"Folks, we have begun our descent to forks Washington , where the current weather is 60 degrees, and we will be in the gate in about twenty minutes, We'd like the flight attendants to prepare the cabin for arrival. and we want to thank you for flying with us today.." As I unbuckled my seat belt and looked out the window to my right I saw it was a cloudy day, as usual in forks. I looked to my left and saw my fellow passenger in the seat next to mine, a tubby man with black hair had his head tilted back snoring away. I would have woken him saying "hey the flights landed, its time to wake up" but I decided not to, let him sleep.

Any normal 16 year old walks out of the tunnel expecting to find a family or friend waiting for them, but I didn't. I'm by myself on this one, finally away from those orphanages and crazy family's. I've been to about at least 10 different homes and 4 different orphanages and the rest of the time, on my own on the streets. I was an exceptionally very smart student in class at my old high school in Kentucky so thanks to my old orphanage, orange day they sent me here for the rest of high school to get good grades and go to a college here in forks for their great medical courses.

I didn't exactly know where to go next. So I just grabbed the rest of my luggage off the belt and exited the airport. Mary, my orphanage leader said I'd be staying at a tiny hotel called the pine hill lodge where she knew the owner, a close friend of hers. They'd let me stay with them until I could be on my own. So I hailed a taxi hoping they'd know where it was.(luckily they did)

I didn't know I was there until I heard a knocking on the black tinted window next to me. I didn't realize I zoned out, I've been doing that a lot lately. Out the window there stood an older gentle man with jet black hair and grey streaks in it, he probably dyes it. I opened the door to be welcomed by him "hi I'm Thomas you must be amber?" I nodded with a dull face "well I'm the owner of the of this fine place" he motioned to the small lodge looking building behind him, Mary was right, it is tiny. "I'll help get the bags to your room, and -" he was cut short from hearing the doors to the hotel open up, a perky teenager stepped out and walked towards us with a huge grin on her face. She was pretty, a tall skinny girl with a pretty face and long blonde hair too her back, in a cute pink summer dress. "Amber this is my daughter Tiffany, Tiffany this is Amber she'll be staying with us for awhile. Remember I told you about her?" Tiffany stuck out her hand and I shook it, "I cant wait for us to become friends! I'll take you to your room, let you get settled and then ill take you on a tour! How does that sound?" Tiffany asked me as she hooked our arms together and walked me to the building with a smile on her face. I wasn't used to a person being so… happy, but I did like the idea of a friend so I grinned back to her and said "sounds like a plan" she squealed and fast paced us to the building.

I entered the room, it was small and quaint with a bed, a bathroom, a closet, a dresser and desk with a computer. The furniture was old fashioned, I didn't mind, I liked that kind of stuff. Thomas came in a few seconds after and dropped off my stuff and soon left with some business to take care of. I set down my stuff in the corner and walked over to the bed and laid down, it was soft and comfortable and soon enough I crawled into the beige sheets and stared up at the ceiling. I laid there thinking about the things that happened before this day. I thought back to all the family's I had and the kids I met. Not all the family's were bad, some were actually really nice while others… Really shouldn't be taking care of children. Like one time when I was 6 there was this Hispanic family I stayed with, with 4 kids and they gave us cupcakes for dessert every night because their mother was a baker. And another time I had a family take me to a water park for the first time, man those places are fun. But some houses abused their kids and were very strict, I wish I could erase those memories every day. Just the of the sound of the belt clicking together fiercely could send me into a wave of tears as a child. But I'm over that and I try to think about the good people I met, like this one girl named Rebecca who was my first real friend in the orphanage she's the reason why I trust people so easily. Or Steve a boy at orange day who brought me out of my shell and now, I'm actually a very talkative person… if I trust you.

But one man stood out in particular. When I was about 8 he took me into his care for awhile, he saw me wandering the streets like any normal 8 year old. At the time I didn't know if I should trust him, but his voice was just so… soothing. And yes he took me to his very nice and expensive house and told the police I was with him along with the local orphanage saying that I was under his care and blah, blah, blah. He was the absolute by far the most handsome man I've ever seen with his nice and neat blonde hair, he was actually very, no scratch that, extremely pail. He wore nice clothing and was the kindest person I've ever met. He taught me everything I know today, he was actually a doctor so I guess that's where I got it from and he actually taught me how to play piano and other instruments. He taught me other things like life lessons and let me read a lot of his books which seemed to have made me smarter. He made me who I am today. If only I could remember his name… car - car… miles? Ah forget it, you'll never figure it out Amber we've been through this before.

