Story Summary
I belong to the Volturi. A vampire coven. And at the age of eighteen, I would be paired up with a mate. I had been dreading my eighteenth birthday, and now it was indeed, about four weeks before it. And I was going to meet my living nightmare.

Prologue.
"Mom, no! Why does it have to be like this?" I sobbed at her, as she attempted to shove me out of the door in the gentlest way possible. This would be the last time I'd walk out of this house, I thought, warily yet hysterically mentally waving good-bye to it.
My room was packed up, my clothes were folded and put away, everything I owned was carefully organized into about four suitcases. Who would have thought I could fit my whole life into these few cases?
I was saying good-bye to my Mom, for God knows how long. Maybe forever? Who knows?
I wasn't going on holiday, or moving away, or going to college or university - I was moving out forever, and not by mine or my Mom's choice. A few years ago, she had sat down on the sofa with me and told me something; something that completely changed my life as I knew it, and officially from now and forever on. Literally.
I belonged to the Volturi. A vampire coven. At the age of eighteen, I would be paired up with a mate. It had been arranged years in advance that I would move in with my mate a few weeks before my eighteenth birthday, to get to know them a little bit, and then complete our 'bond'. I had been dreading my eighteenth birthday ever since she had told me, and now it was indeed about four weeks before it. And soon, I would be going to meet my worst living nightmare.
Apparently, this 'mate' didn't live too far away. Me and my Mom lived in Phoenix, and this 'mate' lived in Forks. According to my Mom it was a 'lovely little woodsy area' that was 'fairly secluded.' What, so no-one could hear my screams?
If there was one thing that I hated the most, it was the fact that I had no choice in this. For as long as I could remember, I'd been independent, and made my own choices in life. No one made them for me. I did make one choice for myself, now, though.

For all I cared, this 'mate' could be the most loving, adoring, caring creature on the whole planet - but I was going to do my best to hate him.