(A/n) Enjoy! :)

A week earlier

BPOV:

"I love you very much sweetie. But it's time for me to go." My mother stood in front of me beautiful like she always was. Hair blowing the wind and a smiling gleaming on her beautiful face. She wore all white and behind her was a blinding light.

"No mommy, please don't leave me not yet." I said trying to grasp at her hands, I didn't know why I called her mommy but I cried for her regardless.

"I'm sorry baby girl but I have to go it's just BEEP BEEP BEEP."

My mother's image disappeared and I shot upward in my bed. Breathing heavily I looked around confused. Spotting the source that screeched at me to wake up every morning, I quickly slammed my hand down on my alarm clock putting a halt to its lovely noise.

I groaned as I remembered my dream. It was something I had every once and a while. Thought I myself had come to terms with my mother's death, memories haunt me as I remember her beautiful face. The death was three years ago, when I was thirteen. It was the car crash that changed everything. It had forced me to move in with my father.

Don't get me wrong, I love Charlie, I just still have these haunting dreams that make me think of what life I could have gone on to have with my mother.

I pushed the sad thoughts from my mind and threw back my covers. I walked over and stood over in my mirror. I look pathetic and plain. No wonder I don't have a boyfriend.

After my morning routine of self-loathing my plain image, I made my way to the shower.

I made my way downstairs after taking a shower and getting ready for school.

"Hey Dad," I said as I walked past him in the living room watching the news. He did the same thing every morning. Needless to say he had never been the same after Mom died, even if they did happen to be divorced.

"Hey kiddo, I work late tonight-"

"'So I'm not going to be home for dinner.' Don't worry Dad I'll be fine here home alone." I said finishing his sentence. I didn't want him to worry. I wanted to make his life as easy as possible.

"Okay but remember where the pepper spray is." He said from his chair in the living room.

"Yes Dad, I know where the pepper spray is and I know how to get a hold of you at the police station. Listen I have to go to school, see you later." I walk up to Charlie, who is Chief of Police in our little town Forks, and kiss his cheek goodbye. Since Mom passed from the car crash, Charlie has been very scared about letting me drive. Anywhere. Even though yes I did get my license just recently, I don't think he feels safe letting me drive. Which I can understand, but sometimes I just want to be a teenager and drive myself.

I sigh thinking of this as I step onto the school bus. Embarrassing? Yes. But will I do it for Charlie? Again yes. Once on the bus I make my way into an empty seat and slouch down into it. I stare at the window getting lost in my thoughts as the bus takes me to school.

I look at the raining landscape that we pass and think back to better days of dry land living with my mom. The rain. The thought of it just makes me cringe. Is there really anything drearier than rain?

I stay lost in my thoughts until the school bus pulls up to small Forks High School. In a school like this, everyone knows everyone. I hated the thought of that when I moved here officially three years ago. I still hate the thought of it. I just want to sink into the walls and mind my own business without a lot of people around knowing who I am.

I step off the school bus and look to my left when I see three cars pull up next to each other. The silver Volvo and two other cars are ahead of Edward Cullen and his 'posse'. Edward and his latest girl Tanya, get out of the silver Volvo. He has his arm wrapped around her with a cigarette in his mouth. Edward Cullen is a person who is incredibly good looking. He has golden hair and green gorgeous eyes and a person can tell under his usual dark fitted clothes are a buff chest that any girl would swoon over.

Out of the second car steps Jasper Hale and his girlfriend Alice Cullen, sister of notorious Edward. Jasper and Alice have always been together. I have never even heard of a break up between them or when they even got together. It's not just Jasper Hale or just Alice Cullen. It's Jasper and Alice or Alice and Jasper.

Alice is a very weird tiny pixie like person and is unlike her brother Edward, who is a dark creature. No one knows much about Alice but everyone knows she is a strange person not to be messed with because of her brother. Jasper is a very calm person and barely talks as far as I see. It's a very strange pairing. Alice has short brown hair to match her pixie personality and Jasper has short blonde wavy hair and a slight southern draw that I'm pretty sure I have only heard once in my three years in Forks. And of course it wouldn't be Edward Cullen's posse without being gorgeous.

The third car had Emmett McCarty and Rosalie Hale in it. Yup you guessed it, they are also dating. Emmett isn't siblings with anyone like the rest of them, but from what I have heard Edward, Jasper, and Emmett have been best friends since they were younger. It's all a very weird relationship to me. Emmett has short brown hair and is very buff. He looks very large but I always see a smile on his face. Emmett, along with everyone else, aside from Alice, is in eleventh grade. Alice is the only one who is in the tenth grade, the same one as me.

