Haha... This chapter was fun to write, though, I hated the first.

Sorry for the very fast and breif first chapter, but it was only supposed to be River's first meeting to Edward. Very quick. Very breif. Now she's a little older and has more control over what she's doing... But not all the fun and games start just yet. More chapters to come when River is fourteen!

Enjoy, read and review PLEASEEE!! :D

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DIARY OF RIVER DWYER. AGE 14

Dear Diary,

Schools been really boring lately, and Dad tells me that it's stupid to keep a diary now. I love you diary, don't worry, I'm so not getting rid of you. Dad's just been real idiotic lately, I hate him.

Mom's being very quiet and won't tell me why I am supposed to stay home while they go out. It's pissed me off and I want to go over to Abby's! She just got a dog and she wanted me to see him, but mom won't let me.

Life's so unfair right now. Dad's also mad because a boy called Alex asked me out a few days ago, but I got in even more trouble because I said yes. I had to tell him no, and make up a lame excuse that I wasn't into him or something. I'd never say that my dad didn't let me. That's so lame.

So here I am... reading the normal poetry and crap, listening to my metal and stashed away in my room, wondering why the hell mom made me stay home again. Oh well... I guess I'll find out, wont I?

Another day passes, I still think of you...

River

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"HONEY! OPEN THE DOOR PLEASE!" Mom called from downstairs.

I rolled my eyes and logged off my computer. I swung around my chair and jumped down the stairs, grabbing onto the pillar and swinging around, landing on the balls of my feet, in my long zebra stripped socks. Dad always yelled at me for doing 'acrobatics' inside the house. When they weren't home I would jump and swing from the upstairs banister, just because I could.

I went to the door and opened it, twirling a lock of my dark hair. I stared up at my mom and chewed on my gum, "Password?"

She rolled her eyes and smiled, "Move honey."

I turned up my nose in disgust and ducked away from her hair-ruffling-hand. Dad came in with bags in his arms and then my jaw locked and I couldn't chew.

Bella stood there, her eyes the same light gold as I remembered when I was little, "You?" I asked.

"River, hey... Wow... you've changed a lot." Bella grinned at me.

I blinked, "Sorry, uh, hey!" I leaned over and hugged her in a rib crushing hug. She laughed and put her bag down, taking me in her arms.

"How are you Riv?"

"Good, great! Now that you're here! I haven't seen you."

She pulled away, "I'm glad you're happy I'm here..." She lowered her voice, "Imagine you and me in a room if we were mad at each other."

I laughed, "My temper's worse than yours."

She shrugged, "So be it."

I went to close the door but a white hand stopped it. I looked up into some more golden eyes. The ghost!

"Edward?" I frowned.

"River." He smiled.

I opened the door to let him in, goggling at him the way I used to. He hadn't changed at all. Actually... Now that I thought about it... Bella hadn't gotten any older looking either! "Edward, hey. Do you want a hug, or is that too awkward for you?" I smirked.

He laughed and held his arms out.

I walked into them and sighed against him, secretly savoring the touch, "Flight good?"

He chuckled, "Normal."

I pulled away, "Come in."

Mom, Dad and Bella were talking in the kitchen and I stood there for a while before offering to take my sister's bags and Edward's to their rooms downstairs.

Edward came along and I showed him down, "We've had some renovations sinse last time... It's all carpeted down here now and a lot of art." I smiled over my shoulder to Edward, "Mom's doing." I pulled the bags down and led him into a small room, "This is yours and Bella's... no doubt you two would want a room together..."

He smiled, "Are you always like this?"

I put the suitcase onto the bed with a huff and wiped the hair out of my face, "Like what?"

"You have changed a lot." He laid his suitcase down gracefully on the bed, hardly making it move.

I looked at it with a raised eyebrow, "Touché."

He laughed again.
"How is it," I stretched over the bed, sprawling out, "That I amuse you so much?"

The corner of his lips were turned up into a crooked smile, as he rooted through his bag, "You are a strange child."

"Complete with every stitch!"

"Huh?"

"Never mind... something I- what's that?" I pulled something out of his suitcase.

He laughed, "I wanted to show that to you."

