Love Story

DISCLAIMER: IT ALL BELONGS TO STEPHENIE MEYER. I'M JUST BORROWING HER FANTASTIC MADE UP WORLD. Please don't sue me I have no money.

FIRST FANFIC EVER so let me know of any spelling, grammar, or just plain goof's you guys' see and I'll work on fixing them.

This chapter was so hard to write. Please review and let me know what you thought.

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Bella's POV

The long school week was finally over. The bell ending gym had rung about five minutes ago and I was busy changing out of my gym clothes. I quickly put my black skinny jeans on and pulled my royal purple long sleeved sweater on over my black fitted tank top. I shoved my black boots on and headed out the gym door carrying my back pack and over night bag.

Alice meet me at the gym doors. She was wearing white dress pants and a deep forest green silk blouse and a Burberry white bell sleeve trench coat. Her black hair was of course everywhere. She looked like a model

"Hey Bella you ready to go?" Alice asked me as we made our way out of the gymnasium.

" Yeah, I brought my over night bag with me."

"Great, Jasper and Edward are waiting on us. Rosalie and Emmett had to go run some errands for Esme so they'll be at the house this evening." Alice told me as we crossed the school grounds to the parking lot.

"Will your parent's be home when we arrive at your house?"

"Yeah, Carlisle is working the night shift this week so he won't go in until nine tonight and Esme is probably busy preparing supper." Alice tells me as we reach the car. Edward comes around to meet us and takes my bags from me putting them in the car. Alice quickly jumps up front to sit in the passenger seat leaving the backseat to Edward and I.

"Bella how was your first week of school." Edward asked as I buckled up.

"It was really good. I've almost caught up on all the school work the teacher's assigned to me. Of course I don't think I would have been able to get thru it all if I hadn't gone to private school." We were now leaving the school parking lot and getting onto the public roads.

"Do you miss private school?" Edward asked.

"Not really. I didn't have many friends back home and the teacher's were all about the school work they didn't look out for the student's welfare. The kids I went to school with couldn't relate to me they came from money and I was just a teacher's kid. You see my mom teacher's kindergarten at the school I went to and the teacher's get discount's for the children to attend the school." I told him as Jasper makes a sharp turn in the road getting onto a dirt road that winds into the isolated woods.

"So you didn't have any friends?" Edward asked me shocked.

" The other student's and I interacted at school but we never met outside of school unless it was mandatory. I wasn't from their social circles'." I was uncomfortable with all the questions about my old school.

"They were idiots Bella. How could they not want to be your friend?" Edward stated making me blush. The dirt road changed into a paved driveway as we reached the Cullen home.

Jasper opened up the large garage door and pulled the Hummer into the garage next to a yellow Porsche.

"That's my car or it will be once I get my driver's license" Alice says as she gets out of the car.

"Alice, you have another eight months before you can drive that car alone." Jasper says amusedly as he takes Alice's book bag from her hand.

"Yeah but in the mean time I can practice on the weekend with Esme and Carlisle." Alice says as she grabs Jasper's hand and waltz around the car's in the garage too the door leading into their home.

I get out of the car and go to get my bags from the back but Edward is ahead of me and quickly grabs them before I can protest.

" Your are our guest Bella I can't let you carry your bag's." Edward tells me as we reach the open door.

"Why not?" I turn around and ask him

"Well, for one Esme would scold me and the second I want to carry your bags for you."

"Why do you want to carry my bags?" I ask him as I stand in the doorway with my back to the house.

"Cause I'm a gentleman." Edward leans in and whispers in my ear with a smile crossing his face. His breath is cool and smells so sweet. I can't help the blush that takes over my face. I quickly turn around and enter the house. It's mostly made of pine but one side of the house is completely made of glass. The inside is decorated modernly but it has personal touches everywhere. Alice and Jasper turn left into a big kitchen so clean I can hardly believe it's ever been cooked in. As I fully enter the room with Edward following behind I see two other people in the room who must be their parents. The man was tall about a head taller than the woman with bright blond hair and piercing yellow eyes. His skin was pale and he wore a a light blue dress shirt and grey suite. The woman standing next to him was small in stature but had a curvaceous body. She had long flowing medium blond hair and again yellow eyes the same as her family. She was pale as well and wore a navy blue dress and blue high heels.

"Hello Isabella, I'm Carlisle Cullen and this is my wife Esme." Carlisle introduces himself and his wife as Esme reaches out and hugs me. I couldn't help but notice that Esme's arms were cold as they wrapped around me.

