Once there lived and family named the Cullens, and Hales and One of the sons, Edward, never showed love to anyone. One fateful day a knock came to the door and Edward opened the door not wanting to be disturbed, when he opened the door there was a woman in drags and she looked up at him with a sad look.
"Please, dear sir, I need a place to stay if you would so kindly let me stay here I'll give you this flower." She spoke sweetly and sadly holding out a bright red rose out to him.
Edward just sneered and cackled, "Oh heavens no, you think I'm going to let some old hag come and stay in my castle for a rose? You are sadly mistaken!" He shooed her away, turned and slammed the door shut.
"Whoever was that, Edward?" spoke out a woman with thin brown hair and beautiful amber eyes. She was the mother of the house, Esme.
"It was some beggar wanting to stay here for a rose."
"Well why did you turn her away?"
"Beggar mother, beggar," he turned and found his two brothers, well truly only one was, Emmett, he had huge muscles and loved to mess around with girls until he found his mate, a lady who was beautiful in everyway named Rosalie. His other brother, Jasper, was different he calmed people down in the neatest way and he had a girl too, Edward little sister Alice.
Before Edward could speak there was another knock at the door and he huffed as he turned and opened it back up, and standing there was the beggar with the rose. "Look, you cannot stay here you have to leave!"
"I see that there is no love or kindness in your heart," She stood up and became a beautiful princess which Edward had known well.
Edward dropped to him knees and looked up at her, "Tanya, please have mercy on me, if I would have known it was you I would have brought you in in a heartbeat."
"But you didn't now did you?" She rose her hands and whispered a spell, "Now you shall be a beast and find love and passion in your heart before you turn twenty-one or you and your family will remain like this forever." Edward looked down at himself and saw hair everywhere and looked up to see Tanya disappear in the darkness. He stumbled inside to find everyone different.
His mother, Esme, was now a teapot and was next to a little cup he recognized as his father, Carlisle. Jasper was a candle stick and was looking at a feather duster that he presumed to be little Alice. Emmett was changed into a clock and was looked up at a dresser which could only be Rosalie.
"What have I done?" He asked and they all turned to him.
Rosalie was the first to talk, "yes Edward, what have you done to us?"
Edward growled at her and snarled, "I didn't know it was Tanya and she changed us like this-"
"Because of you," Alice accused, "did she tell you why?"
Edward huffed he hated when he was the center of the arguments, "she said that I don't love anyone except myself and that to get back I have to find true love before I turn twenty-one."
Esme gasped, "But Edward, you turn twenty-one in a year!"
"I know so I need someone to help me to get us so we're not like this anymore." Edward turned around and gazed at Esme, "a mirror, you mean the one on my end table?"
Esme looked confused and nodded, "yeah, but I didn't say anything."
"Yes, you did, I heard you," Edward argued.
"No," Emmett walked over and gazed at him, "she said nothing…And why do you get to be a beast I'm a better beast then you!"
Rosalie giggled and added, "Yeah in bed."
"You know it."
Edward rolled his eyes and ran upstairs and rushed into his room locking the door behind him. He looked on his end table and the mirror was lying next to the rose in a glass container. Edward ignored the flower and grabbed the mirror and whispered, "Show me the town." The mirror glowed blue and he saw a bar filled with drunken men and he saw him…Jacob.
"I just don't get," Jacob spoke to Seth, his assistant.
"What seems to be bothering you, sir?"
Jacob glared at Seth and spat, "Why are you such an idiot?"
Seth looked down and sighed, "I'm sorry Jacob, sir."
Jacob laughed, "you should be, now, I want you to go find Bella and tell me what she's up to, got it?"
Seth's head snapped up and he nodded, "Yes sir, right away sir."
Seth ran from the bar and looked over to see Bella coming from her house and he hid and followed her to town watching her every move. Bella had a basket which carried a book and Seth knew she was headed for the library to get another, it just didn't seem right to have a woman reading. Bella was humming to herself and looked around her.
