A/N: So here's the first chapter of my fanfiction. It's my first all human story, so I hope you like it. Please Review :)

I re-uploaded this chapter as I noticed a mistake in part of the chapter.

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Chapter one

I grabbed my bag and stepped out of my car, slamming the door shut. The building in front of me didn't look very welcoming at all. Sadly, thanks to my parents, it was my new school.

My parents split up when I was younger, and before last week I was living with my mum and her new husband in Phoenix. However, they'd been some trouble at my old school, and no matter how often I pleaded my innocence, I'd been seen as being involved. So here I was, being shipped off the go live with my dad, Charlie. Charlie was the chief of police in Forks, Washington, the rainiest and cloudiest place I knew. The place I would be calling home until I could escape to college some place far away from them all. That time could not come soon enough.

When I was younger, I used to love coming to Forks. Not because of the town, but to spend time with Charlie. We used to have loads of fun doing things together, it didn't matter what it was. He bought be my first baseball bat and taught me how to play, I had loved the game ever since.

Not that I didn't enjoy spending time with my mother, Renee, she just spent more time with Phil these days. But Phil did make time for me, it just usually included a team of baseball players as well. Phil was a baseball coach and had helped me improve greatly with my playing when I no longer went to stay with Charlie. And spending time with Charlie wasn't always so fun anymore, not that Renee and Phil knew that.

He'd gone downhill after his split from his second wife, turning to alcohol for comfort. Not that Renee and Phil knew that either, if they did they wouldn't have sent me to live with him.

I winced at the memory of him picking me up at the airport. We'd embraced awkwardly, and he stank of booze. I was wary of getting in the car with him, but didn't bring it up as I didn't want to make him angry. It was my main reason for wanting a car, so Charlie wouldn't have to drive me around and I knew I wouldn't have to worry about his drink level.

Rain drops on my head made me move from beside my truck, and I started up the pathway that led to the office of the Forks high school. The warmth of the room was welcoming, it was getting colder outside as winter set in, nothing like the weather I'd left behind in Phoenix. That was one good thing about the move, I got to go shopping for a whole new wardrobe as the clothes I had weren't exactly suitable for Forks weather.

I approached the lady the desk, who looked to be in her twenties.

'Um, hi. I'm Isabella swan, I'm supposed to be starting today.'

The lady behind the desk smiled warmly, 'Oh yes, of course. Charlie's daughter, right?' I nodded, in a small town like this everyone knew everyone. She gathered up some papers as she spoke. 'I bet he's glad to have you around. Here's your schedule and a map of the school, it shouldn't be too difficult to learn, and if you can't find a place don't hesitate to ask. You'll need to get this signed by your teachers, and then bring it by after school. Ah, Alice!'

I turned to see a petite girl with short, spiky black hair walk in the room. She was beautiful in a not-over-the-top kind of way, and friendliness seemed to radiate from her.

'Good morning Miss Night. Hi, you must be Isabella? I'm Alice Cullen, it's nice to meet you.'

'Oh, um, hi. Bella, please. Nice to meet you too.' I was shocked that this girl would know who I was. Although I shouldn't have been that surprised, news travelled fast in small places.

'Sorry, Miss Night told me you were coming today. She asked me to show you to your first class as we have it together.' She smiled kindly at me and I instantly relaxed. Alice seemed like a really nice person, and hopefully she'd be my first friend here at this new school.

'It's okay, I'd like that. It will be nice to not have a map stuck in front of my face for awhile.'

She laughed a high pitch, trilling sound and walked towards me looking like a dancer, linking my arm with hers. 'Don't worry, you won't have to use the map at all, it's not hard to find your way around, and I'm sure there will be lots of people very willing to help you.'

I wasn't sure what she meant, but walked outside with her anyway. As we walked to out first lesson, English, Alice pointed out the different buildings as we passed and I tried my best to remember each one. We were the first ones in the room, and Alice led me to a table at the back.