Rosalie is Jasper's twin and she seems nothing like him. Physically they may look alike, but Rosalie is all about looks from what I presume and Emmett is just her big teddy bear jock boyfriend. Strange I know. Rosalie has long blonde hair and probably one of the prettiest people in our small school.

Don't even get me started on the rumors all about Edward and his posse. Some say that he is a creature of the night. Stealing and doing all these crazy things during night when everyone is asleep. Other's say he just is crazy and mental. You never know when he could attack.

But I don't listen to these rumors. I see Edward Cullen enough in school to know he is just not a person to mess with. Period. He preys on the girls that he wants. And when he gets them, no saying what does to them. Edward Cullen gets what he wants. And his posse helps him achieve it. Well at least as far as I know.

I start walking into school ahead of them, not wanting any of them to see me. If you're a person who knows what's good for you, you would avoid at all costs. I sigh as I make my way to my locker.

I turn, still with my hands in my locker to see them pass me. Right when I turn, I make eye contact with Edward himself. He turns his head from Tanya's ear and looks at me, smiles and turns back to Tanya. Crap. I quickly turn back into my locker and pretend to fiddle with whatever is closest with me. I have never liked Edward's stare, it always made me cringe to think that he thought he could do whatever he wanted. Well, he basically could.

I shake the thought of him and the shiver I achieved out of my mind, and go back to getting my things.

I walk to my first class which is English and sit in my assigned seat in the back. I'm usually fairly early to class, so I sit for about five minutes before people actually start piling in. I keep my head down as the obnoxious people come into the classroom. I'm not fond of them and like to keep to myself. Actually when I think about it, most of the class is obnoxious people, so I'm really not happy with people in the whole class.

However, English is one of my favorite's classes. The books and history of them is so fascinating to me, I could walk into a library and never leave.

I stay lost in my thoughts as more people pile into the classroom, and I try to keep my head down as Alice Cullen takes her seat next to me. I probably shouldn't ignore Alice as much as I do, but who knows what she could report back to her 'posse' so to speak. I know I sound totally mean and I am usually not really afraid of anything relating to my society but everyone knows to stay away from them. They are just known to mess with your head. And my head is perfectly fine where it is.

I look over at Alice, feeling bad for ignoring her. But she is lost in her own world and I sigh and decide to get lost in my own. Like I said I like English, but sometimes it can just get boring with Ms. Nelson's long lessons about nothing.

English goes by fairly quickly and I take my time gathering my things at the end of class. Usually everyone likes to rush out of there as quick as possible but I hate the initial overwhelming crowd in the hall, so I usually go slower waiting for it to die down.

I slowly stand up, looking down and go to make my way out the classroom. But with a grace (?) that is in slow motion I run right into Alice Cullen. Both of us fall to the ground, along with our books.

I slowly look up at Alice Cullen who is next to me on the ground; she looks at me surprised then surprises me by smiling at me. I look down again at the ground and start gathering my few books that I was carrying. While still looking down I quickly mumble an apology and quickly stand up to rush out the classroom. But I look back at her to see her still smiling at me as she accepts my apology, shocked I rush more to get out of the classroom. But knowing me with my clumsiness I run into someone again.

I quickly turn from looking at Alice and see who I run into. I small "ahh" sound passes my lips as I stare at Jasper Hale.

"I uh yeah um sorry." I mumble out awkwardly still looking at Jasper. At this point I feel unmoving. He looks down at me, his brown eyes void of emotion. He yellow hair sweeps on his head in waves and would make any girl fall on their knees. He is gorgeous, like the rest of Edward Cullen's posse.

Jasper looks at me for a moment and I feel pathetic with my apology. He sweeps his eyes from me to Alice on the floor a few feet behind me and he calmly moves behind me to help her gather her things and stand up.

Looking back at them I breathe a sigh and start to exit the classroom.

"Bella!" Damn. I slowly turn around and look back at Alice being helped by Jasper. They both move with smoothness that I would never be able to achieve.

"I'm looking forward to getting to know you more. Since we both sit next to each other in class I'm sure we will be able to become great friends. This is my boyfriend Jasper Hale, Jasper this is Bella Swan, she sits next to me in class." Alice says smiling and looking at me. For a split second I feel bad for being scared of her, but then I realize that she is related to Edward Cullen and I push that thought out of my mind.