I was so caught up in my thoughts I totally forgot Tiffany was coming for me soon.( See I told you I zone out a lot. ) I quickly got out of bed and ran to the bathroom. I wanted to at least look presentable so I pulled my hair back into a pony tail and washed my face, then dried it, did my makeup again and let my hair down. I looked at myself in the mirror studying myself, I wasn't that bad looking I had chestnut brown hair, it was already curly so I didn't bother with it(I always curled it). I had bright, baby blue eyes, and I didn't have that bad of a face. I could be pretty, and I was pretty skinny, not too skinny but not fat, I was average height of a 16 year old, I also had some freckles and I was kind of pale myself. I wore my outfit that I had on the plane ride, some skinny jeans and a black sweater with a white shirt under it. My black boots were still by the door where I left them when I entered the room, I went over to them and then snuggled them on. And soon enough someone was knocking at my door.

Tiffany first showed me the lobby which I'd already seen when I entered the hotel but it wasn't anything extravagant. Then she showed me how each floor had a different theme, the parking lot, the pool and hot tub, the restaurant inside, the bar and many, many more things. It wasn't big but it was the perfect place. "so? can you not wait to start school tomorrow?" she asked me with her wide hazel eyes and giant smile as always, as we walked to the lunch room(for employees). Man I totally forgot all about school… dang it! School just had to come ruin this nice time, well I guess it is what I came for right? But was I really ready to meet new kids? How do I explain myself to them? Will I fit in? well at least I'll have tiffany right? "I hate to admit it but… I'm actually pretty nervous" and I meant it. Tiffany opened the door and we sat down at the nearest table, There were about 4 more round tables around us but we chose the one closest to a window. "aw, amber there's nothing to be worried about, Forks High School is an awesome school! the kids are so nice and the boys there aren't half that bad looking if you know what I mean. And anyways you have me and I'll introduce you to all my friends." she comforted me reaching across the table and patting my hand while directing a wink at me, still holding a smile. Her words seemed true told by her, so I believed her and loosened up a bit. I sent her back a half smile of my own and she took her hand off mine.

Tiffany got us both waters from the fridge and she went on to tell me about her life like how she's lived here her entire life and how as a child she did beauty pageants and had about 7 trophies. She continued with her parents divorce and the sports she plays and some other things I really didn't bother listening to. I just nodded my head from time to time going "ya" or "mhm". "okay enough about me, what do you like?" Tiffany asked me, I was caught off guard not that it seemed she would talk about herself forever just that I wasn't paying attention. I didn't answer her at first, there was a few minutes of me looking at her blankly. "I heard your into that medical kind of stuff right?" she asked breaking the awkward silence. I shook my head and snapped out of it. "uh ya it's what I want to go to college for, it's the whole reason I'm here." I didn't know what else to say.

"well I think the hospital has some volunteer work for teenagers to put on their college application" Tiffany offered trying to help out

"actually… that sounds great maybe I'll do that." I heard myself say and I meant it.

"oh and I can give you rides to there! Oh and we can go to school together I'll drive you every day!" tiffany started planning excitedly. I couldn't believe how this girl could go on a limb to drive me here and there and she seemed to be telling the truth. I really didn't want to bother her with stuff like this, I could really just get a rental car for myself, I had a drivers license so maybe we could actually drive each other to school. I wanted to pay her back if she did this for me, so I was planning myself. I really wanted to be friends with this girl but we weren't best buds yet. "hey lets take it easy, you don't have to do that for me. I have a drivers license so I was planning on getting a rental car. Maybe since I don't have one now you can drive me to school and when I do get a car I'll repay you with a ride to school. How does that sound?" I asked her taking this seriously but trying to sound familiar. She smiled and said "sounds like a plan!"

I sat in the black, leather passenger seat uncomfortably my bare legs sticking to them making some type of ripping sound, Ugh… it was about spring time in Forks so I wore shorts and a floral long sleeved shirt even though it looked dark and cloudy outside it wasn't cold. I pushed my curly, chestnut bangs out of my eye and stared at my grey converse, adjusting my blue shirt with light pink roses imprinted on it. So uncomfortable as I stepped out of the yellow slug bug. once me and Tiffany entered the parking lot. The lot was filled with kids, some here, some there, but in a way all looked kind of similar. Most were pale with blonde, brown or black hair while others were different races who were tanner and darker. But past them the school was kind of big. But not as big as my other highs schools in Kentucky or Arizona and truly not as big as a high school in California. The school probably only had about 800 students going here, that's small compared to others with about 1,000, but it was a small town so what was I supposed to expect.

