Waiting to hear back from some beta's so hopefully soon, I will be having someone look over the chapters and help me correct mistakes and improve a bit. I am trying to update at least once a week. Sometimes it may be longer or short of a time period. Life is still hectic, we are still living with my mother as my kids father and I figure out the best course of action. So I am driving an hour to take my daughter to school, staying at the house I own with my boys while there dad is at work, and then driving the kids an hour to go back to my mothers before their dad returns. Unfortunately this and the fact that there is no quiet place at my mothers to go to write while the kids are playing, makes it a bit harder to work on the story. As I said in the last note, I won't publish anything if it is under 4000 words. That is about 8 pages, I am averaging about 2 pages per day and then a day or two for reviewing and rewriting scenes I'm not happy with.

I thank all of you for reading this story and for your wonderful reviews. A big thank you to all who I have been messaging back and forth with on your ideas and advice, and thank you to everyone who has wished me well. Also, this story will not always be one day per chapter, and moving that slow. Soon things will start speeding up and some action and bad guys will be introduced. But first, the Cullen's need to get to know the swans better! I hope you all enjoy this chapter, cause I'm not sure if I like what I have written or not lol.

Summary: All Human. Hidden amongst us are people with magical like qualities. For there own protection most choose to stay hidden, some blending with society while others stay away, pretending not to exist. Bella has not really existed for the last sixteen years, after a disastrous first attempt at being in public she meets the Cullen's can they help protect her before the Volturi find her and try to kidnap her and the other gifted Cullen children?

Charlie Swan sat at the small circular wooden dining table with Renee to his left and his daughter to the right. Nobody said a word as they started their meal. Charlie's eyes would move from side to side, gauging his wife's mood, then looking over at his daughter. The family normally had some what quiet dinners, but tonight the silence between the two females was just plain uncomfortable.

"ehhmm," Charlie said, clearing his throat and lowering his fork to the plate while looking at his daughter. " I'm going to go fishing on Saturday, Bell, feel like keeping your old man company?" He asked staring at his daughter intently, trying to convey a secret message.

Bella looked at him questioningly as she nodded her head, "Uh… dad,"

"Oh Charlie, don't torture the poor girl, she clearly doesn't want to go. Not all of us enjoy having to touch those disgusting, slimy worms you know!" Renee said.

"No, Mom, I want to go, I was just surprised that's all." Bella said, trying to up her enthusiasm, "Besides, its suppose to be good weather this weekend, I'm sure it'll be fun."

Renee, narrowed her eyes, sat back in her chair, folding her arms across her chest.

"Alright, what is going on here?" she questioned.

Bella's eyes widened, her mouth dropped open a bit and she froze, fearing her mother had figured everything out. Charlie kept his cool, though, and just turned slightly to look at his wife and shrugged.

"Nothing is going on, dear. I just thought it would be nice to spend some time with my daughter. You are the one who's always telling me to spend more time with Bell."

Renee wasn't buying it, "Well, if that's the case, maybe I should bring some supplies down to the lake and I can do a painting or two while you two fish.

"No!" Bella said a little too loudly.

Charlie, at the same time started to improvise. "Actually Renee, I was hoping you could go to Olympia, you remember that furniture store you found there? The one where you got Bella's bed from? I was hoping you could look for a new couch. In fact make the day of it, I'm sure you and Bell could use some new winter clothes." He was laying it on a bit thick, but his wife did like a good spending spree every once in a while, so he was hoping she would ignore the obvious fact they were hiding something.

"Fine I'll go, but don't think for one minute you have me fooled. You're up to something!" Renee said before excusing herself from the table.

That night, Bella found herself too excited to sleep as her mind wander to her secret visitor tomorrow and her excursion with her father on Saturday. She was sure Charlie had set it up so she could officially meet the Cullen's and she found herself rather ecstatic. She was just starting to dose when she heard a small noise from the window, it was too loud to be rain, and there hadn't been a cloud in sight earlier. She quickly got out of her bed and made her way to the window, only to pause for a moment.

"What am I doing!" she thought, "It could be Volturi or something."

She slowed and cautiously looked out the window. At first she saw nothing, but then her eyes caught a movement of copper colored hair when the moonlight hit it. She broke out into a wide smile and bit her lip slightly as she slid her window open and looked down, not being able to speak before the boy gave her a broad smile and said

"Repunzel, Repunzel, let down your latter, so I may climb that chain link matter!"

