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Chapter 1

Rain, nothing but the rain. That's the only thing I saw when I looked out the window of my truck. The windows were rolled up but I could still feel the humidity crawling up my skin in a sticky layer. Everyone else didn't seem to mind it but I did. When all you ever knew was the hot Arizona sun hitting you're skin, this place wasn't very pleasant. I don't know how long I sat in the truck, with the heater going. Right now I could have been warm. I could have been soaking up the sun right now. But no, I had to stay in this cold, wet town with the smallest population that seemed possible.

I finally got enough courage to turn the heater off and step out of the truck bed. When I slammed the door shut I could feel hot eyes on the back of my head. Of course everyone knew who I was. Who could forget the daughter of the chief who killed the former governor? I could already tell from this minute and a half that my stay here wouldn't be very pleasant.

As I opened the door that took me into the school, I had to resist the urge to run in the other direction. I suddenly had a tiny feeling of hate for my mother, Renee. While she was off in Japan with Phil, her husband, I was stuck here with my father, Charlie. In this small little town that gave me a chill down my spine anytime I thought really carefully about the idea of me living here.

Before Renee shipped me off to Forks, I was always with her. Whenever she had to go on one of her missions, I had always gone. I had been to Rome, Japan, Hong Kong. I had seen so many beautiful places it was unreal. And although I had been to Japan before, I couldn't help but want to go with her again. Renee works for the secret service. The only people she ever told were Phil and me. She always had taken me on her assignments, even when it might be the most dangerous thing in the world.

The only bad thing about Renee is that she's addicted to crack. She never smoked on the weekdays when she was working, always on the weekend. That was always the way it was. I never told Phil, because I didn't want him to leave her. She was so happy when she finally got married to him. Since she and my dad got divorced, she had never really had anyone to lean on besides me. I had always taken care of her. And that was just something I would have to deal with for the rest of my life.

Of course the first thing I did was trip. My balance had always been off (something I inherited from Charlie), so my mom always had to be careful with me around. Even when I had taken ballet classes, I never could get over my clumsiness. Never in my seventeen years had I had good balance. I had horrible luck too.

Everyone hated me already. I could tell. A normal person would have no reason to be hated on the first day, but in my case they had reason enough. I couldn't blame them, what my dad had done was bad. When I walked into my first class, I could really feel the temperature rising.

I walked to the teacher and handed him the note from the office. As soon as he saw the name that was printed on the note, he automatically looked up at me astonished. I was thankful when he skipped the introduction and just sent me to the first empty desk he could find.

The rest of the class was torture. I could already tell this was going to be the worst class. The next class wasn't as bad but I still felt out of place.

"Hey you're Isabella Swan right?" the girl who sat next to me whispered.

"Yeah, but I actually go by Bella." I whispered back a little sharper than I should have.

"Oh, I'm sorry. My name's Alice." She looked embarrassed.

I felt bad now. "No, don't worry about it. Everyone does that. It's nice to meet you. Actually it's nice to meet one person who hasn't given me the evil eye." I smiled faintly.

She was so pretty. I automatically envied her. Her hair was a little bit of a lighter brown than mine that was cut short so that it spiked in every direction. Her eyes were a shocking golden brown. Her skin was flawless and looked smooth like silk. I didn't want to scare her by my staring so I just looked down to my paper.

I walked with Alice to my next class. As it turned out I had almost all of my classes with her. At least I would know one person who didn't hate me. In history, we watched a movie, although I wasn't sure what it was about. By the time lunch came around. I was starving. I never ate in the morning. It was just something I never did because I didn't feel it was important. I bought myself something to eat and went to sit down with Alice. We sat with her other friends that I recognized from some of my classes but I couldn't fit them with names.

In English, one the classes I didn't have with Alice, I felt so alone. I had been used to having her at my side. I was still relieved. This day had gone better than I had expected. And it was about to get even better.

In walked a boy. He wasn't just any boy though. He looked as though he had just come down from heaven. He walked with such grace. I couldn't believe my eyes. His hair was a beautiful auburn color. It was styled to look like he had just come out of a swimsuit catalog photo shoot. I could feel my heart racing as he came to sit next to me.

