This is just to ease into the story and an introduction to the characters.
Disclaimer: I only own Claretta and Fiorella, SMeyer owns Twilight and the other characters, because if I did Seth would have already imprinted on me :-D
Claretta and I decided this summer we were going to take a road trip to beautiful… FORKS, WA! Ok, yeah, not so beautiful we know. We were planning on going to California, but my grandmother and mom refused because they said it was too dangerous. We still wanted to do a cross-country trip and Claretta's distant cousin, Sue, and her new husband, Charlie (who she married a few years after her first husband, Harry, died of a heart attack), lived in Forks. At every family reunion Sue would invite Claretta and her family to visit anytime, so Claretta asked if we could come instead and Sue said that it sounded absolutely wonderful.
Claretta and I have practically been sisters since the eighth grade and now we both just finished our sophomore year in high school. We both have a little bit of Quileute blood in us even though we both have grown up in Connecticut and so have our parents. No one would ever guess that Claretta Kayli Hertel or Fiorella Francesca Giansiracusa is Quileute. Claretta has honey blond hair, baby blue eyes, and her pale skin burns more than tans. Even though I, Fiorella, have the thick, dark hair and dark brown eyes that the Quileute have, my features look Italian and my skin is as pale as Claretta's (but mine tans, and doesn't burn which she is so jealous of).
Two days after school let out and we were on our way. I'm only fifteen but Claretta had turned 16 in May and had her driver's license already, so she had to do all the driving. We spent a week driving across the U.S. and staying in the weirdest motels we could find and only eating what was at convenience stores and fast food places all the way. We were having fun but definitely looking forward to getting to Forks. We had already planned out our first few days there, and were looking forward to going to First Beach and also to meeting Sue's kids (one of whom happened to be a boy around our age).
Of course, when we got there it was cloudy but we had been checking the forecast and came to realize that it almost NEVER stops raining there so we were at least grateful that we weren't going to get soaked. We were walking from the care to Sue and Charlie's house when my stomach did such a flip that I dropped my bags and nearly fell down on the lawn. Claretta turned around to ask what was wrong and all I could do was tell her that I'm just clumsy (which I am) because I had no clue what had just happened. At this she just shook her head, laughed, and continued walking. When I reached down to pick up my bags after regaining my balance I saw a pair of large, tan hands on the handles. I turned around to see who had grabbed them and stopped breathing for a few seconds. He was the most gorgeous man I had ever seen.
Chapter 2 is about half-way down and will be up soon if I get any people who are actually reading this so please hit that little button under this and tell me what you think :-D
