BPOV

It was nine in the evening and Ashley and I had been messing around for hours. It was so odd having a sister, I was older than her by a few years but that didn't seem to matter. We had instantly clicked, although we were total opposites. She enjoyed watching horror films, fashionable clothes, and she sounds like one of those popular girls. But horror films make me queasy, I prefer comfortable clothes than fashionable ones and I like my few close friends. I used to think that people who are this different find it hard to get along, but I guess there is something about us. I really like her, I honestly had nothing to worry about. She was really accepting from the moment I met her, I almost want to tell her about vampires and everything but I really shouldn't – at least not yet.

"Hey Bella, didn't you say your guy was coming round later?" She piped up. She had taken to calling Edward 'my guy'… must be an English thing.

"Yeah he was actually, I don't know where he's got to." To be honest I hadn't noticed that he hadn't turned up. The time from when Ashley's Dad said she could sleep round and now had been a giggly blur. All I could remember was us throwing some toothpaste at each other and ending up in a heap on the floor.

EPOV

I pulled my car up in Bella's driveway. I'd been to see Carlisle to check everything was okay, but apparently the wolves hadn't been able to find the vampire. Until they did I was going to keep a watchful eye on Bella's house – not that I didn't anyway. I got out and threw the door closed as I walked up the front door. My vampire senses could hear Charlie watching the game and some giggling coming from inside. I opened the door and walked in. Charlie had got used to me coming in when I wanted, as long as I didn't distract him from his game.

"YEEEAHHH!" He roared as I made my way into the living room, obviously his team had just scored. He looked up and saw me.

"Edward." He nodded at me and got back to his game. I sat myself down next to him on the couch. It was then I heard some light footsteps tapping down the stairs, and in an instant a the slim girl I had seen earlier ran in from the hallway through the room, jumped over a stool and dashed out of the opposite door which lead to the kitchen. I would usually be alarmed, but what surprised me more was that half a second later, Bella ran in from the hallway and did the exact same thing. Both girls were wearing their Pyjamas and big fluffy boot slippers. I rose from the couch and strolled into the kitchen to see Bella cornering her sister next to the kitchen counter. Ashley had the phone in her hand that I bought Bella for her birthday and Bella had a tube of toothpaste pointing directly at Ashley.

"Give it to me, now!" Bella laughed.

"Ok, ok! Take it!" Ashley cried in surrender. It seemed my Bella could be persuasive at times. Both girls were laughing cheekily. It wasn't often I saw Bella being this at ease and hyper, especially with someone she had just met. Bella spun around,

"Oh, Hey Edward." She said. I walked over and kissed her gently on her soft lips.

"Awwwwwww!" I heard from the corner of the room and Ashley was standing there staring at us. Bella laughed.

"Edward, this is Ashley my sister." She introduced. "Ashley, Edward by boyfriend. I told you about him."

"Hell yeah you did." She replied.

"Listen Bella. I'm going to go back tonight. I'll explain later. I just came to say good night, and I'll pick you both up tomorrow for school." I leant in and kissed her again. "And I'll be watching." I whispered in her ear.

APOV

Edward gave me and Bella a lift to school. He seemed cool, all gentleman-like and stuff. The first couple of periods were boring, but its school so what should I expect? At lunch Bella tried to persuade me to eat with her and her friends – when I say friends I mean Edward's family, it's a bit confusing so I just don't ask. But I said I wanted to eat with people in my own year, I wanted to make as many friends as possible in this under-populated school. In the past few months I had realised that friends are so important, I think more important than family. I was sitting at the cafeteria table with Jodie and Kevin, two of my new friends. They seem pretty cool.

"So Ashley, why did you move to America?" Jodie asked.

"Oh, I'll tell you some other time, it's a long story." I replied.

"Fair enough. Oh Ashley! You have to come to the dance this Friday!" She squealed.

"What dance?" I asked.

"There's a dance this Friday, it starts at seven. You have to come it's kind of a big thing. Everyone will be there and I bet it'll be a great chance to make friends." She tried to persuade me. I didn't need persuading, I loved dances and anything that involved music.

"I'm so there. But do I need a date?" I asked.

"Err, well I have one. But you have loads of time to be asked, and even if you don't you can come with me. You don't really need a date." She said.

"Why don't you come with me Ashley?" Kevin asked. "I mean as friends." He smiled. He was really sweet.

"Yeah that'd be cool." The bell rang as I ended the conversation.

