BPOV
Why did he have to be so irresistible?
Edward Cullen is just... well he's just WOW, end of discussion.
Just his name just makes me want to drool, he's so lush. Edward Anthony Cullen. How can someone be so amazing?
Occasionally I have even tried putting my name with his last one should we ever get married.
Isabella Marie Swan. Hmmm...it does have a certain ring to it doesn't it?
He has marble white skin, tousled, bronze hair that is always in an untidy mess. He has high cheek bones and is about as handsome as boys can be,
He has brown eyes that, when looked into make me feel as if he can see into my soul which I'm pretty sure he can. Butif he can't, he's good at guessing. Sometimes I feel like he can actually read my mind. He has two brother's Emmett and Jasper. They aren't exactly intelligent, but they do look old enough to teach at the school. Edward is the only one clever enough to even qualify for a teaching job. I'm not saying Emmett and Jasper aren't clever but they have different skills...he seems to be the most intelligent apart from his father I suppose who must be clever as he's a doctor.
Emmett is the more bulky, strong and physically fit one of the three. Whereas Jasper is the flirt of the pack. I honestly have never seen anyone flirt so much in my entire life. But he is cute, I almost asked him out before I knew about him and Alice. But I'm much happier with Edward than I ever would have been with Jasper. Jasper seems to be a bit of an animal, but him and alike are the perfect match.
Alice is the know-it-all on the girl's side but she is also a control freak as well as a shopaholic. Well not so much control, but organised. She is the organiser of the family and she always wants everything to be perfect, which with Alice at the head it usually is. Rosaline is more difficult to explain. She is beautiful. There is no other way to describe her. But she tries too much and it sometimes makes her look unreal, sort of like a Barbie doll. Oh yeah, did I tell you that she hates me? Rosaline may well be the prettiest girl in the school but as soon as I started going out with Edward, all the attention she was used to having was now focused on me. It was the scandal of the school; no other girl had ever been out with Edward.
Also just between you and me I think she has a thing for Edward as well, so she had better stay away from him or I'm going to batter her. He's mine now 'to have and to hold until death do us part' and all that jazz.
I moved to Forks two years ago when my mum, who had left my dad several years before, decided that she wanted to travel with her new fianc , Phil, who is a baseball player. So to save the trouble of having to look after me she sent me down to Forks to live with Charlie. I when I was little I used to spend every summer with my dad if forks but as I got older and I actually developed a life, you no friends and stuff I decided not to go. But just as my life was starting to become good she said I've got to go to forks. She said it would only be for a year, just until Phil could sort his career out. Two years later he still hasn't sorted his career out.
I've spoken to Renee but she is still as awkward as ever, I say I want to go but she 00insists that I have to stay. But then I figured something out I have called her three times in the past six months, on the old home phone, and she has picked up every time. I think that's a bit of a giveaway. She is still at home. She just wanted me out of the way ready for her new family. But I don't care I've got my family now.
Charlie is nice anyway, so I don't mind staying with him. I would rather be here with him than up there with mum and Phil; have you heard what is said that some baseball players have done. Charlie has never been the same since Renee left him. He must have really loved her to still be craving her now. I don't think he will ever get over her but for his sake I hope he does eventually.
Charlie is the local Police Chief and takes everything in his stride; everyone thought he just got over the breakup like nothing had happened. However I can see past that. He didn't show it hurt him he hides his feelings away, but sooner or later all his feeling arise to the surface. I can tell he's hurt the breakup hurt him badly. You can see it when he looks at me and says that 'I look so much like my mother its unbelievable', and it pains me to say it but I know it's true. I and Renee once went to a party, and one of her friends actually thought I was her sister. We were so embarrassed we left immediatly. But that memory has stayed with me even now, when my mum has ditched me here, in forks.
I used to hate it here. All it ever does is rain or snow. And snow is even worse because it means it's too cold to rain. I don't like rain but I hate snow. I suppose it's my fault for staying in California for so long. It was so sunny there I got used to the heat, but now I'm here it's so strange. Its cold, I'm not used to the cold. Its wet, I'm not used to wet. That was why I hated it here at first.
