Here is the prologue and the first chapter of "Decisions." This is the second story I am writing at the moment and there for my second priority. I will try very hard to update the two stories at the same time and try to update at least once a week. Hope you enjoy this story and if you like this one, you should read my other stories too. Also all characters and themes belong to Stephenie Meyer, except for the characters I add in. Hope you enjoy and please review!

Prologue

My last day of city lights, my last day of happiness, spent inside the four walls of my room. My plain walls stared at me as I lay, curled in a ball, on my bed. Usually my walls were covered in pictures of my life and posters of my idols. But that day, my walls were like my life, dead. Dead from happiness, dead from light. Nothing would be light once I left, I would be living in a place of darkness. A place of rain and nothing more, or that is what my research led me to think.

I asked, no pleaded, my mother to reconsider but she wouldn't listen. She knew she would be ruining my life, killing me of my happiness, but of course what did it matter to her. She would still get to teach, and she would get to see my father more than once a month. But what was in it for me? Leave my friends, the love of my life and start a new school in the middle of the last semester.

"You're a smart girl, you'll do fine," were my mothers words. But what about my friends? It wasn't like in her time, when you could just make friends by complimenting them. It was the 21st century and it wasn't easy to make friends.

I let another sob run through my body and turned to my other side. Even if I could make friends, I was still leaving the most important person in my life behind.

Brandon.

Since the beginning of grade 10 we had been a steady couple. We rarely fought and even when we did, making up wasn't easy. My mother didn't know the kind of chemistry we had and she seemed to ruin it by making me move. And what could she give me, nothing that's it.

I sighed and sat up to look at my clock. The red letters read 11:36 PM. I slammed my head against my pillow again.

My mother was late coming home from her "going away" party. She told me that she would be home by 11 but of course she was late. Not like she had anything important waiting for her at home. Only me, and who really cared about me?

I shouldn't have been thinking that. People did care about me but I just didn't listen to it. My mother had invited me to the party, but I told her I was going on my last date with Brandon. Brandon also asked me on a last date, but I told him I had a going away party to go to. Yes I lied to both of them but I couldn't blame myself. How could I go to a party about leaving, when I was depressed about leaving? That would be like bringing presents to a funeral…

And I was in a bad mental shape to go out with Brandon. He knew me to well and would see right through my shield, see how much I didn't want to go even though I told everyone I did. Also I thought that, maybe, it would be easier to leave without big goodbyes. I knew I was just lying to myself; it would be just as hard.

I heard a car pull up and walked grimly to my window. A bright yellow cab stood out in the darkness. My mother was home.

I wanted to pull down my blinds, but unfortunately they were gone, like everything else. As I made my way down the hallway I heard my mother stomp in through the front door.

"Nicole, are you home?' she shouted as I came into view. She smiled at me and I faked a smile.

"Aren't you excited to leave New York? Get out to Forks, where we can actually see the stars." My mother was very giddy that we were leaving the next day. Everything we were keeping when we moved, were already on a truck to our new house in Forks Washington. We were to fly to Seattle tomorrow morning and then bus down to Forks.

"Excited isn't really the right word," I mumbled and waved to my mother, "'night mom."

"Wait a minute Nicole." I picked up my head to see my mother smiling again. I nodded.

"It'll be great in Forks. Your father really likes it and he says his job is permanent there. Won't it be great not having to move anymore and seeing your father everyday?"

"That's what he said last time," I said, to low for my mother to hear. My first home was in Tucson Arizona but my father was offered a job in New York. He first living away from me and my mother but then his job became "permanent." We then moved up to New York and I've lived there since then. My father hasn't though. A couple years after we moved to New York, my father was moved to a job somewhere up in Canada. After than he was moved many times until he ended up in Forks. Now it was a "permanent" location again.

I nodded to my mother and stumbled off to bed, knowing sleep wouldn't come to me.

Chapter One.

I knew life in Forks would be bad the moment I stepped out of the bus. No I knew it was going to be bad the moment I got into the bus. I ended up not sitting beside my mother but instead some kid, well teenager since he claimed he was 14. The kid wouldn't shut up. He talked and talked about who knows what. It seemed he had told me his whole life story by the time we got off the bus.

"Bye Nicole," he shouted to me as I hurried to get out of the rain. Out of politeness I turned and waved back to him.

"Bye…" I paused and tried to remember his name.

"Seth!" he shouted back and I nodded back to him.

Once inside the bus station I tracked the room with my eyes to find my mother. She was nowhere in sight. I sighed and decided I would do without her for then. I walked swiftly to retrieve my bags and still, after I got them, I couldn't find my mother.

I rolled my eyes, picked up my bags and practically ran to the costumer service desk. Stupidly I kept my eyes on the ground while I walked and soon hit a wall. I fell to the ground and dropped my bags from the impact and felt my cheeks redden in a second.

Great start to Forks. I thought to myself sarcastically. I haven't even been here for more than an hour and embarrassed myself.

I quickly got myself to my feet and saw that it wasn't a wall I hit, but a very…big man. I cursed silently to myself and looked up at the man. He was looking down at me, his big brown eyes filled with wonder, a small smile on his face. I smiled up at him and turned quickly, freaked out by how he was looking at me. It wasn't normal. Most people you didn't know looked at you friendly but not as friendly as him. He looked at me like I was his newborn baby and no one should look at you like that.

I quickly started to walk the opposite direction the man was and looked around, wanting to spot my mother badly.

Finally I spotted her. She was standing with my father, their lips tied together in their embrace. I felt like barfing but quickly ran toward them. Before I could get to them a warm arm grabbed my shoulder. I knew who it was before I turned.

The man stood beside me, his eyes still filled with wonder, but now a frown was set on his lips.

"Yes," I said quite rudely keeping my voice from cracking like it usually did when I was scared or upset. And this time I was both.

"Are you new to Forks?" the man asked in a husky voice. The voice wasn't frightening but it wasn't soothing.

"Yea, and you care why?" I asked my voice cracking on "you."

"It's just I've never seen you around before. I'm…"

"Nicole there you are, I was looking everywhere for you!" my mothers worried voice yelled from across the room. For once in my life I was glad my mother was around even if what she had said was a lie.

"Yeah, yeah. Sorry bye," I said making a break for it. I ran to my mother and caught my breath once I got to her.

"Hey mom. Hi dad, I've missed you. Can we leave, like now?" My parents exchanged confused looks as I made my way for the door.

"What's the rush Nicole?" My mother asked, many steps behind me.

"Oh, just want to see the new house. I'm really…excited." Lies, lies and more lies.

"Okay, okay. Well slow down." I slowed down and let my parents catch up to me.

Finally I was out the door, into the pouring rain. The fresh air calmed me down a bit, but I still couldn't get the thoughts of that strange man out of my head.

I hope you enjoyed it and please, please, PLEASE review to tell me what you think. I will try to update ASAP. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.