All of the story characters belong to STEPHENIE MEYER and I write this fanfic as a dedication to her, one of my favorite authors EVER! Enjoy then! - fiorendita :)

Sweet Escape

Chapter 1

One of the cities in the Olympic Peninsula named Forks rarely had a sunny evening like today, with no rain and no thick clouds as there usually was. The full moon slowly emerged on the back row of thin clouds in the southern sky, shining a light onto a pair of teenagers who were sitting on a park bench in the silence of the waning sunlight. One of them - a girl – was carrying a big backpack on her back.

"You sure do not want to go home, Bells?"

The girl with the backpack was throwing "oh-come-on" looks toward her friend, a guy whose body looked like a bodyguard's.

"Don't you remember I'm a runaway, Jake?" she said sarcastically.

The boy chuckled. "Yeah, you've told me hundreds of times since this afternoon…But isn't your dad worried about you?"

Bella thought for a moment. "Dad, huh? Well, I guess not. He never cared about me."

"What the hell?" Jake seemed not to believe her. Bella shrugged, unconcerned.

Actually, Bella wanted to ask Jake to willingly let her stay at his home for a while. The girl didn't have any other relatives than her father in Forks, who was always angry at her and depressed all the time. In addition, Bella thought of Jacob's father, Billy Black, as her father more than her own; Bella and Jacob were childhood friends.

"Yeah," Bella said, then quickly asked, "Jake, can I stay at your house?"

"What?" Jacob looked very shocked.

"Yeah, just for tonight, if you don't mind."

Jacob looked hesitant for a moment. "Uh, Bells. Actually…this evening I was planning on being alone at home… I don't want to reject you, Bells, but…"

"Well, I know—" Bella hurriedly interrupted, but stopped suddenly when she saw Jacob's eyes, which stared at her with feelings of guilt. Bella bowed her head, resigned, and sighed heavily.

"Well, you're right. At least I can make him anxious."

"So," Jacob asked cautiously, "your decision…?"

"I'll go home."

Charlie was asleep when Bella got home. It was almost midnight and Charlie, who worked non-stop everyday in his office—Forks Police Headquarters—must have been sleeping in his room to not realize that his daughter was out of the house carrying a large backpack this afternoon. Bella slowly climbed the stairs to her room, located on the second floor, and locked herself in. the large backpack landed with a thumping sound on the floor.

"Huh!" Bella threw herself onto the bed, stiff feelings spreading along her arms and legs. As usual, her escape plan failed miserably.

She didn't know what she had done to deserve the punishment God had given her so that she had to bear feeling like this—ignored by her own father, although she had repeatedly run away from home to show her disappointment.

Bella was able to guess the continuation of the episode escape this time; the next day Charlie would wake up and find Bella having breakfast and prepared to go to school, and then Charlie would scold Bella until she can't afford to tolerate Charlie's anger, and then Bella would escape again, then go home again, and so on, like a vicious circle.

This time, Bella really wanted to break the circle's chains; she really wanted to make Charlie sorry for ignoring his daughter.

I'm not going back, Charlie.

The backpack that Bella had been put in her bed was on her back again. Her decision was made. Slowly, Bella opened her window and looked down towards the lush plants in her yard, which was one floor from her bedroom window.

"Bye, Dad," Bella whispered, then got ready to climb the shutter.

-To Be Continued-

So, I've replaced the chapter.. What do you think?

Thanks to my friend Angel of Twilight and TwilightRocks 122 who had beta-reading and editing my story..

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