So here's the first actual taste of Alex!Bella.

Enjoy!

Alex


The scream tore out my throat as I fell and I fell true terror for the first time in my life, I was going to die, I would say that my life flashed through my eyes as I fell, even memories that I had forgotten, things like my first ever birthday, the way my mother sometimes sang me to sleep, my dad taking me to my first ever baseball game, my first step, my first word, which strangely had been 'no', all of those little special moments, I saw as I fell, it felt like an entire lifetime and then eternity closed on me and then nothing.

"Please" I heard a voice and a hand on my shoulder shaking me slightly, I opened my eyes blearily and pushed my hair out of my face.

"Excuse me?" I asked as my senses came to me, I was sitting, I frowned and looked in the direction of the voice, a stewardess was in front of me, I was confused, I had died, I knew I had, I remembered falling and then nothing.

"Miss, we have landed" the lady informed me.

"I... I, sorry, but I seem to be having a lapse in my memory, can you tell me where I just landed?" I asked and she smiled kindly.

"Don't worry about that, you're not the first passenger to have a small lapse after sleeping, you're in Seattle"

I stepped out of the plane in a haze holding onto a parka and checked my bag, an American passport and a wallet along with a few other items were inside along with another ticket, it scheduled me to Port Angeles, I opened the passport and almost had a heart attack.

The name and the picture were mocking me until I ran into the nearest bathroom and stared at my reflection in the mirror. I was Isabella Swan now, I took a few deep breaths as I took it all in, and remembered the other flight, I decided to put my freak out on hold as I rushed to catch the other plane. Once I was seated I let out a breath that came out sounding like a sob, scaring the old lady that was sitting next to me.

I didn't want to be Isabella Swan, I was supposed to be dead, was this my punishment for trash-talking the series once I had grown out of my twilight phase? I hated it, Isabella Swan had to be the most boring and weak-minded woman that had graced literature, even Austen's women had more character and they were from a century were women were treated as objects.

I was a feminist, a strong willed woman that did what she wanted to do however she wanted to it, I took no crap from people and could be rude if provoked, a sarcastic and cynical, slightly manipulative woman, hell I was supposed to move to Geneva in a year, my own recklessness got me killed, Maggie had been right, she always was.

I sighed as I thought of Maggie and felt guilty for having her watch me die like that, we had been in Brazil, São Paulo, having our yearly vacations and I had insisted on the goddamned zip-line, I should have stayed at the beach with Brazilian hottie number one.

The plane landed and I had resolved to play along, I was going to be Bella Swan, not just Meyer's meek Bella, but an assertive Bella. I picked my bags and mulled in my mind the best way to tell Charlie that I didn't want the truck, I hated trucks, HATED trucks, maybe I could get some deal on an old mustang or something.

I recognized Charlie as he looked the same as he did in the movies, I smiled at him and went over to hug him, I had hated how Bella treated her Dad in the books, he seemed surprised by the hug, but was quick to hug me back.

"It's good to see you Bells" he said as he let go of me, I smiled at him, "You haven't changed much, how's Renee?" He asked as we walked out of the airport.

"It's good to see you too, Dad, and well, she's fine" I said, I didn't really liked much Bella's mother, that woman had not ben fit to have a kid.

"I found a good car for you Bells" Charlie said as he drove, I smiled tightly.

"Really? What kind of car, I had been thinking about a mustang, what do you think?" I asked and realized it was the wrong thing to say because Charlie frowned, "Dad, you didn't just go and buy me a big truck did you?" I asked, Charlie blushed and I forced myself to laugh, "Dad! I needed a car not a tank" I said still laughing and he relaxed visibly.

"I'm sorry Bells" he said and proceeded to explain Billy Black's truck to me, "But if you want we can try to sell it, get you that mustang" he said and I grinned at him.

"Really dad?" I asked, he nodded and I suddenly felt bad for the man, this guy really loved his daughter, he actually reminded me a lot of my dad.

Me feeling bad for him didn't really stop me from exploiting the love he felt for his daughter to get myself a mustang. And I did get the mustang, we sold the orange monstrosity and I got myself a pretty 1967 mustang GT in dark blue with white stripes from an old lady whose husband had died, we even got it at a nice price, with me only having to put a thousand dollars from my savings as difference.

The fact that Charlie had managed to pin down a car I wanted and sell the old pick up in the space of two hours impressed me, I hand't gotten to the house and I was already changing things, I had to give it to the man, he was scarily effective.

"Dad you're like the freaking best, okay?" I asked as I hugged him tight, like for real he had just saved my ego.

