Hey peoples! Sorry this took so long! I was typing it up yesterday and I went to save it, but my computer fudged up and wouldn't let me save it, so I exited out, hoping that it would have a back up file, but it didn't. So I had to retype the whole thing, but oh well enjoy the chapter. Thanks to the people who reviewed the last chapter, and those people are bullriding lover, Bookwurmgrl, Be-Twilight-Forever, Shaina Angel Peh, LindseyRae, 13IsLucky, ThuyAnd, JorjaJolie, aLiSOn395, Verolina, MsTiggy, SadnessInTheSunrise, LullaFi De Cullen, Blushing Bella18, Twilightaholic1122, and LuvTwilight4-Ever. And a specia thanks to my friend Locketful o' Heartache for supporting my decisions and letting me annoy the heck out of her with my ranting lol.

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Bella POV

The night at the orphanage was horrible. I could hear everything that was going on in the rooms around mine. Some kids were crying, some were snoring, and some giggling and talking in whispers.

"Hey, did you hear about the new girl?" One nasally voice asked.

"Yeah, I hear she's really pretty" Another voice answered,

"Pfft, Whatever, She doesn't even, like, talk to anyone."

"I know she is too weird."

They started sniggering to each other. I shot out of bed a hundred percent ready to slap some sense into those girls. I marched across the floor, but was able to get a grip on myself at the door. I clutched onto the frame and repeated 'They're not worth it, your better than this, They're not worth it, Your better than this' in my head like a mantra. I decided to release my anger by trying something, I'd seen people do on TV. Punch inanimate objects. I eyed the wall next to me and delivered a solid blow. To my surprise and horror my fist went straight through the wall. I gasped and examined my hand-not a scratch. The hole in the wall was impossible to miss so I did something else I'd seen on TV. I fled the scene of the incident.

I had been about an hour since the 'wall' catastrophe and I was feeling even more like a freak than usual. One girl even got the nerve to me.

"Hi, I'm Jessica" She smiled a teethe missing smile, and that bugged me even more because I already had all of my permanent teethe. I didn't say any thing so eventually she got discouraged. I could tell by the way her face fell. I immediately felt guilty. Katelyn was right when she said I was a sucker for guilt trips.

"My name is Bella" I said just above a whisper. She suddenly grinned and said, "I told them you weren't weird!" She laughed and I laughed too without humor. That's what she said I thought -another line I'd learned from Kate-

Jessica was about to say something else, but she was interrupted much to my relief.

"Children!" A sharp feminine voice rang from the orphanage, "Get dressed in your nicest clothes, and make yourselves presentable! We have visitors who are looking to adopt."

"Well, see you later Bella" Jess said with fake sincerity.

"Sure, Jess" I said with an even faker smile.

I went inside, washed my face, and looked for something in my bags to wear. I grimaced at the clothes Mrs. Newton had packed me. I shuddered, How much pink could fit in one suitcase? I decided to go with the most comfortable thing in there. I wore a light cotton dress -in pink sadly- with white leggings underneath and white ballerina flats. My hair hung around my face in waves.

"Bella, you ready yet!" Jess's obnoxious voice came from the other side of the door. Instead of answering her I opened the door. She surveyed my outfit with critical eyes. Then she smiled.

"Oh, my god! Pink is my favowite color too!" She said, slurring some of her words like any normal four year old would. I bit back a groan when some of the other girls had come over too and started squealing over my outfit.

"We don't want too be late." I said without enthusiasm. The girls nodded and murmured in agreement, and we filed our way down the stairs and to the room where families came to pick their 'perfect child'. We lined up, and then a beautiful family walked in. They were very pale and graceful. There was a tall blonde, who seemed to be the father, even though he looked very young. Holding on to his arm was a carmel haired woman who was pretty to say the least. She also had a motherly air around her. Then there was a huge burly guy, who frightened me a little -but, hey I punched through a wall- his arm was around the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was tall, blonde, and gorgeous. Next to her was a lanky, honey blonde who looked like... he was strained or something. He was holding a short but striking girl, who oddly reminded my of a black spiky haired Tinkerbell. Lastly there was the most amazing of all. He was tall and well built. We had the most interesting color of hair, it looked sort of like a penny. I looked at the other kids to see that their eyes had gone wide, taking in the beautiful family. The orphanage owner, Mrs. Conner was babbling on about the benefits of adopting, but none of them seemed to be listening. They were all staring intently at... me! Why are they staring at me? I thought frantically, Do I have something on my face? The blonde father walked toward me without even looking at the other kids. He leaned down to my eye level and said, with surprisingly no disgust in his voice, "What are you?".

