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Chapter 1 – Dreams

I woke up to find myself hyperventilating, my legs all tangled up in my bed sheets. I sat bolt up straight taking in the familiar surroundings of my bedroom. It hadn't changed much since I was born seventeen years ago, the crib was now my double bed but that was the only real difference. Then again I hadn't really been in this room that long, it had always been mine from the day I was born; but when my mum and dad split up when I was a baby I went with my mum. This was my room for the few weeks every year that I visited my dad. It still had the same pale blue wall's it had while I was growing up. Since moving here ten months ago I had put some of my own personal touches to it, the curtains were now purple, instead of yellow, they matched my bedding. I'd also put up some fairy lights around my bookshelves to try and add a little extra colour, Forks could be really dull for days on end, one of the reasons my mum had left this place and one of the reasons why I only came here a few weeks out of the whole year. Yet here I was now calling this place home, I'd settled down here much quicker then I ever thought possible, surprisingly I actually liked it here.

I realized pretty quickly that I had just been dreaming and with a big sigh I flopped back down on to the pillows and pulled my duvet over my head. My breathing had calmed down by now and with the calm came the feelings of anger and frustration, why was I dreaming of him yet again? I was confused, I hardly even knew him. It's not like he was ever really that nice to me; well not until the day he saved my life in the school parking lot, Edward Cullen.

I jumped out of bed deciding a refreshing shower was in order to help me forget my dreams, not that they weren't good, they were very very good, great even but I shouldn't be dreaming of him, he wasn't mine, I wasn't his and I hadn't seen him since the day he had saved me.

"Come on Bella, Pull yourself together girl" I said to myself.

At first the shower helped but soon again my mind started to wander, Edward Cullen !! He was the most beautiful man I'd ever seen; he was tall with a slim toned body. He had bronze coloured hair which he wore in his own unique style and mysterious golden eye's and had a face that most male models would sell there soul for. Sometimes I caught myself staring at him and would internally slap myself for making it obvious that I liked him. I had never stood a chance with Edward for numerous reasons, one, he was so out of my league, two, I only ever saw him hanging out with his family and third he acted as if I didn't even exist. Before Edward left he had started to talk to me in the one class where we were sat next to each other, it was biology and we were lab partners. I didn't know him but he had started to talk to me and I hoped that soon we could possibly be friends, but then the accident happened and I haven't seen him since.

There had been a bad frost the night before the accident but somehow I'd managed to make it to school unscathed. As I'd got out of my truck I heard this horrible screeching sound mixed with people screaming my name. I looked up to see Tyler's van coming straight at me after skidding on some black ice. I was going to be crushed between his van and my truck, there was no way I'd have been able to get out of the way, it was coming to fast for me to react so I just closed my eyes waiting for the impact. I knew I was going to die, I should have died that day but I didn't and it was because of him. An impact did come, but from a different direction to what I was expecting. Edward had managed to get to me from across the parking lot, he'd pushed me out of the way when the van collided with the back of my truck and then had pulled me close to him while he pushed the van away to keep it from falling on me.

I knew straight away that it was not humanly possible to do what Edward had just done, nobody could move that fast or be that strong, but he was and the fact that I was standing here in the shower six months later proved that I hadn't imagined it. I'd tried to confront him about it later that day in the hospital but he just made it seem like I was imagining it,

"I was standing right next to you Bella, you hit your head, I think your confused"

I knew that wasn't the truth but I never got to talk to him about it again because he never came back to school, his sister, Alice, who I was now friends with told me he'd moved to Denali to live with his cousins. I couldn't help thinking that I was the reason he'd moved away but whenever I mentioned it to Alice she assured me that I had nothing to do with his decision to leave Forks. Apparently he'd been planning to move away from Forks for a while.

I'd been in the shower for a while now, I heard Charlie coming up the stairs, and he banged on the bathroom door,

"Come on Bell's, you've been in there long enough now, there's two of us sharing that bathroom remember"

"Sorry dad, I was day dreaming I'll be two minutes ok"

"Ok Bell's" with that he went back down stairs.

I grabbed hold of my favorite shampoo, strawberry scented, and started to wash my hair, I'd been in here for over half an hour now and the room was full of steam. I turned off the shower and got out; I had to wipe down the mirror so I could see what I looked like. I brushed trough the tangles of my long brown hair and sighed, my boyfriend kept trying to get me to dye my hair blonde, but I loved being a brunette, so he could keep pushing and I would keep telling him no, if he really wanted a blonde then he should have asked out Jessica or Lauren, he'd have to put up with me the way I was, I wasn't changing for anyone.

I opened the bathroom door and the cold air rushed in and made me shiver, I tighten the towel around me, I stood at the top of the stairs

"Dad, bathrooms free, sorry I took so long"

"It's ok Bells, its just I'm going down to La Push, its Billy's birthday remember"

I had totally forgotten, what was wrong with my brain at the moment, probably the lack of peaceful sleep, bloody Edward Cullen. Whenever I dreamt of him the dreams were so real that I felt like I'd hardly slept at all.

"Hey bells"

"Yea dad"

"Why don't you come? Billy would love to see you, so would Jacob"

"I'd love to dad but I said I'd spend some time with Mike today"

"Come on Bell's you see Mike all the time, you haven't seen Billy and Jacob for ages, there like family Bella"

I could see him getting slightly irritated with my attitude lately, he was right I hadn't seen them in ages and part of me would have loved to go down to La Push, but I'd promised Mike and he hated it when I broke off arrangements with him, so I thought compromise.

"I see mike all the time at work dad, it's not quite the same. Tell Billy happy birthday from me and tell Jake that I'll come down soon before school starts back up"

I could tell from his face that he'd let this go, Charlie never pushed me to do anything, we got on really well, the bond we had as father and daughter was stronger then I thought it would ever be. We were very much alike, we were both quite people, I could tell what he was thinking just by looking at him and visa versa; he was easy to live with.

"Ok Bells I'll tell em, you have fun with Mike, don't know what time I'll be back, if you go out leave a note so I know were you're at"

"Sure thing dad, you have fun to"

With that I went in to my room, I was starting to get cold as I was still only wrapped in a towel. I shut the door behind me and turned round to face my bedroom, what a mess I seriously needed to catch up on my household chores, If me and mike weren't going to be out long I'd sort my room out as soon as I got in. There were clothes on the floor, my wash basket was full to bursting point and I had CD's and my favorite book's scattered around by my bed. My work desk had my school work that I'd been doing during the holidays and my bed, well my bed looked like I'd gone ten rounds with a champion boxer. The sheets were all tangled up, what on earth was I doing last night, oh yea, dreaming of him. I walked over to the foot of the bed grabbed hold of the corners of my duvet and flipped it back to how it should be. I sorted all my pillows back in to there proper place and crawled on to my bed sitting cross legged in the middle. I looked at myself in the mirror that hung on my wall. I sighed heavily and then grimaced at myself. Edward had saved my life, he was the only reason I was alive today, so I suppose it was only natural to dream of him and with that thought I smiled.