Tiffany walked with me into the main office The room was an old looking place, its yellow walls looked washed and the carpet lining the floor was frayed. Leather back chairs sat along the left and front wall, small tables filled with probably outdated magazines occupied the corners. And to my right was a tall long desk that had a swinging door off to the side. At the desk stood a plump older woman with greying hair in a tightly knit bun. She was studying a set of papers in front of her. Clearing my throat slightly I spoke to her. "Hi, I'm new here, and I was wondering if I could get a copy of my schedule?" The woman, who I now noticed had a name tag with Cathy printed on it, looked up from the front desk and smiled.

"Sure hun, what's the last name?" Cathy asked me peeking above her glasses. I paused for a moment thinking, but one thing was wrong "I-I don't directly have a last name…" I stuttered kind of embarrassed. I looked behind me and looked at Tiffany awkwardly. It was silent for a minute until Tiffany jumped in the conversation "um I believe she's under my last name, Blair" I looked at Tiffany again biting my lip and whispered thanks. Cathy nodded her head and started typing on her computer "Just a moment dear, we'll have that printed for you in a second." I turned fully around and went to go sit down on the leather chair and Tiffany followed behind me.

"what do you mean you don't have a last name?"

"I was on my own when I was 4, I've never learned my last name and I've never been fully adopted."

"they never found out who your parents where?"

"nope, no sign of them"

"oh well… I'm sorry"

"it's alright you didn't know" Tiffany was about to say something else when Cathy called my name. I went up to the desk and was handed some papers.

"what classes do you have?" Tiffany asked me peering over my shoulder reading what I was reading as we walked down the almost empty hallway with students scurrying to class. I guess the bell must have rung. " I got… mythology with Mr. Banks" I said quickly scanning the words. Me and Tiffany stopped in the middle of the hallway, she looked upset in some way because she didn't have her usual smile and her light blue eyes looked as if she was thinking about something. "I don't have that class sadly but I do have a friend who does, here let me find him" Him? Ugh great… Tiffany grabbed my arm and walked me to a door with a gold plate above it saying Mr. Banks. She then scanned the hallway until she found what she wanted. "Mike! Mike! over here!" she yelled over to a blonde boy waving her hands motioning him towards us.

He waved at us with a smile. A tall boy with blonde hair and blue eyes ran over to us. He looked confusedly at Tiffany, and then saw me. His eyes widened and a huge smile appeared on his face. Tiffany took the opportunity to introduce us. "Mike, this is Amber, she's staying at our hotel. Amber, this is my friend Mike, I believe he has this class first period and he's in your grade!" Mike kept smiling at me and extended his hand excitedly in my direction.(Tiffany was a year older so she's a junior)

"Lovely to meet you miss Amber"

"And you as well" I smiled back and offered him my hand. But instead of a handshake, he took my hand to his lips, and kissed it. A little shocked, I blushed and pulled my hand away. As soon as I could I turned around and walked into the classroom, Mike following behind me. He took his seat in the middle of the classroom and I waited in the front of the room for the teacher, who didn't appear to be at school yet. And then I saw him, the boy was absolutely gorgeous. He had pale skin, bronze hair, and golden eyes. I just couldn't comprehend how that boy could be so beautiful, and live in Forks. Honestly, he should be modeling in New York or something. I kind of stared at him for awhile as he walked to his seat, I quickly looked away when he saw me looking at him. The teacher finally came in and told the class who I was and then seated me next to Mike, who of course, was the only one with an empty seat next to him. He kept staring at me and accidentally bumping his arm into mine. Every time he would bump me I would give him an awkward glance pleading to myself in my head "please stop! Please, please, please stop you stupid person! I get your hints but I'm trying to get my work done here without you making me mess up my letters." The handsome boy must have noticed this too because he laughed quietly whenever Mike bumped me. The teacher finally stopped lecturing and gave us our homework. While he was passing it out Mike turned to talk to me.

"So, being the new girl and all, I bet you're feeling pretty lonely, huh?"

