I set down my midnight blue Les Paul which I was plucking dreamily and crossed my immaculate room to look out my window, just as I thought Charlie pulled up in his cruiser I'd recognise that engine any where, I watched Charlie get out and go round to the passenger's door to open it, and out stepped my sister Bella who typically tripped on the way out but luckily Charlie caught her.
I moved from the window and headed for the stairs I hadn't seen Bella since her last holiday here three years ago, after Charlie and Renee split up I stayed in Forks with Charlie and Bella moved to Phoenix with Renee.
I reached the bottom of the stairs just as she came through the door when she saw me she dropped her bag and embraced me with a full arm hug, she was soaking as it was raining that was the weather everyday in forks, Bella and I had always been exceptionally close and hated to be away from each other but I preferred rainy forks any day of the week.
"Ooh Dylan it's so good to see you!" Bella said as she took a step back to look at me,
"It's great to see you to Bella."
"You've gotten so tall and your hair is so long" she ran her fingers through my extremely dark brown ringlets, "Oh I've missed those beautiful bright blue eyes." she smiled.
Charlie squeezed passed Bella to get to the front room probably to watch the TV,
"I'll let you two set things up."
I bent down to retrieve Bella's bags and started walking up the stairs,
"Come on I'll take this to your room." she smiled and followed me up the stairs, even though she seemed happy I knew she didn't want to be here but she was doing it for Renee who was going travelling with Phil because of his baseball. So when I showed her to her room I would let her get things set up alone.
When I came to her room I set her stuff on her bed.
"Well here we are…there's the bathroom opposite my room there's a shelf for your toiletries" she frowned when I mentioned this I could tell what she was thinking 'Great one bathroom'.I chuckled she stared at me blankly,
"Okay I'll leave you to it" she now looked sad, I could tell she missed Phoenix already.
That night after I went to bed, I could hear Bella crying in her room I didn't want to go in and ask what was wrong and if she was okay, anyway I knew what was wrong she hated forks and didn't want to be here but she was doing it for Renee's benefit. I sat awake most the night listening to her grumble and toss and turn with my finely tuned ears.
Eventually shortly after midnight when the rain had reduced to a drizzle, she finally fell asleep as did I shortly after.
The next morning was slow and breakfast was quiet. Charlie left for work a few minutes before we had to leave, he wished Bella luck. I stood up,
"Bella, I'm so sorry but I can't show you the way to school 'cause my band mates are picking me up." She gave a small smile and nodded to say she understood. Just then I huge black van with endless amounts posters and graffiti art sprayed across the sides and music booming out the speakers. Bella looked out the kitchen window with wide eyes. She raised her eyebrow questioningly at me. I smiled at her weakly,
"Well that's my ride, I'll see you at school." I gave her a wave and ran out in the pouring rain and mist to the van that waited for me.
"Oi, Dylan hurry up would ya'." yelled Damon, the drummer, of our band 'Understated Ignorance', which was written in big bold letters on the bumper of the van. I waved to Bella again who was still looking out the kitchen window and jumped in to the big black shed of a van and set of for school.
I was worried for Bella because I knew what it was like being the new strange girl with porcelain, skin without the excuse of having red hair or blue eyes, the new toy so to speak the one who liked her own company who's brain seemed to be on a different wave length, I just hope they're nice to her.