Chapter 1 – Introduction
My name is Kayla Hawkes. I was born on the Reservation of La Push and only had a few good friends. I didn't make friends that easily, and it didn't get any easier as it happened when I was eight years old my father Samuel Hawkes passed away. He was everything to me, it was devastating when he suddenly passed, and they say it was a heart attack. My mother had a lot on her hands during this time she was a very fragile type of person, which I looked to my best friends Jake, Em and Quil for comfort. They helped me through my grieving as most of them had experienced a loss of a loved one.
My mother was very lonely after my father's passing; I stayed mostly by my Nana during my mother's difficult times. She needed someone in her life someone to take care of her and I couldn't I was too young. One and half years later after my father's passing my mother met a British man who swept her off her feet. She fell in love with him and agreed to marry him and move to the United Kingdom.
My mother wasn't very subtle in choosing when to break the news to me, so she decided to break to me on my tenth birthday. I was very upset as I would be leaving my friends and my Nana behind. I didn't want to go, I begged my mother if I could stay with my Nana but she said no. After some temper tantrums from my side and Nana kindly advising reassuring me, I eventually went to break the news to my friends. I would be leaving them real soon and won't be seeing them again. They offered suggestions of ways for me to stay.
Jake even told me he loved me, it was funny, thinking if he told me he loved me it would help me to stay.
The weeks flew by very quickly that my day of leaving everyone forever arrived. My friends came over to my Nana's to say their last goodbyes. During our painful and sad goodbye, Quil handed me a group photo of the four of us, Em gave me his armband he always wore, Jake give me a leather strapped bracelet with a small hand carved wolf on it. I turned around and walked away, I stole one last glance at my friends standing there next to Nana, Embry and Quil stood there waving and Jake, I caught Jake wiping a tear away, it broke my heart seeing my friends, seeing them for the last time.
All the way to the airport, I cried quietly, holding my photo and wearing my gifts, I swore I would never take off my best friends gifts. I missed my friends already it pained my heart, I then boarded the plane for London. My mother was in love and I couldn't deny of her happiness, even though I was miserable.