Hey, so this is my first story! :) They are all human, Bella and Emmett are brother and sister. Rosalie, jasper, Alice and Edward all live with Carlisle and Esme but are adopted, Jasper and Rosalie are twins, ditto Alice and Edward :) Bella's kinda gothic/emo as is Edward. Very long authors note I'm sorry.

(Bella POV)

Forks. Located in the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State. It was here that my father Chief Charlie Swan lived. It was here that my brother Emmett and I were going to be living from now on. It was two weeks ago today that my mother had been killed in a drink driving accident; it still chocked me up and brought tears to my eyes whenever she was mentioned, so people pretty much steered clear of that subject. I loved my mom and wished with all my heart that she was still with us, but everyone has their time I suppose.

"Bella?" Emmett asked, poking me.

"Mhm?"

"How much longer have we got, I'm bored" He whined, I laughed at his childlike behaviour. Emmett was my big brother. He was only a year older than me but looked so much bigger. Even though Emmett annoyed me to wits end, I loved him. He's the one person I can talk to about pretty much anything.

"3 hours left Emmett, then another hour to Port Angeles" Emmett groaned and lay back in his seat, I turned my I-pod back on and wasted the 3 hours with noisy background music.

"Bells come on, one more plane to go." Emmett said.

We finally sat down after a long wait in customs. The nerves started to set in, I had changed alot over the last year since Charlie had seen me. I was less... peppy. I dressed mostly in black, wore alot of black eyeliner and listened to loud bands which no one else liked. I wasn't accepted back home, everyone assumed that because of my drastic change that I had become different. My old friends ditched me and I became very shy, I didn't really talk to anyone other than my mom and Emmett. It saddens me that no-one could see the girl behind the music and clothes. I hoped that people in Forks weren't as narrow-minded.

"Ladies and Gentleman please stay in your seats until the plane has come to a complete stop, thank you" Said a voice over the intercom. I turned to Emmett, he was asleep with his hair sticking up everywhere and his mouth slightly open.

"Em, wake up" I said shaking him slightly.

"Nhya" he groaned "Five more minutes Bells"

"Em, we're in Forks, Charlie's gonna be waiting outside"

"Fine fine I'm up!" He said grumpily. The seatbelt sign flashed above us and we stood up, took our hand luggage and proceeded of the plane. Collecting our luggage only took ten minutes due to the small number of passengers flying. We walked out to the front of the airport and looked for Charlie.

"BELLA! EMMETT!" He shouted from beside his cruiser, I was not looking forward to riding in that! It was going to be a long drive home.

"Hey dad," said Emmett giving him a 'manly' hug then putting his luggage in the boot of the car.

"Good to see you son, when are you gonna stop growing! Every time I see you, you look bigger!" He said with a smile.

"All thanks to the weights" Answered Emmett cockily

"Gosh Bella, you've changed alot" Exclaimed Charlie giving me a hug.

"Yep" I said with a timid smile, a very awkward silence followed, Emmett put my suitcase in the boot of Charlie's cruiser and then we all just stood there.

"Well let's get going I'm sure you're gonna want to get settled in and such" I automatically got into the back of the cruiser whilst Emmett went into the front. For the full hour Emmett and Charlie talked non-stop about sports. I had no interest in sports, mostly down to the fact then whenever I played I just inflicted pain on myself and others around me. I stared dejectedly out of the window for the entire ride. Everything was so green. It started to drizzle, which progressed into heavy rain. That was one thing I was going to love about Forks, the rain. There wasn't enough of it in Phoenix.

"Well, we're here" Charlie announced, pulling up to the familiar house of my early childhood. "You guys know where your bedrooms and stuff are don't you?" We both nodded "Well after you've settled in we can have a chat about things and getting you two settled okay?" Charlie seemed very happy that we were finally here, he gave us both a crinkly eyed smile which I couldn't help but smile back at.

