"I need to get away from my old life and start a new. Its for my own good, no for our own good."

Those were the words I kept telling myself as I cruised down the highway. I was on my way to my cousin's, Shanique house. I came to go live with her because i wanted my last school year to be actually great. I was sick of moving around and tired of switching schools all the time. My parents are travelers, and everytime i get halfway thru the school they decide to move on. I always thought it was stupid for them to do that especially when i made friends and got deep into my high school year. I took a quick glance at the backseat to check on my little sister, Michelle. The lights that came from the streetlights from the window beside her hightlighted her chocolate skin as she peacefully slept on the seats. My little sister is only 11 years old, and I'm getting kind of jealous about her life style. The fact that no one makes fun of her because of her looks, she makes alot of friends. She's quiet but sweet. We sorta share the same traits; the fact that I'm quiet is to keep my feelings from getting hurt. I try not to make myself stand out so much because i hate the way people talk about me. I blame my looks; my mixed caramel skin, dark red eyes and dark red hair makes everyone judge me for something I'm not. They look at me like I'm some kind of ghetto hoe just because I'm asian and black. Thats how it was in my last school. I'm glad I'm outta there. They treated me like a freak....they were some what right

I was coming to a streetlight when I cameback to realization. I waited for the red light to change already. I drummed my fingers on the steering wheel impaitently. I needed to get home; I was getting tired and irritated. I wanted to close my eyes just for a second, but somethign flashed across my sight. I wasnt sure what it was, all I saw was a white blurr lightly bouncing off the front of my car. My eyes were wide open, hoping that what ever jumped on my car would come back. It didn't.

"Monique?" I blinked a couple times and realize that my sister was awake. She rubbed her eyes.

"Are we almost there?," she asked. The light turned green and I started to go again.

" Almost Michelle, we'll be there in 5 minutes, okay hun?" I wanted to make sure she could stay up a little longer, just tell we got to Shanique's.

It was a nother 10 minutes before we reached a reached a neighborhood filled with tall apartment buildings. I turned the engine off and got out the car. I unfolded a piece of paper that wa sin my jean's front pocket. I checked twice to see if I was in the right place. I sighed. I was thinking she owned a 4 bedroom house. Doesnt matter, its all or nothing.

"MOMO!!" I heard a familiar voice call my name. I spun around to see a dark skinned young woman runnign towards me in a pair of short pink shorts, a small tight white T, and rugged slippers. The woman hugged me tight once she put her arms around me.

"OH MOMO! HOW ARE YA HUN?! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!"

I gazed at the woman for a few seconds. Her hair was put into a puffy afro puff ponytail, her chocolate eyes that went well with her big lips. She looked familiar. She had a sad look on her face as if I didnt remember her. I had to do soemthing quick. Without thinking a carefully said her name in question form. "A-ashely?"

She squealed loudly in my ear. With that kind of squeal, I bet all the neighbors could hear,

"I'm so glad you remembered me! I havent seen you in ages gurl." she said with the happy tone in her voice.

"So where is my little baby cousin at?"

"In the car, she may have fallen asleep."

I watched a she opened the passenger side and carefully picked my sister up and put her in her arms. I grabbed our night bags out of the front seat and followed Ashely to her apartment.

"Dont you have more stuff?"she asked curiously.

"I'll get it in the morning. I'm so freakin' tired right now"

She begin to climb up the stairs. I realized I forgot my cellphone and went back to the car. As I opened my door I had this weird feeling. Something didnt feel right. I looked around to see taht noone was no longer sitting outside on the stairs or leaning against their cars. Somehting was off. I squinted just a little to see anything beyond the buildings. From what I see just miles away, I saw a huge house. Sitting on top of a hill. I thought to myself. Why the heck there a house in the middle of practically what look like a forest. It wa sbeyond me, but the fact that it was giving off a strange feeling is what concerned me. I shrugged of the feeling. I guessed it was from being exhauseted, thats all. I head back to the trail from where my cousin followed and headed to her apartment.

