Disclaimer: I do NOT own twilight. All I own is the plot, and my own characters: Kay, Sage, Alex, and Sage's family.
"Kay!! Are you ready yet?! I smiled to myself as I heard my best friend's voice from the living room.
Man she can be loud when she wants to be. I thought to myself as I looked in the mirror at my reflection. The only word to fit my appearance was plain. I knew I wasn't ugly but I didn't believe that I was anything more than average. My brown hair hung down to maybe an inch below my shoulders, curling outward at the bottom on one side and inward on the other side. The golden blonde highlights that I had convinced my mom to buy me made my hair look not as… blah I guess. Even though I hardly ever had to do anything with my hair, it was pushed away from my face with a thin black headband showing off my glasses- framed brown eyes. Since my eyes were my favorite feature, when I wore make up I only used it on my eyes. Sage had done up my eyes with black eyeliner with forest green color eye shadow. My eyes moved downward to the rest of my physical appearance. I was wearing a pair of dark blue jean shorts and a thin black tank top with my new favorite shirt that Katie had bought me, blue with tiny guitars all over it with sleeves that went almost to my elbows. I had picked it out because it was out of the normal and not something people would think I would wear but it was so much cuter than the one with stars on it. My white dance shoes were on my feet. I had tried cleaning them to make them look actually white but I hadn't succeeded. Finally deeming myself good enough, I left the bathroom and headed to the living room when Sage and her family were waiting for me.
"Finally! Geez, did you fall in or something?" She asked, jokingly.
"No, just making sure I don't look like the train wreck that I feel like." I replied, smiling slightly.
"You look fine and you're going to be fine during this whole trip. No thinking about Alex during this trip. No being depressed. Got that?" She said, smiling but her eyes told me she was serious.
I winced slightly at the mention of Alex's name. We had gotten in a fight because he had found out I was hanging out with some of the guys he didn't like around me. Our words came back to me.
"Why would you go hang out with them alone? You know better than anyone what they say to you when they think no one's reading or listening. So why would you be so stupid?" He shouted.
"I can have a life you know. I'm not your girlfriend so I can hang out with whomever I choose. Why can't you just trust me enough to know I can take care of myself?" I yelled back.
"Because you can't! You don't know how to say no or how to protect yourself. How can I protect you if you keep making stupid choices like this?"
"You're not my protector! You're supposed to be my friend but obviously you don't know how to do that. I'm walking home and don't you dare come after me. I don't want to talk to you for awhile." I shouted angrily as I stormed out of his house.
I felt the tears start coming back. He hadn't chased after me. He hadn't called since then either. It had been a month since our fight and I was taking it hard especially seeing as the longest I ever went without talking to him was a week. I wanted so bad to talk to him especially after finishing my high school exams and when my step sister had taken me to go buy a car for my graduation present.
Will he ever call? I thought to myself, sadly. I missed him so much. He was my life, my heart. Pushing my thoughts aside, I thought about mine and Sage's trip. We were taking my new car and driving to Forks, Washington for our own little road trip/ getaway and also because our favorite book series was set there. We both had decided that it would be so much fun to see what Forks was really like. We had packed for all types of weather so that we were more than prepared.
"Kay, snap out of it!" Sage's voice said, snapping me out of my thoughts. For the first time today, I looked at what she was wearing. Her short hair was in pigtails. Behind her glasses I saw that she was wearing a light blue eye shadow with navy blue eyeliner. She was wearing a pair of dark blue jean shorts, a light blue tank top with a white shirt on over it that I recognized as mine, and blue flip flops. She was pretty and as much as I told her; she never really seemed to believe me.
"So shirt stealer, are we going or not?" I said, smirking.
"Oh please, like you care. You know you'll get it back when I change." She replied with laughter dancing in her eyes as she tried to hide it.
"Yeah, yeah, sure. So do we have everything?"
"Yes we do. We have all suitcases, both of our purses, and of course enough junk food that would last a whole week with any normal person but with us, if we're lucky it'll last us at least two days." She said, grinning.
I laughed, though she was right. We always ran out of junk food quickly even though half the time it was those stupid 100 calorie snacks that we somehow got hooked on. I followed her outside to my car. I still couldn't believe that this car was my own. It was a black 2003 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra. Stopping, we both turned around to say goodbye to her family. Her mom looked nervous. She had been worried about Sage going away for so long but of course she had reason to worry though she knew I would make sure nothing would happen to her. Her dad and younger brother looked the same as always. She hugged all of them and we went and got in my car, waving as we left the driveway. We were quiet until we stopped at a red light.
"Are you nervous? I mean we're actually on our own as of now. No parents." Sage asked.
"Sort of but it should be fun though. Plus we both needed this remember?"
She nodded and turned on the radio, Jordan Sparks filling the car.
To take one step at a time
There's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly, or falling in love
It's gonna happen when it's supposed to happen
And we find the reasons why
One step at a time
-One Step at a time by Jordin Sparks
I sang along with the radio refusing to think of the fact that whenever I heard this song I thought of him. I kept singing to distract myself which worked wonderfully to my amazement. We kept singing during the car ride. We switched places every now and then when the other got tired.
It was ten o-clock at night and I was driving because Sage had started falling asleep at the wheel. Suddenly, I felt the car start slowing down and saw that I was out of gas so I pulled over to the side of the road before the car stopped completely. I had thought we would make it to the gas station in time. All the car had to do was keep going for a half hour and then they would be in Forks. Sighing, I reached over and shook Sage to wake her up.
"Sage, wake up." She opened her eyes and looked at me.
"Where are we? Why did we stop?" She asked, sleepily.
"About a half hour from Forks and apparently the car couldn't wake that long to run out of gas. So we're stuck here until we can get help."
"Crap!" She said, sitting up in her seat. She reached for her diet Pepsi and started drinking some. "How long until someone realizes we need help?" She asked between sips.
"I have no clue." I looked out at the road, hoping for someone to pull over but no one did. As I was turning to look at her, I saw a silver Volvo pull over behind us.
"Sage! Someone pulled over. Look!" I exclaimed.
We looked out the back window and saw someone walking towards the driver's side of the car. I rolled down my window to have my hopeful brown eyes to meet a pair of topaz ones. The man was handsome. I snapped out of my thoughts as he started speaking.
"Hi, do you need some help? Are you ok?" He asked, sincerely.
"Yes, we do. We ran out of gas."
"I'll be right back. I have an extra gas can." He said as he turned to head back to his car.
He came back and filled my empty tank. Then once he was finished he came back up to my window.
"There you go. May I ask where you're headed?"
"Forks."
"Well, you have about a half hour of driving until you get there. I live there so I'm heading the same way. By the way, my name is Edward. Edward Cullen."
A/N: Sorry about the cliff hanger, I know we all hate them but they are so much fun to write and I love driving my friend up the wall. So what do you all think?? I started writing this because I was having major writer's block for my other stories. I'm currently working on 3 stories now. I have the 2 on here and 1 that is completely my own. So, Please review and tell me your thoughts.