Bella is about to be a high school graduate. With college on her mind she doesn't expect to meet Edward Cullen. He's known as the quiet boy but to Bella he ends up being the love of her life. Will Edward's dark secrets tear them apart or will Bella be able to break through his tough shell.

Chapter 1.

"Bella," My best friend, Rosalie smiled leaning against the locker beside mine as I grabbed some of my textbooks. "Tonight, I say we go to Emmett's." Emmett Cullen was Rosalie's twenty-four-year-old boyfriend who lived in the next town over.

I groaned shutting my locker. "We went there two weekends ago." I reminded her.

"This time is different." Rosalie said tapping the top of my nose. "Emmett has invited his brother, Edward." I saw a twinkle in her eyes. "For you silly, he's really nice, twenty-two."

"You and Emmett have been dating for almost nine months why have I never heard of this Edward?" I asked as she followed me out to my truck.

"He keeps to himself a lot. He helps out at their mechanic shop and just hangs out." She shrugged. "Bells, please come with me. You're my wing-women."

I opened up my truck and threw my book bag inside. "Fine, pick me up at nine." I leaned over and kissed her cheek as I got into my truck. When I arrived home I could hear my mom banging around in the kitchen.

"Oh Bella," My mom, Renee, smiled at me as she set a massive pot on the counter. "How was school today sweetie?"

"Fine, what are you doing?"

"I saw this recipe online for beef, rice and broccoli dinner and I'm going to attempt it." I cringed. My mom was not the best of cooks, she made great scrambled eggs but we have Mrs. Jones, our cook and housekeeper. "It's Phil and I's anniversary."

"Even more reason why I am going out tonight."

"Are you going out with Rosalie?" My mom had some weird problem Rosalie, she never used to, not until Phil came along.

"Yes mom I'm going out with Rosalie." She rolled her eyes at me. "I want to remind you that I am eighteen and legally I do not need to justify going out with my friends."

My mom motioned for me to leave the kitchen so I did. I flopped onto my bed when I walked into my room and saw I had a missed text from Rosalie. It was a picture of her holding a full bottle of Fireball, my favorite.

OOOO

I looked at myself it in the mirror at myself. I wore a cropped, off the shoulder, band tee with skinny dark jeans and black Giselle heeled sandals. I had pulled my long brown hair into a bun on the top of my head and added minimal makeup. Here. Rosalie texted me and I smiled looking at my clock which flashed 9:45. I grabbed my black small purse and rushed down the steps. "I'm leaving!"

"Bella!" Phil yelled my name and I slowly walked into the kitchen where him and my mom stood. Phil stood with his hands on his hips as he looked at me. "Going out with Rosalie again?" I rolled my eyes and looked at my mom as she had the same disappointing look.

"Yeah I am, and let me remind you Phil you are not my father." I gave them both a huge fake smile. "Now I've got to go it's rude to keep your guests waiting." I walked outside to Rosalie's jeep, which sat in my driveway.

"Had me sitting here forever." She pouted as she pulled out of the driveway. "Bottles in the glove compartment." I reached inside and smiled. "Had to get your favorite."

I took a huge swig and let the hot liquid flow down my throat. "Rosalie Hale you really do know how to make me happy."

Emmett's house was small but it was in the middle of nowhere and his only neighbor was a mile down the road. When we parked the car in front of the house I could hear the music playing from the backyard. "He plays the most god awful music." Rosalie mumbled as we walked into the backyard hand in hand. There were probably about sixty-people in Emmett's backyard and it wasn't hard to spot the big six-foot-four man standing in the middle of the yard.

"Babe," Emmett yelled and Rosalie launched herself over to him into his arms. They kissed each other passionately. "Belly." Emmett smiled when Rosalie finally let go of him and looked down at me. "She bribe you to come down here?"

I held up the bottle of Fireball. "I couldn't say no." I laughed opening the bottle and taking another sip. "So where's this brother of yours?"

"Oh so you're interested? He's not here yet, and I told him if he doesn't get here soon I'm going to rip him a new one." He told me. "He's quiet, which is why I think you two will like each other. Opposites attract."

Rosalie took the bottle from me and drank. "Let's just have fun tonight, okay?" Rosalie's always knew how to have fun. She got the beer games started, would make sure everyone always had a beer in their hand and it wasn't even her party.

"Eddie," I heard Emmett shout while Rosalie and I shot gunned a beer. I wiped my mouth and looked at Emmett's brother stunned. He was a little shorter than Emmett, maybe six-foot-two, but had the same muscular build. He had the most piercing green eyes and reddish-brown hair I wanted to run my fingers through. Emmett approached with him following behind. "Eddie, this is Bella Swan, Rosalie's best-friend."

Edward moved from behind Emmett and stuck his hand out towards me. "Nice to meet you Bella." Fuck his smile, it was a panty-dropping smile.

"You too," I slipped my hand in his and felt an electric jolt go through me. "Want a beer?" Edward looked up at Emmett and laughed.

"Sure." I grabbed the beer I had resting in my purse and handed it to him.

"Babe, I have to introduce you to my old friend Martin." Emmett said wrapping an arm around Rosalie's neck and leading her away from Edward and I.

"That wasn't obvious at all." I mumbled looking up at Edward as he drank his beer. "So you're Emmett's brother?"

"Unfortunately." He smiled. "You go to school with Rosalie?" I nodded yes. "That's cool, you guys graduate soon don't you?"

"One more month." I sighed. "Then we get to have the best summer ever before we go off to school."

He nodded smiling. "Living the dream." I shrugged.

"You look uncomfortable."

