A/N: So, this chapter is mostly providing a little background information. I'm not sure how often I will be able to update, hopefully at least once a week. After I finish with the class I'm taking, I should have more time to write.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters, Stephanie Meyer does! I just love the characters and writing about them.
I let myself in the house and locked the door behind me. My dad, Charlie, was working tonight. He was the Chief of Police and I was used to him working nights occasionally, although since I had moved back to Forks two years ago, he had tried to be home most nights.
Charlie and my mom, Renee, had divorced ten years ago. At first, I had lived with my mom in Phoenix, Arizona, but she had remarried and her husband, a minor league baseball player, traveled a lot. Even though she had wanted me to stay with her in Phoenix, I could tell that she really wanted to be on the road with her husband, Phil. So, I called up Charlie and told him I wanted to go to high school in Forks. Needless to say, he was speechless, but by the end of the day, he had my plane ticket to Seattle, and a month later I was in Forks.
The following Monday, I started Forks High School. That was a day I would never forget.
The main person I remember meeting on the first day of my freshman year at Forks High School was the force that is Alice Cullen. She walked up to me in the middle of the lunchroom, told me we were going to be best friends, and then asked for my phone. I stood there dumbfounded as she took my phone, punched her number in, sent herself a text, and told me she would see me after school. As she sauntered off, I stood there speechless and unmoving until Angela nudged me. Angela, a girl from my geometry class, had invited me to sit with her and her friends at lunch, since I was the new kid and didn't know anyone.
"Who was that?" I asked.
"Oh, that's Alice Cullen," she replied. "Her dad is a doctor at the hospital and those are her two older brothers at the table with her."
I followed Angela to the table as I looked over in the direction she inclined her head towards and noticed Alice had sat down between two guys. One was a big muscular guy with a mop of black curly hair and the other was a lanky, yet muscular guy with almost bronze colored hair that looked like he had just gotten out of bed and did nothing but run his fingers through it. Damn he was hot! About that time, the bronze-haired god looked up and caught me staring. I ducked my head and proceeded to run straight into Angela who had stopped at the table.
"Sorry," I mumbled.
"That's ok," Angela said having already experienced my clumsy streak earlier.
After my last class of the day, I had headed to the front of the school, prepared to walk home. Alice was waiting outside the doors. She grabbed my hand pulling me towards the jeep her brothers were standing by.
"C'mon, you can ride with us!" she stated. "This is my oldest brother, Emmett," she said pointing to the big muscular guy that she had sat with at lunch. "He's a junior and the other dork here is Edward, who is a sophomore."
The dork was none other than the bronze-haired god that had caught me staring at lunch!
Guys, this is….. ", she paused.
"Isabella, but I prefer Bella," I smiled, realizing she had never gotten my name earlier.
"Right, my new best friend," she said. "Anyhow, we are giving her a ride home."
"Hey," they replied in unison, then proceeded to get in the jeep.
Alice bounced over the Emmett's side, crawling in. Edward took my book bag from me, throwing it in to the back.
'Nice blush," he smirked as he helped me into the jeep and I felt my face turn red all over again.
Alice and I became inseparable after that and fortunately, I had gotten over my little crush on Edward, which I never told anyone, not even Alice and Rose, about. I had met Rose, who was the same age as Edward, and her older brother, Jasper, who was the same age as Emmett, the next day at lunch. That was two years ago and the six of us were thick as thieves.
Things were a little different now with Emmett and Jasper being away at college, but at least they were close by at the University of Washington in Seattle. I was pretty sure since Emmett was dating Rose now, he would probably be home every weekend or the gang would be taking a lot of road trips to Seattle. That was a good thing! I knew that we were all growing up, but I never wanted to think about my future without my best friends, Alice and Rose, in it. In fact, it was hard to think of a future without the three dorks that had "adopted" me as their little sis.
I finished locking up the doors and headed upstairs to change into my sleep shorts and oversized tee, deciding to save my shower for the morning. I'm not a morning person and would definitely would need the shower to wake up. Whose bright idea was it to meet up at 6:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning? Oh, that's right! It was my best friend's irritatingly smug brother, Edward.
Crawling into my nice comfy bed, I had one last coherent thought before I fell into a peaceful sleep. What had Edward meant or been thinking when he made that comment about me being finished with Mike?