Chapter 1

Bella's Pov;

I let out a huff of frustration as I saw my skin begin to glitter meaning that it would be yet another sunny day in LA.

Time to introduce myself, I'm Isabella Marie Hale. In human years I'm 18 but in vampiric years I'm 162. I was changed into a vampire in the 1800's when I lived with my elder sister Rosalie and our parents but there was a tragic turn of events and we got seperated. I missed all of my family so much dearly, thinking of them all was the main reason I got through so many years on my own.

Rosalie was the image of our mother, with sparkling blue eyes and perfect blonde hair whereas I had plain brown hair and chocolate brown eyes as I had received my looks from my father. Both me and my sister were extremely close so it was heartbreaking not to of seen her in over 100 years. I only had one main possession, and that was a necklace my sister had given me many years previously. My sister was my rock, and she never judged me no matter of my actions.

I had fallen out with my parents on the night of my change into a stronger creature, and it was when I was in the middle of the forest that my vision had turned black and all I remember after that is the intense pain I had been in for three days. The pain I had experienced through that change had no comparison to losing my sister.

When I had awoken, I knew that there was something wrong with me straight away because of the ache in throat so I ran continuously for two whole days until I ended up running into another coven; The Denali's. They graciously explained to me everything about vampires, and the only man in the coven - Elezar, also explained to me that I had an intensely strong mind shield which could be easily expanded which another coven member helped me do with her immense gift; Kate.

The Denali's explained to me about two diets, human and animal blood. I ended up choosing a diet that consisted of killing animals and ever since my first hunt, I have never touched a drop of human blood. I spent a number of years with the Denali's which helped me control any blood-lust for humans. It was easy to allow the Denali's to be like my family - Kate, Carmen, Elezar, Tanya and Irina were great.. I just never felt whole without Rosalie back in my life.

After I was confident enough that I wouldn't harm any humans, I began to travel all over the world and spent a lot of time with nomads and covens that I found on my travels. I made an extremely close friend in a beautiful nomad named Garret and another close friend in Benjamin from the Egyptian coven. I spent many years with the Amazon coven learning about so many stories there, it was extremely fascinating.

The year was now 1998, and there was one place I wanted to go before I visited a place where there where another coven of vampires whose diet I followed. The Cullen's.

First, I needed to go back to LA to see it one last time. To visit our old house, our old farm, and to spend one last time looking at the memories me and Rosalie had successfully created in having an amazing time.

It took me a full day to run to Forks, Washington and it took me an hour in a nearby place to pay for an outfit and necessities for the day ahead. I'd had to make a plan on my way to Forks so had to ring up and estate agent company in Forks, and buy a house. Thankfully, the estate agent believed that I was driving to Forks so had agreed to leave a key under the doormat for me to pick up as soon as possible. I'd also enrolled myself at the only high school in Forks, and had them send my timetable and any forms to my new home.

As soon as I reached the outside of my house, I smiled and quickly crouched down to pick the key up and unlocked the door. I closed the door silently and immediately rushed up the stairs and straight into the bathroom and stripped getting into the shower so I could feel as fresh as my vampiric skin would allow. Soon enough, my hair smelled of strawberries and I was in a new outfit that would hopefully keep the attention away from me. It was 8.20am when I stepped outside with all the necessary forms, and ran to the school, easily keeping out of eyesight of any humans in the near neighborhood.

As soon as I stepped into the school parking yard, I saw students eyes flicker to me and stare in astonishment. I looked down and carried on walking to the reception to get the last form that I needed. Thankfully, there was nobody in the reception office except a woman behind a desk.

"Excuse me? I'm Isabella Hale, I was told to come here to collect a form as its my first day in this school." I spoke in a soft and gentle tone.

"Of course. Welcome to Forks dear. I've been waiting to meet you, since you called. Here we are, could you possibly sign this? Also, at the start of each class could you give this sheet to your teachers and get them to sign it and then bring it back here at the end of the day?" The receptionist asked whilst handing me forms. I quickly signed the required sheet and took the other sheet from the woman. I nodded my gratitude towards the woman but frowned in heartbreak as I turned away after hearing the woman mutter something about me having certain similarities to the Cullen's, especially Rosalie. After my moment of freezing, I sighed and checked my necklace was on me before leaving to my first class; Calculus.

My classes of the day easily sped by, despite the continuous staring and boys asking to walk me to the class that I had next. Soon enough it was time for the humans to take a lunch break, so I slowly got up and followed the humans to the cafeteria. Even now, humans were still staring making me certain that if I were to be human again, I would be blushing like crazy.

I quickly scanned the cafeteria, just as I was about to stop there where a group that caught my eye but only one had my main attention. The person that held my attention was what caused me to whisper out my next word in nothing but pain. The pain only came out, because I was sure I was looking at someone who either was or could pass for my sister.

Simply one word slipped out of my mouth.

"Rosalie?" I whispered.