THE MOVE

"Jen, let's go, mom and Phil are waiting for us we're going to me late for our flight!" My sister Bella yelled from downstairs.

I groaned neither of us was looking forward to this move. We were going to live with our dad Charlie in Forks Washington. The decision came when we realized our mom Renee wasn't happy being away from Phil when he went out of town for his games. So rather than make her unhappy we were basically exiling ourselves. So here we are middle of our junior year moving to live with our father.

"I'm coming God, you know yelling doesn't do you any good makes you stress more. And you know what they say stress makes you look older!" I yelled back at her.

"Just hurry up, if you take any longer mom might just convince me to change my mind."

I grabbed my last bag and headed down the stairs. Our mom had been trying to convince us for the last week to not go. She kept saying we didn't have to but Bella and I both knew that wasn't true. As much as she loved us she couldn't hide how much she hated being away from fill for so long. The drive to the airport was quite but once we got there mom started up again.

"Girls are you sure you want to do this?"

We rolled our eyes even though we were twins the only thing we were able to agree on was this we were going to live with our dad. Our excuse we wanted some father daughter time before we graduated and went off to college.

"Mom, we're sure. We'll be fine please don't worry I'll email you every week I promise and all call too." I said as I pulled her into a hug. She looked into my eyes as we pulled apart I knew she was looking for a sign that this isn't what we wanted but both of us had gotten really good at hiding most of our emotions from her. When she couldn't find anything she nodded and turned to Bella and gave her a hug as well. We left them at security when we got to our gate we sat down to wait for our flight to be called.

"You know she's going to send an email every single day for like a month right?" Bella said pulling her laptop.

"Yeah I know, but we're doing the right thing. As much as she loves us it's not enough to keep her happy while Phil's away." I replied pulling out my own laptop.

"That's true, at least we have our own rooms now." Living with Renee we shared a room it had been a big room but neither of us particularly enjoyed it. We had been spending a month with Charlie every summer since we were five when we were 10 Charlie had converted his garage into a master bedroom giving us the two bedrooms on the second floor. We had to share a bathroom still though but luckily not with Charlie I don't know what he would have done if he had to share a bathroom with the two of us.

We only had to wait about half an hour for our flight to be called. It was a 3 hour flight from Phoenix to Seattle non-stop then another hour from Seattle to Port Angeles, then another hour drive to Forks with Charlie. The flight I was good with it was the hour drive with Charlie that had me worried. I was the most talkative of the three of us but I couldn't get them to engage in a conversation if my life depended on it.

Charlie was waiting for us in the baggage claim area, I mentally groaned. He was in full uniform which means he had the cruiser I actually think it was the only vehicle he ever used to be honest. I was glad I had saved up some money I needed to get myself a car there was no way I would be taken to school in his cruiser. Nothing slows down traffic like a cop.

"Hey girls I missed you!" Charlie said as he pulled both in for a hug.

"Missed you too dad." We said at the same time

Charlie helped us grab our bags we didn't have much Phoenix didn't have much Washington type winter clothing, so we would need to go shopping soon. 'Oh, joy'

About 10 minutes outside of forks Charlie announced he had a surprise for us.

"What is it?" I asked another thing Bella and I had in common was, we both hated surprises which I'm pretty sure he had forgotten.

"Well it's a surprise if I tell you it will ruin it." He said glancing back at me.

"Dad, you know we hate surprises." Bella said irritated.

"Oh, fine you know you two ruin all the fun," he said with a pause, "Well you guys remember Billy Black?"

We both Nodded

"Well he had some vehicles he wanted to sell and when he heard that you two were coming to live with me he offered to let me buy them cheap." He said avoiding eye contact with us. He only did that when he was trying to hide something.

"Dad, how cheap is cheap?" Bella Asked as we were turning onto our exit

"Um, well I kind of got them for free," he said sheepishly, but when he saw the look on my face he added, "Don't worry his son Jacob took really good care of them they run great I promise."

I looked at him for a minute then decided to let it go I knew Charlie he wouldn't get us cars that would break down after a few weeks I trusted his judgment.

