"Bella come on it'll be fun" Mike begged and pleaded for his friend to go with him. She usually didn't need much prodding, but today she felt especially uncomfortable with the idea of leaving school and doing drugs. But in a town as small and dreary as forks a teenager has to be creative in order to pass the dull and tedium of everyday.

"No mike, not today." She answered as she grabbed her bag out of her old beat up chevy.

"Come on, we're not learning anything new in biology, besides I'm sure that we'll do blood typing again, remember last time you fainted just at the mere sight and smell of blood? You don't want to go through that again, do you? " he leaned on her door. She was biting her lip in her usual manner, she was deliberating whether to go or suffer through that again.

"Ugh, fine! But you owe me big." She threw her bag back into her truck and followed Mike to his car. She got inside on the passenger side. The left the small parking lot before it filled up. Coincidently today they had both arrived earlier than usual.

They reached the edge of town and parked in an obscure drive. The house was a old red mobile home.

As they entered there were already a group of kids already lounging around and smoking and drinking. In the small town of Forks there were rumors flying around about teen drinking, little did they know that drinking was the least of their problems. A couple of months before, a man from the Makah reservation had made his way down to the Quileute reservation. He had his own personal drug laboratory that he made meth in. He didn't last in the reservation, but he didn't give up, he traveled a north where he found an all too willing teen population.

This was the drug of the day, forget pot, that was something that rookies did. If you were cool in Forks, if you were tough, you did meth.

As they entered the small house, Mike went up to his new friends and Bella found a place on the couch. She didn't usually partake in this recreation, she was usually the one that was the least messed up and could drive everyone home. She didn't like coming, but she always felt guilty about leaving her friends in such a hazardous situation.

"Hey Bella! I knew you'd make it." Jessica slurred as she wobbled her way through the living room. She fell on the couch next to Bella and laughed hysterically. Bella tried to pull her friend up with little success. "You should see, there is this new guy. His name is Jason, he is the coolest ever. He's in college and came to hang out with Lauren. He is so dreamy."

Time passed and Bella was growing tired and bored. Her friends were still tripping on the drugs and most had even fallen asleep. She looked at her clock and saw that it was noon, she could have been at lunch right about now. What a pity, a whole day wasted. Just then a new guy handed her a cup. She looked up to see a handsome guy looming over her.

"Oh hi" She answered shyly as she took the cup. His blonde hair and arctic blue eyes were hypnotizing. She smiled as she looked down.

"Why so shy?" he chuckled.

"No reason. So you must be Lauren's friend? Tell me, why are you here hanging around high school kids? Aren't there other people you could hang around with in your school?" she held the cup with both hands.

"Sometimes it's better to hang out with fresh meat. Sometimes college kids can be so boring. Why don't you drink a little. It's only some vodka. It won't kill you."

She looked at the clear liquid inside the Styrofoam cup. It sloshed around as she turned the cup in her hands. She drank it all in one gulp and grimaced as the burning liquid worked its way down her throat.

"Your friends sure don't take this easily. I gave them all half of what you're drinking and most have completely passed out." Jason stopped speaking as he heard a truck out on the driveway. "Fun's about to start. Be a dear and cooperate. The more you fight, the harder it will be…for you." He chuckled as he got up and opened the door. Three other tall and bulky men entered.

As Bella's blurry vision scanned the living room, she couldn't find any one awake. The house was silent.

"Who's this sweet chocolate? Can I have her?" one of the new men asked. "She's still awake, it'll be so much fun."

"No Ian, that one is mine. You can any other one you want." Jason answered. Jason lifted Bella off the sofa and took her to a room. He slammed her on the bed and she tried to get up but her body wouldn't respond. Jason laughed as he unbuttoned his shirt. Bella's glazed eyes couldn't focus. Her mind couldn't control her body. She wanted to run away and yell to high heaven. But no sound escaped her mouth.

