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Chapter one
BPV
I awoke this morning to a familiar place. I was in my bedroom which had not changed since I could remember. The only thing out of place was the loud noise of the phone going off down stairs. In fact that was what woke me up this morning. I proceeded with my usual morning routine of showering, brushing my hair, getting dressed, and brushing my teeth. As I headed down stairs I noticed my father had hardly touched his breakfast. But he did not look sick. In fact he looked extremely ..... happy? The only reason that this was odd to me was because he was not with his girlfriend Tanya. Tanya could be described as the total opposite of me. She was tall, strawberry blonde, looked like one of those people that should be on the cover of sports illustrated . She was energetic and willing to follow my father just about anywhere. But about a month ago her job relocated from forks to a small town in a state that I had never head of. Since it was so far away, she had to move there and we hadn't seen her in a while. This left my Dad in a slight depression for a while, and I hadn't seen him smile like that since she left a few weeks ago. Something really big must have happened.
" Morning Dad," I greeted him.
" Good Morning Sunshine!" Charlie beamed. Alright, something was definitely up. In all of my 17-year-old life, Charlie had never, ever referred to me as "Sunshine".
" I have the best news!" Oh no this cannot be good for me. This is worse than I thought.
" I got a call from Tanya today. She found a house near her job thats big enough for all of us. She called me this morning and asked me if I'd be willing to move out there with her. The town she moved to needed a police chief any ways. So were moving!" he exclaimed.
" What were moving?" I said in disbelief.
" To Rhode Island baby!!" Charlie was shouting now. I couldn't believe what he was saying. Us, moving? And what the hell was Rhode Island? I thought that was some island near Greece.
"Um, I thought that Tanya had moved inside the United States?"
" Rhode Island is a state, silly. It's the smallest state in the US, it's on the eastern seaboard. God, don't they teach you guys anything in school? Damn, I mean I pay enough taxes .." Charlie rambled on, but I didn't listen. I, Bella Swan, was moving 3,000 miles away. To the smallest frigging state in the country. Did someone have a curse on me. Did god hate me . Oh well at least now I have an excuse to dump my annoying boyfriend.
I sat down to eat my breakfast. I really wasn't interested in what I was eating... I had other things on my mind . I had to go to school in a half an hour and see my annoying boyfriend Mike Newton. When I first entered school Mike was my only friend. That friendship lasted though years and grew into a long term relationship. Don't get me wrong Mike is a really nice guy, but the sparks are not there anymore, and when he calls now its more aggravating than comforting. I have been meaning to breaking it off for a while but he is so pathetically dependent on me that I wouldn't be surprised if he killed himself after I let him go. I was not interested in eating. I just found out this news from Charlie and now I have to face mike at school.
Mike found me sitting in the schools small library. I had gone there to do more research on the state that I was going to be relocating to very soon. This was the information that I had found. Rhode Island is also known as " The Ocean state" or " Little Rhody" , Its state bird is the Rhode Island Red ( a Chicken!), and its state flower is a violet. So great, I was moving to a State known as "Little Rhody", oh joy!
"Bella, Why are you reading about a series of islands near Greece?" So typical Mike, not so much as a hello, just a blunt question.
" Mike, oh hey, Im not reading about any Greek islands?"
"Rhode Island, that's a Greek island chain!" well at least im not the only one who was not paying attention in geography, or history for that matter.
" No , Rhode Island is a state." Oh yeah and I forgot to tell you im moving there and im never going to see your annoying face anymore thank the lord.
" So you did not answer my question!"Mike always was impatient. He freaked out when I didn't answer his questions. Well here goes nothing.
" Well you know how Tanya moved a little while ago, that where her job is"
" So what" Mike rudely interrupted. SO IM MOVING THERE , THAT'S SO WHAT!
" Tanya found a house there big enough for her, me and Charlie, and Charlie found a opening for a police chief position in that town, so im moving."
" Oh. Well is Rhode island only a few hours from here?" Did he really just ask me that?
" No, Its on the Eastern Seaboard" I waited for the realization to dawn on Mikes face.
If this conversation was about anything else, the look on Mikes face would of had me laughing. I had never seen his face contort that way before. He looked like he wanted to kill. And that was just over me moving. As far as he knew we could keep up a long distance relation ship.
" So we could visit each other every other weekend." Mike was really obvious to his current financial situation if he thought this. His job pays minimum wage for crying out loud!
" No mike, you need to stay here. You cannot afford to do this, and neither can I" And I doubt our parents will let us travel cross country!
" we could call and text each other every half hour?" mikes statement ended with a question
" Again it would cost to much"
" I don't understand what your saying Bella". Obviously he didn't. Mike never understood a damn thing.
" Its over Mike, its impossible to keep up our relationship if I live in Rhode Island and you live here"
" Are you breaking up with me?!" Mike sounded hysterical now. Could he get anything through his thick head.
"Yes, Mike. I'm. Breaking. Up. With. You." I sounded like someone speaking to the mentally challeneged.
"No body breaks up with Mike Newton!" Mike shouted as he left the room.
Through out the day people kept on asking me if I was okay. No the exact wording was " I heard that Mike broke up with you, are you okay?.... thank god I was moving.
A few weeks went by in a blur. Charlie was ecstatic, Mike ignored me and became more pompous and arrogant than ever, I said goodbye to my friends and we did a lot of stuff together. We promised we'd keep in touch. Before I knew it moving day had arrived. The whole night before was spent doing last minute packing, getting the carry-ons ready for the morning. Our flight to was due to depart at 5 AM sharp . So when we arrived at the terminal we were as bleary
eyed as ever. I spent most of the flight asking my father questions about the town we were moving to. All that he could tell me was that the town was called Gloucester and that I'd be attending Ponoganset high school. Other than that he had no clue. The in-flight movie called " Something about Mary" or something like that. It looked really funny but I couldn't get much out of it. I was too busy worrying about my new school. After all my old one only had 258 well now 257 students . I was hoping this was the case in my new town, but I shouldn't get my hopes up.
When I stepped off the plane the sun was out. How odd. Forks, being the rainiest place in the continental us, almost never received sun shine. Tanya and her friend Kate waited for us in the terminal. Kate had a look of amusement on her face while Tanya had the same look as my father. Love , excitement, and happiness all mixed into one emotion that I could not define.
The ride home was extremely short. Well for us it was short. In Washington it took hours to get to the nearest town. Here it took a half hour tops. The town looked like Forks only mor brown than green.. Well it already felt like home. Our home I was told was located about a half mile away from the school so on the way there we passed it. I felt my hopes deflate when I saw the size of this school. It was a little more bigger than my old school. But oddly enough I started to feel comfortable with the idea of attending it. When we arrived at the house I noticed something odd. If we were in Tanya's car then what was a rusted chevy truck doing in the drive way? I looked a Charlie confused. He gave me a sheepish look back . Then I realized why. That was my truck. Well not the truck that I drove in forks because that was given away, but a replica for me to drive. Then Tanya realized what was going on and told me that Charlie
sent her the money and she bought it yesterday. I thanked them happily and went in side.
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