Chapter One

Bella Meets the Cullen Kids

"Bella, hurry up! We have to go!" Jasper yelled up the stairs.

Why couldn't I be an only child. We still have half an hour before we have to leave he just wants me to hurry so that I can cook him some breakfast, even though he knows how to make his own bowl of cereal he would rather me cook. "Fine Jaz, I will be down in a few minutes." I called back as I walked to my closet to get dressed. What should I wear? I don't know why I asked myself that question I know what I am going to wear, the only thing that we are allowed to wear at our school, black and blue plaid skirt, white blouse, and our black blazers. I'm glad that they don't make us wear those knee high socks though, those things are so annoying.

"Bella!"

"I'm coming shit Jasper you are acting like you've never ate before. And I know that's not true. So just hang on for a second while I get dressed." I finished getting dressed and walked down stairs towards the kitchen were I could hear pots banging. "Jasper if you break something I will hurt you." I say as I enter the kitchen.

Jasper had gotten out one of the frying pans and a couple plates. "So what are you fixing for breakfast today?" he asked as he went to sit down at the table.

"Omelets, will you get me the cheese and ham. I will get the eggs and start scrambling them." I asked him.

"Where is dad at?" Jaz asked me as he started shredding the cheese.

"Work" is all I said. It didn't take me long to make the omelets and then we were off to school. I was in the eleventh grade while Jasper was a grade higher than me but we still hung out a lot. "I need to you take me work after school, Mrs. Newton gave me the early shift again. And I have to be there at 3. She knows that I am going to be late."

"Alright thats fine with me, Emmett is gonna come over tonight for the guys night do you mind if he picks you up on the way?" Jasper always has "guy night" on Friday nights. I don't really mind except that I am the one that has to cook all of the food.

"No, thats fine. Why don't you order some pizzas, and then when I get home I will make that special dip that everyone likes? That way I don't have to cook so much tonight. Just don't forget to leave dad some for when he gets off."

"Thats a great idea I was going to see if you wanted to make those tacos that you make, but pizza is even better. I will go to the store after I drop you off at work and get some pop is there anything else that you need?"

Hes not going to like this but whatever I need them and I am not going to go to the store with Emmett. "Yea, I need some Tampons, and some cheese for the dip." I looked over at Jasper as I said that and watched his face turn about six different shades of red. Oh man, that is so fucking funny to watch his face when I tell him that.

"Bella, please I dont wanna get those." Jasper whined.

"Oh shut up, and just grab them and please dont get the wrong box this time. Remember it Kotex not Playtex." I said trying really hard not to laugh.

"Please stop talking about them. I will get them but you owe me." Jasper replied as he pulled into a parking spot at the school.

"OK, sorry, look I have to go I am supposed to show this new girl around campus today so I will see you at lunch. Love you." I called as I started walking towards the front office.

"Love you too." I hear Jaz whisper. Why am I always the one that has to show the new kids around, I remember when I first moved back to Forks. Eric Yorkie was the one that got sent to show me around and he was really creepy. He still is most of the time. I just dont understand why they didnt just let Jaz so me around. At least then it would have been someone that I knew. Oh well that was like 5 years ago. I am really glad that mom decided that she didn't want me any more though it was probably the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I wasn't paying attention to where I was going because I was so lost in thought that I ran in to something that felt like a brick wall, it wouldn't of surprised me, though, I run into things all the time. What surprised me was the fact that I didn't fall. I looked up at the person who caught me and the first thing I noticed was his green eyes. They looked like giant emeralds. "I am so sorry, I wasn't paying attention, are you ok?" I asked in a rush.

"I'm fine. You're not hurt are you?" the stranger asked sound really concerned.

"Nah, nothing hurts me." I replied trying to sound cool and failing really bad. Which was confirmed when he raised his eyebrow at me. "Ok so it hurt a little but I am fine."

"I'm Edward. Edward Cullen." he said holding out his hand.

"Bella Swan." I shook his hand and noticed as soon as we touched hands the spark it gave off. I wonder if he felt that too. "I should get going I am supposed to show this new girl around. I'll see you soon." I said as I hurried away.

