Chapter One

Moving Forward

Sometimes people just wonder what to do when your family breaks down… Well… what we do, is we move forward. Mostly in a way that's emotional. Another option is just to run away, and that is exactly what we did…

And by 'we', I mean me and my best friend, Miyuuki (Yuuki for short.).

I mean technically we didn't run… there are great inventions now-a-days called planes, trains, cars, etc. Well, what we did, was that we used the money we've been saving up (for college), and we went to one place where our parents would definitely wouldn't look for us.
Forks.
Yes, Forks, a small place where there is practically no sunshine at all… Our parents knew enough about us, to know that we loved sunshine…

Yes, loved, not anymore; it's too hot sometimes in Texas. Yes, we did live in Texas, but now, we're looking for some apartments, or some cheap homes in Forks.

Heck, all the things are cheap around there. So we're still on the plane, looking at houses for sale on our laptops that we earned by ourselves. Yes, by ourselves.
"We're running away from our lives. Our lives." I said to my partner in crime, being overwhelmed by realization.
"I know, but we're moving to Forks! Forks! Where there is no sunshine, all green, and you do know that green is one of my favorite colors." Yuuki said back to me, grinning.
Yuuki can make the biggest problems seem so small.
The reason why we're running away, our family broke down. Well, we didn't share one, but we considered each other as sisters, so here's Yuuki's story first.

Well, she was born in Texas, her mother as beautiful as she was kind, with laugh lines across her face. She was the ray of sunshine, her father on the other hand, well…
He could've been more enthusiastic at times, but he's just a normal guy.
This year, her mother had died of cancer. It was a sad, sad day. It was about 11 years after we had met, and we comforted each other the whole time. She was like a mother to me.

When Yuuki grew up, she found out that her father didn't seem as sad as she was. He did his regular things, even his job when his wife died…on the day that his wife died. Yuuki became very suspicious, and wondered why he did that. She saw that there was lipstick on her father's shirt two days after Valerie (her mother) had died, and she was very upset with her father.

She asked him about it, and he said, while he was on the train when he got to work, a lady might've bumped into him. Yuuki accepted this, but only for a while…she had found out later that her father takes a cab. She started to yell at him, and he yelled back. After their little predicament, Yuuki ran up the stairs crying.

She had (she brought it with her on the trip) a large portrait of her mother hanging right by her mirror, and she cried until her eyes ran dry, and then she found out that her father had a girlfriend. Even during the marriage that he and Valerie had. The only reason that he had married her was to gain the money in Valerie's family.

Too bad for him, Valerie was suspicious as well, and had left the money to her daughter. During the time, that Yuuki found out that her father had a secret affair, she began to call him by his first name… which just so happened to be Robert, but she calls him Bob. Haha, Bob. Such a stupid name.
While Yuuki and I were both there at her house, her father had a huge fit. (Not a 3 year old version, the middle aged man version, which had a bunch of colorful words) He had been yelling of how he deserved it, and how the 'scum' would waste it on everything.
That's when Yuuki had enough and had moved in with me…

It only lasted for a few minutes.
Here's how my story started.
Well, I was born in New York, no where near Texas, but I had moved to Britain right after I was born. I also spent the majority of my summers there. That's why, when I get really angry, I have a British accent.

Then when I was 6 we moved, and I had met Yuuki. She was and still is the smartest idiot I know. Anyways, a few years ago, my mother left my father. My mother had left because she was very young, a little too young for this commitment we call marriage. My father was in depression for a while, but was still very happy to know that I was still with him. He spoiled me with everything, sometimes I got little bit too much. He would always laugh at me and say: "You are different among other teens." Then he would always ruffle up my already ruffled hair.

He made my life amazing. Though sometimes I could see him staring at my mother's photo and crying himself to sleep, my father is a strong man. He was in the army for a few years after my mother had left. When he came back, he taught me ways to defend myself. This was a total plus for the years he was gone.
Now, remember, Yuuki and I, were running away. I was only running away because of Yuuki, not of my father. I loved him to death. Yuuki and I went over to my house and saw that my father wasn't there.

Like I said, we only stayed there for a few minutes.
I ran up the stairs with Yuuki, and grabbed all of my stuff for our trip that we had planned on the way to my house. I had left a loving letter to my father, though; I wasn't telling him where I had gone.

