The song for this chapter is:

Thanks for the memories by Fall Out Boy.

Chapter 1

The Change of a Lifetime

When you can't sleep, you can't eat human food, and you can't use your powers to your full potential, what do you do for your free time?

Nothing. Just that: Nothing.

I lay unmoving on the couch thinking about different things at once. That's all I ever do any more. Is think. When you can read minds, all you can do is think. Think about what people think about you. Think about what you are. Think about the life you could have had.

I can't go out for fear the sun will come out and reveal what I truly am. A vampire. A futile, non living, worthless occupant of this Earth. That's all I am. A vampire. Of course, I don't burn when I walk outside into the sun, and I can't die from garlic. I can't die at all. Unless you pull me to pieces and throw them into a fire. I once drank human blood, but I wanted a new life. I met Carlisle, my "adopted" dad, and started my new life. I drink animal blood.

I'm forever frozen in a seventeen year olds body.

I live with a family of vampires.

At the head of our coven, Carlisle and Esme are our "mother and father". Carlisle was out creators. We don't blame him for making us this way. He was opposed to turning us into vampires in the first place. But we were dying and he decided on an impulse action. Esme was enough one of his creations; they had fell in love, and have been since then. Emmett is another one, transformed into one of us, and also my big brother in a literal sense. Rosalie is his mate. She hates being a vampire. She wants a family, she wants to be human. She would give up everything for those two things. Rosalie is also my sister. Alice is my twin in a way. She can see the future. A freak among freaks, but she handles it well. Her mate is Jasper. He's a telepathic. He can control emotions. Very handy when you have a house full of hungry agitated vampires.

We are incredible strong and fast. It's something we vampires do very well. I'm the fastest. Emmett is the strongest.

All together, our family is different. We are the only vampires that don't drink human blood. We want to be normal. We want to blend in. We do it good too.

They say we are what we eat. It's so true. We Cullen's eat animals and when we lose control, we act like animals.

It's hard, when your around the one thing that your were meant to do in the world. It's hard when you resist it. But we do it. We resist drinking human blood because we want to fit in with society. We want to be normal.

The burn in our throat that we have gotten used to whenever we are around humans, is something that our brains keep track of like human's brains keep track of breathing and blinking. Another fact: We vampires, we don't have to breathe or blink. We still breathe so we can smell the aromas in the air. We blink to act normal. That's what we do. Act normal.

Overall, I can't speak to my friends for the simple fact that I have no friends. Outside of my family, I don't speak to any one besides them. We have to lay low if we want to walk this Earth undetected. We Cullen's, we're different. In a big way.

My name is Edward Cullen. And this is my story of how I met the one thing that changed my non existing life, for good.

Edward we have to go. Alice thought.

You're the fastest in this family, and you still are the last to get ready. Emmett thought smugly.

Let's go! Rosalie screamed in her head.

Jasper was the only one quiet, as always.

I sighed.

Guess another day of that. Like always, I'm hounded about being too slow. Emmett's always making fun of my slowness in the morning, Alice is always the nicest one even when she's irritated, and Rosalie was the one screeching in her mind for me to go. Just like always.

I wished today would change. I wished life would become more exciting. If only for today.

I pulled out of the driveway, speeding up once I was on the road.

The forest flashed by like it always did.

In no time at all, we were at Forks High School, the first again.

I pulled into the same parking spot since we moved here from Alaska a year ago. I sat in the car, as did my sisters and brothers.

Rosalie and Emmett were in a hot make out session in the back and Jasper was looking out the window absently. Alice was the only one paying attention to me.

Something is going to change today, Edward. Alice thought. I can see it.

I tried to go though her mind, but she blocked me out of her mind.

Nope, you have to wait to see.

I growled under my breathe.

Of course, a car of vampire's with high-def hearing wasn't really helpful.

3 minds were questioning me for my growl. Alice was composed though, obviously having seen me growl before I had.

I just shook my head, dismissing them.

Just then, a girl walked across the parking lot. She had mahogany hair and rosy cheeks. She was wearing something simple. Just a white t-shirt and jeans. How come I hadn't seen her before? She was beautiful. I looked at her in the mirror, hoping she'd see me, but her head was down cast.

My siblings noticed my change of mood and followed my gaze. They seemed uninterested.

The girl seemed to notice our staring, and looked up, to lock eyes with us.

We all gasped.

Her right eye was a grey color. The other, a turquoise. Her face was scarred on the right, but it wasn't really noticeable. For humans it wouldn't be. Being vampires, we could see it. She did a good job hiding it though.

Her eyes showed intelligence beyond her age. It also showed things she had seen that not many people in a life time would see.

I tried to read her mind, but I couldn't. I tried to push past whatever it was that was stopping me.

Nothing.

I grunted.

4 eyes looked at me, questioning my insanity. But I ignored.

She looked down, blushing.

The 4 looked back at her, giving up trying to get an answer out of me.

The blood that rushed to her cheeks was very inviting, but none of us moved. We had hunted the night before.

