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-Julia

I don't own Twilight… big surprise.

I continued to fly down the roads to get to my destination in Canada; with the Denali's. I was hardly paying attention to the fact that I was driving. My mind was wandering elsewhere. The Denali's are sort of like our 'extended family'; like cousins. In their family, there's Tanya, Kate, Irina and Eleazar. Out of them all, Kate is the closest to me. Tanya and I don't always get along. Whenever my family and I visit, she always finds a way to get under my skin. There's always an argument between us. I remember during one of our fights about a decade ago, I 'acidentaly' pulled both of her arms off. She couldn't catch me after that and Emmett and I couldn't stop laughing for a week.

I focused outside on the scenery I was passing, but everything reminded me of him. I suddenly realized that I can't bring myself to stay with the Denali's. I can't deal with Tanya's annoying crap. So, I'm just going to go hunting for 5 days. Then. I'll go back to Forks. I slowed my car when I got to the Olympic mountains. I traveled on a deserted, dirt road, up into the mountains and I stopped when I reached the end of it.

I turned the car off and slipped the keys out of the ignition. I stayed seated in my car for a couple minutes, engrossed in thought. The bronze, perfect, messy hair that I dearly want to run my fingers through. And that perfect , warm skin that I want to gently caress… and bite. I shook my head. I've got to stop thinking like this. My throat is burning, thinking about his sweet scent. I need to relieve this painful feeling. I opened the door and stepped out.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. And, I let my senses take over to hunt.

After I drank two deer and a mountain lion, my rational thought took over again. Honey, lilac, rose and woods. Mmm… that's what I want right now. The ache in my throat is coming back again. Ugh... get out of my head!!! I furiously shook my head, trying to clear it, but it didn't work. I took off running towards the peak of one of the highest mountains. Each uniquely shaped flake of snow blizzarded down from the sky in heavy and thick layers on the many different cliffs and slopes. When I made it to the very top, I stopped, dropped down, and lied face down in the endless bank of white snow that matches my skin.

I don't know how long I stayed like that, but after a long time, I decided that I needed to move. I groggily started to move out of the snow bank. When I stood up fully, the snow was about 2 feet over my head… great. I trudged forward slowly and jumped when I got to the side of the mountain. The wind rushed through my hair as I flew down towards the ground. The monster altitude that I jumped from provided a pleasant fall and I felt free. I landed gracefully on the balls of my feet with a quiet thud and moved forward again. The full moon was shining dully on my surroundings.

I will go back to my family today. I'll just do a little more hunting before I travel home.. back to that student. But, I will keep my distance from him; I have to. I sighed and breathed in. Grizzly… alright. I took off and drained the bear clean.

Now, I hardly feel a burn in my throat, so I'll start back. I ran through the trees, back to the dirt road where my car was parked. When I made it there I paused outside my door and looked down. My clothes were frozed solid and tattered. I'm not about to ruin my seats, so I took random clothes out of the bag Esme and I packed, and quickly put them on. I threw my ruined clothes to the ground and stepped into my Mercedes.

I flew down the roads to get home quickly; I don't want anyone to get even more worried. 1 p.m. I'll be able to make it home at about 4 p.m.

At 2:30, I thought about what was going to happen next. What do I do now? Should I go back to school? Should I just deal with his scent and ignore him? I will go back to school, but yes… I have to ignore him.

At 3:45 I drove by Forks, slowing down. I stopped by a traffic light, where there were humans staring at my car and through the open window at me in amazement, confusion, and want. I flipped off the revolting Mike Newton when he started to stroll towards my car and he stopped short, upset. I chuckled. And I myself, lost my breath when I saw who Mike was hanging out with at the diner.

There, was that same bronze- haired angel that had forced me away from Forks. He had on a godly crooked smile, that made my dead heart almost beat. He turned to see what his new, awed friends were looking at, me. His eyes grew wide and suspicious when he stared at me. He looked at my car and I with wonder. I kept his gaze and smiled, trying to confuse him and take his suspicions away from him. It worked and he gasped. His eyes became blank. He was dazzled.

His strong, chiseled jaw was parted slightly and his angular features stunned me again. I was so focused on him, that I didn't notice when the light turned green. An annoyed honk pulled me back to reality and I sped forward. I heard them talk.

"Who is she?" I heard the velvet voice ask.

"That's Bella Cullen," Mike said. "She and her family keeps to themselves though."

"She's beautiful." I heard the Adonis say, seeming detatched. My heart warmed at him saying this. I shook that off.

"Way to use a complete understatement, Edward. Saying that she's a goddess is an understatement too." Newton said longingly. Edward; that's his name.

Edward stayed silent. I heard a scratchy, squeaky voice say, "Edward, don't get your hopes up. She doesn't date anyone or talk to anyone outside her family! She thinks that she's above everyone, like all of the Cullens do. They all act like they're superior." I recognized that annoying voice as Jessica Stanley. Looks like Edward has her as an admirer. She has been jealous and hateful towards me ever since I moved here.

Mike said, "Yeah, I've been trying to get her to go out with me for like two years." Jessica grunted in disaproval.

"What about the rest of the Cullens?" Edward asked

"The Cullens… getting past all their fake beauty…" Jessica started to answer sounding fed up. Mike cut her off.

"Jess, shut up. I'll explain." Jessica huffed and stopped talking. "Alright, so besides all their beauty, they're filthy rich. And they're all adopted. The adoptive parents are also abnormaly good looking and young. They're all together except for Bella, who isn't going out with anyone. Alice and Jasper are together, Rosalie and Emmett are together and the parents are together. Bella has no one, so I took that as my chance. They…" I drove out of the hearing zone and continued home.

