Bella POV:

"So...was he cute?" My sister Beth asked me. Well, okay she isn't really my blood sister. I am my parents only biological child. You see, my family is Jewish. We had the misfortune of being in Germany at the time. My father one night was walking home from his job at the furniture store when a gang of guys came after him. They chased him down and one ended up biting him. That wouldnt have been too bad for other people. The fact that he escaped with only a bite would be a miracle to others. However, they were vampires. And its a miracle he didn't get demolished by them. According to my dad, they were hunting and found nothing of 'good taste' for weeks. Then when they passed my dad, his smell lured them. My dad was in the alley for days and my mom and I had no idea where he was. We assumed the awful truth: the Nazis took him. We prayed for his safety and hoped he would return soon. A week later, my dad showed up on our doorstep. We were overjoyed he was alive. There was something different about him, we just didn't figure it out yet. Three weeks later, we were sitting in our living room when someone banged on our door. My father opened it and three German officers grabbed us and dragged us out. We were being reprimanded for our lights being too bright. That's when my father lashed out and killed the officers. Horrified, we escaped to the woods. When the coast was clear, we got on a supply ship and went to America. We moved around alot, until my father told us we had to go someplace 'woodsy' was how he put it. My mom and I had no idea what this meant. My father finally told us what had happened to him in Germany. My mom was nervous around him for a while, until he assured her he would never hurt us. Then one night after my seventeenth birthday, my mom was diagnosed with a rare disease. She didn't want to die, and she didn't want to leave my father and I behind. She begged him to bite her. With tears in his eyes, he did. I cried out, afraid he would hurt her. When I ran up to him and tugged on his sleeve to stop, he whirled around. I saw the hunger in his eyes. Hunting animals wasn't doing the job for him. Before I knew what was happening, he bit me too. I writhed on the ground screaming for what seemed like years. Then I was...transformed. Scared, I fled to the most remote place I could think of: Alaska. Yeah, I know strange choice but it was the only place I could think of besides Antarctica, and that place was just way too weird for my taste. That was the first time I visited Alaska, the second was after Beth got transformed. I took her with me to make sure she didn't kill anyone. It was all the werewolves' fault. If they had just listened to what I was saying about our family not being horrid 'bloodsuckers' and had left us alone, Beth would have been okay. But since, they got violent and tried to kill my friend, well I had to stand up for her.Beth was my only friend, I couldn't keep secrets from her. She would have done the same for me, she knew all about my 'other life' as I referred to it. But, Arnando, a friend of our family, another of our kind, thought it was best to just change her and get it over with. He said we didn't need a human to know our lives. So while we were attmepting to fight off the wolves, Arnando bit her. After that, Beth and I fled to Alaska. And that's where we have been for the past ten years.

Back to the present,

"Eh, he was all right" I replied playing it cool. We both knew nothing could become of it. I didn't want to hurt this boy. He seemd very nice.

"You know there is only one thing you can do, right?"

"I know," I sighed. "I have to drive him far away from me at all costs...I can't let him become close to me."

Beth nodded sadly.

"You know, this sucks. We can't live a normal life. We can't date because our parents are too afraid that we will kill the boys! Sometimes, I wish we hadn't changed at all! Then we could have been married with children. Instead, we wander the earth all our days...alone"

"Oh stop being so melodramatic Bella! Your father and I have told you there is only one way you can date and that is if the boy is a vampire too. And no, you are NOT to change them yourselves!" My mother stood in my doorway. "By the way, these came in the mail for you girls." She finished, handing us envelopes and skipping gracefully out of the room.

"They are making us go to school." I told Beth as I read the letter for me.

"Yeah, I totally knew that!" Beth smiled. She was getting good at her ability to see the future.

"Oh, rub it in my face why don't you! Just because it has taken me longer to hone my special skills"

My special skill is that I can read minds. You probably wonder why I couldnt read my mom's mind. Then I would have known she was about to tell us we were going to school. It's because she is very good at keeping a poker face. And a poker mind for that matter. But, knowing my mother, it's probably best I can't read her mind that well. Yeah, you can just imagine. I try to keep out of her mind as much as possible.

I rolled my eyes. "Why do we need to go to school anyways?"

"To get an education?" Beth replied

"Like we really need it! What the...? we start tomorrow! A little more notice could have been nice!" I race downstairs to my mom.

"Oh Bella, drop it! You are going to school. That's final. Your father and I don't need the neighbors to become suspicious of our two teenage daughters staying at home all the time."

"Fine! I'll go...but know this, I shall seek revenge upon thee!" I pointed my finger at her and swept, yes swept, out of the room. Dramtically I might add. "I heard that!" I yell at her from my room. She told me to join drama club. Like I really want to stand out from the crowd. See, told you I hate reading my mom's mind. She is always so cruel! Okay, yes I am overly dramatic, but that is just part of my charm. At least that's what my family say.

Later on that night, I take a drive around the friendly neighborhood. That's when I see the clan up ahead. That's right, my worst nightmares have come true. They are walking and looking around the neighborhood. How Leave it to Beaver of them! I turn the car around and head the opposite direction before I get the chance to smell my sweet desire.

'This is going to be harder than I thought...'