Not So Bad

Chapter 1: Forks, Washington

If someone had told me three months ago that I would be moving to a town named after a utensil I would have laughed but seeing as I'm in the back seat of my parents car surrounded by boxes and being followed by a moving van you can see that its obviously not the case. Forks, Washington rainiest place on the west coast. As much as I like rain I don't want to be surrounded by it twenty-four seven. My mom got this job offer from forks hospital to become some executive branch manager or something along those lines. Anyways my mom just couldn't say no, so she decided to pack myself along with my older brother, Jace, and my dad up and move us to the coast away from sunny California. The long stretches of interstate and highway were finally turning into small roads and surrounded by dense forest after many hours cramped in the car. A sign finally appeared to my right reading "Welcome to Forks" in chipped orange paint.

"We'll be at our new house in about 10 minutes! Now Addison I know you weren't ecstatic about this move but it will be a great opportunity. You still have two years of high school left to make new friends and you have the next two months to get use to it." My mom Alaine tried to make me see reason.

"Mom I know, relax I'm sure I'll get use to it but that doesn't mean I have to like that idea right away." I assured her. I smiled and rolled my eyes at her persistents and kept taking in the scenery, namely vast amounts of green and brown forest with an occasional house or store. We passed through the town's only intersection with a stop light and made our way into a quaint little neighborhood. We pulled up to house number 43 wear my brothers truck was parked out front he had driven up here the day before in order to help move all his things to the new house.

It was a two story house with 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms, one which I would have to share with my brother upstairs where our bedrooms were located our parents master bedroom was down stairs. The house itself was blue with white shudders and a white front door it was pretty enough and definitely felt like a home. I finally made my way to the front door and made my way inside our new house. I was kind of excited to see a fire place in the living room and the kitchen wasn't terribly small, definitely big enough to get in and bake. I made my way up the wooden staircase that creaked every other stair. The first door on my right was definitely Jace's room it had a sign on the door that said "War Zone: Enter at your own risk." I rolled my eyes and entered the last door on the left it was decent sized with plain white walls, that could be easily fixed, and two windows one that faced the woods and the other that faced the street. I would definitely have to put up curtains. I made my way back to the first floor and helped my parents start grabbing boxes form the moving van. I started carrying all the boxes labeled Addie up to my room and placing them in the corner to make room for my bed and dresser.

After a few hours of bringing things in and attempting to get organized the moving van and cars were empty and all the beds had been set up so everyone could at least get a good night's sleep.

"Why don't we go to that little diner down the road tonight seeing as we don't have any food in the house." My dad, Thomas, proposed.

"Sounds great dad I'm starving!" Jace proclaimed.

"I second that." I agreed.

We loaded up into moms freshly unpacked car and made our way to the diner. We took a seat at a booth and started flipping through the menu. Our waitress came and introduced herself.

"Hi I'm Annie, you guys must be the Parkers! Every ones been looking forward to meeting you guys."

"Yes we are, it's nice to meet you! We're glad to be here" My mom smiled

"Are you two going to be going to Forks High in the fall?" Annie asked.

"Yeah, we are I'll be a junior and Jace here will be a senior." I replied shyly.

"Awesome, I'll be a junior too!" Annie said excitedly.

I just smiled back at her and she took our orders. Well atleast every one here seems friendly. We shit chatted for a but while we waited for our food which finally turned up just before my stomach tried to eat itself.

"Thanks." I said to Annie politely.

"It's not a problem! Hey I'm off on Monday if you wanted to hang out I can show you the town, and a group of friends is going to La Push for a bonfire that night if you'd like to ome along that way you can meet some people?"

"That sounds great, I'd love too. Here, I'll give you my number." I took a napkin and wrote my number along with Addie across the top and handed it to her.

"Great I'll call you on Sunday!" Annie smiled and walked over to her other tables.

"See honey your already making friends." My dad smiled and squeezed my shoulder.

A few hours later after opening more boxes and unpacking clothes and my ihome, I laid in bed staring at the ceiling. Maybe Forks wont be so bad after all… I closed my eyes and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.