"Bells, kiddo, you almost ready?" Charlie called up the stairs. Of course I wasn't ready, it was my first day of senior year at a new high school, but I had decided it was time to move back with Charlie since my mother died. Phil was a nice guy and all but it was just awkward living with him without my mom.

"Yea dad, I'll be right down." I glanced at my reflection once more, I looked decent enough. I grabbed my backpack, closed my bedroom door and headed down the stairs.

"So about tonight Bells, I'm gonna have to stay late to investigate a new lead my guys discovered early this morning. I know I haven't been home a lot since you moved back, but you'll be alright right?"

"Yup don't even worry about it Dad. I'm pretty capable of taking care of myself, including driving myself to school." And that was the truth, I didn't mind being alone, this past two months with Charlie have been peaceful and with his job, even though he didn't explain much, I expected there to be nights where he wouldn't even be able to come home.

"Come on Bells, I promise you'll have the rest of the year to drive yourself, but today, on your first day, I insist." Charlie protested, looking at me while I crossed my arms. "You're just as stubborn as I am." He chuckled.

Since I might not see Charlie until tomorrow, I didn't want to argue. "Alright then, let's go." I agreed. Charlie gave me a victorious smile, making me smile back.

After wishing me luck, Charlie drove off and I walked straight for the office to pick up my schedule and locker combo. Surprisingly, my locker wasn't hard to find at all. It was in the same hallway as my first class, English. As I approached my locked I noticed a shot-spiky haired girl rearranging the locker right next to mine. When I got to my locker, I put in the combo, but of course, with my luck, it didn't open. I looked at the paper making sure I had the right numbers, and I did, so I tried twice more but failed.

The pixie-like girl noticed my struggle and turned to smile at me. "Need some help?" she offered.

"Please?" I smiled back. Her smile was so reassuring, I felt like I could trust her.

"You just have to give it an extra little shove when putting the last number in." she instructed while demonstrating. When she successfully opened it she put her hand out. "The name's Alice."

"I'm Bella." I shook her hand.

"You're new?"

"Yes, I moved from Phoenix."

"Wow Phoenix. What brings you to Forks?"

"My mom died, and I just decided it was time to spend time with my dad." I shrugged.

"Oh. Well I'm sorry about your mom. Let me see your schedule?" She thankfully changed the subject before I could be sad.

"Hey we have first period English and fourth period Spanish together!" She exclaimed.

"Great!" I was grateful to have at least one person I could talk to.

"Come on, I'll show you where your classes are!" Alice piped, linking her arm in mine.

The whole first period I was answering Alice's questions and explaining my hobbies, likes and dislikes, I probably bore her. Second and third period were blurs while the teachers talked the whole time about their expectations and rules. Then in fourth period, the teacher made everyone introduce themselves in Spanish, when it was my turn I'm sure I turned tomato red, but I was glad I remembered what to say. Alice was still continuing to question me until the bell rang and we were dismissed.

"Bella, why don't you eat lunch with me and my sister today?" Alice asked, pleading with her eyes.

"Um sure." Hopefully Alice's sister would be just as nice as Alice. While walking to the cafeteria, Alice explained to me about her family.

"It's just me and Rose left in high school now. Jasper, Emmett and Edward went off to an academy for training. We're all not really related except for Rosalie and Jasper, they're real brother and sister. Carlisle and Esme are our legal guardians. Anyways I'll explain more later. Look there's Rose!" She pointed in the direction where I saw a blond haired and blue eyed girl at the salad bar, she had curls down to the middle of her back and I instantly envied her model looks.

"Rose, this is Bella she's from Phoenix, I invited her to eat lunch with us!" Alice exclaimed as we approached. Rosalie turned to look at me; I guess she approved of me, because she smiled. When I smiled back she put she hand out.

"Hey Bella, I'm Rosalie."

"I hope I'm not intruding by eating lunch with you guys."

"Don't even worry about it, sometimes Alice can be a bit dull." She joked, making Alice stick out her tongue.

"Yay! We'll be like the three musketeers." Alice chirped. Rosalie and I just laughed. I followed their lead of getting a salad, and we sat at a table right in the center of the cafeteria. I looked around and noticed a lot of people looking at me. Alice must have noticed how I was uncomfortable about the staring because she spoke up.

"Looks like you're quite the attention-grabber Bella." She joked, "You'll fit right in with me and Rose."

"Hopefully." I mumbled.

"So got any plans tonight?" Rose asked.

"No, I barely know anyone but you two and my dad."

"Why don't you come over for dinner tonight?" Alice proposed. "You could meet the rest of the bunch and we can get to know each other even better, besides today's Wednesday, which means it's my day to make dinner, and I'm feeling like Italian!" With the excitement in Alice's eyes I couldn't turn her down.

