A/N: So, here's the first chapter of the edited Adoption! Enjoy my lovelies! Oh, and I do now own Twilight. If I did, Paul, Jasper, Emmett, Seth, Brady, Collin, Alec, Felix and Demetri would all be MINE!

Hi, I'm Alpha-May Charday. Well, it used to be Charday. Currently, I don't really have a last name. Seven months ago on the day I turned fifteen; my parents put me up for adoption. I'm not sure why and frankly, I don't really care. All I care about these days is who is going to adopt me. The thing I'm most worried about is that no one will want me. Who would want to adopt a fifteen year old girl who has a temper like mine? Oh, right, no one. A lot of people have had an interest in me until they learn about all the fights I've been in with the other girls here. I can't help it, they just piss me off. I would have thought they would learn not to mess with me by now but nooo. They just keep coming back for more broken bones and bloody noses.

So, anyways, back to why my parents put me up for adoption. I honestly have no clue why, and I hate the, for that. I mean seriously, who gives their kid up after fifteen years? Most parents if they didn't want the kid they would give them up right away. But nooo, my parents have some sick need to give love and then take it away. Believe me; they've done it before with my older brother Audin. They day he turned fifteen they put him up for adoption too. I haven't seen him in three years. I wonder if it's some kind of family tradition or something. If it is it's a suck-ish tradition.

Now that I've explained all of that crap, I guess this is the time where the main character would describe himself/herself sooo, I'm gonna do that now. Well, as you know, I'm 15, female (obviously), I'm about 5 foot 5 inches or somewhere around that, I have long black hair that goes down to my waist and eye length bangs, and weird bright emerald green eyes that a lot of people get creped out about. Everyone either stairs at me like I'm a freak and some just flinch away from me. I think their reactions are quite amusing.

Back to present day now. Currently I am sitting in a tree looking out over the woods that outlined the back yard of the girl's home I am currently in. I've always had a love of the outdoors. Something about it calls to me. I'm always in my element here.

Wind blew through my hair as I breathed in the scent of the woods. I sat quietly, listening to the birds chirping, squirrels chattering and insects buzzing past. There was an untamed beauty about it all, and an undiscovered silence of a forest yet to be touched by the world's progression. That is what I loved about it out here. There are no skyscrapers or loud cars or trains . . . just a natural beauty that needs to be preserved.

"Alpha!" My eyes snapped open at the sound of one of the girls that stayed at the home with me yelling my name.

I swiftly climbed down the tree I was perched in and dropped down in front of her.

"EEK!" The girl I identified as Natalya, my roommate, let out a small scream at my sudden appearance. Natalya was a nice girl. She had flaming red hair cut to a bob and pale skin. Other than that her green brown eyes pointed out her Irish heritage. "Alpha, some of the other girls were trying to find you. Miss. Owens told them to tell you dinner is ready."

I gave her a curt nod indicating I understood. I gestured for her to wait one moment and quickly grabbed my art book and followed her. I rarely ever speak to anyone; I just use gestures to get my point across. Most of the girls at the home believe I am mute until they piss me off enough to make me speak and usually they are not kind words.

The only person I willingly speak to is Natalya but only in privet. I have grown to like her over the time I've been here. She's truly nice and keeps my secrets instead of telling everybody just for the benefit of popularity. Here, if you find out anything about me or my past, you're officially deemed cool. Because I asked Miss. Owens to keep my past and anything about me a secret, all the girls automatically think my parents put me up for adoption because they didn't want a daughter with anger issues. They also make up other wild stories like I am mute or deaf because I don't speak.

As we arrived back, most girls stared as I walked by. They were probably all wondering where I always go for hours on end every day. When I said nobody knew anything about me, I meant it. I'm surprised no one has thought to follow me around for a day to try and find things out about me. I guess that means these girls are even stupider than I thought. Only Natalya knew where I went every day and that's how I like it. If someone needs me, she volunteers to come find me. I'm also surprised (not) that no one thought to come with Natalya when she would. These girls are seriously stupid.

