Alright folks. I've decided to try my hand at writing. I've been reading fan fiction for a few months now and thought why the hell not!!
This is an all-human story. I'm not going to say anything about the couples, it will be part of the experience. I will give you a little bit of background however. Bella is a 23 year old college student.
Emmett is a 26 year old football player in the NFL. He is Bella's big brother.
Alice is Bella's best friend, 22 years old.
Don't worry, Edward, Jasper and Rosalie will be in the story.
Prologue
As I sit here I wonder how my life has gotten to where it is. I am an intelligent woman with great friends and an AMAZING family. The only place I've been lacking is in the love department. Sure I go on dates but I have never found love. My last relationship, if you can call it that was the closest that my heart has come but it wouldn't fall. I ended up running to keep him from leaving me because they will always end up leaving someone that can't fall in love, right??
Ah, Jacob Black!! The only one to last longer than a couple of casual dates and that was in high school. I grew up with him. Family friends since, well, conception I guess. Our parents were best friends and our moms got pregnant around the same time. We are exactly 24 hours apart, with Jacob older than me by one fricking day and he never lets me forget it. After a few years of persuasion (on his part) I relented to try a relationship. He told me that we were perfect for each other with us already being best friends and knowing everything about each other, seriously we already loved each other. Right?? Trying my hardest over the course of a whole year to "love" Jacob, I couldn't see him as anything more than a brother. One night we cooked dinner together, something we did instead of going out because my cooking was better than any of the restaurants that our small town had to offer, I decided to tell him. I told Jacob that I loved him but I only loved him like a brother, I wasn't in love with him. Jacob tried to tell me to give it more of a chance because he was in love with me, I wasn't a sister to him, I was someone he could marry and grow old with. After hours of crying and begging him to just leave me alone, he left, his parting words to me were ones of love, he told me that even though his love wasn't returned he wouldn't run away. We would remain best friends and siblings forever. He wasn't mad. Afterwards I slipped into a depression of sorts. I felt like a monster for hurting Jacob and our families because my parents felt weird around his parents, not knowing what to do. I felt like I had used Jacob like someone not deserving of love. Jacob tried to tell me that it was ok, WE were ok, I wouldn't hear it!
My depression led me to losing all of my "friends". I use that term loosely because I learned that in time they were fake. The only friend that stayed by my side was the one that I hurt, Jacob. How selfish was I? I was holding him back. Jacob never dated, just watched out for me. Until one day, my darkest day, I jumped! Now in my defense, it wasn't completely and attempt on my life, it was just something to do, you know, cliff-diving. I was waiting for Jacob at the beach. He had called me and asked me to meet him so we could talk. I got to the beach early and while I was waiting I got bored. I saw other people doing it and thought, "Why not try?". The fall was AWESOME, freeing. What I failed to worry about was the water and the currant that was just choppy. After hitting the water I couldn't figure out which way the surface was. My vision started to go black and my throat was on fire. I knew that this was the end, in my mind I said good-bye to my family, my parents Charlie and Renee and my big brother Emmett. The next thing I saw was Jacob! I figured that with me hurting him like I did that I was in hell, I mean come on, I deserved to burn in hell for what I had done. A couple of minutes later I realized that no, I wasn't dead, Jacob had saved me. He watched me jump and waited less than a minute to surface. When I didn't he took off in the water and towed me to shore. Waiting on shore was Vanessa, or Nessie, Jacob's girlfriend. She performed CPR and got me back, great first impression Bella, I know. I was embarrassed, thinking that she would think I was completely mental and never le me see Jacob again. Boy was I wrong! She welcomed me with open arms and that is when I realized that Jacob had never blamed me, he was truly my brother! After my "jump" my life did a complete 180*. A couple of months, despite my depression, I graduated from high school at the top of my class. Despite everything I found myself looking forward to the next phase of my life, with the people I loved by my side!!