The apartment didnt appear as bad as I thought It would have. The small living room taht had a nice white ocuch and well dusted coffee table taht had magazines on it, a flatscreen t.v. on the wall across from it and a couple of portraits of the family. The kitchen was next door to it. It was small enough for one person to be workin in. It was probably built to be small for teh big bedrooms. There was two of them. One wa sthe master bedroom that looked like it belong to a Chris Brown fangirl and the other one was about the same size that had a t.v. sitting ontop of a tall dress, one king size bed, a deskt with a copmuter on top of it and a closet with a "touch" lamp beside it. The closet had me a little worried. It was a mirrored door closet. It kinda freaked me out because I was afraid of looking in it and finding a stranger standing right behind me in the room. A smile at my cousin who had just laid Michelle on the bed.

"Well you're all set up! You can decorate the room if you want to." She said rocking back and forth on her heels.

" Thanks cuz. I'll probably settle in tomorrow. Right now I'm so tired, I cant even think straight."

"Well If you need anythign, just let me know, kay?" she walked off and went to her room. I face the bed after she left and begin to take my shoes off. I didnt feel like putting on my pajamas; I threw myself on to the bed without waking Michelle. I combed thru her hair with my fingers and sighed. This is our new life now. I'll have to register us in for school since it starts in 4 days/ That'll give me enough time to explore Forks and its interesting stores and diners. Maybe some unique people. I felt my eyelids getting heavier by the minute; I soon fell into a peaceful slumber.

The sound of one of my ringtones on my phone woke me up. I flipped my phone open to turn the alarm off. It was 8:15. I was way too tired to get up and register Michelle and myself for school. I knew if I didn't get up now and register us both, we'll be doing everything in the last minute. A knock on the bedroom door pulled me a way from my thoughts. Ashely was at the door way with a glass of orange in her hand. She sipped on it and smiled.

"Mornin' Momo!"

I looked at her for a long time.

"Why do you insist on callin' me that."

"Cause Monique sounds too...serious. Momo is cute!"

I rolled my eyes and carefully got out of bed to make sure I didnt wake Michelle who was in a different position from last night.

"Going somewhere?" Ashely asked in curiosity.

"I need to go register us in for school."

"Already taken care of."

I didnt answer; I waited for her to explain how.

"Well, I already registered you both a week before you got here."

"Thats was.....very nice of you?.....Okay whats the catch?" The look on Ashley's face gave me the idea that she was up to something.

"W-what do you mean?" She said moving to my side. " Can't I do something nice for my favorite cousin?"

glared at her for a good minute. She gave in.

"Alright! You got me! I just want to take you around town, show you places....in your nice little...Mercedes."

I should have known.

"....Alright fine. I'll let you drive, but dont you get all reckless on it." I warned her. I know how stupid she can be behind the wheel.

She jumped in the air with excitment.

"Hurry up and get dress! I wanna go go GO!" She closed the door to give me privacy. I begin to shake Michelle to wake her up.

"'Celle, you wanna go for a ride downtown? We'll probably find some more comicbooks you like so much." She opened her eyes slowly. I smiled at her.

" I wanna go, sis." her quiet voice was hard to hear.

"Okay then, get up and get dress."

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From my side of the window, the only thing I've seen so far were trees. Tons of them.

The sky wasn't bright and blue like how I imagined it. This was something I had to get use to in the town of Forks. I sighed.

Few minutes later, Ashely drove thru a street filled with small diners and little shoppettes.

I spotted a bookstore beyond a little clothing store.

" Ash, can you drive over there. Michelle probably wants to check it out." I pointed to the place.

She made an illegal u-turn and drove towards the bookstore. She ran over the pavement again. I glared at her.

" Sorry cuz." she said apologeticly.

I rolled my eyes and looked in the review mirror to see if Michelle was distracted by the sudden bump. She was too busy listening to her ipod.

We soon pulled into a parking lot.

