Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.

Some quick explanations:

Okay, so for the sake of my story, I felt the need to alter a few things from how they actually are in the Twilight series. So, to avoid confusion, here are a few brief explanations:

Bella: is 16, almost 17, and entering her junior year at Forks High School. She's been in Forks for a year already, and her boyfriend is Jacob Black.

Jacob: is 15, almost 16, and entering his sophomore year of high school at the La Push school. He's been together with Bella for several months now, and has NOT become a werewolf (yet). His best friends, Quil and Embry, are also sophomores and not-yet-werewolves.

The Cullens: have just moved to Forks. Edward and Alice will be entering their junior year of high school in Forks while Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper are entering their senior year. Nobody in Forks really knows them yet.

Okey-dokey, now that we've covered that…I suppose it's time to start with the actual story. Hope you enjoy.

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I stepped out of my old red truck into the rainy school parking lot. I sighed as I slammed the car door shut and started sloshing towards the school. Another day in the drizzling town of Forks. I didn't like the wet and cold that constantly plagued this place, but I'd long ago made my peace with it. If living here in this town with my dad and sloshing through puddles every day made my mom happy, I considered it a small price to pay. As much as my mom loved me and wanted me to live with her, I knew I would be a burden. Her new husband, Phil, traveled a lot, and if I was living with them my mom would have to stay home with me. She said she wouldn't mind, but I knew it made her miserable to go so long without seeing him. So it was that I'd made the decision, just over a year ago, to move in with my dad.

Last year had been my sophomore year in high school, and it had been terrible at first. People paid more attention to me because I was new, and because I am an absolute

klutz and liable to trip over my own feet at any moment, attention wasn't something I desired. But I'd survived the year, mostly thanks to my best friend and boyfriend, Jacob Black. I felt my heart lift and a smile tugging at the corner of my mouth just thinking about him. He didn't go to my high school- he lived out at La Push, the nearby reservation, and went to school there. But my father and his father were old friends, so I'd visited with him a lot. And despite the fact that he was more than a year younger than me, I'd connected better with him than with anyone else I'd ever met. I'd spent the majority of my summer with him, hanging out on the beaches of La Push. Now I was starting my junior year, and this was the first day.

I had friends at school too, of course, and I saw a group of them talking now under the sheltered part of the school. I splashed my way over to join them, knowing I had a while left before the bell rang to go to class.

"Hey, everybody," I said, coming to stand between Angela and Jessica.

"Oh Bella, look look!" Jessica squealed, bouncing up and down in excitement and pointing back towards the parking lot. "Aren't they gorgeous?"

"What?" I asked, squinting to see through the pouring rain.

"There are some new students today," Angela murmured, "See? They just pulled up in that silver Volvo."

I saw them now. There were 5 of them, and they were just leaving the car and walking towards us. And even through the rain, I could see that Jessica was right. They were all strikingly beautiful. And despite the fact that all 5 of them would stand out in a crowd because of their beauty, one in particular drew my eye. He was tall, but not as tall as the two other boys with him, and had messy bronze hair I could barely see beneath the hood of his rain jacket. The way he moved was smooth and graceful, even walking through the puddles of the parking lot. His skin was pale- even paler than mine- but not in a freaky albino way. And his face was so beautiful that I found myself unable to describe it.

"Bella? Earth to Bella…"

I tore my eyes away from him to look at Angela. Her eyebrows were raised questioningly- she'd noticed my staring. I blushed and looked down, reminding myself that I already had a boyfriend. A humorous, attractive, kind, perfect boyfriend. The bronze-haired boy was just a pretty face, and I had no clue what was behind it. I tried to keep that in mind as he and his siblings walked by, the wind blowing from behind them and sending a whiff of their wonderful scent our way. The bronze-haired boy's eyes flicked over each one of us as he passed, and they were a deep, golden color. When his eyes met mine, I swear they lingered for a bit longer on me than anyone else. A puzzled expression came over his face and he seemed to look closer, and I felt heat rush to my face as a strange feeling seeped through me. His eyes continued to bore into mine until he turned a cornered and disappeared.

"Wow…" Jessica breathed, her eyes wide. "Do you think they'd come and sit with us at lunch? Probably, if I ask…I hope we have lots of classes with them, those three guys especially! Do you think they're in our grade? They might be older, they look older…but there's nothing wrong with them being older, right? If anything, that's better… Oh my gosh, they're so hot! Ang, don't you think that-"

Her babbling was cut off by the bell, warning us that classes started soon. I couldn't seem to find my voice, so I just nodded to them before stumbling off.

No matter how hard I tried to concentrate on my classes that morning, I couldn't seem to clear my head of that feeling I'd gotten when his golden eyes had stared deep into mine.

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Hope you all liked the first chapter. Please review, even if you just want to tell me it's a really awful. I'd be cool with that. Anyway, I hope to update every few days or so, but I'm not sure how busy I'll be. To be honest, I'm not sure where this story is going yet. It'll be a surprise to you and me both. Hope you keep reading it! Remember to review!