I sat down next to Natalya at the dinner table and saw that we were having spaghetti with meat or marinara sauce, garlic bread, mixed fruit and milk.

"So, Alpha-May, where have you been all day?" Georgie asked, sitting down on my other side. Georgie was the typical 'popular' girl. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, was tan and she was always trying to get me to talk about something, anything.

I stared at her for a minute, and then looked away.

"I think it's, like, really weird. I mean, seriously. Your, like, mute and you disappear all the time. Where do you go?" She tried again.

I looked at her and said, "One, I am not mute, I just chose I not speak. And two, you don't need to know." After I finished I went back to eating. I could feel every girl's eyes on me, and there were eighteen girls total in the home. I knew everyone was surprised that I spoke. Most of these girls have never heard me talk before. All the attention was making me feel awkward so I got up and walked back to my room.

About a half hour later there was a knock on the bedroom door.

"Come in!" Natalya shouted from the bathroom because she knew I wouldn't say anything.

"Hello girls." Miss. Owens said as she entered the room. Miss. Owens was an African American woman. She had long mocha hair and chocolate brown eyes. One glance at her and you could see how sweet and compassionate she was. "Alpha-May, can you please come down to my office for a minute? I need to talk to you."

I nodded my head and followed her out of the room. Once we arrive at her office she sat down behind her desk and I sat in one of the chairs in front of her.

"So Alpha-May, I brought you down here to talk to you about a family that wants to adopt you." She began. Yay! Another family who wants to adopt me then doesn't because they learn about the fact I never talk and fight a lot. "The people who want to adopt you have five other adopted children. The parents' names are Carlisle and Esme Cullen. Their children are Edward, Emmett and Alice Cullen and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. All of them have more troubled pasts. They live in Forks, Washington and go to high school. Carlisle is a doctor at the local hospital and Esme is a stay at home mom. I think this may actually work out for once."

Miss. Owens smiled at me and handed me a folder with information about the Cullen family. They looked pretty nice. Maybe she was right, maybe this would work.

"They also want to meet you."

"When?" I asked.

"Well, I wanted to talk to you before I made any official date. What do you think?" She asked.

"I guess we may as well. Anytime they're free is fine with me." I shrugged.

"How about this, I'll call them right now!"

"Sure."

Miss. Owens picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Hello, this is Miss. Owens calling from Miss. Owens Home for Girls. May I speak to Carlisle or Esme Cullen?" She spoke into the phone. "Hello, Esme? Yes, I talked to Alpha-May about the adoption." She paused for a second, listening to what 'Esme' was saying. "Yes, she agreed to meet you."

There is one thing I didn't mention about me earlier. Sometimes I get these weird flashed where I can hear and see everything a million times better than normal. It kind of felt like a headache coming on but then all of a sudden stops, making me hear and see better, and I could feel one of those moments coming.

"Well, that's wonderful!" A voice that sounded like wind chimes spoke back over the phone. "When would she like to meet us?"

"She said anytime you were available was fine with her." Miss. Owens said.

"Tomorrow around nine o'clock would be fine with us. Oh, but the kids will be in school. I guess that would be fine though, I wouldn't want to overwhelm the girl." Esme said.

"Great!" Miss. Owens smiled. "Tomorrow it is! Have a good rest of your evening Mrs. Cullen!"

"You too, Miss. Owens! Tell Alpha-May we are ecstatic to meet her!"

"I will make sure to do so! Goodbye!" She hung up the phone and my flash (as I call them) passed.

"Well, Alpha-May, they agreed to come tomorrow! Make sure to be ready at nine o'clock!" Miss. Owens smiled.

"Great." I smiled back, though I already knew everything.

"You can go back to your room now. The other girls are getting ready for bed now and so should you." She shooed me out the door.

I ran back to my room, practically running over three girls on the way. I jumped onto Natalya's bed where she sat reading and started bouncing around, smiling.

"Jeez, what's up with smiley-pants?" She asked, putting down her book.