The inside of the bookstore was bigger than I thought. I bet it had some of the sketchbook guides I needed to help designing characters for a hobby of mine. Michelle and Ashely had already head towards the comicbook section, so they left me by myself. I wandered around the store for a while til I found my section. A certain book caught my eye. Just when I was about to reach and grab for it, I saw a pale hand grab it in a flash. I retreated my hand immediatley and looked at the guy who was responsible for taking the last copy of the book I needed. The stranger began to walk away with it and I was not about to let him get away with it. I reached for the guys shoulder and spun him around.

" Hey buddy! That was suppose to be my bo--" I stopped in my sentence when I saw the face that belong to the pale pair of hands. His well shaped face looked like it was carved by angels or god himself. The beautiful golden eyes that you would never see among others shined in the lighting of the store. His lips looked so kissable and went well with his tossed and tussled hair. I didnt notice that his eyes met mine. He seem a little curious about mine.

"I'm sorry, was this yours?" he asked not taking his eyes of mine for a minute.

I didnt answer. I couldnt. It felt like someone took my voice all of a sudden. I shook my head to give him an answer. I felt like he was looking right through me. Maybe he knew what I was thinking, or maybe he knew my secret.

"I-I gotta go."

I said in a hurry. I tripped over his foot waiting for my afce to connect to the ground. I felt one pair of arms wrap around my waist to catch me from falling,

I saw that the same guy I was stunned by his beauty was the one who just saved me. He stood me back up with my back facing the wall of books. I wanted to run from the embrassasment but his arms were blocking both of my exits. Dammit, what does he want with me.

There he goes again, staring at my eyes again.

"Your eyes....they're rare for mort--people to have. Very abnormal if I do say so myself."

His choice of words were a bit weird to me. Like he was from a different time.

" I wouldn't say that I'm normal." I couldnt help but smirk.

"You dont know me well enough to get this close to me. Here's a warning. I'm not some helpless little girl, and a stranger like you is in my danger zone."

I started to push his arms out the way but they were too heavy and hard to push. I heard him chuckle.

" So what you're saying is, If I wasnt a stranger I wouldn't be in your danger zone?"

I glared at him. Is he mocking me?

"Well then, expect to see more of me soon, Monique." He retreated his arms away from me and

disappeared before I could ask how he knew my name. Something familiar about him made me feel a little, intrigued. I notice he dropped the book I wanted at my feet. I picked it up and looked at. I realized something stupid.

"Aw, damn I forgot to get his name." I thought out loud.

The last few days went by so quickly, I didn't get enough time to actually sit down and do some sketches. I sat at the table dumping all my art tools out of my red bookbag. I could hear Michelle and Ashely giggling in the next room. They must be enjoying whatever show was playing. I began to sketch lightly on a clean page. For a few minutes I didnt have any trouble with the image i was trying to draw out but part of it started to irritate me. I flipped thru the new "how To draw" to see if there was page on something I could use. The book had a weird energy feel to it. I moved my fingers carefully over the pages again. The energy felt somehow familiar. I remember this energy. Its from the same gentleman I ran into at the bookstore. My mind began to wonder on to his beautiful face again. Never have I seen someone that fine. Whoa...I think i need some fresh air; I'm starting to feel dizzy just from thinking about him.

"Ash! I'm going outside to get some air!" I yelled out to her.

"Alright, dinner will be ready at 7!" she replied back.

I dashed out the door and felt the cool air against my skin. The neighborhood wasnt as peaceful as I thought. The music was loud and hurting my ears, two random chicks were screaming at each other for stupid reasons, little kids crying and what not. Ugh. I couldnt take it. Was there anywhere I could go that was far from here? My eyes wandered to a sight inbetween the apartment buildings. I saw trees and beyond the sight. Was it dangerous to go into the unknown forest? I mean there could be a chance that there were some wild animals out there and yet....I was willing to do anything to get away from the racket. I climbed over the fence that stood between the apartment buildings. Without looking back, I began to run into the forest.

