Ten minutes…

Ten minutes…

Five minutes…

One minute…

Thirty seconds…

Five, four, three, two, one…

Riiiiiiiiiinng!

Finally! Schools out!

At least that's what everyone else is thinking, but me I'm indifferent. Sure schools out, joy, but that just means another boring summer in the rainy town of Forks, Washington.

I slowly gathered my things, which wasn't a lot seeing as it was the last day of school, and headed out to my old truck. As I was walking, I had to dodge paper balls and everything else that was in peoples lockers. I felt sorry for the janitors, seeing as they had to clean all of this up. But that was quickly out of my mind as I approached my tuck, because standing next to it, well bouncing would be the right word, was my best friend in the whole world. Alice Brandon.

We didn't have any classes together, but for some reason whenever I, or anyone else for that matter, was in close proximity to her, would just forget all worries and would be happy. Anyway as I drew nearer, I could see a face splitting smile on her face, that made me just a bit wary, because there were only two reasons why she would be smiling like that. She either has some big, important news or she has a plan to go on an all out shopping spree, I hoped it was the latter of the two.

"Why are you so happy Alice?" I asked as I reached her.

"Because it's the last day of school, of course" but the ecstatic glint in her eye told me that was not what it was.

I gave her a skeptical look, but that only made her even more hyper. Now I was starting to wonder if she just ate too much sugar this morning.

"Come on, Alice, just tell me!" I demanded.

I could tell I was about to get an earful, so I decided that I didn't want to hear it now.

"Never mind, you can tell me when we get to your house."

She looked about ready to pop, with excitement.

So in a hurry to tell me she ran over to her canary yellow Porsche, and had it speeding down the road before I could even get in my truck. I hope she know that my truck could not go that fast, it couldn't go over fifty.

Well I got in my truck, threw my bag into the passenger seat, started the ignition, and pulled out onto the slippery road. For once it wasn't raining, but it did rain this morning so the roads were still slick. I slowly made my way to the Brandon's house, which wasn't that far from the school, and as I pulled up the only car in the driveway was the Porsche, so I could tell that her parents weren't home.

I got out of my truck, went up the short walkway, and was about to open the door when in was thrown open. Standing in the doorway was a very excited Alice. She nearly pulled my arm off when she tugged me through the door and up the stair to her room. She pushed me down on her bed, and then stood in front of me, her tiny hands on her petite hips. I thought she was going to give me the lecture about how slow my truck was when she screamed at the top of her lungs….

"WE'RE GOING ON A ROADTRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY, TO GO VISIT JASPER AND EMMETT!!"

All her excitement finally made sense now; Jasper was her boyfriend, who just happened to be in collage on the east coast. Jasper and her had been dating since Alice and I were sophomores, and when he went away to collage, she was nearly heartbroken. But he still sent her emails and called her almost everyday, so after about a month she was better. The other reason her excitement made sense was because Emmett was her older brother. Normally you wouldn't think they were related, with her being small, petite and pixie-like, right down to her spiky, black hair; he was tall, masculine, and bear-like. Except for the fact that he acted more like a teddy bear than a grizzly. Who would have thought?

"WHAT?! We are going to go see Emmett and Jasper at school?!"

I guess I didn't have the right reaction, because her grin faltered slightly, and she looked almost hurt. She must has misunderstood my reaction.

"I thought you would be happy. You would be able to get out of Forks and you would get to see Emmett. I know you miss him." She said quietly, a pout slowly forming on her lips.

"Are you crazy? Of course I'm happy, you get to see Jasper, I get to get out of Forks, see everyone wins!" The gigantic grin was back on her face, and she was back to jumping up and down squealing with glee. Then she started talking a mile a minute.

The only thing I had to say was, "When did you decide this?"

I swear the smile on her face got bigger, I was afraid it would get stuck there.

"Well, actually about a month ago."

I starred at her in disbelief. I opened my mouth to ask her a question, but she held up her hand to silence me. I quickly closed my mouth and motioned for her to continue.

"Okay, I was talking to Jasper one night and he said he couldn't wait until next fall to see me, when we started school there, because he can't come out here because he has no where to stay and my parents won't let him stay here. So, I said that you and me could take a road trip, to go see him and Emmett as well, but I was only joking. But then we both started talking and we decided that we would actually do it this summer. So, we are going to go to the campus early, with all of our stuff and just stay at Jasper, Emmett, and their roommate's house. Jazz said it was large enough and their roommate didn't mind if we stayed there for the summer. So what do you think?"

What did I think? If we left for collage a couple of months early then I wouldn't have to spend another boring summer here.

A couple hours laterI went home, only after Alice talked my ear off. Sometimes I swear that girl has coffee running through her viens instead of blood. Anyway I got home, and noone was there, of course not, Charlie was probably still at work.So, I wentupstairs, dropprd my stuff on my bed and then went downstairs to cook Charlie's dinner. All the while thinking about how I'm going to Charlie I'm leaving for Collagetwo months early.