Chapter 1 – Setting off to home.
Alice Cullen looked down at herself. Dress –check. Shoes –check. Hair –check. Nail polish –check. Luggage -… She looked down at the two huge suitcases she had beside her and sighed. She looked around the huge empty room. She couldn't change it now. She was finally leaving. She was finally going back home.
She had stayed in this flat for past seven years, all alone. She had been forced to stay away from her own family for seven long years and now finally she was going back to them. She stared at the empty walls which had contained her drawings and portraits. Her wardrobe, which was extended into a small room, was empty of its content too. All of the lovely expensive dresses, the branded accessories, the limited collection shoes and her huge Mac makeup set had been packed and sent away. The small studio kitchen was empty. Her cans of soup and tinned fruits were gone too. She had stopped buying the grocery ever since the decision had been made. The bathroom closet , no longer held her medicines, drugs and pills. They were all safely packed into her handbag. Most of her stuff had been shifted to Forks by the packers and movers company. She clutched at the hand rail of the trolley, as an emptiness filled her. She had had made this small flat her home for the past seven years and now she was moving away from it.
It had been her decision after all. She wanted to see her family. Yes, they loved her, they cared for her and they sent a large number of expensive gifts to her on every Christmas, her birthday, Easter and every possible holiday but she had not seen them even once in the entire span of seven years. Esme called her everyday and Carlisle kept asking her if she needed any more money or any help. Emmett and Rose chatted with her now and then on Facebook but they seemed awfully closed. Edward was a complete mystery to her. He never called her on his own or had even sent her a friend request in Facebook. Among her whole family, Edward was the coldest and closed to her. Alice was done with all of this long distant love and care. She wanted a proper family now.
She was dying to meet her family but somewhere she knew she would miss the silence and space of her life here in Alaska too. The small compact life she had created for herself without her family. Her high society friends, her junior school, her teachers, but most of them were going away for high school too. She was conflicted in her emotions of how to react to this change. She could foresee a number of events. She could imagine a number of ways how her family would accept her but nothing could be predicted distantly. Events kept changing and so did people, and as far as she knew, one could never knew what her family would turn up as.
Alice sighed and looked around the empty flat for the last time before stepping out of it. She put on her Gucci shades and pulled at her Louis Vuitton bags. She called at the elevator as her phone rang. She ignored it and it went silent after ringing a few times. She knew it was either Esme or Carlisle or Edward, trying to change her decision even now. She had made her decision and whether they liked it or not. She was coming back to Forks.