Hi everyone remember me?

Sorry been mia the last couple years but RL has gotten in the way and I know I should be working on Blood Trails but I've suffered from terrible writer's block with it but I intend to finish!

But while I'm waiting for the muse for it this little plot bunny would not shut up!

So a few months ago on several different facebook groups people were looking for a story about a kidnapping and the world knowing about vampires.

I don't want to give it away but after the story was found but never finished I became inspired and decided to write my own version!

So without further ado I give you Secrets, Lies and Vampirism!

Chapter 1

I was awoken by the blinding sun shining in through my bedroom and I cursed myself for not shutting the blinds last night. Why the hell did we have to live in one of the sun shine states?

Don't get me wrong I liked the heat and sun but it would drain me after a few hours and no matter how much sunblock or covering up I did, I would always get burned. I had been tested for an allergy to the sun, porphyria, blood disorders and even psychological tests but nothing ever came about except more disagreements and estrangements with my parents.

I loved them I suppose, but ever since I could remember they kept moving us around and always to sunny places and when they heard that certain members of society were coming we left.

They always looked at me like I was a burden or scared of me but yet wouldn't explain anything to me and then play off things that seemed weird to me like the sun thing, how I seemed to heal semi more quickly than others, or how I could go days without sleep and only ate the sweetest fruit or the rarest of meats. No vegetables, I tried but they made me violently ill.

I went to school but only for exams, other than that I was homeschooled. I had to be in before dark and I didn't try to make friends because my parents would interrogate them as soon as they came through the door. Questions like who are your parents and what do they do? I get but things like where do they work, have you ever lived here, who is your second cousin to your uncle? Ok not that extreme but the friends I did make usually got creeped out and ran out or never called again.

I was eighteen years old and lonely as hell. My parents didn't talk to me much only to ask me things or if they had to teach me and even then I mostly taught myself and I spent most of my free time either reading, listening to music or running errands for my parents. I felt like Harry Potter half the time.

My parents never let me go to far and always made things so mundane. I would wander off sometimes or do crazy things like take the car or the neighbour's bike for a joy ride and when caught I would complain about being bored and my dad would start yelling about how things should be normal, that I was human therefore normal and life was supposed to be boring.

They didn't want me running, or driving or doing anything like I saw on television and if the word vampire came up, they hit the hills. Literally, we lived in the mountains once in California, the sun shone there all day and I found myself cowering under a blanket and we finally came down when I passed out from heat stroke.

It was ten years ago and the first time my parents fled that the world learned of what we thought were myths and legends. The world learned that vampires were real.

A man named Carlisle Cullen appeared on national television and showed the whole world exactly what they were capable of.

He stated that while vampires needed blood and most lived off humans, himself and his family lived off animals. He started to explain other things but my parents freaked and the next thing I knew we were in a car speeding away.

I had seen plenty on the news since then, the royal family visiting around the world to ensure that there would be no war, not that it mattered apparently since they were so much more faster and stronger than us.

I also heard the heartbreaking story of the prince whose mate, aka fiance was kidnapped from their castle years ago and the prince had locked himself away only to travel when word about her came around.

This story struck me hard, the poor guy must have been so lonely, I totally understood his feelings. From what I could gather, he had never been seen and had to live with the rest of the family who were all paired off. How awful! To have what they did only for it to be taken away from you.

I felt like him in some respects, lonely, isolated and surrounded by couples, even if it was just my mom and dad.

"Bella, I need you to run to the store real quick" my mother hollered

"Oooo yeah no problem" I said in excitement, just to be glad to get out of the house

"You can just walk over to Gus's and grab a carton of milk" she replied and I groaned. Gus's was a little gas station across the street and milk made me gag. The smell, the look, ugh. Of all things she wanted. I was so buying candy out of the money left over. She knows how much I hate that stuff.

I groaned once more and left to go to the store. It was quite warm out and the sun was hotter than usual and I immediately felt zapped of energy so I walked as fast as I could to at least get out of the sun and heat.

I practically fell through the door when I got over there. The store was right across the street but I felt like I had walked across country. I let the cold air blow over me for a few seconds and slowly made my way to the cooler waving to Mr. Henderson, the clerk who was here most of the time, on my way.

I grabbed the milk wanting to just jump in the freezer for a bit and then slowly made my way to the cash register prolonging the trek outside.

"You ok Bella?" Mr. Henderson asked and I nodded replying that I just found it a bit too warm today. He laughed as he checked me in and I made my way outside but stopped short when I heard this hauntingly beautiful music. It sounded familiar but yet I couldn't place it.

It was coming from a car that had the window rolled down so I asked the woman who was in the car what it was "Oh Clair de Lune by Debussy" she said and I smiled as she rubbed her rounded stomach explaining that it calmed her and her baby. I thanked her and sprinted back across the street.

"Little Bell, what are you doing awake my little princess?" someone cooed and then the soft sounds of a piano played while a man with reddish brown hair held a small infant in his arms. The face of the man was not visible but the baby seemed content and happy in his arms.

"Still awake I see we'll let's try something else" the man said as he tickled the baby's stomach and a melody more beautiful than before sounded through the room and the baby's eyes shut as they curled into the chest of the man still playing.

Another two people entered the room and there was more cooing and murmurs and then the baby was taken from the room"

I was sitting up in my bed gasping for breath as my dream ended with the sound of a blood curdling scream.

I sat there trying to calm down my racing heart when I heard my parents arguing in the kitchen. They never knew how good my hearing was or chose to ignore it but I could hear them plain as day,

"I have no choice Ren, the boss said if I want to have a job this would be the best option" I heard my father say

"There has to be another way" my mother cried " What if I sold another piece?" She asked

"We can't. You remember what happened last time! Besides this place is low crime, very little town and I would be chief of police hun! More money. Do you want me to go back to mall security or beat cop?" He asked.

My mother had an assortment of jewelry upstairs in the attic, I found it once and took this gorgeous necklace with a ruby in the middle of a crescent moon. It was stunning and somewhat small so I kept it hidden under my shirts and my mother was never the wiser. I don't know why they never displayed some of the pieces, they were stunning and definitely priceless artifacts.

"Fine, but Forks, Washington, what kind of name is that? It's the rainiest place in the states, we can't live somewhere like that. What if they come!"my mother wailed and I for one thought it sounded great. Looks like we were moving to Forks.

"It will be fine sweetheart. The place is boring and so off the map, they wouldn't come there"my dad said and that was the end of that.

Who were they talking about?

My parents were always so paranoid about people and worse since the vampires came out but were they running from someone?

I was wide awake so I immediately grabbed my laptop and looked up Forks. Very small town, the pictures showed lots of woods, green and there was an over abundance of animals! Hunting was a common sport as was fishing. Well Charlie would love that. Forks, here I come!

Okay how was that? Let me know what you think so far!

Thanks for reading

Greeneyes84