My name is Beaufort Swan, I prefer Beau though. For as long as I can remember vampires were real but don't think Bram Stoker Dracula. They don't burn in the sun nor does the cross effect them. You have been lied to, these tales were just to let humans think they stood a chance against them.

Leonid and Leonti twins from a time that was far before Rome or Egypt just happen to be Renee's—my mother—next door neighbors. Renee against her parents wishes left for Phoenix when she was almost do to have me. I was born two weeks from the day she moved. Charlie—my father—had graduated from high school and went into the police academy like my grandfather before him. Charlie didn't proposed to Renee but he did ask her not to get an abortion. She of course agreed, "as long as you help with support for the child I don't mind raising it." My grandparents had not like this one bit, but they couldn't convince either of them to change their minds. "you want to force us to get married and be miserable that wouldn't give the best environment for the kid." Charlie had told them. Renee had left for Phoenix to attended the university there. Charlie left his parents house with his parents. My grandparents on both sides cut their children off because they hadn't gotten married.

Renee found it hard to go to school and raise me. It was a complete coincidence that two vampires lived in the studio apartment next to hers. they kept hearing me cry and one night Leonti came knocking on the door. how they told it Renee was on her wits ends and Leonti offered to look after me while she got some sleep. Both the twins were pretending to be in their twenties in a undecided major. Leonti was pretending to be a female, thanks to his talent he was able to project an image into their heads like hair color, eye color, etc. the image that everyone saw was a female with blonde hair and blue eyes with tan skin. no one unless they tried to physically touch him would know that he wasn't a woman. He really had brown hair with topaz eyes was six feet tall and a slender more delicate build then his identical twin brother, Leonid was six feet tall, topaz eyes and brown hair as well but he was muscular. this was do to the fact that he was a warrior back when he was human. while his brother was what they called a healer.

From that night on Leonti and Leonid had become a part of my life, A very important part of my life. I would visit Charlie every summer when I was growing up, most people believed I was a nephew or little brother and not his son. He never corrected anyone about this and I only met both sides of my grandparents twice. once when I visited Charlie when I was seven-for he moved back to Forks after graduating from the academy- and the other after Renee graduated from college. it took Renee nine years to finish school; I was eight years old when she graduated. this didn't change much of my living arrangement with the twins because at the time of her graduation the twins had talked her and Charlie into letting them adopt me. This was the second time I had met because they were against this as well.

"mom, Beau would be better with them besides they raised him. I honestly can't call myself his mother because Lucy (was the name Leonti went by at the time) is his mother." Renee had said.

"you cut us off and now you want to tell us what to do." Charlie stated. "I agree with Renee it wouldn't be right Beau calls them his parents. They are his parents." They had shouted and yelled at the two of them and even to the twins but the papers were signed and I was officially adopted.

That had been sixteen years ago almost seventeen years. I still kept in contact with both of them, Renee was married and I had two younger siblings from her.

Charlie had married twice and had one child with his second wife but the marriage didn't last long. He was divorced again and my half sister was living with her mom in Canada. I had graduated starting with online school to get my AA and BA, getting my teaching license was a little trickery since I couldn't be in the sun anymore. I was turned a week after I graduated high school. I got it however and currently do to a teacher retiring I got a job as a English teacher at Forks High school.

"Beau I found a house well Cabin, it's for sale if you want to buy it." Charlie said over the phone. "It has four bedrooms and two bathrooms, it's a little outside of Forks, well a little out of the way but I think it's what your looking for. Mr. Smith passed away and Mrs. Smith is going to move in with her daughter in California." he said.

"Give me her number, I'll take it." I said as he gave me the rest of the details, we hung up and I quickly called Mrs. Smith. It was soon bought and paid for and we started packing. I was going to Forks while my parents were going to head out on a honeymoon of sorts.

"Will come by later."

"Sure, sure." I said Jake's favorite fraze.