Edward; that's a perfect name for him. I feel so happy to finally know his name. I rolled my eyes. I sound like Jessica Stanely; I've got to stop thinking like this.

I finally made it to the turn to my family's drive. I heard Alice yelling to everyone that I arrived and Emmett roared loudly in excitement, while Alice was squealing. Emmett was yelling to me.

"Bella! I missed you! You're finally back. Where'd you go? School has been dead without you pulling pranks with me." I laughed.

The house finally came into view and I slipped through the open garage door and into a spot behind Alice's car. I turned the engine off and hopped out of my car. As I closed my door behind me, everyone ran out; being led by Alice and Emmett pushing forward.

"It's nice to see you all too." I smiled and chuckled. Alice ran past Emmett and hugged me.

"I missed you Bella!" she said.

"How long have I been gone?" I asked.

"For three days." Jasper answered and smiled warmly at me. Wow, three days of lying in the snow. Alice let me go and Emmett pulled me into a huge bear hug. He let me go and everyone else greeted me with a hug. Rose looked confused, probably still thinking about the day I suddenly left. Esme looked relieved that I was back.

After the greetings, questions started being thrown at me.

"Why'd you have to leave?" Carlisle asked sounding concerned.

I hesistated and told a lie; making sure that my voice was believable and not shaky. "Well, I had a lapse of self- control when a boy fell and started bleeding. So, I decided to get away for a short hunting trip. I was so close to killing another human and I felt terrible." Rose was looking at me disbelievingly, while everyone else accepted the story. Except Alice, who had a smug smile on. Wait… she must have seen what happened in a vision before everything. I looked at her and she composed her face. I'll ask her later. The questions continued for about five minutes and then everything calmed down.

I'm going to have to tell Rose the whole story, because I'm sure that she won't stop asking me until I tell her the truth. She knows that I'm lying. She saw my face and my actions.

When they finished giving their 'interigations' I excused myself to go up to my room to shower and change. The shower I took felt great and was extremely relaxing, considering how dirty and messy I was from my trip

After I got dressed for the day, I headed down the stairs to go watch a little television. The house was silent when I sat down on the tan, leather coach. I turned the television on and surfed through the t.v. channels at vampire speed, searching for something semi-interesting. A few minutes later, I heard very soft door close and the soft thuds of someone walking down the stairs.

Rosalie walked into the room and sat next to me.

"Hey Rose, why is it so quiet?" I questioned.

"Everyone else went hunting, but I stayed because I went the other day." I knew what she was going to ask. She stayed seated next to me, staring blankly at the television, watching the chanels fly by. After a few more moments she finally asked me.

"Bella?"

"Yes?" I replied.

"What really happened the other day when you had to leave. I'll keep it a secret if you don't want anyone else to know."

I sighed and retold my dilemna. "Alright… I'll tell you, but I do want it to stay a little hidden." She nodded, urging me to continue. "That day at school, during 2nd period, when I left government, I went into the parking lot to get a little fresh air. I laid on the hood of you're car and then, about 15 minutes later, I heard a car down the street, heading for the school. It wasn't the typical sounding engine that you expect the kids at Forks High School to be driving, so I became curious. I lifted my head slightly and saw a luxurious, new, silver Volvo pull into the parking lot smoothly. It parked across the row from me, five cars down. I realized that it must have been the new student, so I leaned up a little more to see. Then, out stepped the most breathtaking, gorgeous creature that I've ever laid my eyes on. He looked at me and froze in place, while I gasped. His green eyes brought back flashes of my human life, that I had long forgotten about. We were frozen for several moments, until a magnetic pull formed between us. I had to move closer to him. I felt the need to get closer and closer to him. It was an unbelievably strong pull, that I couldn't force away from me. I got off the hood and he slowly, unconsiously stepped towards me. And my body felt like it was pushed forward. All thoughts rushed out of my head when a gust of wind blew from his direction. His scent, I couldn't resist that sweet scent. I've never wanted human blood so much in my existence. But, another gust of wind blew from my direction, free of his scent. During that moment, I escaped to save his life. I took you're car, traveled home to get clothes and planned to go to the Denali's. But, I couldn't bring myself to face Tanya, so I went on a hunting trip. I couldn't kill him, he's too perfect. I couldn't get him out of my mind for one second. His face always pops up in my thoughts. So, I just made it back today. I decided to ignore him and keep my distance." Rose listened carefully to the whole story and she was quiet for a while, deep in thought.

She replied to my story. "You're doing the right thing you know… by staying away from him. We can't risk exposing our secret."

"I know, I don't want the Volteri coming again and I definitely don't want to ruin his life." Rose is always good to talk to when I have a problem. She helps me decide what to do. "Rose, what day is it today?"

She looked down to her nails. "It's Thursday. Are you going to school tomorrow?"

"Ugh…" I groaned. "Yeah, I feel like I have to." I stood up and sighed.

" On that note, I'm going to go up to my room and mentally prepare myself." Rose nodded and took out a mirror. She started to fix her hair and I rolled my eyes as I ascended up the stairs.

I retrieved a piece of paper and a pencil, put my ipod on, and listened to music. I layed down on my bed and focused on the music. Time passed by quickly, as I lost myself in it. Before long, Alice knocked on my door.

"We have to leave soon." She said, but she didn't bug me today. She must understand my nerves. I looked down and gasped when I saw Edward staring up at me. During my relaxation, I must've drawn a picture of him. It looked like digital camera photo quality, and I felt like I was looking at his actual mesmerizing face.