Bella giggled at his play on words, not being able to contain her smile, as she held up a finger and went to retrieve the ladder.

"You realize that was extremely corny." she whispered as she attached and lowered it.

"Maybe princess, but it made you smile, so I guess the mission was accomplished." He replied as he climbed through the window.

"What are you doing here? We said tomorrow."

"I know, but something came up, Esme is taking us to finish some of the shopping she couldn't do online."

"You could have just waited until Saturday to tell me that." Bella replied, the fact that he didn't question what she meant, only confirmed her suspicions, that was exactly what Charlie had planned.

"And make you think I stood you up? Now that wouldn't be very gentlemanly of me would it? My poor mother would have a fit if she were to find out I wasn't a perfect gentleman"

"Ah, yes, because climbing into a girls bedroom at midnight is what all gentleman do."

Edward laughed. "Touché. Now, come on get dressed."

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me, go get dressed, we're breaking you outta this tower, princess."

"Um."

"Oh come on! You've already done it once, and it was fun right?"

"Ugh! Fine, but I can't go to the bathroom and change, I don't want to wake anyone up. You're going to have to go back down, I'll get dressed and meet you."

"Well, that's no fun!" He sat down on the side of her bed with his arms crossed and a playful pout on his face.

"Edward!"

"Alright, fine, I was just playing around geez!" He said, but made no move to leave.

"Are you going to go, or should I throw you out the window."

He held up his hands in surrender and stood, "I'm good thanks, still have a knot from yesterday."

Once he was safely down, Bella drew the curtains closed and ran to her closet, haphazardly throwing on jeans and a sweatshirt. Before slipping on some shoes and opening the window again. Her sneakers were by the backdoor, so all she had was a pair of slip on shoes, with no traction. On the third to last rung of the ladder she slipped and fell back, closing her eyes and biting her tongue to keep from crying out she waited for the painful impact of the hard, cold ground, but it never came.

"Easy there princess," Edward said as she opened her eyes, to see her knight in shining armor cradling her in his arms. They stared at each other for a second before she breathed out a thanks and he lowered her to the ground, clearing his throat.

"Yeah, no problem….Just be more careful, kinda hard to explain a broken leg when you're suppose to be safely tucked into bed right now."

Instead of Edward heading north, towards the lake, he started to head west, towards the direction of his home, causing Bella to pause.

"Um, aren't we going to the lake?"

"Not tonight,"

"Where are you taking me then?"

"It's a surprise. You coming or not."

"I don't know Edward…"

"Look you'll see what we are doing in just a minute, I promise, nothing bad, tonight we are going to work on some of those experiences your missing out on." He said

"I have a feeling I'm going to regret this."

"And I have a feeling your going to love it, come on Princess, live a little."

With a sigh, Bella started following him again. A few minutes later he stopped by some trees and pointed towards a bush.

"You brought me to see a bush? I think I've seen that before."

He rolled his eyes and stepped forward, moving some branches out of the way to reveal the four wheeler he had used the first time he met Bella.

Her eyes widened as she looked from the ATV to Edward and back again. "You want me to ride on that thing?"

"No, I want you to drive it."

"What? You know I don't know how to drive…"

"Exactly, I can't exactly take my car off roading, so this is the next best thing."

"I don't know, what if I get hurt,"

"You wont, I promise, I'm going to sit behind you, I'll make sure you stay safe."

"You swear?"

"I swear, cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye." He replied, reciting an old children's saying he hadn't uttered in probably nine years.

"Alright fine, so me how do you work this thing." Bella conceited with a sigh.

Edward taught Bella how to accelerate and brake, how to turn the machine on, and then he climbed onto the back and padded the part of the seat in front of him.

"It's a tight fit, but it'll work." He said with a smile.

"What if I fall off.?" She asked, hesitating again.

"You won't"

"But how do you know"

He shrugged "I don't but, it seemed like the right thing to say."

Bella rolled her eyes. "I really don't think this is a good idea."

"I'm sitting right behind you, I'm not going to let you fall Bella." He tried to reason.

"But what if you fall." She argued.

"Look, you're holding onto the handle bars, and I'm going to hold onto you, unless you need help, then I'll grab the handlebars with you and voila you have an instant cage. So the way I see it, you're not going to fall, and neither am I. Okay?"

"Okay….I guess."

"That's the spirit, now, lets do something reckless!"