The first day at school was the worst. I was the odd new kid, and I didn't fit in at all. I met Jessica who I became quite good friends with because I have most of my lessons with. If Jessica was not in my class it was either Angela, who was quite a nice thoughtful person, or Mike. Mike is my ex-boyfriend and he was quite a nice person but he was very controlling and always wanted his own way. He was very cute but at the time I had seen someone that I fancied even more. Jasper Hale. As I have said I had a crush on Jasper before I knew about the rest of his family.
I knew him first because at the time he was in the office, waiting to be told off or something. When I walked in for my first day and the receptionist said she would let him off nicely, if he would show me around. So he agreed naturally and we set off, with me never letting my eyes wander off his, what I thought was his, perfect face. He showed me my way to my first lesson afterwards and left. I went in and ended up sitting next to Jessica, who was very talkative.
I found my way to second and third lessons and when they had finally finished I went to the canteen to get my lunch. I saw Jasper sitting on his own so I decided to go sit next to him. However when I got halfway across the canteen I saw a girl with spiky hair go over to him and song his face off. She sat down next to him and I saw his hand slip beneath her skirt. I suddenly felt very sick that I had even contemplated asking him out. He disgusted me. I eventually sat down next too Jessica and Mike, who I had sat next to in second period, and they introduced me to everyone else around the table. I went to fourth and fifth with Angela and as I was there with her I decided I would get to know my ex-crush a bit better. Angela told me that they were both adopted and lived together and Jasper and Alice have been together since they started a few years ago. I gave up on my obsession with Jasper Cullen after that and I concentrated on getting a better boyfriend that would actually love me and not just use me for sex.
So here I am with Jasper's older brother, and I feel a whole lot better for it now, as I have discovered that what I thought I had seen I had not. It was just a little trick of the light, thank god. But now I have also realised that Edward is so much sexier than Jasper; in so many ways.
Also Mike was just showing off and wanted to prove that he can get a girlfriend. Even though all he had to do was ask Jessica, as she has fancied him since I have known them. After my meeting with Edward in the bookstore Mike started getting all annoyed because he didn't want me to be friends with the Cullen family. He claimed they were a bad influence on everyone, and they should keep to themselves and leave everyone else to get on with their lives. Off course I argued back that he couldn't choose my friends and I would be friends with whoever I wanted even if he didn't like them. He got very annoyed at this and finished it.
I decided that I couldn't go to my (girl) friends with this problem as they would only say what a good couple we had been, so I went and sat by a tree in the forest by the town. I had been there for half-an-hour or so, when Edward walked past. I saw him walk past but he didn't see me until I burst out in tears for the fourth time. He turned screamed my name and ran over to me. I told him what had happened and he kept on saying that it was his entire fault and he never should have got involved. But at least he was there for me. This was more than I could say for most people. So there we were sitting in the forest together, new best friends. Forever. At that time I though we were just good friends but later on when he had helped me to get home, I realised my true feelings for him. But I couldn't tell him yet so I arranged to meet up with him three days later, so I could work up to it. We went to the cinema but we both sat there after the film had finished and looked at each other.
I decided then would be the best time to tell him how I felt and I did. 'I love you' I blurted out, at exactly the same time he did. I knew then it was destiny bringing us together. There is one thing you can't fight love and right now Edward was showing me that he loved me. It's been weeks since that now, it's now my birthday. The day I hate. But this year I think it might be different. I'm finally going to meet the rest of the Cullen's. The whole of Edward's family.
He pulled into his family drive. This was for him the ultimate sacrifice. His secrets and all the embarrassing moment were about being unfurled and he knew he wouldn't walk away with a bit of dignity left. But I had this strange feeling this wasn't just embarrassing pictures of him potty changing or whatever. I felt like he was hiding something.
Just as I got out of the car Edward pulled me into his embrace and whispered "I'm making this sacrifice so you can see my family. But Bella beware all may not be what it seems when you meet a certain member of my family. He's slightly ...different than the rest of us."
With that he gave me the most stunning smile that makes my heart race, grabbed my hand and pulled me towards his house. What did he mean?
What have the Cullen family got to hide?