Hi, everyone! I know I haven't posted anything in a really long time, but I really had a LOT going on in my life… Well, I still do, but I had to post this story! For the MA readers that are about to kill me for not posting the other side-stories, I can't tell you when I'll be able to get back to them since they make me go back to the awful months I spent dealing with serious family issues. I hope I'll be able to get back to it soon… But for now, I hope you'll enjoy this story that I had begun planning while I was still writing MA!

This chapter is dedicated to me, since I'm so happy I'll have my article published! *-*

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Prologue – BPOV

I don't know what happened before, but in my first memory I was walking in the woods. I was somewhere in the State of Washington, something I would figure out later. I could hear a lot of things and know how distant to me they were, I could feel the ground. I could see things a normal human couldn't.

I didn't know who I was or what I was. I didn't even know how to speak. I knew what I was thinking, but I don't know if I was thinking in any known language.

My throat began to burn as I heard some animals passing by. I didn't think when I hunted them. I didn't think when I drank their blood. I just thought how awful it was, but kept drinking anyway. I was too thirsty to care about taste.

I finished with three coyotes quickly and my thirsty was eased, but didn't vanish. I heard a voice coming from a distant place. It was a male voice. My throat burned again, so I followed the voice.

There was a man that seemed to be just like me. My throat ached for him. I aimed for his throat just like I had done with the coyotes and he didn't bleed. He was really pale and seemed to have the same abilities I had, but I was stronger and I wanted his blood. Well, not really blood, but at the time I thought it was blood. I didn't know yet, but I was turned into a vampire. Not a common vampire, I had become a vampire that would feed on others vampire's venom.

Why do you have to chop and burn vampires in order to kill them? A vampire exists thanks to the venom that is inserted in his (or her) blood system. The venom attacks the blood and turns it into venom, that's why a vampire needs blood. The venom is what keeps the vampires alive and that's why you have to burn him. You burn the venom, you kill the vampire. Chopping is just to make it easier to burn.

Only a few vampires know where the venom is accumulated. It's in a small second heart that is located inside the original heart. It does beat, but it's soundless. The venom runs through the body and accumulates in the mouth too.

Why is a vampire cold then? Because the venom is ice cold, if the venom didn't run inside the vampires' bodies, all of us would be even colder. Since the venom run through our veins, it gets a little hotter.

I feed on the venom, but no other vampire I've ever met can do it too. The venom makes me stronger and it allows me to steal some special abilities, but not all of them.

I didn't know any of this at the time, but when he didn't bleed I knew I had to attack the back of his neck and suck from there. I drained him completely and he died. That was the first time I killed one of my kind.

The only word that escaped the lips of the dying creature was 'Bella'. I liked that word and decided that it would become my name. I spent a few months in the woods, avoiding contact with beings that looked like me. It wasn't right to kill them just to ease my thirst. I would only force myself to drink animal blood, my eyes soon changing from burgundy to a strange mix of amber and emerald green. I began to feel lonely after some time and decided to search for someone that could explain what was happening to me, who I was and what I was supposed to do.

That was when I met Alphonse. He was spending the weekend away from his home and found me. He is a dark skinned, bulky and tall man. His deep burgundy eyes had me worried at first. He had the same eye color of the man I killed. His scent was totally different, but at the same time it was too similar. I wanted his blood, but didn't want to kill him.

"You seem confused, young lady." He said. I couldn't understand what he meant, but I memorized it anyways.

I looked at him helplessly.

"You don't speak English?" He asked in understanding. I still couldn't understand what he was saying, but his eyes were talking to me, so I shook my head. He pointed to himself and told me his name. "I'm Alphonse."

"Bella." I said pointing to myself, feeling stupid for not being able to talk.

Somehow I could ignore the burn in my throat and actually stay at the same place he was. I felt like I had made a friend and it was strange since I knew him for less than an hour.

"You definitely need new clothes." He said pointing to what I was wearing.

When I was turned I was wearing a blue dress, but the coyotes almost destroyed it, trying to save their lives. So I got the clothes the vampire I killed was wearing. The black pants were already shorts (I had to cut it after a while) and the black shirt was also ripped into a top. At the time that kind of clothes weren't acceptable.

Alphonse took me to his house and taught me how to speak. I was able to master the language in one month. I was like a younger sister to him and he was my big brother. I was really lucky to have him. I also had the coolest big sister, his mate Annette. She is almost as tall as he is, but she is lean. Her hair is dark brown and her burgundy eyes seem to always glow in happiness. I think the most beautiful sight of a vampire is when the sun touches Olive toned skin and I found that out when I saw Annette under the sunlight for the first time.

They liked to live with the humans, even though their thirst burned for their blood. Their burgundy eyes were never a problem since Alphonse had the ability to make humans think the way he suggested them to think.

"Bella, are you ready for our trip?" He asked me.

"Must we hunt now?" I asked back, from my room.

"You can stay at home, but we'd like you to come with us. Since we are hunting for adventurers, you could hunt some animals too." Annette told me smiling.

