The most beautiful sound in the world is to hear him play guitar. We sat on the floor of my bedroom, my head on his shoulder, his fingers strumming my grandfather's guitar he'd given me.

"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer

Do you know you're unlike any other

You'll always be my thunder…"

A small smile traced my lips. I was rapidly falling in love with my best friend. I knew it was wrong, for so many reasons. I was a vampire; he was a human. Cole had a girlfriend, though Alice saw that ending soon. I couldn't do this.

Cole knew my deepest secret, and he still supported me. I had been raped, taken advantage of by an ex lover. But Cole was always there, even to help heal my scars. I thanked God for Cole every day. I only hope he would do the same for me.

I wanted so badly to tell him my secret, as my brother and best friend Edward had once done for Bella. I wanted to explain to him why my eyes were such an exquisite color, as were the eyes of my other family members. I wanted him to know why I couldn't come to school when the sun shone.

But, I couldn't do this. It was already so rare for a coven to be as large as ours. To expose our secret could mean serious consequences.

Only the Volturi rivaled our family. There were nine of us- My father, Carlisle; my mother, Esme; my brothers, Emmett, Jasper, and Edward; my sisters, Rosalie, Alice, and Bella. Then there was me. My story doesn't have a happy ending, but which of ours does?