A/N: Disclaimer I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT the amazing Stephanie Meyer does (:

Alaina POV

"Mom where's Dad's stuff?" I ask my mom while she is sitting at her desk doing the bills.

She glanced at me briefly before continuing the bills. "What stuff?"

"Nothing is there on his side of the closet in your room, and the drawers are all empty."

Mom sits there for a moment looking very sad all the sudden, but doesn't say a word. It was silent for the longest minute until I got to impatient and I asked, "Did he go somewhere? Out of town for work?"

"Sort of," Mom says while re-continuing the bills.

"What do you mean exactly?"

"Look honey, why don't you sit—"

"I don't want to sit." My heart started to beat like crazy and I was beginning to feel dizzy. I already had a feeling that I knew what she was going to say.

Mom glances over in my direction, but quickly turns her head to look down at her hands, which she was now playing with in her lap. "Your dad has been staying over at a friend's house."

"For how long?"

"For about a half a month."

"That's impossible he's here everyday mom! We have meals with him and he's with us like all day!" I'm practically yelling, but I could care less.

"Yes, your right. But he has been sleeping over at a friends house."

"How come?"

"Not everything is working out right now Alaina." She glances over at me again, and I can see tears brimming in her eyes.

"What do you mean not everything is working out?" This can't be right! My parents have always gotten along for as long as I can remember. I have never really seen them fight. I mean, they have disagreements here and there but everyone has those, right? They never have actually had a fight with like screaming and throwing things and stuff. "How long has this been going on?"

"For a while."

"And how long would that be?"

"Alaina," Mom gets up and walks over to me. "Not everything has been right between us for a long time."

I shake my head and I can feel a lump forming in my throat, which means that I'm probably going to start crying any moment now. "No, this can't be happening!"

"We just haven't been getting along lately." Mom starts to comfort me by hugging me, but I quickly shake her off and backup a few steps. "We didn't want to tell you and Matt until we were sure."

"Sure about what?"

"The separation, honey it's all really complicated."

It feels almost as if something is wrong with my hearing, because I can barely grasp what she is saying and I feel about ready to faint sometime soon. "Why are you guys doing this?"

"We just need to take some time apart…"

"Why?" I say, almost accusingly.

"To figure out what we want because we aren't happy anymore."

Wait, what they want? Don't they want to be together? "What are you trying to say? You guys look happy."

"But, we aren't. Look honey we didn't want to upset you or anything, but not everything works out in life. Life isn't fair."

But they have looked happy, like my whole life! But wait, if she is saying "We aren't happy anymore" then that means there is a reason behind all of this. Maybe my Dad is having an affair! Or worse, my mom might be. No that's all impossible.

"What's the reason though?" I ask.

"I can't really tell you."

"How come?"

"It's all very private and sometimes some things in a relationship need to stay between the people involved. Your dad wanted to tell you right away…"

Private? But Mom tells me everything! We practically know everything about each other! I tell her everything that's going on in my life and she tells me everything going on in hers. We don't have secrets!

Until now apparently.

"Wait, tell me what?"

"About the divorce." Mom said. But I don't think that's what she meant. I think she was going to say that Dad wanted to tell me the reason they are breaking up. The look in her eyes looked like pain and then, it all clicked.

My dad is having an affair!

oh my god. I cannot believe this is happening. Now I'm going to be like all of those other kids with miserable parents! This kind of stuff isn't supposed to happen to me. We are supposed to be a big happy family like the ones on the TV shows, where everything is like perfect.

Now it's pretty obvious who this "friend" that Dad is staying with, really is. That is why I saw pain flash across my Mom's eyes. I absolutely hate my dad for doing this to her, and us.

"Just tell me this," I say. "The reason you are separating is due to someone being involved, right?"

Mom looks hesitant about her answer but she quickly nods her head. I'm right. I hate my dad. I'm suddenly in desperate need of a distraction. I feel like screaming and crying my head off, so I walk up to my room passing my very confused looking older brother Matt on the way, and that is exactly what I do. Except in my pillow.

Even though I hate my dad right now I still am secretly hoping that my parents could possibly get back together. I used to get along with my dad great. I mean, he was like the best dad you could every possible imagine. We always spent time together talking, playing video games, going out to town to run errands together. He was the best, until now. Now I can't stop thinking about how he betrayed my Mom and the rest of my family.

I hear footsteps and then a knock at my door. "Who is it?" I say.

A very long pause. " Uh it's dad."

"Go away."

"Open the door."

"I don't feel like it."

"I want to talk to you, please." Yeah right, like I want to talk to you anytime soon.

"I'm good."

