A/N - This is my first fanficton so I hope you enjoy it. :)

I do not claim any part of the Twilight Saga. All credit goes to Stephenie Meyer. Except Sadie...Sadie is mine XD

Chapter 1

Sadie's POV

"Why do I have to go?" I asked my mother for the millionth time. I was lying on my mother's bed trying to beg her to not make me go to this stupid family reunion in a week. But she wouldn't budge!

"Because I said so," she snapped, turning her head sharply to give me the momma-death-stare.

"That's not a good enough excuse!" I almost yelled at her, getting on to my knees so that I was taller than her. I felt my dirty blonde hair sway half way down my back.

She sighed, pleading me with her dazzling green eyes. I had my dad's eyes. A ocean blue color. I turned my head away from her stare and looked at the nail in the wall, where a painting once hung, to distract me. I was not going to be pulled into this.

"Please Sadie," she put her hands on my shoulders and slowly lowered me into a sitting position, "This is the first family reunion since your father died." I flicked my eyes back to hers. I can't believe her. Now she was bringing dad into this! That was low blow. And she knew it. I saw guilt flash in her eyes before going back to pleading. You got to be kidding me! She was pulling the 'poor widow mother card' on me again! If she wasn't going to budge, neither was I.

"It's not like anyone is going to miss me," I mumbled to myself while flicking my dirty blonde hair out of my eyes.

"Don't be like that Sadie. You know everyone loves you," she said in a gentle voice. She was putting more of her clothes in the suit case now and wasn't looking at me as I slid my legs around myself to sit crisscross.

"Uhh huh, yeah, everyone freaking loves me. That's why Uncle Rob doesn't even remember my name." I argued.

"That was 3 years ago, Sadie," glancing at me with a smirk.

"Okay, well…" I searched my mind for an excuse, any excuse, "I can't go anyway," I said smiling.

"What do you mean you can't go?" she asked turning toward me again and cocking an eyebrow.

"Jared is taking me to Homecoming that day, so I can't go," my smile widening.

"You're not going to Homecoming," she said simply and turned back to her previous task as if it was nothing. I had to go to Homecoming. I was dating one of the most popular guys in school. I had to go.

My smile dropped. Why was she doing this to me! "Pff, whatever mother," I said while jumping off her king sized bed onto the wood floor. I walked out without looking back and went to my room to play my guitar, like I always did when I got mad.

I was dreading going to school today and breaking the news to Jared that I couldn't go to Homecoming on Saturday. I was borderline terrified of what his reaction would be.

I rolled out of bed, almost hitting my head against my nightstand, when I heard my alarm clock go off. I literally had to throw the stupid thing against the wall for it to shut up. Stupid piece of junk. Who made alarm clocks anyway?

I reluctantly started getting ready for school. My feet dragged as I made it to my closet without running into a wall this time. But I didn't escape the pile of clothes in front of the door. Finally finding what I wanted to wear, I slid my ripped jeans on and my favorite purple Led Zeppelin shirt.

I went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I saw a girl with dirty blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and an olive skin tone. She was beautiful. The prettiest girl at West Seattle High School. And she knew it.

I tried to think of ways to tell Jared the horrible news while I brushed my hair and put it up into a messy pony tail. Did I even have to tell him? I asked myself. Well, I kinda have to I guess. I thought with a huff.

I slowly finished getting ready and was rushing out the door to get to school on time. With my mom already gone to work there was no hope in getting a ride. At least I'll have less time to avoid Jared before school starts. School wasn't that far from my house so I usually just walked but on days like this, I ran. I should be getting my car this month.

I walked down the halls of West Seattle High School. The walls were stone. A tan-brown color. I turned the corner to find Jared leaning against my locker. He was wearing his letterman jacket and some jeans that hung a little too low for my liking. His blonde hair fell into his brown eyes before he flicked it back with one of those weird neck moves. That boy was in serious need of a hair cut. He had his arms crossed over his chest and his right foot was up against the bottom of my locker. My locker, like everyone else's, was gold.