Emmett helped me lug my stuff up to my room. The room here was smaller than my room at home, however I preferred this one. It still had my faded lilac walls and the same familiar smell...a kind of floral smell . I put my clothes away quickly and focused on setting up everything else. I put my laptop on my desk, set up all my pictures; some of me and mom, me and Emmett pulling goofy faces and a picture from when I was about four and Emmett was five outside this very house, with mum and Charlie looking blissfully happy. Only a year after this was taken, we moved to Phoenix.

I brushed away the few stray tears and looked outside for a distraction; my room was directly above an extension that jutted out from the house. I opened the window and jumped out. I had a perfect vantage view. I could see next door's driveway and their back yard. I looked up at the sky. It was still very overcast but it was only drizzling now. I wondered if the clouds would ever clear enough for me to be able to see the stars.

"JASPER I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Screamed a high pitched voice that made me jump. I realised that the noise was coming from next door. When I had lived here 12 years ago that house had been empty but now it looked as if people lived there, angry people. I would have to ask Charlie about that later.

Reluctantly I climbed back into my room and went downstairs, knowing that Charlie wanted to talk to us. When I reached the bottom, Emmett was already there sitting at the table.

"Ah Bella" Charlie Greeted "There you are, come on sit down" I obediently sat."Okay, you guys have no idea how happy I am to have you living with me; obviously I wish it was under better circumstances but still I'm very happy." Charlie was like me, he didn't like expressing his emotions or showing his vulnerability. " Now, I have been living on my own for a while so I don't really cook, I usually just order take out..."

"SCORE!" Shouted Emmett "TAKE OUT EVERY NIGHT!" He said pumping his fist in the air.

"You're kidding right!" I said appalled. As much as I would love to eat take out every night, I knew it wasn't healthy.

"Shut up Bella, take out every night, that would be amazing"

"Well..." Charlie mused "I agree with Bella, you two are growing kids you need proper food, okay Bella there's a jar in the cupboard with all the money for food in it..." He warned.

"What so you're gonna let me cook every night?"

"Only if you're okay with it" He said

"I'd love to dad" I said smiling, cooking was one thing that I loved doing, I was starting to like Forks alot.

"Bellaaa" Emmett whined "I wanted take out" He pouted

"You kids" Charlie chuckled "Okay, transport?" He asked

"Our cars should be coming sometime tonight" Emmett Said "Well if you can even call Bella's a car" He muttered.

"Hey! Shut up about my truck, have some respect it's very older than you" I argued.

"I know I've seen it" He goaded.

"Come on kids no fighting!" Charlie warned.

"Stupid brother" I mumbled under my breath

"Okay well I think that's pretty much everything, now since I don't have any food in it'll be pizza tonight" Emmett made to leave the table, but I was still curious about the angry people next door.

"Dad?" I asked

"Yeah?"

"Who lives next door?"

"Oh that's the Cullen's, well and the Hales. and his wife live there and they've got two sets of twins" My eyebrows shot up in surprise "They're all adopted though" Charlie added. "Hey you should go and introduce yourselves!"

"Er, I'm good thanks" I said, I did not want to go round introducing myself to complete strangers, even if Charlie did know them.

"I'll go!" said Emmett gleefully "Coming with me dad?"

"Sure, I haven't spoken to Carlisle in a while" he added as an afterthought, and just like that I was left alone, I didn't mind though, I was very independent, I didn't like relying on other people, I revelled in the loneliness.

I decided that seeing as I wasn't brave enough to introduce myself I would eavesdrop instead. I climbed out my window and realised I had the perfect vantage point, I could clearly see the Cullen's' driveway and at the moment Charlie was talking to a man and a woman who I assumed where Dr. and Mrs Cullen. After that a small pixie like girl practically danced out of the house and started talking to Emmett at what looked like a very hyperactive speed. Even from where I was sitting she looked very pretty, she had short inky black hair that was sticking up in every direction. Emmett seemed startled at first but soon grew comfortable and started talking back, next came a tall, blonde lean boy, he went over to where Emmett and the girl were standing, he shook Emmett's hand and then took the small pixie girls hand in his own and smiled down at her. He was also very good looking he had a lazy sort of smile and light blue eyes.