"Please Alaina it's very important, I need you to know the truth about all of this." Dad is desperately pleading and I almost feel kind of bad. Wait, never mind forget I said that. I still hate him. "Can I please come in and just talk to you? I promise you won't even have to say a word, unless you want to."

"Fine." One-word responses very bland, I know.

He opens the door and stands there in the doorway for a few minutes with a look of pure sadness on his face. He crosses over to where my bed is in the corner of my room and takes a seat.

"It was wrong not to tell you, I wanted to before I moved out you know." He says.

"The how come you didn't?"

He shakes his head for a moment and looks down at his hands. " I had to consider your mother's feelings."

I start to feel myself shaking with anger as the rage boils up again. " How could you do this to us?"

"It's the only way we cant separate and keep living in the same house."

"And whose fault is that?" I say through clenched teeth.

"Don't be mad at her."

Yeah right. "So, whose the girl?"

"What girl?"

"The one I'm not supposed to be mad at?" I snap.

"Oh right, uh her name is Caroline. Your really going to like her I have a feeling you two will get along great, and-" Dad starts but I quickly cut him off.

"How could you betray are family dad? You know what? I don't care. Just leave."

"Honey look I'm really sorry you had to find out about all of this this way." Dad says, "Did she not talk to you about this?"

"No. She says it's all private."

"Im so sorry Alaina, I feel so bad and-" He starts again but I cut him of again because, I honestly do not want to hear all of that "I'm sorry" shit.

"..." I say word by word, slowly glaring daggers at my dad. He quickly shoots up off of my bed and slowly walks over towards my door.

"I'm sorry." He says as he quietly closes my bedroom door.

"Asshole." I whisper as I break down crying for about the billionth time today.

I walk downstairs to see crumpled up tissues on the kitchen counter. I heard distant sniffling and words of comfort from somewhere near by, so I decided to go investigate. I moved along the wall walking to the kitchen in time to see Mom sitting at the kitchen counter crying her eyes out with very sad looking Aunt Rue patting her pack comfortingly. They haven't seen me yet so I quickly move to hide so I can listen in.

"He should have told them sooner. I mean have you seen how Alaina is acting? Matt surprisingly actually understands the situation." Mom cries out.

"She will understand sooner or later." Aunt Rue says reassuringly.

" What if she never does?" Mom asks Aunt Rue.

"Don't worry It'll work out soon. Before you know it you guys will be up and out of here in no time." Aunt Rue says reassuringly.

Up and out of here in no time? Wait does she mean that we are going to be moving? We can't move! I have lived here my whole entire life. California is my home sweet home! However now that I think about it maybe a move would be what was best for my mom. I can't just selfish about it, I have to consider my mother's feelings.

Suddenly I'm standing in the kitchen.

"Hey honey." Aunt Rue says to me. She glances over at mom quickly then back to me again.

I ignore her greeting and just stare at Mom. Ever since I found out she was the one having the affair, she seems like a completely new person to me. "So, "before you know it you guys will be up and out of here in no time". " I re-quote my Aunt Rue.

"I should probably go…" Aunt Rue says.

Mom glances over at me with puffy red eyes, sighs and says, "Honey before you get mad again I just want to explain a few things, please?"

"Hmm, alright."

"Since your father is having an affair, I can't stand for my life to get more complicated by standing in his way. So I decided that it might be best if we moved away to give him and us some room." My mom says slowly letting the words sink in.

Moving couldn't be too bad could it? I mean, people do it all the time. Plus it is summer and I wouldn't have to go start school as a new kid. And since I hate my dad right now maybe this move is what my Mom, Matt, Jessica, and I need. Time to get away from our father that betrayed us.

"Oh well, I'm actually fine with the idea of moving. I'm just kind of shocked, thats all. And you know me, always considering other peoples feelings before me own. I don't want to make life more complicated for dad." I practically spit his name out with anger.

"Thank you for understanding darling. Iv'e heard about other family's breaking the news about moving to their kids and most don't take it to well." She said.

"Moving can't be that bad can it?" I say. Im trying to lighten up the mood a bit because I just couldn't stand the tension in the room. "So where are we uh, moving?

She smiled the brightest smile suddenly looking very happy. "We are moving to La-Push, Washington."

A/N: This is my first fanfic so I'm sorry if its awful. They will get better as I go on, trust me. I wasn't even going to make this whole ordeal into a chapter but I decided I needed a background story of why her family is like moving to La-Push and stuff so yeah I kinda ended up with this. Don't worry the next few chapters will be way better I will actually spend my time detailing and stuff like that because I just now finished this chapter at 5:00 a.m on Christmas morning so I'm pretty much half asleep. Also, in the next few chapters you will start seeing some Twilight characters especially the wolf pack...ohlala ;)

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