I walked into the front office and went up to Mrs. Copes desk. I started to gather up all of the paper work that this new girl would need, like the map of the school, locker information, class schedule, and other things like that, Mrs. Cope had it all on her desk I just put it in the folder that I had picked up for her. I looked the name on here schedule, Alice Cullen. Huh, must be related to that guy that I meet out front.

The bell over the door sounded and I turned around. Edward stood there with a girl that didn't look like she should be in high school. I smiled at them, and waved. Edward smiled back and the girl, who I am guessing is Alice, ran over to me and gave me a hug. What the fuck? I kind of patted her back and looked up at Edward. 'help' I mouthed to him.

"Alice, let Bella go. Your scaring her." he told her. Well now I know who she is at least.

"Oops. Sorry, I'm Alice, Edwards twin sister. And you must be Bella. Edward told me that he met a girl." Alice said talking like she was in a race to finish what she was saying before anyone else even though no one else was talking. I like her.

"It's alright, well Alice I have your class things here in this folder, so whenever you're ready we can go." I looked up at Edward. "Do you already have your schedule? Mrs. Cope just said that I was showing a girl around and I only have Alice's folder." man this is going to suck Mrs. Cope doesn't get here for another hour. And class starts in ten minutes.

"Oh no, I'm not going to school. Well not going to school here at least. I am going to the community college in Port Angeles, I graduated early." he said smiling at me.

"Oh." That was my genius response. "OK, well Alice I guess we better get started. I have already spoken with your first teacher and he knows you're gonna be a little late." I told her as I grabbed my backpack and started towards them.

"Ok lets go. Bye, Edward, see you when you pick me up. Love ya." Alice told Edward.

"Bye, shorty!" Edward said as he turned to me he stuck out his hand again. "Bella, it was good seeing you again."

I grabbed his hand and felt a piece of paper in it. "Goodbye Edward, I hope to you see around soon." I waved to him as he walked out of the room. "So, Alice, are you ready to go?" I looked over at her and she was staring off after her brother. "Alice. Alice. ALICE!" I yelled finally getting her attention.

"What? Oh Bella, I'm sorry I was just thinking that my brother is acting kinda weird. Oh well, lets go." She grabbed her bag and then took my hand and headed out the front door.

Man why am I the one that's always dragged into things? "Um, Alice, can I have my hand back please your kinda hurting my arm." I said as I tried pulling it out of her grasp.

"Yeah." She said as she let go of my arm. "Sorry, Bella. Where are we going first?"

We started walking down the pathway and I was pointing out the different buildings, when Jessica Stanley turned the corner and started walking our direction.

"Whose this Bella? A new friend? I think that she could do so much better than hang out with you, especially when she could be hanging out with me. Hi, I'm Jessica, though most people call me Jess, and you are?" I am really surprised that she even stopped talking long enough for Alice to answer her.

"I'm Alice, and Bella is showing my around the campus. It was very nice meeting you Jessica, but me and Bella really have to get going." Alice grabbed my hand and walked around Jess.

"What are you doing you should of just had Jess give you the tour then you could hang out with her at lunch and be popular. You were probably really popular in your last school. Fuck, Jess is probably going try and beat me up again. I just got over my broken ribs hurting. Fuck, fuck this isn't good. I'm-"

"BELLA. Has this happened before? Have the people here tried to hurt you?" Alice asked me after she got my attention, who knows how long she had been trying to get my attention.

"Um. Well-" I don't know if I should tell her or not. Jess and Lauren told me that if I told anyone how it happened that they would deny it and then hurt me again later. Can I even trust Alice? How do I know at she wont go and tell them that I told her and she wants in on my punishment. "I can't say." There that should be enough. I can't afford for her to tell them. I have to work tonight.

"Edward." I heard Alice whisper and I turned around to look at her and Edward was standing there beside her again. "Edward did you hear that?" Edward where did he come from I thought that he had to go to school.

"Yeah, I heard Ali, I was just around the corner. Do you want to leave school now?"

"No, I need to stay here with Bella, just stay close in case I need you or need to leave really fast."

