A/N: Okay so this is my first journey. I'm hoping that at least a few people would like to come with me and try and enjoy themselves. I'm hoping that the people who may start with me now, will stay with me throughout the ups and downs. Even though there may be times when you hate my guts, I'm hoping that by the end you may actually give me a round of applause and maybe even recommend me. Lofty goals but just what I'm hoping : )

This is based off what I hear in this song (the italics)…probably a lot different than what some people hear but hey, I'm not perfect. Review!

Elevator buttons and morning air

Strangers' silence makes me wanna take the stairs

If you were here we'd laugh about their vacant stares

But right now, my tongue is theirs

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves

They'll judge it like they know about me and you

And the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do

The jury's out, but my choice is you

So don't you worry your pretty little mind

People throw rocks at things that shine

And life makes love look hard

The stakes are high

The waters rough

But this love is ours

You never know what people have up their sleeves

Ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me

Lurking in the shadows with their lip gloss smiles

But I don't care, cause right now you're mine

And you'll say don't you worry your pretty little mind

People throw rocks at things that shine

And life makes love look hard

The stakes are high

The waters rough

But this love is ours

And it's not theirs to speculate

If it's wrong and your hands are tough but they are where mine belong and

I'll fight their doubt and give you faith with this song for you

Cause I love the gap between your teeth

And I love the riddles that you speak

And any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored

Cause my heart is yours

So don't you worry your pretty little mind

People throw rocks at things that shine

And life makes love look hard

So don't you worry your pretty little mind

People throw rocks at things that shine

But they can't take what's ours

They can't take what's ours

The stakes are high

The waters rough

But this love is ours

Prologue

I went through life "playing it safe". I never went to parties, I never dated boys my parents didn't approve of, I never stayed out past 10:30, and I never traveled outside of Washington.

For the first sixteen years of my life I was perfectly content in living that way. After all, better than safe then sorry, right? But then, something changed in me one day that was completely unexpected. I didn't want to always wear cardigans and always read my books. I wanted to live, I wanted to experience new things and be completely insane. I wanted to feel something other than contentedness. I wanted to have something so exciting and miraculous happen in my life that I could tell my children about one day; I wanted their eyes to light up in disbelief from my stories.

I didn't know how to change though, I had lived for so long in complete monotony that I had no clue what anything different felt like.

Just as I started to feel like there was no hope in a different life, he moved in right next door to me. He had an obvious tattoo displayed down his arm; he had a sleek motorcycle parked in the driveway right next to a shiny red sports car. When I first saw him my breath literally got caught inside my throat and I felt and I felt a spark inside of me that I had never experienced before. I wanted to know everything about him and I wanted to know what he had lived through; I wanted his lifestyle.

Charlie, my dad, had scoffed when he saw what I would describe as the epitome of perfection. He told me to stay away from him but I knew I wouldn't be able to. I needed to know Edward Cullen like I needed air to breathe. I had to know him.