One of my first attempts at writing a proper fanfic so please go easy on me!
I do not own Twilight, I just like to make up stories about the characters ;)

Prologue

There is a quote that says "my life is my example." If this is true for everyone then I am trying to figure out what I would see if I looked at my life. On the outside I suppose other people would just see another average teenage girl, nothing special to look at, a bit socially awkward and I don't exactly have the best fashion sense; but I wish that for just one day, even one hour they could feel what I feel when I am alone, because in truth alone is basically all I feel. It is getting to the point in my life where in one way or another everybody leave, be it through death or moving away. The person that was my best friend here in Phoenix, Angela, moved away, and I think if somebody moves away everybody says that they are going to stay in touch and write to each other all the time and visit each other, but in reality we kept in touch for about a week and then all communication seemed to stop. I miss Angela so much right now, we were so alike, we read the same books, listened to the same music, and we were both also very quiet and we didn't always need to be talking and voicing our opinions to each other, we just got it. The silences were comfortable. I know that it is my own fault that I feel this way, it is my own fault that I feel sad, but, I guess in some kind of sick way I enjoy the unhappiness, it reminds me that things are fragile and that nothing lasts because everything can be so easily ripped apart. My name is Bella Swan, I am an only child, and recently my parents lives were taken in a car accident and now I am being shipped from my childhood home in Phoenix, Arizona to the tiny forest covered town called Forks, Washington because I have been adopted by a family called… the Cullens.

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Having only just turned seventeen and having no other living relatives I had to be adopted! I think that my social worker, Victoria thinks that there is something seriously wrong with me because ever since she has met me I have been basically devoid of any emotion at all. I don't think that she has seen me smile once. But what she doesn't understand is that I don't want other people to see my emotions, my feelings, they are for me to see and nobody else. But this has also resulted in the fact that once every two weeks when I arrive in Forks I have to meet up with some kind of therapist just to make sure that I don't lose my mind.

Victoria, with her crazy, curly, firey hair is going to be flying to Forks with me to make sure that I meet my adoptive parents okay, and that I don't try and run off anywhere in either airport. The only reason that I am thankful to the Cullens is because if they hadn't decided to adopt me so quickly I would have been stuck in the system moving from foster home to foster home waiting for the day someone decided to adopt me.

I leave to go to Forks in exactly one day. Victoria and I are at my house getting together the final pieces of my belongings and the things I want to keep of my parents belongings, I get to sleep here for one last night and then we leave at 8am. Packing the whole of my Phoenix life into a few small boxes and 2 medium sized suitcases makes me realise just how pathetic my life in Phoenix really is. I have endless amounts of classic books where I suppose a normal teenager would have CD's, posters, make-up and other insignificant things.

Tomorrow is going to be the first day of my new life, I am just really hoping that is doesn't turn out to be as fucked up as the first seventeen years of my life!

Next chapter- It's time for Bella to meets the Cullens...
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Olivia x