Disclaimer: All rights go to Stephanie Meyers...for now. ;-)

Chapter 1

I was standing in our once beautiful meadow, but instead of the wonderful wild flowers and green grass I was so accustomed to, I was met with dead grass, weeds, and dirt. It was as if all the beauty and life in my whole of existence up and left with him. Life wasn't worth living without those beautiful pools of topaz staring at me with love and adoration I've never seen before, making it so much more real, more like he actually loved me for that small time, but it also made it more painful when he said those words, those words that will forever be burned into my memory. "I don't want you."

I felt myself fall onto the lifeless grass, tears streaming from my eyes. He's gone and he'll never come back! I felt numb pain rake through my body. The icy fingers of depression gripped my heart and started squeezing it until I felt as though my heart was about to burst with anguish and sorrow. Life wasn't worth living anymore. I never understood when people say that a person could get so depressed that they could hurt themselves, but I felt it now. The pain wasn't even painful; it was empty, as if someone took your soul and left an empty space where it once was. The powerful but fragile muscle in my chest seemed as though it was running away screaming at me "I need him. Not you!"

"Bella?" a musical voice echoed around me and the forest.

My eyes snapped open and I jumped up anxious to see the man I was so longing to see again. My soul was begging, my heart racing and my mind blank except for the one word running through my head please, please, please! That feeling when you're so hopeful that you think nothing can go wrong ever again was spreading throughout my body. That feeling was the best feeling in the world. But never, ever get your hopes up.

"Edward!" I spun around. To see not the man my hopeful heart was longing to see once again but the stranger that was now a distant memory when actually it was only a summer ago that we met.

There standing at the end of the once beautiful meadow was Laurent. His dark skin was glistening like diamonds and jewels, beautiful but not the same as his. In fact it just sent a shred through my body, piercing my heart with an iron hot dagger.

"Laurent, what are you doing here?" I asked skeptically taking a cautious step backwards. The last time I saw Laurent I was almost killed by the psychopath James.

"Oh no, do not be afraid young Bella." he said taking a step forward. His eyes looked down at the point on my neck that was surely a pulse point or my jugular. My heart was beating frantically; I was trying to slow it down. It was not helping with my fate right about now.

"I saw you here, helpless and defenseless. You see, I have been waiting for a chance to get to you...alone." The way he said it was soothingly as if it was a good thing I was stuck in a meadow alone with a bloodthirsty vampire, who was most likely out to get me!

I was slowly backing away when suddenly he was right in front of me. His eyes almost surprised. He couldn't really be surprised I mean seriously, he was a vampire with RED eyes.

"No, no, no. You do not understand." He said

"Oh, I understand you were sent here by Victoria to try to kill me, am I wrong?" I asked, well I was going to die might as well do it truthfully.

"No, I was sent here by Victoria to get you, to bring you back with me. She was going to torture you, but you are just so mouthwatering!" He cupped my face with his cold, stone hard hand. I flinched away from his touch. The cold used to comfort me, make me known of the presence of my love but now it just reminded me that I will never see his beautiful face again.

"But by me being here, I will make it fast. You will not feel a thing, I promise." His breath fanned my face. I closed my eyes, waiting for the piercing pain. The pain I felt before, the wild fire in my veins, the hot boiling water pouring over me but instead of the scorching burn it was numbing as if I had stuck my hand in a fire and kept it there until the skin melted away and then slowly the bone did as well.

I just didn't expect for it to hurt so god damn much! It felt as though someone was stabbing me with a red hot iron knife over and over again. I was expecting the pain, bracing for it. But it hurt so much!

Distantly I heard a howl then I was once again on the ground. The pain was gone, but it was replaced with a hot feeling running slowly down from my neck to the rest of my body to my toes and then I was laying in the fire feeling my bones met away to nothingness. I sucked in my last breath and lay as still as I could.

My eyes finally opened to see dark green trees, I slowly sat up. Where was I? I was up on my feet before I even registered I wanted to get up. What happened?

Images flashed in my head. They were all blurry, like I was trying to read when I needed glasses. I was in the meadow, Laurent came and then he bit me! So that means I'm a vampire now. I am immortal and alone, just wonderful. A prickly sensation came to my eyes, as if I wanted to cry but I couldn't, it felt really weird. I was cut off by my thoughts when the bushes to the right of me shook. I young man with olive skin and dark short cropped hair came out of the bushes and stared at me in amazement.

