Chapter 1
It was the crack of dawn by the time I had waken; I was used to waking up late with perfect streaks of silky gold sun pouring onto my shadowed pale face. But that was Florida, which was that past. Which was with my mum.
Today I wake with the soft tapping of chilled ice water drops seeping down my window, it poured down as if the sun were to never show again. The rain was too much so I swiftly turned my head to the door were it was half open. I could hear my dad Charlie making a fresh cup of coffee, by the sounds of it it he was making more than one cup, he knows I don't like coffee so I assume we might have guests. This is not at all what I planned doing during my first week at Forks, having people visit me all the time. Forks was a very cold, small and a lifeless mysterious town that I now live in with my dad.
Suddenly my eye caught the door slowly opening, it was Charlie, "Bella, Billy Black and Jacob are here to see you; you do remember Jacob don't you?"
"Of course I do, I don't forget people that easily dad, I thought you would of known that by now." I said implying that he didn't know me that well, but it is true, since my parents' divorce I hadn't seen my Charlie for what seemed like my whole childhood.
"Do you think now's the time? I just woke up." I tried my best to not sound rude as I didn't want to offend Charlie, Billy and Jacob on only my second day here.
"Well, I could tell them to come back later, if that's what you want?"
"No dad, it's okay, as long as there here I might as well be polite and greet them, I haven't seem them in ages t." I replied in a confident voice so I didn't sound like I wasn't serious or unhappy.
As I got up I looked at my alarm clock, 5:33 it read. " A bit early for visitors?" the words had slipped out of mouth before I realised that what I said could of offended him. "I'm sorry Bella, but Billy and I are going bear hunting this morning and we thought it would be nice for you to see Jacob again." His voice seemed to be very serious when he said 'bear hunting. "bear Hunting?" I asked in curiosity.
"Yeah, the boys back at the station had reports about bear sightings around the outskirts of town in the nearby woods, we thought we might go check it out for ourselves."
"Right, be careful then." Is the only thing I could respond with. As Charlie left I immediately followed him down the stairs and into kitchen. The moment I saw Jacob my heart must of skipped a beat, I whipped my bed hair out of my face and did my best smile I could produce, but I wasn't the smiling type.
"Good morning Bella, long time no see." Billy said and he held out his hand. I shook it without hesitate; his hand was firm and warm. I had to bend down as Billy was in a wheelchair. Then in a very sudden movement, Jacob held out his hand in a shot of lightning. "Pleased to finally see you again, Bella." Jacob said like he really was pleased. I held out my hand intending to shake hands but instead he pulled me into a huge bear hug nearly making my eyes popping out.
"Its nice to see you too." Was as much as I could say. Then he let me go, that's when I noticed how much he had changed since we were little. The first time I had met Jacob was when I was only three years old. I was with Charlie playing in the backyard when him and Billy came around to see me and Charlie. That day Jacob and I spent the entire afternoon playing in the mud. I hadn't seen him since.
"So If you're not busy, maybe we can make mud cakes again." Jacob chuckled softly like he was reading my mind.
"Jacob, I was three." I started to laugh with him.
"Well, while Charlie and I are out in the woods, we thought it would be nice of Jacob to show you around Forks." Billy broke the silence and smiled at Jacob.
"Yeah, and he could show you your new school, Forks High School." Charlie blurted out as well.
"That sounds, like fun." Was my only answer, I really just planned to stay home and sleep in after all this traveling. "Let me just go get changed first." I ran up the stairs and into my bedroom.
"Well, she has changed since last time we met." I heard Billy talking downstairs.
"Yeah, she's changed a lot, living with her mum I guess." Charlie replied, but I didn't wait to hear the rest, I closed my door and started to get changed. I was wearing my favourite shirt, sleeveless, white eyelet lace, And pair of black worn down jeans. My brown hair was of course left out to roll down my back in little waves of innocent curls that were slightly split but not to noticeable, but I wasn't really one to care about my hair.
I sloped down the stairs, but it looked like Charlie and Billy had already headed for the woods, so it was just Jacob left standing in the kitchen, waiting for me. "Ready, Bella?" he asked me as he started to head out the door. I couldn't help noticing that he had long hair that flowed down his back as well as mine, but his was blacker then the sky above Forks and was tied in a half ponytail, unlike mine.
"So Bella, what have you been up to all these years? Came an unexpected question that I hadn't prepared an answer for.
"Life in Florida?" I asked even though the answer is quite obvious.
"Yeah, with your mum." He said quite persistent for an answer.
"Well, it's been, sunny, and warm." Shoot! I blew it,, that is the most stupid thing to answer with. So I smiled and laughed gesturing that it was a joke, luckily he joined in with a chorus of light chuckles.
"Well shall we start with the tour then?' Jacob was now serious, it was easy to point out when he was serious.
"Of course, let's go." We both got into his blue truck , it was very old and rusty, but I didn't say anything to sound like I had 'clean' issues. The engine was then turned on and sounded like it could of blown us up there and then.
"Sorry about the ride, I have needed to fix it up for quite some time now." He said smirking as we pulled out of the drive way. The rest of the drive was silent other than a few words of where we were. I couldn't help gazing slightly at his face structure, his cheek bone and jaw line were so manly and strong and his eyes were so cautious, his skin was dark and bronze. The complete opposite to me, my skin was very pale and lifeless, for someone who just came from the heavy sun rays of Florida.
We next pulled up to what looked like a school, it was tall mysterious and seemed dark to me. "And this is Forks High school, you will be starting here on monday." He somehow seemed cheerful about this.
"So, do you attend this school too?" I was really hoping he does, it would be nice to have a friendly face around on my first day.
"Yeah this is the only high school Bella, did you overestimate the size of Forks?" he teased me and lightly smirked as he pulled out from the school.
