Chapter 1
BPOV
I looked at myself in the mirror; staring back at me was a beauty. A girl with porcelain doll features, pale white skin and deep red rose lips. To an outsider I looked like a human version of Snow White with my dark curls and delicate features. To someone who knew, I was just one of them.
I had been a vampire for only 5 years, changed as a game for my beauty. They had tired of me soon after my first year calling me abnormal as I had no desire for human blood. I hunted dear, wolf, lion. I think it was a deeply embedded personal moral not to harm humans as I still felt so close to one myself.
I did this every day, examined my marble hard and ice cold skin. I prodded and poked at my body and face wandering how I had become this beautiful. I didn't feel it on the outside; I had the same mind, same thoughts and desires. I wanted to be something special, have a place in the world. I just happened to be doing it all as a vampire.
I had moved on to Forks, Washington about 2 weeks ago. So far I liked it. Initially it was the weather and the small community style that I liked. But, after exploring I found signs of other vampires and found out they were my age attending Forks high. I followed them and found out everything I could about them. A family of 7, they lived amongst the humans, fed off animals like me. I felt like I had been waiting for this, a family to become part of. I just hoped that when I introduced myself today at school that I would be welcomed in.
I made my decision to become friendly with the loner first. I didn't know his name but I knew he didn't have a mate unlike the others and spent a lot of time alone. If I could befriend him, would it be possible to become a friend to the rest of the family? A group of my kind so I stopped feeling so alone?
I desperately hoped so.
EPOV
We knew she was here, with Alice's visions and my mind reading not a lot slipped past us. We had given her space to watch us, become acquainted with our ways. Alice said she had made up her mind to stay here, attend the local high school and befriend us as a family.
She was no danger or threat to exposing us and seemed to have a natural pull towards our family. Carlisle warned us to be cautious of her, despite what we believed we knew there were always forces at work.
"Alice, you ready?" No matter what time she got back from a hunt, or stopped her sex games with Jasper she was always the last out of the door for school.
"I don't know how you two put up with it" I said to Jasper and Emmett "waiting for them, hanging around while they get ready it's so frustrating."
"It will be something you'll get used to soon enough Eddy boy" Jasper said with a knowing wink.
"What makes you say that?" I asked
"Just a hunch" he shrugged as he slipped into the car, reciting battle formations in his mind. Something had obviously been discussed with the intention of me not finding out! I seeked out Alice in the house, she too was blocking me, reciting maths problems in her mind.
I looked to Emmett. As usual his mind was empty a quiet recluse of a zone I sometimes took to.
He shrugged in that 'don't ask me I don't know a thing' way.
When Alice finally emerged with Rose tailing along behind I questioned
"Alice,
do you and Jasper know something I don't?"
"No Edward what
makes you ask that?" she smiled sweetly and slid in the car next to
Jasper
"Jasper is creating battle formations and your reciting maths problems, someone is keeping something from me" I wasn't generally a moaner, but I also wasn't used to be kept in the dark. An upside of mind reading!
"Edward will you please just drive to school I've been dying to see this girl for so long these stupid visions don't give much away with regards to how she looks or is feeling right now. She might need our help, our support. Let's go" Alice prostested.
My natural caring instinct took over at this point, thinking how alone I would feel should I not have my family. This vampire girl needed us to support her on her first day of school.
"Ok let's go"
I slid in the driver's seat and took off at top speed. We reached school in minutes and my mind was immediately filled with thoughts of lust, sex, positions, and date propositions!
"Woah feel the lust" Jasper said
"She's here" Alice screamed
I pulled into a parking spot and shut off the engine. I could hear the most lustful thoughts rolling through every males mind. She must be a beauty, but then I guess all our kind were.
I searched through the minds, picking out descriptions of her. Finding glimpses of her face in the minds of the people staring at her. She had dark hair, delicate features, exceptionally pale skin. Obviously the latter was a given but it didn't seem to evoke any form of warning or suspicion to the males here.
I found the person looking at her fully. Jessica Stanley was drinking in her vision with an envious undertone of hatred.
Ok, so she's got great bone structure and a glorious figure but nothing I haven't got!
I stole a lasting glimpse into Jessica's mind and had to agree this girl was exceptional. Her face seemed to glow, her brown eyes with flecks of gold sparkled.
"So Bella" that was her name "do you know anyone here?" Jessica asked her
"Erm sort of" she mumbled
"Thats us!" Alice squealed with excitement
"Alice? Why are you so excited about her?" Rose asked
"I'll tell you later" she shushed Rose and wandered towards the crowd of babbling student bodies.
"There's a lot of lust pulsating from that group I'm going to hang around by the car" Jasper chuckled in spite of himself
As Alice walked further forward the crowd seemed to part. It felt like this one moment was slow motion as I finally glimpsed her for real for the first time.
Her long dark curly hair hung in waves down her back and I could see every colour it held. Red when she turned to the light, flecks of gold when she moved it slowly. Then she turned.
Her sensual, athletic figure spun on the spot, her curves in all the right places danced in my eyes. Her face was indescribably beautiful, soft and pale with the most full luscious red lips I had ever seen. Her eyes were the deepest shade of brown with gold circling the rims. For once in my entire time at Forks high, I agreed with the male population. This girl was exquisitely beautiful.
Then she looked up directly into my eyes and smiled. The force of her smile was enough to make me feel as though my heart beat.