Charlie smiled and blushed as I held onto him and I laughed, we walked into the house with him refusing to let me carry my bags, and once I was in the room he went downstairs and I was left to sort through Bella's or rather my things now. I was sorely displeased by her things, it was like she hated colorful things and the girl had no makeup, not even a blush, I wanted to smash my head against something, it was bad enough that she looked like the dead, freakishly pale and all that, but she had nothing to brighten up her life.

I checked my watch and it was still early so I grabbed some cash and my keys, ignoring everything else and went downstairs.

"Hey dad, do you know where's the closest cvs or wallgreens? I need to buy some stuff" I said as I trotted downstairs into the living room.

"What kind of stuff Bells?" He asked, I smiled.

"Girl stuff dad" I said and I suddenly remembered that I didn't know this body's current period cycle or that period tracker apps were a thing of the future.

"Do you want me to drive you there?" He asked, I nodded.

"But we're taking my car, I know you've been dying to drive her" I said handing him the keys with a smile.

I was fast in the store, and I was buying cheap makeup, several shades of lipstick, foundation, blush, bb cream a tub of mascara and a black eyeliner, then two boxes of tampons and a package of overnight pads, I also grabbed shampoo and conditioner, hairspray, bobby pins and a nice liquid soap, I was very picky about my stuff. Once I was satisfied and spent 150 dollars, Charlie drove us home.

That night I slept like a baby, apparently dying did that to you. Next morning I had a quick shower and did my ten minute makeup routine, once I looked like a decent living person I walked downstairs where Charlie was already eating cereal, I served myself a bowl and sat on the table.

"You look nice Bells" said Charlie, I smiled at him.

"Thanks dad" I said, I was wearing a pale blue long sleeved shirt with a black jacket that I found with a pair faded jeans tucked neatly into a pair of knee high dark brown boots, pink lipstick, with my hair slightly curled as I knew how to curl hair without heat and hairspray was my best friend.

I got out of the house after Charlie, backpack in hand and threw it on the passenger seat as soon as I could. I turned the key into the ignition and my car came to life, the engine roared to life and for a moment I could pretend I was back in my 2020 Mustang and this was just another day in my life, but I was not Alex Noir anymore, I was Bella Swan now.

I drove to school and parked in front of the office and noticed that the mustang looked a bit flashy, I smirked as I was sure the real Bella would have hated it. I walked into the office where the secretary was wearing a purple t-shirt, I approached the desk and smiled politely at her when she looked up.

"How can I help you dear?" She asked.

"I'm Isabella Swan, I'm enrolling today" I said, her eyes lit up in recognition and I fought the urge to roll my eyes.

"Of course" she said as she looked through a stack op papers "Your schedule right here and a map of the school" she said handing me the papers and a slip that my teachers had to sign for me to give to her at the end of the day, I thanked her and headed out to my baby, I got in and drove to the parking lot, I made a mental note to check where Edward parked the Volvo so I could park my baby next to it, the last thing I needed was to have my baby decimated by Tyler on a snowy day. I took my sweet time in cutting the engine of my car, I knew people were staring and I suddenly missed my pair of aviator sunglasses, Bella truly had no sense of fashion.

I walked out of the car, backpack slung on my back and my step sure, as it seemed that Bella's clumsiness didn't affect me, I had never been clumsy, I had been a ballet dancer until I was 11 and dropped it for tennis classes, then I had been a bootcamp enthusiast until the time of my death which kept me fit, Bella in turn was slim but soft, I was probably going to start running so I could get this body at least a little bit conditioned.

I lifted the hood of my jacket as I walked in with the flock, my sense of direction had always been good and so I found building three easily, I walked into the literature classroom where Mr. Mason, the literature teacher gawked at the name on the paper slip and sent me to an empty chair on the back of the classroom. I spent most of the class doodling caricatures in my notebook, not that I was any good as I was an artistic failure but it kept my hands doing something.

As soon as the bell rang the first valiant kid of the flock approached me, he had acne and oily hair and a really nasally annoying voice, but I smiled politely.

"You're Isabella Swan" he said.

"Yeah, you are?" I asked as we walked out of the classroom.

"Oh, sorry, that was rude, I'm Eric, what class do you have now?"

"Government, with Jefferson, building six" I said, he smiled.

"I'm headed towards building four, I could you the way" he said, and I put on a smile.

"Sure,"

"So this is a lot different than phoenix huh?" He asked, I shrugged.

"I guess"

"Doesn't rain much there, does it?"

"Not really"

"Wow, what must that be like?" I rolled my eyes, it was as if he was reading a script.

"Sunny" I said, If you couldn't against them, joined them.

"You don't look very tan"

"Genetics" I deadpanned.

He gave me a searching look as if trying to decide if I was joking or not. He walked me straight to the door of my next class and smiled

"Well, good luck, maybe we'll have some other classes together" he said and I smiled politely before entering the classroom.

