Disclaimer: Kay Steph Meyer owns this story and all characters except Annie and Co

Disclaimer: Kay Steph Meyer owns this story and all characters except Annie and Co. Later Gaters!

Chapter 1

The sunlight hit my eyes like a bull dozer; all that time below ground, without any light at all killed me. So far so good, I'd made my escape from Volturi without a glitch but now getting out of Italy without them knowing, would be horrendously hard. They were now keeping watch over all plane passengers, and boat passengers, but I made a different way to get across the Atlantic and to America, I would swim. It would be a longer swim, but I could finish it by midnight if I really tried, and I was going to really try. I looked at my watch; it was about 6:30 a.m., Time to go. I thought. Before I left I checked my mirror again, my always messy bronze hair pulled back in a messy bun, too long to be able to wear out when swimming, my golden eyes sparkling after having just hunted, and finally my skin, sparkling in the light like a beacon to all, it was a good thing I was out were no one else was. Just as I was about to jump into the water for my journey, I felt the cold stare only one person I knew could give, "Jane, so wonderful of you to join me, were you going to take a dip to?"

"No," her cold lifeless voice came, eerily inaccurate with her child like body. "I came to wish you luck, Annie, you know you're the only person I've ever treated different, but that is because you're the only person to not fear me, and I love you for that." I smiled, I had always loved Jane, and she was really quite a charming girl, once you got past all the creepy stares and that horrific power of hers. I turned and ran to give her a bone crushing hug. "I love you too, Jane, I just wish I could take you with me" I said, tears would have been rolling down my eyes if I was human. "I know, but we both know why I can't come with you, Demetri would be able to find me, your lucky he doesn't know you too well." I grimaced; Aro had always kept me away from all the others except Jane and Heidi, though I hadn't liked Heidi all to well. "You need to go now, Annie, before the rest find you, I love you never forget that." I shook my head yes and planted a light kiss on both her cheeks before I turned, and without looking back I jumped into water that would have shocked any human. I couldn't be sure, but I was positive I heard Jane crying when I'd jumped in, but that was something I would probably never come to figure out.

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Time Skip A/N: I was going to just stop there, but I decided that this chapter needed to be longer, so I've added more to it.

It was midnight, and I had reached America over two hours earlier than I'd planned. After a full day of relentless swimming, I had reached Florida sooner than I'd thought. Now I was in Kansas, still running as fast as possible, and I knew exactly where I would go, Forks, Washington. I had someone I was looking for, so I wasn't just going out into the world and going to be all alone, in fact, I was looking for a blood relative of mine whom I'd heard had been transformed, barely after I'd been. I looked at the picture again, of us as children; I always kept it with me. My brother, Edward, and I had ALWAYS been together, up until I'd been transformed, that was the first time we'd been apart for very long at all. As my mind started to remember that night in the park, I shuddered and forced myself to forget it, for the time being.

I had been running for another two hours, and I was finally in Washington. I decided that I needed a place to stay for the rest of the night; I wasn't about to walk in on my brother, and what other family he may have looking like a hobo. I found a hotel; "The Starlight Plaza" seemed good enough so I booked a room. Even though I still looked grungy from my swimming and running, the people around me seemed to think I was a super model or something, the looks of awe they gave me, especially the boy at the counter. Good thing you're choosing to not listen to them, but why don't I just tell them to bug off. My power was a great one, if I couldn't get my way by just asking. I had mind control, and I could read minds, a deadly combo for just one person, if you ask me. When I reached my room, I looked at myself in the mirror, my still messy but now absolutely filthy bronze hair, still back in its bun, my now dark honey eyes tired looking, and my body, my shirt, a deep maroon T-Shirt over a black and white striped long-sleeved shirt, and my jeans, tight until my knee's then flaring out slightly, barely showing my black converses. Of course I hadn't swam in them, I'd found new clothes after I reached Florida. As I turned away to head to the shower I felt something hit my leg, I looked down and saw it was my bag. I'd forgotten it was with me, an all black messenger bag hanging across my long torso. I took it off and threw it on the bed; I'd look through it later.

As I hopped in the shower, I looked at the different soaps, shampoos and conditioners. There was a Vanilla, Jasmine, Mango or Pomegranate scent; I smelled them all, my favorite being either the Vanilla or Pomegranate. I ended up using both, because that was my original scent, a mixture of a warm Vanilla scent, and a cool Pomegranate smell. Personally I thought it was a very lovely combination. I let the lukewarm water spread over my body, I'm sure it would have been like fire for a human, but on my body, it was barely warm.

When I was done, I blow dried and straitened my hair, even though I did both, it was still wavy after I was done. Pulling my hair around my shoulder and into a loose ponytail I looked at my one outfit wardrobe, the clothes were way too big for me. I had always been very slight in my build, almost pixie like, and my height was another story, being only 5' 5", was fairly tall for a girl, but when you "grew up" with almost everyone being taller than you, it wasn't fun. I wrapped my body in a towel and sat on the bed looking at the bag; it contained my laptop, and important papers. I knew it wasn't very usual to carry a laptop into water, but this bag had been very specially made, extremely water proof, and zippers and closings that water would not be able to seep through no matter what, so everything inside was perfectly dry when I opened it. I opened up my laptop and got onto the internet, I planned on just relaxing the entire night, so I went to my Pandora radio stations clicked on my techno, and closed my eyes, falling to the closest thing we vampires had to sleep.

A/N: Okay, that's Chapter one! Tell me what you think, now I'm going to go ahead and get the next two to three chapters done but I'll only post the next one if I get at least 5 reviews! But if I should delete it tell me kay!!

Alice Calahan.