-Sophia is a high school senior from Maryland who lives by herself after her parent's death. She moves to La push to live with her cousin in hopes to escape her ex-boyfriend who was stalking her at her old high school.

Chapter 1: New life

Why is it so hard to pack things? Normally I wouldn't have a problem with this but I was only taking three suitcases with me on my plane to Washington. Living in a small apartment by myself in the city, I didn't have much room but I had a lot of things hidden away that I wish I would have had room to put out. Between all of my clothes that I was taking and my things for my bed and bathroom, I only had 1 suitcase left. I had so many things I wanted to fit in that one tiny suitcase; my pillow pets, stuffed animals, pictures and memories of my past years in Maryland and things that had belonged to my now deceased parents.

My parents had died just a few months ago in a car crash with a tractor trailer. The truck driving was texting when he swerved directly into my parent's lane and caused a head on collision. As I was already 18 when they died, I didn't have to live with my awful god parents that had avoided me most of my life. I was able to get my own place with the inheritance I received from my parents.

I would love to stay in this town as I have lived here all my life, but, some complications had come up. After my parent's death, I had ended the relationship that I was in of 2 years. I felt that I wasn't in the right state of mind to handle a relationship at the time. Adam on the other hand, thought I was being ridiculous and refused to forget about me. He followed me throughout the days at school and sometimes followed me when I drove back to my apartment. Thankfully he hadn't figured out a way to get inside my building yet, but it was only a matter of time. He's been stalking me for 6 months, texting and calling me throughout the night even after I block his number. Often times when I go out into the city for things I see him in the same store as me or he follows me when walking down the street.

As of now he doesn't know where I am moving to, and I intend to keep it that way. I have only told a few extremely close friends as where I am going and I know that I can trust them to keep my secret because they know how crazy Adam really is.

As I was finish packing my last suitcase of memories of both my parents and my own, I heard my phone ringing over on my dresser. I got up to answer it and saw that it was my cousin, Ashely, who I would be going and staying with in La Push. She has always been like an older sister to me even though she is a thousand miles away.

"Hey Ash, I'm almost finished packing then I'm off to the airport. You're picking me up at 7 right?"

"Yep, 7 sharp, Seth and I will be picking you up."

"Ohhh, so you and this seth kid are still together are you?" I asked giggling remember how great Ashley had claimed Seth is as a boyfriend. I heard her giggle on the other end as well.

"Yes we are girl. I can't wait for you to meet him! He is truly a sweetheart, you'll love him I promise." I could tell she had a giant grin on her face just by talking about him.

"Okay Ash, I'll take your word for it I guess." I heard a car horn from outside the building and looked out the window to see my cab that I had ordered. "But my cabs outside so I'll see you at the airport at 7 with your lover boy." I heard her laughing at the end part but I know she liked it. We said our goodbyes to each other and I started hauling my suitcases out into the cab. I said goodbye to my baby that was sitting in the parking lot. Baby blue Saturn sky, I would miss her for sure but I sold her for some good money that I planned on buying another car in La Push. She wouldn't drive good in the weather up there anyway by what I have heard from Ashely.

Before I knew it I was boarding the tiny plane with about 30 other people flying directly to Washington. This wasn't my first time in an airplane but my first time in one that was this tiny, I've heard rumors before that these flights are much bumpier. I quickly pulled out some sleeping pills that would knock me out for the 3 hour plane ride to Washington. I was out of it before we even got off the runway.

The plane ride was a breeze considering that I don't remember any of it, but from over hearing some of the other passengers, it was a fairly bumpy ride. As I got out of the terminal I was Ashely standing there with a sign saying my name in pink with lots of glitter. She knew me so well. I scanned the people around her looking for this Seth person, but the only people around were girls. When I reached her she gave me a giant bear hug and we were off to go find the rest of my suitcases.

"So, Ashley, I thought that your boy toy was coming with you?"

"Oh don't worry, he's already waiting for you other luggage pieces. I told him just too look for suitcases that are either hot pink or lime green and they'll be yours." I looked at her with a death glare, she always got on me for being so girly while she was the more tom boy of the 2 of us.

Sure enough as we rounded the corner, there was a giant man standing there with all of my luggage. Ashely ran over to him and gave him a big hug and a kiss, it was like she hasn't seen him in a year. As they looked at each other, I was a bit jealous but I would never admit that to her. I missed having someone in my life that I could act like that around, although im sure as hell glad that adam is miles away from me now. As I approached the happy couple, I noticed just how big Seth was: he towered over Ashley's 5 foot 6 figure and he had muscles like a professional body builder through his white t-shirt, although his muscles were much more tasteful than body builders.