"So I guess you're my new lab partner." He said with a grin. His eyes were so pretty. A golden color, just like Alice's had been.

"Yeah, I guess so. I'm Bella." I think I spoke a little too quickly.

"Yeah, I know. I heard you were coming to live here with the Chief."

"So everyone really does know who I am," I said with a grimace.

"I'm sorry to tell you this, but frankly, yes. When you're father kills the governor, it's not exactly the kind of think people forget."

"Well, I suppose that's true," I shrugged "but I just don't understand why everyone hates me for it, it's not like I did it."

"I'm not sure why you don't understand that. I mean, he killed someone, things like that could pass over into genetics." He rolled his eyes and looked away. I wasn't sure if I had enough time to do this now.

"So what you're saying is, since my father killed someone, I'm going to turn out the same way?" I was furious now. Why would a perfectly good stranger be telling me this?

"No, I'm just saying that…" He sucked in a big breath. He stopped there. His face became panicked. "Never mind."

"What is it?" I was confused now.

He just shook his head and turned in his seat. What was his problem? He was fine just a minute ago. I ignored it and turned to face the teacher who was starting class. She gave me the reading list, and I looked over it quickly, even though I had read it all before. I glanced over to look at the stranger next to me noticing that his eyes had changed color. They were black now. I could have sworn they were gold before.

When class was over he turned to face me. "My name's Edward Cullen by the way"

With that I just stood up, pushed my chair in, and walked away.

After school I met up with Alice. I wanted to ask her what she knew about Edward. I had run to her car the second I spotted it.

"Hey do you have a minute?" I asked casually. She dropped her bag in the car and locked the doors without answering. We walked over to a bench.

"What's up?" she asked once we were sitting down.

"Do you know Edward Cullen?" I asked shyly.

"Of course, he's my brother." Her lips spread into a wide grin.

"Really?" I said shocked. "I had no idea." My eyes were wide now.

"Yeah, small world isn't it?" she added.

"Actually, if we were speaking literally, it would be small school." I giggled. "You guys look a lot alike."

"Actually, we're not really related. We're both adopted. Along with our other siblings Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper." She explained.

"Oh, I'm sorry I shouldn't have assumed things." I felt embarrassed.

"No it's fine. I guess once you live with someone so long you start to be just like them." She chuckled.

"I guess so." I had to get to the point I was trying to make before. "Actually, I was going to ask you. Why is he like…I don't mean to sound rude but… bi-polar? I mean, he was friendly one minute and the next he was yelling at me." I felt beads of sweat break out on my forehead. "Then he ignored me for no reason at all. I mean, I hope I didn't offend him or anything."

She stared at me blankly. I shouldn't have said anything.

"I don't know. I guess that's just the way he is." She replied before I had the chance to apologize. "He's usually not very sociable, maybe he likes you." she winked. Yeah right. Like he would like me, the average schoolgirl I was.

She got up and started walking back towards the parking lot. "So yeah, that pretty much answers that. Do you need a ride home?" she asked as we got to her car.

"No, I have my truck." I replied politely. Then I stopped in my tracks. "Wait, this is your car?" it was a midnight blue BMW convertible. It shined a glossy coat of paint even in the gloomy light outside.

"Yeah, my dad Carlisle bought it for me for my birthday. Do you like it?" she said shyly.

"Uh, well duh, that's like the prettiest freaking car I've ever seen!" I said excitedly. "I just might have to steal it from you," I winked.

"Then you should see Edward's car. He has two actually. He drives a silver Volvo around, but he actually has a black sports car," She added.

"Wow, I wish my parents had that kind of money. What does your dad do?"

"He's a doctor over at the hospital here in Forks. I saw you fall before school today… and a few other times, I'm guessing you'll be seeing him a lot." She chuckled.

I blushed. It was bad enough that I knew I was clumsy. Now other people noticed it too?

"I'm just kidding Bella," she said as soon as she saw the embarrassment in my eyes. "We've all had our spills at least once in our lives." She smiled apologetically.

