I was riding my bike on the edge of the forest, being brought back in time when the trees around me were young, when a pale, white girl runs out of the forest and stops right in front of me. I hit the brakes and tumble off my bike. I stood up and faced the girl in front of me.

"Who are you and what are you?" I asked a little scared of the girl in front of me with piercing golden eyes.

"My name is Isabella and I am a vampire. You can call me Bella."

"Well Bella do you have a last name?" I was scared of my life now. She just said she was a vampire.

"Um, I don't remember my last name. I don't remember my human life either. All I can remember is being in a lot of pain before I changed."

"Okay. That's odd. Um, my name is Elizabeth Livingston. I'm so ordinary human. I can see things in the past, if I touch anything like photos and be pulled back in time to see the event. I can also see other people's past collide together. Oh, you can call me Izzy."

"Izzy, I'm special, too. I'm an Empath and I see the future."

"Well, it seems that we are an interesting pair."

"Izzy, will you come with me and travel the world. I need to find myself."

"I'd love to help you. I have no family so what do I have to keep me tied to rinky dinky Iowa."

"Great! It's a pact then. Me and you friends till the end."

We shook hands and I was brought back in time to before Bella was changed.

~Past~

"Come for a walk with me," some guy suggested in an unemotional voice to Bella, taking her hand.

She didn't answer. He didn't wait for an answer. He pulled her along toward the east side of the yard, where the forest encroached. She followed unwillingly. They had gone only a few steps into the trees when he stopped. They were barely on the trail.

Some walk.

He leaned against a tree and stared at her, his expression unreadable.

"Okay, let's talk," Bella said.

He took a deep breath.

"Bella, we're leaving."

She took a deep breath, too.

"Why now? Another year-" Bella was cut off.

"Bella, it's time. How much longer could we stay in Forks, after all? Carlisle can barely pass for thirty and he's claiming thirty-three now. We'd have to start over soon regardless," He said.

Bella stared at him giving a confused look.

He stared back coldly.

"When you say we-," She whispered.

"I mean my family and myself," he said king of cold.

Bella shook her head back and forth.

"Okay," she said. "I'll come with you."

"You can't, Bella. Where we're going… It's not the right place for you."

"Where you are is the right place for me."

"I'm no good for you, Bella."

"Don't be ridiculous. You're the very best part of my life."

"My world is not for you," He said grimly.

"What happened with Jasper-that was nothing, Edward! Nothing!"

So that was his name.

"You're right," Edward agreed. "It is exactly what was to be expected."

"You promised! In Phoenix, you promised that you would stay-"

"As long as that was best for you," Edward interrupted.

"No! This is about my soul, isn't it?" Bella shouted, furious. "Carlisle told me about that, and I don't care, Edward. I don't care! You can have my soul. I don't want it without you- it's yours already!"

Edward took a deep breath and stared at the ground.

"Bella, I don't want you to come with me," He spoke slowly.

"You… don't… want me?' Bella was confused.

"No."

Bella stared, uncomprehending, into his eyes.

"Well, that changes things." Bella sounded calm and reasonable but one look in her eyes and I could see how hurt she was.

Ed-iot looked away into the trees. "Of course, I'll always love you… in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it's time for a change. Because I'm…tired of pretending to be something I'm not, Bella. I am not human." The idiot looked back. "I've let this go on too long, and I'm sorry for that."

"Don't." Bella's voice was just a whisper. "Don't do this."

He just stared at her.

"You're not good for me, Bella."

Bella opened her mouth the closed it. He waited patiently.

"If… that's what you want."

Ed-iot nodded once. He kissed her forehead. Ten, he was gone. With shaky legs she followed him into the forest. She walked and walked. She stumbled often and fell often, too.

Finally, she tripped over something and stayed down. She rolled on her side and curled up on the wet bracken. I heard something coming. Then out of nowhere a girl with red, fiery hair bit Bella on the neck. Then absolute darkness covered both of us.

~End of Past~

"Izzy! Snap out of it!" I was then slapped across the face.

"Bella, I'm back. You can stop yelling at me."

"What do you mean you're back?

"I saw your past. Right before you were changed."

"Really?" Bella look happy that she will finally know what happened in her human life.

"Bella, what I saw it wasn't pretty. In fact, it was horrible. So horrible I can't repeat it."

"I understand. Let's go."

And with that we left old Iowa and explored the world.

~10 Years Later~

Our next spot was Forks, Washington. I found out that after seventeen I don't age. I stopped ageing the same time Bella was changed.