Hey guys so this is the first technical chapter in 'Everything Changes' and I don't know if any of you guys who read it noticed but it was similar to the preface in the first 'Twilight' book and what I'm doing is trying to make it similar obviously there's going to be a lot of differences. But there's still similarities. So yea, anyway disclaimer time.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TWILIGHT SAGA WHICH IS OWNED BY STEPHENIE MEYER! BUT I DO OBVIOUSLY OWN ANY OC'S SUCH AS MY MAIN CHARACTER CASSIDY BLAKE

Chapter One:

My mother and I drove to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was ninety degrees in New York, the sky perfect, an almost completely cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite outfit for this type of weather. A white crop top; high waisted distressed shorts with light pink, light blue and a light purple tye-dye; white vans; light pink nails; I was wearing a necklace that has the variations of their. It says their, there and they're and (you idiot). And finally I was wearing a mood ring. It was sort of like a farewell gesture. My carry on item was my baby blue back-pack type thing and I checked in two suit-cases, full of clothes and makeup.

In the Olympic peninsula of north-west Washington state, a small town named forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place on earth. It was this town at the reservation where my moms side of the family had lived there whole life's. After my mom and dad split,me and my two sisters; Raina (older sister) and Melody (younger sister) had been compelled to spend a month every summer because my grandmother on my moms side and my Uncle Charlie on my dad's side lived here. We stopped coming when Raina was 14 I was 10 and Melody was 6, this was when my grandmother died. Raina and Melody loved Forks and so did my dad so Raina, Melody, my dad and his girlfriend Amy moved to forks. I decided to live with my mom.

But it was to Forks me and my mother exiled ourselves - an action we took with great horror. I detested forks. So did my mom.

I loved New York. I loved all my friends there. My town. My school. All of it.

"Cassidy," my mom said to me - the last of a thousand times - before we got On the plane. " you don't have to do this, you can stay with Aunt Kathy and your cousins."

My mom looks like me except her hair is a little longer, straight and dyed red and naturally blond. Plus she has laugh lines.

"I want to go," I lied. I'd always been a great liar, this one didn't come as easily, but I'd been saying it so frequently lately it sounded convincing now.

"Alright. But remember Aunt Kathy said if you ever wanted to come back if you didn't like it here she would come and get you."

"Don't worry about me mom," I urged. "It'll be great."

And the we got On the plane.

It was a four hour-flight from New York to Seattle, than another hour in a small plane up to Port Angeles, and then an hour drive back down to forks. My mom had, had her car sent from New York. I have always hated flying. But I never started like hyper-ventilating. And I absolutely hate being in the car for more than ten minutes.

Mom had gotten me registered for high school and she was going to help me get a car. Before me and my mom moved she registered me into the high school on the reservation. She said the school said that I would have the same classes with a boy named Seth and that he would show me around.

When I landed in Port Angeles, it was raining. I didn't see it as anomen. Good or bad - just unavoidable. I had already said goodbye to the sun. I might not like the sun but it's much better than any cold and wet situation.

My moms car had arrived and my dad was there with my sisters and Amy. My dad wanted me to live with him. But he also didn't want me to get a car. Which is a necessity since he's a police man. He drives a cruiser. And Nothing slows down traffic like a cop.

My dad gave me an awkward, one-armed hug when I stumbled my way off the plane.

"It's good to see you, Cas," he said, smiling as he hugged me. "You haven't changed much. How are you Dolores?"

"I'm fine Sean." My mom says turning to talk to Raina and Melody.

I only had the back-pack I was wearing and two suitcases, my other things were with my moms In the moving truck which arrived a few days ago according to my dad.

