Chapter 4 extra: Diary entry

Dear Diary

Seriously Bella? Dear diary?

How on earth do you start a diary entry?

Oh well, now I started I'd better go along with it...

Right, I'm Bella (obviously) Swan. Isabella Marie Swan to be exact, but if you call me anything other than Bella I'll rip you page to page and burn you. OK?

Now that we have this settled…

I live in the wettest greenest place you'd imagine. Commonly known as Forks, Washington. I haven't always lived here though. You see I was born here and a few years later, a bit less than 4, my parents divorced and my mom Renee left with me. We moved to a lot of places but ended up at Phoenix, Arizona. A strict contrast of Forks, I'll tell you that. Phoenix is hot, sunny, beautiful and definitely not green.

A little more than a year ago my mom got remarried to minor league baseball player Phil Dwyer. He's a great guy and really loves my mom. He's a bit younger than her but Renee has always been younger than her age. Phil travels a lot and staying at home with me was killing Renee so I decided to exile myself here to live with Charlie. My dad.

I moved here and while living with Charlie is vast different than living with Renee it has its perks. Or had. Charlie is too much like me. We're both quiet, don't show our feelings easily and that makes us more like roommates than father and daughter. Sometimes I miss my daddy. Who would stay in bed with me until I fell asleep and who would call me every week to tell me about his week. But I grew up

and those phone calls slowly stopped, now we're more like roommates like I mentioned...

Moving here gave me a lot of whole new experiences. My first boyfriend, my first kiss, my first heartbreak. My first real friends.

I met HIM on my first day at school. I was at the cafeteria for lunch and was enduring the forks equivalent of the 3rd degree by a girl (Jessica) while being given a few reassuring glances by another girl (Angela) and scowls by the third girl of our group (Lauren). And a few boys were around us either trying to flirt with me (Tyler), or be helpful by carrying my books (Mike) or just be there (Ben - who had his eyes set on Angela so it's ok) and wanting to have me (for god's sake) on the front page of the high school paper (Eric).

He and his family were sitting all together on a table on the far end of the cafeteria. Not talking, not eating, just being there. There were 5 of them. 3 boys and 2 girls. They were by far the most beautiful people I have ever seen. They shared the same ivory skin that looked flawless, dark golden eyes. But that's where their similarities ended.

The boys were completely different. One was big - muscled like a serious weight lifter, with dark, curly hair. Frankly he looked like a bear. And that's mildly putting it, i'll explain in a minute why (Emmet). The second was taller, leaner but still muscular and honey blond. He looked like he was in serious pain (Jasper), and the last one lanky, less bulky with untidy bronze-coloured hair. He was more boyish than the others, who looked like they could be in college, or even teachers rather than the students. This last one had this look about him like he was monitoring

Everyone and everything (Edward).

The girls were opposites. The tall one was statuesque. She had a beautiful figure, the kind you saw on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (don't ask me how I know that - that's for a later entry), the kind that made every girl around her take a hit on her self-esteem just by being in the same room. Her hair was golden, gently waving to the middle of her back (Rosalie). The short girl was pixie-like, thin in the extreme, with small features. Her hair was a deep black, cropped short and pointing in every direction.(Alice)

Their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of

a fashion magazine. Or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful — maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy.

Little I knew. They were not human. They were vampires. Yes, I know. Vampires.

- They do not burn in the sun, they sparkle.

- They do not spend their days sleeping, they don't sleep at all.

- And last but not least they did not drink human blood. They hunt animals.

After a horrible Easter break were I was hunted down to Phoenix by a rogue vampire that wanted to kill me just because I was with a coven of vampires, I was bitten but Edward - my boyfriend - sucked the venom (yeah they got venom running in their veins) out and left me to heal with a broken leg and an almost broken relationship with my dad. I should have realized that something was wrong. He was too eager to leave me that day. Now that I look back at it that was when a tiny seed of fear was placed inside me. I had just woken up from a 2 day coma and I was scared and was ready to get up and leave me. We spent the summer together, only parting when he had to feed.

On my birthday his sister decided to host me a party even though I didn't want one. On that fucking party somehow I managed to cut myself while unwrapping a birthday present. His brother Jasper who is not as able to ignore the blood call, as they called it, tried to attack me. Of course he tried to do that after Edward in order to protect me threw me straight to a table covered in fina china and glass. Seriously who puts all that there during the party of a chronically clumsy girl is beyond me. Not to mention I would be the only one eating and drinking. It was the last straw as far Edward was concerned. After giving me the ice-cold (funny I know) shoulder for about 2 days abandoned me at the forest thus breaking up with me.

It's 4 months later late January and I'm taking back my life with the help of my parents and my friends.

That's it DD I'm going to bed. xoxo