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When You Are Different

Chapter One: Moving

I was sitting in my bed when I heard a crash down stairs. I went to investigate and saw my mother crying. Yet again my father came home drunk and he had thrown my mom's great-grandmother's antique vase at the wall. The irreplaceable piece of artwork was destroyed. I went back up stairs and listened to my ipod until I fell asleep.

I woke up to my mom shaking me.

"Come on Riley, get up, we got to leave now." My mom whispered to me urgently.

"What where are we going?" I asked.

"We need to go. Your father's behavior has proven to take a toll on me and I don't want that happening to you. Now come on we're leaving now."

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"I'll tell you when we are in the car. Now please get you stuff and let's go!" She was still whispering, but you can still hear the urgency in her voice.

"Okay. What do I need?" Not knowing if we were going to come back for my stuff later or not.

"Get your clothes and anything irreplaceable." I grabbed two duffels out from under my bed and filled one with my clothes the other I filled with things my grandma gave me before she past away and then pictures of me and my friends. Then I went to my bathroom and got my toiletries. Once I got done I went to the kitchen to retrieve my cell phone and it's charger. After that I went to the garage and got in the car and waited on my mom.

She came frantically running and she got in the car and cranked it. We were leaving. I couldn't believe it. I then thought about the mystery place we were going to.

"So where are we going?" I asked.

"Well I want to get away from the sun for a little while so I googled the perfect place for that."

"Okay, and the sunless place we are going to is called?" She was irritating me.

"Forks, Washington. It's only 9 hours away so we'll be there in no time." She said she seemed happy to be away from my father. I wouldn't blame her. He came home drunk 95% of the time. And he was always making my mother cry. Once I tired of it and went to help her only to surprise he hit me. So from then on I never intervined in one of his fits.

I was glad we were leaving, but also sad. I loved my dad although he had his flaws, and my mom and I left him without a trace. Besides missing my dad I was going to miss my friends. I was going to have to tell them what happened when I wasn't in my mom's presence. Then besides my friends I was going to miss my house. We lived in a Victorian styled house. It was absolutely gorgeous. It was two stories and it had an old rugged look. My friends thought it had a haunting look to it, but it wasn't haunted. Unfortunately it did had many creaky floor boards and a lot of jamb doors, but we looked pass those small problems and looked at the beauty. Talking about my house made me think of something.

"Mom, where are we going to live?"

"Oh, well we are going to look at real estate tomorrow. Tonight we are staying at a hotel."

"Oh okay." As much as I despised hotels I didn't care about staying at one tonight giving the circumstances we have.

"Are you okay, honey?" I thought about what my answer was going to be and I came up with one that wasn't a lie but wasn't the truth.

"Sure." My mom reached over to give my shoulder a reassuring squeeze. I smiled at her.

"Oh by the way, I don't want your father tracking us down so tomorrow we are going to the court house in Forks and changing our names. So you can think of a few on the way." I stared at her. Was she kidding I have to change my name. I loved my name. It was unique and hardly any women in the world name their little girls Riley anymore.

That did give me something to do. But I had to choose something stylish but not to out there.

"Mom, what's our last name?"

She thought about it and then she had a smile lighting her face up.

"Swan. We are the Swans." Okay so that gave me some starting foundation.

The whole car ride my mind pondered through the infinite list of names. I came up with four I really liked and made sense with the given last name. First there was Elizabeth Swan, but that sounded like a movie characters name. Next was Hayden Swan, but I thought about the negative things kids could say about that name. Third there was Annie Swan, but that was scratched off the list because I pictures kids picking on me with that name. Lastly Isabella Swan, I liked the name it had a ring to it. That was it, but I would be called Bella for short. I decided not to change my middle name, for the fact it was my grandma's name, Marie, I loved it.

"Mom, are we almost there?" I asked I was getting impatient.

"Yep, read that sign over there."

I read it and it said 'Welcome to Forks'.

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