Hey everyone. This is my second attempt at writing a Twilight fic. For the people who are reading my first one: I am not abandoning it. I just had the idea for this fic stuck in my head for a while now, so I felt like I needed to get started on it.
I hope you enjoy the first chapter and please REVIEW!
The city of Forks welcomes you.
The road sign signalling my arrival in the City of Forks, Washington, greets me at the city limits. After my three hour and 15 minute drive I have finally arrived at my destination. The City of Forks, with it's small population of about 3300 people, is the town I will call home from now on. After years of travelling around the world with my family, I'm happy that I'm settling down on my own now. And this town is the perfect place for it. It's remote, it's quiet, it's small, it's everything I want it to be.
From North Forks Ave I drive onto Bogachiel Way and past the Forks Community Hospital. After a few more minutes of driving I finally arrive at 775 K Street, my new home. I pull up in the driveway and as I get out of my truck, I'm hit by the sweet scent of the forest that surrounds Forks. I walk up to the front door of my new house and use my key to open the door. As soon as I step inside, this homey feeling immediately surrounds me. The interior designer my mom hired did an awesome job on this.
I plop down on the large leather couch in the living room and rest my head on it's back, just enjoying the calm and the quiet that surround me. I'd better savour those now, seeing as I will start my first term at Forks High in two days. And something in my gut is telling me that it will be the exact opposite of calm and quiet.
Monday morning has come after two days of settling into my new home and exploring the town. There are a few things I have learned about Forks until now. First, the sun doesn't shine here. Second, the people who live here are really nice and helpful. When I was unloading the boxes from my truck, a car stopped in front of my house and this really tan guy got out of it. He walked up to me and introduced himself as Jacob Black, Jake for his friends, and he offered me his help carrying the boxes inside. He seemed like a nice guy and I accepted his help, and in the process I made my first friend in Forks. Since I'm new here and all, he even invited me to come visit him over at the reservation some time.
I also met some more people in downtown Forks yesterday. They were all very interested in who I am, I guess they don't get a lot of strangers here. I just hope that the kids at school won't make that much of a fuss about me and that I will blend in easily.
I park my truck in the practically empty parking lot in front of the school. I came a bit early for my first day, hoping to get sorted out before the rest of the students arrive. I quickly find my way to the registration office where I get handed my schedule, a map of the school and a slip of paper that my teachers need to sign.
First up on my schedule is English Literature, so I take the map and start finding where I'm supposed to go. It doesn't take me that long to find the classroom, so I go exploring the school grounds a bit. As I step outside again, I see that the parking lot has filled up with cars already. And I'm glad to see that nearly all are looking as shabby as my old red Chevy, except for a silver Volvo that's parked a few spots away from it. Must be the car of the only rich kid that lives in Forks.
As I turn around, an Asian guy practically attacks me, scaring the shit out of me.
"Hi! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare to you. I just wanted to welcome you to Forks. My name is Eric Yorkie and you must be Isabella Swan. Pleasure to meet you." He rambles energetically.
"Uhm hey. Nice to meet you too, but please don't call me Isabella, I prefer Bella." I smile at him.
"Ah Bella, Italian for beautiful. I can see why you would prefer that, it suits you." He winks at me.
I chuckle at his words. He is like the millionth guy who thinks that line will get him somewhere, but that won't happen. He looks like a nice guy though, better let him down easy.
"Well, thanks for the compliment, but you're not the first guy ever who tries to come on to me with that line." The happy look on his face changes into an embarrassed one. "Nonetheless, you just said I'm beautiful, so I definitely like you Eric." At this he smiles again.
"Now that I have embarrassed myself enough, can I take a look at your schedule? Maybe we have some classes together."
"Sure." I hand my schedule to him and he quickly skims through it, before handing it back to me.
"We have first, third and fifth period together." He says in a pleased tone.
"Cool." I glance at my watch and see that first period will start in about five minutes. "We should head towards English Literature then, I don't want to be late on my first day."
As we enter the classroom, a few students are already in their seats and the teacher is busy writing something down on the blackboard. I walk up to him and get his attention by coughing a bit. He turns around and when he sees me, he looks confused at first, but then a look of realisation strikes his features.
"Ah, you must be the new student I was informed about. Isabella Swan I believe?"
"Yes sir, that's me. But I prefer Bella, if you don't mind. The lady at the registration office told me to give you this." I give him the slip of paper he is supposed to sign.
"I'll get this back to you after class miss Swan. Now, lets see if we have a seat left for you. In this class all assignments are done in pairs, so everyone is already paired up, except for miss Cullen, you can sit next to her." He looks across the classroom and says "Miss Cullen, raise your hand please."
