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

Author's Note:

So...here is a new, new prologue. I am rewriting the whole story, because I didn't like the way it was turning out. There will some events and elements that I keep the same but largely it will be different starting with the prologue.

Summary:

Small town life is never very exciting, but for a group of teens trying to find themselves they run into a lot of trouble.

Friends become strangers and turn to other ways to cope, whilst some don't cope at all just getting closer to their breaking point. So when they get to the edge, will they ever be able to go back?

Prologue ~ Everyone

"I may not have gone where I intended to go"
- Douglas Adam's

Taking a deep gulp from the cheap can of beer she had in her hand, she sat down in front of the grave. Her eyes taking in the engraving on the stone, she wiped away the tears on her cheeks as she leaned forwards.

"We miss you" she spoke aloud, taking another gulp of beer. "None of us say anything, it's gotten so fucked up and I'm to blame for that" she put down the can and dropped her head into her hands, letting the tears fall.

"Bella?" snapping her head up, she turned her head to see Ben standing a few feet away from her. Hastily wiping her cheeks she got to her feet, grabbing the can as she stood.

"Ben" she gasped as he took a few step closer.

"I haven't seen you in a while" he said with a hint of concern in his voice, his gaze drifting to the headstone behind her, his lips tugged down in a frown and his brow furrowed.

"I went to Arizona for a while"

"Why?" she fidgeted, wringing her hands agitatedly and biting her bottom lip, which Ben knew was her tell.

"To see my mom" he just shook his head, as she glanced at her watch. "I should go"

"Okay" she picked up her bag and started to walk away when he turned and called out to her. "Bella!" she turned around but stayed where she was. "Did you see what happened that night? " she took a deep breath and then shook her head.

"I don't know what happened" pressing his lips together he nodded curtly and turned his back to her, facing the grave.

She made herself walk out of his line of sight, should he look around, as soon as she was out of the cemetery she ran towards her car. However as she ran, she tripped falling forwards and hitting her knee on the ground.

Staying on the ground, she let out a gasp as her knee struck the ground, putting her hands out in front of her, she moved back and sat down on the cold ground to inspect her knee. Her jeans had torn slightly and it throbbed a bit, but the injury was only minor, pulling herself up and realising she had dropped the can along the way. She walked on, reaching into her bag as she did and getting out another drink.

Bella soon got to where her car was parked, a light drizzle starting to fall when she put a hand on the door handle, stopping she reconsidered and walked on, leaving her car and continuing to drink.

By the time she got to the top of the cliff, she was unable to walk in a straight line, sitting by the edge she finished her drink and crushed the can before dropping it over the edge. Leaning forward to watch as it hit the rocks below and then disappeared under the waves that crashed against the shore and rocks at the bottom.

With her legs dangling over the edge, she gazed down at the sea, the waves coming down fiercely as the wind picked up and the rain fell harder. Her hair was now soaked and plastered to her head, she put her hands on either side of her leaning forward slightly and releasing a long breath as she took in the steep drop.

Closing her eyes she leaned forwards a bit more, feeling the wind blowing past and the rain falling down on her.

What would it be like to jump? Would it be over quickly? It would be easy to slip off the edge and plume into the water, she had done it many times before for the rush. But that had always been with her friends and never when a storm was coming in.

Keeping her eyes closed she thought of her friends, Jacob, Leah, Angela. Angela, at the thought of her she broke out into heavy sobs, the tears falling her cheeks and mingling with the rain drops, the wind howling now as the rain fell in sheets.

Opening her eyes she reached for her bag and dug through it to find her cell phone, finding it she dialled Jacob's number, then Leah's. There was no answer, trying Angela's number she got through to her answer phone, taking a few breaths to calm her hicuppy sobs, leaning back as the beep for the voice mail sounded in her ear.

"Angela?" she paused and wiped her cheeks. "I know I don't deserve any sympathy, but I could really use someone to talk to..." more tears and rain fell.

"You always knew what the right thing to do was and I always admired you for that. It was so easy for you and I need some conviction, no I need to know that...that...I don't know, I am talking nonsense"

"I can't see a way to make any of it right" she took another deep breath, her tear stopping for the moment.

