For everybody, moving is hard. Whether your moving house, town, state, or even country, the change is hard. Adapting to something different is never easy. I've had to adapt to a lot of changes this past year. And I wont lie and say that it's been easy, because it hasn't, in fact, these changes, they've pretty much ruined me.
The most recent change in my life is moving. I'll be leaving my hometown of New York City tomorrow, to move across the country to Forks, Washington. My father, Charlie Swan, was born and raised in Forks. The small town of Forks consists of merely 3545 people, and is known to be the wettest, coldest town in the continental US.
My mother, Renee Dwyer, was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Renee moved to New York after she finished high school to attend NYU. Mom's dream was to be an English teacher. It was in New York that my mom met my father. Charlie was in his junior year at NYU when mom arrived, and they instantly hit it off. Two years later mom fell pregnant with my older brother, Charlie Jr. Dad had just graduated, and mom was a Junior, it wasn't the best time to have a child, but they did it, and mom still managed to stay in college, resulting in her getting her degree. They decided to stay in the city after college, and mom had Emmett and I when Charlie was 3. Emmett's my twin brother, even being twins, we couldn't be more different.
After having the three of us, mom and dad slowed down for a few years. They married when Emmett and I were one, when they could finally afford it, and are still the same couple that they were all those years ago.
Leaving the city was going to be hard, we all knew that, but it was something that we had to do, mom couldn't stay here anymore, not after everything, so I took one for the team, and made the decision to leave the only home I've ever known behind me…