"Bells, hey, it's me Jake." He slowly and cautiously stepped towards me.

Jake! I thought he was avoiding me? Oh no! He has to get away from me I'm really dangerous right now, the whole bloodlust and then the newborn strength thing, I could kill him.

"Jake, stay away from me I'm dangerous. I'm a vampire now." I meant for the last part to be quiet so he wouldn't be able to hear me, apparently it wasn't. Jake started to shake and breathe heavily. I slowly backed away from him. He looked pissed off, like really pissed off. Like he could kill someone and that wasn't very good

"You knew all along, didn't you? Knew what the Cullen's were and you still hung out around them? What's wrong with you? You are no longer Bella anymore; you are a bloodsucker, a leech. I have the right to kill you!" He said eerily calm and then he was running away. I wanted to chase after him, tell him that I'll forever be Bella that I will always be his best friend.

Pain shot through my chest and gripped onto a tree for support, careful not to crush it to dust. The pain is still here? I started running from the opposite direction from where Jake went. I needed to get away from here and fast! Just keep running, Bella. I stopped when I realized I needed to hunt.

I remember when he told me that when there kind, I mean our kind, hunted we let our instincts take over us completely. I slowly breathed in and breathed out my nose. That is when I smelt it. It was sweet and kind of meaty. I was off running before I could even think about it. I'd have to get used to this, I told myself. I followed the sent until it was so close I could practically taste it. Standing in the trees was a golden mountain lion; he was just lounging in the trees lazily. Not know his fate was sealed and he was going to be my breakfast.

I climbed up the tree and slowly and silently prowled towards the lion. He must have heard me because his head snapped up. An evil grinned spread across my lips, this was a lot more fun than I thought.

He growled and I growled back, sounding nothing like me, at all. He stealthily walked backwards, probably sensing I was dangerous, good move kitty because soon you'll be my meal! I thought towards it, momentarily forgetting all of my problems.

I lunged at him and we tumbled to the forest floor. He scratched and bit at me doing no damage at all. It was getting annoying so quickly sunk my teeth in his neck. In seconds I drained it. I pushed the carcass off me in disgust. That was easier than I thought. I got up and brushed dirt off my jeans and straightened my ripped up red and black flannel shirt.

I was running, going nowhere when screams echoed through the woods. Those weren't just any kind of screams they were pain filled screams, the kind I had earlier let go.

I stopped and sniffed the air; there was a human and something else. I couldn't put my finger on it. I started walking towards the screams until I stopped at a clearing. In the center was a human girl with raven black hair and already pale skin, but something was different about her she smelled really sweet. She was changing! I could smell the sweetness of the venom. I raced towards the anonymous girl and picked her up. There was only one place to go that we could be safe.

I had to go to their house. It was a life or death situation literally. I was only a couple of miles away; I'd know I could smell them from about three miles. I started racing towards the house, trying not to think about them just her, the girl in my arms that looked about 16-17 years old, her family, what would happen after she woke up, would she want to stay with me?. Her life was in my hands, her fate, whether she'd be a killer or the alternate route.

We were finally there; luckily she stopped screaming, for some really strange reason. I raced inside, not really looking anywhere knowing that if I did I'd probably mentally shut down, and ran upstairs to Carlisle's study. I gently placed her down on the wooden floor. I just sat there, waiting and worrying what I would do. I mean I was a newborn myself, how was I going to control another newborn? I was still surprised at how easy this "newborn stage" was. I mean, I didn't attack Jake right away and I didn't go prowling for humans at all. Maybe it was all just in their heads.

2 days later the girl woke up. She was terrified, to say the least, and I had to tell her to calm down many times before she actually did and let me explain. I explained everything to her, and she was surprisingly OK with it, she even thought it was cool. I asked her why she wasn't screaming and if she felt pain.

"At first but then I felt as though I was laid down in cool water and the rest was really comfortable, almost like I was sleeping."

Her name was Annabelle Jones, but she preferred Anna. She was 16 and was lost in the woods after, sadly, finding her single mother gone from the house, all her stuff gone. For a while she just roamed the woods to clear her head and then she soon found out that she was lost when a vampire pounced on her. What scared me the most was that the vampire supposedly had fiery red hair and a cat like face.