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Don't Look Back In Anger

Chapter 1
Bella

He had been my best friend for 8 years. 8 whole years. Then he disappeared, just like that. No warning, no "Bye Bella, keep in touch!" Nothing. It hurt, like deep, gut wrenching kind of hurt. His whole family, just gone; it was like they never existed.

But I guess it was better that way, a 'clean break', so to speak. No awkward goodbyes, no long distance friendship that was destined to die out soon enough anyway. But I got over it. I mean, I was 15, so it's not like I didn't have other friends.

That's what I kept telling myself anyway. I thought that if I surrounded myself with as many people as I could, I wouldn't notice the gaping great hole that he had created when he left Forks. I'm not saying that my friends meant nothing: Alice and Emmett Brandon, the twins Rosalie and Jasper Hale, Jacob Black, even Angela Webber had all been amazing, becoming my extended family, people that I truly couldn't live without.

I could live without that arrogant, manipulative, over-protective "best friend".
I could live without Edward Cullen.
I could live without my first love.
He meant nothing.

Please let him have meant nothing.


"Bella! Bella! Bella!" I heard Alice's chirpy voice calling my name from the front yard. As if I could ignore that racket; her singing my name and Jasper honking his god damn horn. Lucky it was a Friday and not the weekend or Jazz would be dealing with some totally pissed off neighbours.

It was the last day of school. Ever. Well not ever,because there was still college ahead, but it was the last day of high school; which was amazing, because I had never really been a fan of the whole school-thing.

"I'm coming!" I yelled back, my voice still thick with sleep. I had never been a morning person, even on the last day of school.

I raced into the kitchen, grabbed an apple and a granola bar off the bench and ran out the front door. Charlie had already left for work, so the gang were parked in the driveway; Jasper at the wheel and Alice in the front passenger seat, Emmett and Rosalie in the back. They were all together;like togetherand Alice had been the dream couple since junior high and Rose and Em had been together for just over a year now.

Despite the lovey-dovey couplings, we were all just one big gang; even though, I couldn't help but wonder what things would be like if hehad never left. A lot different, I'm sure.

Fortunately my thoughts were interrupted by Jasper's stereo blasting School's Outby Alice Cooper. Again, I was glad it was a week-day: my poor neighbours. The hysterical giggling coming from inside the car combined with the blasting rock anthem got my adrenalin pumping. This really was the lastday of school.

I ran the last several paces to the car, jumped in next to Emmett and started screaming and singing with everyone else.

School's out for summer!
School's out for-ever!

The ride to school continued in much the same fashion; the five of us screaming and laughing, clearly a little too happy about finishing school.

I guess today could have been a day to be sad: leaving the comfort and safety of the school grounds behind, and entering the 'real world'. It all seems a little daunting. Lots of girls were crying that day at school, sobbing about leaving their friends behind. Do they remember where we live? I thought to myself. It's Forks! No-one will be going anywhere anytime soon. It's not like they would just pack and up and move, without even saying goodbye.

Some people would...a little voice inside my head whispered.

I told that little voice to shut the hell up.


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