"You must be Sophia!" Seth said holding his arms open waiting for a hug, I timidly gave him a hug, but he wasn't having that. He picking me up off the ground and spun me around like I was 5 again. I laughed at how funny he actually was, Ashley was telling the truth.

"So, how about we get this stuff back to our house, then you can come with us to dinner at our friend Emily's house and then tomorrow Ashely can help you get everything unpacked." Seth said it with confidence as if I didn't have another choice, I looked at Ashley to see if he was serious and she was smiling at me and said I'd enjoy the people at Emily's house.

When we got back to Seth and Ashley's house, seth carried all of my things up to my room on the 2nd floor. The 2 of them shared the master bedroom on the bottom floor and I had the 2nd floor all to myself. I walked into the room and it was perfect for me! Black walls with a pink zebra print overtop, I couldn't be more happier, this was like my dream room.

"Ashely! You know me so well!" I exclaimed while giving her a big hug.

"You haven't even seen the best part yet," I looked at her strangely but followed her over to the black door in the corner. When she opened it I thought I was going to pass out, it was full walk in closet with a shoe rack. "I figured that this would be your favorite part."

"I love it! All of my clothes and shoes now have a proper home." I said while walking in and exploring the closet a bit more.

"Okay well I know you're in closet heaven right now, but get changed cause we're going to Emily's."

"What should I wear? Dressy or casual? High heels or flats?" I asked nervous about meeting all her friends.

"Relax Soph, just wear jeans and a shirt, half the guys never have shirts on anyways, so you'll be fine in whatever you wanna wear, but I recommend fixing your hair, kinda looks like you joined the mile high club on the plane." She winked at me while laughing and leaving me to get ready in my new room.

I looked in the mirror and realized she was right, my platinum blonde hair was everywhere. I shuddered at her comment about the mile high club, according to her I was still a virgin, but she never knew how adam treated me, and I intended to keep it that way. If she ever found out she would freak out and attempt to kill him, and I didn't need her in jail.

I attempted to tame my hair, but it was just impossible. I gave up and threw it in a messy bun, threw on some skinny jeans and my flip flops and a pink v-neck shirt. I met seth and Ashely downstairs and realized that I interrupted their make-out session. Seth noticed me first and started busting up laughing at my shocked face, while Ashley hid her face from embarrassment. The three of filed into Seth's Chevy truck to drive to Emily's house. I'd never admit it to anyone but, I always had a things for trucks, secretly dodges.

A few minutes later we pulled into a tiny yet homely looking house. Seth and Emily went right inside without even knocking, I thought to myself that I would have to teach that boy some manners. I looked around and instantly felt out of place with everyone else. I looked like I was the youngest one there at 18 and that they were all in their 20's.

"Everyone, this is my cousin Sophia from Maryland, she's going to be living with me and seth now in the room upstairs." Ashley said as she went to sit down with Seth on the couch, I just stood there awkwardly looking around at everyone smiling like a mental patient, they probably thought that I was special. I waved at everyone and went to sit down on the chair next to the couch that was unoccupied when I heard the door open up behind me, does no one around here knock? I turned around to see who it was. That's when I first saw him. He was gorgeous. His short black hair that was so extremely sexy looking on him, not to mention his muscles, they were even bigger than Seth's. He stood around 6 foot 5 and made me look like a midget at my 5 foot 1. I felt like an idiot just standing there staring at this perfect man in front of me. He looked around at everyone before he dropped his eye line to look at me. I swear that my heart stopped, I couldn't look away, though I didn't want to at all. I heard a couple people gasp behind me and it broke me out of my trance. I quickly ducked my head to avoid him from seeing the blush on my face from looking at him and continued to sit down in the chair avoiding eye contact with that gorgeous beast of a man.

"Hey Paul, nice of you to show up." Seth said smirking a bit while looking at me. "Have you met Ashley's cousin Sophia yet? She just moved here tonight."

I turned back around to look at Paul, I guessed that was his name, and he was still staring at me. I couldn't look away, I was caught up in his gaze once again. I smiled at him and I was glad to see that he returned the smile right back.

I heard a womans voice shout from the kitchen that dinner was ready and everyone got up and walked to the table, so I got up to and followed them with paul close behind me.

I thought to myself how attracted I was to him, and wanted to know so much more about him.