"I guess this is my letter, not that anyone will hear it" hanging up she threw the phone on top of her bag and standing up with her feet right at the edge she kept her eyes wide open.

And jumped.

Ignoring her phone as it rang, Leah went to her brother's room and knocked on the door.

"Seth, don't you want any dinner?"

"Not hungry" came back a surly response over the sound of gunfire and an explosion. Sighing and shaking her head she went back to the kitchen getting her appetising microwave Mac and cheese out, walking past her phone on the table that flashed as she sat herself on the couch in front of the television.

Barely five minutes passes when Leah heard her brother's door open, only to hear the bathroom door slam shut shortly afterwards.

With another sigh, she went back to channel hopping until the signal was cut off by the storm rolling through town. Going back to the kitchen to get a glass of water, she saw her phone flashing, picking it up she went through her missed calls and seeing who it was from, she frowned deeply and put the phone down just as there was a knock on the front door.

Pulling the door open, there was a very soaked Jacob waiting on her doorstep.

"Go away Jacob" was her greeting to him, going to close the door on him, he put a hand out to stop her, able to do so as he was a fair bit stronger than her.

"Will you at least hear me out?"

"No" she replied quickly, standing her ground and crossing her arms over her chest.

"Leah I'm so-" he was cut off by a loud thud coming from upstairs, her head whipped round and Jacob looked up as well. "What was that?" Leah's eyes widened in shock.

"Seth!" forgetting about Jacob, she ran up the stairs and headed to the bathroom hanging on the door. "Seth! Seth! Open the door!" when she only heard silence and no moody retort, she banged on the door handle but it was locked.

Looking to Jacob who had followed her, he saw the fear in her eyes and moved past her motioning for her to move back, as he took a step back. He went forward, pushing his shoulder into the door, it rattled slightly but remained closed. Taking a step back again he put more force behind him, but it took a few more tries before the old lock gave in and splintered, the door swinging open and Jacob hurtling forward a couple of steps forward.

There was Seth on the floor, sprawled out blood all over his hands and pooling around him on the bathroom floor tiles.

"Oh my god!" she pushed past Jacob and fell to her knees beside him, to get a closer look horrified at the amount of blood and realising where it came from. "Seth!" he stirred weakly, his eyes opening slightly.

Jacob got out his cell, dialling 911 as quickly as he could as Leah in a panic looked round to find something to stop the bleeding.

Hearing their voices Seth, tried to open his eyes but they were heavy, so heavy. He just wanted to close his eyes and drift off but Leah was calling out to him, hysterical as she shouted out to him for him to stay with her.

Grabbing a couple of towels as Jacob got through, she wrapped the towels around his wrists seeing for the first time the multiple cuts up his arms, some of them older and faded into silvery scars, some of them newer and still healing.

"Oh Seth" she said her voice dropping as she cradled his head and kissed his forehead. "What have you done?"

Jacob reeled off the address and shortly after hanging up, kneeling beside Leah as she looked at his wrists the blood starting to turn the towels red.

"They are on their way" she nodded, focusing everything she had on Seth, Jacob looked at her and seeing the tear rolling down her cheek that she was oblivious to.

"There is so much blood, what if they don't get here quick enough?" her voice broke at the end and Jacob shook his head, moving closer and putting an arm around her as she held Seth.

"They will be here soon, it's going to be okay"

"How can you be sure?"

"I just am"

"Shit!" muttering to herself, Rosalie came out of the bathroom and sat at her dressing table, leaning her elbows on the table and covering her face with her hands. "Shit, shit, shit"

After a few moments she uncovered her face and glanced at herself in the mirror. Unlike on most days, she had no makeup on and her hair was scraped back into a messy bun, she felt unlike herself and with a shake of her head she turned away and redirected her gaze to her cell phone on the top of her bed. Standing up, she slowly walked over and picked it up, turning it over in her hands as she started to pace back and forth.