"Uhm, not really. I haven't really had the opportunity." His face dropped a little, but he didn't give up.

"Well if you need a friend, I'm here for ya!" He slapped me on the back. Ouch.

"Ha, ha," I fake laughed, "Thanks"

"So, I mean, are you doing anything tonight? Cause we could hang out, I could show you around town, cause you know, as your friend it's my duty to-" I would have cut him off there because in my head I felt as if he was trying to flirt and I didn't want it… any of it. But someone else beat me to it, the handsome boy, he laughed a little too loudly while looking at mike.

"What Cullen?! What? Am I not allowed to talk to the new girl?" Mike snapped at him.

The boy raised his arms above his head, as if to say "don't shoot". I kind of laughed quietly to myself until mike looked at me again. I was thinking on saying no to taking me around but… this may seem bad but, I wanted to take advantage of it. You know him taking me to the car rental place and then whoosh he could be gone. "sure mike but actually I need a favor" mikes eyes light up

"ya anything"

"after school could you actually take me to a car rental place?" and from there he said yes. Looks like I got a new buddy.

I had 2 more classes and it was finally time for lunch. Luckily Tiffany had the same lunch schedule as me and she was able to introduce me to her friends. "Amber this is Eric, Lauren, Jessica, Tyler, Angela and as you know Mike." Tiffany first pointed to an Asian kid with shabby black hair then a pretty blonde girl with plump lips, a short brunette, a dark skinned boy with short black hair, a tall timid girl with long black hair and glasses and obviously Mike who smiled at me when he saw me. Tiffany then pointed out a few friends of hers who were also juniors. Every one at the lunch table was actually pretty nice and funny just as Mike and Tiffany had been. They all soon got on a random topic about their hidden talents. I learned Mike can juggle, Tyler could burp the abc's, Eric could play the flute, Lauren could count back wards from 100, Jessica could put on her makeup without a mirror and Jessica insisted that she didn't have a talent. "do you have any talents Amber" Mike asked me causing every one to turn and look at me. I shifted nervously in the seat and said "um… I can play the piano?"

"come on any one can learn to play piano" Eric joked around

"anyone can play the flute" I said back to adding some sass.

"no actually it takes special skills to play the flute but - oh come on just anything else?"

"um.. Let me.. Oh - I can kind of.. Sing?" I questioned my answer I always thought I had some what of a good voice but never good enough. Mike smiled and every one seemed shocked. "I didn't know you could sing!" Tiffany yelled across the table

"you never asked?"

"well what ever sing for us now then!"

"uh - um" I truly didn't want to sing I was afraid to embarrass myself if I didn't actually have a good voice.

"um… maybe some other time my voice kind of hurts right now you know?" I just hoped that made them stray off the idea and it did. But they soon started asking me more questions about myself like where are you from? What's it like being an orphan? How many houses I've lived in? how many states I've lived in? I answered them all and I was getting tired of it until they walked in. The first one to walk through the cafeteria door was tall blonde with an absolute flawless, pale white face along with the perfect figure, the kind where every girl looks at her and takes a hit on their self esteem. holding her hand a tall, big handsome boy who looked like a body builder with short, black, curly hair. Behind them trailed a small angelic girl with short cropped hair pointing in every direction skipped in while holding the hand of a boy who was tall, lean but less bulky then the boy before but with auburn hair. And lastly to come through the door the handsome kid from class. They all sat down at the same table together all sharing the same qualities. They were all gorges with flawless faces, golden eyes, and purplish shadows under their eyes. but then again looked nothing alike.

"Who are they?" I whispered to Tiffany over my shoulder.

"Oh them? They're the Cullen's, they were adopted by Dr. Cullen and his wife. They moved her a couple years ago."

"Adopted? You mean they're orphans to?" I was kind of surprised to hear that I'm not the only one at this school who was an orphan. And also that these kids did in a way look related to one another but were adopted.

"Ya but they're kind of together."

"what do you mean"

"you see, the pretty blonde is Rosalie and the kid with black hair is Emmett. They're adopted to the same family but in a relationship. And the fairy one is Alice who's dating the one who looks like he's in pain, which is Jasper but adopted to the same family. And the last one, that's Edward."

"isn't Edward just so… beautiful?" Jessica pitched in

"Ya Dr. Cullen's like some sort of match maker. Maybe he'll adopt me" Angela said after Jessica, they started giggling at her joke. Hm… what a nice little family, I thought as I kind of stared at them.