'So, Bella, tell me about yourself.'

'Um, there's not really much to tell.' I didn't want to bore her with my life story, it wasn't that interesting. Apart from the incident a few months ago, but I didn't want people here to know about that. It didn't seem like she was going to give up though.

'Sure there is. Where did you live before here?'

'In Phoenix, with my mother and her husband '

'Wow, cool. A lot different to this place then. I moved here a few years back with my family from Chicago, and before that we were in New York. We move around a bit with my parents work.'

I was glad that I wasn't the only one to start here new, Alice seemed to fit in well, even though I hadn't seen her interact with others yet but we hadn't seen anyone. I'd gotten here this morning earlier than expected.

'So, how come you moved to Forks?'

Lie or tell the truth? I decided I would tell the truth, mostly. 'Um, Renee, my mother, thought it would be good if I came spent some time with Charlie.' I added 'not that I had much choice' onto the end under my breath. I thought Alice didn't hear me, but I caught a puzzled look on her

face, which she quickly replaced with a smile. I was glad when she changed the subject.

'You're going to fit in great here, everyone's going to love you. I'll introduce you to my family at lunch if you like, I mostly hang with them. What lessons do you have?'

I handed her my schedule, taking the time to look around the room which was slowly beginning to fill with students. I instantly regretted this as most people were staring at me. Great.

A boy with spiky blonde hair came in and sat in front of me. 'Hi, you must be Isabella. I'm Mike, Mike Newton.'

'Just Bella, hi.'

Mike had his hand extended, so I shook it, not wanting to seem rude. However, when I tried to pull it back, he wouldn't let go.

'If you need a personal tour guide, I'd be glad to help.'

I prised my hand out of his, 'Thanks, but I'm sure I can manage just fine. Plus, I have Alice and a map if I get lost.'

'Mike, stop bothering her.' I jumped slightly in my seat, as a tall, blonde haired, slightly muscular guy came in and sat the other side of me.

I smiled gratefully at the guy next to me as Mike turned round to face the front, looking rather dejected.

'Bella, this is Jasper Hale. Jasper, Bella. He's my boyfriend.'

'Oh, hi. Do you want to switch seats?' I didn't want to have taken someone else's place, so I started gathering up my things.

Jasper laughed, 'Chill, Bella. You can sit there. It's nice to meet you.'

I didn't get a chance to reply as the teacher walked in, so just smiled shyly instead. I'd make sure to sit the other side tomorrow.

The lesson went by fairly uneventful. At the end of class I went up to the teacher to get him to sign my paper and then went to my next lesson with Alice. It turned out I had most of my lessons with her so she was going to chauffer me around campus. Not that I minded, it meant I wouldn't get lost, plus Mike would hopefully leave me alone. English and Gym were the only lessons I had with Jasper, so I didn't have to worry about sitting in his seat for the rest of the day, the only lesson that I now increasing dislike for was trigonometry.

Me and Alice were running a bit late as I wanted to use the bathroom, and when we arrived the teacher was already there. The teacher signed my sheet and then assigned me a seat, much to Alice's dislike. She spent a few minutes trying to persuade him to allow me to sit next to her, but they were failed efforts. My assigned seat was at the back, next to a long haired blonde girl. I could tell I wasn't going to like her straightaway from the way she instantly narrowed her eyes at me as I sat next to her.

'Um, hi, I'm Bella. Although you probably just heard that anyway.' I mentally slapped myself at my stupidity, but I was hoping my judgement of her would be wrong.

'Lauren. Don't talk to me unless you have to.'

With that, she ignored me for the rest of the lesson. Not that I minded, she was turning out to be as much of a bitch as I first assumed. Throughout the lesson she was either texting on her mobile under the table or trying to copy my answers from the set questions. By the end of the lesson I was so close to the edge I was in danger of falling off the end.

The bell rang and I stood up, gathering my books. As Lauren strode past she 'accidentally' banged into the back of me, causing all my things to fall on the floor.

