Disclaimer: I don't own any of Stephanie Meyer's characters, but Kelly is my character (seeing as she is one of a kind and she's also my cousin for whom this story is written). Please don't steal ideas or original characters I add.

P.S. I know this chapter is short, but the second one is kind of long. Here's to hoping people read and like my story, since it's my first fanfiction being posted on . Constructive critisism is very welcome and would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

-Aqua

Chapter 1

"Kelly!" screamed Kelly's big brother Sam. She hadn't seen him since the day her parents got divorced when she was ten years old. Kelly's Dad had gone to Metropolis and taken Kelly with him, while Sam stayed at the Reservation in Forks, Washington with their Mom.

Kelly dodged through the large crowd of the airport to give her brother a big bear-hug. His brown skin burned her own pale skin and she could tell he'd been working out as he almost crushed all the air out of her lungs.

"Long time, no see, little sis," Sam said, pulling back to take in her long blonde hair and wide blue eyes. It was true the two siblings didn't look alike, but they were still closer than ever.

"Tell me about it," Kelly replied. "How have you been?"

"Great," Sam said, "there's someone I want you to meet."

A gorgeous black haired, dark skinned girl appeared in front of her with a big grin on her face. The only thing to mar her beauty were the thin white scars on the left side of her face, turning one corner of her mouth down into a permanent frown.

"This is Emily, my fiancé," Sam introduced. "Emily this is Kelly, my baby sister."

Kelly could sense the love between them just by looking at their expressions. It made her feel a overwhelming twang of sadness. In all her years she had never found someone to love that way and she was pretty sure she never would.

"Nice to meet you," Kelly mumbled.

Emily gave her a gentle hug. "I'm so glad to meet you, your brother has told me a lot about you."

Kelly smiled. "He's said a few things about you as well." She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively and Sam blushed, looking down.

He cleared his throat. "Uh, should we get going?"

"Yeah, let's go," Emily said.

Sam grabbed Kelly's bag and slung it over his shoulder as they headed out to Sam's car. It was a black Honda mini-van, but Kelly still thought it was pumping. He loaded her stuff into the trunk and Kelly jumped into the back. Sam and Emily got in and Sam started the car, pulling out of the airport parking lot.

As they drove, they started coming into a more familiar part of town that Kelly remembered from when she was little. She recognized it as the Indian reservation of Forks. She watched out the window and noted the dark grey storm clouds in the sky and continual squishy green that covered everything. She saw a bunch of guys playing basketball with their shirts off, dark muscles glistening with sweat. Wonder who those guys are… she thought.

One of them looked up and waved as they drove past, smiling the most perfect smile Kelly had ever seen. Sam waved back and honked the horn lightly in a friendly gesture. The guy laughed and his gaze slowly traveled back to the backseat window where Kelly was watching him. His eyes met hers and he froze, staring at her with a dazed and confused expression on his face.

She gazed back at him for a split second until he disappeared from sight as the car rushed by. It happened so fast, but to her it seemed like a life time. She turned around and watched him from the back window. He was still staring after Sam's black mini-van with that strange expression on his face.

"Sam," Kelly said turning back around. "Who's that guy that was waving at you?"

"That's Jacob Black," Sam replied. "Why do you ask?"

"No reason," Kelly answered, trying to sound indifferent.

"Kelly has a cru-ush!"Emily teased playfully.

"No she doesn't!" Sam said protectively. "Right Kell?"

"Uh…" Kelly didn't say anything.

"Right Kell?" Sam repeated.

"Right…." She mumbled.

The rest of the drive home was spent in an inconvenient silence. Kelly was getting bored of the continual dreary atmosphere and wondered how anyone could like it here. She wondered if she would ever be able to like it here.

When they arrived at Sam and Emily's house, Sam grabbed Kelly's bags from the trunk and carried them inside the house. He walked up the stairs and as they walked Kelly noticed all the photographs in the hall of Sam and Emily. Each and every one of them had the two staring at each other with a loving expression that looked too deep for words. Kelly wondered how they could love each other so much after such a short amount of time. Sam had only started including Emily in his letters a couple months ago.

"Emily decorated your room for you," Sam said, opening a door on the left side at the end of the hall. It revealed a room with light pink walls and swirling blue designs on them. In the corner of the room was a black vanity with a mirror attached to it. Next to the vanity was a chest of drawers with dark cherry wood. And a couple feet away from the chest of drawers was a black desk against the wall. The closest doors were painted a rustic-black cherry wood color and the queen sized bed was fitted with a black comforter and pillows, while the curtains hiding the window were black as well. Kelly loved it.

Sam set her things down on the bed, then he gave her another bear hug and left so that Kelly could do her unpacking in peace. As he shut the door behind him Kelly could already feel the tears coming on. She loved her brother, but she missed her Dad. Even though she knew her Father was in a better place now. She knew this must have been how it felt when Sam lost their mother a few years ago. It had to have been hard. Kelly had mourned over her, but it didn't seem real since she hadn't seen her mother for so long. Now she realized that it was only her and Sam. He was all she had now.

A couple minutes later Kelly heard a knock on the door.

"Yeah?" she called, trying to wipe away the tears before whoever it was came in and saw her crying.

"Can I come in? It's Emily."

"Go ahead," Kelly said.

Emily opened the door and sat on the couch next to her sister-in-law-to-be. She observed Kelly's puffy eyes and blotchy red face and put a supporting arm around her shoulders. "Are you okay?" she asked.

Kelly sniffed. "Yeah."

"Do you want some help?" Emily said, glancing at the unpacked duffle bag and toiletry bag on the bed next to them.

Kelly nodded and the two unpacked her things together. Emily did quite a good job of cheering her little sister up and by the time they were finished putting everything away, Kelly was sure that Emily was the right one for her brother. It was like they were two halves of a whole. Kelly knew she would do anything for that kind of a connection.

Later at dinner that night, the three sat around the dining room table and ate pizza while talking and laughing together. Kelly made sure to tell every embarrassing story she knew about Sam, just to get back at him for all the Barbie doll heads he had ripped off of her dolls when they were younger.

Sam was sufficiently blushing as he tried to change the subject from one particularly embarrassing story about how he peed his pants at the fair on Kelly's seventh birthday. "So tomorrow do you want to go sight-seeing?" he asked Kelly.

"Sure," Kelly replied, giving the guy a break.

"Yeah and you can introduce her to Jacob, wink, wink, nudge, nudge," Emily said.

Sam glared at her and let out a low, animalistic growl. Kelly and Emily stared at him in shock. Sam seemed to realize what he had done and he looked surprised at his own slip up. There was an awkward silence between the three of them as Kelly stared at her big brother. Sam cleared his throat. "So."

"How do you like it here so far?" Emily asked.

"It's pretty cool," Kelly replied, even though it wasn't how she really felt.

"Hey it gets better," Sam promised. "Down at La Push beach the tribe has a lot of bonfires, and during the day we go cliff diving and surfing. Or you can just tan on the beach and swim. There's some really cool ocean life too, I'm sure you'll like it."

Kelly nodded. "Sounds like fun."

"There's a bonfire this Saturday if you want to go," Emily invited.

Kelly perked up. "Yeah, I'd like to," she said.

Sam grinned at her. "Good then it's settled. We'll have lots of fun. The elders like to tell stories about our heritage too and the stories can be really interesting."

After dinner they adjourned to the family room to watch TV until they were tired enough to fall asleep. When Kelly finally went to bed she was exhausted. Right when her head hit the pillow she was out like a light.