AN: Ok guys, so this is for a contest..."the rose contest". I did the pairing of two OC's. I hope i followed all the rules, i needed something new to write and this seemed like the perfect oportunity! so um...RnR! Reviews much appreciated!!! thanks a bunch. Oh yeah, and sorry if some of this is hard to follow. i did it all within a span of three days lol. If you have any questions, please PM me.

Part 1:

I had always been an outcast. Well…an outcast, of the outcasts, if you know what I mean. No matter where we went, we were outcasts. Our pale skin, ever-changing eyes, and peculiar eating habits made us stand out from the crowd. I mean…its not like they knew what we were. They were mere humans. Imbeciles. Dead to the world of knowledge.

We were what most would call creatures of the night. How cliché. That's right. I am a vampire. My name is Gracelyn Lullabelle Mae…well Gracie. I am Edward Cullen's cousin. I am one of the newest members of the clan of 'vegetarians' and despite what they may say, being a newborn IS NOT hard. I mean, sure ever once in a while, I get those strange cravings for human blood, but I have adjusted well.

Carlisle changed me a little over 20 years ago. He was like an angel to me. Sent by God to release me from death. He found me in Seattle, a young 16 year old, barely alive after a run in with a large street gang. There was no hope for me by even the most experienced doctor…so he changed me. That had to have been the hardest part…the actually changing part. Very, very painful.

Luckily, I wasn't alone. Just before I was changed, Edward had changed his own wife, Bella as well. We were newbies together. We became very close as we grew up in the ways of the vampire, learning quickly.

I had been with them ever since. Rosalie, Alice and Bella were like my sisters. Jasper, Emmet and Edward, my brothers. Carlisle and Esme of course were my parental figures. I loved them all dearly.

Esme had often referred to me as the black rose. So unique in my ways, it was a rarity to find one such as me. I enjoyed being the only one in our 'posse' that didn't have a technical mate. I was born a loner, so I would stay a loner for all eternity. And I was perfectly okay with that. The black rose.

Our 'family' was on the move yet again. Where were we going? Oh yeah…We were returning back to Bella's original town, Forks, Washington. Edward, Bella and Alice would be juniors, Emmet, Rosalie, and Jasper seniors, and I the lone sophomore as in years previous. Bella's dad had moved from forks soon after she had been acclaimed dead and there was no signs of anyone that would remember them from the past. I had never actually been to forks…but I had heard a great deal about Bella's time in this strange town.

"We're HERE!" I heard Alice's enthusiastic voice call out as we pulled up the long dirt drive to their old house. I got out of the car, examining the atmosphere that was quite new to me, and me alone. Upon entering the unfamiliar territory, I immediately felt at home. I never wanted to leave this haven.

I made it to my room easily. It faced the north side of the house and had a single window with a little bench attached below the window sill. My room was already well stocked with all my previous belongings of CD's, clothes and everything minus a bed. Vampires didn't have to sleep. I sat quietly at the window-bench and stared out into the deep woods that lay before me. It was then that I first saw it.

It was just a blur. A swift blur that looked as if the wind had just picked up speed slightly. But I had the feeling it was something more. I watched that spot for a long time before giving up on it coming again. That was my power. I could see the most precise details of anything on earth. I could spot certain things that hardly any other vampire could.

I watched the spot a moment longer before my thoughts were interrupted by the female voice in my doorway.

"What are you doing?" Bella said, crossing the room to sit next to me.

"I thought I saw something…" I said softly. I looked into the golden eyes that matched my own. She smiled, and her smile illuminated her intricate features. Her light brown hair, now bounced easily past her shoulders, copying the wave of my own auburn colored hair. She had always told me I looked like Edward's blood sister.

"What?" she asked, following my gaze out the window.

"I…I am not sure. Maybe it was the wind…" I said looking sheepishly away. She nodded, and I could feel the term 'black rose' passing through my mind. I knew she thought I was utterly insane. I sighed. She giggled and I looked down embarrassed.

"It's late. Get some sleep…" she said sarcastically. All I could do was giggle.

The next day was the first day we would start Forks High School as 'new' students, when in reality…I was the only 'new' one here. Edward's small Volvo didn't hold all 7 of us, so we took his Volvo as well as Alice's Porche. In Edward's car was he Bella, and I. The other four in Alice's

We arrived at the school rather early and each got to our classes fairly quickly. Unfortunately, I was alone in my first class, as well as the rest of my classes due to my youngness. I sat at the back of the classroom, hoping nobody would really notice me.

It didn't take long for someone to ruin my expectations. "Hey! You must be one of the new girls huh? Gracelyn…or is it Alice?" a young male voice said as he sat next to me. I looked up, my own ocher eyes staring into a pair of baby blues.

"Gracie…" I mumbled, looking away.

"I am Dylan…" he said extending his hand. He had bleach blonde hair and his handshake was unusually firm despite his smallish hands. "Wow…I don't think I have ever seen someone with eyes the same color as yours…"

I was careful not to look up again. "Thanks…" I mumbled again, wishing the inferior human would leave me too myself. I could feel him grinning at me, although I refused to meet his gaze.

"If you need any help finding your classes, don't hesitate to ask me…" he said in an I'm-an-over-helpful-person, kind of way. I was having flashbacks of the stories Bella had told me about her first day here. The odds seemed to be against me today, because in every one of my classes, there was an annoying string of unhelpful I-Want-to-Help people.

I managed to make it to lunch, and I only had to mumble my name…482 times. If I had to say "Gracie" one more time, I felt I was going to flip out. I entered the cafeteria and immediately saw the Cullen/Hale clan sitting at a table across the room. I carefully kept my eyes to myself, hoping not to meet the gaze of one of the curious members of the human species I had encountered already.

I quickly retrieved the plate of lunch food that I would not eat, and sat at the table across from Alice and Jasper, but next to Bella. That's when I saw him.

He was sitting as the mirrored image of me. Facing me, but at the opposite side of the cafeteria. He was looking down at his untouched lunch, and the second he looked up to meet my gaze I knew two things.

He was a vampire. And I had seen him somewhere before. His eyes, dark onyx with thirst held mine for a few breathtaking seconds and he looked away. I stared incredulously, trying to figure out where in the world I had seen him before. I nudged Bella and whispered.

"Look…It's one of us…" At the mention of one of us, her head popped up, and the conversation she was having with Edward ceased. Her eyes immediately followed my own and stared at the handsome boy across the room. Well, I thought he was at least.

His short dark brown hair drastically contrasted the paleness of his face, as did his dark, bloodthirsty eyes. Despite the fact that I knew from experience that black meant thirsty, when our eyes met…he didn't seem evil or murderous in the least. And I had definitely seen some evil vampires in my time. He was wearing a t-shirt that nicely hugged his slim, muscular figure, and blue jeans. Other than his inhuman good looks, he could have passed for a normal teenage boy. Something about his partially youthful appearance led me to believe he was younger than Edward.

"Oh my God…" Bella muttered under her breath. "Edward…" The talk then began about our mysterious figure. I had never known a vampire outside the Cullens, so this boy disturbed me. I longed to speak to him, if only for a moment, and then my mind wondered as to WHERE I had seen him! IT WAS GOING TO DRIVE ME INSANE!

After a long thirty minutes discussing him, and Edward attempting to read his mind, the bell finally rang for us to get out of lunch. He was up out of his seat, his plate of food in the trash long before my own, and out the door before I could even stand. I contemplated this strange Vampire and his ways before heading off to my next class in silence.