Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Twilight Saga, all of that is owned by Stephenie Meyers. I only take credit for my own characters.
So, I have to warn you, I wouldn't take this too seriously if I were you. I've been in a writing rut for a good five years or so. In fact I have yet to finish a single story of mine (especially when it comes to fanfiction). So this is like my creative outlet. Some chapters may be better than others, it usually depends on how I'm feeling that day.
I would love some reviews, whether it's asking for me to continue the story (although I'm probably just going to do that anyways?), criticizing my work, asking questions, etc. reviews are always appreciated.
-Time Skip-
Chapter 1
Veronica "Ronnie" Grim just wanted to go about her day in the normal way; with jeers and taunts from her peers, a few trips here and there, and walking arm and arm with her best friend. Unfortunately the Goddess wasn't with her today, if the tiny hyperactive vampire jumping in front of her was any indication.
"Hi! My name is Alice. You're Veronica right?" Ronnie couldn't figure out if she should be curious as to how the vampire knew her name or laughing at the fact that the tiny vampire seemed to vibrate in the spot out of excited. Never in any of her sixteen years on the earth had she seen such an excitable vampire.
"Ronnie, you can call me Ronnie," she cocked her eyebrows, "can I help you?" it was in her nature to help, simple as that. Vampire or not, Ronnie would only attack if she felt she needed to defend herself; and from the looks of things she would only need to fend off an overly excited hug.
Alice beamed, her hand reached forward to forcefully shake Ronnie's hand, "Yes, can you help me find my classroom? I'm new here, as you can probably tell-," Ronnie almost laughed at that understatement, a new girl in a small town stuck out like a sore thumb, "- and you seem to be the only one who isn't gawking at the site of the new teenagers in town."
Ronnie looked around a bit and could tell that Alice isn't over exaggerating. Literally every eye, including the faculty, had their eyes on the new students. While Alice had stuck behind to ask Ronnie for help, her family had decided to carry on forward without her; although Alice didn't seem to mind one bit about being abandoned by her family.
Ronnie softly smiled, "Of course. Do you have your timetable?" Alice thrust forward the little sheet of paper just as Ronnie uttered the word. Scanning over the sheet, she smiled as she noticed that her classes weren't very far from her own; although they wouldn't be in the same classes since they were a grade apart.
Walking Alice to her first class apparently meant she was going to have to listen to her life story. She had four other siblings, if she couldn't tell from before, although they are all adopted; and Alice was dating one of them, while two of the others were paired together as well. Her adopted father was a doctor while her adopted mother remained a stay at home mother; and from what Alice told her she seemed like a very warm-hearted woman.
After dropping off the strange vampire in her first class, Ronnie was immediately bombarded by her best friend; and the stares and whispers of her classmates.
Iris had been her best friend since she was five years old; when Ronnie had defended her from a bully on the playground and declared that Iris was her friend and not to be messed with. Iris also had a tendency to be a little bit of a wild child, a gossiper, nosy, and very much always in Ronnie's business, and she didn't mind it that much.
Iris' green eyes stared into Ronnie's hazel, unbleaking as she seemed to be searching her soul. Ronnie laughed to herself, quickly sitting down and setting up for the class. "If you're in love with me or something why don't you just confess already?" she winked at Iris before turning to the board, "although I'd have to warn you that I don't swing that way so you'll most likely be disappointed," she heard her best friend huff next to her as whatever retort she was going to give was drowned out by the beginning of the teacher's lecture.
A note quickly made its way to her desk, although she chose to ignore it.
Nudge.
Nudge.
Poke.
Ronnie rolled her eyes, willing the Goddess to give her the strength to be patient with her best friend and to not embarrass herself in class. She stuffed down her annoyance, knowing that this was just how Iris was, and how she would be until she was able to speak her mind.
She opened the note, keeping her head tilted up as her eyes cast downwards slightly; hoping the teacher wouldn't notice her inattentiveness.
The note read:
Who is she?
Is she a threat?
Why was she talking to you?
Why were you walking with her?
P.S. You'd be lucky to have me love you
Oh how curious her friend could be. She turned to her slightly, eyes watching the teacher, and mouthed the word "later" to her before going back to the lesson.
Hopefully her friend could be patient enough to make it through the class.
-Time Skip-
Surprisingly enough Iris was able to make it all the way through snack period and was finally ready to burst at lunch.
"Answers! I need answers woman" Iris demanded, her voice a low hiss to keep the conversation between us. We sat at a table by ourselves, which is how it usually is. She frowned as I laughed lightly in her face, eating bits and pieces of my lunch as I was staring at her in amusement.
It's always fun to watch her squirm.
"Can we sit with you by chance?" Ronnie was expecting to see Alice again, she got that feeling from the small vampire, she just didn't expect her to drag her whole family with her, let alone to each lunch with the rest of the humans; from what Ronnie remembered, vampires don't usually consume human food, unless it was the human themselves.
