A/N: Thank you for reading my story. It is my first one and would greatly appreciate any reviews and comments that you are willing to give.

EPOV

It is my first day at Forks High School. I recently moved with my parents to Forks, Washington and it has to be the rainiest place on earth. And I am being completely serious. Before we moved, we lived in Chicago, and already I miss my friends and other family. Knowing that we are several hours away by plane is truly depressing.

My mum offers to drive me to school, before I gently remind her that I am 17 years old and am perfectly capable of driving myself. It may also have something to do with the fact that I am desperate to try out my new car for the first time. As a consolation for moving, the bought me a Volvo, we are fairly well off as my father is a doctor. He will be working at Forks Hospital with a man called Carlisle Cullen. I hope he is nice for my father's sake. He had worked with some awful people back in Chicago, and that may have been part of the reason why we moved.

After managing to escape from my mother, I set off for school. I thought that it would be reasonably difficult to find, but it was signed up from the end of my road and was literally a 5 minute drive. I pulled into the school car park, and as I look around I see that my car is the newest by about a decade, and clearly stands out from the rest. I take a deep breath and step out of my car, and face the music.

The moment my car door closes, everyone around me erupts into conversation, with me clearly the subject of choice. I take two precarious steps away from the almost safety of my car, there is something reassuring about knowing that I could jump in my car and speed away in a second, and instantly regret my decision to move. A fairly short, brown haired girl approaches me at high speed and I have the urge to run away and hide. She introduces herself to me "hi I'm Jessica and I just wanted to say hi, and let you know that I'm here if you need anything at all". It is just me or is there a double meaning in her words. I shake it off and continue into the school.

I walk into the building labelled 'Reception' and introduce myself to the lady behind the counter. She seems rather flustered so after receiving my schedule and locker number I make a quick exit, feeling rather uncomfortable. I locate my locker and cannot open it. I try again, and again, and again. No luck!

A very short, ink-black haired girl comes up to me, "hello, my name is Alice Cullen. Would you like some help with that. I know they can be tricky at first." I look at this tiny girl in front of me and doubt that she could open a book, my less an uncooperative locker. She turns the dial after reading my combination, and when that does not work, thumps the area to the side of the dial and tries again. Miraculously, it works. She smirks at me and says "see you later Edward." I realise that I never told her my name and try to work out how she knows it. I put it down to the fact that everyone here seems to know my name.

Until lunch all of my lessons were the same; everyone staring at me and teachers asking me to introduce myself. I saw that Alice girl in history and she gestured for me to sit next to her, which I did of course, as it was either her or that awful Jessica girl.

At lunch I walked into the cafeteria, and it was only after buying my food that I realised that I had no idea where I was going to sit. I saw Alice walking with a tall blonde boy towards a table. I was going to go over and ask if I could sit with her, considering how nice she had been to me this morning, but then she sat down at a table that already had 3 other people on it and I became nervous.

Instead, I looked around the rest of the room and saw Jessica frantically waving at me and when she saw me looking indicated that I should sit with her. Her table only had two other people sitting on it, and so I went and joined them. She introduced me to a blond, round-faced boy called Mike, and a shy-looking girl with straight brown hair called Angela. They both seemed nice enough. I asked Jessica if she knew where my next class, biology, was and she gave me the directions. Then something out of the corner of my eye caught my attention. It was the table that Alice had gone to sit at.

On the table now there was Alice, sitting on the lap of the blond boy I had seen her with earlier. I assumed that this was her boyfriend, given how intimate they looked. Sitting on the right of them was a blonde girl, who I have to say looked like she had come straight out of a magazine. She was incredibly beautiful. Then I noticed the arm around her shoulders. I followed it back to its owner and gulped. This guy was huge. It wasn't fat huge either, he was pure muscle. He could have given Arnold Schwarzenegger a run for his money. Then my eyes fell of the occupant of the last chair. A girl, clearly alone in the group was breaking a bagel into pieces.

I looked up at her face and became breathless. This girl was even more stunning that the blonde one and that is saying something. She had a beautiful heart-shaped face, framed by a mane of glossy, mahogany hair, with flecks of gold and read that glimmer when she moves her head. Perfect, pouty lips sat between a flawlessly straight nose and chin. Her eyes were the most beautiful though, they were utterly mesmerising. They were a very dark brown in colour, bordering on black, were framed by long, soft, black lashes and seemed to shine.

I asked Jessica who they were and she told me their names while pointing them out to me "the short, dark-haired girl is Alice Cullen, and she is sitting on Japer Hale's lap. Next to Jasper is Rosalie Hale, they are twins, and Emmet Cullen has his arm around her. The other girl is Bella Cullen." She continued to prattle on about them, but I could no longer hear what she was saying as when her name was said, Bella's eyes flicked to Jessica, as though she had been called. Then, her eyes met mine and I stopped breathing.

I was brought out of my trance by Jessica pointing out that we should go to class. I found my biology class without any problem thanks to Jessica's rather detailed directions. I walked in a talked to the teacher, who pointed out an empty seat to me. I was ecstatic to see that this seat just happened to be located next to Bella Cullen. I walked to my seat and sat down. I turned around to introduce myself, but instead I was met by the most hate-filled glare I have ever seen. My happiness transformed rather quickly into terror and I looked down, only to see her hands clenched into tight fists, with the tendons jumping out of her skin. Even in my fear, I noticed that this girl was nearly as slight as she looked from a distance; in fact she had very hard muscles under the translucent skin.

I sat there through the whole lesson, occasionally taking peeks at her, but her tense position never wavered and the moment the bell rung, signalling the end of class she was out of the door before I had even closed my text book, and I could finally relax.