Still pacing she flipped open her cell and dialled he number, her thumb hovering over the call button. Staring at the screen and seeing the visual caller id, she pressed her lips together and took a shallow breath before clearing the screen and dropping the phone.

Staring at the phone on the bed, she shook her head and walked out of her room heading to the kitchen, when her cousin almost ran into her. He had his phone pressed to his ear and his jaw set.

"Jasper!"

"Sorry Rose" he muttered as he passed.

Walking towards his bike, he hung up his phone and hopped on his bike, thrusting the key in and peeling away from the house, a spray of gravel and dirt left behind him. Speeding off he attempted to navigate the twists in the road, not doing so well due to a lack of sleep and being high.

Getting to Alice's house he killed the engine as his phone rang, taking it out and answering the call he starting walking up the massive driveway to the door, taking in the only car in the front, Alice's yellow Porsche.

"Hello?"

"Are you planning on coming to work any time today, Jasper?" sniffing and wiping his nose on the back off his hand as he stopped walking for a moment.

"I don't work on Monday's, Tyler"

"It's is Thursday and your an hour late for your shift, this is the third time in two weeks what's up with you?" Jasper shook his head and tried to reach into his pocket and pull out his lighter and joint he had.

"Nothing, I'll be there later"

"Jas-" he hung up and continued walking. Hearing a rustling behind him he stopped and spun round, but there wasn't anything or anyone there staring hard into the line of trees that marked the edge of the forest that engulfed the small town, he narrowed his eyes searching for something.

Slowly turning around he walked on, but he kept his ear open for each little sound feeling a set of eyes on him the entire time, even as he rang the door bell.

"Jasper, I thought I heard your bike" Alice did not look happy. She crossed her arms, keeping the door only halfway open all of her body language indicating she wanted him nowhere near her. "What do you want?" another sound, make Jasper whip his head round again but he saw nothing. "Jasper?"

"Did you hear that, it came from the trees I think? Yes, definitely. Definitely. There is someone there, watching and waiting"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"They think I don't know they're there, but I do I hear them all the time. All the time" he spoke as if not interrupted, as if he hadn't heard Alice speak at all. All the while he kept looking around, his head moving quickly from side to side as heard the sounds again.

"Jasper!" he heard her that time and stopped, looking as her and closing his mouth. "What is up with you?"

"Nothing, nothing. I'm not the one with the problem!" his voice raised she frowned and dropped her arms, giving him a sideways glance wanting him to leave and yet she also wanted to know what was wrong as she felt a certain amount of concern for him.

"Look, do you want to come inside?" he didn't answer but as she opened the door wider he did walk inside and follow her to her bedroom on the top floor. "Are you okay?" she asked closing the door even though no one was home, going over to sit by the window as he remained standing.

"No" another sound and he whipped round. "Leave me alone!"

"Jasper?" he turned back around and shook his head.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come" he turned and went back to the door, yanking it open and all but running out.

"Jasper!" she called out, but he didn't stop and she followed him to the front door until he hopped on his bike. "Jasper, wait I-" the rest of her sentence wasn't heard by him as his bike roared to life and he sped off.

He was running now, he saw Bella on the cliff from the beach. He didn't want to talk to her, but when he saw her standing at the edge as the rain fell harder, he knew he couldn't just walk away now.

So when she jumped, it was like it all happened in slow motion and he was running towards the edge of the water. She went under and then didn't resurface, still running he pulled off his jacket and hastily kicked off his shoes before diving into the ice cold water.

Gasping as he came up for air, he still didn't see her and so without hesitation he went under even though the water felt like it was searing every part of his skin and he shook his lips going blue.

There was only one thought in his mind as his head went under water, his eyes wide open as he searched.

Bella.

Author's Note:

So, there is the new prologue!

At the moment I still have my two other stories Never Can Say Goodbye and The Secret is out on the go, but the former story is coming to a close so once that is finished (or maybe before, if I have the time) I will post the first chapter, depending if I get a good response or if I in fact get any response at all.

To the people reading this before I rewrote it I hope you like it, sorry if you preferred the previous chapters but I hope you give it go and read a little more.

Thanks for reading!