From the looks on the rest of the brady bunch they weren't all in complete agreement of Alice's choice; although from the looks of it they didn't have much of a choice as there weren't any tables free for a big family of five.
"Sure," Ronnie pushed Iris lightly, telling her with her eyes to move down a bit; Iris wasn't very happy with this decision. The Cullens took their seats, the blonde supermodel sitting next to the hulk, the blonde who looked to be in pain sat next to Alice, who of course sat next to Ronnie, and the bronze haired sibling that seemed to be bored with the circumstance sat across from Iris.
The Cullen's didn't say much, and Ronnie was sure it wasn't because they were shy. She was sure that they had every intention, besides Alice at least, to keep clear of the other humans, to finish school without having to interact unless they absolutely had to in class.
Iris spent most of her time clinging to Ronnie's side, her arm looped with Ronnie's. She glared at the table most of the time, muttering under her breath, "pesky new students who think they're good enough for my Ronnie-kins," and eating her lunch like a ravenous t-rex; which was quite funny because she doesn't look like she could hurt a fly.
Other than Iris cursing the whole clan, and receiving the silent treatment from most of the Cullens except for Alice and Emmett, lunch was pretty normal.
Ronnie hoped the days would only get better.
-Time Skip-
Grimsby Garden was a small shop ran by Ronnie's Aunt Moira. The small shop had survived two generations, starting off as a small workshop where they sold her Grandfather's works of art (this included paintings, jewelry, and pottery). When her Aunt took over the shop she changed it to fit her passion: everything that has to do with the earth. Her aunt had a passion for herbs, plants, flowers, and gardening tools. Behind the shop her aunt had created a small garden to be utilized by her customers. The garden was inspired by the Japanese gardens from her aunt's Europe trips as a college student; there was a koi pond, a small waterfall, a small bridge, a gazebo, etc.
"Tell me now!" patient, or as patient as she could be, Iris was done. She was calling it quits. She was ready to tear into the next person that interrupted her and Ronnie's conversation. Ronnie only found this hilarious; Iris hardly ever got ruffled like this.
Ronnie sat across from Iris under the gazebo, half at peace from the sound of the small waterfall. She brought her tea to her lips, sipping lightly as she thought over what to tell her best friend.
Iris huffed, motioning with her flinging arms for Ronnie to start, "I'm waiting," which was true.
"Well they're new-," "obviously," "- and Alice came up to me. Simple as that," it wasn't her secret to tell. Even though Iris was privy to all of Ronnie and her families' secrets, the Cullen's weren't hers to tell. Even if Iris was part of the same world.
"Oh come on! I know they're something different, why can't you just tell me?" Iris sipped her tea angrily, although her body seemed to visibly relax the more she drank it.
"Goddess will me," part of her enjoyed this statement. While it was true that the Goddess ruled that they were to only tell their own secrets, she also knew she could have said that straight out. The exact saying that was used drives Iris crazy, and Ronnie was going to use it to her advantage.
Iris glared over the small teacup, fingers tapping the clayed cup annoyingly. Rolling her eyes she decided to relent a little bit, "but really I can't. It's not my secret to tell," she smirked, "maybe if you were nice to them they might tell you."
Iris frowned, grumbling to herself, but nodding her head in accent. "Can you at least tell me if they are good?" a valid question. The only problem was that Ronnie wasn't sure of her answer. From what she saw, and felt, they were different from most vampires. Although not overly friendly, if you don't count Alice, they didn't look like they were planning to eat the student body; but it was also only the first day and there was only so much information you can gather without having asked them any questions.
"I hope so."
-End Scene-
That's the end of chapter 1!
Honestly, this was my rewrite. I have a written out chapter 1 with a first-person POV that I was going to originally publish… but I didn't like it. So I wrote this one instead, and I have to say I like it way better!
If all goes well, maybe I'll post some "bloopers" which are just mistakes and rewrites I've done.
Next chapter I'm hoping to go into more detail on what Ronnie and her family are (although we won't be going deep into Iris' background for quite a bit, I have that in store for later chapters). I'm also hoping that in the next chapter Ronnie and her Aunt will meet up with Carlisle and the family, sort some things out; but we'll see how I'm feeling when I'm typing that chapter up.
This is going to be an OC/Shifter story, just haven't quite figured which shifter yet. I'm kind of leaning towards Embry as I feel like he doesn't get enough love in the books. Although Seth deserves an imprint darnit.
P.S. let me know if you want more details on how the characters look (I'm planning on trying to get them in the next few chapters, I'm just kind of trying to feel out when a good time is. I got some detail on their eyes colors now, so maybe there will be something about their hair colors, lengths, look, etc.)
P.S. (2): Currently annoyed because Fanfiction won't let me use the format I want to :(