Preface.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just said it would be worth living. My mother once told be these words when I was fifteen, she also told me that someday I would need these words to be guided. Now I know what she meant when rules were there to keep balance but they were also meant to be broken. As soon as I laid eyes on him I knew from there on my life would no longer be the life I was used to. People made rules for one reason, so they could be broken. And with broken rules there are always consequences.
My name is Isabella Swan. I'm seventeen years old and I fell in love with my High School teacher.

Chapter One.
Home Sweet Forks.

[Bella's P.O.V]

In the state of Washington, under a near constant cover of clouds and rain, there is a small town named Forks. Population, three thousand one hundred and twenty people. This is where I'm moving. My dad's Charlie. He's the chief of police. I used to spend two weeks here almost every summer, but it's been years.
I was five, my dad had been working so much that he never paid attention to me, my brother Emmett and my mother Renee. He tried his best, he really did but my mother couldn't handle it, she just gave up on him. After the divorce Renee would send me over here to stay with Emmett and Charlie but I couldn't take it any more either. I stopped coming when I was twelve, I'm now seventeen. Five years have past and it's still the old shabby house he lives in.

I just stared out of the window in silence on the ride home.
It was beautiful, of course; I couldn't deny that. Everything was green: the trees, their trunks covered with moss, their branches hanging with a canopy of it, the ground covered with ferns. Even the air filtered down greenly through the leaves.

Eventually we made it to Charlie's. He still lived in the small, three-bedroom house that he'd bought with my mother in the early days of their marriage. Once we pulled up into the drive in his cruiser there was a boy standing by the front porch. He looked my age but then again he looked way to old. He was big, muscular like a serious weight lifter, with dark, curly hair.
"That's Emmett" My dad said while pointing towards the house.
I knew I had the 'O' shape on my mouth. The last time I saw Emmett was when he was thirteen. He was small and skinny, now he looked like he could crush a car.
My dad stepped out of the cruiser and walked behind to the boot. I had only a few bags. Most of my Arizona clothes were too permeable for Washington.
My mom and I had pooled our resources to supplement my winter wardrobe, but it was still scanty. It all fit easily into the trunk of the cruiser.
I followed out straight after and picked up the rest of my bags that were left. On my way to the house one of the bags slipped through my hands and I tripped over the pieces of clothing that had fallen out. I was waiting for the impact but it never came.
Once I was able to get my senses back I realise that there were two hard, firm hands holding me up.
"Same old Bella. What are we going to do with you" A deep voice said in amusement.
When he placed me back on my feet I couldn't believe my eyes. There he was, my brother standing over me.
"Hello biceps" I laughed while squeezing his arm. That just made him laugh even more. "You know anabolic steroids are bad for you"
He just wrapped me in his arms and gave me a tight squeeze.
"I'm just filling out Bella" and he let me drop back to the ground "It wouldn't seem more drastic if you visited more and Charlie won't allow me to use them any way. I don't want to give Charlie an actual reason to put me behind bars."
I let out a little chuckle which Emmett joined in. I bent over and picked up my clothing still laughing when Emmett helped me put the back in the suitcase.

It took only one trip to get all my stuff upstairs. I got the west bedroom that faced out over the front yard. The room was familiar; it had been belonged to me since I was born.
The wooden floor, the light blue walls, the peaked ceiling, the yellowed lace curtains around the window — these were all a part of my childhood. The only changes Charlie had ever made were switching the crib for a bed and adding a desk as I grew. The desk now held a second-hand computer, with the phone line for the modem stapled along the floor to the nearest phone jack. This was a stipulation from my mother, so that we could stay in touch easily. The rocking chair from my baby days was still in the corner.
There was only one small bathroom at the top of the stairs, which I would have to share with Charlie and Emmett. I was trying not to dwell too much on that fact.

