Disclaimer: I do not own the characters but the story is mine.

Esme POV

I had avoided seeing anyone until the day before school started and even then I only went out because it was sunny for a couple of hours, a rarity in Forks.

I had been invited to the Quileute bonfire tonight by Mrs Weber and as I was fascinated in the local history I accepted.

As I had nothing better to do I went to the local diner and ate out introducing myself to everyone. Thankfully for me there was another new family arriving that also had the spotlight so I decided to focus on them.

No one knew their surname but apparently they were very rich and had just moved down from Alaska so their adopted dad could work here. Why he would even bother was beyond me but he was now the new doctor and was starting work tomorrow.

There were a lot of rumours going around but the only ones that seemed to be anyway realistic was that there were 3 boys and 2 girls all adopted teenagers although they had apparently been adopted in groups so they were all extremely close to each other.

No one had seen them but the local housing developer said that the house in the middle of nowhere now had people in it. I asked who owned it and they said that only 'Cullen' had been put on the sheet. I gulped; surely there were more than 1 adopted family with the surname Cullen whose dad was a doctor? but then I realised that the ages did not match the kids would be my age and the doctor Carlisle Cullen would be around 52 now so not likely to be bothered to move from Alaska.

It turns out that he had come in the day before with his son Edward. The description matched what I knew of MY Carlisle & Edward Cullen, beautiful, pale, topaz eyes and that was just the physical description. However the ages were out the people they were describing were the same age as the people I knew 17 years so they could not be the same.

After finding out little more about the Cullens other than Edward & Carlisle were single and that they shared the house with a Rose & Emmet and Jasper & an Alice. Could they be anymore similar to the people I vaguely knew all those years ago?

Whilst I was pondering that it seemed that Bella was getting annoyed of the attention so I made our goodbyes and Bella and I went back home. I had wondered about the new family but did not realise how big a mystery they were.

Nevertheless I had a bonfire to go to and at 7pm Mrs Weber came and collected us and drove us to La Push. She also had her daughter Angela there to keep Bella company and they seemed to enjoy talking about something I had no idea about. I had no idea that this one trip could change my life so drastically...

The evening had started ok. I enjoyed looking at the sea and getting to know everyone. The food was decent and I was warm.

It went downhill when they suggested the telling of the legends. The first couple were harmless and pretty funny. But when it came to the legend of the cold ones most people had left as they had already heard them and it was only Bella and I left.

A lot of the Quileutes had left as well so there was just Billy, Harry & Quill left. It had got quite cold but that wasn't the reason I was shivering.

It was because they had just proved my impossible theory. The 'new' Cullens here were the same ones at Dartmouth and they were 'different'. Just when I thought this couldn't get worse I started having a panic attack and the nearest hospital was in Forks where Carlisle Cullen worked.

But as I knew I had no choice I let them lead me to the car and get ready to go to the hospital. We had just got past the boundary line when I saw a very shocked Edward Cullen who hadn't changed a bit since I had last seen him all those years.

I was just conscious to realise that Bella was nowhere to be seen and I was being carried through a wood to a very impressive house. Where a beautiful woman who I recognised as Rose started working on me. It wasn't the first attack I had so I knew what to do with little prompting.

Alice quickly told me that Carlisle was out of town as otherwise I don't think I would have recovered. I still had no idea what the Cullens were apart from differentor specifically, NOT different. After an hour the dizziness had got considerably better and I was now realised I was in the care of an unchanging family I knew 17 years ago.

Edward was nowhere to be seen but as I was about to ask Alice reassured me he was fine just. Also Carlisle had been called and told to come back to Forks ASAP. I really did not want to see his reaction to me being here.