The blonde boy walked back to the entrance of the house and shouted "ROSALIE!" after a few seconds a beautiful blonde girl came out of the house and walked over to Emmett. She had the kind of beauty that belonged to a swimsuit model. She had blonde hair and blue eyes, of course, extremely stereotypical, however I had learnt from my own experience not to judge people by their appearance, for all I knew this girl could be extremely nice. I saw Emmett smile coyly at her. Emmett liked pretty girls.

I was about to go back into my room when the most gorgeous boy I had ever seen walked out the door, well I could only see him vaguely but from what I could see, he had unruly bronze hair, gorgeous jade green eyes and was wearing a band t-shirt of some sort. He looked like the kinda guy that I would get along with.

As I was musing he suddenly looked up to where I was ogling him. I flushed bright red and scrabbled to get back into my room; once I had slammed the window closed I took a few deep calming breaths. I heard the front door open and close.

"BELLA!?" Emmett shouted from downstairs.

I walked down the stairs. "Yeah?"

"Why are you red?" He asked.

"Red? I'm not red. What do you want I'm busy"

"Doing what?"

"None of your business, now what do you want!?"

"You should have come over to introduce yourself, i know you're shy and everything but they're all really nice. There's this one guy...

"Really, well maybe I'll see them at school tomorrow." I said, eager to get out of his scrutinizing gaze, even though I hadn't done anything wrong, I felt guilty...

"Hm, well maybe but, Alice, she's like a little pixie and very hyperactive, anyway yeah she wants to meet you as soon as possible. I had to describe her to you in exact detail" He said chuckling "She was desperate to meet you"

"No!" I said horrified, I really didn't want to meet anyone "I mean, not yet tomorrow" The thought of having to meet these four teenagers struck fear inside of me.

"What's wrong? I know you're shy but still..."

I stayed silent.

"Bells?"

"What if they don't like me?" I whispered.

"Aww, Bells how could they not?" He questioned, pulling me into a hug "Your pretty, smart, quirky, funny, a bit annoying at time but I'm sure they won't mind too much"

I laughed against his chest,

"Thanks Emmett, I think I'm gonna go to bed, I'm exhausted and we've got school and stuff tomorrow" I said walking up the stairs.

"You sure Bells? Do you not want anything to eat?"

"Nah, I'm not really hungry anyway"

"Okay, well goodnight."

"Night, tell dad I said g'night as well" I said climbing the last few stairs, and finally reaching my room. I got my bag of toiletries and went over to the shared bathroom. Whilst in the water, the fear started setting in.

What if everyone hated me...?

What if people decided I was some social freak...?

What if none of the teachers liked me...?

I tried to clear these thoughts out of my head but they were relentless, they were like wasps, stinging me every so often. I finally switched the water off and stepped out, quickly changing into my pyjama's before the cold could set in. I could still smell the heavy aroma of my strawberry shampoo, it felt familiar, it felt as if I was still in phoenix, even if I had no friends there at least I knew the place pretty well.

I stumbled over to my bedroom, nearly falling twice, and threw myself onto my bed. Realising that I was going to have to dry my hair I groaned and reluctantly stood up. I had always loved my hair, I thought it was my best feature; it was a little bit below shoulder length and always looked glossy. It came in useful whenever my cheeks flushed (which they did alot) because I could just put my head forward and my hair would hide my face, even though my fringe covered half my face anyway.

I finally finished drying my hair, and one again collapsed onto my bed. I got under the cold duvet and fell into a fitful night's sleep, scared of what was to come tomorrow.

Okay, what did you guys think?? Can anyone guess who the mysterious green eyed boy is? It's not hard but whatever lol.

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