Chapter 1: Moving

Click. Click. Click. Click.

I was sitting at my computer checking my MySpace out and tweaking it in different places. I looked around my room and frowned, not liking what I saw. I needed a change. I've had the same type of room since I was three. It had pink flowers and yellow walls with a rocking chair in the corner. You could still see the marks from where my old crib was. Yeah, change would definitely be a good thing. I turned back to the computer screen and frowned again. My page was so cliché it made me want to scream. Same old crap that everybody puts on theirs.

Well, let me start back at the beginning. My name's Bella Swan and I live in Forks, Washington, the most boring town in the whole wide world. I'm a little overdramatic and I love to read. I also love to write music and play the guitar. That's about it so I'm the average girl – haha, not. I have a mom and a dad named Renee and Charlie. I stay back out of the main scene and I love to be by myself, which is even weird for Forks. Huh, go figure.

I pushed back on the desk and stood up from my little blue chair. I heard some yelling downstairs and I wanted to see what was going on. I was reaching for the door handle when suddenly it flung open hitting me right on the nose.

"OUCH! What the heck?!?!? I can't even leave my room…….." I started. I looked up to see who had so brutally attacked me (overdramatic?) It was my mother and she was crying. She bent down to the ground to look me in the face.

"Bella! Bella, honey, are you okay? I didn't mean to hurt you I was just…." She trailed off.

"Mom it's okay. What did you need? What's wrong?" I asked. She grabbed my hands and pulled me to my feet. I sat down on the bed as she started fluttering around my room pulling clothes from here and there, putting them in a suitcase.

"Bella we're leaving." She said bluntly. Leaving? Leaving to where? Why so sudden? I opened my mouth but my mom just kept talking.

"I know this is really sudden but things just aren't working out with Charlie and me." She paused and took a shaky breath. "We are going to move to Phoenix, Arizona and start over."

"Wait, mom what's wrong between you and dad? You guys seemed perfectly happy this morning, what happened?" I said in a panicked tone. I had every right to be panicked. My home was being uprooted to freakin' Arizona! Why did she even pick that place?

"It's none of your business, all you need to know is that things didn't work out between us," she said.

"None of MY business," I all but screamed at her, "MY home is being uprooted, MY family is being torn apart, and MY life is changing!"

"Honey I know, but just trust me and please come," she pleaded. I looked into her shining blue eyes seeing my own brown ones being reflected. I couldn't leave my mother to fend for herself. I knew as well as she did that I was really the parent in our relationship.

"Alright mom I'll go," I said quietly. Renee gave me one quick nod and left my room leaving me to pack the rest of my things. I turned around and grabbed my iPod off the end table next to my bed. I clicked it on and put on "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. I wanted to listen to something sad and this would work perfectly. I loved the movie Titanic and I cried every time I saw it. To my disbelief I started crying. My world had come crashing down around me. I was drowning and no one was coming to save me.