"Emmett throws these outrageous parties all the time. I guess I've just gotten sick of them." He gave me a funny look. "Want to get out of here?"

I pointed to myself stunned. "Me? You want to get out of here with me?" He gave me a little smirk and tossed his beer into the closest trash can. "Sure." I followed Edward to the front and stopped when I saw the motorcycle. "T-This is yours?"

"That she is." Edward smiled climbing on and holding out a helmet for me. "She's a Harley-Davidson Street, she won't hurt you."

"I know that." I lied grabbing the helmet, placing it on my head and getting on the bike behind him. Edward reached behind him, grabbed my hands and pulled them to wrap around his waist. This is happening, I'm on a fucking motorcycle.

"Hold on tight." With that statement he drove off. It was exhilarating, we went fast and Edward controlled the bike expertly.

"This is amazing." I laughed holding onto his waist tighter. We zipped through the forest you had to get through to get to Emmett's house but instead of going left into the city he veered right. We went uphill and finally broke through onto an open field of beautiful flowers and a cliff overlooking the ocean. "Holy fuck." I whispered slipping the helmet off and climbing off the bike.

"Found this place by accident one night." Edward said getting off his bike and walking over to me. "Beautiful isn't it?"

The spot was beautiful, the moon lit the opening of grass and illuminated the ocean far below us. "This is so amazing." I squealed walking closer to the edge of the cliff and looking over. I looked over at Edward as he smiled at me. "You are not what I expected you to be Mr. Cullen. Emmett told me you were quiet."

"I usually am quiet." He walked towards me sticking his hands in his pocket. "There's just something about you, it makes me want to talk to you. I'm glad I asked you to come out here with me."

I hiccupped. I was coming down off my little buzz. "Let's sit." I plopped down on my butt and Edward followed after me. "Tell me about yourself."

"What would you like to know?"

"Favorite ice-cream?"

He thought about it for a second. "Vanilla. You?"

"Cookie-N-Cream."

"What do you like to do for fun?"

"Dance, I love dancing. Rosalie and I go to this club in Portland and we literally dance for hours. I love books, I could be stuck in a bookstore for hours. You?"

"Working on cars really calms me, I do it at my dad's shop. Other than that I'm pretty relaxed, I like hanging out. I have other extra curricular activities I like to dabble in." He winked. "I love to travel, I went to Oregon on my bike a few weeks ago, it was amazing."

We sat there and talked for what felt like forever and I realized that it was four in the morning. "No way we talked that long." We talked about our favorite music groups, singers. Our birthdays, what are favorite high school memories were. Edward had dreams to get out of Forks, Washington and it was inspiring.

"Come on, you can direct me too your place." Edward said standing and reaching a hand down towards me. Once again I felt the electric jolt. The right home was nice, the roads were empty and the town was silent, it felt like we were the only ones awake. Edward pulled into my development and slowed down once he reached my house.

"This is me." I sighed climbing off and handing him back his helmet. "I had a really good time tonight Edward."

"Me too." He smiled. "I'll see you around, okay?" I nodded and started up my drive-way but stopped. I turned around quickly and jogged back down to him and kissed him. It was slow and sweet but I had to do it. I didn't know when I was going to see him again but I had to kiss him.

"Goodnight." I mumbled once I pulled away. I walked back up my drive-way into my house and slid down to the floor and smiled.

OOO

"You kissed him?" Rosalie practically yelled when I told her at the beginning of math class on Monday. "I can't believe this, Bella he is super attractive, he looks like Christian Grey." I rolled my eyes at her. "Emmett was shocked when he found out you two left with each other."

"I was surprise he asked me." I whispered when I saw our teacher stand at the board to begin class. "I thought he was going to be quiet but he was talkative and open and so sweet. He actually listened to me when I spoke and sounded interested in what I had to say."

"You're blushing." She pointed out. "Bella Swan, you have a crush." I hid my face from her and chewed on my bottom lip. I had a huge crush, and I didn't know when I was going to see him again. "I told Emmett to give him your number-"

"Ms. Hale," Our teacher, Mrs. O'Malley said. "is the conversation you and Ms. Swan are having open to the entire class." Rosalie rolled her eyes and opened up her notebook to start taking notes. "That's what I thought."

The next hour of math I scribbled down the notes and kept day dreaming of Edward, how soft his lips were, the way his eyes sparkled when he talked about opening up his own garage one day. "Yo," Rosalie snapped her fingers in my face. "class is over, let's go to lunch I'm starving."

"Can we go out to lunch today?" I asked forgetting that I didn't pack one today. Rosalie agreed and we headed to my red truck but stopped when I saw a motor cycle parked next to my truck and Edward Cullen leaning against his motorcycle. He looked sexy, he wore a white shirt with a forest green flannel over top with the sleeves rolled up.

"Go," Rosalie nudged me forward and I approached as I saw her go over to the passenger side of my truck.

"Hey," I blushed when I finally stood in front of Edward.

"I was thinking, last night when you were talking about reading you said you've read almost every book there is, but I never heard you mention this book." He reached in his backpack and pulled out an old, ragged copy of Too Kill a Mockingbird.

"I've been trying to find time to get to a book store to get a copy." He placed the book in my hand. "Are you letting me borrow this?"

"Yeah," He smiled climbing back on his bike and starting it up. "plus, now that you have something that is mine that just gives me an excuse to pop by, make sure you're taking good care of my book."

I felt my cheeks heat up, he wanted to see me again. "O-Okay." I said moving out of his way.

"Bye Bella." He smiled before pulling away and leaving me speechless.

XOXO