A NEW CHANCE OR JUST ANOTHER FREAKING JOKE OF DESTINY?

" Do you think this is the place?" Amy asked. Her bright green eyes looking at me. Eagerly waiting for my response. I closed my eyes and sighed. Sarah was on my left also waiting for my answer.

Was this really the place where we would be able to start all over again? I had asked that question to myself so many times these past few months. After the whole summer running from place to place trying to forget what happened in Spain, we were leaving Europe for the first time. Trying our luck in North America. It was a big change. But it was necessary.

We were in a plane about to land in Washington. So that we could head to Forks from there. I thought that a place similar to our former home would make things easier for us. So I looked up "very rainy towns" on Google and I found Forks. At our former home it rained a lot. I remember spending months with Sarah and Amy enjoying the rain. Together . Back then they were just my best friends.

Now, they were my sisters. We were the Martinez sisters. Amy, Sarah and Elena. Together we had escaped our pathetic excuse for a life we had back in Spain and together we were going to start a new life.

I guess I should tell you guys about what happened. I actually feel embarrassed about it. Still. The thing is, on one of those many rainy days, Sarah, Amy and I went out together. We headed to the beach to see the waves, something that Amy loved.

The thing I remember clearest, is us three talking and laughing like the best friends we were, when I suddenly felt an incredible pain on my head. I saw Amy and Sarah´s face full of shock and terror. I saw some hands grabbing them against their will and felt other hands grabbing and dragging me. Being thrown into a car and having a bag over my head which made breathing hard. We had been kidnapped.

The car stopped. We were dragged out of it; I heard a door open and being forced to sit down on a chair. They stuffed something into our mouths. I spat it out. The next thing I felt was pain. Incredible pain on the left side of my neck. They had injected something into my system. I felt the liquid make it´s way through my veins. I was screaming. It hurt so much.

The next thing I remember is waking up and being in the hospital. I was sharing the room with Amy and Sarah. I looked and looked for any sign that the injection could´ve left. But I didn´t find any. Neither did Amy or Sarah. We thought we had imagined it and we were scared that people would think we were crazy so we didn´t tell anyone. The kidnappers were never found.

A few weeks after it occurred we started to feel … changes. Our senses were much sharper. This was horrible because we could hear all the whispers of people around us. How they thought that we were traumatized because of what had happened. Soon, people started to exclude us. At school things became unbearable. We heard things we REALLY didn´t want to. Then, another " change" occurred. By looking at someone in the eyes we could see everything about them. But mostly, their secrets. This is what finally cracked us.

I found out my mother was having an affair with my biological father, the same one she had told me and my sister was dead. I also found out that my stepdad was scared of me and that he didn´t love my mother. The only reason he was with her was because his family had been pressuring him to get married.

Amy found out that her father was also having an affair. This explained why he was spending so much time away from home. She also found out that her mother knew about the affair but was too scared to confront her father with it because she was afraid to lose him.

Sarah… what Sarah found out was probably the worst, if possible. She was an unwanted child. Her parents had never wanted her and still didn´t. Her parents never paid much attention to her and they would spend as much time away from home as possible. Now she knew why: because of her.

Sarah, Amy and I found out another "change". If we opened our minds to each other we would share every experience, memory and ability we had, with each other. Everything Amy could do, Sarah and I could do too and vice versa. For example, we lived in Spain, therefore we spoke Spanish, but I was from Australia so I knew English. This was the only reason they could speak English. We had only opened our minds to each other a couple of times.

A few weeks later we bribed our parents. It´s not something I am particularly proud of but it was necessary. We told them to let us leave and in the case of denying, we would tell their secrets, they, of course accepted.

They sent us money each month. But after the first few days away from home, we discovered another "change". Premonitions . We could control when to see them and about what. We used that " change" to bet. We won a lot of money. With that money we travelled all around Europe until we decided we wanted to find a place we could call home again. That´s why we were in this plane.

I looked at Sarah´s golden eyes and at Amy´s green eyes as I nodded slowly. Maybe Forks could be the place we´ve been looking for. The place where we could start all over again. Was this a new chance or was this just another freaking joke of destiny?

We arrived to the three story house we had bought near the forest in LaPush. We didn´t want to live in the center, Forks , because at our former home we had always been surrounded by mountains and sea. Although, we would be assisting forks High School. I was sixteen, the eldest of us three, whereas Amy and Sarah were a year younger. Amy was the youngest of us.

We had arrived a week before school started. It was Saturday and it was sunny. I had a feeling it was going to be one of the few days we were actually going to see the sun. We each chose our bedrooms and unpacked. We spent most of our days at home talking about school, imagining how different the school was going to be here comparing with Spain… but mostly, imagining how cute the guys would be. We had only seen one guy since we had arrived; I didn´t want to take into account the bald 40 year old taxi driver when saying if the guys here were cute or not.

Two days after arriving I received a call. Mr. Jameson, our accountant/bodyguard/servant told me that my baby had arrived to Forks and that he would be bringing it to me shortly. My baby was my dark blue Porsche. I had always thought Porsches were slut´s cars. But when I saw one in Paris I fell in love with it.

We only left our house on Sunday. To go to a beach called "First beach". How original, I thought. We parked, got off and sat on the sand. We kept on talking and spent the entire day there. We decided to leave at five o clock. Amy and Sarah were already in the car. I was picking my things up when a ball landed near me. I looked up and a totally hot guy, who was shirtless by the way, came running towards me. He was gorgeus. His skin was copper colored and he had short black hair. I had to stop looking at him so I grabbed the ball and passed it to him. When he was grabbing the ball from my hand he accidentally brushed my hand. I pulled my hand away immediately. He was boiling. Although I wasn´t someone who could talk about body temperatures. Another "change" after our injection was that our body temperature was lower. Much lower. I calmed myself down so that when I looked at him in the eyes I wouldn´t see everything about him, and looked at him.

"Thanks" he mumbled. If he had noticed anything about my temperature he definitely wasn´t showing any signs to say for certain that he had. " You´re new here, right? " he asked.

"Yeah, I´m Elena." I said.

"Paul Lahote. So what brings you to Forks?"

"Um… my sisters and I wanted a place where we could settle down and we thought Forks could be it."

"So you guys are going to school here then?"

"We´re going to Forks High School. You go to the Reserve´s School, right? "I asked.

"Paul! Come on! I doubt the ball went so far!" I heard someone scream before Paul could answer. Paul closed his eyes and sighed.

"Um… I´ll let you go back to your friends. It was nice meeting you Paul." I said.

"Yeah, I´ll be seeing you around right?"

"Hope so." I said.

"Paul! "I heard the voice again.

"What do you think he´s doing?" Another asked.

"Oh, I wonder." The first voice said. I giggled.

"Right, well, see you around Elena." Paul said slightly blushing.

"Bye Paul." I said looking at him as he ran back to where his friends were.

Laughing I got into the car.

"Who –was- that?" Amy asked wide eyed.

"Apart from the hottest guy I´ve seen in my entire life, you mean. " Sarah said with a smile.

"Um… he´s a guy from the Rez´s school. Paul Lahote." I said.

"Paul Lahottie, you mean." Sarah said. Trust Sarah to always be thinking with… whatever she thought with.

"Come on. Let´s go home. We got school tomorrow." I said as I turned the engine on.

"Way to burst my bubble here Elena. Do think the guys at our school will be as hot as Lahottie?" Sarah asked. I sighed Oh Sarah…