Bella POV:

For years and years, well to be honest since I could remember Edward always came into my bedroom at night, even now- when we were both 15. I still thought of him as fondly and adored him; he really was the best friend ever.

"Bellatine," Edward mumbled- one thing that I wish had changed was that stupid nickname! "Don't go to sleep yet." He pleaded with me, while tracing patterns on my arm, sitting on my bed like he did nearly every night- his cold skin gave me goose pimples, but I didn't care.

"Edward I'm tired... and I've got school tomorrow." I mumbled half asleep.

"Well you could always skive..." Edward mumbled cheekily- he knew what the answer to that was. A big fat ass no. Okay so yes, I was one of the goody-two-shoes at school, and got more then taken the mick out of, but it didn't bother me. I had no friends at my school, not because I didn't want any- none of them wanted to be friends with me.Partly because of the boffin-ness of me and also that I was best friends with a vampire, yeah that did me no favours in the real world. But again none of that bothered me, as long as I had Edward, then my life was more than great.

I just sighed, and then turned over in my bed so my back was facing him, "You know we do kind of need to sleep, you know so that we are alive for the next day."

Edward laughed at this, I loved his laugh- it was like chiming bells in my ear; and also made me feel more at ease, even when I was very little.

"Bellatine..." Edward moaned, I sighed again and turned around to face him- it wasn't that I didn't love his company, it was just that I was extremely tired and hated feeling tired at school, where I needed to concentrate the most.

"What now Eddie?" Urghh, bad move.

Edward growled, at the sound of Eddie- he hated that name, since he was little- it was fun to tease him about it, but not when I was half asleep.

"You know you deserve a tickling fest for that?" He giggled, preparing his arms to tickle me.

"Well I'll just scream, which will make Renee and Charlie come in- which would mean you would never get to see me again, up to you." I yawned, turning over again.

"Now you wouldn't want that would you?" He joked around- and it was true, I couldn't think of anything worse than that happening, "But I'm faster." He whispered in my ear, and then left my room- with a silent whoosh.

Now that he left the room felt oddly empty, as it did every night when he left. I sighed, thinking about school tomorrow, it would be an understatement to say that the last couple of years especially, that our family had gotten a lot of stick for being friends with the Cullen's. It was the worst for Charlie; he nearly got sacked because of it! But luckily he had dedicated friends who stuck up for him, saving his job- but no one in Fork's wanted their head of police, to be Charlie; it depressed him lots- but he was getting over it now. It reminded me of history, when we learnt about racism and how black people had different benches, schools etc, just like vampires did now- if that was wrong, then how come doing it to vampires wasn't?

Luckily Renee kept her job, as it was part of pre-school's to be taught about treating everyone the same, including vampires. Lot's though of the parent's disagreed with this and had made their children move schools- well school actually, as there was only one other kindergarten school in Forks, which was now full up, so parent's were forced to take their children to Renee's school. She tried to be positive about it, but I knew deep down inside it affected her.

The only problem with Charlie and Renee recently was, they hardly let me see or be with Edward any more, they said it was healthier if I hung out with some human friends- ha fat chance of that happening! I didn't get why they wanted us not to be friends, it was them in the first place who told us to be friends, unless they thought that something more was happening between us. But no. Ew. Even I knew that would be disgusting, getting with a vampire! I mean I loved Edward lots as a friend, but even I had be taught and knew that it was just plain wrong to be with a vampire!

Anyway Edward was quite a "stud" in the vampire world; I could see why- he was very good looking, even for a vampire. He never talked about his girlfriends or anything though, like it was a "forbidden topic", I never understood why, but to be honest I didn't care, I didn't particularly want to know about his love life. Not that that stopped Alice, who'd turned out to be a major gossiper, mainly about her brother, as I knew none other vampire's- Edward wouldn't let me meet his school friend's , apparently they were "too" dangerous, again it didn't bother me much.

Vampire's also took their age year's different to ours, in the "vampire" world Edward was now an adult, I didn't understand the full concept of how their ageing worked, just that vampires lived a lot longer than humans, they died of old age, but they had nearly twice the life span of a human being- another thing Edward liked to brag about.

Eventually the tiredness over took me, and I drifted into a peaceful dreamless sleep

***

I was tired in the morning, so very, very tired- I was going to kill Edward when I next saw him, though I would have probably forgotten about it by then.

I was even more annoyed that I was late for school, just only making it in time for the bell, luckily the teacher wasn't there yet, but the whole class was. I decided to not look at any one as I walked in- knowing I'd just be getting evil's, so looked at my feet until I got to my regular place at the back of the classroom- sighing in relief when I did, but the worse was not over yet.

"Oi! Vermin!" Vermin was a name given to any one, like me I guess, though it's not like you could catch a disease off a vampire... "Heard you and your vampire "mate" got in with each other last night!" The dick head shouted, I could feel and hear everyone turn around to stare at me, but I just kept my eyes down staring at the table- feeling my face burn brightly, second's later the whole class were shouting out "errr's"

I didn't care, I had this sort of crap since I came to high school, the Swan family had a reputation around here, I just couldn't wait until I got to college, where I could start out somewhere fresh. Though that was more than a few year's off yet.

The teacher came in though, quietening everyone down- which to my relief they did do instantly, and 1st period lesson commenced...

***

Lunch time's were the only time I actually liked at school, only because me and Edward got to text each other, it was lucky that his lunch time was the same time of mine- otherwise I might of died of boredom sitting on my own, at my usual table- away from as many people as possible. Luckily now people had learnt to just ignore me, which I was more then fine with.

