October 14th 1995:
Eli was stood in the airport wrapped in a blanket she'd slept with on the plane, gripping on to her mother's hand tightly with one hand, and dragging her pink suitcase along with the other. She had been told that she was going to make a new best friend and that it they were going to have a fun holiday in Phoenix, but Eli was stubborn, and not only was she stubborn, but she was also terrified. She'd never been any good at making friends in the past, considering how a girl ran away from her crying when she tried to make a friend at five years old.

Her mother had been braiding her hair on the plane ride, which left her brunette locks bouncing behind her, tied with yellow ribbons she was determined to throw away when she wasn't looking.

From across the arrivals lounge, her mother had spotted someone, and instantly jumped to her feet before picking Eli up and carrying her over to where another woman was stood. She was about the same height as her mother was, and they looked pretty similar despite from the fact that this woman had blue eyes like Eli's. With the woman stood another girl who looked a little older than Eli, but she seemed more nervous than she was somehow.

A few minutes through their parents' excited chatter, during which Eli and the other girl both timidly stared at their feet, both girls were sent to 'go and play together'. Sometimes Eli really didn't understand her mother, as she of all people should've known just how shy she was. Regardless, she was determined to attempt to make a friend. The girls stared at each other before looking at the ground, both too nervous to be the first to talk, until Eli finally spoke.

"Hello." She said sheepishly, still staring at the ground.

"Hey," Bella replied, before adding "you're voice is cool."

"Really?" she asked with a hint of excitement in her voice. This girl seemed so nice.

"Yeah! I just wish I could sound as cool as that!"

"Do you wanna be friends?" Eli asked, hoping for a better answer than crying and running.

"Of course!" Bella responded excitedly, before pulling a colouring book out from her backpack and offering to share her coloured pencils.

Throughout the course of that week, the girls had become best friends, and were always spending hours playing together. They found that they both had the same love for reading, and would spend ages talking about their favourite books. Eli had finally made a friend, and she and Bella were determined to stay that close 'forever and ever'. They did have a year age difference, but it didn't seem to matter at all to them. Eli never had any siblings, and neither did Bella, so it could've been easy to assume they were just sisters by the way they acted towards each other. When they were eventually forced to part, Bella and Eli promised to stay in contact and make their mothers let them call each other every day, which they did, for a while in anyway.

May 24th 2005:
Eli was absolutely buzzing with excitement. As it was the Easter holidays and she had a two week break from school, her parents had agreed to let her travel to Forks to visit Bella by herself. The two of them texted every once in a while, but it had been a few years since they last saw each other. All she was told was that she would be staying in a house somewhere in Forks with Bella and some of her friends, which made her just a little nervous. This nervous feeling was oddly similar to the one she felt when she met Bella when she was seven, but more than anything she couldn't wait to have the best two weeks ever.

When she arrived at the airport, she was met by Bella, who had honestly had such a glow up in comparison to her. Eli had finally reached the same height as her, but Bella was still slimmer, and her hair was such a gorgeous length and colour. With her was some other stern-looking man, who she assumed to be Bella's boyfriend Edward. In his defense, he was absolutely stunning, with his almost translucent pale skin, his auburn hair, and his eyes which somehow had a mysterious golden shimmer to them.

It was on this trip that she discovered a lot about Bella and her friends. Firstly, and probably most shockingly of all, everyone except Bella was a vampire apparently. When she first found out, Eli laughed at this, imagining it to be a late April fool's Day prank. However she couldn't be more wrong, as it was Bella who finally managed to convince her by showing her how their skin looked in the sunlight. Bella took Edward's hand and led him outside, with Eli following close behind. At first she almost panicked, as she'd always been told that vampires burn in sunlight (that was what happened in every vampire movie she ever saw in anyway), but to her surprise their skin was absolutely magnificent, scattering the light in tiny fragments, as if they were genuinely made from diamonds.

Secondly, Eli was quickly made aware that they were vegetarian vampires, which again made her laugh. It was then explained to her that the group, who were apparently known as the Cullen family, would never try to drink her blood. Funnily enough, this thought hadn't even crossed her until this point, but then again it did make a lot of sense. Any normal vampire who drinks from humans would've surely jumped at the opportunity while one wandered into their house.

