I Isabella Marie Swan was born in the year 1802. I lived a short life of 18 years, which was mainly spent learning how to be the perfect wife to my future husband. I'm not sure when I think of my past and
what little meaning It would have if the vampire who
changed me saved my life or ended it, but that was the way it was supposed to be. I was supposed to get married have children then grow old and die. I was supposed to die.
The man who changed me was kind and lonely but I could not acknowledge that. What I could acknowledge was that he stole my human life from me and I couldn't look past that. Maybe I could have if I felt love for him. If I felt for him what he hoped I would. He said he saw something in me that reminded him of a love he had in his former life. When he realized that I would not reciprocate these feelings he apologized for ending my human life. He taught he what I needed to know about my existence and he left me to find my own happiness in this life.
I have ran into other vampire's in my years, but I have never found one that I wanted to spend this life with. I looked at humans with compassion and with a longing to be one. Others of my kind thought they were above humans and only saw them as a means for blood. I hated that I had to kill innocent humans just to quench the thirst.
I lived that way for the first 10 years of my life. I became so depressed with the monster Iv become that I drove myself away from the human population. It was then that I ran into a Irish coven made of three, two women Siobhan and Maggie and a man named Liam. We shared our stories with each other. When I told them mine and got to the part that Iv become unhappy with the endless slaughter of human lives. They did not react as expected.
They didn't look at me like what I said was shocking nonsense.
Maggie spoke "Dear, you remind me of a man we met once. He had so much compassion that he chose not to harm humans. He told us he is able to feed exclusively on the blood of animals." at that she squinted her nose, but it was clear she did not look down on this man for his choice.
My eyes widened in wonder and I nodded.
We spoke our good byes and well wishes. Then I was off to create a new life for myself.
The year is 2018 and I am 216 years old. I still look like 18 year old Isabella but with more beauty and grace then my former self had or any other human for that matter. Though after my visit with the Irish clan I spent years perfecting my new self. My murdering days were over. I was able to live off animal blood. Human blood no longer had the same pull over me. I noticed the smell but I could remain indifferent now. I could feel more human. I could live amount humans. Although it Is imperative that I don't develop close relationships with humans. They could not discover my secret. So I travel alone and I kindly keep to myself in the human world. Humans know to keep their distance from my kind, they just don't know why they do. They don't know deep down I thirst for their blood. They don't know I could kill them so easily on accident.
I liked feeling human. I liked the doors it opened for me. I could go to school and further my education. High school though did not offer me anything I didn't already know, but the younger I started in a new place the longer I could stay. So I just arrived in a gloomy small town in Washington named Forks. I rent a small home on the outside of town. Its time for me to go to school to start as a senior student at Forks High School.
I pull into the parking lot in my red Audi. The student parking lot Is mostly filled with older cars. My car stands out. I frown at my car as I get out, I would stand out either way I guess. I shrug it off. I'm on the side walk of the school when I see a Volvo pull into the lot. This car stands out about as much as mine I think to myself. I was about to turn away when I see a boy and a girl get out of the car and instantly notice they stand out for different reasons as well. These two were also vampires.
I turn and head to the office before they notice me. I had to get my schedule. Although I'm not sure if I will be staying here. I will have to see If they are territorial and ask me to leave this area. That idea upsets me. I just got here and this little sunless town makes me feel as human as is ever possible for me.
I wonder why these two vampires go to school? Don't they kill the humans in this town? If that is the case, I would leave. I could not risk exposure. Maybe they travel to hunt though.
I enter the little high school office and see an middle age woman with a desk name plate that identifies her as Ms. Cope.
"Hello dear, you must be Isabella Swan" she asks. He eyes widen when she takes in my differences.
"Yes I am." I answer. She must be waiting for my arrival sense I registered a few days back.
"Ok then, here is your schedule Isabella. I hope you enjoy your first day." I nodded and turned away.
My first class is math. I wonder if I will share a class with either the boy or girl vampire. I resolve to approach them after school to discuss my appearance and explain the way I live.