I could only barely hear what they were saying and it really wasn't making any sense to me, but I did catch the part where Alice said that she needed to stay here with me. And I liked that I really wanted to have a new friend. The only friend that I had really was Jas and Em. And one was my brother and the other was my brothers best friend. I've never really had a friend who was a girl. Maybe she would like to come and hang out with me tonight after I get off work. Probably not so I wont ask. I moved my fingers and felt the paper in my hand again. I brought my hand up to see what the paper said "Trust Alice, all she wants is for you to be happy and safe. Love, Edward." Huh, that's weird he put that in to my hand before Jess even happened.

"What's going on? Edward how did you get back here I thought that you had school? Alice?" I think that I am losing it. I turn to walk away when Alice yells at Edward to catch me. Then everything goes black.

EPOV

"What do we do now Alice? She's going to know something is different about us and these contacts are annoying." I told Alice after I caught Bella and she passed out.

"We are going to take her to the house and let Carlisle look at her to make sure nothing is wrong and then you and I are going to sit down with her and tell her about us. And thanks for trying to get her to trust me with the note. I saw you put it in her hand, put I didn't know what it said until she was trying to decide whether to tell me or not. So thank you." Alice said to me as we started walking to my car.

"No problem, Ali, I know how much you are wanting to be her friend ever since you had that vision. Tell me something Ali, did you see that she was getting beat up, or did you just find out?"

"I knew that something was wrong and that no one was doing anything about it, but I didn't know that she was getting hurt until we met that girl Jessica Stanley. I had a vision of her cornering Bella at lunch and hurting her with another girl that I haven't met yet. But I plan to very soon."

Alice may be small but she cheats when it comes to fighting. That's not a bad thing in some circumstances but when its just us fighting it is. "Hey!" I hear behind me. I start to turn when Alice puts her hand on my arm to get me to pay attention to her. 'That's Jessica, be careful.' She tells me.

"Wow Alice, its so good to see you again. Who's your friend here?" I can already tell that I'm not going to like this girl, even if she didn't hurt this beautiful girl in my arms. Her thoughts are very disturbing. I don't really want to know anything else about her.

"Alice I'm going to the car with Bella hurry up and we can go." I told Alice without even looking at the other girl.

"You don't have to run off, cutie, just throw the trash over there and me an you can go somewhere." I think that she was trying to sound sexy but it just came off as creepy, very creepy.

"No thank you, not in this life or any others." I replied as I continued to walk away.

APOV

"What do you want know Jessica?" I asked her I know that I wasn't being very nice but I really just wanted to go to the car with Edward and Bella.

"Why don't you call me Jess, and I can show you around the school since Bella is incapable of doing anything right." She replied.

I could feel myself getting angry and I knew what that meant so I really need to get out of there. "Why don't you just fuck off JESSICA," I said her name with the purpose of hopefully getting through to her that I didn't want to be friends with her. Apparently that didn't work. She walked up to me and put her arm through mine and tried to turn me away from the parking lot. I couldn't help it I growled at her, "leave me, Bella, and my brother, the fuck alone. If I catch you anywhere near any of us I will kill you do I make myself perfectly clear?"

I didn't wait for her to answer I just started walking off. But before I could even take two steps I saw the principal walking towards us. "Excuse me, Ms. Cullen, where do you think that you are going? You are already late for classes. Where is Ms. Swan I thought that she was going to be giving you a tour of the campus? That's not like her to just leave someone like this. Well come on I will give you the tour myself."

Well at least she seems like she cares. "I'm sorry Ms. Redbird but Bella became sick so I told her to go wait in the car while I went to the office to get her a slip to go home. She told me that her and her brother share a car and I told her I would just take her so that her brother could have their car. I hope you don't mind she was looking really bad. My car right over there if you want to go look for yourself and make sure I'm not lying."

"I believe you Ms. Cullen, Bella gets sick a lot the last few months, so it is quite ok for you to take her home, just please be careful and call me if there is anything that I can do to help." She said while smiling but there was something else there that I couldn't quite put my finger on, it was like she knew what was happening but didn't have a way to prove it yet, "You however, Ms. Stanley, have 1 minute to get to class, before I give you detention that you will be spending with me." She looked over at Jessica with a stern look before turning and walking away. Jess hadn't moved. "NOW!" she said without even turning around. As soon as she said that last word Jessica took off towards her classroom. Which just so happened to be my first class also, great more time to spend with that bitch. One thing that I knew for sure though was that I was going to help Bella.

Chapter Two

Bella's New Knowledge