Prologue: The Simple Life? Yeah, Right.

Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning in my own mistakes. So many things have gone wrong in my life, and I had nowhere else to turn.

Okay, so maybe this wasn't one of my most genius plans. I never said I was brilliant, did I?

Confused? Probably. My name is Isabella Swan, but everyone who's anyone calls me Bella. I'm seventeen and I live in the run-down part of New York. Never heard of it? It's something called the suburbs. They haven't really bothered with it for a while, so it's pretty…well, the nicest word I can use is unattractive.

I've lived there my whole life. Even after my parents died, I went to live with their best friends, Carlisle and Esme, the next block over. They have a daughter my age named Alice and we're practically sisters. I've lived with them since I was eleven and we're even closer than I had ever been with my parents.

My mom and dad were both surgeons and so had left me…well, let's just say a lot of money. Why did we live in the suburbs if we were rich, you might ask? Well, my parents wanted me to have a "normal" life instead of growing up spoiled and with no concept of how the world works. Who knows, maybe if I had grown up in some mansion in the city this would have never happened.

Carlisle's a doctor too, and my new family also has a lot of money. They're a pretty unselfish bunch of people though and would have no use of a huge, fancy mansion.

All my money is stored away for college though. Yeah, right. As if I'm going to college. I would never get in anyway. With my record, the only place that would take me right now is Juvi. As soon as I'm eighteen I'll have full access to my money and I'll just get my GED and work at, like, a drug store or something for the rest of my life. Or I could steal. Yeah, that works too.

So anyway, back to my story. After my parents died, I was pretty beat up. One day I just got so mad that I ran. I got up and ran as hard and fast as I could, and eventually I ended up in some alleyway. Once I realized I reached a dead end I turned around to head back, only to see that I was now cornered by some gang. They looked pretty fierce and I was only fourteen. What could a tiny fourteen-year-old girl do to a gang of teenagers with weapons?

That was when my guardian angel, Emmett, stepped in. He was only a year older than me, but he was the size of a house. He was probably the strongest person I had ever met. Anyway, he managed to talk the gang out of hurting me (and by "talk" I mean "threatened") and ever since then we've been great friends. Need I say more?

Then there's Rosalie and Jasper. They had a fight with a particularly vicious gang a few years back, and eventually the gang decided it was time things got a little violent. Emmett, Alice and I, being the caring people that we are, chased off the gang and saved them from injury. Okay, so maybe we only did it because Emmett had a thing for Rosalie and the same with Alice and Jasper, but whatever. You get the point. Anyway, Rose never really liked me because of how close I am with Emmett, but me and Jasper are pretty good friends.

So that's how we all met. We're pretty much the most feared gang of the suburbs, mainly because Emmett's really huge and the rest of us are extremely intimidating.

Oh, and then there's my crime record. I've done everything from shoplifting to gang fights. But not murder. If a fight can be avoided, then I'll avoid it. I would never kill anyone….would I?

Who knows. If there's one thing I've learned so far in life it's this: never say never.

So what do you guys think? It's just a prologue. Keep that in mind. I've already started the first chapter but had to go back and change a few things because it was too cliché. That's why I wrote this prologue in the first place: to un-cliché it. Anyway, review!