Me: New story alert! *runs around like a chicken with it's head cut off*
All: Uhm…
Me: *ignores all except Jasper* Okay! Had this story in my head so…forward!
Jasper: Also, she wants to know how you spent your New Years! Tell her, and she'll tell you how hers was!
Me: ONWARD I SAID!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight…aha. And you thought I did? What have you been smoking recently?
Summary: Bella has a new sister! She was adopted at 16, a year younger than Bella. She comes to visit Forks and meets both vampires and werewolves. Though…what happens when all the magic comes into play? Seth/OC ExB
Anna's POV
My name is Anna Star Dwyer. I was adopted at my current age of sixteen by Renee and Phil, my parents. I have a sister and a step-dad. Isabella and Charlie. She prefers to be called Bella, I've heard. My life story hasn't been one of peace and serenity. My dad has served in the military and was killed. He didn't even get to fight. Something had back fired on one of the machines and the pieces had hit him, killing him instantly.
I was really young then, not much more than nine or ten. My mother was so distraught, I was the one to find her in the bathtub…
I was sent to an orphanage and I spent six or seven years there. The ladies who owned it thought I would never be adopted, but eventually I was. We were all surprised, but I think Renee wanted another daughter to be able to talk to her while she was traveling with Phil since Bella did not want too.
I had heard a lot about Bella through her Mom and Phil, she had a boyfriend, she lived in Forks with her Dad, and it was rainy and cold there. Unlike Bella, I did enjoy the rain.
It rained on the day my dad died. It rained on the day my mom died. It rained on the day I lost my smile. It seemed the sky itself was sad for me and my whole family. It was sad that they gave me such parents. Parents who leave their daughters behind and go and die without thinking of her.
I thought the orphanage would be my permanent home until I turned eighteen. At that forbidden age, I would be kicked out of the orphanage. At that age, is when the real challenges would start. The challenges of the real life, and I was terrified. I really wasn't ready for the challenges. I didn't know any home outside of the orphanage. All the kids there were taught in the orphanage. We didn't go to public schools. We couldn't have been normal if we had even tried.
Most of the friends I had made in the orphanage were younger than me, but a select few were my age. Like me, they felt their parents had abandoned them. Suicidal parents, parents that left them on the streets, they all felt that same way I did.
Alone.
I knew that feeling so well. As did many of my friends. I was surprised when my parents came looking in the orphanage. They were looking for a girl, so the old ladies brought all the girls from ages one to ten and lined them up. They asked for girls that were older. I saw them through my thick blonde hair. They looked young, but not so young. Maybe young at heart? The old ladies lined up the girls eleven to fifteen. Still, they shook their heads.
"Sixteen?" I heard my mom ask.
Delilah, one of the old ladies, grabbed me gently and led me over to them. My mom smiled at me, and for the first time in many months, my blue eyes sparkled, and I did too.
I smiled back.
I traveled with my mom and dad for a few months while he pursued his baseball career. My mom taught me herself and I learned a lot, but not having friends can really take a toll on a girl.
My mom and dad seemed to notice the change in me. I didn't smile as much as I did when we had first started traveling. They noticed how I drew the names of my old friends in the orphanage and how many letters I was writing a day. I couldn't bring myself to tell them the problem, but they seemed to understand.
"Star," my mom said one day.
Yeah, my name is Anna Star Dwyer. My first name was the one I remembered, and I just gave myself the middle name because I liked the constellations. Before my dad had gone to the military training, we would sit up and see the stars light the sky. The moon was my blessing, the stars were my family.
Renee liked the name Anna Star Dwyer, but she tended to call me star. It was easier for both of us. She knew how much I loved the stars, and the stars reminded me how life was before I was at the orphanage.
I turned to look at her. "Yes?" I asked, confused.
She never did call me Star unless she had something to say that was making her sad or depressed.
"I know you are not happy with us, traveling I mean."
Immediately, I began to argue with her. Telling her that I loved it with her and Phil and that I never wanted to leave, but she held her hand up.
"You want to go to a real school and make real friends. If you want, you can go to Forks and meet your step-dad and sister." Renee said. "I'm afraid they don't know you."
I was told about Charlie and Bella. Bella was older than me by a year at seventeen. She had brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. She looked nothing like me at all, which would have been hard to tell the resemblance. Plus, my last name was Dwyer. Her last name was Swan.
Well, one was only going to have Swan soon. Bella was planning to get married as soon as she finished high school, well, that's what Renee said anyway. Edward Cullen I believe it was? She was a junior and school would be ending soon. I would be a sophomore at Forks High School if I left now.
"I don't want to get there at the end of the school year. Can we wait until school ends so I can spend the summer with them then? I still get more time with you guys…" I offered quietly.
My mom beamed at me and hugged me.
"Of course. I know you'll love your sister and Charlie. I should go call Bella…" Renee murmured escaping out of the kitchen of this small motel we were currently staying in. "We'll go get you school supplies for next year after I get off the phone."
And that's how I ended up on this plane. I had just gotten on after a teary goodbye from Renee and a huge hug from Phil. I told them I would spend summer with them and when I was done with high school, we could travel anywhere we wanted.
Renee told me Bella didn't visit her often, but I could imagine her dilemma. Wanting to stay with her boyfriend, her dad needing her, and everything like that. Of course I understood. Well, somewhat anyway. I didn't have a boyfriend, and I didn't know where I would be staying. Charlie opted for his house, but him and Bella sort of filled that place up.
Bella was surprised when she knew that she had a sister. We spent hours on the phone, talking about what would happen when I came to visit. She seemed genuinely happy that I was coming. She told me about all her friends and that she would introduce me to her boyfriend's family.
I pulled my Ipod out of my bag, my birthday present from my mom and dad. My birthday was on June 3rd. I had heard that Bella's birthday was in September, but it had easily slipped my mind.
I settled back in the airplane seat. My adventure was just beginning.
Me: Yeah…dream…aha.
Jasper: Remember to tell her what you did for New Year's…you might be surprised by hers…
Me: aha…review as always! Kisses for yous! Mwah!