"Fine." I nodded and we left.

In the woods we found a newborn girl. Just like me she couldn't remember her past. She only knew her name was Alice. Alice was tiny and had butterscotch eyes, her long hair was the exact contrast of her skin, ebony black and silky white. Just like a cute fairy. She could speak perfectly and we easily considered her part of the coven. She was never really part of us, though. I mean, she loved us and she became my best-friend, but she knew her place wasn't with us. She left us a few years later, promising to keep contact.

Years passed and I decided it was my time to leave too. I lived just fine within the human society, since my throat didn't burn for their blood and my green eyes allowed me to fit in easily.

My eyes would always be butterscotch or green, depending on what I fed. I already could feed on vampire venom and find the will to not kill him or her.

Years continued to flow and the new millennium wasn't so new anymore.

I was at my favorite sunny city, Rio. This city attracted me in a way I couldn't explain. I had to go to Brazil at least once a year to spend a month there. I would spend my days in a small foggy mountain city called Teresópolis and the nights at Rio. I loved to spend the nights looking into the ocean at the Ipanema beach. I loved hiking at the Serra dos Orgãos National Park in Teresópolis. These two cities made me feel at home. I knew I wasn't Brazilian, but the peace I felt whenever I was in Brazil was unique. I had to keep going back at least once every four or five years.

It was already dark and Rio kept pulsing like the cosmopolitan city that it is. It looked as if I chose a bad day to go to the Ipanema beach and relax. September the 7th is Brazil's Independence Day, a holiday the Cariocas (people born in Rio) spent at the beach. Obviously I didn't remember that it was that day, I found it hard to keep a track of the calendar when I wasn't at school. The beach had a lot of young couples and groups of young friends. Their conversations were loud and animated. Some would sigh and remember of the class they would have the following day, others were already planning to skip school and surf first thing in the morning. I wanted to laugh, but I also didn't want to attract attention to me.

They made me decide that it was already time to return to school. I had finished my major in English Literature a few months ago and the vacation had done me good, but it was already time to go back to the purgatory that was High School. I don't know how old I was when I was turned, but Alphonse said it was between 16 and 19 years old. Due to my body built I hardly could pass as a 15 year old, but could pretend to be no older than 26, so I kept the routine of going to High School, then College. I almost never could work, because I seem too young. Of course, from time to time I would pretend to be older by wearing more conservative clothes and make up, but people would still say I had a child's face. The same day I arranged my return to the US. I still had to decide where to this time.

North definitely, but exactly where? I thought as the plane ascended to the sky.

North was a place the peaceful vampires usually chose, it was where they could hide their true self better since the high latitude made the climate colder and the sun appears during a smaller part of the day. It quantity of vampires was a problem to me, since their venom was way too mouth-watering for me to resist, but I had already stayed in way too many cities of the peaceful South and had no intention of going to that hell that it was in the other Southern States. Humans were so much easier to deal with. Their blood was almost as non-appealing as the animal's. I could drink it, but I would have to force myself to drink it, something I would never do.

It's already too sad that I kill animals to live. I couldn't do it with humans too. I thought sadly.

As soon as I got to US, I went to meet Alphonse in Portland. When I got to his office I was assaulted by Annette's arms hugging me welcome, her smell making my mouth water.

"Bella, we missed you so much!" She stated happily.

"Hi, Annette." I said shortly and stopped breathing.

"Oh, you're hungry, right?" She asked, already knowing me way too well. She looked into my black eyes, removed her arms and walked back to her desk. "Sorry, I didn't mean to torture you, I just felt your smell when you got out of the elevator and…"

"Annette, it's fine!" I interrupted her never ending apologize. "I'm happy you came to greet me first thing, it's been a long time since we last saw each other and I missed you too."

She smiled kindly.

"So, how was Rio?" She asked and then said before allowing me to tell her. "Alphonse got some venom for you, let's get that first."

"That's a good idea." I said, but didn't move toward the door.

"Don't worry, he's alone." She told me and knocked the door. "We're coming in."

"Please do." Alphonse said as Annette opened the door.

"Hi, Alphonse." I greeted as I entered his office. It was just like it had been in the last few decades. Burgundy walls, Persian sand colored carpets, a few diplomas and paints hung in the walls, a few bookshelves filled with economy books. On his desk were a latest generation computer and a notepad by its side. His black leather chair was also still the same and sitting on it was my tall and bulky dark skinned and burgundy eyed big brother. He smiled happily and hushed to my side.

"Bella! Rio must've been good this time, you're a month later than normal." He said and laughed. At the beginning he didn't like the idea of me visiting tropical-sunny countries and thought I liked to torment him by going, but after some time he just thought it was, like everything in me, strange and funny. "Came for new papers?"

"Yes." I replied shortly, two vampires in my condition was a hard thing to handle.

"Seems like you could use some venom, right?" He asked still laughing. I just nodded in reply.

