Disclaimer: I don not own Twilight, it's the property of Stephanie Meyer.
A/N: The Goldstein cousins, made up of eight protective boys and one girl, are one of the most famous yet close family's in the world. No one knows though that Izzy Goldstein is the same Bella Swan whose cousins moved her away from forks when they discovered how bad she was bullied. What happens when two years later Bella returns to face old tormenters, reconnect with old friends and possibly find love.
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Family of the Rich and Famous
Chapter 1
However long I have been alive I always remember one thing when I shut my eyes, even if it is just for a moment. The word freak. In the sneering taunting voice of my childhood tormentors, the tormenters I left two years ago and am know returning to.
Let me start again. My name is Isabella Marie Swan, child of Renee Dwyer and Charlie Swan. My parents divorced when I was a few months old and she took me. Eventually though when I was nine I moved back to forks as my cousins carriers got too much. My mother was very close to her brothers, my uncles, whose sons are at the moment some of the most famous people on the globe. She didn't feel it was safe for me to be so close to the paparazzi in case I got hurt one day. She was going to come with me, but she had recently started dating a guy she really liked and I didn't want to split them up. They married when I was thirteen and my cousins Kenneth, Luke and Gareth played at the wedding. My move back to Forks was the right thing for mom and Phil as they got to spend more time together, but not for me.
I had been told for my own safety never to tell anyone about my cousins who didn't already know, but that left me so nervous when talking, I never knew what to say. I ended up secluding myself, hiding away from the inquiring children and eventually became a freak.
The only friends I had were the Cullen's. Alice, Edward and Emmett were all adopted and one year older then me, but seen as I was a year ahead I ended up in most of there lessons. I never intended the friendship but that Pixie we so fondly call Alice would not leave me alone. She always was trying to talk to me and sat with me when ever she could, never minding the stares of the other kids. Her brothers followed her and I found myself actually coming out of my shell and actually enjoying there company. Alice had so much energy to spare she seemed to transfer it to you and the most heart wrenching puppy dog pout she could get me, a girl who loathes shopping, to go with her to the mall. With Emmett but you could tell he was growing up to be a big strong boy, must have always eaten his vegetables, but was the gentlest teddy in the world to me and Alice (and the most ferocious to those that hurt us). Edward was well Edward. He was so kind and smart with bright emerald eyes I could get lost in and hair the colour of copper pennies that I just wanted to run my hands through. As you may have gathered I had the smallest of crushes on Mr Edward Cullen. He was all I say he was though; he even took the trouble to begin to teach me piano, something Liam one of my cousins continued. I had no trouble trusting them and eventually told them who my family was. My ears are still ringing from Alice's squealing. They accepted it and never treated me differently except for the times Alice asked if she could have a signed picture of Gareth, she had a huge crush on him which she is thankfully over. They have kept the secret to this day and I know they are true friends.
I have not seen them though for a while now, not since last summer when they came to visit me in New York. Even with my friends I never got rid of the bullies, and even with the boy's threats they just waited till they weren't around. Then they had to wait till I was completely alone as they came into contact with the furious psychic pixie, a.k.a. Alice. I can only think that they were unhappy that the perfect Cullen's were my friends and I was no longer the freaky loner. What started as simple teasing developed into beatings. I came home with bruises and living of the excuse of my infamous clumsiness. Then everything changed.
The reason I am here on a plane at the moment is because of one thing or eight if you get technical. My cousins!
You see my cousins are one, all boys, two, older then me, and three extremely protective of there youngest and only female cousin, a.k.a. me, Bella Swan.
As are age's only span over three years we were incredibly close growing up and I actually saw them as my brothers and I there sister. They always included me in what ever they did, even when they became famous over there various carriers. Every summer I would go stay with them for two months leaving one for my father and friends. I also visited a lot in other holidays and long weekends. The Cullen's didn't mind this as they knew my family was important to me, and this was the time they did things with their adopted parents. During my time with them we were basically a family, hanging around being teenagers. Even when they were at work which unfortunately was often, I was brought along whether it was a concert or a photo shoot. I even went along on a short charity tour with them for one month. They were always joking around as well pulling faces behind the photographers back, or switching music round in rehearsal. The best thing was it was just them being them. They weren't doing anything special just form me. My family became known for are attitude towards each other as we did for are famous boys separate carriers. I even became famous as the mystery cousin of the famous Goldstein boys. All the reporters wanted to know my identity and would try anything to find it out. When I'm with my cousins I have my own personal security team o cover me from the paparazzi. It was a laugh though. One time I was trapped in a hotel room and we ended up dressing my cousins in girl clothes. They all ran out at the same time diverting the cameras attention from me who was climbing down the fire escape with a bodyguard. I still don't think we had to go as far as to put makeup on them though.
