A/N: The first chapter is finally up!! WHOOT-WHOOT!! This preface is kind of ominious, but the tone will get lighter. This is my first story ever, so please review!

Preface

Pain. It's a little four-letter word that can sometimes have a very, very uncredited meaning. It's a little four-letter word that could mean the difference between life and death.

Stubbing your toe—that's painful, trust me, I should know. I'm such a klutz that I've done it more than once before. A bruise, a scraped knee, even a broken bone… all of those things are painful, sometimes even excruciatingly so.

But none of them even begin to compare to what I'm feeling right now.

It was like in one of those horror movies, where they show someone writhing in pain, so much so that they are grunting and groaning and screaming in anguish, just wishing, hoping, praying for it to stop. This is what I was feeling. Only I couldn't make a sound. Only the two things that I needed, I couldn't –shouldn't, wouldn't- get, no matter how hard I tried.

Oh, I was screaming something dreadful inside my head; if anyone else were in my position, they would be too. I wanted someone, one special someone, to help me. But that just wasn't going to happen.

The cement I was surrounded by felt like it was closing in on me. I tried to reason with myself, tried to be practical, even in my time of demise. "Cement can't move itself, silly," I said silently in my brain. "It can't close in on you, suffocate you, or relieve you of the two things that you absolutely cannot live without…"

But after that thought came another: Obviously it can and was, very quickly and effectively. And with that resolving, last thought, I gave up.

A/N: So?? Was it horrible? Acceptable? Good? I need to know!! REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!! Just like in Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, this chapter is the preface, or kind of like the prologue. In the next chapter (which will hopefully be up soon; writing in my classes in school is working surprisingly well), Bella will meet Alice on her first day of high school in Forks, Washington.

I promise if i get reviews, I will read them all! Thanks a bunch guys, I genuinely appreciate it. I also know that my spelling/grammar is horrendous, but please don't be too hard on me. If you want, you can tell me in a review and I'll fix it for you.

-RW