UPDATE:

I'm going back and updating this and my other stories. I'm pretty sure no one is reading this, but just felt like I should do it justice for old times sake. The plot will change. I originally had characters that were getting pregnant and married because I had family members with the wedding and baby craze so it seemed like a good idea at the time for my characters to be doing that too. But now I am not so sure. This is mostly an editing adventure. We'll see how this goes.

Chapter 1

Getting Away

Abby Point of View

I missed California beyond belief. I had always been a girl who enjoyed warm weather, days at the beach, flying kites in the park with my sister, Amy. But I realized that life in Los Angeles was too chaotic for her. She deserved to be surrounded by family and calm.

I'd been managing just fine taking care of Amy on my own, but being her legal guardian and her sister was becoming a bit too much without having extra help. It was time to look for a new place to live.

I was eighteen, and held custody of my five-year-old sister, Amy. My parents had died in a car crash, when I was sixteen, so I became emancipated, and took custody of Amy. She was the most important person in my life. And I was going to make her life better. She was starting kindergarten and I wanted a life where I could afford to take care of her and live with a little less city. We were moving to Forks, Washington. My mom had a brother named Charlie. He was ten years older than she was, and they did not talk very often. Maybe once a year, but often times not even that. When my parents died, I tried to keep in touch with him. I called him every three months and sent him Christmas cards, but that was it. Charlie was the Chief of Police in Forks (though I wasn't sure that was a particularly large police department). We were moving into the house next to his. Apparently, his daughter and my cousin Bella had moved in a little bit before us. I hadn't seen her since we were kids and I wasn't even sure if she remembered me, or I her.

It was August and it gave us just enough time to move in and get settled before school started. It was my senior year and it was Amy's time to start kindergarten. We moved in quickly. There was an extra room where we put all of our stuff. We were painting our rooms today.

"Amy, you sure you want your room pink?"

" I want to have a princess room! Can you paint a pretty castle on the wall like you did in our old house?" She asked with the biggest puppy dog eyes.

"Of course. Now let's get to work." We painted the room in no time at all. We weren't exactly going for quality control here, but the room ended up pink all the same. We let the pink in her room dry while we worked on my room. It was going to be a lavender color. Once my room was finished we went back to Amy's room. I started on the intricate design of the castle as Amy watched. Then the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" Amy yelled and flew down stairs. I continued to paint knowing it would be Charlie at the door. He called earlier to let us know he was going to check on us and see how we were doing.

"Wow, this is a really good paint job. You guys should start a business." Charlie said with a whistle. I set my paint brush down and went to hug him.

"Hey, Uncle Charlie, it's good to see you." I really was glad to be able to be around family. I loved my sister with all my heart but seeing family was good for the soul. "How's Bella? "

"Good. She is over at the Cullen's house." He said.

"The Cullen's?"

"She's dating one of their sons, Edward Cullen." He said, completely unable to mask the distaste in his voice.

" Will she be home later? Because I want to introduce her to Amy." And I also wanted to see her myself.

"She's coming home for dinner. Edward is too. You two are welcome to come over." He offered.

"Count us in." I said and went back to my painting. Amy and Charlie struck up a conversation for the longest time. I sat there in my own world, painting away. After about two hours Charlie left and Amy continued to talk to me. When I finished the castle, I wrote in purple lettering Where Fantasies Become Reality above the spot where her bed would be. We cleaned up the painting supplies, and then we cleaned up ourselves. I helped Amy shampoo her hair as she talked about her imaginary prince charming, Embry. It was really cute that she still had fun in life after all that had happened to us. I dried her off, put her hair in a French braid, and she went down stairs to read a book from the Magic Tree House series. I taught her how to read because she kept wondering what I was doing all the time with books. She became completely enamored with the idea of a world with in something so small.

I took a shower and slipped on some clothes. I went and looked at the stuff in our extra room with dismay. There was no way I would be able to move the furniture. The movers put it in that room in the first place. Amy and I slept on the couch last night. But I did not want to keep doing that. I'd have to get Charlie and someone else to help me move it all. I went down stairs and helped Amy into her rain coat. I eased into mine and we walked outside. I locked the door, and then we raced to Charlie's house. There were their cars parked out front: a Volvo, Truck, and a Police Cruiser. Edward and Bella must already be back, I assumed. We knocked on the door and Charlie yelled to us that the door was open. We walked in and hung our coats up. We walked into the living room to find Charlie watching football.

"What is this?" Amy asked Charlie and pointed at the football game.

"Are you asking what football is?" He asked, completely shocked.

"Yeah, we don't have cable Charlie. We have a television but it only lets us watch movies." I reasoned.

"Then I'm going to have to teach Amy all about football." He started, and then dove right in. He told her everything about the game. I walked into the kitchen to find everything on the counter to make dinner. Apparently, we would be having spaghetti, but Bella and Edward had not arrived home, yet. Just their cars.

"Charlie, where's Bella?"

"She's still at the Cullen's. Edward's sister picked them up this morning so that they could go play baseball." He hollered back.

"Do you mind if I start making dinner?"

"Knock yourself out." I started cooking like crazy. By the time I finished I saw a jeep pull up to the house. Two people hopped out, and I assumed they were Bella and Edward. The boy sitting in the driver's seat could only be described as a big muscle guy. He drove off once they slipped out of the car. They walked to the front door and came into the house.

"Charlie, I'm home!" Bella exclaimed. They put there jackets in the closet and came into the kitchen. "Abby! It's so good to see you!" Bella said, hugging me tightly.

"It's good to see you too. I hope you don't mind but I started making dinner."

"Not at all. Abby, this is Edward. Edward this is my cousin, Abby." Bella said.

"It's nice to meet you." I said and shook his hand. It was slightly cold, but assumed it was because of the weather. He looked gorgeous. Not in a way that I wanted him, but more in a way that I couldn't deny he had handsome features. "Hey, Amy! I want you to meet Bella and Edward."

She merrily skipped into the room and came up beside me. I picked her up and settled her on my hip. She may have been five, but I would always want to hold her like this. "Amy this is your cousin, Bella. And this is her boyfriend Edward."

She squirmed out of my embrace, got on the ground, and curtsied in front of them and bowed. "It's a pleasure to meet you Sir Edward and Lady Bella. I'm Princess Amy."

Edward and Bella both played along, he bowed and she curtsied. "It's is such an honor to meet you princess."

"Queen Abby, is the feast ready?" Amy asked me, politely.

"It is Princess, as soon as you wash your hands." She skipped to the sink and I helped her up so she could wash her hands. Her height gave her a slight disadvantage. Once she finished, we all sat around the table and ate. Except Edward, he was apparently on a special diet. Bella asked us how the move was going. Amy told her about the painting session today. She and Edward planned to come over afterward and see it. Once we finished eating, Charlie washed the dishes and the rest of us walked over to our house. We ventured up to Amy's room and they both ogled at my castle painting.

"This is absolutely amazing! How long did it take you?" Bella questioned.

"A couple hours. No biggie. The real issue is getting all the furniture into our rooms. We had the movers but all of it in the spare room. And I can't lift it all alone."

"My brother's and I can come over tomorrow and help move it." Edward offered.

"That would be amazing. Thank you." And then I noticed Amy trying to hide a yawn. "I guess it's time for bed, Princess Amy."

"No! Please! I'm having too much," She yawned again, "fun." She said, but went to change into pajamas and brush her teeth. I said goodbye to Bella and Edward. Then I went back upstairs to help Amy get ready for bed. I did the same. I felt exhausted. We went downstairs and read for half an hour and fell asleep with the words of a magic wonderland.