Chapter 1

Flashback

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BPOV

I was driving back from a Welcome party when it happened. I was driving my truck down the highway towards the rented house. Edward's gift to me. I saw three dark shapes dart out in front of my truck, it felt like running into concrete...Vampires.

I still remember lying there on the pavement seeing the white light, and feeling someone call out my name.

"Edward?"I called back but no response came.

He was standing over me, Irecognized him as one of my college teachers, Charles, Mr. Costello. He smiled and told me if I wanted to live I had to trust him.

He said if I didn't let him change me, I'd die. I immediately thought of Edward. How I had always wanted him to be the one to change me. Ha. That was a dream that would never come true. I nodded my head to show him I was okay with this, as I thought about how Edward would react if he knew what was happening right now. He thought I was safely away at college and so did Jake.

Charles took me in his arms and whisked me away to his home. It was nicely nestled in dark green tall grass, just outside of North Dakota.

He told me Carlisle had once told him of me and that I knew about the Cullens being vampires. I lay there dying as he told me the story. He said it was time to change me. He took my hand gracefully and rolled up my blood soaked sleeve and opened his mouth revealing beautiful white teeth like Edward's. He looked at me, his dark topaz eyes holding mine as he lowered his mouth to my wrist.

OOO

Three days later I woke up the memories of the pain I had endured during the transformation was permanently etched in my brain but something didn't feel right, I couldn't remember where I was.

All I knew was I looked different. Catching a glimpse of myself in the opposing mirror above an ancient looking basin.

I walked across the room towards the unfamiliar face in the mirror.

I saw a young woman with high cheekbones, she had a porcelain look to her. Like a glass doll. But more beautiful. Shockingly beautiful, like Rosalie. Maybe more beautiful. Long dark hair almost black, but dark brown. Eyes unlike she ever seen before, green and gold. I cocked my head to the side, so did the girl. Oh my god the girl was me!

Before I could investigate more of my new found beauty, the door opened slowly, and a beautiful woman stepped in from the brightly light hallway, I remembered seeing her somewhere before, then it clicked. Dr. Costello's wife. Olivia.

"Hello, Olivia" I said quietly without turning but looking at her in the mirror.

"Bella, you..your...gorgeous!"She gushed in a voice that immediately reminded me of Esme.

"Thank you..."Then I started to dry sob.

She pulled me into her arms before I could realize what I was doing, oddly I felt comforted, it felt safe and right. I had absolutely no desire to see the Cullens...Edward...Alice…none of them.

OOO

I could finally see how bad they made my mortal life and I decided right then and there to block them from my thoughts and never talk to them, or try to find them.

It was 20 years ago, when I made that decision. So what was I going to do now that they were unknowingly coming to me.