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Cullen thank you for letting Alice have me over."

"Your welcome Isabella and please call us by our first names. Were having Italian tonight is that okay?" Esme ask me.

"You can call me Bella and I love Italian. Do you need any help in the kitchen Esme?

"No, your a guest Bella. You kids go upstairs and get settled." Esme tells us.

Jasper and Alice continue to lead the way through the living room to a set of stairs leading upstairs.

"Bella you'll be sleeping in a guest room next door to Edward and across the hall from my bedroom. My bedroom is off limits as I'm redecorating and I don't want you to see the mess it's in." Alice tells me.

"Oh, that's cool." I tell her as we reach the bedroom.

Alice opens the door and I am meet with a sea of white. The flooring is a pale blond wood covered by a white shag rug and the walls are cream colored. The full size bed is covered by a white down comforter and huge white pillows. The bed faces the wall made of glass and it's covered by white shears. There is a writing desk and chair left of the bed that is also painted in shades of white. There are crystal vases on the writing desk and side table that have been filled with fresh white roses. The lighting in the room is coming from an enchanting glass chandelier. The room is beautiful in it's simplicity.

"Do you like it?" Alice asks me as Edward puts my bags next to the closet on the right side of the room.

"It's beautiful. Did you design the room?"

"Yeah. It's a guest room right know but I can't help but think it's meant for someone. That's why I decorated it the way I did. It's kind of a blank slat you know so whoever the room really belongs to can make it there own." Alice tells me.

"Hey, I gotta get going. I'll see you later." Jasper tells Alice after looking at his watch. He leans up and kisses her on the check and quickly leaves the room.

"Does Jasper have a job?"

"Oh no...he's going hiking up the trail. Our whole family loves to hike and hunt. He should be back later tonight." Alice tells me.

"Oh, okay." I tell Alice but really that doesn't make since. Jasper looked almost pained when he left and he always seems tense around me. When I get glimpses of him around his family he seems completely at ease but around anyone else he always seems like he is about to lose it. What makes it hard for him to be around others?

"Hey Bella why don't we show your are basement. We've turned it into a huge game room." Edward distracts me from my confusing thought's.

We go back down the stairs thru the open living room and into a small hallway that is covered with family pictures. At the end of the hallway is a set of stairs that we go down at the end of the stairs and enter the huge game room.

The room is amazing. The flooring is hardwood floors with gray and white shag rugs dividing the room. The walls are a light gray with a dark blue grey couch that lies over a white shag rug. Decorative pillows cover the couch. The pillows are in a lighter shade of gray and are covered in dark blue flowers. The entertainment center takes over the wall in front of the couch. There's a flat screen plasma television, an X-Box, and a Sony radio system. One of the walls is covered in dark wood cases filled with CD's and vinyls. In a corner of the room is a low dark wood table on a dark gray shag rug with silk pillows in shades of purples, blues, and grays littering the floor. By the table is another bookshelf but it's covered in board games. The wall across from the entrance was covered in a deep steel blue silk fabric.

"Behind the curtains is the glass wall but we keep the curtains shut when were watching movies." Alice tells me.

"Alice can you please go help Esme finish supper. I've been called into work early." Carlisle calls from the doorway holding his briefcase in one arm and his jacket draped across the other arm.

"Excuse me." Alice says as she exits the room to go help Esme finish dinner.

"Is everything okay?" Edward ask Carlisle

"There was an accident outside of town. Looks like some College kids were passing thru and lost control of their car on one of the winding roads. Don't wait up the moon is full tonight and you know what that means." Carlisle tells Edward as he turns to leave.

"Be careful Carlisle."

"You to Edward." Carlisle says as he walks down the hallway.

All of a sudden I am acutely aware that it's just Edward and I in the room. My heart starts to beat a little quicker as I catch Edward's eyes and realize that he is staring at me again.

"Do I frighten you Bella?" Edward ask amusedly

"No. Why would I be scared of you?" I quickly laugh trying to cover up the fact that I had no idea what to do with myself.

"More reasons than you think Bella." Edward says cryptically to my flippant answer.

"You guys just moved here a few months ago were did you move from?" I asked him trying to get quickly change the subject as I sit down on the couch.

"We moved here from Alaska. Esme was home schooling us but wanted us to graduate from a real High School to give us a better chance of getting into an a good University." Edward says keeping with my change in subject and sits down next to me on the couch.

"How long were you home schooled?" I asked quickly becoming unaware of the world around me as I look into his beautiful champagne colored eyes.

