CHAPTER 1

DROPPING THE BOMB

Bella's POV

"are you alright miss?"A shop clerk asked, staring at my balled up fist.

"Hmmm? Ohh yea. I'm fine." I said flattening my hand out on my yellow sundress and forcing a smile.

"Mom, are you done, yet? I'm tired." I wasn't really I just wanted to get home and call me boyfriend, Alex

"I'm done now Bella, don't be fussy."

Renée and Charlie don't approve of me having a boyfriend who's 21. You see I am only 18, well in a few months anyway. So I don't plan on telling them that once I do turn 18, Alex and I are getting married, Or that he sneaks into my room every night, Charlie would rip my head off if he knew what I did at night. I'm sure Renée would understand though. She knows how it is, and that's why I love her so much.

My parents think that all Alex wants is sex, and that once he gets it he'll take off. Well it's too late for that to happen, if you know what I mean. Alex and I are madly in love. And we plan to stay that way no matter how much Charlie threatens us…"'if you harm one hair on her head'" and all that nonsense. .Blah.

Charlie and Renée are my parents, no matter how much I love them, I refuse –with all of my power- to call them mom and dad, except in front of them.

On the way home Renée and I stopped at a bakery to pick up some cake for Charlie.

"Run in for me and get it please, Bella." She said handing me a 20 dollar bill. "Black forest."

"Okay." I said grabbing the money and hoping out if the car and into the rain. "Shit my hair. Of course I get it all nice and this ALLWAYS happens." I stomped in, slapped the money on the counter and repeated my mothers order, adding a box of cookies for Alex and myself.

Once I got back in the car, I gave Renée the change and handed her the box with the cake. It was a long drive home; we were about half an hour away when my mom dropped the HUGEST bomb on me. "Your father and I are getting a divorce."

"WHAAAAAAAAATTTTTT????" Now I realized why she wouldn't let me drive. I would have slammed on the brake and gotten out and ran away. But with her driving I couldn't unless we stopped at a red light or something.

"We've been thinking about it for a while, and we thought you'd be old enough to handle it right now, he found a house in Forks, Washington…. You're going to live with him."
My eyes got wide and I started hyper ventilating. I buried my head in my hands and I began to speak, my voice muffled by my hands." Why are yhou doib thish to meh? "I looked up at her, and she was calm. " I don't want to go live with dad, I'm fine here, with you!"

"I thought you'd say that, but it's out a my hands, your leaving in five days."

"FIVE DAYS!!!?!?!?!?" I screeched. "FIVE FUCKING DAYS, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO TELL ME FIVE DAYS BEFORE WE LEAVE!?!?!"

"We thought it'd be easier on you, I guess we were wrong."

"Stop the car."

'No, sweetie please don't do this.

"Stop the car." I said a little louder.

"I can't"

"STOP the fucking car, Renée!" I had never called my mother by her name, only mom. She just looked at me and drove faster.

Once we got home I ran up the stairs swearing as loud as I could. I was surprised I didn't fall, I'm such a klutz. I got inside me room and slammed my door. I burst out crying, I dropped the box of cookies, and I collapsed on the floor. Alex, who was sitting on my bed playing a game on his phone, ran to my side.

"Bella, hey bells, what's wrong, what happened?" he said hugging me to his chest. I swore in mumbled gasps.

"They're getting a divorce."

"Oh, its ok bells, we'll get through it together, I'm right here like I always will be."

I buried my face in his chest and cried even harder. "Ch- Ch-Char- lie, bought a h-ouse…..in Wash- in-g-t-ton…..I'm leav-ing with him…. In five d-days."

"Ohh, I uhh, I see." Mike said leaning away from me with a look on his face, a look that looked like: sadness, surprise, anger, and loneliness all rolled into one.

"Oh Alex, I'm only a few months away from 18 and when I do turn 18 I'm coming back here. Because Charlie can't keep me if I don't want to stay."

Alex pulled me into a tight hug and I heard a noise come from the back of his throat, it was a sob…one single sob.