Edward's Twilight

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or it's characters.

Prologue

I was running, I had to keep running. What Alice and Jasper said, their apologies, it all meant nothing. None of it would matter as long as she was still alive. She still had to be.

I was speading up even more, not caring about the hot, blistering sun, or the people staring. None of it mattered. If she died, then so would I. After taking care of the tracker.

I remembered her face. Her fear at the baseball game, her loving, warm face in the meadow, how she blushes, how she talks when she's asleep. I would miss everything about her. I couldn't let her die. I wouldn't let her die. I had to save her, I will save her.

But as I was going even faster, my enhanced hearing heard glass shattering, and I could smell blood. Sweeter blood than anyone else's in the world.

Chapter 1

I was sure we had not even caused so much discussion on our first day of high school in Forks, Washington. But maybe that was because humans were naturally afraid of us, for some reason they can't even understand. Their subconscious mind is telling them what their conscious mind doesn't or doesn't want to acknowledge. We were dangerous.

We were the predators. They were the prey. Whether or not we gave up drinking human blood. Although our topaz eyes fit in better with humans than burgandy or bright, vivid red, we were still different. We should be different, for vampires and humans were different species. It would be frightening if we were too much the same. To them, we looked like beautiful, strong, cold humans with an intesting eye color.

I had gotten used to humans ignoring us, or having vivid daydreams involving us. Sometimes I didn't want to hear what someone was thinking, but I didn't realize it until it was too late.

It was good people stopped thinking my name a few months after I had moved to Forks with my family. I was getting annoyed everytime someone-usually a girl-thought my name. I always turned my head toward the person-an involuntary reaction-and heard their thoughts until I stopped myself. Eveyone's thoughts was like a buzz, a constant murmer distracting me, though I usually tuned it out. I could focus on one voice if I wanted to and hear what thoughts were passing through their minds at that moment. It's easier to blend in when your not listening or answering someone's thoughts though. Blending in was a reason we even moved to Forks. Another was the almost constant overcast weather.

My brothers and sisters, Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice sat by me every day as usual in the lunchroom. We each had a tray of untouched food in front of us.

Emmett was very strong. He had been strong in his human life also, but he couldn't take on a bear single-handedly back then and now hunted a bear every hunting trip. He had dark curly hair and topaz eyes from being a "vegetarian".

Jasper had blond hair. He was new to our "vegetarian" life though and had a hard time around humans. We had to be near him when he was around humans to prevent any accidents. I was the only one in my family who had mind reading powers, but he could feel and control emotions from people around him. That made him very helpful to our family when we're upset or angry.

Alice had short, spiky black hair. She was very small but that meant little to vampires. Alice also has another power since she became a vampire. She can see into the future. The future changes though, and she only sees things that will happen once they've decided. Even though the future changes, my family still puts a lot of trust in Alice's visions of the future. She was very helpful with the stock market.

Rosalie was blond and exeptionally beautiful, even for a vampire who's appearance enhances after the excruciating transformation from human to vampire. Her looks weren't enough to make me like her as anything but a sister, even before Emmett joined our family.

My parents, Esme and Calisle were exceptionally kind to all. Carlisle worked as a doctor in Forks and has spent a few centuries getting used to human blood so that he can hardly smell the scent anymore in a way to make him crave for it. My whole family follows Carlisle's diet of not drinking human blood, but Jasper has the most problems with that.

"Isabella Swan."

I heard the new girl's name repeated over and over again throughout every person's mind imaginable. Probably, the only minds who weren't thinking about her were my brothers and sisters.

I idly noticed the new girl walking in the lunchroom with Jessica Stanley, a very talkative girl, who led Isabella to her lunch table to meet her friends while I was thinking of Jasper and how he needed to hunt soon before it got too dangerous to come to school.