Alice had insisted. Now I see why.

We were still stiff from what we had seen, though.

"Edward, do you have a read on her?" Alice asked, already knowing the answer.

"No." I simply said, in a frustrated tone.

The other 3 looked at me confused. I was as confused as them.

She looked back up, tilting her head to the side, as if she had heard our conversation.

I tried to push past the barrier that was apparently there.

Nothing.

It was frustrating. I used to be able to read anyone's mind, but I couldn't with her.

Her eyes flashed with something and at the same time, she wiped the hair with her hand. She raised her hand to her nose; she closed her eyes, inhaling deeply.

She then opened her eyes and let her hand dropped.

Oh how I wish I could read her mind.

"Maybe we should ask her if she's lost." Emmett voiced his thoughts.

I sighed.

"Maybe we should." Rosalie agreed.

"Yeah." Alice said a little too eagerly.

"Fine." I said, maybe hearing her voice would break the barrier there seemed to be.

I pulled the keys out of the ignition and put them in my pocket. I then got out of the car. So did all the other occupants of the car.

The girl tilted her head to the other side.

Her eyes widened when I got out of the car all the way.

"No." She whimpered to herself.

My siblings had by this point had gotten out of the car and were questioning her short sentence.

If I had time to hope that hearing her voice would break the barrier, it would have been crushed. I didn't even get time to hope.

The girl started to back up.

"Do not hurt me!" She screamed.

"We won't." Alice said.

The girl shook her head quickly.

"I do not trust you." She choked out. "I must leave. I must!"

Well, you don't hear such proper English like that anymore.

I was starting to think she was kidnapped when she was littler. She had a scar on her cheek and she was walking to school. She was also resisting people who just wanted to help. Well, she didn't know we wanted to help.

"Why are you leaving?" Emmett said.

Rosalie hit him in the back of his head. And Emmett whimpered.

She raised her hand up in front of her, palm up, as if it was going to protect her. She bent down in a crouch, like a lion about to pounce on it's pray.

Maybe she was a vampire like us. What human did that?

"Do not move. If you value your existence, keep still." What did she mean if you value your existence?

What does she mean? Rosalie questioned.

Does she know what we are? Jasper was confused.

"What is your name?" Alice asked. Was she insane? This girl could blow us up for all we knew.

To my surprise, the girl tilted her head to the side, and then spoke with a weird tone, "My name is Isabella Linden, but you can call me Bella."

This girl must have gone through a hard past. If only I could read her mind.

Bella straightened up. But her hand was still extended.

"My name is Alice, this is Emmett," She pointed to Emmett, who in turn waved, "Rosalie," Rosalie nodded her head in acknowledgment, "Jasper," She pointed to Jasper, Jasper bowed like a southern man, "And Edward." Alice pointed to me.

"Hi," I said smiling.

Bella looked at all of us. She seemed to be deliberating something. Jasper suddenly tensed. His ability to sense emotions and make other people feel emotions was a gift and a curse.

His assessment was that Bella was feeling remorseful and angry. I read the assessment closer. Her anger was very aggressive. The strongest I had ever seen any one. Even stronger than Rosalie's anger was when Emmett broke her mirror in the bathroom. I'm sure anyone who knew Rosalie could guess how that went down.

"There is something I must tell you." She said suddenly, stepping forward, her anger vanished quickly. Like turning the light off "I need someone to trust."

Some cars were appearing. She wouldn't be able to tell us here, if she could hardly trust people.

"You can come over to our house." Alice said.

Was she crazy? Why in hell would she say that? Bella here could be on the run from the police for all we knew.

"I accept your invitation." She said nodding. She then let her hand drop. "But I must say, you all will be in grave danger if you accept me in your home."

I looked at Alice for help. She was the one who knew what the hell Bella was talking about. Or at least, I hoped.

Alice just looked at Bella, before closing her eyes. Her mind was moving through thoughts so quickly I couldn't even get a read on them.

Bella seemed to sense Alice's discomfort, so she inched forward, reaching her hand out, and then letting it fall. I was now insanely curious what she was thinking about.

Her jaw clenched. We could all hear the clenching of her teeth.

"We will drive you home after school." Alice finally said.

"But you have a five seated car and there will be six of us." Bella said, seeming to be worried. She didn't know one of us could run home faster than riding in a car.

"Oh, don't worry." Emmett said, sometimes he didn't think before he spoke.

Rosalie bent over to Emmett's ear and whispered, "Then you can run home. You're a big boy."

Alice, Jasper, and me tried to hold in our laughter. We knew Emmett would rather ride home in a car.

Bella tilted her head. She seemed to do that a lot.

"Thank you, I must leave for class now." Bella said. Her strange eyes looked at us all, and then she looked down at her hand.

She lifted it like before, and sniffed her hand. Her teeth clenched.

She silently walked up the stairs to the door of the school and slipped into it soundlessly.

I looked at my siblings. They looked at me and we all shook our heads at the same time. This was one interesting morning. Tonight would be interesting too.