A/N: I own nothing twilight = (I wish I did, but I don't it belongs to the brilliant Stephenie Meyer. All I own is my plot, so I hope you like the story!

Short Summary: Ray (Rachel) Micheals decides to go visit her cousin Bella Swan in Forks, Washington for the summer. Ray is Bella's big city cousin from Manhattan, New York (a year older than Bella) who comes to Forks to get away from what she calls life back in New York. Little did Ray know, she would find a reason to maybe not want to leave. (Set after Eclipse, summer of Bella's graduation. Mostly same couples B/E, C/E, R/E except Alice and Jasper aren't a couple; they're just like brother and sister.) And oh ya, the whole story is written in Ray's point of view.

Chapter 1: Ain't big headed from a lil bit of fame

I stepped out of the plane, reaching for my black Chanel shades out of my Marc Jacobs grey hobo until then I noticed there was no need for my sunglasses, it was cloudy and it looked like it was going to rain any second. Great, just what I need right now is rain. I decided to leave the sunglasses for now. I walked over to the luggage rack and grabbed my two Louis Vuitton carry-alls. Easy part was over with, now for the challenge, finding cousin Bella. It actually wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, the airport was less than crowded and there was a lonely Bella sitting on a bench, looking bored out of her mind.

"Bella?" I asked, approaching her cautiously.

"Rachel?" Bella responded, shooting her head up.

"It's Ray now."

"Oh right, wow you look so different."

"And you stayed the same Bells!"

"I know, but wow, if you wouldn't have approached me I doubt I would have recognized you!" She chuckled, reaching for one of my suitcases. I guess she had a point, the last time Bella saw me I was thirteen and she was twelve and she was visiting for Christmas in New York. Now I was nineteen (soon to be twenty) and Bella was eighteen. I looked at one of the mirrors near the door. You wouldn't have known that Bella and I were cousins. I ran my hair through my cropped, dyed sunny blonde hair. (I was naturally brunette like Bella.) My grey eyes were smudged with black eyeliner and mascara and my naturally red lips had a tint of gloss to them. Bella was about the same height as me, but then again I was wearing platform sandals so I was obviously still shorter than her. In general I could guess why she said I was different. Bella led me out to this monstrosity of a truck that reminded me of that car Mater from the movie Cars.

"So this is your ride?" I asked, trying to be polite.

"Sorry, no BMW." She laughed, throwing my bags in the truck.

"Uh, I guess I'll have to deal!" I sighed in a fake voice. Bella laughed.

"Glad to see you're still a drama queen, Ray."

I smiled at her and hopped into the passenger seat. I replaced my sunglasses even though they weren't needed, it was just habit I guess. The ride to Bella's house in Forks was a long one, it was bad enough that the airport was about two hours away but Bella's antique of a truck could only go 55 max. We spent the ride back mostly discussing schools (I attended Yale), boys (I was single whereas cousin Bells was seeing this boy named Edward) and remembering the good old times. Finally after what seemed like forever we pulled up at a small house near the edge of a forest. I grabbed my carry-alls and walked into the house.

"It's not much, but its home." Bella sighed.

"I think it's cute." I replied, smiling at her.

"You won't think it's so cute when I tell you the bad news."

"Oh how bad could this news be?"

"We don't have a guest room and we all share a bathroom!" Bella said, faking an expression of horror.

"Whatever Bells, it's no big, I'll just sleep on the couch."

"No, I don't want to be rude, you can have my bed and I'll take the couch."

"Bella it's fine, really."

"I thought you were so used to-"

"Just because my mom married some big shot company owner, you think that I've become some huge snob. Wow it really has been that long."

Bella just smiled, I went over and embraced her.

"I missed you" She whispered.

"Me too." I said back in agreement. "So, when do I get to meet the oh so fabulous Edward?" I asked, flopping down in the laz-e-boy chair.

"Soon, he's coming over tonight." She said, trying to fight back the grin.

"Oooh, someone's in love!" I crooned.

"Shut up!" Bella said, her face going tomato red.

"You can't hide it doll, your face says it all, it's- OW!" I hollered. Bella chucked a pillow at my face, knocking my sunglasses into my eyes.

"That's why shouldn't wear sunglasses when you don't need them." She retorted, sticking her tongue out at me.

"Oh ha ha, good one." I said sarcastically.

"So what about you and Seth?" Bella asked, getting comfy like she was about to hear an epic tale.

"What's there to it? End of story." I replied. Bella looked at me wide eyed.

"No?" She whispered.

"Yeah, we broke up two months ago, just a week before finals."

"Ouch."

"Yeah I guess it was pretty painful, but if anything I more broke up with him, I decided I need space, needed some change. That's why I came here for the summer."

Bella just nodded. That's one of the things I liked about cousin Bells. She was comfortable with silence, she didn't pry and she seemed to understand unlike most people that I wasn't that open about my issues. I mean, it was really painful ending things with Seth and re-telling Bella the whole story would be like rewinding the situation and making me go through it in slow motion. It just wasn't something I was ready to conquer yet. We settled down on the couch and began watching some teen reality show on MTV. I was too busy fooling around with the internet on my phone and Bella appeared somewhat antsy.

"So what do you want for supper?" Bella asked.

"Hmm I don't know, lets see if you can guess." I replied, smirking at her.

"Meat loaf, mashed potatoes and Caesar salad?" Bella asked.

"Oh Bella, you know me too well." I giggled. Bella turned on the radio. Going to California by Wave began filtering through the kitchen soon followed by the waft of home cooking. Two things that went well together, good ol' songs and good ol' food. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Bella jumped, nearly slicing her finger on the potato peeler.

"Could that be Prince Charming?" I asked.

"Shut up!" Bella hissed, running towards the door. I knew Bella pretty well and she liked to exaggerate things, I was sure that Edward was hot and nice but he probably wasn't all she claimed him to be. Bella opened the door and in he walked and suddenly I felt like I had died and gone to heaven.

A/N: So that's the first chapter, hope you liked it =)

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