The rest of the morning happened in the same dull way, I hated the Trigonometry teacher on sight, I had already gone through my trigonometry and passed, I didn't want to go over it again, it was unfair, this whole thing was.

"Hello, I'm Bella Swan from Phoenix, Arizona, and I recently moved here, I like dogs, chocolate and sleeping in, when I grow up I want to become an american representative to the United Nations"

I had said as way of presenting myself in front of the trigonometry class, after trigonometry I had Spanish and the teacher was really impressed with my skills that she offered to move me to a higher level, I grinned at her asking if that was possible and she told me that I needed to take a test, which I agreed to take that same afternoon after classes. A girl from those classes walked me to the cafeteria.

I sat with her and her friends and she introduced us, I smiled politely and did small conversation with the curious high schoolers. I went my way to pointedly ignore the Cullen clan, just a dismissive look as my eyes roamed the cafeteria, I could look at them later.

"So, what makes Forks High a special place?" I asked trying to keep them from prying about me, Jessica Stanley smiled.

"Well, there's the Cullens" she said and I frowned.

"The who?" I asked deciding to play stupid, Jessica discretely pointed towards their table, I kept my disinterested look on my face as I looked at them, Edward's eyes met mine briefly but I merely raised an eyebrow and he looked away, I still had it.

I looked back at Jessica who was grinning.

"They are Edward and Emmett Cullen and Rosalie and Jasper Hale, you just missed Alice, they all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife" she explained, I nodded.

"That's nice" I said in a bored tone.

"Oh yes, and they are together, Rosalie and Emmett and Jasper and Alice and they live together" she said voice full of shock, I felt the urge to roll my eyes.

"Love is love, I guess" I said and Jessica looked weirdly at me.

"They're not really related though" she amended, "Dr. Cullen is young, twenties, early thirties, they're all adopted, the Hales are brother and sister, twins, the blondes, and they're foster children"

"That's a bit intrusive Jessica" I chastised her, she had the decency to look ashamed, but that didn't deter her.

"I think Mrs. Cullen can't have any children" she said, and I really dislike where she was threading.

"That is very mean for you to say" I hissed and I'm sure the entire cafeteria was staring at me now, "Some women can't have children and that doesn't make them any less, on the other hand there are women that do have children and shouldn't be allowed within a mile of them, so please if you're going to talk to me leave all those prejudices behind" I said before standing and storming off the cafeteria.

I was the first student in the biology lab, Mr. Banner was there and I sat on the desk I supposed was Edward's, I took out a bottle of perfume out of my backpack and sprayed myself thoroughly with it, I was not going to tempt fate today.

The class started filling in, Edward arrived and took the seat next to me, I was closer to the window, that I had closed, and he was on the side of the aisle, the complete opposite of the book and movie, Angela Webber was the last to walk in, I smiled at her when she looked at me, she was a kind soul.

"Hello" a voice to my right said, I looked up from my doodles to see Edward looking at me confusedly, his eyes were dark but not completely black.

"Hi, I'm Bella" I said offering my hand, he took it and I felt coldness, he smiled.

"Edward Cullen" he said, 'can you read my thoughts? Dracula?' I asked mentally, but had no response, I grinned, "I want to thank you for defending my mother back in the cafeteria"

"Oh" I said surprised, "You don't have to, it's called human decency, but you are welcome" his smile widened and I decided that he had a pretty smile.

"You've been quite the talk" he said as we both ignored the teacher, I had a med-school level biology under my belt as before studying law I had done pre-med until I had decided to change.

"You are too" I countered, "I asked for the most interesting thing and next thing I know is I'm receiving a crash course on your family"

"People talk" he said, I rolled my eyes.

"They shouldn't, they should stick to their own business" I said.

We remained silent for the rest of the class and when the bell rang he said goodbye before leaving, I wondered if he would be going to Alaska. After biology I met Mike Newton who walked me to P.E., he droned endlessly about California and the sun and was honestly getting in my nerves.

Since it was my first day I didn't have to wear the uniform, which I thanked God for, cause it would have sucked. I sat on the bench and watched four volleyball games and mused on about my hatred of playing sports, sure I had been a fit person and loved the gym, that didn't mean that I liked sports, I was half decent at sports, which is why since I had found cross-training I had never looked back.

When class ended I ditched Mike and went to the office, Edward was not there trying to change his schedule so I counted it as a personal win. I handed the secretary my paperwork and she asked me about my day. I walked back to the building to take my Spanish test. By the time I was done I was probably the last student in the building, I walked to my car slowly and turned the heater on, the engine roared to live and I was in my happy place again, perhaps it wouldn't be that bad.