Disclaimer: I own nothing. It's all Stephenie Meyer's. Mostly.

My name is Annie. I live in Forks, Washington, with my mum, dad and two brothers. I'm 17 years old, and go to school at Forks High. Yes, I have read Twilight, and no, I didn't like it. Vampires in Forks, seriously? How likely is that? Not at all.

So, it's a cold, dreary November night, and I'm sitting in my bedroom. It's a Saturday, so I'm watching all the crazy tourists go by and admire the various sights in town. Why did my mum offer for our house to be 'The Swan House'? It's just ridiculous!

So here I am, sitting at my window and waiting for the day to end. I pick up my book, The Hobbit, and begin to read. I sit there for a while, until my mobile starts to ring, and I see that it's my best friend Jessica. I pick up and am immediately bombarded by her exuberant voice.

"Guess what Annie, there's a new family here in Forks!"

"Wow," I reply. Jess and I have very different views on what is interesting. She enjoys shopping and boys, while I'm more of the 'maths achiever'. But, we've been friends since the beginning of forever, or so it felt, so it worked. She got me dressed appropriately, and I helped her with work. And neither of us minded about this arrangement.

"And I hear that they're all really good looking as well!" Leave it to Jess to be more interested in their looks than anything else. I was mainly just hoping that they weren't stuck up and evil. Forks was home to many of them. Far too many of them.

"How many kids are there?" I figured it was am advisable idea to get all the facts so I wasn't behind at school on Monday.

"Six kids, all adopted, and apparently they're all like, together!"

"And by together you mean…,"

"Dating together." Okay that was just a bit too weird.

"Isn't that just a bit too strange. If they're you know, living together or something?"

"It is, but, if their parents are all fine with it, which I could never believe happening, then I suppose there shouldn't be too many problems with it."

"Okay then. Have you actually seen them yet?"

"No, but Jen told me, Lenny told her, that Ang told him, that her mum told her Mrs Smith saw them driving towards their house yesterday. They're all about our age apparently."

"Where are they living? No houses have been for sale recently, have they?" I was particularly curious about this.

"Here's the best part, they have a massive house about 5 miles out of town. It's massive, and, according to Jim at least, is probably worth a fortune!"

Great. Good looking and rich. Even better than before. I decided that I had heard enough, and it seemed so had Jess. I spent the next half an hour listening to her telling me all about the dinner date that her boyfriend Jim had taken her on the night before. She wasn't too impressed though, and I don't blame her, the Italian restaurant in Port Angeles wasn't exactly an original location for a romantic dinner.

After another 15 minutes or so, I was beginning to get a bit bored with Jess's comparison of dates she had gone on, so I finally took matters into my own hands.

"I have to go now Jess, talk to you at school okay?" I needed to be left alone for a while; my head was really starting to hurt with all that dating talk.

"Okay, see you later Annie!"

"See you Jess." I hung up the phone and lay down on my small bed. I was just beginning to start relaxing, when my little brother James decided that it was a great idea to burst into my bedroom.

"Annie, Annie, Annie! Mum said you need to go downstairs and get your dessert. She made cookies Annie, cookies!" My little brother was so gullible. Little did he realize those 'cookies' were in fact oats with carrot. He would believe anything though, as most 6 year old boys would. Nick, who was 10, not quite so much.

"Tell Mum that I'm not having dessert, I'm just going to bed, okay?"

I should have known he wouldn't take no for an answer.

"But it's so early Annie. You can't go to sleep!"

"It's 8:30, James, I can go to sleep. Now go away."

He left with that, and I slipped away into a restless slumber…..