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Chapter 1: Welcome Back to Forks
It was a crisp and dry July day. Leela Hunt was making her trip back to her mother's home in Forks, Washington. After her parents officially split, it had become the normal to go to her fathers for summer and mothers for the rest of the year.
Although now, she just does it out of sympathy for her father. The rules for parental visits dropped once she had turned 18. Now she was a 24-year-old registered nurse, fresh out of college.
Leela drove up her mother's driveway in her white Kia Optima, a car that has been reliable to her since she was 16. Her mother ran outside as Leela turned her car off.
"Mom!" Leela smiled and embraced her mother tightly.
"Leela it's been forever without you!" Her mother giggled and squeezed her daughter.
"You say the same thing every time I come home from Dads!" Leela let her mother go and popped her cars trunk. Grabbing her suitcase and rolling alongside her, she walks into her mother's house with her mother trailing behind.
"You've changed the rug?!" Leela gasps in surprise.
"Well I got bored. So, I started to watch the HGTV channel and it gave me some new ideas about home décor and renovations." Her mother gushed.
Leela laughs before picking her suitcase up and heading upstairs towards her bedroom. Her room was small, it contained a full bed that was covered in soft jersey knit white sheets with her black comforter, a small packed bookshelf, and a neat desk with old nursing school textbooks piled on its left side. Her bathroom door stood to the left of her bed. There were three windows, one behind her bed and two to the right of her bed, in front of her desk.
Once in her room, she let out a sigh of relief. Leela was nervous because she needed to think about how she was going to break the news to her mother about moving out and going back to college for her master's degree.
Quickly, she unpacked her suitcase and took a shower and changed into some comfy fleece pajamas. She did not miss how cold Forks was.
-Time Skip-
It's been about a week and Leela has adjusted back to her normal life. Currently, she was enrolling into college classes on her laptop and thinking about ways to tell her mother that she was going back to school. Her mother would not disapprove of going back to school, in fact she would offer to pay for her to go back, but Leela knew her mother. If she let her mother pay for her classes, and she would insist, then it would be under her mother's terms and Leela did not need that on her conscious.
Leela had worked in Utah as a seasonal worker in her father's town hospital. The money earned, she saved specifically for her classes and textbooks.
Leela had been working in hospitals for about 2 years now, so she had quite a lot of money saved. This money she wanted to use for moving into her first apartment.
After enrolling into the classes for her master's degree, Leela headed downstairs to see what her mother was cooking for dinner.
"What's for dinner?" Leela asked as she strode into her mother's small kitchen.
"Well it's honey spice chicken with green beans and roasted potatoes." Her mother chimed.
"It smells delicious." Leela smiled but quickly frowned. "Mom I wanted to talk to you about something."
"What's wrong dear?" Leela didn't know how to tell her mother her plans.
"I…. I was thinking a lot when I was at dads because there isn't a lot to do over there but work. And I… I think it's time I move out. I would like to move out." Leela spluttered out.
"That's a lot to think about honey." Her mother confided.
"I know. I researched a lot and budgeted the best I could and it's an opportunity that I want to take." Leela just ended up telling her mother everything because honesty was genuinely the easiest at this point.
"Well if you have budgeted and researched everything, then we should start looking for your ideal apartment." Her mother smiled a sad smile.
"Thanks mom. Don't worry, I'll visit every chance I get." Leela hugged her mother, happy tears falling. "There's one more thing."
"What?"
"I'm also going back to school." Leela said quickly.
"What? School? You can't move out and go to school. That's a lot of money!" Leela's mother said warily.
"It's ok. I told you, I budgeted everything. I made sure to set aside money for school too." Leela said, proud of herself for doing the adult thing.
"Well let me help you pay for some of it." Her Mom offered.
"No way! You've already given me everything I need Mom. You can't keep paying everything for me especially if I can afford it myself." Leela's defiant tone, put her mother a bit at ease.
"Ok well then you better eat my dinner I made tonight because it's the only thing I can still give you." Leela and her mother laughed.
When dinner was finished, and the dishes were done, Leela and her mother stayed up late watching the cooking channel. It was something they loved doing and was a sort of tradition every night. After watching Beat Bobby Flay, Leela retired for the night and headed up to her room.
She fell asleep, feeling much better about her exciting plans, now that her mother approved and knew what she wanted for her life.