Oh, great. Another year of my pathetic life, come and gone. I slammed my head against the table.

Crack!

Ah, shit. I liked that table, too.

"Hey! Why so glum? It's not every day Isabella Swan turns 165." Alexa laughed as she came in the door of our large plantation style house.

I had Alexa about 140 years ago. She looked so much like her father. Her blonde hair stood out against the dark black she always wore. Her father was someone I was so in love with. His deep blue eyes like oceans. We were separated when he left for the army. I haven't seen him since that day. When Alexa was old enough, I left, too. Alexa has always been more like my best friend than daughter, so I'm really not as protective of her if she were human, but she's not breakable. Her dad knew I was pregnant before he left, but I never got to tell him I was part vampire.

"Oh, take that stick out of your ass and open the present I got you." She said with a small, devilish grin.

"Okay...okay. Don't twist my arm!" I chuckled.

Me, I'm a half human and half vampire hybrid that stopped aging at twenty. My mother, Renee was a human and my father, Carlisle Cullen, was a vampire. I was basically an accident, but dad and mom stayed together until Renee died in a Yankee rampage and dad and I didn't get there in time.

Flashback

I stumbled mid-hunt as my eyes glazed over. I saw a group of Union soldiers circling our house. Our housegirl Ginger, oh, how I miss Ginger, was trying to hide my mother in the house. They carried torches and their muskets. They lit the bushes around the house on fire. I gasped. Dad was at my side in a second.

Ginger rushed my mother outside where they pleaded with the soldiers. They were drunker than some sailors on their first night at sea. They slaughtered them like pigs, with no respect whatsoever.

My vision cleared as I took off in a dead run, back to the plantation where I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.

I dropped to my knees at my momma and Ginger's remains.

"Daddy!" I cried out. He was at my side in a second, right there with me on his knees.

"No!" He pounded the ground, leaving a crater in the grass of the pasture.

He couldn't save her. Both of them were shot in the hearts.

End Flashback

Ginger was a black woman who worked for us in her own free will. A really unusual thing for the time period. We paid her well and she was a part of the family. Carlisle and I always bought slaves that had been beaten and worked to the bone and took them up north, giving them money to get their lives on track.

Adrian, Alexa's mate, stumbled out of their room. I chuckled. I loved to travel the world and when I was on a trip to Romania around forty years ago. He had gotten into a really bad bar fight and a shard of glass had nicked his jugular. Alexa had found him and brought him to me. I changed him and they fell in love. They were perfect for each other. He had the most amazing accent I've ever heard.

Adrian was tall and lean. His midnight black hair hung on his shoulders and his dark chocolate eyes also had the ring of gold that ours did.

"Are you going to the concert tomorrow?" He yawned. There was going to be an Alice concert in Austen, Texas tomorrow.

"I don't know. Depends. Are you and Alexa going to be sucking face the entire time?" I asked sarcastically.

"Probably." He shrugged, giving Alexa a quick kiss. He was only in his black silk boxers, but we were both used to it. He was like my brother. He gave me a hug good morning and went to find something in the kitchen to eat.

"Fine. I'll go." I relented. They've been bugging me about this all month. I really do love Alice Cooper. Lex and I were a few of his original fangirls in the late sixties.

There was a knock on the door. I jumped up and opened the door.

"Daddy?" I jumped into his arms. I hadn't seen him in sixty years at his wedding to Esme.

"Grandpa!" Alexa squealed.

"I missed you girls so much." He gave us each a quick kiss on the head.

"Bella! We're out of milk!" Adrian yelled. He came out of the kitchen and in full view of my dad, scratched himself while drinking orange juice straight from the carton.

"Ugh! You are such a guy!" Alexa exclaimed.

"Erm. Dad, this is Alexa's mate, Adrian Vasilescu. Adrian this is my dad, Carlisle Cullen." After I finished my introducing them, Adrian sprayed the both Alexa and I with the juice he had in his mouth.

He, being the Adrian we know and love, collapses on the floor in accented laughs.

"Hello, sir." He was still laughing slightly.

"Oh, Dree-Dree, do you want a hug?" I asked and we started closing in on him.

"No, no, please!" He started laughing again.

We hug him and soak him. My dad was gawking at us like we were crazy.

"Dude, go put some clothes on!"

Adrian and Alexa disappear into their room, arguing about nothing as per usual.

"So, what's been going with you since I saw you last?" He asked me.

"Oh, nothing much. Up until 1970 it was me and Alexa. We were in Romania one night, and she found Adrian, who was beat up pretty bad...and not really much has changed since." I shrugged. "How are Esme and Edward?" My dad found Edward in 1918 dying of Spanish Influenza, so, he's pretty much my brother.

After I split from my dad and found Adrian, we became the Swan Coven. Since my parents were never really married, and I wanted to keep my mother close to me, I kept Swan as my name.

"They're great. We've had a few new additions to our family, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper and Alice. Rose and Emmett and Alice and Edward are together and Jasper is the odd man out." He said with a shake of his head.

"Dad!" I gasped. "Are you trying to set me up with someone?" We had a good laugh about that one.

"Actually, I hear Emmett's Jeep on the drive. So you'll meet them in just a second."

And literally a second later, the doorbell rang. I opened it and let the Cullens file in. Dad introduced me to each of them. There were two blondes, two brunettes and a redhead. The biggest brunette was Emmett, the smaller one Alice. The blondes were Rosalie Hale and Jasper Whitlock. The redhead was Edward Masen, who I already knew. I gave them polite hugs, except to one, who I held at arm's length and looked him up and down.

He looked exactly the same as he did 140 years ago, just paler and more defined. "Jazz."

"Excuse me, do I know you?" He studied me closely. I guess he wouldn't. I dyed my hair dark brown from it's auburn it used to be and my eyes were a light golden color instead of the cocoa brown they used to be and my facial structure has had some damage from fighting newborns, so my features are a little different.

"Isabella Swan." His eyes got huge, finally recognizing me.

"I know that name from somewhere." Emmett shook his head.

Alexa came around the corner, looking a little bit disheveled. Adrian followed, fully clothed and looking pleased with himself. Jasper's eyes flickered to Alexa, widening even further.

"Oh yeah, I remember reading about you. Dude, you were a legend!" I cocked my head to the side at Emmett's comment.

"Carlisle has all these old books about the wars between the vampires down in Mexico. Bella Swan was a legend, man. Why didn't you tell us she was your daughter!?" He boomed.

"I didn't really think it was necessary." Dad said quietly.

"Not necessary? She fought fifty of them single handedly. A half blood, no doubt."

Alexa and Adrian looked to me for an explanation. I never told them about my days in the wars. They were too painful.

"I-I gotta go." I stuttered and ran out the door.