Prologue

Moving Day

"Okay, that's the last of it" my dad said as he put the final box into my brand new Mazda CX9. I told my parents about my plan to move and this baby was sitting in the drive way the next day. My dad had said something along the lines of "I wouldn't feel comfortable with you being so far from home with such an unreliable car, so here ya go kid." He finished by motioning to the beauty in the drive way.

Now don't get me wrong I was very grateful for the years my Chevrolet Cavalier provided me with but it was time to move on! I did feel a little relentless taking the car. Feeling as it could just be another thing for my father to hang over my head, but the pros outweighed the cons.

I had spent the last six years saving up for this move and I honestly couldn't remember the last time I bought myself something. I didn't count this as buying myself something but you got the picture.

"Well, I guess this is good-bye." I said.

"No, this is see you later," my sister said, "because you know as soon as you get settled I'm coming for a visit."

I turned to see my little sister Tiffany walking out of the house looking like hell. It was 10:30 a.m. but this was still considered early for her. Ever since she turned 21 everything changed for my little sister. She used to be a straight A student with a boyfriend of 4 years. But the day after her 21st birthday she broke up with him and put going to school on hold.

To say she is a completely different person was an understatement. Surprisingly though everyone was ok with the direction her life was now heading in even if she was still living at home. I guess if you do everything you're supposed to do your first 20 years of life you can do anything you want from then on after. I smiled at her though, I loved my little sister and she couldn't do wrong in my eyes.

I hugged her and whispered in her ear, "And I promise to make it a visit you will never forget." She coughed stifling a laugh. Hey just because she let our father know the way she lived her life didn't mean I wanted him to know the way I lived mine.

I went to hug my father next, and it was proving to be more difficult for me to imagine. Not that I wasn't glad to be leaving this town but I was still a daddy's girl deep down. All of us were. Aside from me and my sister, I had two step sisters. Scarlet was 25 and was attending the school Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Now Lizzy my other step sister was a character all her own. She was barley 20 but the day she graduated high school she moved to LA in hopes of being an actress. Now don't get me wrong the girl could act but she wasn't destined to be in movies she was suppose to be on Broadway, she had a voice of an angle. Everyone knew that in our little town but she still refused to listen. She would learn on her own accord I just hoped it wouldn't be to late when she did.

The hug was interrupted by someone clearing their throat. I rolled my eyes before letting go of my father. I turned to my sister to give her one final hug. I was sure going to miss them.

"Tell Sue that I am going to miss her and to take care." Sue was my step mother. She worked a lot of the time and we learned to accept that growing up. It never really seemed to bother my father but I don't know if I could be married to someone who spent the greater part of our relationship working.

My dad nodded, obviously trying to hold back some tears. My sister stepped up to him putting her arm around him and silently reassuring him everything would be okay. He welcomed it wrapping his own big arm around her tiny waist. I wanted to run back to them and give them both a hug one more time but I still had stops to make before I was even on the road.

I pulled out of the drive way, waving good-bye to them. I was out front of my mom's house in less than 3 minutes. Now this was a big disadvantage living in a small town, I grew up my whole life with my parents living right down the road from each other.

I parked the car and headed inside. My mother hadn't taken the day off work, I felt as if it wasn't completely nessacary. I only had to grab a few boxes from my stuff I had left here over the years. They were mostly filled up with books.

On top of the boxes was two wrapped presents. I opened the first one a little roughly remembering me distinctly telling my mom she didn't need to get me anything for a 'going away present'. But I knew the day she saw my new car that she wasn't going to let me leave without giving me a little something.

I finally god the gift unwrapped and I smiled a big old Cheshire cat smile. It was the book The Hunger Games. My mom always seemed to know what I wanted before I even knew. I set down the book and continued with my next gift. It was a picture of me, my sister, mom and dad at my 7th birthday party. I smiled as a little tear escaped my eye.

It was taken a week before my parents filed for the divorce. You wouldn't have ever been able to tell considering we looked like a family out of Home Living Magazine or something. I wiped the tear away and pulled out my phone to text my mom.

