Chapter 1
Arriving in Forks, Washington
I have been on this plane for 5 hours! The stupid people wouldn't get off fast enough. I had been sandwiched in between my two friends Cate and Melanie. I had been screaming in my head "KILL ME NOW!" for the past 2 hours. Now all I wanted to do was get off this plane. I could here Cate and Melanie jabbering happily. "Isn't it great to finally be in Forks?" Cate said to Melanie. She nodded enthusiastically. "We aren't off the plane yet!" I told them grumpily.
"Oh come on Katelynn it's not that bad." Cate said. I sighed I just wanted to get off this plane and sleep. Tomorrow we started our 'grand adventure'. Finally the aisle started to clear and Melanie got out. I got out of the seats and followed her as quickly as I could and Cate followed me.
Once we were finally in the airport I began talking to them as excited as they were. "I can't wait! I wish we could have gotten an earlier flight. We could be out their right now!" Cate and Melanie laughed and nodded in agreement. Then we got to the next worse part of the airport: baggage claim.
Fortunately the baggage didn't take as long as it had on the London trip. Which Melanie had not been on but had gotten all the full details. We left the airport in a rental car, since we were now old enough to drive! Being the much obsessed Twilight fans we are, you simply cannot go to Forks, Washington and rent a regular car! No! We had to have a shiny silver Volvo just like our favorite vampire; Edward!
We finally reached the hotel and checked into our room. Cate had gotten a map and was discussing strategy with Melanie. In the elevator they forced me to look at the map )obviously they did not know that my family does not use maps for any reason what so ever) they wanted to cover so much area a day. We were here for a week so it would be fun. Once we reached our room Cate and Melanie had calmed down finally. We quickly changed our clothes and went to sleep, anticipating the next day.
In the morning I woke to the sound of a shower running. I rolled over to look at the clock- it was 5 a.m.! I groaned and tried to go back to sleep. That became hard when Cate came over and started bouncing on the bed. This was worse than London. "Cate! Go away!" I growled at her. She spoke cheerfully for not being a morning person. Then I remembered why we were here, I sat bolt upright. "Ok Katelynn, Melanie will be out of the shower soon and unless you want a shower we are leaving to get breakfast" Right, we would be in the woods all day. "What are we doin' for lunch?" I asked listening to my stomach growl empty. Cate still looked happy. "They pack our lunch here!"
I got up and got dressed. As soon as Melanie had dried her hair we went down to get breakfast and had our lunches made.
Cate surprised us with our mode of transportation in the woods- trail horses. Ah, yes just like being back home! Cate and Melanie rode English, and I rode western, this really was starting to feel like home. We raced through the trails weaving in and out of the trees, jumping anything we could. We came to the end of where the horses could go, on foot for the rest of the day. It felt like we were walking in circles for hours…
Finally! We were out in the middle of the woods to begin our search. It was a nice sunny day which meant this was the perfect time. We had gone up to Goat Rocks, this was the ideal place to search. "Come on guys we got to get off this trail." I bounded off into the woods. I looked for deer and other animal tracks on the ground and kept myself alert. Cate called out a warning about being prey when they weren't in control. I brushed her comment off with a wave at them.
Melanie suggested making ourselves look vulnerable and Cate looked at her like she was crazy. Leave it up to Melanie to come up with something like that. I kept walking distracted by them, and then I was falling. I heard Melanie and Cate shout and then SPLASH! I had fallen into a river. "Katelynn! Grab onto something there's a waterfall ahead!" I heard Cate call frantically. Of course with my luck I grabbed at a tree limb hanging over me, and what happens? It breaks off!
Great I come all the way to Forks to get swept up by a vampire not over a waterfall! Should've seen it coming with my luck…
Then there was the falls! I was swept over and fell. It felt like my world was in slow motion. Then I hit the water with a smack! It hurt worse than the high dive at the pool. Coming back to the surface I felt like I had been hit with a bat in the stomach not able to breathe. I swam to the shore, struggling a little I climbed out. I was alone and it was kind of creepy in the silent forest, it wasn't like the woods I played in as a child at home, it was darker and quieter. I could here my friends scream for me in the distance. I got up and stumbled through the woods a little ways down the trail trying to get my sense of direction back.
Then suddenly it opened up into a field, there in the sunlight sat a ghostly figure. His back was to me but I could see his neck shimmer. "Edward!" I managed in my awe. In a lightning swift move he stood and turned to face me. I became nervous and then embarrassingly the next thing I said was.. "How you doin?" in my most country accent. Great time for the redneck in me to kick in, I thought. I remembered my friends were looking for me after I fell over the waterfall. Then I remembered that he could read minds.
Oh nice first impression.
He had been looking at me like I was a psycho redneck. "How do you know my name?" "The book." I blurted. He frowned. "What book?" "Twilight" I said. "I've never heard of it." He said with confusion. Then I heard people coming down the trail. He had probably already heard them though. "Oh no" I said shaking my head. He looked interested. "What? I thought they were your friends?"
I nodded "they are."
That's when Melanie appeared at one trail coming into the clearing and Cate on the other. Melanie saw him first and started running down the hill dressage whip extended. Cate ran towards her. Melanie snapped the whip at her and Cate changed from a run to a gallop and headed away from her as Melanie continued running towards me. Edward just stood there with a smirk on his face probably reading our minds.
When Melanie finally stood by my side trying to catch her breath, "Katelynn! Are you ok?" "Yes, I'm fine now.." Both looking at each other knowing what we were thinking about; the most beautiful perfect creature was standing in front of us. By the time we came back to reality, Cate was there on my other side scowling at Melanie for hitting her with the dressage whip. After catching her breath she realized the shimmering vampire in front of us.
I thought Cate actually stopped breathing for a few moments, which we all did laying our eyes on him for the first time! And, of course Melanie well, being Melanie reached her hand out to touch him. He was gone before her arm even got close enough to touch him. Cate and I looked at Melanie with narrowed eyes, and she knew what was coming her way! She started backing away slowly begging for forgiveness with her eyes.
He was gone, just like that gone! I grabbed the dressage whip from Melanie and started tapping it, Melanie knew she was in some deep trouble now…
When we gave up looking for Edward Cullen we went back to our hotel. The whole ride there Melanie was telling us that she was sorry and that she just wanted to touch him, and if we weren't in shock we would have done the same thing! (This is very true!) Since we actually got to see a vampire, which was the one we wanted to see the most, we celebrated! We got all dressed up and went out. To where, well since Forks, Washington is a very, very quaint town just like any town in Alabama we had to make the places we went fun! This was not a hard task for all of us to accomplish! I feel bad for the community of Forks, because when you have three A.D.D. teenage, horse loving and Twilight obsessed girls you might need to watch out! Of course, we went to the first place that said KAREOKE on the sign, Melanie sang Thunder by Boys Like Girls, and Cate and I had a duet singing our song; Sittin' At a Bar by Rehab. Cate and I singing the lines "trailer park" in our most down home southern country accents, well it was more like yelling it more than the singing part.