My first 4 classes went on uneventful. A few times a student would come up to me to introduce themselves. The boys wanting to see if I will notice them in a romantic way and the girls wanting to be friends with the new mysterious girl. I treated them all the same, I would not offer information about myself and kindly shooed them away under the impression
I would be focused on my studies. As if I needed to focus at all.
After English I made my way to the lunchroom. I was thinking about the possibility that I would have to choke down human food. The possibility was high due to all the students who continued to stare at me. I got
a tray of food and assessed where to sit. I did not want to heighten my classmates expectations by sitting with them and becoming friendly.
Then I saw the boy and girl vampire sitting together at a table. To no shock to me no humans sat with them. The girl was looking expectantly at me, as if she new I was going to sit with them.
I sighed, I guess they were the safest choice to sit with, and I was going to approach them after school anyways. I walked over to the table.
I opened my mouth to ask if I could sit with them. Before I had the chance the small girl with pixie black hair said "Of coarse you can sit with us Isabella!"
I sat down gracefully across from the couple and my eyebrows furrowed. How did she know my name? I also noticed their eyes where golden like mine. They also feed from animals. Maybe I would not have to leave this area. I was incredibly curious now.
The girl exclaimed "It is so nice to finally meet you! I am Alice Cullen and this is my brother Edward Cullen!"
Oh, so they are not a couple. I look at Edward and nodded a greeting.
I looked into his face carefully this time, he was beautiful of coarse, but there was something about him that had me unwilling to pull my eyes away. He stared back at me, after a moment he looked down. His expression was... disturbed? Odd.
"It is a pleasure to meet both of you. I am Isabella Swan." I pull my eyes away from the boy and look at Alice. "Although you seem to already know me?" I questioned.
"Oh, well the students have been talking about your arrival. Though I have a gift of seeing the future. Iv been so excited to finally talk with you." She answered.
Well that explains her look of expectance.
"Oh that is a very useful gift. I saw you pull into the parking lot this morning, I was planning to introduce myself at the end of the day. I did not know you were in the area. Is it just you two here?" I asked. They don't look like each other enough to be biological siblings. I pick at my food, keeping up the charade.
Edward was the one to speak my answer. "We maintain a residence outside of town with our family. Carlisle our leader and his wife Esme, Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper who graduated last year. Carlisle is a Doctor at the local hospital. Esme and Carlisle act as our adoptive parents here."
My eyes widen as I hear their leader works as a doctor. The control he must have is unimaginable. Also that is the largest coven I have ever heard of with only one exception.
"There is so much to discuss!" Alice exclaims. "Oh Isabella, would you please come over to our house after school to meet our family? They would love to meet you!"
I was very curious about this family... especially Edward.
If I am to stay here it would be smart to befriend this family. It was clear they have been here a while and students did not engage with them. It would be odd if I did not engage with anyone at this school, I would be singled out and speculated, but if I just didn't engage
with other students because I made friends with these two it would be less odd.Teenagers often just keep within their group of friends after all.
That reason though was farther down on the list. If I was being honest with myself I knew deep down I just wanted to make a connection with my kind. I wanted someone to understand the way I felt about my lifestyle and share in those feelings. It was lonely being considered a freak among human kind and your own kind.
I thought through all that in a matter of milliseconds of coarse and answered, "I would enjoy meeting the rest of your family, thank you for the invitation."
"Great, it is settled then! Edward and you both have biology together next. He will walk you to class." She told us and got up to discard her picked through tray of food and skip to class. We both watched her leave, I wore an expression of wonder and mild shock from here pre-recognition's. Edward wore an expression that said he was not shocked from her behavior or her knowledge.
He stood up picking both our trays up in one hand and offering me a gentleman's hand. "Shall we?" He questioned. I took his hand gently in response. I enjoyed the way his hand in mine seemed to dissipate the loneliness only 200 years can hold.
"Let's" I say.
He smiles.
I'd like to see him smile again I think immediately.
Once I'm standing he moves his arm to link in mine and discards our trays as we walk past their designation. My arm linked in his this way reminds me of the way men in my human years walked with ladies. The way my intended husband walked with me the few times we met. I wondered how old Edward was. Surely he was a century old. This simple gesture put me at ease.