~CHAPTER ONE~ Bella
I've imagined leaving Forks many times before, thinking about how great it would be to finally get away from this small town. I got my wish and I have never been so scared in my life. Although I've disliked this town for seventeen years, leaving has made me feel so insecure and worried.
I'm leaving my comfort zone, and to my surprise, I guess I will miss Charlie too. My dad can be an unpleasant man to live with at times but he doesn't hover and we have peace with each other. He's calm, quiet and we understand each other.
"Can't you stay in my house with me?" Jake, my werewolf best friend, said.
Yes,that's right, werewolf. Scary thought isn't it? But he's not bad, he's one of the sweetest guys ever. Funny too.
"Haha, you want Charlie to have a heart attack?" I said sarcastically and dryly.
"He loves me. Oh come on Billy will be there and he loves Billy." He said raising his eyebrows and winking at me.
Billy is Jake's father and Charlie has been friends with Billy since they were in diapers.
"Still, once Renée heard that Charlie was leaving she was so excited she wanted me to stay with her and I could'nt resist her. I want to spend some time with her, even though I got to admit I'm scared out of my wits because the school is so huge. They have like 3,200 something students. Thats insane." I said.
He looked at me with a fake sad face and said "You won't miss me? I thought you were sad to leave because you won't see me anymore, yet you were just sad cause your school will be like five times the population of Forks High. Ouch. That hurts." He pouted
"Oh you'll survive without me, I'm easily forgettable. Anyways you can visit me anytime you want."
"Bella don't say that, you're irreplaceable. The greatest friend alive." He looked at me with a real sad face and his eyes were glassy like he was going to cry. I hugged him tightly because I didn't want him sad.
We had such a powerful friendship and it was fun, we would always act like little kids.
Charlie was leaving because as the head police officer he was asked to work at this new police academy in England. Lucky duckling.
Renée, my mother, lives in Miami, Florida and today is my last day here in Forks, Washington. I will start school in a week or so. I was finishing packing when I heard Charlie's cruiser parking in the driveway.
"Bells, are you ready?" Charlie said as he entered.
"Almost, hold on." I yelled from my room.
"Sup Chief?" Jake said going downstairs.
"I've had better days." Charlie grunted.
I was done stuffing my suitcase with only a bag of necessities, a couple of jeans, three shirts, and a cd player. I took a long last look at my room, so many memories here. It took me about ten minutes to recover from myself and I went downstairs and said "Ready."
"Got your plane ticket?" He said.
"Yupp."
"Well I guess it's time to get you to the airport, I'll go start the car." Charlie said as he was finishing his soup -the last meal I cooked for him-and left.
"Wow I still can't believe you are leaving. When will I get to see you again?" Jake said with sadness clearly in his voice.
"I don't know, whenever you want to come over is fine. We can call each other and email too. Maybe once I get a decent phone we can text." I said.
I was also sad, he was my bestest friend ,well my only best friend. I had othed friends but he was numero uno. We left to go to the car and joined Charlie, Jake sat in the passenger seat so I sat in the back, feeling like a crimminal.
As we were driving away from Forks boundaries I felt a million butterflies in my stomach. I was so nervous. Miami was going to be so different and I didn't even try to hide my nervousness -aside from being a horrible actor- I didn't see any point in trying to hide what I felt.
After a couple minutes of driving Jake asked Charlie "Hey Chief, how long will you be gone?"
"Uh, I'm not sure Jacob. Maybe a year or so." Charlie said with a dead tone.
"Can't Bells stay in my house?You know Billy and I will take care of her. She doesn't have to leave." Jake said in a pleading voice.
"I'm sure you guys could but once Renée heard about me leaving she was so excited that Bella was going to stay with her. There is no way Renée can't get her way, she always does. Anyways Phil and her found this nice place and he finally has a stable home, so I guess I had no other choice. I'm sorry Jake I know you'll miss her, I know I already do."
Jake stayed quiet after that. We were reaching Seattle and I think my heart dropped like three times. This was it, it was time. I saw the boomerang shaped airport and all the planes, in which I'm going to end up siting in one. Both Jake and Charlie let out a big sigh as he started to park his cruiser. Once we got out we all looked at the glassy airport and entered,my plane is supposed to depart in 35 minutes. Once inside I noticed that it really beutiful want crowded at all, there was at least 200 people here and it was calm and it was two stories high.
