We wandered through the woods, something I had been looking forwards too. The woods had always held an interest to me; they were both quiet and full of life, empty and yet full of secrets and most of all normally far, far away from people – unlike tonight. Alice occasionally held back branches or pointed out loose roots on the floor for which I was grateful, even if she had put me in 5 inch death traps for a walk through the woods.
We stepped into a smoky clearing and my breath caught in my throat. It was magical, the red and orange flames flickered many feet into the air, casting shadows and slightly obscuring my vision. There were dark shapes moving on the other side of the fire so we stumbled towards them.
"Ah, Alice, you have appeared." The boy's voice was so perfect it was slightly scary, just like the boy.
"And you've brought company" Another person added who I couldn't make out.
"Indeed I have, this is Bella" She gestured to me with one hand.
"Nice to meet you Bella, I'm Edward and this is Joe" Joe stepped forwards so that I could see him; he was just as gorgeous as Edward and Alice. Were they related or something? "I'm Alice's brother, Joe's something like a second cousin or something, I'm not actually sure but I do know he's somehow related" He admitted with a grin, it was like he had read my thoughts. People can't do that right?
Edward led us to a log that was on the ground where a few other people were sitting. They all turned to look at us at the same time I groaned inwardly when I saw that they were all just like Edward and Alice. Alice leaned towards my ear and whispered to me
"Just so you know, no one else here is related to us. The blonde ones are Rosalie and Jasper Hale, they're twins, and I'm dating Jasper. The strawberry blonde is Tanya, she thinks that she's dating Edward but she's not. And the two in the corner are James and Pieter."
"I'm never going to remember that" I groaned at her and she smiled lighting up her face. Tanya looks a little less stunning, she doesn't seem so intimidating which I'm kind of glad of. James and Pieter are kind of hot but not really my type and we just won't go into Rosalie and Jasper, they're waaaay too perfect.
"Hi Alice… Alice's friend" Tanya gave me a questioning look.
"I'm Bella" Tanya nodded and turned back to Rosalie immediately resuming their conversation. We went and sat down; Alice sat down with Jasper and left me having to sit next to Edward.
"So, I take it you're a new student" Edward had turned to me, I think it was fairly obvious that he simply didn't want to get into a conversation with Tanya who was sitting on his other side.
"Yep"
"What do you think of the school so far?" That's kind of stupid; doesn't he know that I haven't even started lessons yet?
"Well, I guess you know that I haven't had any lessons yet, what with them not starting for a couple of days but the buildings are amazing."
"Yeah, you should see the gardens; they have a sort of magical feel to them"
"That sounds good but you might have to convince your evil little sister to let me go first" He laughed, the sound was like bells, I was mesmerised by it.
"I'll try, I can give you a tour if you want" Why was he being so friendly? Guys never even looked at me normally. I guess it must just be because his sister is my friend now.
"Yeah, that sounds good."
"Do you want to meet up tomorrow morning?"
"Sure, what sort of time?"
"Ummm, ten?" Phew, I'll have time to prepare myself. I always get up way too early, at least for a normal person.
"That sounds good" Damn, I was repeating myself, I do that far too much. He grinned at me and I couldn't help but smile back.
"Oy, Eddie, are you gonna start with the stories or not?" James called at him. Stories? I looked at him questioningly.
"I promised him that I would tell some of the old folk legends surrounding this area, he apparently hasn't ever heard of them. Of course now I can tell them to you too" He smiled down at me. My lips twitched up almost like an automatic response. Rosalie wandered over to whisper in Edwards's ear and I stared at the flames, having a moment to myself. It was then that I realised that Alice had completely lied to me earlier, she'd told me nothing would be set on fire and then there were also way more people than she had originally said. Despite this, everything just seemed right.
Rosalie backed away and Edward stood up. The flames seemed to jump higher and burn brighter as though anticipating his stories. Edward began to speak.
Okay, if I get one more review I'll post up some of my lovely folk legends in this story just for you guys :). I promise there will be a lot of twists in the plot but I really thought some background info was needed first. It will get more interesting I promise.
On a sadder note I don't own any of the Twilight characters or anything. However, I do own Pieter (he's Dutch just so you know) and James isn't the SM character, he's infact called Jamie but prefers James and I'm now explaining characters from my imagination as though they are real. I really ought to get a life :)
Love you guys x