I'm sorry if it isn't all that interesting at first, it takes awhile for Bella to come into the story. I changed the dates so it was more recent. Leigh is Bella's cousin, she also a year older than Bella and Devon is Edward's older brother. It's gets off to a slow start but it'll get better. If anyone has any ideas about how Leigh should find out about the Cullens being vampires, tell me about them.

Disclaimer- I don't own any of the characters or even most the story lines, except Leigh, her friends, and her family, and Devon to a degree. Also the title is from a Leona Lewis song, I don't own any songs I use in here either.

1. School Days

Leigh

My name is Leigh and I'm 17. It's September 3, 2008, my first day at Forks High School. I wondered if this was a huge mistake. After all this was my senior year and I had just left everyone I knew back in Port Angeles. It's true they only lived one town over, but that was beginning to seem too far. My only other choice though was moving back home, and that wasn't really a choice at all.

I had lived in Forks until I was 10 and my parents got divorced. Then I moved to Port Angeles with her mom and younger brother Bryan, though we often see our dad. Up until this year I had gone to Port Angeles High School.

Up until last year I had an almost perfect life, I thought bitterly.

Though I had never got along with my mom. We fought all the time, and it was no secret that she preferred Bryan to me. Other than that all was right. I had a lot of friends and enjoyed school. I got top grades and going to a good college seemed to be in my future. Oh, how wrong I was...

"We take for granted all the things that make us who we are."-Boys Night Out

But all that changed in 11th grade. I realized I was wasting my life striving for perfect grades, when really I didn't even know what I wanted in the future, and once I stopped caring it seemed like there was no future open to me at all.

Halfway through the year I met Jerry, and his love made me feel complete. That was the only future I needed, that was all I wanted.

"Used to be the trouble maker Hated homework, was a sweet heartbreaker But now I have my dream."-The Runaways

But after I started dating Jerry my best friend Laura had gotten jealous. Laura had tried to flirt with Jerry and when that didn't work, she tried to embarrass me in front of Jerry, then she had denounced me as a shitty friend. Our other friends agreed and went with her. The only friends I had left were Tala, Harley, and Winter. I always thought it was sort of a good thing though, these were my true friends. I did miss Laura often though she really didn't deserve it. I could've lived with all this but then the unthinkable happened.

After we had been dating for about five months, Jerry broke up with me. He just didn't feel the same way about me as I did about him. Well that's what he said, it seems a crappy reason to me but that's what happened.

When I think of last summer...I think of the depression first. I don't think I went an hour without crying for a long time and my chest always ached. I was sure people were saying that he never wanted me anyway, and my old friends were laughing at my misfortune. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat. I wished to go back to school so I didn't have to think about him all the time.

"There's a man assigned to me, and he checks on my stability, we discuss you every week, then I rinse and rinse, repeat. And he charges by the tear, till I weep no more strictly out of fear that I can't afford your love."-Say Anything

But it got slowly better, mostly thanks to my friends.

Still I didn't hesitate when my dad got his own house and offered to let me move in with him and his girlfriend Alyssa. I didn't really want to go back to my old high school. I only liked a handful of people in it. I couldn't stand the rest, and I couldn't stand my mom. I figured I could still easily see my friends whenever I wanted. What I didn't count on was that I might not like or be liked by anybody at Forks either.

This thought didn't occur to me until I was about to leave for my first day in the morning. I pulled on a white lacy cami, a blue and white plaid button up Hollister shirt, light blue ripped Hollister jeans, and gray flip flops. I straightened my hair, I had recently dyed it from blonde back to my natural brown with bronze and blonde highlights. Though everyone came back after summer with a tan, I didn't tan. It was pointless to even try, my friends and I always joked because alabaster makeup was too dark for my skin. I picked up my new PINK bag and got a bagel.

"Bye dad, Bye Alyssa," I called.

"Bye Leigh, have a good day."

I walked outside to my car. My white '98 Chevy Cavalier. Maybe not the newest, but I liked it.

***

I was a little scared to park, I really wasn't the best at it and at my old school we all had assigned parking. I picked one that was pretty far away and walked into school.

Devon

It was time to start senior year...again. I reminded myself it was the only way to keep our cover plausible.

My name is Devon Cullen, and I'm a vampire. Might as well get that out in the open right now. Our "father" Carlisle saved me and my younger brother Edward at the same time. We were both dying of the Spanish Influenza, when he turned us. I was 19, and my brother was 17. Though we looked alike with the same eyes and skin all vampires have and the same untidy bronze hair, that's where the similarities end. He was a wannabe soldier and I was a draft dodger before they even invented the term. Carlisle thinks my desire for peace is part of the reason I have almost as much self control as he does. My personality is more like my "brother" Emmett's, fun-loving. I could also generate enough heat to make my body feel almost human to outsiders. Not that anyone outside my family touched my skin. My family teased that it was because I was such a warm person. Like Edward I was also a mind reader, unlike Edward I could only hear the minds I chose to listen to. I tried to respect people's privacy by not listening to their thoughts.

Whenever I thought that Edward would wince. "You think I like hearing everyone's thoughts?"

"No, I know you don't. Sorry."

All this took place inside our heads much to the annoyance of everyone else in the car.

"At least we only have one more year..." said Rosalie to those of us who were "older" as we got out of the car and walked into Forks High.

One more year... I thought.

"School day, school days Starting to slip I'm losin' my mind Used to be the wild one Hated class only lived for fun."-The Runaways