I was putting my clothes in my wardrobe when there was a knock at my bedroom door. "Come in" I yelled and I heard the door cringe when it opened.
"Bella?" I knew that voice. It could only belong to one person. I turned round and there she was. My 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?" I asked.
"BELLA!!!!!!" She shouted at the top of her lungs and ran right for me knocking us both to the floor with a loud thump
We both broke down in laughter when Emmett ran up stairs swinging a bat around yelling. That just made everyone else laugh too.
Once I was back on my feet I was finally able to register who was in my room.
There was a tall girl and she was statuesque. She had a beautiful figure, the kind you saw on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, 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" I gasped. "Is that you?" She just nodded and smiled.
I walked over to her when she extended her arms and gave her a hug.
"Rose you look" I looked her up and down trying to find the right word that would be best to describe the way she looked, without offending her.
"Wow" was all I could really say. She just laughed and thanked me.

Behind her was a tall, leaner than Emmett, but still muscular honey blonde male. Once he caught me looking at him a smiled and brought up his hand. I took it and we shared a hand shake.
"Well you must be the famous little sister that Emmett can't shut up about"
I could feel the heat on my cheeks and that made Emmett and everyone else laugh.
"Well I'm Jasper Hale, Rosalie's cousin" I nodded and raised an eyebrow at Rose. She looked at me and shrugged her shoulders. "What. No one asked" I chuckled at her slyness.
Emmett walked over and put an arm around Jasper. "And the mate of Alice Cullen" I gave Alice a death glare. She met my gaze and smiled. "Alice?" I asked pretty annoyed.
"Party time" Was all she said and skipped out my bedroom door.
Once we were downstairs my eyes popped out of my sockets, the whole living room was covered in banners saying 'Welcome Home Bella' and there was music playing in the background.
"Okay, Bella I know how much you hate parties but I had to do it." I looked at Alice and smiled, I put both my arms around her. "Thanks Alice. It's perfect really" she hugged me back and we both laughed.
"Where's Charlie?" I asked once we finished our hug.
"He had to leave. There's a new teacher starting at Forks tomorrow and Charlie was assigned to show him round" I nodded at Emmett.
Forks High School had a frightening total of only three hundred and fifty-seven — now fifty-eight — students; there were more than seven hundred people in my junior class alone back home. All of the kids here had grown up together — their grandparents had been toddlers together.
I would be the new girl from the big city, a curiosity, a freak.
Maybe, if I looked like a girl from Phoenix should, I could work this to my advantage.
But physically, I'd never fit in anywhere. I should be tan, sporty, blond — a volleyball player, or a cheerleader, perhaps — all the things that go with living in the valley of the sun.

We spent the rest of the evening talking about how my life was in Phoenix.
I told them every little thing that happened when Emmett would come over to visit me and how different it is. Me and Jasper would occasionally talk and I liked it. He sent like a calm aura around him to you. You could easily feel relaxed talking to him.
When it was beginning to get late we all decided that we should hit the sack. Alice and Jasper slept in the living room and Emmett and Rosalie shared his room.
I was lying in bed listening to 'Remedy' by 'Little Boots' when I decided that I would finish putting my things away. I don't know how I'm going to survive tomorrow. I thought to myself. Everyone here has been apart of this town since they were born. I know I was born here too but it's different for me, I never fit in anywhere. People here are gorgeous they belong, instead, I was ivory-skinned, without even the excuse of blue eyes or red hair, despite the constant sunshine. I had always been slender, but soft somehow, obviously not an athlete; I didn't have the necessary hand-eye coordination to play sports without humiliating myself — and harming both myself and anyone else who stood too close.
When I finished putting my clothes in the old pine dresser, I took my bag of bathroom necessities and went to the communal bathroom to clean myself up after the day of travel.
I looked at my face in the mirror as I brushed through my tangled, damp hair. Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy. My skin could be pretty — it was very clear, almost translucent-looking — but it all depended on colour. I had no colour here.
Facing my pallid reflection in the mirror, I was forced to admit that I was lying to myself. It wasn't just physically that I'd never fit in. And if I couldn't find a niche in a school with three thousand people, what were my chances here?
I sighed and went back to my bedroom, I jumped back onto my bed and was surprised to see how much I was tired. I wrapped myself up and it wasn't long before I was dreaming…..

A.N. Okay, this was originally on and Amy on there wrote the first 8 chapters, I just went through, edited, and added my own things here and there, but now TTS has deleted ALL fanfictions so I'm posting it here so I don't have to deal with that crap. I'll get the first 8 chapters up really really quick so be prepared.