Chapter 1

Going Back


This is my first fanfiction (but not my first chapter)! Please review to tell me what you think of the new changes!



Special thanks to HohoCullen and HopingForLove for all of their awesome editing skills to make this story much better than it was when I started!

I'm finally going home. I've been dreading this day for fifteen years but I knew it would come. Today is the day that I finally have to go back to Forks, WA and face what I left behind so many years ago. Now that I had the strength to face him again, the only thing left for me to do was buy plan tickets, but of course, Alice being the spendthrift that she is purchased them for me before I was even able to get the sentence out of my mouth.

Flashback

I parked in front of Jake's house. He must have heard me slam my truck door because he was standing in front of me in a matter of seconds. He looked upset like he was about to give me the worst news of my life. I tried not to pay attention to it. I had to tell him that I was pregnant.

"Hey Jake, I have to talk to you about something."

"OK, but there's something I have to tell you first. Let's go for a walk on the beach." His face was full of fear and regret, two things that I have never seen him express openly.

"So, what did you want to tell me Jake."

"I imprinted Bella."

"Wha-what, that can't be true, are you sure Jake?"

"I'm sorry Bella, I really am."

I left him standing alone, I had to get away from him. I couldn't stay in Forks. If I stayed here I'd screw up his life more than I would if I left with his child. Oh god, what if my child phases. Shit this is not good one day I will have to come back.

End of Flashback

"Earth to mom, we've landed!"

"Sorry Cass I was just thinking."

When I look at my daughter Cassidy I can barely see myself, and none of her father at all. She has peach colored skin, darker than mine but paler than Jake's. She has my chocolate brown eyes, and is much less clumsier than me. When she was younger, I began to doubt if she was mine and Jake's child. Cassie has the most amazing voice I have ever heard, and I'm not just saying that because I'm her mother, she really does. The only thing she has in common with Jake is her personality. She is outgoing and carefree, just like her father.

The only reason I'm coming back is that she might phase and I don't think one human and two vampires will help. Alice and Jasper had been living with Cassie and I since she was born. When Cassie was 5 I finished my EdD in English Lit and we moved farther north to Maryland. Cassie started singing a year before we moved. She tried her best to get good grades but she was a rebel at heart which I didn't realize until our next move. When she turned 11 we moved to Boston where Cassie started doing major musicals and entering small competitions. She loved performing on stage. By the time she turned 13, she stopped asking who her father was because I would always change the subject or give some vague answer. When she began to feel sick and had a high fever, I decided it was time to take her to Forks.

When I left I told Charlie I was pregnant and asked him not to tell anyone. When I called to tell him that I was coming home, I learned that he and Sue had recently got married and were moving to her house on the reservation. He said that he hadn't put his house on the market yet, so Cassie and I could stay there until we got our lives' straightened out. I've already enrolled Cass at the school on the reservation and to make up for leaving Boston so abruptly; I entered her in a competition in Seattle. She was still upset about leaving but she did thank me.

Now that we are here I wish I could get on another plane back to Boston. Its not that I don't want to see my friends who I left behind, its just that I'm afraid of what they will think of me.

I see Charlie and Sue standing several yards in front of me. Cassie hasn't seen him for 3 years but she remembers what he looks like. As soon as she saw him she ran up and hugged him. I walk over to them while Charlie introduced Cassie to Sue.

"Welcome home Bella," said Charlie and Sue. That did it, I ran to my dad and hugged him.

"I've missed you so much Bella."

"I've missed you too dad."

Cassie talked nonstop the whole way home to Charlie and Sue about what had happened since Charlie's last visit. While they talked, I stared out the window, looking at the small town I'd left fifteen years ago. Charlie and Sue dropped us off at my old house. They hadn't stocked the fridge so they invited us over for dinner. I had to agree; I knew that Cassie would be hungry because she never stopped eating.

I inspected the house. Nothing had changed since I'd left. The same curtains were hanging, the same couch and dinning room table were there. Cass and I agreed that she could have my old room and I would stay in Charlie's.

Even though its' been fifteen years, I remembered the way to Sue's house. Charlie thought it would be great to invite Billy over dinner. At the moment he was probably the third to last person I wanted to see. When I introduced him to Cassidy he was honestly surprised that I had a daughter. Thankfully there was no suspicion on his face that Jake was Cassie's father. We talked for several hours after dinner about what Cassie had been doing and where we had been living. Thankfully no one made any reference to Jacob or the pack. I could not handle talking about him tonight.

Cassie didn't talk much on the way home. I think she was too tired from talking with Sue, Billy, and Charlie. When we arrived at home we went straight to bed. We were so exhausted from our long day of travel.


So obviously this is not a new chapter. I have recently joined Project Team Beta and I'm reposting the story! Review to comment on the changes!