"BELLA!" I heard a group of people -teenagers no doubt- scream my name. I turned but couldn't find the crowd.
"Hey look Jake's here" said someone from the group.
"Bella look up" a guy imaptiently said.
And I did, surely there was the crowd. I saw Cindy, Angela, Mike, Miguel, Jessica, Ben, Tyler, Austen, and Kyle. I also saw Jakes friends that became my friends a couple years ago too. Embry, Quil, Seth, Sam, and Leah. All of them were werewolves too.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" I asked in confusion and happiness.
"We wanted to see you again before you left and so we came here. Surprise." said Seth with a big smile.
Everyone murmmered in agreement. Mike came up to me and gave me a big hug squeezing me to death. Then everyone decided to give me a hug also. After 13 hugs I felt extra exhaugsted.
"What time does your flight leave?" asked Angela.
"Um in 30 minutes more or less."
"Okay, so we have to enjoy these last 30 minutes or so with you then." said Tyler.
"I'm hungry. Can we go grab someting to eat please. It sucks being upset and hungry at the same time." said Jacob complaing.
"Sure let's go find the food court." I said.
We went to the food court and everyone got a small hamburger and fries with shakes. After finding a table we started talking about random things and many of my friends kept talking about how I had to talk to them every now and then and tell them how things were going in Miami.
"Don't worry. I'll try my best to contact you guys." I said.
"Like everynight." said Miguel slowy.
"I might not be able to talk to you guys everynight but i'll try my best. Anyways after like a month or so you guys will probably will forget about me." I said joking and shrugging.
"Oh Bella stop that. You're unforgettable." said Jessica.
"Yeah" said Mike. "Just do us a favor and please dont forget us."
"Trust me I won't forget you guys."
"Uh Bella, your plane leaves in 10 minutes, we better get going now." said Charlie.
"Wow we only have less than 10 minutes with Bella?Aw man." groaned Quil.
"I can't believe it," said Ben "It's almost time to see our Bella go."
"Oh, Charlie before I forget Billy wanted you to know that he misses you and he wants you to visit him before you leave too." said Sam.
"Okay, ill go tomorrow morning then, thanks." Charlie said.
As were walking near my gate I saw that all of my friends looked like they were going to cry.
"Are you guys okay? What's wrong?" I asked worried.
"You're leaving!" They all shouted.
"You guys, its fine, its not the end of the world. We will meet again one day. Maybe when Charlie comes back I'll visit." I said trying to calm them down.
They stayed quiet for the rest of the way. We sat in front of the gate when Charlie said "Bells, the plane is departing in five minutes, I think its time you go now."
The first one to hug me was Jacob he gave me a long hug and whispered in my ear "Imma miss you Bells, my two left feet friend. Oh I almost forgot, here take this"-he said while giving me a small little wooden box-"don't open it until you get home. Okay? Love you. Take care."
I almost cried when he said that but I had to keep my cool façade going on and took the box.
"I love you too, Jake. Take care too, I'm going to miss you."
Next to give me a hug was Cindy "Bye Bella! Oh I'm going to miss you so so much. Take care!" She said wiping her blue-green eyes from the tears.
"I'm going to miss you too. Bye." I told her.
This continued on with Angela, Jessica, Leah, Ben, Kyle, Tyler, Miguel, Mike, Seth, Sam, Austen, Quil, and Embry.
Seth made me laugh by saying "Aw, bye Bella, I'm really going to miss you. I hope you don't meet any werewolves there because I will get upset if you forget us your only werewolf friends." He said it so quietly so no one could hear.
Last but not least was my dad. He had watery eyes, but just like me tried keeping it cool. "Bye Bells, Tell Renée I said hello. Take care, I love you and already miss you."
"Love you too, Dad. Take care and have fun in England. See you around. Miss you."
And I began to walk to the gate and turned back to wave my last goodbyes keeping it cool-well at least trying-, smiled, yelled goodbye, turned toward the gate, and kept walking till I was onboard. I sighed and looked out the window. I'm about to face the experience of being a new kid at school, a stranger.