**Obviously I'm a Twilight fan-girl, and if you are reading this you probably are, too (yay us!). Also all the characters from Twilight are not owned by me. The story started out as a joke towards hardcore fans that wasn't going to be shared, but I actually got really into it and found an ending I liked so here we go.**

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Becca and I both held our breaths…the cafeteria scene, the first scene that showed Edward. He walks in the door, looks up…his eyes black, his face beautiful.

We both gasp, and then giggle.

"Ah…we're pathetic," I gasp, and sigh.

"He is so beautiful!" Becca grins, no shame.

I would think that the two of us would have a better grip on reality. We weren't the teenagers that the movie and books were aimed towards. I am a fantasy nut, I have a giant bookcase, six feet tall, packed with books from the Sci Fi and Fantasy section in Barnes and Noble…plus the overflow on a shelf in my bedroom of books I just hadn't gotten around to reading yet. Some from a series that I had fallen out of love with, others that had looked promising or were recommendations from online sites and other Sci-Fi lovers. But the Twilight saga had drawn me in, sucked me in. All the hype on the movie…I had to go and see it. I had originally bought the first book just to see what all the hype was about.

Boy did I find out!

I called up Becca one week, about a month after the movie had been out, and asked her if she wanted to go. Before that Becca and I hadn't talked for a few weeks…we were sometimes friends, good for a night at the bar or a movie on the couch. We both had our jobs, our own things to do…we were busy people. Actually that's not so true, we were both rather boring people, me more so than her.

I didn't expect to fall in love with the movie so much. And I never expected Becca to do the same. After the movie we stopped at Wal-mart, the only store open after the late night movie, and got her first book as well, and myself the next two books.

Becca doesn't even read, and she finished it faster I had! Then we went back to the movie again.

And again. We got all of the books, devouring them.

And a fourth time we went to see the movie.

And then the movie stopped playing, to make room for another new release. This was in the beginning of January.

The fairy tale…the fantasy…the love story. It's something that…really interested us, I guess. Both of us weren't in a relationship, and hadn't been in a relationship for a while. Sort of in the mind-set that all men were selfish pigs, but the thought that a decent one was still out there had us hopeful. We fell in love with the characters…wanting to be part of their fairy tale.

Becca is the one who told me this, for someone I had put so little stock in, she understood this better than I did. She was absolutely right. I wanted to be in that story. I wanted my fairy tale love, the mix of danger just made it a more exciting read.

Becca and I have even resorted to watching illegal copies on the internet. Horrible quality, the lips start moving a second after the words begin, the picture is blurry unless it's on a still enough shot. But it fed our addiction.

I've dealt with my obsession with fantasy fairly well…I have several fantasy series that I read half a dozen times over, absolutely in love with the stories and the magic behind them. I knew if I gave myself a few weeks it would fade into a memory, I would always enjoy the series, but I wouldn't be obsessing about it like I was now.

Except that Becca kept me hooked, she was my drug dealer and these books, this movie, was my heroin. I could try to say no, maybe go without for a day…but eventually her own excitement mixed with mine over the series brought me back, making me take another hit.

And I'm okay with this. Becca is happy, we're talking daily now, hanging out…not just about the Twilight series, either…doing things together. She's become my best friend. More than I wanted a fairy tale, I wanted (and needed) a friend. With work and everything else…I had sort of lost a lot of mine. If I had to be a Twilight junkie to keep something in common with her, just so I could have easy access to human interaction outside of work, it's worth it.

"I wish I had known about these books when they first came out," Becca sighed. It was a Saturday night, the website that had been hosting an illegal copy of 'our movie' had been temporarily shut down. This happened a few times before, we had found another site with a poorer quality version and used it, and I was searching for it now…for any site that had it…we both wanted to see it.

"No…no you really don't," I muttered, backing out of a website that my anti-virus screamed wasn't safe. "Trust me, waiting for the next book in a series to come out can be murder…I know, remember how excited I was when the last Harry Potter novel came out?"

