Chapter 1

My first day at Forks High School. Great. A new school with nobody I know. What could be better? Note the sarcasm. And plus, I miss Edward. After he had changed me last year my dad forced me to move to Forks. At least I could go outside in the daytime.

Oh how I wish I could see Edward's impossibly beautiful (even for a vampire) face in the sunlight. A sparkling Greek god, who is all mine.

He had promised he would find me. He would come for me. He promised. It hadn't happened yet but I had only been here for a few days. I should give him a break. But Edward had moved all those months ago to a place where nobody knew. God, they didn't know where they were going at first. I was going to go with them until Charlie decided to go and have a heart-attack on me when I told him. I hadn't seen Edward since he left that night, and I missed him more than anyone would ever know.

At first I thought I couldn't go a day without seeing him. But I made it. And it never got any easier either. But I should give him a break.

We were engaged after all, even if we hadn't picked a ring yet.

I didn't just miss Edward though; I missed all of the Cullens- my vampire family. Alice and her insane shopping abilities, Rosalie and her impossible beauty, Emmett and his childlike fierceness, Carlisle and his compassion, Esme and her adoration, Jasper and the calming aura that always surrounds him. But especially Edward. Edward and his passionate love for anything and everything that I do.

My Edward.

It gave me so much joy to be able to call him mines- to be able to spend eternity with him. He always has been the love of my life, my existence. But I don't know how many times we had had the argument of my changing. As it turns out, I didn't go through the newborn stage. My eyes were only a blood red colour for a couple of weeks before returning- to everyone's surprise- the usual boring chocolate brown that they always were before.

Edward was ecstatic of coarse- he would be able to keep one thing from my human life; but he actually got more than one thing. Even though I was now exceptionally graceful, I was still a klutz. I just couldn't get hurt the way I used to. And my blush refused to leave me alone, which I thought was impossible for a vampire.

Turns out that my blush is there because I still have half of my blood. Normally when you change, your blood is replaced by venom, but I have half blood-half venom. So my blush is there, just not as red as it used to be (to my relief). Even Carlisle was stunned by what had happened.

My power was even more amazing. I was an elemental. I could control fire, air, water and earth, but not only that. I was also a mental and physical shield as well as being able to absorb powers- though the power absorbing had to be in close proximity, like being in the same building sort of thing.

No-one had been expecting that.

So anyways I left the house to find my beloved cherry red Ferrari waiting for me. A Valentines Day gift from Edward. So sweet.

I climbed in, making sure I wouldn't crush my dark blue silk/chiffon dress (Alice would be proud of my fashion choice, as would Edward (he loves this colour on me)). The dress's halter neck tied in a graceful bow at the nape of my neck and the empire waistband caused the material to flow downwards to just below my knee.

My dark brown hair was down with a few natural waves running through it. My smoky-eye makeup had yet to fail me on occasions like these, so with the brown eye shadow, thin lair of eyeliner and only a hint of lip-gloss, my look was complete.

I pressed my matching dark blue Jimmy Choo stiletto onto the gas pedal and pulled out of the driveway. On my way to the high school, I pressed the play button on the CD player. Suddenly the profusion of beautiful music came out of the speakers. I recognized the tune as Esme's Favourite, but it wasn't what I needed right now. So I skipped back to number 1 and my lullaby replaced Esme's Favourite. The tune relaxed me and I ran a hand through my hair (a habit picked up from Edward) as I pulled over in the parking lot.

I closed my eyes, not wasting one moment with the closest thing I had to Edward at that moment. I sighed. Would this ever get easier? I asked myself.

"Probably not" I answered out loud. "Great. Now you're going crazy. Next you'll be saying that you'll run off and join the Volturi, and we both know that will never happen. Wait… Both of us? There's only one of me! I'm talking to myself. Fantastic. Shit, what's wrong with me? I'll tell you what's wrong with you, you've been away from Edward too long and now you're going psychotic. Lovely".

Next thing my eyelids fluttered open to find about a million guys staring either at the car or me. I wasn't sure which. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they were staring at me. Humans never get used to vampiric beauty, do they? I remember when I first saw Edward; I thought he was an angel. Not that I don't think that now of coarse but I never got used to it. Ever.

I decided since I was here I may as well have some fun, so I put on my brown Gucci sunglasses and climbed out of the car, being careful to show just the right amount of leg. Half the guys were staring (eyes wide, mouth hanging open ect.) at my ass, the others my breasts. Subtle.

So for pure entertainment purposes, I gently slid down the glasses and winked in the direction of some blond, blue eyed boy, swung my Louis Vuitton handbag over my shoulder and used my trademark "Sexy Hips" as Edward used to call them, to walk into the office.

The boy's reaction was priceless. And also very annoying; he followed me into the office.

"Hey, I'm Mike" Suddenly, I really wished I had worn any old ring on my finger just to keep guys like Mike away from me.

"Bella" I introduced myself, offering my hand in a kind gesture. He took it and instead of letting it go, like a normal person would have done, he lifted it towards his mouth and you'll never guess. HE KISSED MY HAND! I mean, for Christ's sake! Who just introduces themselves then practically licks you? A crazy person. That's who!

He looked up at me and I smiled awkwardly, making an intense silence between us. But when he saw my smile it looked like he was restraining himself from jumping me right there. He was as I always put it, "dazzled". I loved that I could have that effect on people. I did not however appreciate the fact that I could do that to Mike- it encouraged him.

"So… Dinner Friday night?" he asked me. Wow, I thought, overly confident much?

"Sorry, I can't" I replied smoothly.

"Saturday then?" Overly confident and possessive- definitely not my type.

"Sorry. I can't ever go to dinner with you"

"Why?"

"Well, unless your name is Edward Cullen. And you proposed to me about 7 months ago. And I said yes. And we have been dating for about 3 years then I don't think that I can go out with you. Ever." I told him straight. The look on his face was torn between confused and scared.

Scared?

"Why do you look scared?" I asked, confused myself now.

"No reason" and with that, he walked away. Weirdo.