"Sounds good."

"Perfect! I'll give you our address later. You won't have to do anything but bring yourself. It's gonna be so much fun!" Alice beamed.

"For sure, I'll be there." It's not like I had anything better to do.

As I drove my truck up to the Cullen's house, my jaw dropped. Alice had mentioned Carlisle was a doctor but this was crazy. It wasn't even a house; it looked more like a mansion. I parked my truck in front of their house, where the road through the forest trees ended. While walking to the front door, I could hear the flow of a river, must be one nearby in the forest.

I stopped in front of the door, putting a hand through my hair nervously; I took a deep breath, and then knocked. A couple moments passed by before the door was opened in one fast, swift movement.

"You must be Bella, Alice's friend." The bronze haired guy spoke. I looked up meeting his breath-taking green eyes.

"Yeaa, I um… I was supposed to come over for dinner." I had never been a boy crazy kind of girl but this guy was gorgeous, I couldn't even keep my train of thought.

"Yes, she told us, come in." He moved aside to let me in and closed the door behind me. "She's in the kitchen there." He pointed to an archway that led to the kitchen.

"Cool, thanks." He nodded and smiled politely before turning and walking upstairs. I don't know how long I must have been staring at him but I heard someone clear their throat. I turned around to see Alice grinning at me.

"I hope Edward was polite, he sometimes has his moods after a hard day of training at the academy."

"Yeaa he was perfect." I said and Alice's eyebrows rose. "Um I mean perfectly polite." I corrected. Alice nodded and I knew Alice saw right through me but she probably just didn't want to embarrass me.

"Well I'm glad you're here cause you can help she set the table." She started walking away until she stopped and turned back around. "Unless you wanna stare at Edwards some more." She teased grinning.

"Let's just go set the table." I said while narrowing my eyes.

At dinner I ended up sitting between Alice and Emmett with Edward directly across the table facing me, which I'm sure Alice planned. Carlisle and Esme were two of the nicest people I've ever met. Emmett was hilarious, and the way he always referred to Rose as my girl was adorable. Jasper wasn't as outspoken as the others but he was friendly, he and Alice seemed to be super happy together. That just left Edward, as gorgeous as he was, I thought he would be cocky but he was the opposite. He was the level headed one, the one who seemed to hold them all together. I hated to admit it, but I felt strangely attracted to him.

After dinner, Alice had practically begged me to stay to watch a movie, while Carlisle and Esme went upstairs to give us privacy although I wouldn't have minded if they stayed. Alice had made us all root beer floats as Emmett put in the Dark Knight.

I zoned a lot during the movie, thinking how I could start a conversation with Edward who was sitting two people away. Alice had fell asleep on Jasper's shoulders and Emmett and Rosalie had kept sneaking kisses when they thought we weren't looking. Once the credits came on, I took that as my cue to leave.

I didn't want to wake up Alice so I went to Rose. "Thank you for inviting me over. It was a blast." I hugged her and turned to shake Emmett's hand but he grabbed me and gave me a hug.

"Any friend of Rose's is a friend of mine." Emmett chuckled. I turned to Jasper and since he had Alice sleeping on him I didn't want him to move so I just smiled and said goodbye. Lastly I turned to Edward, and I mentally slapped myself when I felt butterflies.

"It was nice meeting you. Please thank your parents for me." I said shaking his hand.

"Your welcome, hopefully we'll see each other soon." He responded and his crooked smile left me breathless. Once I started driving I couldn't help but smile. I wanted to say it was because I had made more friends, but I couldn't lie to myself better than I could lie to anyone else, it was because of Edward Cullen.

I was trying to remember moments during the night where he might have shown interest but who was I kidding, I had just met this guy. I barely knew him, and just because he was polite tonight didn't mean he was always like that. I needed to get a hold on myself; I had fallen for him the moment I saw his god-like body and it didn't help that he had such a great personality; he probably just thought I was just his little sister's high school friend.

I just wanted to take a shower so I could relax, then go to bed. When I pulled up to my house, Charlie had been right, he wouldn't be home. I turned off my truck, locked it then walked to my front door. When I put my key in and turned it I realized it was already unlocked which was weird because I was positive I locked it. I tried to be as quiet as I could when I entered and my hands searched in the dark for the light switch. When I turned the lights on I instantly felt the color drain from my face.

I ran back outside onto my front yard and got my cell phone out my bag and dialed my dad's cell, he answered on the third ring.

"Hey Bells, what's up?"

"Dad, you need to come home right now, someone's been in our house…"

A/N : First chapter, do you like? haha. Reviews please :] Feel free to tell me whatever you want about the story.