CHAPTER 1

Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns it all.

"WELCOME TO FORKS", that's the sign that greets me at entering this town, it sure as hell has changed since the last time I was here, which was in the 30's if I remember correctly.

My name is Bella Cullen and I am a 265 years old vampire, now, before you start thinking about all those myths about our kind, don't. First of all, we don't sleep in coffins, actually we don't sleep, we can get into a medative state to recharge our energy, then we don't burst into flames when we come in contact with direct sunlight, we actually sparkle. Lame, I know, but there is nothing I can do, our eyes color will depend if we feed on humans or animals, with the first one the color is blood red and the second one the color is like gold.

We do have fangs and they appear when we feed or when we fight. We do crave human blood, but, the older you get, the better the control you have, and crosses and holy water does not affect us, in fact, I wear a cross all the time.

Now you might wonder what a vampire is doing in a town like Forks, well, I am here to attend high school with the rest of the family, which are also vampires, in case you are wondering.

So, let me tell you a bit about us. Like I said, we are vampires, but, we feed on animals, Carlisle, our leader and father figure who is 363 and he taught us how. He is a doctor and he got the job in Forks Hospital, then there is Esme, Carlisle's mate and our mother figure, she is 273.

Then there are my siblings: Jasper who is 222 then there is Rosalie who is Jasper's mate she is 253, then there is Emmett who is 196 and Victoria who is 184, the last two are mates as well.

I am the only one mate less, but, that's fine with me, after everything I did, I don't think I deserve one.

We arrive at our house, which is a Victorian house with enough space to fit all of us.

"Brooding again Bella bear?" Emmett asked with a look of contemplation on his face. "

Nah, just thinking." I answered him with a smile.

"Good, I don't like to see you sad, now lets get settled." he said excited.

So, now I am in my room getting everything in order so it wont is such a mess. Tomorrow we star school and I am looking forward to that, I like being around humans, and, not just to eat them, I like engaging them in conversations and creating some sort of friendship with them, I think its because I don't have my soul mate with me anyway, I'll get ready to lay down and meditate and wait for tomorrow.

The Next day

Its 7:30 and I am almost ready to drive to school, I'll be starting as a junior, along with Emmett and victoria. Jasper and Rosalie will be seniors.

My transportation is my car, which is a black C30 Volvo; I just love my car. As I am getting ready to leave Esme comes

"Bella, have a nice first day at your new school." she said with a motherly smile

"Thanks mom, I don't know, but I feel like something important will happen today." I tell her with a pensive look on my face.

"Well, when you get back, let me know if something did happen." She said kissing my cheek.

I drove to school in peace; I arrived, and found a spot where to park. My other siblings were already there, waiting for me.

"What took you so long?" Rose asked with a huff, I merely rolled my eyes at her and went to the main office to get my schedule for my classes.

An elderly looking woman greeted me at the counter.

"Good morning dear."

"Good morning ma'am, my name is Bella Cullen I am a new student and I am here to pick up my schedule." I said in a polite voice.

"Of course, there you go dear, please, tell your teachers to sign up the slip and bring it back to me at the end of the day." she said with a smile on her face.

I just smile at her and nods; as soon as I entered the halls I bumped into someone and heard some rustling and books falling.

"Watch were you are going you Idiot!" a voice yelled at me, when I look up I am met with a girl, probably a junior. She is a 5'4, white skin, spiked hair, brown eyes that in that moment were full of anger.

"What? Do I have something in my face?" the same voice told me.

"I am sorry, I wasn't looking." I gave her an apologetic smile, hoping to calm her down, of course it didn't.

"Well, maybe, you should get your eyesight checked.".

Did she just tell me that I am blind? ME a vampire I bet I have better reflexes than her, who the hell does she think she is.

"I said I was sorry didn't I?" I told her with a slight anger voice.

"Yeah, but that's not enough, the least you could do is pick up the books you threw." She said eyeing the books on the floor.

I just bent down and picked them up and handed them to her, she grabbed them and left.

"You're welcome!" I yelled after her.

She turned around, gave me a look and left.

I just stood there for a few seconds and left to my first class, which was history. In the class I met Angela and Erick, and I told them about the encounter with that girl.

"You must have bumped into Alice Swan, she is one of the most popular girls in school." Angela told me.

"If I were you, I stayed away, she can be a real bitch if she wants to." Erick told me with a frightened look on his face.

My second and third period went without incident, I had neither Angela nor Erick, but that's ok with me.

Lunch came and I was glad, I wanted to tell my siblings what happened. When I entered the cafeteria, my siblings already had a table. I went and sat with them.

"How was your morning?" I asked them.

"Boring as usual, I cant believe we have to pretend, just so Carlisle can have a job and we can blend with these mere mortals." Rosalie said with disdain.

"Rose, calm down honey." Jasper told her in a soothing voice and a loving gaze.

"Well, I bumped into someone in the morning and she was very rude, she even told me to get my eyesight checked, can you believe that." I told my sibling, still mortified and a bit angry at that girl.

Of course, the first to react was Emmett who started laughing and the rest follow his lead.

"And she lived to tell the tale Bella, wow." Victoria said between laughs, I just glared at them and then proceed to scan the cafeteria and that's when I spotted her, she was a few tables away and she was sitting with the jocks and cheerleaders.

I told my siblings to calm down and told her who the little bitch was and pointed at her.

"You mean to tell us, that a little pixie yell at you?" Rosalie said with a snicker.

"Wow Bella, having a conscience really softened you up." Victoria told me.