The fact is we are very close. This resulted in them deciding seen as they would not be able to come for my sixteenth, they would surprise me on my fifteenth birthday and make it a celebration for both. This was the day they found out about the bullying.
Two years ago
I had been leaving school, preparing myself for whatever my father had planned, when I was grabbed from behind and dragged me into the gym. At the time I was all alone and became terrified when they blindfolded me. I can't remember what they were telling me exactly, but it was about how seen as I was fifteen they were going to do something fifteen times. They started to beat me after that, badly. My blindfold came of part way through and I was able to see all the preps and bullies standing round laughing at me as they threw things at me. Eventually they became to ease down, and I was hopeful it was the end. They told me it wasn't, and they wanted be awake for what was to happen. I heard something behind me and felt my body being moved, but I had no idea what or why. I was too disoriented and became so terrified.
Then everyone gasped and I was able to turn my head to face the front of the gym, and for the first time I was able to smirk in the presence of my tormenters.
My cousins stood there, all eight of them and all of them furious.
Kenneth the oldest at eighteen was the first to step forward.
"What do you think you're doing?" I remember he asked them but all that did was start the whispers and giggling about how hot the boys were forgetting all about me. "I asked, what do you think you're doing." He shouted across the hall. My other cousins startled to move restlessly and I was able to see others in the background, backing them up even though I couldn't tell who.
After that everything went blurry. I remember being kicked in the side but that was all till I felt myself being picked up. I blacked out not long after that.
The next few days were a rush of packing and calls. They had managed to cover up how my cousins had managed to bet up the football team quite quickly but it was decided that in case they talked that they should leave soon, and I was going with them. They said it was because they didn't want me to be subject to questions but it was really so I could get away from the bullying which they were in denial about. I still had my fifteenth though, acting as if my injuries were from me being clumsy like usual. We had the party at the Cullen's, as I had been staying there rather at home. This was a usual occurrence as there father was a doctor and after some accidents I needed to someone to keep there eye on me. I even had my own room. It also served as keeping me out of the way of packing which was done for me by Alice who was not over her crush on Gareth.
A few days later I left with my cousins too New York leaving it all behind. All the pain, all the torment and the best friends I could have hoped for.
It was a tough time when I first arrived in New York due to the boy's denial had worn out on the plane. They were angry at first and I was afraid to talk to them, even though they weren't angry at me. They spent a lot of time in the Hotels gym, physically working of there anger. It seemed they were going to be going through the steps of grief.
During this time I spent a lot of time on the internet, chatting online with Alice and sometimes Emmett and Edward. She kept me up to date with what was going on in Forks. Apparently the people in the gym had at least me grounded for a month and had been banned from all extracurricular activity till they could prove they could change. That last one is not likely to last long, most of are school's football team was involved.
I also found out what had actually happened to the best of Alice's knowledge. She had been at my house, having left early to help with the party and see Gareth, when Angela Webber called her. Angela told her that she had seen a load of people drag me into the gym and seemed to be planning something. Alice passed the information on to my cousins who, after a quick explanation of my bullying left to go to the gym. She had followed with her brothers and parents but had stayed outside while only my cousins and her brothers went in. A bit later, she told me, I was carried out by Emmett with Edward following. They then took me back to there house so Carlisle, there father, could look at me. The boys arrived five minutes later having beaten up most of the males in the gym. I asked her about if she knew what they were going to do to me but she said that her brothers and parents had refused to tell her.
That was the last we spoke of it and spent the rest of the time talking about fashion, or Alice did and I listened, till three days after arriving in New York my cousins came to talk to me.
As I have said I have eight cousins, all male, all famous.
Kenneth the oldest and a guitarist. He is the most responsible of us but can be laidback at the same time and enjoys a good joke. He has messy brown hair and blue eyes.
Gareth who is a year younger then his brother Ken and the same age as our cousin Luke. He has Brown hair and brown eyes and is the quite one of our group. He plays guitarist like his brother but can sing as well.
Luke is a singer as well and has Black, red streaked hair and green eyes. He is the smartest out of us if you don't include me and Liam and is singer and song writer.
The last five are all one year older then me though I will be taking lesson with them. Four of them are also two sets of twins.
Harrison is the younger brother of Kenneth and Gareth. He has brown hair with blonde streaks and brown eyes. He is the most sarcastic of us and a model.