I took out my phone, to see that I'd gotten a text from Edward already reading:

Hey smelly, what's up? The way Edward always started his texts- he only called me smelly as I had to wash to be clean, he did not.

Same old, 1st period was a bit of a task though. I replied, while taking a bite out of my sandwich waiting for Edward to reply.

He did almost instantly- fast hands, Class being a dick again? He asked, he knew my class mates all too well.

Spot on, I wish I could go to school with you. I sighed as well out loud thinking how great that would be.

Well you should be a vampire then ;) Edward replied seconds later- it's not like I haven't been asking for that for years.

:( I decided just to send him an angry face.

Nah u don't really Bells I've got double math next |-). I still found it strange why vampires had to take normal lessons like us, but then had to be in a separate school?

Unlucky, I've got Biology... which I beta go to byee xx I replied, gathering my school stuff and heading for next period.

***

"Bella, where are you going?" Renee asked me, as I headed towards the front door.

I gave her a confused look, how could she not know where I was going? "To see Edward..." I said, speaking like a 3 year old to her- to show her dumbness.

"No you can't! The Black's are coming around for dinner, and you have to be here." Eurgh great, I'd only met one Black- Billy, one of the mate's who was still friendly with my Dad, he lived in La Push though, I wasn't even aware there was more than one Black- did he have a wife?

"Why Mum? It's only going to be Billy, I'm sure he won't miss my company." I replied, heading to go back out the door.

But Renee put a restraining arm on my shoulder, "No Missy, you are staying here, Billy is bringing his son Jake- he's a little younger then you but I'm sure you'd get on fine." Great another person to tease me about Edward, just what I needed. "Anyway it's healthy for you to also have some human friend's as well Bella, your spending far too much time with Edward!"

"Well that's because no one will talk to me! And to be honest, I only need Edward- everyone else hate me any way and Mum, there is nothing no one can do about that." She just glared at me, and then went back into the kitchen. I decided to head up stairs and do some homework which wasn't due in any time soon.

Edward was already in my bedroom- giving me a shock.

"I heard you couldn't play out today." He whined like a little kid, I punched him in the arm- knowing he probably wouldn't even feel it and sat down on my desk.

"You know one of these days Renee or Charlie are going to come in here and find you." I moaned, taking out my school stuff out of my bag.

"Not with these ears." He joked, and I knew he was right- he could hear Renee or Charlie approaching from a mile away.

"Hey cheer up Bellatine, it may never happen." Edward joked about, sitting on my bed.

"It already has." I mumbled, while starting to write something about Romeo and Juliet.

"What has?" Edward asked- concerning filling his eyes, Eddie always looked out for me, I don't get why anyone could hate him.

"Hmm, nothing." I groaned, getting up from the table as I could hear a car approach our drive.

"Bella tell me." Edward was now standing in front of me, both of his hands on my shoulders, looking deeply into my eyes; it was only now I realised that Edward did have very beautiful eyes, and face- he would make some vampire very happy one day.

"It's just Renee, she doesn't want me to hang out with you much anymore, but she'll forget about it soon, don't worry." I replied, trying to move out of his tight grip.

"BELLA GET DOWN HERE!" Renee shouted from below.

"I've got to go Edward." I huffed, as he finally let go of my shoulders, "See you tonight." I said, walking out and closing the door behind me.

I walked downstairs to see a man in a wheelchair and a fairly youngish boy- about 13 or so. Billy and his son looked so much a-like, both with deep russet skin and piercing black eye's, the only difference was that Billy had a very strong figure and his son was still in the "growing up stage", having a very average thin figure.

"Bella, you remember Billy." Charlie grunted, pointing towards the man in the wheel chair, who smiled at me.

"Sure, hay." I smiled back.

"Hey Bella, you look well. This is my son Jacob." Jake gave a shy smile at me, and a tiny wave, I smiled back being polite.

The rest of the evening was quite dull really, mainly just Charlie and Billy bantering, and the rest of us laughing at them- they acted so much younger when they were with each other, I was glad to see a real smile on Charlie's face.

Me and Jake chatted a bit, he seemed like a nice enough guy- much kinder then anyone at school, so I enjoyed a bit of "human" company with him. He told me he went to school in La Push, and actually thought it was totally cool that our family hanged out with Vampires- I thought this to be a little strange of him, but was glad that someone finally liked me for being best friend's with a vampire.

They left with some sad news though, Billy got a new job in New York, so would be leaving Washington- Charlie got extremely upset by this news, and so was I. Jake was the only person who was a human that I could of actually been friends with, but then that was just my luck. We all said goodbye to them- Charlie was even stifling a tear, I felt sorry for him; I now kind of understood what it was like for him.

I decided to go to bed early, catching up on missed sleep from the previous night; I feel asleep way before Edward came into my bedroom. Dreaming about the usual weird- making no sense stuff and also about a pair of pitch black eyes...

A/N: So the first few chapters of any FF is kinda boring, sorryy :/ hopefully it will gett better! :)

so hopefully this clears up more about how vampires are treated in this ff :) remenber its all fiction soo..:L

i won't be able to update this one til friday sorryy :/ and FTL reader's that will most probably be update 2mrw :) (yn)

i've been revissing my ass off for history today, as I have two history exams 2mrw D: so yeah ask be anything about hitler and the nazis and i will know :) :L

umm that's it really, except from REVIEEW :D

Btw sorry about the italics they won't save as i tell them too : hopefuly u can still understand it (yn)

thanks

Laura