"What was I supposed to do?" I asked, "I wasn't going to make a scene, plus she is a teenager I am an 265 years old vamp, I am not going to reduce to her level." I said, "Plus, what can you expect from a teenager, who thinks she is better than anyone here." I told them, like it was the most obvious thing.

Jus then the bell rang and I headed to my next class, which was chemistry. I went there and the teacher told me to sit next to Alice Swan. I groaned internally and then proceed to make my way over her.

She noticed that I was approaching her and she had the decency to move her stuff so I could sit down.

"Hello." I said with a polite smile. She turned around facing me

"Hi, I am Alice, I'm sorry for the way I treated you in the morning." she said with an apologetic look and a timid voice. I couldn't believe that she was apologizing.

"Its ok, I am Bella Cullen, nice to meet your acquaintances." she giggled when I said that and I gave her a look of confusion.

"Sorry, its just…you sounded from one of those old movies from the 30's with the way you introduce yourself." she said between giggles.

"What can I say, I am kind of old fashioned in that way." I told her with a smirk.

In that moment the teacher started his lecture and Alice turn around to pay attention.

I took the time to really see her, she was kind of pretty, for a teenager, her blood was ok, but it wasn't something that would send me over the edge with thirst, I mean, her scent was ok, she smelled like freesia, but, it didn't cause a burn in my throat, mm that's odd, while I was pondering all this I saw Alice glance my way a couple of times and I pretend no to notice.

The teacher decided to assign us with a project, that was due next week and we have to star working on it with our lab partners.

"So, did you have your eyesight checked?" Alice asked, in a joking manner while flipping the pages of her book.

"My eyesight is perfect." I told her. "When do you like to star with the project?" I asked her.

"I don't know, how about tomorrow after school?" she asked me and then she added, "Although I am not so good with chemistry, actually I kind of suck at this subject" she told me with a sheepish expression on her face.

"I don't think that's going to be a problem, I love chemistry and in my other school I usually got an A in the subject" I told her with a proud smile on my face.

"Ha, you are so full of yourself aren't you?" Alice told me, looking at me, like she didn't believe me.

"I can prove it to you, I'll get us an A+." I told her, like it was not a big deal. The expression on her face was funny, here eyes were wide open and there was disbelief in her eyes.

"Really?" Alice said with exciment and a big smile on her face.

The teacher started making rounds to see if the students were working. The period ended 20 minutes later.

"What class do you have next Bella?" Alice asked me.

"PE, why?"

"I have the same class, come on I'll show you the way." she said dragging me out of the class and towards PE.

When we got there, a girl with curly hair and a nose job approached Alice.

"Alice, what are you doing hanging with this loser?" she asked with a petulant voice and an air of confidence, watching me like I was a homeless woman.

I just glared at her and I was about to respond, but Alice beat me to it.

"Jessica! I was just showing Bella where the class was, that's hardly hanging out." she said trying to avoid looking at me.

"Well, she knows where it is, now lets go, before coach C, starts yelling." she dragged Alice away and I just stood there trying to understand what just happened.

After a few seconds I started to walk toward the locker rooms to change.

We were in the gym and Coach Clapp told us that we were going to play dodge ball.

Alice and I ended up in the same team, while Jessica in the other one.

Now, I have to be very careful here, because, sometimes I forget my own strength and I can easily hurt someone, that doesn't mean I don't have fun.

Our team won of course and then we were told to change. I saw Alice again before I left, but she refused to meet my eyes.

I went to the parking lot and drove home. When I arrived, my siblings have gone hunting and Esme was waiting for me.

"Hello Bella, how was your day?" she asked with a smile on her face.

"Well, it started kind of crappy, I sort of ran over a girl and she started yelling at me to be more careful and then left. Then I met one boy and a girl who were nice to me. Then in chemistry I encounter the same girl of the morning and she apologized for her behavior, which was odd then we were assigned partners and I thought we were getting along, then in PE she ignored me." I told my mom with a confused face, she stood there silent for a few minutes and then answered me.

"Well, that's odd, why would she do something like that? Look Bella, try not to worry about that ok, I read in some book that teenagers nowadays are strange and not to pay too much attention to that sort of behavior." she told me with a serious yet loving expression on her face.

I just nods and left to my room to do my homework. I finished a few minutes later. I decided to go for a quick hunt and to patrol the town.

You see, after I develop my conscience I decided that I wanted to help people; I call it my path of redemption. After a quick hunt I went to patrol the streets of Forks and Port Angeles. In Forks I didn't found anything, but in Port Angeles, outside a bar, there were a couple of guys cornering a woman.

"What the hell do you think you are doing?" I asked them with anger by now my "game face" was showing.

"Hello there." one of the guys slurred, he was obviously drunk.

"So, we have another lady that can pleasure us guys, how lucky we are." the other one said with a wiggle in his eyebrows, he wasn't as drunk as the others. Meanwhile, the girl was silently sobbing, and that's when I looked at her. Her shirt was ripped and I could smell some blood.

"So, you think that I am going to pleasure you?" I asked with a growl, with no time I pounce on them and beat the shit out of them. When I was finished I turned around to the girl.

"Thank you so much, I don't know what would have I done." she told me crying, while clutching at me. I tried to console her in the best way.

After a few minutes she composed herself.

"You should probably go home, it's getting late." I told her while walking out of the alley we were in. She just nods her head and started following me.

"I'll get you a cab so you don't have to walk back."

"No, its ok, I have my car right over there." she said pointing at a blue Toyota a few feet away from us.

"Ok, and please, try to be more careful." I told her while walking away.

I returned home and went directly to my room to think, or as Emmett kindly call it to "brood". I sat near my window gazing at the forest replaying everything that happened today and wondering what tomorrow will bring to my life.