So I've gotten like no comments on any of my stories. I'll still continue, but I thought maybe you guys will like this one better and if you don't I've still have like three more that I haven't posted. :P

Chapter 1: Little Girl Blind

When I was little I loved to run around and jump from rock to rock in creeks. I loved nature and playing with all kinds of animals that I could get my hands on. I hated dolls because they were boring. They didn't move or make noise. They were just inanimate objects. The only thing I ever wanted was to stand outside and feel grass and crunch sand between my toes. I wanted to feel the wind as it hit my face and the sun while it burned my fair skin. I couldn't get enough of the outdoors and I was sure that someday I would make a career out of it. I didn't care if my pay was less than a garbage man. All I wanted was to be happy.

I would have made it too, but when I was eight years old I had an accident. I was playing in some old creek behind my house. It had just got done raining so everything was slippery and I knew it, but I just wanted to play. Emmett, my older brother, was supposed to be watching me, so I slipped out the backdoor when he had gotten a phone call and ran to the creek. Before I even got there I lost my balance and slipped on some mud near the edge. Next thing I knew I my head hit a rock and I blacked out.

I guess Emmett saw me running and came out after me. He pulled me out otherwise I would have drowned. He said that he thought I was dead already with the amount of blood that was around me.

A couple of days later I didn't know where I was. How could I? All I could see was black.

I adjusted the sunglasses on my face as I sat on a bench outside of Forks High School. Where was that damn bear when you needed him anyways. I had been waiting in this exact spot for an hour, although my brother had sworn that he would only be five minutes.

He needed to go pick up some homework that he had missed from today when he had driven me to a doctor's appointment. I knew that I was a burden, but I clearly couldn't drive myself.

I didn't blame Emmett for the accident but he sure as hell blamed himself. He took special liberty to make himself my personal chef, chafer, and anything else that I would need. Actually it kind of drove me crazy how much that he would try to help. I could get around pretty well on my own considering that I had been doing this for seven years.

I just wanted things to be as normal as possible. I knew that I would need help my entire life doing things. Hell, I needed help just to get my clothes to match in the morning, but that's not what I wanted. What I wanted was to be able to support myself. To get a job where no one saw a blind girl. I wanted to live on my own and fall crazy in love.

I could hear footsteps coming towards me. "I swear to god Emmett if you ever make me wait that long for you again I will personally-"

"Emmett? The big dude on the football team? Is that your boyfriend?" I heard a strange voice asked.

I looked up in the direction that the voice had come from. "Ew. No. Gross. Emmett's my brother."

"I see. Well, do you mind if I join you? My sister's inside and I promised her that I would wait for her today. She hates it when I leave her here."

"No go ahead." I motioned to the seat next to me. "Out of curiosity does this sister of yours have a car?"

"Nope." I could tell by the sound of his voice that he could see where this was going.

"And do you live anywhere near the school at all?" I asked smirking.

"Yeah pretty close. About five miles away." The sarcasm was evident in his voice.

"Gee, then I wonder why she would be so upset about you leaving her here. You know I just love to walk five miles every single day. Especially in a place with weather like this. Rain is awesome for you. If you walk in it long enough than you won't need to shower that day." I joked.

"Exactly!" He laughed and after a pause he asked, "Are you trying to look as cool as me?" I could tell by his tone that he was joking.

"I don't think that I could ever do that. Why?" I played along.

"Because wearing sun glasses when it's already so dark out? Who does that?" Did he really not know? How could he not. Sometimes I don't even look in the right direction when I'm talking to people and earlier when I thought that he was Emmett. I had to set him straight. Either it would embarrass him that he couldn't tell and he would walk away or he wouldn't want to be around somebody like me and he would walk away.

Oh well, I had to tell him. I just had to.

"Yep, that's it. You caught me. You know I actually have a fetish for sunglasses that's why I wear them all the time." Yeah, that wasn't exactly what I was planning on telling him and a fetish? Really? Where did that come from? Gross.

All I heard was his booming laugh. "Good to know." I smiled.

I heard Emmett's voice joking with his friends and messing around. He was maybe twenty feet away. I got to my feet taking a few steps forward praying I wouldn't hit anybody before I turned around. "Well, that's my brother. I have to go it was nice talking to you." I waved and then began walking holding my breath so sure that I would make a wrong step and hit someone. Why didn't I just tell him? It would have been a lot easier than trying to hide it. Who the hell tries to hide the fact that they're blind?

"Wait." I spun around again. I hope I was facing the right direction.

Did he figure it out? "Yeah?" I asked a little nervous as to what he wanted.

"I didn't get your name." His voice was a whisper, but I caught it loud and clear. That's all?

"It's Bella. And you are?"

"I'm Edward."

I smiled once more before turning back around to face Emmett's voice. Listening carefully for footsteps or voices in front of me I took a few steps forward.

"Bella you're beautiful." I heard him say quietly. Maybe it was to himself. Maybe it was to me, but I couldn't tell.

I felt the heat rush to my cheeks. I must have been blushing. I wonder what it looked like. "Thanks." I called back.