I looked over it, "Whoa... it's beautiful!" It was a thick, old book. Leather bound and almost falling to bits. I opened it up and saw manuscript with a load of black dots all over it, "Piano?"
"Yes." Edward sat down next to me, "I heard you play?"

I nodded, "Yeah... but... this is crazy!"

He chuckled, "Its mine."

I stared at him. My blue eyes wide, "Wha? You wrote this? All of it?"

He nodded, "Well... I copied it out. My ordinal it at my home back in Forks."

I gawked at the book, "Let me rephrase that... You're crazy!"

"Because I play piano?"

"No, stupid!" I held the book up to his face, "Because you play it like this! I could never do this!" I put the book in my lap, "Never."

He ran a finger over the old parchment, "It's yours."

I gasped, "No way!"

He smiled, "You are a funny child."

I nudged him, "Well you're a crazy old man."

He frowned, "Now the old part you have right."

I smirked, "How old are you, old man?"

He pursed his lips, "Ohh... over one hundred years old."

I laughed, "Well I'm a billion years old!"

"So be it." He smiled and put a hand on my shoulder, "We can be old crazy people."

I nodded, "I'd like that."

"RIVER! EDWARD! COME ON, WE'RE GOING OUT FOR DINNER!"

I grabbed Edwards hand and pulled him out of the room, "You're gonna love it here in Jacksonville!"

"Am I?" Edward teased as we both climbed up the stairs.

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The restaurant was all seafood. The one thing I had eaten every night this week. As soon as my mom ordered the big lobster I was in the bathroom, swearing to myself that I wouldn't throw up.

I sat at the table pushing around the salad with my fork as Bella took massively inhuman bites of her crab cakes. It was like she had forgotten how to eat or something. Edward nibbled on some bread, but that was all. I put my fork down and escaped out onto the balcony where I listened to the acoustic band and watched the wave's crash over the shore.

"Was the meal that nauseating?"

I turned to see Bella grinning at me. I laughed, "What? Unlike you... inhaling it all."

She bit her lip and looked worried, "I was hungry." She stood next to me and leaned on the balcony rail, mirroring myself. "How's school?"

I shrugged, "Pathetic."

She smirked, "I'm sure its more fun then where I live. Lots of people, friends..." She nudged me, "Swimming with boys."

I rolled my eyes, "It's boring..."

"It rains all the time back in Forks."

I sighed, "But it's still beautiful... Even when it rains."

I saw Bella purse her lips and rest her chin in her palm, "You don't seem too happy in Jacksonville... what's up?"

I shrugged, "Nothing... that's it. There's nothing happening." I looked at her, "Besides... I don't really have any friends."

"I'm sure that's not true," She pinched my cheek and smirked, watching the way I jerked backwards, "Why wouldn't people like you?"

I sighed, "They all think I'm some mental girl from the north... I don't get it."

She laughed, "You know what?"

"What?" I rolled my eyes, expecting some long and pathetic line that she read out of a Mothering Book.

"When I moved to forks," She moved behind me and started to play with my wavy (and frizzing) dark hair, "I was so scared. Do you know why?"

"Because you thought people wouldn't like you."

She laughed, "Right. And guess what happened on the first day I started at Forks High school?"

"You remember?"

She smiled, "Oh I remember quite clear." She chuckled, more to herself. I sensed the joke sheared between her and another, but I didn't get it. "Everyone wanted to be my friend... except for one person."

"Mmm?"

"First time I saw Edward, he looked like a hungry... vampire or something."

I laughed, "I'd love to have a vampire for a boyfriend... Sorry, continue..."

She laughed, "I promise to tell any hot vampires about my totally hot sister, if I ever meet one." I smiled and she kept going, "So there I was, sitting at the table, when Edward was glaring at me."

"Glaring at you?"

"Yeah... Over the next couple of days, man, I thought he hated me. Despised me so much, not to turn up at school for the rest of the week."

I gasped, "Is this the same Edward?"

She giggled, "Actually, it is. After a while though, we made amends and..." she paused, "Well... with a few interruptions, look where we are."

I smiled, "Whoa... real love story."

She laughed, "Well I left out all the gory details."