Jason violently tore her clothes off. He got on top of her and began assaulting her. She put her hands up in an attempt to fight him off. It was a poor attempt, a lame attempt, a wasted attempt. "No" she finally managed to scream as a fist landed on her cheek. She felt her mouth fill with blood. The violence didn't end with her face, Jason started beating the rest of her body, getting an unusual high off the savagery of his action.

By the time he was done, Bella resembled a boxer at the end of a twelve round match up than her usual pale and petite frame. Her breathing was ragged and she was covered in blood. It pooled on the bed and for a moment, her breathing stopped. Jason freaked out and called his friends.

"Guys, come here. I think this one died." It took his friends several minutes to finish what they were doing and come to Jason. By the time they did come in, he was dressed. Bella lay still on the bed.

"Jason what the hell did you do?" Ian asked, his faced was scrunched up in disgust. "She doesn't look too good. Maybe we should take her to the hospital."

"No!" Jason barked. "Are you kidding me? We'll go to jail if they did. Do you want your parents to find out what you've been doing all along?"

All four men stayed quiet as they thought about what to do. "let's take her to the woods and dump her there. With all this blood there is bound to be a bear or wolf that will finish the job. Besides she's so doped that she won't feel anything." Ian was the smart one of the bunch. He looked at life like a mathematical equation, there is always an answer, you just have to find the right steps to get there. All four nodded in approval. They grabbed the sheets that Bella was lying on and wrapped her body with it.

They left in a hurry and placed her body in the bed of the truck. They raised up the 101 north. They traveled all the way to the end of the road and they stopped. They pulled her body out and walked into the woods. After they traveled a good while they dropped her on the floor and took the sheets with them.

Little did they hear that there was an animal lurking in the woods. A lethal, cunning, and virtually indestructible predator. The ferns moved with the fast and invisible movements. The friends walked oblivious of the danger that lurked them. One by one, they were disappearing. Silent as the night, motionless to the weak and frail human eye their death approached.

"Ian, do you think we'll get caught?" Jason asked as he kept his face on the floor. He wasn't repentant of his actions, he was scared of getting caught. He kept walking a couple of more steps. He stopped as soon as he realized that Ian had not answered him. He turned around and found a man standing right behind him. The beauty that radiated off him was captivating, hypnotic. Jason stood open mouthed as he took in this unnatural beauty. The alabaster man smirked, his long blonde hair partly hiding the bright crimson eyes.

"You've been a bad, bad boy Jason. Shouldn't you know that there are far worse dangers lurking in the woods than four humans?"

Fear rose as this strangers words sunk in. "Who are you?" Jason managed to sputter. He tried to back track but fell. The silvery laugh was enough to make any human jealous. "Who I am is not as important as what I am going to do with you. But I guess I owe you this much. My name is Garrett. I have walked this land for the last three hundred years and I've never seen a meal as fitting the slaughter as you. Congratulations Jason, you have earned the right to become my prey." An instant, a fraction of a second was all it took for Garrett to reach Jason and drain him dry.

Four full humans was enough to satisfy the hungriest of vampires. Garrett disposed the bodies and followed the reason for his appearance, the bleeding girl. Her blood had such a sweet and appealing scent. When he reached her he almost fell back in shock. The irony of it all, having lived three hundred years, several wars and never had he seen such violence enacted on a single human being.

He grabbed the girl and lifted her up. Bella's eyes opened and all she saw was the crimson eyes. She felt the cold, colder than usual as the man clearly carried her. The fading light made his skin softly glimmer. She had seem a bizarre angel, that was all her mind could register. Her swollen eyes closed and she lost consciousness.

Bella snorted, the last thing she wanted to think about was the impending graduation. There was no reason to celebrate. Lauren and Jessica both dropped out of school and left town because of the pregnancy. The third girl, Katie, was shadow of her former self, just like Bella. They couldn't walk anywhere without getting pitiful looks or insulting glares. That was the main reason that Bella refused to go out, except for school. She couldn't take it. Something like this was going to take years to lose furor.

"I'm not sure. I haven't thought about it. Maybe I'll go to mom's but I don't want her shadowing my every step. I just wish there was somewhere I would go where there were no reminders." She sighed as she got up and headed to the door.