"You heard that?" If I could see him he'd probably be blushing. I sighed knowing that I would never get to see his face let alone his blush.

"Yeah. I hear a lot of thing that I probably shouldn't." I said truthfully.

"Girl, have bat like ears." I turned around once more and this time I was fairly certain that I wasn't facing remotely close to the right direction, but I didn't really care. It's not like I would ever talk to the kid again. It was just nice to have a five minute conversation without anyone treating me like I had some incurable disease that I would die from.

I didn't have bat like ears, but he was close enough. "Yeah, I'm a vampire didn't you know?" Vampire. Really Bella? That was the best that you could come up with? Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. I internally slapped myself in the face.

"Vampire, really? Does that mean you bite?" I didn't have to see his face to get the innuendo in his comment. Maybe he was raising an eyebrow. Or biting his lip. God I wish I knew.

"You'll just have to find out." What was this? It was like my head couldn't process what was coming out before I said it. It just came out before I could stop it. This was not like me. I have to get out of here before I can make any more of an idiot of myself.

"I'll definitely have to do that." I just barely caught him say as I spun around and ran directly into someone and hitting my head against theirs. Damn. I was distracted and I wasn't listening.

"Sorry. I'm so sorry." I muttered feeling really idiotic now. "Did you drop anything? I'm really-"

"Hey sis!" I heard Emmett's booming voice. Oh it was just that moron. The one who left me alone. I should kill him. I bet its scarier when a blind person kills you.

"Damn Emmett! Why didn't you say something to warn me that you were there?" I scolded.

"It was way more fun to watch you make a fool out of yourself and plus usually you hear when people sneak up on you. Did Cullen really have you that distracted? He's already got all the girls here wrapped around his finger and now even when they can't see his face they fall for him?" He punched me lightly in arm.

Cullen huh? He's got all the girls at this school swooning over him. He must be cute. I sighed knowing that I would never know if he truly was or not.

"I didn't fall for him and what his face looks like shouldn't make any difference to anybody." I pointed out taking a few steps away from him. I was very claustrophobic.

"I don't know he's a pretty handsome devil." He said and from where his voice was coming from I could tell that he was looking at him.

"Then you can have him Em and you two can both go make fabulous gay love together and go adopt little Asian babies that you will call your own and even though you can't have your own children that's okay because you will always have each other." I grinned showing all of my teeth.

"You know I could just leave you here right. See how much of a smart ass you are when you are trying to find your own way home" He pouted. Oh yeah genius idea Emmett. Let a blind girl find her own way home because, you know, it's not like she could get run over by a car or anything.

"Well we all know that you wouldn't do that because dad would beat you senseless the moment that you got home, and then he would make you go and find me." I replied. "And when you got home he'd probably blind you too and you wouldn't want two blind kids in the family would you. People would start to get suspicious."

Dad had never been the same since the accident. It was like after it happened he realized that anything can happen to you. Tomorrow you could get hit by a train and die. He became overcautious when it came to me. He bought me a seeing-eye dog that I could walk around with me and sent Emmett with me everywhere. I even had the suspicion that he asked the neighbors to watch me while I was walking. I always felt like eyes were on me everywhere that I went and it drove me absolutely crazy.

I wish that I could tell him just to calm down and back off, but I knew I couldn't do that. Ever since mom left dad had never been the same. He took us as his personal responsibilities and when he came home to find me at the hospital he was crushed. When he found out I was blind I knew he would never be the same again.

I also knew that he blamed Emmett and I hate that he did. It wasn't Em's fault. It was mine. I hated being the reason that they never got along.

He knew that he had lost our argument. So, he just grabbed my arm and started to walk me towards the car. I heard the beep telling me that he had just unlocked it and that it was close. He helped me into the passenger's seat and buckled my seat belt before getting into the driver's side himself. I hated when he did that. It made me feel like a toddler.

The key clicked in the ignition and the car started.

"Hey Em?"

"Yeah?" He asked. He sounded distraction. Was he just concentrating on the road or was there something else on his mind?

"I love you, you know that right?" I didn't say it very often and I worried that sometimes he thought that I blamed him too.

"Now don't go getting all sappy on me." He joked, but I could tell that it meant something to him.

Nobody could lie around me and get away with it often. My hearing improved tenfold after I had lost my vision. I could hear even the slightest change in pitch in someone's voice.

The rest of the car ride was silent and five minutes later we pulled into the driveway. I got out of the car before he could help me, but was met with my dad's hand. Of course.

"Where were you guys? You're late." He sounded worried. He was always worried. I wish he wouldn't do that.

"Emmett just went to go pick up the work that he missed. Relax dad we're fine." I sighed as he led me towards the door.

"You should call when you're going to be late." He always does this.

"I know dad. I'm sorry. It won't happen again." I muttered as we reached the step.

I knew that he just wanted to keep me safe, but at this point I wasn't safe for a second longer in that house. The only way that I would ever be safe was if I got out and started living life.

Alrighty so RATING MAY CHANGE! I will warn you before it does.

Do you like this one better? I'm seriously about ready to just give up. :(

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