'Oops.'

Gritting my teeth, I resisted the urge to run after her and pull her precious blonde hair out, and picked up my stuff instead.

'What's up with the hooker?' I stood back up to find Alice standing in front of me with a slight smile on her face.

'I'm going to assume you meant that blonde bimbo. I think she's pissed because I wouldn't let her copy my work. Maybe if she spent less time texting and more time studying instead of going to the tanning shop, she'd actually learn something.'

Alice burst out laughing, 'That's Lauren for you, I'd try not to get on the wrong side of her though, she can be real mean when she wants to be. Don't worry about her though.'

'Noted. Anyone else's way I should stay out of?'

Alice put her hand on her chin, pretending to think, 'Well…hmm…nope. Everyone else is pretty much nice. Just stay away from most of the guys though.'

I laughed as we entered the Spanish building. 'Why don't I just stick with you?'

Alice grinned, 'Good plan.'

After Spanish, we made our way into the cafeteria. I wasn't very hungry so just picked up an apple and a bottle of water and a granola bar for later. Alice grabbed a burger and we made our way over to a table Jasper was sitting at. Alice sat next to Jasper, giving him a peck on the cheek and I sat in a chair opposite.

'Hi Jasper.'

'Hey Bella. How you enjoying the wonders of Forks so far?' He smiled kindly as he spoke, and was thankful I'd met such nice people to hang out with on my first day here. All my life in Phoenix and I hadn't met people like them. That was life for you though.

'It's been good, actually. All thanks to Alice. If it wasn't for her I'd probably be sitting alone somewhere.' At this, Alice grinned and Jasper laughed.

'That's my Alice, always the helpful one. I'd be careful though, if she asks to take you shopping, make any excuse you can.'

Alice stuck her tongue out at her boyfriend and playfully punched him in the arm. 'For that, we're going shopping this weekend. You'll come, right Bella?'

'Uh, sure, any excuse to spend Renee's money. I don't want to impose though.' Renee had given me a credit card I was supposed to use in emergencies. However, since she'd sent me away, I was going to use any reason to use it. We weren't on good terms at the moment.

'You won't. Oh look, here comes Emmet and Rosalie.'

I turned in the direction Alice was facing and instantly wanted to crawl into a hole. Rosalie looked like a model straight off the runway. She had a perfect, slim but curvy figure and long, blonde wavy hair. She was holding the hand of a large, muscular man who looked like a giant bear. I was suddenly very nervous again and was glad I hadn't eaten any lunch.

'Rose! Em!' Alice stood up, waving her arms in the air eagerly calling them over, which was unnecessary as they had already seen us. I sunk down in my chair slightly as they made their way over to our table.

'Hey Alice, Jasper. And you must be Bella. Nice to meet you.' I looked up from my bottle to see Rosalie next to me smiling.

I returned the smile nodding, 'That's me.' I instantly felt like a dork, mentally slapping myself again for not saying something else.

Emmet, the large muscular boy sat beside her, his food tray full of all kinds of food.

'Em, did you buy out the whole cafeteria again?' As Jasper spoke, you could hear the teasing in his voice. Emmet made a sad, pouty face at him, playing along.

'That was one time! And it wasn't all for me. I'm a growing boy, I need my energy.'

'Did our dear mummy tell you that?' I stared at Jasper as he spoke. Did he say our?

Emmet mumbled something and concentrated on his food. Alice must have noticed the look on my face.

'Something wrong, Bella?'

'What, oh, no. I didn't realise Jasper and Emmet were brothers.'

Alice grinned, 'Yep. It gets a bit complicated. Emmet's my older brother, he goes out with Rosalie as you know, who my parents fostered, along with her brother Jasper, who you know I'm going out with. Then there's Edward, my twin brother.'

'Okay, wow. That's a little confusing. Does that mean there's a male version of you running around the school? I don't know how you can all handle so much energy.' I smiled at Alice teasingly. It must have been nice for them all, being so close. I was an only child so didn't know what it was like having siblings. When I was younger I begged Renee for a older brother, only realising it was impossible as I grew up.

