. Hopefully I would have time to familiarise myself with the campus as well so I wouldn't be forced to ask for directions or read a map all day.
I pulled off the highway and into the school lot. The buildings where all drab concrete blocks. The smallest of the buildings at the front of the lot was what I assumed, correctly as it turned out, to be the front office.
After collecting my timetable and a sheet for my teachers to sign, I returned to my truck. By that time a few other cars has arrived and the drivers were chatting sociably, some throwing a curious glance at my beast of a car. Unlike Phoenix there weren't many fancy sports cars. The nicest car their was a Volvo that looked brand new.
I turned up the heat and the music and tried to finish the book I was currently reading. It wasn't long until the tardy bell rang indicating five minutes until first period started.
I hadn't realised the time because I was so engrossed in my novel. I quickly gathered my books and headed off, in what I hoped was the right direction, for my first class.
The cafeteria was refreshingly normal. There were all the usual cliques that high school tends to harbour. The jocks, the nerds, the emos, the loners. All of them had their own areas and stuck to the religiously.
I was having lunch with a few girls and guys with whom I had just had classes with. They were fairly nice so far. A bit chatty, but then I preferred silence so it may have just been me.
"So Bella, Phoenix huh?"
One of the girls was talking to me. I came out of my daze and gave the group my full attention. Hopefully I wouldn't be the centre of their attention for long. Shit, I'd forgotten her name. Hopefully someone would say it before I embarrassed myself.
"Isn't it meant to be, like, super sunny there?" she coolly asked "How come you're not tanned or anything? Just stay at home instead of going out?"
"I don't know." I replied "Didn't get outside enough I guess."
"Leave her alone Jessica." said Angela a girl I had sat with during one of my classes.
"What? I'm just having fun." Jessica said, turning away.
"Sorry about her," She lent over to whisper to me "She's just jealous that Mike is paying you so much attention. She isn't usually this bad."
I blushed at the mention of Mike paying me attention. Not because it was from Mike exactly. Just the attention in general. I'd much rather fade into the background than stand in the limelight.
As the rest of the group continued gossiping about the up coming dance, I returned to looking around at the people. After discretely scanning the faces of the closest tables I turned towards the back of the cafeteria. Upon seeing the only occupied table out of a few empty ones I did a double take. Surely my mind was playing tricks on me.
Sitting together were the five most beautiful people I had ever laid eyes on. There where three boys, although 'men' was probably more appropriate despite their age, and two girls. All of them had pale white skin and shadows underneath their eyes as if they had gone too long without sleep. But it didn't detract from their beauty. If anything it enhanced it.
Of the boys two had dark hair and one was blonde. The brown haired one was huge, a veritable wall of muscle. The blonde was also big but in a more confined way, and he sat perfectly straight as if with a plank down his shirt. The last and youngest looking had bronzish coloured hair. He wasn't as big as the other two but he was still 'built'.
Of the two girls one was blonde and the other had jet black hair. The blonde looked like a 70's pin up model. She was the kind of girl who would put a large dent in every other woman's self esteem straight away just by walking into the room.
And the raven haired girl. Her shoulder length hair was styled in perfect disarray. Not a single spike was pointing in the same direction. That, along with her beautiful and pointy features, and her rather short stature, gave her the impression of an elf or a pixie. Some mischievous creature of nature.
"The Cullens."
I was dragged put of my reverie by Angela taping on my shoulder. As I looked away from the raven haired beauty the bronze haired boy glanced towards us. He gave me an odd look before turning back to his group with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Sorry, what?" I asked, turning to Angela.
"The Cullens," she repeated, unnecessarily motioning towards the group I had just been observing. "They're Dr. Cullen's foster kids."
"Foster kids? So they're not related?"
"You'd hope not otherwise what they're doing is not only gross, it's illegal." said Jessica, butting into the conversation.
"Well Rosalie and Jasper, the blondes, are twins but the others – Emmett, Alice, and Edward - are unrelated." said Angela as if Jessica hadn't interrupted, point out each as she named them.
So the dark haired girl was Alice. It suited her.
"Hang on, what do you mean gross and illegal?" I asked, turning back to Jessica.
"They're all together is what I mean. Like 'together' together."
"Only Rosalie and Emmett are together for sure." interrupted Angela.
"Jasper and Alice are as well!"
"Ssshhh! What if they hear you? And anyway, there isn't any proof that that they're together. They're just... close."
"Whatever, either way Edward is definitely single." Jessica said, sighing at the end of her sentence summing up her feelings for Edward.
As the girls were discussing the possibilities and likeliness of the relationships, my gaze had returned to the group at the table. It seemed to be drawn to the short, dark haired girl - to Alice.
As I watched a strange thing happened. All of a sudden she stiffened, her eyes going wide: as if someone had poked her with a burning stick. At the same time the bronze haired boy - Edward - stood up almost knocking his chair over in his haste. He grabbed her by the arm and nearly dragged her out of the cafeteria. As they were leaving Alice seemed to snap out of it for a second and look directly into my eyes before disappearing out the door.
While this was happening the others at the table seemed to be at as much of a loss as I was. The big, dark haired boy - Emmett - went to stand, but the blonde - Rosalie - pulled him back down. Jasper was looking towards the door through which Edward and Alice had just left with an intense look of concentration on his face.
All this happened in less than ten seconds and I seemed to be the only one who noticed anything odd happen. What was going on? I turned to Angela and Jessica to see if they had witnessed the odd behaviour, but they were still deep in conversation. As I turned back to the Cullen table I saw that Jasper was now staring directly at me. I felt myself blushing as I hid my face behind my hair. At least I was starting to feel a bit calmer about the strange episode that had just happened.
The bell rang for the end of lunch and everyone got up in a deafening scrape of chairs and tables being pushed around. I got up for biology thinking that it although it would still be pretty dull here, at least there was going to be something good to look at.
Hey folks,
Cheers for reading and hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Eventide is an olde English way of saying the end of the day, otherwise known as twilight. Ha, bet you didn't see that coming. But I used it because it is the same but different to Twilight, which is basically the entire premise of my story. I'll try to update once a week, but I don't know how well I'll be able to stick to that schedule, I go back to uni July 26th. This is my first story so feedback would be great.
-TST
