Finding Where I Belong

It was a rare sunny day in Forks which is the tiny town that we live in and it is the rainiest place in the continental U.S. so this was perfect picnic weather. My older brother Emmett is chasing after me while our parents Renee and Charlie are setting up a picnic in the middle of the meadow that Em and I found one day while on one of our many hikes that we liked to take. once they have everything laid out on the blanket our parents call us over to eat, of course Em and I just have to race each other there and of course he won because i just had to be my usual clumsy self and trip over thin air luckily I caught myself. Finally we were all sitting down and eating the sandwiches that I made since no one else in the family could make anything that involved food, of course I had to make Emmett two because he eats twice as much as anyone else in our family. Right as we are finishing up the rain starts to pour down on us so we all had to hurry and get everything packed up again and get to the car before we could get too soaked. As we are driving home another car comes from out of nowhere right into our lane and hits us head on.

I wake up screaming again, I always have this same dream though it's actually a terrible memory of the accident that killed my parents two years ago. Emmett and I have been to a few different orphanages since the accident because we had no other living relatives and no one wants to adopt a 14 and 15 year old, well now I'm 16 and Emmett is 17 but he will be 18 in six months then we will finally be able to get out of here and get our own place. We both have some savings from our parents so we have enough to get an apartment, our parents also left us college accounts so at least these aren't things we have to worry about. Anyway I'm sitting up in bed screaming from the nightmare when Emmett comes over from his bed to comfort me again and we both fall asleep on my bed.

I wake up the next morning to Emmett shaking me

"Bella wake up you have breakfast duty today remember?"

"Yes Emmett I'll be down in a few minutes"

Gosh food is pretty much all he thinks about, he finally leaves once he sees that I'm getting up to get ready for the day. I get dressed in my favorite pair of jeans and a t-shirt, then I hurry to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face really fast and throw my long wavy brown hair into a ponytail. When I'm satisfied with how I look I rush downstairs to get breakfast started before I get in trouble for not doing my duty on time.

When I make it into the kitchen all six of the other foster kids including Emmett are sitting at the table waiting, so I hurry and make oatmeal for everyone and serve them. Thank god none of the other kids cause hardly any trouble at all, they just eat and go about their own business. I decide not to eat because I'm still kind of shaken from the dream and I don't think I can hold anything down right now, so I just wait for everyone else to be done so that I can clean up.

About ten minutes later everyone is done eating so I start to clear off the table. As I'm washing the dishes our foster mom Ms. Robinson tells me to come with her because there is someone that wants to meet me, I stop washing the dish that is in my hands and follow her to the meeting room.