A/N This is my first fanfiction...please let me know what you all think. I have a lot of ideas with this story, but even I don't know how it will end yet, but I'm very excited to write it =)

Edward left about 8 years ago. After he left I completely lost it, Charlie, my dad I mean, and me fought tooth and nail but in the end he won and sent me back to live with my mom and Phil.

They had just moved to Bon Temps Louisiana where Phil had been offered a coaching job at the local University.

It was really hard at first, the days dragged on, but soon the days turned into weeks, then months, then a year had gone by. I finally snapped out of it. I realized that Edward was gone, he wasn't coming back. He hadn't wanted me and that was that, there was nothing I could do to change that, but I was going to be okay, I had to be.

So I finished up high school in Bon Temps, where I met my best friends Sam Merlotte and Sookie Stackhouse. I traveled for a few years then I came home and I got into the local University and am currently studying to be a teacher.

I'm happy in my life, but then this year some unusual things happened in the world to turn my world upside down all over again.

The existence of vampires became public knowledge. Not only the existence of the kind of vampires the Cullens were but different ones as well.

The Cullens could go out into the sun but sparkled like diamonds.

Now we found out that there were different bloodlines and some vampires were just like the movies and books portrayed them. If they stepped into the sun they could die. They had to be invited into your house in order to enter. And another weird thing I've heard is that they are able to drink from humans but not kill them, from what Edward had told me that took the greatest control, I wonder how strong these vampires are.

They even had a following of "Fangbangers", women or men who enjoyed volunteering themselves for a meal or two.

I don't think even the Cullens knew about these other vampires, if they did they never told me. But like all vampires, except the Cullens of course, they drank human blood but luckily with the existence of vampires becoming public there also came a solution to this problem. A group of scientists came out with a synthetic blood, True Blood they call it, and though it is not as appetizing as human blood supposedly it does the job and quenches a vampires thirst.

So here we go again with vampires...ughh I thought I was finally free. But so far here in Bon Temps there didn't seem to be any vampires of any kind.

I work at Merlottes, it's the restaurant that Sam bought after graduating from college. Sam was "adopted" but I knew the truth about him. He was a shapeshifter, just like Jake back in Forks.

Leave it up to me crazy, clumsy, accident prone Bella to find the supernatural everywhere I went.

Jake was a little different from Sam though. Sam has always been a shapeshifter while Jake didn't become one until he hit a certain age and there were Vampires in the area. Sam ages normally while Jake is frozen at 16 until he becomes strong enough to stop being a shapeshifter.

It's crazy I should be an expert at the supernatural by now. But no one else knows Sam or Jacob's secret but me and others of their own kind. I wonder what else is out there.

I walked to work, it was a nice night. Friday though so the place would be really busy. I cringed a little bit but hey I got to make a living. I waved hello to Sam behind the bar and walked into the bathroom to change into my uniform. Sookie walked into the bathroom a few minutes later. She was a waitress here too.

She was excited and started talking quickly and incoherently like she always did when she was excited, "Bells.....uh...you....he's....oh my god!"

I quickly tried to calm her down, "Sook catch your breath, what are you talking about?"

She took a few deep breaths, I was almost tempted to tell her to sit down with her head between her legs, but she seemed to be okay after a few minutes.

"Bells, there is a vampire in the restaurant, our first one here in Bon Temps, and boy he is gorgeous."

She smiled and started getting ready quickly for our shift. She walked out and didn't even notice that I was frozen in place. I looked up in the mirror and if it was even possible, I was paler than I normally am.

Vampires being public knowledge was one thing, but no one here knew about my past with vampires. That secret was mine, plus who wants to brag about not being wanted anyway. But now being near one, being in the same room, I started to get pretty anxious. What if it was one of them, the Cullens? Maybe this other new bloodline that could only be out at night? So many questions but I guess all I could do was go and see for myself.

I walked carefully back into the restaurant , when I'm nervous I'm extra clumsy. I glanced slowly around the room, it wasn't hard to spot him. It wasn't one of the Cullens though so I exhaled, louder that I thought, guess I had been holding my breath...again.

Sam came up next to me, "Guess it was only a matter of time, huh?" and he walked back behind the bar.

Everyone was interested and excited but me. Of course this gorgeous man...um vampire i mean, had sat in my section. Well guess I might as well get this over with. This will probably become more commonplace than I realized.

I walked over to him, smiled and said, "Hi my name is Bella and I'll be your waitress, what can I get for you?"

His eyes were red, I shivered, that meant he drinks human blood. "Could I please have a True Blood?"

I nodded and quickly walked away to get his drink. Luckily Sam had stocked up recently just in case one moved to town or a passerby stopped in for a drink. I brought it back to him and figured I should be polite in case he is a new neighbor.

"So you are causing quite the excitement here huh? Don't know if you knew but you are the first vampire this town has seen yet. Are you new to the area or just passing by?"

He looked up at me with those eyes and smiled, there was something kind about his smile.

"Yes, actually I am moving back to this area after a long time away. I grew up here back in the Civil War era. My name is Bill Compton and it is very nice to meet you Bella."

I blushed and said the same to him and told him to let me know if he needs anything else. With that I went on with the rest of my night. I refuse to let anything upset the happy balance I have created in my life, so a vampire had moved to town, it wasn't Edward, though he was almost as gorgeous.

The rest of the night went quickly, I watched as a couple of people went up and introduced themselves, a couple of girls threw themselves at him, he was polite but after some small conversation he would excuse himself and he seemed to prefer being alone. The night was nearing an end, every now and then I would glance over to Bill and catch him smiling in my direction. But maybe it was just my imagination. I walked to his table and asked if he need anything else.

He looked me in the eyes, smiled and asked, "I was wondering if I could possibly walk you home after work?"