Love the gifts, but I told you not to get me anything! 3Bells

. My phone vibrated in my hand almost immediately after, I looked down expecting for the text to be from my mother but rolled my eyes when I saw what was there.

Where's your scrawny ass at! I'm ready to hit the road and get out of this hell hole! ;)

I didn't need to finish ready to know who it was from. I flipped my phone shut and loaded up my remaining boxes into the car. It only took me 5 minutes this time to make it to Rose's house.

Rose was my best friend and also moving to Seattle with me. We planned on sharing an apartment together for however long was nessacary. We have been best friends since the 5th grade. She was the only other person besides my sisters who I had met who seemed determined to get out of this town.

I pulled off onto the dirt road that leaded to her house. Rose's dad was mayor of our here little town and had been for the last fifteen years. I pulled up to her house and put the car in park. I got out of the car and made my way to the house.

I walked right into the house, not caring being as this was my second family. I called out Rose's name and heard clicking down the hall. She wasn't at all what everybody would think a mayor's daughter would be coming from little ol' Forks. She always had the best of the best and never wore anything not name brand. Totally opposite of me, give me a pair of jeans that covered my ass and I would be good to go.

She was in front of me faster than you could say Christian Louboutin. To no surprise every hair on her head was in place, not a wrinkle in her clothes. She didn't have any boxes, her father had those sent ahead of time so it wouldn't be such an in convinces.

"About time," she hollered, "I thought we would be leaving at 11!"I just rolled my eyes at her. All the time she made me wait over the years, 15 minutes and she should be okay. I gave her an eye roll.

"Well, I'm here now. You ready or not?" I asked.

"Let's go say good bye to the parental then we can be on our way." She said as she flashed her 1000 Walt smile. We headed into the kitchen where we heard chatter going on.

"Come to say good-bye you two?" asked Mr. Hale when we walked all the way into the kitchen.

"As ready as well ever be dad." Rose answered back.

"Ok, well I want you girls to know that y'all can come back home whenever you want to. No one would think twice of it." I huffed out a breath of air.

We had heard speeches along these lines for the last year since we let her parents know that it was getting close to us actually moving away. They didn't believe that it would ever happen but still stressed the fact that we didn't have to leave if we didn't want to.

"Dad…" Rose said with a hint of warning.

I smiled and chuckled a little as her dad made his worried face. Rose was an only child (well if you didn't include me) so when it came to who ruled the house you didn't need to spend more than ten minutes in this house to realize who it was.

"Just making sure y'all know baby doll." Mr. Hale responded.

Mrs. Hale came down the stairs at that moment. She looked awful. She had red rimmed eyes and a Kleenex in her hand. Mrs. Hale diffiently took the news about our move the hardest out of our whole family.

She saw us standing there in the kitchen and started bursting into tears yet again. She ran back up the stairs before anyone could say anything to her.

Rose turned back to her dad "Just tell mom to call me when she's ready to talk to me and that I love and will miss her." Her dad just nodded probably a little worried that he would have to be left to pick up the pieces of his wife's heart.

We both turned to exit the kitchen but couldn't make it far before we were stopped by Mr. Hale once again.

"Just one second girls…" He said heading in our direction. He handed us both white blank envelopes and said "Just promise me y'all will not open these till you get to your new apartment."

We both nodded our heads just in hopes of him hurrying to let us go. We were finally out of the house and by my car before we both squealed and jumped up and down like little school girls. I quickly got in the driver's seat while Rose made her way around to the passenger seat.

As soon as her ass was on the seat she started to dig into her hug Chanel bag when she started pulling and kept pulling out every CD from Glee imaginable. Huge smiles broke out onto our faces when we made eye contact. If you knew one thing about us we loved our Glee and would hurt whoever said anything nasty, mean, and wrong about that show. You can count on that.

I knew at that moment this is where I'm supposed to be in life. In my new Mazda CX9 with my best friend in the passenger seat, and an endless supply of Glee music you could ever want. What put the cherry on the cake was when we finally pulled on to the high way and she put the CD Glee The Music, Vol. 1 on and 'Don't stop believing came on', yeah that topped it off right.