Hey, Ellie here. PLEASE DON'T HURT ME.

I changed some of the characters. :3 I mean, their main characteristics are still there... Haha...but um, yeah.

Just so you all don't spam up our inbox, THIS IS AN AU FIC. EH-YU. AU.

*cowers in corner*

Chapter 2

We left each other on the border of Washington with a hug and a simple "good luck". I would be going off to live with the Cullen brats, all of them. I was dreading it already.

Aro had warned me that Carlisle had turned "odd" since the turn of the century, and would often sit in front of an electric fan, mumbling. I was anticipating the chance to mock him.

I pulled off my deep grey cloak and dropped it into the mud as I ran to Forks. Losing my scent now would be the best: all of the Cullen's had been told that I was merely a footsoldier, someone to watch how they lived to see if we should turn 'vegetarian'. How wrong they were.

By the time I arrived at the Cullen house, the sun was just rising. Hopefully all the crappy kissing and sex would be over with by now and I would get to evaluate all of their personalities.

I knocked on the front door and waited for someone to answer it, already missing my twin, Jane. We were like utter opposites, but adoration could do that to you. I rubbed the back of my head absent-mindedly, wondering how that poor, poor book was doing. It was probably being stuck in an Italian garbage truck and on the way to the Italian dump.

Suddenly, the door opened and a man's face was in my own. He was tall and burly with a mop of brown curls on his head. His face was twisted into the stupidest expression I've ever seen – a mixture between immense pain and immense thoughts. The thoughts are probably giving him pain, I thought before realising that there was a mind reader in the house.

"Hello," I said suddenly, sticking my hand out. "I'm Isabella, also known as Bella. I'm from the Volturi?" I said the last sentence slowly as his face morphed into one of understanding.

"Hey Bella," he grinned, ignoring my hand. "I'm Emmett, and this is Rosalie." He thrusted a blonde girl into the doorway and ran off, shouting for Carlisle.

Rosalie sighed and shook her head, making her hair swish around her face. "He will never understand manners, will he?" she watched him until he disappeared out of the long hallway, and then she turned back to me. "I'm Rosalie Hale. He's Emmett Cullen." She smiles again at me.

I pointed at the doorway Emmett had just disappeared through. "Are you two together or something?" I asked.

Rosalie laughed, and it was like the tinkling of freaking bells with a dark undertone to them. "Of course not! He's not interested in me, and not in you, either." Her voice, originally light and airy had now turned evil.

Suddenly, there was a man standing next to Rosalie. "Thank you Rose, I'll deal with this girl," his tone was cold and mean-hearted. Rosalie shook it off like it was nothing and quickly went through the same archway that Emmett had.

"Who are you?" he asked, not looking at me or my face, but the forest behind me.

I smiled. "I'm Bella, from the Volturi."

"I didn't know that you would be here so early..." his British accent had quickly turned from cold to sub-zero.

"Aro sure likes to keep us busy..." I said.

"Why are you here?" jeeze, could this guy's voice get any colder? It had now gone from sub-zero to ice planet.

I coughed, quickly remembering what Aro had told me to say. "Aro wants to see if the Volturi would be better off as vegetarians instead of eating humans."

"Oh!" Carlisle's voice had turned warm again. "Come in, come in."

The first thing that I noticed as I stepped through the door was that the place didn't reek of dust like the castle I usually lived in did.

The place was light and airy and very susceptible for you to become a giant diamond, but it was also modern and smelt of wood and clean air.

It was...nice.

Carlisle told me to take off my shoes, so I took off my boots and left them on a shoe rack near the front door. We walked into the room that Emmett had entered and he introduced me to all of his family.

The room was just as airy, with a giant television set in the middle of the room and sofas circling it.

"This is Bella. She's from the Volturi. Play nice." He walked out of the room.

I sighed, feeling like the awkward new kid at school. "Hey," I said. "I'm Bella, and like he said, I'm from the Volturi to see if being a 'vegetarian'," I air-quoted the word, "would be best."

All of the people in the room turned to inspect me, and I inspected them all back. There were three females in the room and three males.

There was Emmett, and he grinned at me as I looked at him. Rosalie was sat next to him, almost parasitic. I suddenly noticed that Emmett had red eyes: he had either just been turned or was one for eating humans. I hoped it was the latter. Rosalie had golden eyes that were glaring at me.

On the opposite sofas were a girl and a boy, obviously together. The girl was short and had spiky hair and smothered in piercings. The boy next to her had limp blonde hair and curious, golden eyes like his partner. They were both wearing black.

Finally, I came to the last sofa. There was the woman that Aro had told me was Esme. She had long, honey coloured hair and the same coloured eyes, and was apparently meant to be Carlisle's mate but was really his full time carer and sister.

Then, there was the final boy. He had red eyes, like me, and intense eyebrows that were the same shade of brown as his chocolate coloured hair. He looked like the youngest out of all of the Cullen's, and the best looking as well.

I smiled around the room and no-one returned it, so I wandered out to explore the rest of the house, and wonder how Jane was doing.

Oh, and thank you for reading! :D