After school, Bella said she would take me to meet some of her friends that lived in La Push. She kissed goodbye to Edward in the parking lot, he got in his Volvo and drove to his house with the rest of the Cullens. I had learned their names by now: Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. They were couples and adopted, at first I thought it was strange but imagine how cool it would be to live with your boyfriend?

Bella's truck was making its way down the windy road which led to her friend Jacob's house, we were going to be meeting him and then going to the beach to meet the rest of her friends. Bella drove so slowly, if it was me I would just zoom down the road but that's probably why I'm not allowed to drive. After a few minutes we pulled up at a small house next to the forest. It had a large garage and no car outside. A tall muscular boy burst out of the front door as soon as we stopped and ran towards the car. Bella jumped out and he pulled her into a bear hug. I must say, he was hot, but too old for me obviously. I hopped out the car and smiled at him.

"Hey Jake this is Ashley my sister." Bella introduced.

"Hey! You look weirdly a-like. You're gonna get on so well with the guys. They like people like you!" He said cheerily. I laughed,

"Umm I hate to burst your bubble, but how could you know that, you don't know me!" He grinned and chuckled,

"Oh yeah I know. But Bella's talked about you and I can just tell, I'm really close to these guys." He replied. I rolled my eyes as we started to walk towards the beach, chatting about everything.

Once we got there I could see about seven tall guys, all about the same size as Jacob, and funnily enough they all looked a-like. As they turned as saw us coming towards them they all yelled and made their way to greet us.

It took me a few minutes but soon enough I knew everyone there. There was Embry, Quil, Paul, Jared, Seth, Sam, Brady and Collin. That was the guys anyway, I also met Emily, Leah and Kim. We stayed on the beach for hours, messing around and talking. At 11, Bella said we should go home, but I really didn't want to leave.

"Come on Ashley, it's really late and Charlie will be wondering about us." She said.

"But Embry is telling me this really cool story about when him and Quil went cliff diving!" I protested.

"Hey Bella, how 'bout you go home with Jake and I'll take Ashley back as soon as I'm done." Embry suggested. I was thrilled that someone else was backing me up, it meant I had a chance. Bella sighed,

"Fine, but she had better be back in half an hour!" Bella called, she was already walking off with Jacob.

Embry went back to his story.

Twenty minutes later, he was stopped,

"…so then you should have seen his face when…" He continued excitedly when Sam interrupted him.

"Embry." He called in a deep voice, "We need to go." He was looking at Embry seriously and Embry's excited expression suddenly fell, as if they could hear each other's thoughts.

"Ok, I'll just walk Ashley home." He replied, and held out his hand to help me off the ground. I took it and we started to walk back up the beach.

"You don't have to walk me you know. I know the way, I can go by myself if Sam needs you." I said. He scoffed and shook his head.

"Don't be ridiculous, I'm not letting you walk that way at this time. It's dark, you never know who will be lurking around at this time of night." He had suddenly become serious.

"I know what it's like. But when I lived in England I used to walk around late, and I lived in a really dodgy town. And that's probably why…" I stopped my babbling, I wasn't even going to start about the bad things that happened there. He glanced at me and narrowed his eyebrows. I wanted to change the subject quickly.

"What was all that about with Sam anyway?" I asked.

"Oh, nothing... don't worry." He said nervously.

"Umm, okay." We walked in silence for a bit, having short chats about simple things. We arrived a few houses away from Bella's after ten minutes. Suddenly I heard a loud howl coming from the woods and Embry's head jerked towards it and all his muscles tensed.

"Quickly, we need to hurry up." He said as he continued walking.

"Oh, don't worry go find Sam. I'll be fine, I've only got to walk a few blocks. Seriously I can do that by myself." I said. He looked unsure as he glanced form me to the house.

"Okay, but go straight there and be quick." He said. It really was only ten metres away.

"I'll see you round then. Bye Embry." I smiled at him. He smiled back but looked worried and anxious. What had suddenly gotten into him? I started to go towards the house when he grabbed me by the arm.

"Stay inside okay?" He commanded. "And I mean it, be quick." He finished as he darted off into the forest. From his leaving I started to realise how cold it really was. I felt shivers as I quickly started to make my way up towards the house when I stopped dead in my tracks. Across the road from where I was standing, a figure loomed at the edge of the forest. The only reason I saw them was because their skin was so pale. They were dressed completely in black and were standing staring at me. Shock and fear pulsed through my body as I blinked hard to make sure they were really there. But when I opened my eyes, the mysterious figure had disappeared. Not wanting to stay out there any longer I ran into the house, and made my way up to bed, thinking about the mysterious person.

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