Mike Newton, whose parents owned a bakery walked up to her, "bonjour, Bella, how are you this fine morning?"
Bella smiled sweetly not really interested but still spoke, "It's all good, how about you, how you doing?"
Mike leaned towards her and spoke, "fine, just fine."
"Well, I'm sorry Mike I really have to go, so I'll see you some other time, okay?"
Mike smiled and nodded as she hurried off to the library and handed the book back to Sam. He smiled at her as she twirled around looking for another book. "I can't believe you're already finished, I mean you've only had it for a day."
She smiled, "I know but it was just so interesting that I couldn't stop reading." She pulled Wuthering Heights from the shelf and handed it to him, "Can I borrow this?"
"But you've read hundreds of times!"
"I know, but I just love it so much."
He handed the book to her, "If you love it then it's yours."
"You mean it?" she asked and as he shook his head she embraced him and grabbed the book, "thank you thank you." She sang again. Seth now knew why Jacob wanted Bella, she was sweet and hot and…well everything. She pranced from the store and headed towards the fountain and managed to trip over one of the cobblestones. She seemed oblivious of what people where saying about her.
Mr. Newton didn't like how she didn't date his son. A group of girls that included, Lauren, Angela and Jessica, they hated how Jacob liked Bella and not them. She just kept going and sat on the edge of the fountain and opened the book and read for only a couple minutes. She stood and turned the page carefully walking back towards her house, when Jacob was suddenly in front of her.
"Bonjour, Bella," Jake spoke smoothly making the girls around him sigh.
"Oh uh…Hey Jacob, how are you," She said innocently.
He grabbed the book from her hands and flipped through the pages and when she tried to grab it he put it up higher making her jump for it. She just stopped and glared at him, "give it to me, Jacob, now."
He just laughed at her and threw it behind him which made her angry and she balled her hand into a fist and punched him making him fall over, she grabbed her book that walked straight to her house.
Edward set down the mirror, that girl…Bella, she wasn't the most graceful person he'd seen but she was pretty maybe even beautiful. Maybe she's the one who can- he stopped thing about it, she would never fall in love with him, ever. He turned to see a portrait of a bronzed hair, gold eyed man with a crooked half smile on his face, his former self. Lacking consideration he carelessly swiped his new claws along the surface making five gashes. He rested his head in his hands and lost all consciousness. Suddenly the room filled with pale blue light and Jacob was cussing watching Bella run home.
Seth rushed over and helped Jacob up, "sir, are you okay?"
"Forget about me, follow her!" He bellowed at him throwing him back. Seth ran towards Bella and watched her head for the basement where smoke was coming up from the cracks of the woods.
Bella covered her mouth and started walking down the stairs but slipped and fell to the bottom next to a contraption that was made to cut wood. Bella looked up to see her father looking at her.
"You know Bella you really are clumsy." Charlie laughed kicking the machine as Bella rolled away and stood up so she was next to Charlie. He kicked it again, "I give up on this stupid contraption!"
Bella rolled her eyes at him and thought, he always says this! "You know that you won't give up dad."
"Well this time I'm serious!" He yelled.
"Just try again"
He pressed a button making it shut off and crawled underneath and started messing around with the screws and his hand reached out and grabbed a wrench.
Bella sighed as she watched him, "Dad, I'm I weird?"
He retracted himself from the machine and chuckled at her, "Isabella, of course you are, I am your father after all."
She just nodded as Charlie pressed the button turning it to life. They both watched hoping it would work and the device sputtered to life cutting the wood and made the spring go so the lumber would land in a pile.
"I-it works!" Cried out Charlie grabbing Bella and hugging her, "come on I need your help getting this up so I can take it to the convention!"
Together, really Charlie doing most of the work, they managed to get the machine up and elevated onto a trailer and hooked it up to their horse, Philip. Bella waved goodbye to her father calling out "take cares" and "good lucks" hoping he would make it back perfectly fine and safe.