I watched him for a moment. Sarah—the school slut—walked by winking at Jared. I froze and watched for Jared's reaction. He checked her out before wolf-whistling. I felt my jaw drop and my eyes widen. I can't believe he did that. But he didn't mean it, right?

Good thing I didn't need anything out of my locker for 1st period. Jared wasn't looking my way as I approached, still looking after that slut Sarah. So I silently slipped by him without him noticing. I was to stay away from him as long as I possibly could, still thinking about Homecoming. Unfortunately 4th Period Biology was the first class I had with him all day. And of course we were lab partners. Great. I was able to squeeze by him and his annoying posse of Jocks at lunch but it wouldn't be so easy this time.

"Maybe I shouldn't tell him," I contemplated to Roselyn while walking down the halls to my 4th Period. After my dad died we moved to Seattle. I was 13 then and Roselyn has been my best friend since day one. She had brown hair and eyes and a fair skin tone. She was next to the one of the prettiest girls at school.

"I think you should. What are you gonna tell him when he shows up at your house to take you and you are not there?"

I chuckled at the mental image of that. "Yea I guess," I said sighing. "Hey, you wanna go to the reunion with me?" I asked stopping abruptly and turning to face her. I hoped she would say yes so I didn't have to suffer the torture by myself.

"Umm…" I could tell she was about to back out so I resulted to begging.

"Come on! Please Roselyn! Don't make me go by myself," I put my best puppy face on and it seemed to be working.

"Ehhh…okay, but you owe me big time. I'm missing Homecoming now!"

"Thank you! You're the best!," I grabbed her into a tight embrace before checking the time on my phone. "I'll see you later. I'm gonna be late for class," I started jogging to my 4th Period happy that I didn't have to go to the stupid reunion by myself, but also dreading telling Jared the news in class. I felt a little guilty about taking Homecoming from Roselyn but I knew she wasn't going with anyone anyway.

I walked in as the bell rang and took my seat next to Jared. Jared then turned to me. "Hey you," he said before smiling his signature smile. "I haven't seen you all day. Are you avoiding me?" He asked, sounding hurt.

"Umm…no. Of course not." I lied swiftly changing the subject. "But I do have to talk to you about Homecoming," I replied looking up through my eyelashes.

"Oh, what about?" He asked barley paying attention.

"I…umm…I can't go," I said looking down at my hands. I didn't want to see the reaction that I knew I was going to get. When he didn't answer after a few moments, I peeked up through my eyelashes. What I saw was nothing what I would have expected. His face was calm. No sign of anger or disappointment. Nothing.

"Why?" He asked, trying to look at my face. His face might have been blank but in his voice I found a faint sign of annoyance.

"I have to go to a family reunion. My mom is making me go. I've been trying to back out for a almost a week now," I said in a rush, looking up now.

"Oh, mmkay," he sounded distracted somehow. But I couldn't figure out why. I didn't put much thought behind it as I asked, "So you're not mad or anything, right?"

It looked as though I had snapped him out of some deep thought he was having. "Huh? Oh, no. I'm not mad," he replied before going back into that distracted state. I wondered what he was so distracted about but decided to be happy he wasn't even the slightest mad.

"Okay," I felt a huge smile spread across my face. I turned to face the front of the class and pretended to listen to Mrs. Riley's lecture. I was really surprised that Jared wasn't even disappointed about me not going to Homecoming with him. Homecoming was always this big thing for him. Wonder why he isn't freaking out…

The rest of the school day flew by since the thing I was dreading turning out to be nothing.

"I DON'T WANT TO GO!" I yelled down the hall to my mother, who was sitting on the couch in our living room going through a magazine she just got in the mail.

"You're going even if I have to drag you out by your hair," she said smiling. She was enjoying this! What kind of mother is she?

