Chapter 1

I woke up on a bed that was not mine. In a room that was not mine. I looked around. It all seemed familiar like i've been here before but not for a long time. That's when I remembered. I wasn't in Phoenix Arizona anymore no I was now in Forks Washington the rainiest place in the continental U.S. I moved here to live with Charlie so my mom could go around the country with her new husband Phil and his baseball team. Now here I was in my room that I stayed in every summer since my mom left my dad when I was a baby until I put my foot down at age 14. than Charlie would come up and visit in Phoenix so I could stay out of dreary Forks but for my mom I am here once again in the town I escaped from when I was a child.

I laid in bed just thinking. Today was my first day of Forks High and I was not entirely excited. See I don't get along with people my own age that well. My mom was my best friend so it's kind of hard to leave her but I knew she needed to be with Phil so I made the sacrifice. I was really mature for my age. I was pretty much the mom while my mom Renee was more of the child. She was crazy, fun, and free while I was more contained, boring, and conserved. School was going to be hard. In Phoenix I was never popular and I wasn't expecting anything different here. Why would I when I was nothing out of the ordinary, nothing special. I was the girl with plain brown hair and plain brown eyes to match. Pale skin, average height and average weight. I was girl who would rather read than watch television not that I didn't watch my fair share. I was the freak that you didn't talk to unless you wanted to die a social death.

I rolled out of bed deciding that it was time to get ready, I didn't want to be late my first day after all. I was a junior in high school and I was transferring half way through the semester gun right. I stepped in the shower letting the hot water release some of the tension in my muscles. I felt instantly better but I still wasn't relaxed. It's the first day of a new school how could I be? When the water turned cold I stepped out wrapping a towel around my body and a separate one around my hair. I blow dried my hair and combed all of the knots out. I dressed in casual dark skinny jeans and a white long sleeve shirt. I threw on my clear converse to make the outfit perfect. How cool is that they were clear so whatever socks I wore that's what the color of my shoe was and since I had every color sock I always was able to match my shoes to my outfit. Since I was wearing a plain white shirt I out on white socks. I looked at myself in the mirror. The first word that came to mind was plain. Perfect maybe I wouldn't attract that much attention. I ran down stairs and ate a bowl of cereal. I grabbed my car keys and ran out side to my baby, my truck.

Any hopes of not drawing attention to myself are gone. With my truck I surely would. Not because it was beautiful, or new, or expensive but because it was old, rusted, and really loud. So loud you could hear it from about a mile away, no exaggeration. Ok maybe a little but you get my point, it's really loud. My dad bought it for me as a home coming present. I told him he didn't have to because I was planning on buying my own car. He insisted saying he got it really cheap off an old friend who was now in a wheel chair so he had no use of it anymore. I thanked him without further questioning something I don't normally do but I needed a car and I'm not sure if I could've bought one even with all the money I saved up. You see Charlie is the police chief which was cool and made me feel safe even if nothing would ever happen in a small town like Forks. But I refused to be driven around in a car with blinking lights on top. Nothing attracts traffic more than a police car. I didn't mind my truck being old though. It was a red rusty old chevy. It was plain and boring like me, it was a match made in heaven. Anyway I wouldn't trade it for the world. It's my baby.

I hopped in the truck and started driving in the direction Charlie told me the school was. I suddenly saw a sign that said Forks Hight School. I quickly turned into the school. There were a few other cars but I figured most of them were teachers. I saw a sign that said front office and I went in the door it pointed to. Inside the room it was uncomfortably warm. Behind the front desk there was a red headed women with glasses.

I walked up to the desk but she didn't notice I had entered so I cleared my throat and said "Excuse me."

"oh hi deary what can I do for you?" she asked sweetly.

"um hi I'm Bella Swan the new girl and I was wondering if I could have my schedule?" I asked.

Realization showed on her face. "oh yes of coarse Isabella-"

"please just Bella," I corrected her.

"right well Bella I'm Ms. Cope and here is your schedule and a map of the school. Here I need you to have this slip signed by all of your teachers and you need to bring it back to me at the end of the day," she said with a smile handing me all of my necessities for the day.

