Bella & Edward can't seem to get their timing right. College shelves their on-the-verge high school romance but it isn't as easy as picking up where they left off when they are reunited. Through The Lens Anonymous Contest entry.

Bella is devastated by the loss of her mother and is forced to go live with Charlie, her Mom's best friend, when there is no one else to take her in. She gives up on living, too lost in her own anger to let anyone close to her. Enter Edward, the handsome teenage vampire, and the beginning of a complicated love-hate relationship. Neither can deny the connection between them, but can their love survive the fear that rules her and the secret he hides from her? AU and OOC, Rated NC-17 for language and sexual content.