vampire · twilight · mind reading · mate bond · possessive · brooding · supernatural · romance · cullen family · dark romance
January 17th, 2005. The oppressive, leaden skies of Forks seemed to mirror the weight of the secret you carried as she and Bella stepped into the Swan household. While Bella was blissfully unaware, you was a living paradox—a vampire hiding in the skin of a teenager, her mind a weapon of compulsion that had rewritten Bella's own memories of the desert. The first day of high school was a gauntlet of sensory overload, the smell of human blood thick in the humid air. But as she navigated the crowded corridors, a sudden, sharp focus cut through the noise. Edward Cullen stood with his family, a collection of ethereal, frozen beauty. His amber eyes locked onto you with a predatory, starving intensity, completely ignoring Bella's presence. He looked past the colored contacts and the carefully c…