When Bella and Edward meet the first day of High School, he is a chubby misfit with no friends in a new town, aside from his popular cousins.  He meets Bella Swan, a well-liked, if uncoordinated, local with problems of her own.  This is the story of their friendship, their loss, their love and destruction.  Can they find their way back to each other?  And can they survive the changes they have both gone through since the fateful day they met?

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Edward Cullen lives in a world with no complications, and he likes it that way.

An undeniable attraction, a motorcycle, a blog, and a complication. What is really going on down at the Lone Star?

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Bella's family is attacked by vampires when she is young, leaving her the sole survivor. Rescued by Dr Carlisle Cullen, she is adopted into his 'vegetarian' family, consisting of him, his wife Esme and their three sons Emmett, Edward and Jasper. Struggling with her trauma, Bella finds herself developing special bonds with each of the Cullen boys.

This story has no Alice or Rosalie (or at least, not as vampires or Cullens).

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He thought he had it all. The perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect girl, the perfect life. After almost five years together, she can no longer stand by and be taken for granted. She warned him...and now she's left him. Sometimes being in love isn't always enough.

Hang on for the ride!

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***Rated for language and sexual content.***

Inspired by the song "She Wouldn't Be Gone" by Blake Shelton. Take a listen.

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Bella Swan was always awkward and never quite knew where she fit in, but she always had a best friend in Alice Brandon.  Edward Cullen was hopeless since the first grade, branded a geek and bullied every day of his life.  It's years later and Bella has just returned to Forks after graduating college.  She's desperate for a job and grabs the first thing she can find working at Forks Pharmacy with none other than Edward Cullen.  Follow their budding friendship as it evolves into something more, where Edward and Bella discover a little something about themselves as well as each other.  In the end, can Bella find where she belongs, and can Edward find someone who accepts him for who he really is?

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A perfect life is never what it seems.  A broken Mustang, a small town, a failing farm, expensive clothes, and one cheating husband. Will Edward help Bella discover who she really is or will she leave him heartbroken?

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What if in the beginning Edward lied to everyone about being in love with Bella? What if originally it actually was all about Bella's scent? And what would happen then if accidentally, much against his will, Edward kind of sort of fell head over heels in love with this not-so-dull human girl?

This is an AU of the Twilight Saga using an entirely different plot as to how, why, and when Edward and Bella fell in love. It offers a different explanation for what was so special about Bella Swan, why Edward vigilantly enforced those physical boundaries, why there's tension between the Cullens and the wolves, and why Edward behaved the way he did not only with Bella but with his family. Expect romance, mystery, angst, and humor. Dark Edward.

Canon Pairings, No BxExJ, OOC.

This story is rated NC-17 because of occasional naughty language, violence (or implied violence) against humans, vampires, werewolves, animals, insects, minding-their-own-business-pajamas, entities, books, coffee tables, leather recliners, bridges, sword ferns, shrubs, rocks, and worst of all....trees. It is also rated NC-17 due to excessive snarkiness by Edward, references to underage drinking, practical jokes and/or enthusiastic tormenting of secondary characters particularly Mike Newton, Jacob Black, and Charles Swan. It also is rated NC-17 due to sexual content.

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After her parents are killed in a plane crash, a young girl is rejected again & again by foster families for being too old. She wishes on a star nightly, but will she find what she seeks? Will the Cullens be that family?

NC-17 for later chapters. Warning" Violence, and sexual aggresion may be part of this story.

Winning Summary:

"I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I make tonight."  With that one hope Isabella Swan faces life as best as she can.  The tragedy of her parents' death, leaves her alone in a system where her age leaves her undesirable for adoption.  That is until one day two people come into her life offering her a chance at hope.  The Cullen family takes to Bella like a long lost sister.  What happens when Bella is taken from the Cullens by a lost relative?  Will Bella's hopes be destroyed?  What happens when fate steps in years later to reunite Bella with the one's she loved and who loved her so long ago?

Bella knew what she would say, "Don't you want to be my sister?"

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Edward is the retired right hand man for the infamous mob boss, Charlie Swan. When asked to train a woman to help to protect herself and her daughter, he had no idea the trouble he'd find himself in. She's the boss's daughter, can he keep his hands off?  OCC/AH

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 One Bet. One Week. No Rules.

Bella bets Edward that after a week of some raw sexcapades he won’t want to stop. He bets her otherwise.

A slightly tongue in cheek smutathon and my first fan-fic. Follow Cullen’s and Co to see what it means to be Beautiful, Dirty and Rich.

Warning: This story has mature themes from my smutty subconscious. If you don’t like words that rhyme with ‘duck’ and ‘grunt’ please look elsewhere. You have been warned.

You know those fics where Edward doesn't come back and Bella forgets about him and five seconds later she's in bed with Jacob and none of it makes any damn sense?
Yeah, this isn't one of them.

This story picks up from the moment in New Moon when Jacob has driven Bella home after the cliff diving incident, right before he catches the scent of Alice. Only in this telling, Alice wasn't looking, so there's no sudden appearance at Bella's house, no Rosalie calling Edward and sending him on a suicidal mission to Volterra, and no reason for Bella to do anything but believe that Edward didn't love her anymore. This is simply a story of what might have happened if everyone stayed mostly in character and Edward's return was delayed. Yes, delayed. Because we all know that he was "this close" to coming back on his own anyhow.
So what would have happened if Bella had tried to move on with her life?  Would she have found happiness with Jacob?  And would Edward be too late?

* First in a series of stories

~I thought of Jacob’s warm arms wrapped around me, his infectious laughter, and his ability to keep me from falling to pieces again… The pain choking my heart relaxed and I could breathe.~

~“More than anything,” I whispered, not caring what I'd just agreed to. When it came to Bella, it didn't matter what the question was. I just wanted.~

Winner of:

Best Author, Most Romantic, Favorite Jacob, Most Suspenseful, & Best WIP in the Wolfpack Awards | Best Non-Canon Pairing (Incomplete) and Best WIP in the Moonlight Awards | Best During the Series in the Razzle Dazzle Awards | The Storyteller Award in the Shimmer Awards | Best JacobxBella in the Silent Tear Awards  

A psychic. A telepath. And a witch or two.

Edward and Alice Swan move to New York City to start their junior year at Hale School. When Alice's natural talent for precognition starts to manifest itself more strongly, Edward begins to develop telepathic abilities. What secrets do the two siblings discover about Edward's lab partner, Bella Cullen? What do they discover about their own family?

Rated for underage sexuality/drinking/etc in upcoming chapters.