Awkwardly I slowly put my hand up in acknowledgement for Jasper as he nods at me. I then get my ass out of there. I make my way to my locker, and fearing I would be late, I grab my things for my next class in a fast fashion that I would usually not use.

I make my way to history class and once I sit down I put my head on my desk with an exhale of breathe. Of all the people to notice me, I sure as hell didn't want it to be a Cullen. But then I think of how nice Alice was and I feel bad again for being so mean.

History rushes by fast and before I know it, lunch has arrived. I make my way into the cafeteria and spot who I usually sit with at lunch. I go and sit down with Mike, Eric, Ben, Angela and Jessica. They are talking the usually high school things that I for some reason have no interest in. Shopping and other things like that, I just don't get the big hype about those things.

I sit there quietly like I usually do, chewing on my food. Occasionally I look up at the table where Edward Cullen and the rest of them sit, but I quickly put my head back down if I suspect someone is looking back at me.

"Bella?" I look up at Angela, who is staring at me.

"Yeah?"

"Jess and I are going into Port Angeles next week for a little shopping and we figure you don't really well you know, get out much, we were thinking you wanted to go with us." I sit there and think for a second. Well, Charlie does always ask why I don't hang out with a lot of people and I guess I could look up to see if they have any book stores.

"Sure." I say with a shrug.

"Great, I can pick you and Angela up and then we can use my car. How is five o'clock on Friday next week?" Jessica says and right after she says that, the guys around the table make some immature comment.

I look at Jessica and nod, smiling. I watch as she turns to Mike and they flirt a little bit. I roll my eyes on the inside and turn back to my food.

A week has gone by since I talked to Alice Cullen for the first time or at least she talked to me, I didn't really talk. All week, I have been trying to avoid her as much as I can. If she would talk to me, I wouldn't be rude, I would of course answer her, but other than that I was not ready to be all buddy buddy with her. But every time she talks to me, I feel a twinge of guilt for not actually having a real conversation with her, but then I also stop that thought. I don't know, I'm just confused with it.

Today is the day of the shopping trip and I am anxious to see the book store I looked up. It looks old and authentic and those are usually the best.

At five o'clock, Jessica picks me up at my house with Angela already in the car. Before I know it we are at some clothing store that has Angela and Jessica gushing over outfits.

"Hey guys, I'm just going to make a quick trip to this one book store, I will meet up with you at dinner. Is that cool?" I say standing up and gathering my things.

"Oh yeah sure Bella, see you then. Don't be late." Angela says with mock authority, laughing.

I laugh and smile at her as I make my way to this cool looking bookstore. Outside, it is already getting dark and as I walk the streets of Port Angeles I notice it unusually empty for a Friday night. I shrug it off and make my way to the store. But not without noticing the 3 guys standing on the other side of the street. They are each holding a beer can and look quite drunk; I try to ignore them as I hear them call profound things to me. I look again at their smiles and fasten my pace to the bookstore.

I quickly open the door and try to calm my beating heart that is going a mile a minute, I think of how they looked, but then I thought three guys just getting drunk could be harmless, they will probably be gone by the time I go to meet the girls for dinner.

I don't know how long I spend in this amazing bookstore, but once I come out of it, it's dark. I spent long enough time to tell Angela and Jessica to go to dinner without me. I go towards where the restaurant would be, to meet them outside. I walk slowly and calmly, having forgotten the three men from earlier.

"Hey baby." I look up to the three ahead of me. The men from earlier are in front of me and defiantly still drunk.

I start slowly walking backward, away from them and away from Jessica and Angela at the restaurant. They walk towards me.

I quicken my speed.

They quicken theirs.

After a minute of them preying on me, I turn and run for it, dropping my bag on the ground from the bookstore. Luckily, it was the only thing I was carrying; all my money and my cell phone were in my pocket.

Breathing heavily I tried to keep my pace fast but steady at the same time so I wouldn't trip. I could hear their fast pace behind me, laughing and calling sweetly up to me. I swallowed hard and tried to keep my mind clear so I wouldn't get too panicked.

A series of events happened after that that went in a blur. But it ended in me, still frightened as ever, even with all three lunatics knocked out, staring at Edward Cullen.

After his menacing demand to get into his car, I complied.

Just a hunch, but that might have not been a good idea on my part.