A movement in the right back corner of the room catches my eye and I focus my attention in that direction. My eyes land on the most perfect creature I have ever seen. There in the back of the class sits a girl with short black hair, spiked into every direction. She has a pale complexion that make her ruby red lips and her golden topaz eyes stand out magnificently. She is wearing expensive looking clothes that hug the curves of her small frame perfectly. As I make another quick survey of the girl again, something in my mind begins to add up. I listen for a heartbeat and I'm not surprised to find none. The girl is definitely not human. My first guess would be that she's a vampire, but the colour of her eyes contradict that theory.
Still lost in my thoughts about what the girl is, I make my way over to her. I plop down in the seat next to her and she turns to me with this radiant smile plastered on her face. She scoots closer in her seat and offers me her hand.
"Hi! I'm Alice Cullen." She says enthusiastically.
I take her hand and the expected happens. A tingle crawls along my hand and arm, onto my spine and lastly to my head. And in the course of a second I can see all of Alice's life playing out in my mind. And I see some interesting things. First of all, she is a vampire, just like I suspected. But she isn't a regular vampire, she feeds on animals which explains her eye colour. Second, she is part of a large coven that lives out in the forest surrounding Forks. And third, she possesses an ability that I have now made my own.
"Bella Swan. Nice to meet you."
The school bell rings, signalling the start of the class, so we both focus our attention on the teacher. He explains our first assignment of the term to us, after which he tells us to talk it through with our partner. I turn towards Alice again and see that she is already looking at me.
"So Bella, tell me something about yourself."
"Aren't we supposed to start on the assignment?"
She giggles at that. "We still have a few weeks left to hand it in silly, and besides, it's an easy assignment."
"OK then, what do you want to know about me?"
"Everything." Again she giggles. "But we'll start easy, where are you originally from?"
That is actually one of the few questions about myself that I don't have to lie about. "I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but I only lived there for about two years."
"How come?"
Another one I can answer truthfully. "My family has to move a lot because of my dad's profession."
"That's a bummer, always moving and having to make new friends every time." Yes, you would know. You have been travelling around the world for like eighty years or something. "What is your dad's profession then?"
"He's a Colonel in the U.S. Army." That's not a complete lie. "He gets a new posting every two years, so that requires us to move so much. But I have gotten used to it after all these years."
Her features sadden a bit. "Does that mean that you will have to move again in two years?"
"Actually, no. Now that I'm eighteen, my mom and dad are letting me try out living on my own for a while. And when we're both happy with how that's going, then I can live on my own." She smiles at this. "But if it isn't working out, then I will have to move again in about six months. That's when my dad will get his new posting."
"Then I will just have to make sure that you enjoy living here in Forks, because I have the feeling that we will become really great friends. I just know it." She casts another radiant smile my way.
"If we're going to be such great friends, as you just stated, then it's only fair that you tell me something about yourself too." I already know everything about her, but she doesn't know that I do. And I don't want to raise any feelings of suspicions.
"I have lived here in Forks for about two years now together with my adoptive family. Carlisle, Dr. Cullen, and his wife Esme adopted me and my four siblings about twelve years ago, because they couldn't have any kids of their own. Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Edward and me have been living with them ever since. We moved around a lot too, because my dad always likes to take on a new job every few years or so. But I don't mind that much, because I have my siblings."
That little story is full of lies, but then again, it's not like she will just tell anyone that she is a vampire and lives with a coven of them. And I'm not exactly in the position to accuse other people of lying, seeing as I have to do so as well most of the time.
But with her this lying business is bugging me more then it has ever bugged me with anybody else. It just doesn't feel right to be doing it. I have to figure out a way to get around that.
"Dr. Cullen and his wife must be two amazing people to adopt so many kids."
"Yes they are. I love them like I would have loved my own parents I think." I can see that she means it. It's weird for me to hear a vampire speak like this about others of it's kind. All vampires I have encountered until now were either loners, or were together with others of their kind out of convenience. But the Cullen family is different.
"I really want to continue playing twenty questions with you right now, but first period will end in a few minutes. What classes do you have next?"
I take a look at my schedule and see that I have Chemistry next and after that History. "I have Chemistry first and third period I have History."
"Second period I have Art, but third period I have History as well. Which means I can continue interrogating you then if Mr. Wright gives me the chance to."
I chuckle at her. "I am already looking forward to that."
The school bell rings and everyone gets up and out of their seats. As we reach the corridor where Alice and I have to split ways, she turns to me and plants a quick kiss on my cheek. Then she walks backwards towards her classroom and waves at me.
I am too shocked by the kiss she just gave me and what it makes me feel, to form any kind of reply to her wave. When I finally come out of my stupor, she has already disappeared into her classroom.
I make my way towards my own class, where I introduce myself to Ms. Elliott, my Chemistry teacher. She tells me that in her class everyone has an assigned lab partner. And as I make my way towards the only empty seat that's left in the room, I throw a glance at my lab partner and find myself looking at another set op topaz coloured eyes.