"Just the three years that we lived in Alaska. Our family tends to move around a lot. Why did you decide to move back to Forks?"

"I missed my dad."

"You missed your dad?" Edward asked me like he knew there was more to the story.

"Yeah I missed my dad." I stuttered out trying to end the conversation.

"That's not the whole story." Edward tells me with that stupid ridiculous melt worthy smirk.

"It isn't? We'll I guess I wanted to also give my mom some space."

"Space?"

"She meet this really great guy Phil last summer and they've been getting real serious. I helped Phil pick out an engagement ring before I came here. He's going to ask her to marry him on Valentines' Day. I mean I have missed my dad and I'm enjoying my time with him but I was happy with my mom. You see Phil is a minor league baseball player and he travels a lot and mom will probably want to join him. She quite teaching full time about a year ago she likes to substitute. I wanted her to be happy without having to worry about me."

"Are you happy here?" Edward asked me.

"I'm beginning to think that I can be happy here I just have to give it a chance. I feel more free here than I did back home. Charlie doesn't hover like my mom does."

"Why does your mom hover?" Edward ask me and I laugh out loud.

"Don't tell me you haven't noticed that I can't walk without stumbling or that I seem to walk into walls and doorways? I'm a magnet for accidents. Renee is also more needy. She sees me not only as her only child but her best friend. Charlie is more laid back. He understands I'm my own person. He also gets that accidents are just in my nature. He has a sister who was a lot like me when she was a teenager."

"Really? Where is she?"

"She lives in Georgia but no one's seen her in years. She's an Art Professor and lives like a gypsy. She's lived in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and now Savannah. I won't be surprised if she moves again soon. She likes to tell my dad that she moves with the wind. She sends a letter every few months to Charlie but that's about it."

"She sounds interesting. Do you have any other family."

"The only real family I have are Charlie and Renee. The rest of the family is distant."

"That's too bad. Carlisle and Esme don't have any living family so it's just our little made up family." Edward tells me.

"Sometimes that's the best type of family though the one we chose."

We both look up as we here someone walking down the hallway towards us.

"Hey kids supper's ready." Esme calls from the doorway.

We quickly follow Esme upstairs to the kitchen and sit down to eat. I can't help but notice that Alice, Esme, and Edward are picking at their food but I don't say anything.

"Esme this is delicious." I tell her as I take another bite out of my mushroom ravioli.

"Thank you I got the recipe off one of those cooking programs."

"Oh, well it's great." I tell her as I take a bite out of my salad

"I'm sorry Rosalie and Emmett are not going to be able to join us this weekend." Esme tells us and we all look up to hear what has happened.

"I thought they'd be back tonight." Alice speaks up from moving her ravioli under her salad.

"They had some car troubles outside of Seattle and won't be able to get back until late Sunday evening. Their staying with some family friends until the car is repaired. If you'll excuse me I'm done. Edward it's your turn to do the dishes." Esme says as she gets up with a barely eaten plate of food.

"Do you want anymore food Bella?" Alice asks as I finish my supper.

"No, thank you."

"Okay well I'm going to start putting the food away. Edward you can start washing the dishes." Alice says as she starts clearing the table off putting food away in a Tupperware set Esme must have left out.

"Do you guys need any help?" I ask as they move around the kitchen.

"Not really. Why don't you go back to the game room and find us a movie to watch? The movies are in the table below the television. Pick anything you want as the boys made us watch gory horror and action movies last weekend." Alice tells me as I get up to go back to the game room.

As I make my way back to the game room I can't help but think that something was extremely different about the Cullen family. Questions I didn't dare think were nagging in the back of my mind trying to solve this bizarre mystery. The first friend's have made in years and they have to end up being as weird as me. They obviously had a secret but so did I. It seemed secrets were everywhere these days.

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AN: Not sure if that's a great spot to stop but I want to update. Next chapter should hopefully have cuddling on couch and the LONG awaited shopping trip. I'm going shopping tomorrow purely for research methods. Sorry for the delay in posting this chapter but I had to work this week and take care of my mom who is recovering from surgery.

I left some things unexplained but they well be explained once Bella learns their vampires. I hope it'll be soon because it's hard writing a Bella who doesn't know the Cullen's dirty secret. I also want to introduce the Blacks into the story soon. I need to have a way to get more Emmett and Rosalie into the story as well. I hope to get some outlines of the next couple of chapters done this weekend and a chapter posted some time next week.