Becca laughed, and then moaned, "Edward!"

A large picture of Edward had come up on the next site I had clicked, and I smiled, too. The man who played Edward was gorgeous as Edward. "Oh, baby!"

"Back off! He's mine!" Becca nearly screamed at me, and we both laughed. Shortly after watching the first movie, Becca had called 'dibs' on Edward. To even the score, I took Jasper, Emmett, Carlisle, Jacob, and James…I felt it was a fair trade. Although I really did like to look at Edward. How could I not? He was the only one who was unattached, single…sort of.

I had read all the books, how could I not fall in love with him, too?

"Just looking," I promised Becca with a sly smile. "Until you fall asleep…that is."

She poured a shot of Captain Morgan into a glass, and filled the rest with Coke. We were already a bit tipsy…okay, she was a bit tipsy. Her tolerance for alcohol wasn't as high as mine was. I drank a lot more…I blame work.

Another reason, as Becca pointed out to me, the reason the fairy tale had appealed to us so much. Our lives were so boring. What did we do besides work, sleep, and drink?

We watched our illegal copy of Twilight, even the poor quality version satiating us. Only a few more months and it would come out on DVD. We'd both buy it…I was even considering buying a big-screen TV and a blue ray player for the occasion. Becca walked home, I watched out the window to make sure she was steady enough on the icy street, until she disappeared behind a snow bank that hid her apartment from my view. Another bonus, Becca lived just down the street from me. Perfect distance to get trashed at my place or hers and only have to worry about rolling down or crawling up the hill afterwards.

I sat back down at my computer, closing out of the half-dozen ads that had popped up because of the crappy website I had to use. I grabbed my Twilight book and had it in my lap while I surfed the internet a bit. It's such a pain to have to find a new site every few nights, what I needed was a decent quality version to download, and then burn to a DVD. Not a bad idea, that way I could go over to Becca's house…and she did have a larger TV. Not much larger than mine, but her couch was more comfortable.

A lot of the sites demanded a credit card…and made McAfee go into a fit. I didn't trust anyone who would illegally provide a movie, feed my addiction, enough to provide personal information to them.

'Download TWILIGHT for free!' A website promised. I clicked it. I was ten pages into my Google search, my eyes were getting heavy from the late hour and the booze. McAfee didn't throw a fit, and there were no prompts for my credit card when I accepted the download.

I sighed at the time it would take, rubbed my eyes, and rested my head on my Twilight book on my computer desk. Before I fell asleep I reminded myself to drink some water, take the edge off the thirst in the morning. It wouldn't be a hangover…it would be dry mouth and funky breath, but not a hangover.

It was unusually warm, not uncomfortable, just unusually warm in my apartment suddenly…I guess not suddenly, I had fallen asleep hunched over my computer desk. I was afraid to move, I was only twenty-four but sleeping in an awkward position was already giving me back pains. Heh, don't let me get into my gray hairs that were occasionally showing up in among my brown hairs…freaked out for a week over those and have been faithfully dying my hair since.

"I've never given much thought to how I would die. But dying in the place of someone I love, seems like a good way to go. So I can't bring myself to regret my decision to leave home. I would miss Phoenix. I'd miss the heat. I would miss my loving, erratic, hair-brained mother. And her new husband. But they want to go on the road. So I'm going to spend some time with my dad. And this will be a good thing. I think." I tensed a bit as the monologue played. My mind started working, the download had estimated half an hour…so I hadn't dozed off that long at all.

Slowly I moved to sit up, expecting to see my computer screen and the intro to the movie, excited to see it, even. I'd probably call Becca, wake her up, and brag that I had finally found a good download. Well, first I'd see if the quality was worth saving on my computer.

When I sat up to see I was looking at a blank wall, I froze. Where the hell is my

computer! I looked around…and the louder thought in my head was, Where the hell am I?