Jasper, Rosalie and Emmet laughed, while Alice stuck her tongue out at me, but smiled still.

Jasper grinned at Alice, 'I don't think we could cope with two little balls of energy in the family. They're similar in a way, but also different. For one, Edward's taller and where Alice loves clothes, Edward loves his cars.'

Emmet laughed, 'Man! Do you remember that time I scratched his precious Vanquish by accident? I thought he was going to kill me.'

Rosalie rolled her eyes, 'Of course we do, hun, he wouldn't let it drop for months.'

'Speaking of Edward, where is he?'

Jasper and Rosalie shrugged, Emmet just rolled his eyes at Alice. 'Where do you think? Practicing baseball as usual.'

'You have a baseball team here?' I instantly perked up at the mention of baseball. 'Yeah, Edwards the captain. There's a basketball and football team too. Also, there's cheerleading, but unless you want to spend all of your time hanging around with the almighty Lauren, I don't think you'd want to do that.'

'Whoa, hold up. Bella's met Lauren already?'

Alice answered for me as I had a bite of apple in my mouth.

'They have trig together and they got seated together. Bella wouldn't let Lauren copy her work so now Lauren's being Lauren.'

'Do you know what happened to the last person that didn't let Lauren copy?' Emmet grinned wickedly at me, and I wasn't sure I wanted to know.

'Don't be stupid, Emmet. Laurens not going to do anything so shut up. So Bella, you're interested in baseball? Me and Emmet are on the football team, the girls don't do anything though.' I didn't want to be the centre of attention, but everyone's friendly faces made me relax slightly.

'Um, I'm not really fantastic, but I used to be on my old team back in Phoenix. Phil was also a baseball coach, so he helped me a bit.' I decided not to mention that it was because of them that I had to leave.

'Nice, a girl that plays baseball. Most girls here don't do sports, other than cheerleading. There isn't any girls on the baseball team but maybe you could persuade the coach, we need more good players. Alice, why don't you talk to Edward about it?'

'Sure thing. Come on Bella, I'll walk you to your next class.'

I stood up as Alice did, grabbing my things. 'Alright. It was nice meeting you all.'

Me and Alice left to a chorus of 'byes' from those remaining at the table.

Alice supplied most of the conversation as we made our way to the biology building. That girl had so much energy it was crazy.

'I knew they'd like you, I mean, what's not to like? You will come shopping with us the weekend, won't you?'

I wasn't really one for shopping usually, but the look on Alice's face made it impossible to say no, plus I had the credit card. 'Alright, if you're sure.'

Alice jumped up and down in excitement. 'Yay! Now where to go. Maybe Seattle…'

I tuned Alice out as she rambled on to herself, Jasper had told me how she could get carried away when it came to shopping. Too soon we arrived at my next lesson, Biology.

'This is where I leave you. I'll meet you here after and we'll head to Gym.' Alice gave me a quick hug and then headed off. 'You'll be fine.'

A took a deep breath and made my way into the room, glad that not many students were here yet. It was my first time today without someone I knew and my nerves were steadily growing. The teacher was already there so I gave him my slip, and he assigned me the last empty seat in the room, a currently empty table at the back of the room.

Taking my seat, I opened the book I'd been given and began flicking through it, not really paying attention. I thought back to my first half of the day here, and was very thankful to have had Alice with me. Even though she didn't know me, she'd been really friendly to me, as were her family. I was hoping we'd all become good friends as it would be nice to have a group to be with for once.

At my old school I mostly kept to myself, even though I was on the baseball team. The team there was also a boys team, and I didn't feel very comfortable hanging out with them, even they were a group of nice kids. However the one time I had decided to go out with them to a party, I'd ended up here.

I was disrupted from my thoughts when I heard the chair beside me move and thud of a book hitting the desk.