A/N: For everyone to know I do not own Twilight as is written on every Twilight fanfiction on this site. Hope you enjoy:)
Chapter One: Grandma
Why? Why does this happen to me? Why does it seem that this only happens to me?
Here I am standing at Forks Cemetery in the rain, over a cheap headstone that marked the finally resting place of my beloved grandmother with my Uncle Charlie.
Marie Anna Swan.
October 15, 1945 to June 1, 2015.
Beloved daughter, wife,
mother, aunt, and grandmother.
Why can't I be like most other 16 year old teenage girls in the United States? Being carefree, living at home with my happy parents and have the grandmother I loved and visited every weekend? Why did my parents have die in a car accident when I was five? Why did my big brother have to die with them? Grandma Marie, Uncle Charlie, and Bella is all I had left and Bella hasn't visited since she was fourteen. Grandma Marie was my everything since I was five. She was obviously was my grandmother, but also my mom and best friend. She was the person who raised me but was also the person I went to when I was hurt, emotionally and physically, and the person I could confide in when I was having problems with boys or my friends at school.
"Anna? Let's go. Your getting soaked and you have to unpack when we get to the house." Uncle Charlie said breaking me out of my depressing thoughts that were bound to lead me nowhere.
I nodded mutely and followed Uncle Charlie to the cruiser. When we got there I climbed the stairs up to what used to be the guest room and changed out of my black dress and jacket and into some dry jeans and worn t-shirt. My room at grandma Marie's was small and the room at Uncle Charlie's was bigger but not by much so all my stuff fit easily into my new room.
Around 7:30 an old rusty red Chevy pulled into the small driveway out front and parked next to the old silver car that used to be my grandmother's, that would become mine when I got my license in a couple months . You could hear it coming from about a mile down the road. From the driver's seat jumped out a native teenage boy that looked to be about my age. He ran to the bed of the old truck and grabbed a wheel chair out and ran to the passenger's side and helped a man into the wheel chair.
Uncle Charlie ran out to help the boy carry the wheel chair up the three steps into the house. I walked down the stairs and realized the boy and man were Billy and Jacob Black. It had been a couple years since I had seen either of them. Jacob had grown at least a foot and had gained some muscle but was still lanky and had that infectious grin.
Billy and Jacob looked up as I stepped on to the last step at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hello Anna. How are you holding up?" Billy asked with a sympathetic smile.
"I'll be alright. It still seems a little unreal right now, but it'll be okay." I said giving him a small smile.
Jacob grabbed me up in a big bear hug.
"Jacob… I need to breathe!" I wheezed out. It was like he was trying to squeeze the sorrow out of me.
Jake dropped me back down onto my own two feet. "Let's eat!" Jake exclaimed as he headed into the kitchen.
I stood there confused, then just shook my head and followed him into the kitchen. I could hear the men softly chuckling at Jacob's actions.
I walked into the kitchen and grabbed one of the platters that the neighbors had brought over the last two days out of the fridge. I put the lasagna in the oven to heat up and set the table for the four of us.
After setting the table, I pulled the lasagna out of the oven and put it on the table and sat down with the Charlie and the Black's. Turns out the Black's were very good at distracting you from the unpleasantness in your life. For a little while I forgot about being at a funeral and burial all day, that I would have to sleep in a new room, and wake up and not smell waffles and orange juice and hear the old country station playing as my grandmother swayed as she cooked and sang along to the radio cowboys.
After dinner we moved into the living room and talked and Uncle Charlie put Sports Center on in the background for extra noise.
"Hey Anna. How about you and Charlie come to the reservation tomorrow. There's a Mariner's game on that they are going to be glued to and you and I can catch up. Can't believe that we haven't seen you in years and lived only 15 minutes away." Jake said as he looked at me with puppy eyes that the even the coldest of hearted couldn't have resisted.
I looked at Uncle Charlie and he nodded with a small smile on his face. Jake jumped up off the floor and did a happy dance that had us all laughing at his antics.
For just a little bit I thought that everything would be alright that everything would even out, the bad and the good.