He opened his special fridge and threw one of the special designed bottles for me to catch. These bottles conserved the venom for months and were life savers that I couldn't live without.

"The venom this time is free." He told me and the two of us smirked.

I drained the content of the bottle in a second and could already notice the difference. It was newborn venom, the strongest of all. For starters, I could already talk and breathe at ease even in the presence of the two vampires.

"Some newborn vampire was stupid enough to hunt here?" I asked smirking.

"You know I don't mind hunting here, but creating havoc and giving the Volturi an excuse for coming here is something I can't accept!" He said seriously. "Two of them, they killed eight girls in a week."

"At least created a pattern?" I asked. Victims of vampires were normally labeled victims of serial killers or devil's worshippers.

"Yeah, they killed only pretty high school girls." He said and then added as Annette glared. "Of course, pretty for human's standards or that was what the newspaper called them."

"I see." I said doing my best not to laugh. "Well, I'm happy I got some venom for free."

"From what you looked like when you came in, I must assume that you were feeding on animal blood again…" He said in a depressed tone. "You know how that is way below your needs, Bella."

"Yes, it's even below human's blood, but it can ease my thirst for a while and I'd rather that than attacking humans or vampires." I replied the same way I have always replied.

"I know, I know." He sighed.

"Business time, Alphonse." I told him. "How's my money going?"

"I was able to make your savings grow a bit, but not like you would've done it." He told me. "You know I take good care of your money, but I think you handle things better than me with your computer games."

"Data analysis programs." I corrected him.

"Did you already take the amount to pay for the new bottles?" I asked.

"Yes, but not for the papers, since I don't know where you're going now." He said in his business like tone, his eyes glued on the computer's screen.

"High school… I think it's time again." I told him and sighed.

"Fine, so how old this time?" He asked.

"I think seventeen is fine." I said, he typed the information.

"Where to?" He asked.

"Good question…" I replied thoughtfully. "I thought about it on the plane, but couldn't decide on anywhere, but probably somewhere in the state Washington."

"Washington?" He asked. "Then why don't you go to Forks?"

"Forks?" I asked back raising one of my eyebrows.

"I saw the town on the news the other day and it's said to be the rainiest town in the US." He told me simply.

"I don't really like the rain, but this Forks will do." I said and then added. "I remembered my last name, I think. My name this time will be Bella Swan."

"Good." He said, typing it down. "Which car do you want this time?"

"I thought you received my e-mail telling about my newest purchase…" I told him smiling hugely. "I'll get it tomorrow, it's a Mitsubishi Eclipse!"

"Nice…" He said smiling back at my choice. "Which color?"

"Maizen blue pearl." I replied.

"Suits you." They both agreed.

"Thanks." I said.

I looked over his desk as he worked and noticed something missing. Alphonse noticed I was confused about something.

"What's wrong, Bella?" He and Annette asked.

"I don't see your new wedding picture here." I told them.

"Oh!" The two said at the same time.

"Tell her, Anne." He asked lovingly.

"We were getting tired of getting married every two years, so now we only get married once in every decade." She said happily, her smile bigger than normal.

"Yeah, it would become monotonous, right? And marriage is a special occasion." I agreed, Annette nodding.

"It ends up losing its meaning." Alphonse said.

"Anyway…" Annette said, changing topics. "You'll spend some time with us, before leaving right?"

"I guess I could spend a day or two…" I replied as always.

"Definitely two." Annette and Alphonse said at the same time as always.

The three of us laughed. I had missed them terribly, the two of them were at the same time my parents and the older brother and sister I never knew if I had.

We decided to hit a club and dance a bit. Annette made sure we stopped at her favorite dress store before going out and bought a red and black dégradé bandage dress for herself and a black and dark blue dress for me. Then we went to a shoe store to buy a cute pair of fringed blue ballerinas and a pair of red calf boots. We made a quick stop at their house to change and get the accessories that would go with the clothes. She got a red belt style leather watch and a pair of earrings that had black stone and golden ivy around it, with three small diamonds in each. I found in my suitcase a white gold bracelet that had small diamonds all over it and decided to use it along with my white gold with diamond and blue sapphire drops earring. She made my make up and hers, claiming I had to learn to do my own make up someday.

As if I wanted to learn how to torture myself. I thought unhappily.

We made it to the club in time to see a line forming. We would never stay in a line as long as Alphonse was with us. Just a few words and we would be the most celebrated guests.

"I think that waiter will pass his number to you in a few minutes, Bella." Annette said giggling.

"Humans…" I sighed. It was strange how human males seemed to feel attracted to me. I turned them down quickly and was made fun by Alphonse who insisted it was already time for me to find a mate.

We danced all night long.

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Well, I must admit I'm really nervous about this story… I really like it and was able to finally find some time to write it. I have already finished writing the next four chapters and began writing the 5th. I'll post them once a day if I can. This one I'm posting to celebrate my first article that is going to be published! *-* That's right, I'll have an article published in a magazine about International Law!!! *-* Hard work is soooooo worthy! *-*

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