When we pulled up to the house I noticed a huge red truck you know the type that could get hit by a tank but would come out of it with a small dent, and behind the truck a blue ford Taurus that I instantly knew was mine Phil's mom had one and I was always driving her around in it I loved it, if I were to get myself a car it would be a Taurus. I hopped out and went to look at the Taurus.

"So what do you girls think?" I hadn't noticed that Bella had automatically went to the truck.

"Dad they're perfect!" I said as I turned and looked at him

"Billy wasn't sure you would like the truck but I assured him that I knew my girls and one of them would like it." He said with a grin

"You did good dad," Bella Said with a grin

"According to Billy Jake rebuilt the engines in both vehicles, and they really do run great. i test drove them myself." He said looking proud of himself

We continued to admire our new cars (well new to us) and knowing the moment was over Charlie went to get our bags. I pulled myself and Bella away from the cars and went to help him. We made our way upstairs the bedrooms were right across the hall from each other with the bathroom directly between them I got Charlie's old room.

"I got you girls new bedding, the sales lady helped me pick it out." Charlie said as he set our bags in each of our rooms. He stood in the hallway awkwardly for a few minutes then said, "Well, I need to go back to the station, the numbers by the phone if you need anything." With that he turned and left us to do our thing.

The bedding Charlie got me was red, I didn't think he knew that was my favorite color but then again it was probably a lucky guess. Bella's bedding was purple again probably a lucky guess. I unpacked my things, doing this made me see just how much I desperately needed to go shopping for more clothes. I wouldn't need too many heavy winter clothes but the clothes I did have really didn't scream 'I'll keep you warm!' one of the ways Bella and I were so different was the fact that I could go out in the snow in flip flops and be fine but if it got below 50 degrees she would be layering on the clothes. We aren't identical and we are also complete opposites I think at one point our parents could tell us apart but as we go older it was easier to tell us apart. Some one who didn't know us wouldn't be able to tell we were twins at all. As for our differences; she is extremely clumsy and can't play a sport to save her life, I on the other hand am not clumsy in fact I don't think I have ever fallen down or hurt myself unless somebody else had been involved somehow also I am extremely good at sports although I don't play school sports. Also we both love to read but I'm into mystery, suspense or fantasy books whereas she reads romance, and classic literature. There are other differences but I could spend hours listing them.

I set up my laptop on the Desk and logged into the Wi-Fi, something Renee had insisted he get in order for her to agree to us moving her. I shot her a quick email letting her know we made it okay I was sure Bella was doing the same thing but if Renee didn't hear from both of us she would probably thing the other had gotten murdered or something. Better safe than sorry.

As soon as I was done with unpacking I went across to Bella's room. She was sitting on her bed reading; I went in and plopped down on the end.

"I sent mom an email, I figured if we didn't she would have some kind of panic attack." I said as I leaned back at looked at her.

She tipped her book down and looked at me, "Yeah me too, knowing her she's been refreshing her inbox every 5 seconds."

We laughed, "Well I'm going down to see what Dad has in his cupboard, I want to make a list of stuff we will need to actually make food that's good for us. Knowing him he probably has a bunch of easy make stuff." She nodded and went back to her book.

I went down to the kitchen and started going through the cupboards and fridge, I was right there were a lot of box dinners and premade frozen meals. By the time Bella came down I had a 3 page list of stuff we needed to get, it wasn't all food some of it was cleaning supplies and other things but mostly food.

"I'm surprised he hasn't had a heart attack with some of the stuff he seems to be eating." I said as put the list on the fridge holding it there with one of the magnets.

She laughed, "Hey I was going to check out the library tomorrow after school, did you want me to see if they had anything you would like?" she asked as she grabbed a water out of the fridge.

"No, I think I'll wait till I can go to Port Angeles." I said

Charlie got home about 6 and we ordered some pizza I didn't object mostly because it seemed healthier than some of the stuff Charlie had in the kitchen. We ate in the living room and watched TV with Charlie. There was a game on that Charlie wanted to see, another thing Bella and I didn't have in common was she hate watching sports as much as she hated playing them, I on the other hand loved watching sports. About halfway through the game she made up some excuse about being tired and ducked out of the room and went upstairs. I stayed down till the game was over then went up to bed myself, I didn't think this would be too bad but I wasn't looking forward to starting at a new school. In fact I was dreading it!