My Life After 40

Summary: After Jacob leaves Bella for a younger woman, Bella leaves Phoenix with their 13 old son and are heading back to her hometown of Forks. Will being back home and starting over with the help of old friends and family be enough to trust again? Her family and friends will try to help her gain that trust and maybe an old flame as well.

Ch.1 BPOV

"Mom I'm done packing my stuff in my room " yells my son, Jared. I'm in the living room looking around the house that held so many memories of our life here. I hear my son yelling and snap out of my daydreaming. " Hey sweetheart, are you ready to have the movers get your boxes? " As I look at my son nodding his head yes, we head down stairs and take one last look. Tears start to fill my eyes and I tell my son, " Okay sweetheart time to hit the road then." My son gives me a look that say ' It'll be okay , mom ', and all the love I have for my son is in the look I give back to him. Jared has been my rock, my everything. When Jared found out that his dad was leaving us for a younger woman he was very upset to the point he didn't want to see his father anymore. He was so hurt that he started to fall into a depression. I hated to see my son like that and when weeks follow and he didn't get any better , that when I decided that we needed a change, to go back home to Forks. He seemed really excited to be leaving Phoenix, and to start over. He wanted to spend more time with his grandfather , Charlie , who he really loved. Getting in the car, I took one more glace at the house we had lived in , made a life in and it seemed like yesterday that we were a happy family untouched by the sadness that now inhibits my son and myself.

It was around noon when we were on the road to Forks and we would soon be there around 9 pm. I had called Charlie to let him know that we were on our way and to be expecting us. As I was driving I kept thinking about how I was a 40 year old woman, with a teenage son, moving back home with her father all because her husband left to be with a younger woman. I felt like I was not enough and that made my selfesteem non exsistant. We stopped in a small town at a diner to get something to eat as it was already 6in the evening. After we ate we headed back on the road, a few more hours, I thought to myself and we would be home. Home , I thought. How much had it change ? I hadn't been to Forks in 5 years, with raising my son and teaching English at the high school, and Jacob had just opened his own garage we hadn't had a chance to go home and visit, Though we always kept in touch with e-mails and phone calls. Now going home I regret not visiting my family and friends! As my eyes are on the road, I see the sign that says Welcome to Forks, WA. I wake up Jared who was sleeping in the passenger side and tell him, " Hey sweetie, were here." Jared sits up straight as I make my way around town and to my dads house. I pull in the drive way and see that the house had not changed a bit. The house was still and old yellow color with the same white door, so many memories flooded my mind being home. My dad came outside to greet us as we were getting out of the car and came to hug Jared and I and as he hugged me he said, " Welcome home Bells, " and as I hugged him back I told my dad, "It's good to be home dad."