During her time with the Cullens, she became close friends with each of the Cullens, although some of them did take longer to adjust to having a second human around, especially Rosalie. Although Eli did feel a little out of place at times, Bella was always there to reassure her, and it wasn't long until she was as close to the group as Bella was. Understandably, all of them were a little wary of her knowledge of vampires and their existence, but Eli was always quite persuasive, and absolutely swore on her life that absolutely no one would ever know about them. Not only was this for their safety, but for her own as well.

The entire group was absolutely devastatingly gorgeous, even Bella, which made her feel just a little uncomfortable at times, but this didn't seem to bother her that much. Either way they were such interesting people to be around, often making fun of her British accent, and it meant that she and Bella could choose their own meals every day as they were the only ones who ate. What did annoy her a little though was the fact that they all absolutely hated her music playlists, which she learnt after she played some random rap music out loud from her speakers and they all yelled at her to turn it off, so instead she usually ended up listening to whatever classical music ended up being played on the piano by Edward.

As soon as she arrived back home in England, she quickly booked herself another visit that summer, and from then on Eli often spent time at the Cullens' at every opportunity she got. Her parents did try to ask her about how her holiday had gone, but Eli just told them that the Cullens were such fun people, and that they had taken care of her well. It wasn't like the whole vampire bit was particularly important in anyway.

March 2nd 2006:
Eli had only just hopped out of her taxi at the Cullen's house before Alice took her arm and dragged her into their car. She hadn't even had a chance to take her suitcase indoors, but as soon as she mentioned it, Alice grabbed it from her and hastily tossed it into the boot.

"Alice, can't I just-"

"Just get in Eli, I'll explain later. This is urgent," she interrupted impatiently.

Eli spotted Bella in the passenger seat, looking the most distraught she's ever seen her. As soon as she hopped in and buckled her seat belt, Alice pounded her foot on the gas and the car sped off into the distance, leaving Eli gripping onto her seat at the back.

After a few minutes, she finally broke the silence.

"Can someone please just explain to me where it is we're going?"

Bella glanced at Alice, before turning to me. "Italy."

"Italy? W-why?" she asked in a frenzied shock.

"To save Edward."

"Edward? Why? Is he okay?"

Bella looked absolutely fed up of Eli's ridiculous questions, rolling her eyes and resting her head in her hand while she stared into the landscape speeding past the window, leaving Alice to answer all her questions.

"He's going to the Volturi. He wants to… to kill himself."

This came as a shock to her, for she knew just how much Bella adored him. In response, she leant over the back of Alice's seat and hissed to her "Why the fuck would he do that to Bella?"

"He thought Bella was dead. He only wanted to end his life too because the love of his life was gone."

While trying to process what on earth it was going on around them, all 3 of them stayed almost silent for the duration of their journey to Volterra. All Eli knew was that the Volturi were in charge, and they most definitely weren't to be messed with. The sheer strength of their powers and their hunger for more made them lethal apparently, and now it seemed she was going to go straight towards the danger because that makes sense.

Once they finally made it to the castle, Alice turned to where Eli was sat, and told her not to speak unless she was spoken to. However, little did she know that Alice had actually had visions of what was about to happen within those walls, and she knew exactly why she had brought Eli with them. Otherwise she would've left her to stay with the rest of the Cullens, but she was aware of her fate, and her true connection to the very vampires they feared.

Author's note: I know I didn't include where she first meets the Volturi, but I thought that's a story for another time. Next chapter should go back to the normal chronological timeline. Sorry if this was kinda short, but I just didn't really go into much detail about anything that's happened to her so far.
Also, I kinda hope this story actually does okay because I'll write it either way, but I don't know if I should even bother publishing it unless people are enjoying it lmao. Anyways, thanks for reading, please feel free to leave a review because I love to hear your feedback, I hope you don't catch coronavirus, and I'll be back with chapter 4 soon hopefully, bye!