"Who are they?" I heard Isabella say to Jessica, distracting me from my thoughts about my family. I realized it must have been very strange for her to just come to school, and see us. Especially after Alice had risen before Isabella had said anything, with her untouched food which we didn't need to eat, and dumped her tray before walking away from the lunchroom.

I turned then, to look at Jessica because she thought my name. Then I looked over to where Isabella was sitting. She flushed and dropped her eyes away from where we were sitting. I looked away before she did.

I sat there playing with my food that I had no intention of eating, when I realized something. I could hear Jessica's thoughts, I could hear all her friend's thoughts, I could hear every person's thoughts in this lunchroom, but not one of the voices I heard in my head appeared to be Isabella's.

Jessica giggled before saying under her breath, "That's Edward and Emmett Cullen, and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. The one who left was Alice Cullen; they all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife."

There's something...strange about the new girl. I can't seem to hear her thoughts," I said very quickly and softly to Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie. I was still playing with my food as I said that. They gave no recognition that they heard except with their thoughts.

Why do you care? thought Rosalie.

Jasper thought, I can still feel her emotions, maybe you just need to be closer for the first time you hear someones thoughts.

Emmett didn't seem to be paying attention to me, and he was thinking about the bear that nearly killed him as a human.

"They are...very nice-looking," I heard Isabella say.

"Yes!" replied Jessica before giggling again. "They're all together though-Emmett and Rosalie, Jasper and Alice, I mean. And they live together." Jessica sounded shocked and surprised as if though people who were related weren't allowed to live together.

"Which ones are the Cullens?" Isabella askeed. "They don't look related..."

"Oh, they're not. Dr. Cullen is really young, in his twenties or early thirties. They're all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins-the blondes-and they're foster children," Jessica interrupted.

"They look a little old to be foster children."

"They are now, Jasper and Rosalie are both eighteen, but they've been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She's their aunt or something like that."

"That's really kind of nice-for them to take care of all those kids like that, when they're so young and everything."

"I guess so," Jessica said. She kept glancing at us as she said that. "I think Mrs. Cullen can't have any kids, though," she added as if that made Esme less kind. She and Carlisle were probably the nicest people that existed.

"Have they always lived in Forks?" asked Isabella. She was probably wondering why she hadn't seen us before, but I couildn't be sure.

"No," replied Jessica in a tone that said it was obvious. "They just moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska."

Any idea what the new girl is thinking now, to make her feel soothed that we moved from Alaska? Does she have family there or something? Jasper asked me with his thoughts.

I looked over to where Isabella was sitting, as if that might make it easier for me to read her thoughts. Nothing. I couldn't hear anything she was thinking. Was there something wrong with my mind or hers? She looked away quickly since she had been looking over at our table, but I was still looking at her, slightly frustrated.

"Which one is the boy with the reddish brown hair?" Isabella asked Jessica. Did she ask that because she noticed I was looking at her or was it something else?

And of course she likes Edward, who doesn't? She's wasting her time, though. If he won't go out with me she has no hope. Jessica thought to herself.

"That's Edward. He's gorgeous, of course, but don't waste your time. He doesn't date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him," she said out loud this time, a bit upset.

I turned away then, to hide my smile. The problem wasn't so much looks as it was species.

I spent a few more minutes pondering on why I couldn't hear Isabella's mind. Then, me and my four siblings rose and walked out of the lunchroom. I was trying to convince myself that I didn't care.

I got seperated from my brothers and sister then, to go to biology II, a class taught by Mr. Banner. It was pointless to go to high school to learn since we already knew everything that was taught from going through high school multiple times, so my family didn't bother to pretend not to know anything. I sat in my usual seat, the one by me was empty.

Then, the new girl walked in the room. Three thoughts came into my mind at almost the same time. First, I thought that the seat next to me was the only one empty so she'd have to sit by me. Second, I thought that if she was closer, I might get a chance to read her mind. And thirdly, I thought her blood was the sweetest smelling thing that could ever possibly exist in the world.