I thanked her and walked out of the office. By now other cars were coming in so I quickly got in mine and followed them to where they were going on the other side of the school. I got out and was surprised to see what I saw. My car did not stand out. Everyones car was old like mine. Actually the nicest car here was a silver shiny volvo and compared to the rest of the cars it was like a god and all of the rest of the cars were low peasants. I'm not someone who is into cars but that car was really nice especially compared to every other piece of metal around me. I walked in the school and I could feel eyes staring at me the whole way. I tried to memorize the map so I wouldn't have to hold it in front of my face the whole day. It wasn't that hard to memorize considering how small of a school it was. I had history first in building 4 room 336 with Mr. Bersik. The room wasn't hard to find considering there was a huge 4 on the building it was in.

When I got to the room I walked in and found all eyes on me. I silently walked to the front keeping my head down afraid to meet the eyes of all of the people staring at me. I walked up to the teacher and handed him the paper. He signed it and told me to sit in the back. He thankfully didn't make me introduce myself. A boy with blond spiky hair and blue eyes was sitting next to me. He had a cute face that was still baby looking and round. He smiled immediately when I came and sat next to him.

"hi I'm Mike Newton!" he exclaimed.

"hi, I'm Bella," I answered trying my best to be polite.

The rest of the period was filled with Mike blabbing on about things I didn't care about and asking me stupid questions. I answered them all and continued the conversation to be polite. He offered to walk me to my next class and I agreed because I wanted to get there on time.

The rest of the morning went like that. Everyone would stare at me as I walked in the class room. I would hand the teacher my slip and they would point out a seat in the back. None of them made me introduce myself which I was very thankful for. You'd think sitting in the back would take away from the stairs. Well it didn't. Instead it made it worse. People would fully turn around and stare at me. That was worse than the ones next to me because with them they could stare out of the corner of their eyes and it wasn't as obvious. Now though I felt like I was on display for the whole world to see. There would always be someone who was braver than the rest and who would talk to me, mostly introduce themselves.

Suddenly the bell rang and I was walking with a girl from my english class whose name I think is Jessica who offered me a seat at her lunch table. I was ecstatic someone asked me. Now I wouldn't have to eat in the bathroom like Katye in Mean Girls. I was walking with her and she was happily chatting. I wasn't really paying attention more like nodding when necessary. We walked to the lunch line and bought food. She than walked me over to a table. Sitting there was Mike, a really nice girl named Angela who was in my spanish class, a boy named Eric, a boy named Tyler, and a girl named Lauren who seemed to hate me for some reason. I sat in between Jessica and Mike which was the only seat open. I looked around the cafeteria to see people chatting happily. Some people would glance in my direction which made me really self conscious. Suddenly I saw a table on the other side of the cafeteria that had five people sitting at it. The thing that really got my attention is that they were all indescribably beautiful. I have never seen anyone who could even compare to their looks. Not even the hottest movie stars could compare.

"who are they?" I asked Jessica.

She followed my glance to see who I was looking at. When she saw who it was she giggled.

"those are the Cullen's and the Hale twins." she said "the blonds are Rosalie and Jasper Hale, the brunettes are Alice, Emmet, and Edward Cullen. They are Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids. She was like their aunt or something and adopted them all."

"that's so sweet of her to take all of them in like that."

"yeah but I heard she like can't have children." she stated like that would make her any less kind. I could already tell Jessica was a gossiper.

My eyes suddenly locked on a bronze haired boy. He was without a question the most stunning boy I have ever seen. His hair was in a messy disarray that made it look like he just got out of bed but still looked like he could've spent hours on it to get it perfect. Sort of like he just stepped out of a hair jell photo shoot.

"who is the one with the reddish brown hair?" I questioned.

"that's Edward Cullen. Rosalie and Emmet are dating and so are Jasper and Alice. He's the only single one." she said.

Right when she said that his head snapped up and our eyes locked. It was almost as if he could hear his name being called even though he was on the other side of the room. His face was like nothing I have ever seen before. It was absolutely gorgeous. He stared at me but not like all of the others today to stare at me. He stared at me as if I had a secret he was trying to break from me. I looked down blushing.

"don't get your hopes up with him. He doesn't date, apparently none of the girls hear are pretty enough for him." she said with a snort.

"wasn't planning on it," I replied dryly.