Today was the day of Homecoming and also the day we were leaving to go to this place called La Push. We were going to be gone for the whole week! The torture never ends! Good thing I got Roselyn to go with me. Her mother wasn't real happy with the idea of missing school for a week but let her go anyway. Her grades were always amazing anyway.

Jared told me yesterday after school that he would be going to Homecoming with another girl. Probably Sarah. How could he do that? I'm his girlfriend and just because I can't go, he goes and gets another girl! Of course, he doesn't see anything wrong with it. That is probably the reason why he didn't get mad at me when I told him I couldn't go. He probably thought I couldn't get mad at him if he went with another girl if he didn't get mad at me for not going. We had got into a big fight that day. Stupid jocks.

Focusing back on the problem at hand I yelled again, "UGH! You're ruining my life!"

"One week, Sadie. How is that ruining your life?"

"Never mind! Let's just go pick up Roselyn," I replied putting the last of my clothes into the truck.

After we picked up Roselyn, the 4 hour drive to La Push wasn't as bad as I planned. My mother stayed as quiet as possible and let us have control over the radio.

Everything started to get greener the closer we got to La Push. Why would anyone ever choose to live somewhere so green? And rainy? At least in Seattle we get some sunlight. It looked like it was constantly raining here.

I stared down at my journal as Roselyn and I sang along to the radio, bobbing our heads. I was in the middle of trying to write a song and music somehow helped me concentrate.

"Why don't we turn it down a little," my mother tried to yell over the radio.

We sang on acting like we didn't hear her. My mother knew what we were doing and reached for the volume knob. She turned it down to where we could hardly hear it.

"Mother!" I yelled at her in disbelief. She knew that was my favorite song.

"Sadie!" my mother said mocking my tone.

I signed and turned my head to the window. I sat there for a moment looking out the window. The only thing I saw was trees. Lots and lots of trees. As I sat staring at them, they all started to blur together making this huge green blob.

Roselyn shifted next to me and somehow clearing my vision. I shook my head and turned toward my mother. "How much longer 'til we're there?" I asked, wanting this car trip to end.

"We're driving in right now," she replied pointing in the direction to where we driving in.

"Thank god!" I signed, putting away my journal.

As we drove up, I could see all our family. Uncle Rob, Aunt Lynn, GG, GPa, Gabe, Elijah, Alisha and other family members that I haven't seen in years. Some were sitting in a circle around the bonfire and others were at the grill cooking or eating food.

We parked the truck and got out. My mother walked straight over to the bonfire and started mingling while Roselyn and I tried our hardest to act like we weren't there. Roselyn had met most of my closest family members over the years so there was no need for us to go over there right now.

Roselyn and I walked down the beach. I felt sand grains get onto my flip flops and under my feet. I felt the need to rip my flip flop off my feet and brush every grain of sand from them. But then decided on guiding us over to what looked to be a large piece of driftwood to sit.

"Thanks for coming," I said to Roselyn while looking behind me at the scene of all my family members having a good time. Except my cousins, of course. They were around my age and didn't want to be any more than I did.

"No problem. Better than being at school, right?" she said shrugging one shoulder.

I grimaced turning around to look out to the ocean. It was beautiful but still didn't make me like this place any more. "I don't know about that. This might be worse than school." I told her with a slight chuckle that quickly died away when I started to feel this pull. And it was slowly getting stronger. I didn't know what it was but for some reason I had a strong urge to look over to the right of me. I furrowed my eyebrows trying to figure out what it was.

Roselyn sighed and threw a rock into the water a few seconds later, snapping me back to reality. I could still feel the pull and it was getting impossibly stronger. I turned to stare at Roselyn, hoping that if I concentrated on something else the pull would just go away. But when I looked over, Roselyn seemed to be staring past me with wide eyes.

"Ohmygod," she sighed. I turned around slowly to see what she was staring at. I felt the air escape my lungs as I stared at the two guys walking our way. One guy stood out the most. And that is where the pull was coming from.

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