"Another family wants to adopt me!" I said happily.

"Oh my god that's great!" She practically screamed. "What family?"

"Their last name is Cullen and the parents' names are Carlisle and Esme and they want to meet me tomorrow! Esme sounds really nice and Carlisle is a doctor!"

"Tomorrow? That's great!" She smiled. "Would it be okay it I was there too?"

"Yeah, that'd be great! You know moral support and everything." I laughed.

"Cool, what time will they be here?"

"Nine o'clock."

"Well then, we better get some sleep since we have to get up early tomorrow!" Natalya yawned and lay down under her covers.

"Yeah, I guess I should get ready for bed too." I said walking into our bathroom.

Ten minutes later I was in bed staring at the ceiling.

"Hey, Nat?" I said, using my nickname for her.

"What?" She asked from across the room.

"Do you really think I'm going to be adopted this time?"

"May May, I think you will." She replied, using her nickname for me. "I really think you will."

"Thanks Nat. Goodnight."

"'Night." She said as we both finally fell asleep.

Natalya and I both woke up to the sound of our alarm clock going off. I slammed my hand down on it and checked the time, seven o'clock it read.

"Come on girls! Time for breakfast!" Natalya and I groaned at Miss. Owens voice speaking through our bedroom door.

"Be down in a minute!" Natalya yelled back. We both quickly got out of bed, well, Natalya more fell out of bed, brushed our teeth and headed downstairs for breakfast.

Multiple girls were slowly making their way to the dining room table as we got downstairs. Most of them were in their pjs too. No one really bothered getting dressed at this time in the morning. Everyone sat down at the table and started grabbing food. Cereal, bagels, waffles and pancakes were placed all over the table with different types of juice, milk and fruit.

For the entire hour the sound of clanking dished and girls chattering rang out through the room as we ate. Breakfast had to be one of the most social times throughout the entire day. By now everyone had heard about everything that happed yesterday, and everyone talks about it for the entire day or until something more interesting happened. But today, the main thing on everybody's mind was the extremely quiet girl that actually spoke yesterday without being provoked. Well, kind of, she did provoke me I just didn't get violent or angry.

After breakfast Natalya and I ran back to our room to get ready.

"Natalya, do you have to take a shower this morning?" I asked.

"No, I took one last night when you were talking with Miss. Owens." She answered.

"Okay, then I'm going to take a quick shower. Bang on the door when I'm at ten minutes."

"Yup."

Ten minutes later Natalya was pounding on the door and yelling at me to get out of the shower.

"Hey Nat, do you know where my dark green tank top is?" I asked her.

"I saw it down is the laundry room. I think you left it down there yesterday. I'll go grab it for you." She said getting up and walking out the door.

While Nat got my top I put my mascara and eye liner on and tied up my black biker boots.

"Here you go." Natalya said, throwing the tank at me.

"Thanks." I put then shirt on and slipped my leather jacket over top. I looked over at the clock to check the time. It was eight forty five.

"Wow, I think that's the fastest we've ever gotten ready before." Natalya commented.

"Yeah, we only took forty minutes." Natalya and I stood in front of our full length mirror and gave ourselves a once over. Nat was wearing a light blue yank top with a green three quarter length button down and a pair of jean shorts. On her feet were her favorite pair of sneakers. She had a light colored blush painted across her cheeks, light pink eye shadow and mascara.

I was wearing black jeans, my dark green tank top, my black leather jacket and my black biker boots. The only makeup I had on was black mascara and black eyeliner lining my green eyes.

"Well, I guess we should head down." I said nervously.

"May May don't be nervous, they'll love you." Nat smiled at me.

"If you say so."

By the time we got down to Miss. Owens office it was a few minutes past nine. We both stopped in front of the door and Natalya grabbed my hand and squeezed it, trying to calm me down. I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Hello girls!" Miss Owens smiled at us. "Come on in!"