So then, we climbed down the ladder that I had set up for a while now, and quickly ran to the nearest person we could trust.
Who just so happened to be the librarian, and she was a very kind person.
We told her to just bring us to the nearest airport. (We had already bought our tickets) She didn't ask questions until we were all in the car and drove. She asked what we were doing. We explained it to her, but only the main idea.
We were surprised at how well she took it.
By the time we got to the airport, it was only 1 o' clock. So we thanked her, and boarded the plane, and that is where we left off.
"So, what are we going to do when we get there?" I questioned Yuuki before we had sat down.
"Hmm," She started, putting on her seatbelt. "We could probably just like, live a normal life, finish college, and just go with the flow, you know?"
"Ha, you're a poet and you didn't even know it." I said to her, grinning.
"Hey, Emberlynne? I was wondering about something." She asked me, holding a magazine she had found about Forks.
"Yes." I said, it sounding more of a statement than a question.
"Is your mom's maiden name is Johnson?" She asked, one of the questions she should know.
"Of course! Didn't you know that?!" I said, surprised.
"I just wanted to make sure." She said quietly, still staring at the page that she was on.

"What?" I asked her, worried.
"Umm…Err…I'm just gonna ask a random question. Does your mother work as a doctor?" She asked me.
"Mmhmm. So what about it?" I asked her.
"Oh not much, only that your mom lives in Forks." She said curtly.
"Are you being sarcastic?" I half-whispered.
"Well, information magazines don't lie. Your mother is one of the head doctors at the hospital in Forks." She said plainly, handing me the magazine.
I stared at the article that was there.

Our hospital provides everything you need for a nice stay.
Our nurses are here to tend to your every need.
Our doctors are the finest in the area.
With two of the best doctors working here,
Carlisle Cullen and Alicia Johnson.

That was all I needed to read…
Yuuki stared at me anxiously. "You okay?" She asked.
I tried to say something, but all that came out was a squeak.
"This is your pilot speaking. We're arriving in Washington in 5 minutes." The pilot said. Yuuki checked the time on her watch.
"Whoa! Time has passed! About… 5 hours past since we left!" Yuuki said this bit of information to me.
I stared at her wide-eyed. I guess when you have a lot to think about, time does pass by fast.
We arrived at the airport in some town that I didn't know, and got off as quickly as possible.
"Wait, how are we getting to Forks?!" I asked her, suddenly realizing the flaw.
Yuuki just grinned and pointed at a burly man holding a sign that read 'SOMOTO' which was Yuuki's last name. I saw that he was wearing a tux.
"You got a limo!" I said to her, as if she didn't realize that.
"Yeah, I did. Only the best for me and my best friend!" She grinned. "I got you into this mess anyways. This is one of the ways for making up for it."
We walked up to the man, and found out he had a heavy Scottish accent. I tried not to laugh, and apparently so did Yuuki. He drove us out to Forks, and we thanked him as we paid him.

"Uhh…" Yuuki stuttered.
"What?" I asked her finally looking to where she was. Freaking A!
A. Freaking. Mansion…oh, what's this?

I checked out the resident's name:
Alicia Johnson.
"Is she home?" I managed to choke out.
Yuuki nodded, and pointed to a glossy black viper parked in the driveway.

"Oh yeah! My mom is still cool!" I said, grinning happily.
"Should we ring the doorbell?" Yuuki asked, uncertain.
I urged her to go, and ring it. We waited for a while, rang the doorbell twice more, and then we heard feet shuffling through the house.
"I'm coming!" said a light voice.
My breath got caught in my throat. I came to realization. What the heck am I going to say?!
Suddenly, the door opened and there stood a middle-aged woman. With captivating hazel eyes...

The eyes I always remembered when I was a kid. Full of emotion every time I did anything.
"Umm…Mrs. - I mean Ms. Phoenix?" asked Yuuki.
"Oh my, I haven't been called that in years. Call me Dr. Johnson or Ms. Johnson. In fact, just call me Alicia." She smiled towards us.
"Oh, okay…" Yuuki replied, lost for words.
"Well, may I ask why you are here today?" Alicia asked.
"Well…" Yuuki started.
"Mom…" I half-whispered, surprising myself.
Alicia just stared at me.