Then there are Luke's brothers Joey and David. They are identical as are the other twins but have different styles of hair. They have green eyes and there hair is brown but has been streaked different colours. Green for Joey and blue for David. They have different careers and personalities. Joey's a jokester and does modelling for a living. David on the other hand is a player and is a professional dancer.
My last set of cousins is Collin and Liam. We basically relate these two to the twins of the sweet life of Zack and Cody. Collin in plays pranks a lot and enjoys slacking of. On the other hand Liam is pretty studious and works hard, though he does do foolish things with his brother regularly. The only way to tall the difference between the boys is how their brown hair is parted. Liam's parts to the left and hangs over his eyes. Collin's is to the right and does the same. They both have blue eyes but have been known to ware coloured contacts to help tell the difference. They both sing together as a double act and while Liam can play piano, Collin plays the drums, further showing their different personalities.
My cousins are all very different but all are very protective of me, so when they came to talk to me I knew there was trouble.
We spent the rest of that evening talking about how I should have told them or my dad. They wanted me to know that I could trust them to help me when ever I had a problem. They also told me everything was going to change from now on. I was going to start taking lessons with the five of them that were fifteen and travelling with them when they were moving around. They were not going to let me go through anything like that again, even if they had to put there career on hold.
I woke up the next morning curled up between Colin and Liam on the sofa the rest of my cousins mixed round me. I finally realised then that it was a whole new start.
That was a month before the day that changed my life. We had moved from the hotel to a mansion on the outskirts of the city. It was gigantic and I enjoyed spending time with my cousins and mom who had come from Phoenix to see me for a week. They still had to work though.
My career started because every year the musicians in my family put out a video for charity, with Luke, Joey and David helping out as much as they could. They had been spending a lot of time together discussing what they wanted to do and seen as I really was a bit out of my dept, I would go and ice skate.
It may surprise you, but I am able to skate. Though it should actually be harder to walk on ice then on land I have never had that problem. Alice was the only one to know of this though. I never thought I was very good but I was proved wrong.
They had decided to do it based on winter due to the time of year and had decided it would be good if they could do it on ice. For this though they needed to be able to skate. For a week I was able to avoid them as they would go down to the rink to practice for a good few hours, not wanting to get in the way, but one day I lost track of time.
I didn't realise till they started applauding that they were even in the room and I ended up so embarrassed that I dint notice Joey's video camera. He ended up sending the video to there manager who was able to start putting me out there.
My first public appearance was on a lice performance of my cousin's song at the Rockefeller centre with my friends and family from forks watching in the front row. That was the day that Izzy Goldstein was born
Present
After that I got a lot of offers for movie parts and also modelling and dancing which I dint take part in till I was taught how not to trip over my own feet. I finally was living up to the Goldstein reputation. The best thing was as I had changed so much and was going by a different name no one could put Isabella Swan and Izzy together. The only people in Forks who knew who I was were my friends and family who I had told the truth to.
The Cullen's ended up visiting last summer vacation along with Esme there adoptive mother and her nice and nephew, Rosalie and Jasper Hale, who had moved in with them. The two new members of the family were very nice and it felt like they had always been part of my group of friends. Rosalie was the most stunning girl I had ever met, and I have met super models, but she is also very kind and loyal to her friends and family. Jasper, her twin, is a boy who can read your emotions as if they are written on your face and has a calming effect on all but Alice, but that isn't surprising.
None of them know I am returning as it's meant to be a surprise for later. I decided long ago to face my demons of my past and am going to do it. Of course my dear cousin's wouldn't let me do this alone and are coming with me. While Kenneth, Luke and Gareth are going to act as are guardians and give my father a break while the rest of us are going to be attending the our last year of high school, or half a year as the case may be as it was January.
Luke was now nineteen and Gareth would be turning the same age in May while Kenneth is twenty. I had already turned seventeen in September and Joey, David and Harrison were all eighteen. Collin and Liam would be turning eighteen in another month's time. We had been planning to not bring any attention to ourselves here and hide our identities from the public. David had pointed out though it would be pretty hard to hide who we were due to how famous we were and the size of our family, which would draw people's attention. I personally think he wants to use his fame to get girls, but that's David for you. Joey also made a point of mentioning that it would be perfect pay back for those who picked on me two years ago if they knew I was the actual Izzy Goldstein, making the other boys agree. I know for a fact though they are going to use there status for inner school destruction of certain bullies.
So all together you have eight famous cousins returning to your home town. Five are going to your old high school were you used to be bullied and all of them are planning revenge. Yep, this is going to be one interesting year.
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