Chapter one: Arrival
"Isabella Swan your current assignment is the Cullen family in Forks, Washington" Said David Sula, president of the NVHS or National Vampire Hunters Society. "We want them eleminated.
"Done." I said and started to walk out to get the case file.
"Wait Bella, this is going more difficult then any of your previous assignments" He said giving me a serious look.
"Relax David, I've taken out entire covens before, this one will be no different." I told him
"But the Cullens are different! They're clever, They can easily get away from you, we've been tracking them for years, using just our speed and strength to try to take them out, but this time we're going at it from a different approach." David replied. "Part of the Cullens family is a vampire by the name of Edward Cullen. He's the only one currently not mated."
"And...? What do you want me to do about it? Ask him out on a date?" I asked rolling my eyes at where this conversation was going.
"Exactly! You going into this assignment undercover.... As a normal teenage girl. I want you to get close to him. Do whatever a normal teenage girl would do in a relationship. Ask him what he likes or dislikes or whatever, just don't blow your cover or we're screwed! David said. "And if you ever find yourself alone with him, make sure you have weapons!"
"I know, I know, I've done this many times" I told him. "I'm not so niave that I would get close to a vampire and not have any weapons on me. I'm mean, come on. I'm just as fast, it not faster, then most vampires, I been trained in every type of martial arts and, I make the Incredible Hulk look like a playground bully"
"I know, that's why I chose you for this assignment, just don't get over confident" David said.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm on it" I said and walked out of the office. It was time to visit Charlie.
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It was nearly midnight when I arrived at the airport outside Forks, Washington. The eight hour plane ride from Pheonix, Arizona had been excruciatingly boreing. The whole trip was spent thinking of ways to get Edward Cullen close to me. Should I play the seductive bad girl, play hard to get, or play the innocent girl just trying to fit in?
When I stepped off the plane the night air instantly gave me chills. It was much colder here then it had been in Pheonix. I also knew it rains just about every other day and the sky was always covered in a large mask of grey clouds never letting the sunshine in. This made it the perfect place for a vampire coven.
I took my two suit cases from the luggage rack and stood outside to wait for my father, Charlie. He was the chief of police and I hadn't seen him in many years since I stopped coming up to spend Christmas with him. I had hated it here. I hated the weather and I hated the small town and how everyone knew who you were even when you didn't know them, But I also knew living with Charlie wouldn't be so bad. We were alot alike he and I. We both tend to be loners most of the time, we never like akward conversations like the birds and the bees, we knew when to push and when to leave it alone and, we both can't dance.
When Charlie finally pulled into the airport parking lot I smiled and rolled my eyes when I saw that he was driving his crusiure. He pulled up along side the curb I was standing on and got out. He took my bags and put them in the trunk then opened my door with a I-missed-you smile. I returned the same smile when I realized I really had missed him.
On the way to the place where I would soon call home, at lease until I finished my assignment, I could see the look on Charlie's face and knew he was trying to think of a conversation starter. I then figured, why not spare him the akwardness and speak up myself.
"So... How have you been?" I asked the lame question that started about 99.9% of the worlds conversations.
"I've been good" Charlie replied. "What about you?"
"Nothing really new... Mom getting married is about it" I told him.
"Yeah, she told me. Do you like him?" He said asking me the question all fathers asked when the mother of the kid gets remarried.
"Yeah. He's nice. He down to earth. He'll be good for mom" I said thinking of how big of a dreamer my mother was. When she thought of something she would want to do it right then and there without thinking it through.
"That good" And that was the last word that was said during our attemp to rebond.
When we arrived at the house Charlie and I got out. He open the trunk and grabbed my bags and showed me into the house that I hadn't been in in years.
The house on the outside was white and shabby and in desperate need of a paint job. It had a small porch with a rocking chair on it. I remember many christmas's spent standing on the porch in my tiny pink coat, waiting to go home.
The inside of the house was warm and alot cozier then it used to be. I looked in the kitchen and knew I would have to take over the cooking. The stove looked untouch. And by the smell of the place I would have to take over the cleaning too. The walls had very few pictures, but the ones that were hung up were of me as a baby and me during the christmas's a spent here with fake smiles on my face.
"This place hasn't changed much" I said.
Charlie just nodded and led me upstairs. He led me into a small room that had a dresser, a single sized bed and a desk with a anciant computer on it. The bed was fitted with a purple sheet and blanket set.
"I bought you purple because I remembered that it was your favorite color" Charlie said "And I got the computer from an old friend because I thought you could use it"
I smiled. I in fact hated the color purple but had always told charlie I liked it, I was surprised he remembered and I wouldn't need the old dinosour computer because I had brought a lab top that the NVHS had provided me to keep them posted. But I really appreciated Charlie trying so hard to make me happy.
"I also got you something else, but it won't be here until tomorrow" He smiled wickedly and couldn't help but wonder what he gotten me.
After that Charlie left me alone to get settled in. I looked around the room and sat down on the bed and let my thought linger back to Edward Cullen and how I was going to aproach him. I had three days to figure it out. For in three days would be my first day of high school.