Disclaimer: As I'm sure you all know, I do not own Twilight (though it would pretty amazing if I did)

Here is chapter one! Hope you like it!!

My New Finding

I ran through the forest, letting the canopy of leaves wrap around me and set me apart from the rest of the world.

Just the way it was supposed to be.

I ran for miles, loving and hating the thrill of the speed. My bare feet pressed against the sticks littering the ground as if they were silk. It was almost funny the way that nothing could hurt me and yet I was always in pain. I longed to see my mother again, to eat a candy bar or suck the juice out of a strawberry. Of course none of those things can happen. Because when you're immortal, you're limited.

And what is the point in forever when you don't even want to live?

I stopped and let the streaks of green and brown transform back into trees and grass and dirt. I fell to the ground, overpowered by the burning desire in my throat. It had been three weeks since my last kill and I didn't know how much more I could take.

But starving was better than murdering.

I tried to tell myself I didn't have any other choice. That I had to eat somehow and my body didn't respond to human food. But that didn't rid me of the guilt and self hate. I was-not so long ago-one of them. And killing them, drinking their blood made me truly sick to my heartless core.

I took a few deep, unnecessary breaths as I tried to take my mind of off the thirst. I pictured my mother, watching a baseball game with Phil while sharing a hotdog and laughing. I thought of my father at a police station in his uniform, joking with his friends while waiting for a crisis so he could go fix it. I thought of m few friend s back in Phoenix and wondered if any of them missed me. I regret so much of my life. Now that I'm gone from it forever, I wish that I had done more; Left more of a mark on the planet. I wish I had something to be remembered by, by anyone.

I sat on the ground until dark, fighting the thirst that was threatening to swallow me whole. I sighed and jumped up to my feet. I walked around the forest some more, having nowhere else to go. I was a starving, murdering, homeless vampire. How depressing.

I began to smell blood and held my breath after a quick gasp. No no no no NO! I was doing so well! But with the smell surrounding me, what could I do?

I ran in the other direction before I could let myself change my mind. I just ran, not caring where I ended up. As long as it was nowhere near the humans.

But they smelled so good…

It was mere minutes before only the memory of the scent lingered on my skin. I sighed a grateful sigh and halted. I could hear the faint flow of a stream. Again, the aroma of blood surged through me. But this was different. Less appealing, less human. I followed the scent until I could make out three deer, heads tilted into the water.

Of course! It was so obvious, I don't know how I hasn't realized sooner. Animals. Maybe I didn't have to be a monster. Humans ate meat as well. If I could get used to it, this could work. I could make it work. I could still be good, even under my monstrous circumstances.

I lowered myself, eyeing the largest of the three, waited, and pounced.

Ten minutes and three animals later, I felt almost full. Strong, even. I sat by the water, mentally cursing myself for being so ignorant and not coming up with this sooner. Seventeen innocent people lost their lives because of me, and the whole time, there was another way staring right at me.

All I could tell myself now was that I would not be the cause of any other deaths. It was over. I could push those last few months out of my mind and start fresh yet again.

I heard a noise and immediately jumped to an alert stance. I waited, crouched down in the tall leaves, for the culprit.

A small girl who seemed to be around my age danced out of the trees.

"You can come out now," she called kindly.

I stayed unmoving, quickly processing my options. Within a second, the dark haired girl was in front of me; golden eyes powerful and knowledgeable.

She beamed at me. "I knew you'd come."

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