-A/N-I was going to end it here but I kept going, because I'm so nice.-

He said it as a simple question, like "How are you today?" and even though his face was calm and relaxed my thoughts were going a-mile-a-minute. How did he know? Was he different too? What did he want? Before my thoughts became coherent again I blurted out the first thing I could think of. And for once I didn't say 'different'.

"Hybrid"

He must have understood what it meant because his face broke out into a smile and his face lit up as if someone had set up a new, exciting puzzle fo him to figure out.

"Of course" he muttered to himself, and then to my surprise he picked me up and walked over to Mrs. Conner.

"My family and I would like to adopt miss..." he trailed off. "Bella" I answered. He smiled,"Miss Bella, here". "Yes of course." she answered pulling out the paperwork. I looked over to the attractive family. They all seemed to be happy with one exception. I frowned when I noticed the copper haired boy was staring off into space and he looked frustrated about something. I didn't understand the urge I got to go over and comfort him.

The carmel haired woman was the first one to walk over and take me from the blonde man. She smiled warmly at me, and somehow she reminded me a lot of Renee, even though they did not look alike at all.

"Hello there sweetie, I'm Esme and this is my family." She said kindly. "That was my husband, Carlisle that you just met." I nodded. "This is Emmett and Rosalie." She said pointing at the super model blonde and the muscular guy. Rosalie smiled at me like a mother meeting her long lost daughter. And Emmett, well he more like flashed his teethe and made some of the children step back. "That's Alice and Jasper." She said, introducing me to Tinkerbell, who was waving ecstatically , and the lanky blonde who smiled softly.

"And that's Edward" She said proudly, directing the bronze haired boy's attention toward us. Edward, Edward, Edward, I liked that name He had on the same frustrated look, but when he saw me , he gave me a crooked smile. I felt my fluttering heart stutter and start back up again. He looked at me in concern as if he heard my heard stop for a second.

I suddenly became aware of Mrs. Conner's voice, "And sign here...and here...and here...And your done!"

"Alright Bella! You are now officially Bella Cullen" I smiled, Bella Culllen, I liked the way that sounded. Before I knew it Esme had reluctantly passed me into Rose's arms. She grinned at me and spoke adoringly. "Hi Bella. You are so adorable! Your going to live with us, and we're going to take care of you, and we'll never leave you, and we'll hurt anyone who tries to take you away."

"Rose! Don't scare her!" Alice scolded and suddenly I was scooped out of Rosalie's arms and into Alice's. She went on about clothes and nonsense as she danced out the door, and toward a black Mercedes. "And you will just love this light blue pencil skirt I got you, which will go the other shoes..." She babbled on as she strapped me into a car seat and started the car. Jasper was sitting in the passenger seat next to her. I watched from the window as Esme, Carlisle, and Edward got into a silver Volvo, and Rose and Em got into a red convertible. The ride to the house was silent. I was too afraid to speak and wake up from this dream world where there were people who accepted me.

"We're here!" Alice announced as we pulled up to a Victorian styled home. I felt me jaw drop as I took in the modern, but tasteful house/mansion. Alice chuckled, "Do you like it? Esme designed it."

"It's beautiful." I mumbled

When we walked in the living room where allo of the Cullen's were assembled. I sat on the couch in between Esme an Rose and I felt like I could belong, here that I did belong, but before I got my hopes up there were a few questions I had to ask.

"So." I said casually. "What are you?"

Now it was the Cullen's turn to freeze up.

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Jacky