I got out of the car and tried to hurry into the car rental shop when Mike yelled "hey if you need any more favors just call me ok?" I nodded my head and waved as he pulled away. Finally he's gone!

I drove away from the rental shop in my small white Prius. It wasn't the best car they had but it was the cheapest. I turned on the radio and changed it to the news station, it was going to rain tomorrow… and the next day… and the next day… great. But maybe that's a benefit in Forks as a doctor, rain plus cars equals accidents. So I drove 2 miles just to get to the hospital. It was a giant white building with many windows, it was as gloomy and pale as everyone inn this town. Was everyone in forks like this? But anyways I entered the building and went strait to the front desk. I asked if I could volunteer and she handed me some forms to write my information, there was also a form (more like a quiz) about what to do in certain situations with a patient as a doctor, I did the quiz just for fun because I knew most answers. I went back to the desk and handed her back the forms she read it over quickly. "well it looks like you know what your doing" The secretary in the pink scrubs said behind the counter, Her silver name tag said Kacy and her black hair was pulled back into a pony tail.

"What do you mean?" I asked curiously

"Well the quiz, you got all the answers right. How did you get this sheet?"

"You gave it to mean with all the forms"

"I did? Well for a 16 year old you have a bright future as a doctor. This sheets actually supposed to come with the job application"

"Oh, well that makes me feel better, I want to be a doctor actually"

"Well you can't be one right now but… I'll make a deal with you, because you know what you're already doing and we've been kind of short staffed lately. Can you go around checking on minor patients?"

"and what would I be doing if I didn't accept that offer?"

"you would be cleaning out pee bins? How does that sound?"

"you know… I'll take you on that offer"

"then it's a deal, you can start… tomorrow?" and she smiled at me.

"ya, alright" and I smiled back

The next few weeks had been nice, I would go to school, have a good time with Mike, Angela and all them, I was getting good grades and its nice to be working at the hospital, its what I've always wanted to do. I'd had finally gotten myself a white lab coat just to fit in with all the other doctors. They all accepted me and treated me like one of their close friends, so on a regular I would do something kind for them in return. Maybe, such as make them coffee or make them a nice fresh lunch, things like that. So one day I was making them fresh coffee and crispy, cheese crescents when I just started… singing, out loud, for everyone to hear but no one was around to hear. At the same time I didn't realize I was singing the song lilac wine, and I didn't realize how easily the words flowed and bounced out of my mouth.

"Lilac wine is sweet and steady, where's my love, I feel unsteady"

"beautiful." I jumped, spilling some coffee that I was pouring into a random white mug that I had found in the cupboards in the hospitals kitchen. I turned around to see a statuesque's blonde gentle man standing in the door way with his arm leaning on the structure of the entrance, I was taken my surprise, from his sneaky enter and striking smile.

"Huh? Me?" I pointed at my self after unsteadily place the coffee pot down.

"Your voice. Its quite marvelous."

"Umm… its nothing really. I don't like singing very much"

"well I like your singing, it really epitomizes your soul. Your very excellent and fervent, so excellent I could replay your voice for hours." and he gave me a half smile. And suddenly I felt sad that I couldn't venture into all his beauty.

"well thank you… um, my names Amber" I started walking to him, leaving the comfort of the kitchen table, and I stretched my hand out for a firm handshake. He met me half way and added the missing puzzle piece to my begging hand.

"Dr. Carlisle Cullen" and he smiled that dazzling smile that you could see for miles at me one last time. Then we talked and he complimented me one last time before he announced that he had to go back to work. And once again that discovery of not being able to venture into this genius, polite, prepossessing mans thoughts, saddened me. He started for the door when he stopped and turned around and asked me a life changing question.

"Would you like to come by my house after work for some dinner? I would love for you to meet my wife and kids, my children are in your grade. I think you guys could get along."

"I'd love to, how could I deny such an offer? Just give me the address and I'll find my way there." so he gave me his address and he left, on his way to save lives.

I didn't look at Carlisle as an older gentle man that some girls would love to sleep with. I looked up to him as a father figure. Something I never had in my life. Even if I had just met him, I got this fatherly vibe from him, and it made me enjoy his company. And I couldn't wait to meet his family, maybe their just like him. And as Angela once said, "maybe he'll adopt me" and I somewhat hoped he would.