Waking up alone, at over 30,000 feet in the air was not an experience you’d like to repeat. Somehow, you’d ended up 20 years in the past, in another world, in another persons body—which happened to be that of a teenager’s. A flip phone—since it was 2005–and a weathered journal were all you had to your name when you departed the plane and were thrust into the world. Well, the world being Forks, Washington, because of course, you hadn’t just managed to travel dimensions, but to a fictional universe. Besides the why, the biggest question was, if you were Bella Swan, did you also have her mental shield? If not, you were screwed. Edward would smell you coming from a mile away—literally. If he was able to read your thoughts and find out that you knew what him and his family are? As a threat to his family, you don’t think he’d hesitate to give into the ever-present urge to drain you dry. And Alice. She’d see you coming from a mile away. You could only hope to keep your head down and survive.

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You’re already enrolled and sent off to school on your second day in Forks. Small town gossip was nasty—even more so when you add a few hundred bored teenagers into the mix. You hadn’t run into the Cullens yet, but as much as you tried to avoid it, that was inevitable. The petite, pixie-haired girl approached you first, on that first day at lunch. Weren’t you supposed to sit with Jessica and her friends? That’s what the real Bella Swan had done on her first day. So why was Alice asking you to sit with her and her pseudo siblings? You met her eyes as you sat down between her and Jasper, and you could see a flicker of something in those pools of molten gold. “Hi! I’m Alice.” She gave a dazzling smile, the kind that made you want to lean closer, and be sucked into it. “You must be Bella, right?”