As we walked into the room, I saw two people sitting on one of the couches. They were both quite beautiful. The woman – Esme I guessed – was a nice looking woman. She has caramel colored hair framing her very pale, heart shaped face. She was wearing a purple blouse with a black pencil skirt and black high heels. The man – Carlisle – was a compassionate looking man with blond hair, pale skin like Esmes and movie star good looks. He was wearing a simple blue button down shirt, black slacks and black dress shoes. They both smiled as we entered the room.

"Hello, you must be Alpha-May. Who's your friend?" Esme asked.

I squeezed Natalya's hand, asking her to reply for me.

"Hello, I'm Natalya, Alpha's friend. Alpha says hi too." Natalya smiled brightly at her and I waved.

"Wow, then Miss. Owens said you don't talk, she really meant it." Carlisle said.

"I do talk, I just would rather not." I shrugged.

"You remind me of our son Jasper. He prefers watching everyone that talking and being the center of attention." Esme commented.

Natalya brought me further into the room and we sat down on the couch across from where Cullen's were siting and talked for about a half hour. I think it might have been the most talking I've done in a long time. They talked about each of their kids and they asked me tons of different questions, all about me and my life. I had to admit I was really liking them, I could definitely see this working out.

"So, Alpha-May, what do you think about living with us?" Esme asked.

Before I spoke, I thought it over a little bit. Did I really want to live with these externally nice people? Yes. Did I want five brothers and sisters? Eh, it might be fun. Especially if Emmett jokes around as much as Esme says he does. Was I ready for a new family, a new life? Hell yeah.

"I would love to become a part of your family." I smiled.

"Wonderful!" She got up and gave me a hug. At first I stiffened, but then relaxed and returned the hug.

"Well, let's get those papers signed!" I heard Carlisle say.

"Alpha, why don't you go upstairs and pack while we boring adults fill out paperwork." Miss Owens suggested.

"Yeah, I guess I should go pack." Natalya and I exited the room, and slowly walked back to our room. I pulled out my suitcases and Nat and I packed all of my stull. An hour and a half later all my clothes and personal stuff was packed and we hadn't said a word the entire time.

After I put my stuff by the door I sat down next to Natalya who was on her bed. We sat in silence for another ten minutes, just looking at each other. I could see the tears gathering in her eyes which brought on my tears too. We quickly grabbed each other and cried our eyes out.

"I'm going to miss you so much!" Nat blubbered.

"I'll miss you to!" I cried.

For five minutes we held each other and cried as much as our bodies would allow. After the tears died down we still were hugging.

"Nat, thank you so much for being my only friend here. You made my life happy again after the worst happened. I will never be able to repay you for that." I told her.

"Your friendship is payment enough. Just promise you'll stay in touch with me." She said, her voice rough with emotion.

"I promise." I said hugging her again.

We turned our head, hearing someone clearing their throat. In the doorway stood Miss. Owens, Esme and Carlisle. Carlisle grabbed my stuff and we walked downstairs. No one talked as my bags were put in the Cullen's car. After my stuff was safely stowed in the trunk, I turned around to face Natalya. Once again, tears were gathering in our eyes.

"I promised myself I wouldn't cry." Natalya said, trying to fight back the tears.

"When did you promise yourself that?" I asked.

"I didn't." Natalya grabbed me and started crying and I soon joined.

For the second time we both cried our eyes out.

"I love you May May." Natalya said through her tears.

"I love you too, Nat." I replied.

"Alpha, we have to leave now if we want to get back home in time." I heard Esmes soft voice say from behind me.

"Okay." I let Nat go and opened the car door.

"You better call me every day." Natalya said. "I'll be expecting a call at six on the dot."

"Whatever." I laughed at Natalya's antics.

"I'm serious. Every day, six o'clock." She said, completely serious.

"Definitely." I gave her one last hug and hopped in the car.

I waved until Miss. Owens Home for Girls disappeared behind us.

New life, here I come.

A/N: So I hope you all liked the first chapter. I wasn't really sure how the whole adoption process worked so I just took a shot in the dark. Hope you liked it!

JJV (Mistwolfgirl)