Bella climbed on, giving him a weary look, and grabbed hold of the handle bars so tightly her knuckles were white. She felt Edward lean into her, his breath on her neck, his slightly scruff, lightly hitting her right behind the ear as his hands came up to hers and touched them lightly.

"Relax Princess," He whispered into her ear, sending shivers up her spine and causing an odd tingling feeling to coursed through her body, starting with her stomach. With just those two whispered words, she felt her body turn to jello, effectively relaxing her grip on the handle. "Good, now, turn the key Bella."

With a shake breath, she removed her hand and turned the key, letting the four wheeler roar to life."

"Good, now, go." he instructed.

Bella and Edward lurched forward as she let out a squeal of surprise and hit the brakes, causing Edward to push into her a little. He let out a laugh and encouraged her to try again. She started slower this time and pretty soon she had the hang of it and was laughing in delight. Occasionally Edward would help her steer and before they knew it, they were by the lake and dismounting for a small break.

"That was really fun, thank you." Bella said, smiling ear to ear.

"I'm glad you had a good time. I told you nothing bad would happen." Edward said, laying back with his hands behind his head, looking up into the sky, Bella following his actions.

Bella looked up, just in time to see a shooting star, and just like she always did, she closed her eyes, took a breath in, whispered some words and blew out her breath like there was a birthday candle.

"What are you doing?" Edward asked, he had turned to look at her while she was muttering.

"Making a wish. What does it look like."

"Why a wish?"

"Cause I saw a shooting star." She replied, like it was the most normal explination in the world.

"Okay…" Edward said with bemusment.

"Haven't you ever seen a shooting star before?"

"Of course I have," He scoffed.

"I have never met anyone who has seen a shooting star and not made a wish." Bella said, keeping her eyes closed with a smile still playing on her lips.

"You've never met anyone period." He teasingly shot back with a smile on his face.

"I have too, my mom and my dad make wishes. Well, my mom does, I think my dad does too, but he will never admit it." She said, rolling onto her side and propping her head up so she could look at Edward.

"Well, I've never heard of that, seems kinda dumb if you ask me."

"Why, it's a harmless wish, if it comes true, great, if not, no harm in trying."

"Have you ever had a wish come true?"

"Yes." Bella thought, biting her lip and blushing as she ducked her head "You. I think…"

But of course Edward hadn't heard, he just lay there waiting the gorgeous creature with curiosity.

"I can't believe I have an experience you don't." she finally said, trying to deflect from the question.

"That doesn't count." He said.

"Why not."

"It just doesn't," He didn't have an answer, other than it bothered him that she had known to make a wish and he hadn't, he was suppose to be teaching her about life.

"Come on, lay back down."

He laughed, "What for?"

"We're gonna find you a star, we always find loads of them every time we come out here. We're going to find you one and you, Edward Cullen, are going to make your first wish."

They stared at the sky, neither one saying anything for a minute or two before Edward finally piped in.

"So… I find a star and just make any kind of wish?"

"Yep, Oh but you can't say it out loud and you can't tell anyone what you wished for or it won't come true."

Bella wondered for a moment if that rule applied if there was a mind reader present. At the same time, Edward furrowed his brow and asked. "But what if I hear their wish, does that count?"

Her eyes grew large as she turned to looked at him. Surely he hadn't heard her, right?

"I don't think that counts."

"Good."

"What's the worst part of being a mind reader?" Bella asked, still searching the sky for a shooting star.

"Uh, well, there are a lot of shitty parts, but probably the worst is hearing something bad and not being able to stop it from happening without giving myself away."

"What do you mean?"

"What I was ten, I went to school with this girl, Bree, her mom and dad abused her, she would get locked in closets, starved, pushed down the stairs, but they never left any visible marks. I only knew because I could see things playing in her head, and I would hear her worry about what was going to happen when she got home. I told my dad about it…He did tried to intervene but he wasn't her doctor. So we went to the school, and told them I thought something was going on with Bree, that maybe someone was hurting her. They looked into it, but her parents played the picture perfect family well, two weeks later, Bree went missing."

"That's awful, Did they ever find her?"

Edward had tears in his eyes, "Yeah, about a month later my mom and I were in the grocery store and we ran into her dad. He knew I was the one who had gone to the principal and blamed me. I saw everything that happened to Bree, playing in his mind. I saw him drop her body off a cliff. I started yelling at him, everyone turned and stared looking at us. There was a police officer there, and while he didn't know what to think, he still got a squad to go and investigate it. Unfortunately, one of the people watching was also a member of Volturi."