We said our goodbyes and then she drove off. I wanted her car so bad. I walked to the other side of the lot where my car was parked. I unlocked the door and got in. I then realized that I was freezing. I started the car and turned the heater on, getting nothing but cold air. I would just have to wait until the car warmed up. I drove out of the school bounds and made my way home.

The last thing I wanted to do right now was talk to Charlie. He would just be there waiting to ask me if everyone had forgotten about his crime and if they took it out on me. Of course my answers wouldn't be very pleasing to him. I was glad that he didn't get home until 6 from the gas station he worked at. It was kind of sad that he couldn't be a cop anymore. Sometimes the manager of the store would have him stand outside all day selling burritos that no one ever bought.

When I got home I took my bag up to my room and then came back down to find something to eat in the kitchen. The first place I looked was the refrigerator. Of course, burritos. He must have had to stand outside selling them this week. I didn't really want to know why no one bought them so I decided to find something else to eat. I finally found some pop tarts in the pantry. That was probably the best thing there was to eat here sadly.

I sat down to watch TV. Even though that was something I rarely did. Of course when I turned it on it was already on the sports channel. Charlie had been watching a basketball game last night. I don't really know what is so fascinating about sports to him. I decided to watch the news, at least that wouldn't fry my brain with useless information that way.

I couldn't stop thinking about Edward Cullen. He was so beautiful. How could that possibly be? And why was he having all of those mood swings in a total of two minutes? I thought about his face and his topaz eyes that turned black all of a sudden. Then I thought about Alice. She said they weren't biologically related, but why did they look so alike? Especially the eyes, they both had the same color.

As I was still thinking, something on the news caught my attention. Apparently there were reports of person going and robbing money from stores and such, then gambling it away in random casinos in Washington. The story was titled "Watch your wallets". The story was kind of interesting I guess. But I giggled at the next one. There was a video of a man dressed up as a clown going and singing "I'm a big kid now!" through a shopping mall. Wow. That made my day.

As soon as Charlie was home, I decided to order Chinese food since I didn't feel like cooking. As it turned out, Charlie didn't like Chinese food. I felt so bad. I apologized and made him a frozen TV dinner. Hey, it was better than nothing. I guess I wouldn't be ordering that anymore.

"So Bells, I have good news. I quit my job today." Charlie said when he was done eating and I was picking at my food.

I looked up with wide eyes as soon as I heard him. "What? Dad, why did you do that?" Why would he quit his job? I think he forgot that he had me here now.

"No Bella, it's not what you think. I quit because I got a call from the station today." He assured me. I felt a wave of relief go through me.

"Yes and…" I was eager to hear what he was saying.

"They want me to come back."

"They're going to trust you with a gun?" I had wide eyes again, "no offense dad, but if I were them I wouldn't trust someone who killed someone with a gun." Were they crazy?

I could see hurt in Charlie's eyes. Why did I always do that? I always said things before thinking about it first. I had to apologize.

"I'm sorry Charlie," I said sorrowfully, "I wasn't thinking."

"No, no Bella. It's okay. They're not giving me a gun," he said quickly so that I wouldn't feel bad. "They're going to let me be a cop, which means I wouldn't be chief anymore, but I would only handle stuff like traffic. And if they really needed me in a case of emergency." He sounded happy. That was good. "Bella, I would make much better money this way. We can live happily again."

"Who said that I'm not happy? Dad, I'm fine with whatever you do. I don't care about all that fancy material stuff," Those things weren't important to me. They didn't ever matter to me. Renee, of course, had a ton of money and a huge house, but I never cared. "Don't worry about me like that."

"Well, I'm glad you feel that way. And I'm glad to be going back. I've really missed it. You don't even know. Bella, I know it must be hell at school right now. And it's all my fault." He had tears in his eyes. "I shouldn't have drank that night. I'm sorry for all the pain I've caused you."

"Dad, I know you're sorry. You've only told me a thousand times. But I forgive you. I might have a bad rep because of yours but I can make my own image somehow. Don't worry about it. I still love you." I smiled warmly. And we left it at that.

When we were done eating, he automatically went to his couch and turned on another basketball game. I rolled my eyes and went up to my room.

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