"We arranged all of your stuff that you had in the house. And Cassidy I hoped you wouldn't mind but that necklace that grandma gave you before she died. Yea,well I thought you wouldn't mind if I had it. I never really see you wear it in the summer or pictures so I took it." Melody said with her fake smile. Melody is my sister who according to everyone looks the most like me. But in reality she looks more like Raina. Melody has shoulder length blond hair, thats sort of thick. She has brown eyes. And she's 4'9. Raina had long blond beautiful hair but when she turned 14 she decided to dye it brown, than when she was 15 black, 16 red, 17 brown,18 blond fading to brown, 19 red and now she's 20 and she has brownish-black hair. She has brown eyes. And she is 5'7. But me I'm just different even though my moms part Native American she does not look it at all. Neither do my sisters their extremely pale. So is my dad. He has blond hair like all of them and brown eyes. But me I'm different. I'll explain later though

"I do mind, I wear it all the time. Plus she gave it to me. NOT you. So I do not appreciate you taking it. I expect it back. Today." I said looking Melody straight in the eye. Me and Melody had never gotten along. she's the youngest, which In turn always made her the princess. She always got what she want even when something was mine and I cared so dearly about it. But never again.

"Fine" she said turning away and walking over to my dad.

"Hey midgit." My older sister Raina said as I move over to greet her.

I laughed "your still on the midgit thing, I'm taller than you. "

Raina hugs me.

Me and Raina have never been the best of sisters. But as we got older we became closer. And now she's my best friend.

"Make sure Melody gives me back that necklace. Or you'll have one less sister." I say.

"Got it Cassidy." Raina says laughing.

I'm probably one of the only people in this world that doesn't like there parents my moms had always been mean to me. She doesn't like me very much. I like my dad much more but I would not be able to stand living with him and my sisters. I hate Melody. So the only one in my family I like is Raina and she's out of school so I barely see her anyway.

Me and my mom went to the car and started towards Forks.

"I found an amazing car for you." My mom announced after we were strapped in.

"What kind of car?" I asked.

"Well, I remember when you were younger and you talked about liking mustangs."

"Yea."

"Well I found a purple one."

"Where did you hear about it?"

"Well do you remember Billy and Jacob Black at the Res."

"Jacob, yes. Billy, no."

"Well Jacob fixed it up when they found it and he offered to sell it to me when we were talking on the phone."

"Ok how much is it?"

"Well like I said he offered to sell it over the phone. So I bought it."

"Mom I wanted to do this on my own."

"Well think of it as a late birthday present. I never did get you one."

I sighed.

"You really didn't need to do that though, mom. I was going to buy myself a car."

"I don't mind. I want you happy here." she was looking ahead at the road when she said this. My mom had never been comfortable with expressing her emotions out loud. Unless it was expressing how angry she is. I was most like her in that aspect. So I was looking straight as I responded as well.

"Thanks mom, that's really nice."

I really did not need to add that me being happy in forks is impossible. She didn't need to suffer along with me.

"Well, you're welcome." She mumbled clearly embarrassed by my thanks.

We exchanged a few more comments on things like the weather, which was clearly wet. And that was pretty much it for our conversation.

Forks was beautiful, of course; I couldn't deny it. Everything was amazingly green: the trees with their trunks covered in moss their branches with A canopy of it, the ground covers with ferns and green grass, even the air had been filtered down greenly through the leaves.

But. It. Was. TOO GREEN - an alien planet.

Eventually we made it to the reservation. We were living in the house my grandmother used to live in before she passed it was pretty big it had four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a big kitchen, a big living room, a basement and an attic. And there's only two of us.

In front of the house when we pulled up was My purple mustang. To my surprise I truly loved it. For a car that was fixed up. It was amazing. A metallic purple color that doesn't blind you and that from a certain angle looks blue. It was just amazing.

"Wow,Mom, I love it! Thanks!" Tomorrow my day will be less horrific all thanks to this car. And I won't have to walk to school. Even though the school is also on the reservation it's kind of far away.

" I'm glad you like it," my mom says embarrassed again.

It took one trip to get my stuff up to my room. I got the bedroom on the second floor that faces the front yard. The room was familiar it had been mine every summer until I was ten but it's different now. We had a big moving truck so my bed and two dresser fit in it. My Vanity, make up storage and desk too. My favorite colors always been purple so the walls have always been a light purple and the floors were a dark wood. So that was good. And since the moving truck was sent out a week and a half before we came everything was already there, since my dad had set it up. So my room was done.

My mom left me to unpack and get settled. It was nice to be alone, not to have a smile and look pleased; a relief to stare sadly out the window at the rain and let a few tears escape. I wasn't going to start bawling. I would save that for when I had to go to sleep.