Bella gasped "Were they following you?"

"No, purely coincidence, unfortunately, when her body was found just where I said it would be, we had to move again."

"You've had to do that a lot, haven't you?"

"Yeah, but, it's not so bad, at least for me, cause I tend not to get close to people. Its hard keeping friends when you can read their mind. Most people think badly about someone every once and a while, It's harder than you think to find genuine people."

"Is that why you were so cold to me? Because you couldn't read me?"

"I guess, it made me really uneasy, not hearing what you are thinking, not knowing without a doubt you mean no harm."

"Made? Does that mean it doesn't bother you anymore?"

Edward chuckled and shook his head a bit, "Oh no, it still bothers the piss outta me Princess, but it isn't as bad as I thought. Kinda nice actually."

They laid together still looking up for Edward's shooting star and making idol chit chat until finally Bella said, "Did you see that one?" she pointed.

Edward didn't respond, when she looked at him, a smile crossed her face, as she watched Edward make his first wish.

"So how long do you have to wait for this wish to come true?" He finally asked turning his body, so he was laying sideways, facing Bella

"I don't know, I guess it depends on your wish." She replied, mimicking his movement, locking eyes with him, taking in how close they were to each other. Her butterflies had returned to her stomach and both of them felt an odd jolt of tingles coursing threw their veins.

"Will it just happen? Or do I have to make it happen?"

"I don't know….I mean if you wished for a cheeseburger, its not like it's going to fall out of the sky." Bella said, slightly confused.

Edward was having a war waging in his head. He had never had the desire to befriend someone other than his siblings. He had never wanted a girlfriend, and he had never wanted to kiss someone as much as he did with Bella. But, doing that, would mean giving into Alice's vision, and he knew he would never hear the end of it. Most importantly, he really didn't want to kiss her, fall in love with her, just to have to pick up and move in a few months.

Staring into Bella's innocent eyes, thinking about her perfect smile, and her glorious laugh, Edward stopped thinking. For once, he threw caution to the wind, before she had time to react, he swooped in and planted his lips, quickly, yet softly on hers, causing Bella's eyes to widen. Unfortunately, it also caused her heart to race and her body to jump back slightly, her powers taking control and pushing Edward back a few good feet into a tree.

"Oh, my god I am so sorry." She exclaimed rushing over to him. "Are you ok?"

"Well, that certainly wasn't the reaction I was hoping for, but I guess that's what I get for catching you off guard!" He said with a small, dry chuckle as he brushed her off and stood by himself.

Bella followed his actions and started pacing, ringing her hands and muttering to herself

"My first kiss and I royally screw it up! Of course I would, I've been dreaming about it my whole life! Why wouldn't I mess it up. It was just like in a book, staring at each others eyes, right under the damn moon I…," Bella paused, turning to Edward. "Try it again,"

"What?" He replied, utterly confused and slightly amused by her little rant.

"I want you to try it again, please. I wont freak out this time, I swear."

"Princess," he started, trying hard not to laugh as he walked cautiously toward her and raised a hand to cup her cheek, "You didn't screw up anything, sure, it coulda gone better…but, I think that was a perfect first kiss….for both of us. If you promise not the throw me into anything else made of wood, I promise, that wont be the last time I kiss you."

Bella felt her face heat up as she bit her lip and tried to look down, but Edward was having none of that, enjoying looking into her beautiful, chocolate doe eyes.

"Really?"

"Really really." He said with a wide smile. "Common, its getting late, need to get you back before you turn into a pumpkin and all that."

"It's past midnight already."

Edward just smiled wider and took her hand, leading her back to the house.

"What about the four wheeler?"

"Too loud, I'll come back for it after your back inside."

"Are they still asleep?"

"Yes"

"So, I'll see you Saturday?"

"Yes, Carlisle said we are all going down to the lake and meeting with you and your dad, you'll get to meet Rosalie and Jasper. Don't be put off by Rose, she can be less than pleasant on a good day, and spending time outside unless its more than eighty degrees and sunny out, isn't really her idea of fun."

"When you came to my house earlier, was my mom thinking anything about my dad and I fishing? I don't think she bought it for a second."

Edward laughed, "Yes actually, she thinks you two are planning something for her birthday. She is hoping Charlie will get her a beautiful sapphire necklace she mentioned to him by the way."

Bella nodded her head as they slowed there walk to a stop in front of the ladder.

Edward raised Bella's hand that was still intertwined with his. "Sweet dreams Princess." he said as he leaned down and kissed her knuckles.

Blushing, Bella slowly retracted her hand and turned to climb her ladder. Once safely inside, she gave her prince a smile and a wave before shutting the window and draw the curtain. She then let out a huge squeal and danced around her room as she tried to maneuvered into her pajamas. Replaying the kiss over in her head, and his sweet words, after she had, yet again, assaulted him, she fell into a peaceful sleep. Dreaming of her prince and her riding off into the sun set.

It didn't escape Edward's attention, as he cut the engine of the four wheeler and pushed it the remaining way back to the garage, that his siblings were still up, and gathered in his room. No, doubt the workings of his pesky littlest sister.

Prolonging the inevitable, he went to the kitchen, made himself a sandwich with a glass of apple juice and sat at the breakfast bar eating. Smiling as he heard his sisters and brothers impatient complaints. When, Emmett threatened to destroy all of his CD's and his computer if he didn't hurry up, he conceited and made the three story climb to his room.

"You know, you could have just razzed me from your rooms. At least then, I would have a place to sit." He said, noting that Alice and Jasper were sitting on his couch. Jaspers arm was around Alice's trying to keep her from bouncing off the couch from her excitement. Emmett was leaning back against his headboard, grinning ear to ear, next to a very unenthused Rosalie.

"Now, where would the fun be in that baby bro?" Emmett asked. " How is Tinkerbell? Did you leave her all starry eyed and dazed?"

Edward rolled his eyes and turned to Alice who had been non stop talking into his brain, giving him a slew of: "I told you so's."

"Yeah, Yeah, Alice, you were right, whoop dee do! Now can you all please leave? I'd like to get some sleep."

"Geez, you sure are cranky for someone who finally got some action." Rosalie said snidely.

Jasper laughed and said "I would be too if I got thrown into a tree after kissing someone."

Causing Edward to groan and pinch the bridge of his nose while Alice smacked his arm. "You weren't suppose to say anything!"

"Seriously Eddie? You must not be doing something right, if that's a girls reaction." Emmett said, causing all four siblings to giggle and laugh.

"Ha-ha, you're all very funny. Will you please leave now!"

"My pleasure, I was only here anyway cause Emmett came." Rose said, sliding off the bed and walking out the door.

"Night bro! Congrats, maybe you won't be a virgin forever after all!" Emmett said walking out after Rose.

Jasper followed, uttering a good night, a smile playing on his lips as he tried to contain his laughter. Alice stood and flashed an image to Edward. It was of Bella and Edward sitting close to each other by the lake, only instead of at night, when they normally meet, it was during the day. His family was there and as was Bella's father. Her father was watching intently next to Carlisle, as the couple talked, with intertwined hands.

"You might want to be careful brother dear!"

"Thanks, Alice, but I'm not that stupid."

"Clearly you are if this possibility popped into my head!" She shot back as she exited the room.

Despite being so tired, Edward figured that showering now would be better in the long run, hopefully he could sleep in a bit longer. As he let the warm water run over his chilled skin, he thought back to tonight and smiled, thinking about Bella, how wonderful she looked, driving the four wheeler and trying to steal glances back at Edward, as if she was making sure he was still there. He thought to how beautiful her face looked, lit by the moonlight as she laid back and made a wish. Then his mind wandered to his wish, yes, he wished to kiss Bella. Granted he took matters into his own hands just a minute later, but what can he say, Edward always did prefer instant gratification. His hand started to wander on its own accord as he started to stroke himself up and down. His thoughts steered away from tonight, and went onto the future, playing made up images of Bella writhing beneath him as he made sweet love to her. He was so far off in his dream world he could have sworn the moans pretend Bella was mewing were real. That is, until his mind cleared and he realized the voice he heard was all wrong for his Princess, and was the voice of Rose down below. How his parents never heard those two he would never understand. Screwing up his face with disgust, and the moment now lost, he exited the shower and stomped over to his dresser. Emmett's bed was directly below him, as hard as he could he jumped up and down, trying to convey to the couple they needed to shut up, earning a chuckle from down below.

Edward laid in bed, and fell into a deep sleep, dreaming of nothing but first experiences with Bella.

I hope you guys like this chapter, I've never written smut, although, I'm sure you all have figured that out, I know this chapter isn't smut but others down the road will be, so consider this a bit like training wheels please. As usual….

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