As my legs did the work, i breathed in the fresh air. It was like an air freshner to my lungs; it felt nice. I stopped once I hit this small wide spot in between a couple of fallen trees. The color of the land was like inspiration to me. I couldnt help but smile. I wanted to see more of the forest. Without thinking twice I picked a tree to climb on and began to put my foot on little stumps to support my weight as I pulled myself up on branches I grabbed. I kept climbing and climbing; never thinking anything else. I didn't realize that I was so high up, that a jump from where i was would give me a zero percent chance of suriving. I gulped when the image of my death scared me. My death wasnt in my mind once a horrible sound snapped me back into reality. I notice the branch I was standing on wasnt holding my weight to well. It was breaking and I couldnt find another stronger one to quickly jump to. The branch broke off and I was left hanging in the air. My only chance of survival was to hang on til someone saw me. That was a stupid thing to wait for. I screamed help as loud as I could. No use. My only chance was to call 911; luckily I had my cell in the pocket of my jacket. With one hand haning on for dear life, I quickly try to take my cellphone out. Unfortunatley for me, my fingers were sweaty and the phone slipped from my fingers. I saw it fall fast to the ground breaking in two. Just my luck.

15 minutes passed and I stood hanging in the air. My arms were getting tired and I was ready to let go at anytime. This is not how I imagine dying, and I didnt accomplish that much. I worried about what was gonna happen to my little sister. I was gonna bring depression to everyone i cared for. I closed my eyes tight and felt a tear escaping from my eye.

"Hang on."

A soft soothing voice made my eyes fling right open. My sight turned to wehre the voice was coming from. The same face I saw before. The same heavenly face I saw at the bookstore; he was there. Looking at me eye to eye, holding out a hand to me. Can I actually trust this guy. I needed enough time to think about my choice; time wasnt on my side as the branch have finally broke. I felt an icy cold hand grabbing mines. The god like young man swung me on to his back .

"Hold on tight," he said. I did what I was told and watch as we began to get closer to the ground and what seem like 5 seconds,

His jumped off the tree once we were nothing but 2ft from the ground. He hardly made a sound when he landed.

"Are you okay?," he asked. I didnt realize I was still holding on to him.

I jumped off his back in a heart beat and took a fighting stance. He didn't seem right to me.

"Who are you and...and how did you do t-that thing?!"

He placed his hands in his pockets and started to walk towards me. I balled my fist even tighter. I was ready to use what little knowledge of Tae kown do I knew. He didn't hesistate to take another step towards me. I tried to uppercut him but without evening blinking for a second he was behind me. I spun around with a kcik towards his head. He moved at the speed of light again and was once again behind me. Move after move he dodged them. I couldn't land a hit on him. Who was this guy?! I wasnt paying attention when he snuck up behind meh and grabbed my hands. I couldn't pull them out from his.

" You should stop. I just want to ask you some questions." he said in a hypnotizing voice.

I remained silent but my heart wouldnt stop beating at a rapid pace.

"I'm not gonna hurt,you."

The way he said it made me feel relaxed. I nodded for him to go on with his questions. He immediatley let my hands go so I could face him.

He stood there looking at me. I wondered what he was thinking about.

"Are you the only one with those color eyes?" He began.

I nodded. He looked away from me. I closed my eyes. Even the color of them can freak out weirdos like him.

"You don't need to hide them. They're very...unique."

"You're just saying that. I'm the only one in my family like this. My mother pointed out that my great grandmother have eyes like mine."

"...You're grandmother must have been pretty special."

"She is. But my family doesnt talk about her much. They never let me visit her. She just...sits at home....all alone."

He didn't say anything after that. For a minute we just stood there in silence. He started to walk away.

"Wait." He stopped in his tracks.

"Now its my turn."

"okay"

"Whats your name?"

"Edward...Edward Cullen." And after that he left before I could take another breath.

Alright so like this is my first fanfic in forever. I do alot of scripts but this was way different from my original work.

Okay So it does involve my Oc, Monique which you can find her profile on .

There's no rule that says you cant make an OC for this book. :3 I misspelled probably a couple things so I'll come back and edit later.