I wondered when he turned her down. The thought brought a small smile to my lips. I looked up to see Edward turn around back to his table. If I wasn't mistaken i'd say he was smiling but I couldn't be sure considering his back was facing me.

The bell rang and I walked with Mike to biology since he was in my class. He was really nice always offering to help me but I felt like he was a little too friendly. I walked into the classroom and saw Edward Cullen had the only seat next to him. When I took my first step into the room I walked past the fan and it blew my hair across my face. Suddenly Edward went all rigged and had a face of pure disgust on. I quickly stumbled to the teachers desk to hand him the slip I needed signed tripping on the way and only barley catching myself on another students desk. She giggle and I blushed furiously. Than I walked to the teacher and handed him the slip I needed to get signed. He signed it and told me to sit next to Edward.

I sat down and looked at him. He was glaring at me. His eyes were pure black. They were kind of creepy I have never seen eyes so black before. He had a strong jaw line and his face was flawless. The thing that scared me the most was his stare. His stare wasn't like the other students or even like the one he gave me earlier. No this stare was one of pure hatred. I didn't know why he hated me but I'm pretty sure he did. I inconspicuously sniffed my hair. It smelled like the strawberry shampoo I always use. And I loved the sent it was my favorite. I looked over at him again to see him giving me a death glare. This was not fair, why did he have to be so mean. I didn't know him and he already hated me. What did I ever do to him to make him treat me this way. I'll tell you what nothing that's what I did nothing so why was I being punished. I was so stressed right now that I just closed my eyes while rubbing my templates. I opened them about a minute later and realized the teacher wasn't talking anymore. No one was. In fact everyone was lying limp on their desks. They were all dead.

I was scared, I was about to scream when a hand covered my mouth so I couldn't. The hand was cold, colder than anyone I have ever touched before. I looked over to see Edward's hand on my mouth while he was standing behind me. He suddenly lowered his head so that his cold lips were on my neck. He parted his lips slightly so that his hard teeth were on my flesh. He than bit down. I would've let out a scream but his hand was still covering my mouth keeping my screams in.

I suddenly felt his lips leave my neck. I felt cold strong arms lift me up bridal style and carry me. My eyes were closed so I couldn't see where I was going but I was aware that I was moving really fast. Wind was blowing against my face and it all of a sudden stopped. I was laid down on something nice and soft and I heard voices around me but I couldn't quite make them out because there was a screaming noise in the room. That's when I realized that the screaming was me. I was screaming. Than I felt it. I felt the pain I was in. it was horrible. It was as if someone took a match and lit my whole body on fie. I felt like I was burning. I was screaming and thrashing around. I suddenly felt a cold had wrap around mine. It felt so good and made my hand the only part of my body that didn't feel as if it were on fire. Please just let me die was all I could think. Anything would be better than the pain I was going through right now. I would gladly welcome death with open arms at this point if it would just stop the pain I was going through. What felt like years later I felt my heart beat quicken and the fire burned more intensely in my heart. I was screaming my head off. Than my heart slowed until it stopped altogether and the burning subsided. Was that it was I dead?

I opened my eyes. And gasped in shock. Everything was so clear. It was like I was seeing for the first time. I could see every small dust particle dance around the room. I could hear everything too. I was ale to hear a creek and footsteps. That's when I took in my surroundings. I was in a room that was black and gold. I was on a black leather couch that was very comfortable. There were Cd's all over the room and a huge flat screen plasma television. I heard someone clear there throat and I turned around to see five people I recognized from school as the Cullen's and Hale's and two other people. I was confused why was I sitting here in a room with them and why was I in so much pain before. Than the memories came back to me. The school day, sitting next to Edward in biology, closing my eyes and opening them to see everyone around me dead, trying to scream but having Edward's hand silence me, him biting me, me being picked up and of coarse the pain. What had he done to me.

"what am I?" I croaked out afraid for them to answer my question.

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A/N: ok so that was the first chapter. How was it? do you think this story is worth continuing??? If you have any questions let me know. So does anyone have any ideas about what I can do with the rest of the story? Please review and tell me your ideas, questions, and what you thought. If you are an author on this website than you know that we live to get reviews so please REVIEW!!! :)

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