It was a cold and dreary day in the small town of Forks, Washington. Bella Swan was slumping lazily in her chair at the back of her biology classroom, listening to her professor drone on. To tell the truth, the problem wasn't that Bella's professor was boring, the problem was Edward. Edward was a cute boy sitting in front of Bella, there was something cold and enigmatic about him- Bella was fascinated with this boy, she was inexplicably drawn to him.

"Bella? Hello?" Her teacher's voice reeled Bella back to reality.

"We're waiting on you Ms. Swan- please enlighten us."

"Uhhh..." Bella tried to answer.

"Bella if you can't even tell me what chlorophyll is, you're going to have a hard time passing this class." her teacher responded. Everyone giggled and Bella looked down at her desk to hide her shame.

"Ok Bella, time to redeem yourself, what is the basic unit of life?" asked her teacher.

It was on the tip of Bella's tounge, "Uhhh..." she began but was interrupted by the bell signaling the end of the period.

"Saved by the bell," said her teacher "I'll see you all tomorrow- study, study, study!"

Bella was at her locker putting away her things getting ready to head to her lunch period, she felt a chill run down her spine and felt a cold breath on her shoulder- "Hey" said Edward, who had just appeared next to her. He was so pale and shiny- Bella's heart raced faster than the light passing through his translucent skin.

"Um, are you okay?" Edward asked. She just realized that she had been blankly staring at him the whole time, she was embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Uhhh..."

"It's okay," said Edward "listen, I know that you're kind of struggling in Biology and so am I. Actually I've failed every quiz so far except for the circulatory system, which I aced, but anyway... I was thinking maybe we could get together later and study for the anatomy quiz on friday?"

Bella's racing heart screeched to a halt. Edward wanted to study anatomy with HER? She was frozen in time. A wave of emotion washed over her. Was he into her? What did he mean study anatomy? Study her anatomy? Did he want to make love to her? Did she want to make love to him? Is he just interested in her body? Would she want to go that far with him? What if she wasn't ready? Would he be upset and study somebody else's anatomy? And if he is the kind of guy that would be upset would she really want him? Oh God, not again, she'd realized she just been staring at him again and needed to come up with an answer quick-

"Uhhh..."

Again she was interrupted by the passing period bell, signaling the start of class.

"Alright, well, I have to get to class. Look, just come find me later if you want to study- we can go over to your house or something" Edward said as he flitted off down the corridor. Bella's eyes were hypnotized, they followed him through the dispersing crowd, until he seemed to vanish into thin air like a wisp of smoke.

And suddenly Bella was alone in the corridor. She had never felt so alone in her whole life, she still had goosebumps from that convers- something was wrong, the passing period bell was still ringing. Had it actually been ringing for this long? This didn't seem right- was she imagining it? Bella's jaw dropped with a shocking realization- that wasn't the passing period bell, it was the air raid siren.

At that moment three Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers were traveling Mach I on a course bearing directly over Forks towards Seattle. These massive bombers each carried 100 tonnes of explosive payload- all of which would be delivered to its target. The series of booms that Bella heard we're not bombs being dropped however, they were the sonic-booms of F16's scrambling to intercept the bombers, but they were too far behind. All anyone could really do at this point was pray that this was just the Russians throwing their weight around with another NATO airspace violation- the United States was now at DEFCON 2 for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was one DEFCON short of where they should have been. Seattle was firebombed into dust along with Los Angeles, and New York. The Russians were invading on both coasts. One of the places they landed was La Push. From La Push they had many objectives on their fight inward- including capturing nearby airports to advance aerial superiority- one such important airfield was located in Forks, Washington.