The high school on the reservation is smaller than My old school was. By a lot. In my high school there were 1,476 kids. And I'm the high school here there are now 346. The people here have known each other forever.

I would be the new girl from a big city, a curiosity, a freak, at least in everyone's eyes. In reality I'm not from a big city. I didn't live in New York City. I lived on Long Island. I'm an open book at school, so that curiosity will fade quickly. And the freak part. I don't know. I had my friends in New York and I was probably the only person in the school who could say that by the end of the year all the friends I had were true friends. And any friends from before that weren't true friends. I just walked away. I never had people bully in elementary school, but then in middle school this one girl bullied me to the point I couldn't go to school and my mom wouldn't let me even if I wanted to. The three girls that bullied me harassed me and even tired to hit me. And I realize it was because even though my life was never perfect not by a long shot. But it must have been better than hers. I had met her mother and it didn't seem like they had rules. They're mother tried to be more like a friend, rather than a mother. She cursed with them, gossiped with them. Everything really a mother shouldn't do. The girls called me freak, ugly, stupid (which is funny cause I was in high honors with distinction and I was still getting A+'s in everything), idiot, fat. They even called me an ugly ass donkey. It made me break. So that's why I was Happy to leave cause even in high school I didn't have classes with her and she still found a way to make my life a living hell. So a freak. I don't know.

Maybe, if I had been like every other girl in the town I lived in I may have been able to fit in. Most girls were darker in complexion (not to be rude), they had dark; short hair. Dark brown eyes. And were slender. Others that weren't like that they had a light-pale complexion with either light-light brown, or blond semi-long hair with dark brown eyes. They to were slender. Everyone of them was good at sports. And they all weren't very tall. But me I was different. I have light brown hair with natural highlights of blond, black, dark brown and even red hair. I have unnatural blond ends that used to have purple and blue ombré covering it. But it didn't match my clothes. I wasn't super tan but I did have a nice light tan that was natural. I was tall 5'9 1/2. I'm not super thin I have sort of chubby thighs and I have a semi belly. That's probably cause I love food. And the only sports I have ever been good at, happens to be volleyball and basketball. Any other sports I would try to play I'd end up humiliating myself - and harming both myself and anyone who stands to close.

When I finished putting my clothes in my beautiful sleek, white dressers. And my two closets. I then took a bag of bathroom nesecities and went to my bathroom to clean myself up after the day of travel. Being on a plane always washes me out. And the recycled air is not healthy for skin. I showered and when I was done I looked at my face in the mirror, as I brushed through my tangled damp hair. I looked different,paler from the light.

To be honest I have never really related well to many people to my age. I have my friends so I found my sort of niche in that crowd. But other than that maybe I guess I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my sister, who I was closer to than anyone else on this planet, was never in true harmony with me, never exactly on the same page. Sometimes I wondered, truly wondered if I was seeing things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing. Maybe it was as if there was a glitch in my brain.

But. The cause, didn't matter. All that truly mattered was the effect. And tomorrow would just be the beginning. I have always hated beginnings. The middle is much more Intriguing.

"Cassidy!" My mother called from her room. I sighed "coming mom." I called to her as I got up off of my bed.

"Yea mom?" I asked walking into her room.

"Why don't you go over to La Push, and have fun before you have to go to school tommorow?"

"Do I have to?"

"Yes."

I sighed. "Fine I'll go."

I go to my room and change into my mint green bathing suit, I put my hair into a ponytail and grabbed my phone and my beach towel. And I put on my sunglasses.

I get into my car and go over to La Push. I set up my beach towel on a nice area on the beach. I get comfortable and lay back on my beach towel. I relax as much as I can and calm all of my senses. That is until I get hit with a volleyball.

I hadn't noticed the volleyball game that had been created a few yards away from me. But apparently they were close enough that the volleyball was Able to hit me.

"Ow." I mutter softly even though it hurt my stomach a lot. I sit up and sigh. I turn my head slightly to see where the ball came from, and my gaze meets those of guys. A LOT of guys. Hot guys as a matter of a fact. I turn to the other side of me and pick up the ball. I stand up and turn to the other side to see one of the guys walking over to me. I sigh and start walking towards him. I pick up my sunglasses and look into his eyes while saying. "Here's your ball." He smiles a very bright smile and says " