~Ally~
I'd never given it much thought on how I would die, though I'd had reason enough in the last few months. Surely it was a good way to die... In the place of someone else, someone I loved.
The hunter smiled in a friendly way...as he sauntered forward to kill me.
Phoenix, seventy-five degrees in January.
"Ally, you don't have to do this." My mother tells me at the airport.
"I want to go." I tell her.
-She had Phil now... So my loving, erratic, harebrained mother would be taken care of.
But still...
"Tell Lester I said hi." She tells me. "I will." I reply.
"You can come home whenever you want-I'll come right back as soon as you need me."
"Don't worry about me. It'll be great. I love you, Mom" I tell her before I leave.
I exiled myself to the tiny town of Forks, in the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, where my dad, Lester lived... Trading Phoenix, the hot, sunny, sprawling city that I loved, for gloomy Forks and it's near constant cover of clouds...
Lester- Police Chief Dawson- was waiting for me with the cruiser.
"It's good to see you, Ally." He approaches me with a hug. I hug back with a much force as it can.
"You haven't changed much. How's Penny?" he questions. "Mom's fine. It's good to see you too, Dad."
"I found a good car for you, really cheap." he tells me. "What kind of car?"
"Well, it's a truck actually, a Chevy." He answers. "Where did you find it?"
"Do you remember Billy Black down at La Push? He's in a wheelchair now. So he can't drive anymore, and he offered to sell me his truck cheap." he replies. "What year is it?"
"Well, Billy's done a lot of work on the engine-really, the thing runs great." He explains. "How cheap is cheap?"
"Well, honey I kind of already bought it for you. As a homecoming gift. I want you to be happy here." he tells. "Wow, that's really nice, Dad. Thanks. I really appreciate it."
To my intense surprise, I loved my new- well new to me- truck.
It only took one trip to get all my stuff upstairs. Everything in the room was from my childhood...even the rocking chair from my baby days was there.
One of the best things about Lester is he doesn't hover. So I didn't have to smile and look pleased.
I didn't relate well to people my age. ...Maybe the truth was I didn't relate well to people, period.
So what were my chances here?
I was the new girl at Forks High School, which had a frightening total of only 357 students.
"I have your schedule right here, and a map of the school." The office lady explains. "Thanks."
Hopefully, I won't have too walk around with this map stuck in front of my face all day.
There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves.
"You're Allyssa Dawson, aren't you?" The mystery boy asks me. "Ally." I correct.
"Where's your next class? I could show you the way to your building. Oh, I'm Eric."
He's definitely the over-helpful type…
"Hi, I'm Jessica! So, do you like Forks?" Jessica asks with anticipation. "It's a lot different than Phoenix isn't it?"
"I'm Angela, I think we have biology together." Angela tells me.
"I take biology too! I'm Mike. You don't look very tan for someone who comes from Phoenix..."
Getting into the cafeteria trying to make conversation with several curious strangers... It was there... That I first saw them.
Every one of them was chalky pale... They all had very dark eyes despite the range in hair tones... They also had dark shadows under those eyes. But all this is not why I couldn't look away. I stared because their faces were inhumanly beautiful, just like on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine... or the face of an angel, painted by an old master...
"Who are they?" I ask curiously.
"Oh... The Moons."
"The brunettes are Ellington and Rocky Lynch... The tall blonde is Riker Moon... the girl is Rydel Moon... and that is Austin Moon." Jessica told me.
"They all live together with Dr. Moon and his wife. Hmm, they're all together. Well, just Rydel and Ellington. I mean. And they live together." She explains.
Strange, unpopular names... The kinds of names grandparents had. But maybe that was in vogue here, small town names?
"They don't look related..." I point out.
"Oh they're not. Dr. Moon is really young, in his twenties or early thirties. They're all adopted. They moved down here two years ago from somewhere in Alaska."
"That's really kind of nice for them to take care of all those kids when they're so young and everything." I praise. "Well I guess so."
Is he... staring at me?
"Ally, you have biology II next hour, don't you? Let's go together." Angela calls me. "Okay..."
Angela already had a partner. In fact, all the tables were filled but one.
His fist never loosened.
What was wrong with him? Was this his normal behavior? It couldn't... have anything to do with me.
All of a sudden he stands up and runs out of the room...
"Ally." Mike calls out.
"Mike."
"Did you stab Austin Moon with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that." He asks.
So that wasn't Austin Moon's usual behavior...
As I was walking towards the school office, I heard someone yelling.
"Can I just trade from sixth-hour Biology to another time?! Any other time?!" It sounds like that Austin Moon kid.
I just couldn't believe that this was about me.
It was impossible that this stranger could take such a sudden, intense dislike to me.
It was like I could feel his fist slam down on the desk from the other side of the door.
"Never mind, then. I can see that it's impossible. Thank you so much for your help." I see the door open to reveal, the one and only, Austin Moon.
He passes me while walking out of the office not even taking a glance around.
"How did your first day go dear?" The secretary asked me.
"Fine."
The next day was better…
And worse.
I dreaded his bizarre glares…
But part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.
But... Austin Moon wasn't in school at all.
As I sit down with my dad for dinner that night, was when I asked the question.
"Do you know the Moon family?"
"Dr. Moon's family? Sure. Dr. Moon's a great man." He replied.
"They… The kids are a little different. They don't seem to fit in very well at school."
"Tsk, people in this town." He started. "Dr. Moon is a brilliant surgeon who could probably work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here. We're lucky to have him. He's an asset to the community, and all of those kids are well behaved and polite. They're all very mature.
And they stick together the way a family should, camping trips every other weekend… Just because they're newcomers, people have to talk." My father finished.
And that was the end of that conversation.
{A/N} Hey guys! So with this new account, I'm hopefully going to update a whole lot more and be more active in the fan fiction community here, I guess. So, I really hope you like this first chapter. It's kind of a spin-off of the first Twilight book, and I only have volume one of the comic book one… So I don't know how this will work, but we'll try right? And also… If anyone is good at edits… I need a cover for this book. :D thank you so much! I'll see you guys hopefully next Wednesday night!
Keep calm and love Austin and Ally,
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