"Oh thanks, I'm sure my apatite will just come skipping back up to me along the yellow brick road."

"So why do people think you're strange?" Bella came around to face me.

I sighed and turned away, fiddling with a piece of thread coming off my long sleeved black shirt, "Well... I'm into all that."

"Into what?"

She laughed, "Bloody romance... Vampires... Werewolves and witches... Old legends... Blood and gore," I turned, "I read the best Indian legend the other night-"

"Whoa, whoa... So people think you're strange because you like history?"

I chewed on my lip, "It's not history I'm interested in... It's just the whole Horror genre. I find it very intriguing."

She laughed, "Sounds like someone's got a good imagination."

I turned and narrowed my eyes, "So you think it's stupid to?"

"No... An imagination is great! Guys will really love you for it."

I grumbled and turned away, "Whatever. I'm still sick of Jacksonville."

She smiled, "Well... Maybe you can come up and stay with Edward's family and I. I'm sure you'd love his brothers and sisters."

I frowned, "He has siblings?"

She laughed, "I better save him from Mom, and you ask him about them." She touched my hair and moved off. I felt the ghost of her fingers in my now braided hair and quickly took it out to hang in a wavy curtain around my face. I climbed onto the railing and sat there, looking at my zebra socks and Mary-Janes. Looking deep down why people hated me so much.

"I'm sure people don't hate you."

I jumped to see Edward leaning on the railing. I opened my mouth and closed it again, frowning.

He chuckled, "Bella told me."

"News travels fast." I looked over my shoulder at my parents chatting happily with Bella inside.

He sighed, "So why all the hating?"

"I don't want to talk about it..." I murmured.

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

He looked at me with a bemused smile, his eyes narrowed as if trying to figure something out, "I'm not sure yet."

I laughed, "You know what?"

"What?" Edward leaned forward, smirking at me. It sent little flutters up my stomach and to my chest.

"Uh... You're just as strange at me."

He laughed, "I've been told I'm... fascinating."

"By Bella no doubt."

He laughed loudly, "Did she say that?"

"No." I bit my lip, "Wanna go for a walk?"

"Alright."

Unbuckling my shoes and chucking them over the side, I winked at him before slipping off the rail and landing on the balls of my feet in sand. I jumped over onto the path and did somewhat of a ballet spin.

Edward pushed off with one hand and jumped over the edge, landing just as gracefully as I did. He smiled, shoving his hands deep in his pockets.

"You guys came at a bit of a bad time," I frowned at the bridge, "Usually there's a pretty sunset."

He laughed, "What if I told you I was allergic to the sun?"

I shrugged, "It would make sense for the ghostly skin colour and," I turned to him smiling as we walked, "I'd call you vampire."

He paused for a moment, "Why would you call me that?"

I bit my lip, "Because you'd be afraid of the sun, and people are so pig headed these days, they jump to the first conclusion. My mind being as exercised and strange as it is, I would make up a more amusable idea, like vampire..." I frowned, "...unless you really are allergic, then I'm sorry if I offended you."

He had that same bemused smile, "You are a strange little girl."

I glared as we walked, "I'm not a little girl anymore... though... you'd be really embarrassed if I said I could prove it."

He sighed, "River... has anyone ever said you were beautiful?"

I stopped dancing down the path, "Uhh... no..."

He chuckled, "Don't be worried, I don't want to hurt or scare you... But your personality is beautiful." He stroked my hair once, "But you are pretty, no doubt."

I eyed him, "So vampire," that was his new nickname, "How come you hated Bella on day one?"

He looked at me out of the corner of his eye and we started to walk again, "First, it was her blood. She was irresistible, and I wanted to drink her dry."

I laughed, "Do you sleep in a coffin?"

He shrugged, "I have a few."

"What about bats? Do you have any pet bats?"

He turned to me, snapping his jaw playfully, "I eat them for dinner."

I frowned, "Hold on... vampires drink blood, not eat bats. Bats are your friends."

He laughed, "Defiantly a beautiful personality."

I glared at him, folding my arms, "Bats are friends?"

"Bats are friends." He smiled.

Isnt Edward cute when River makes him fess up? :P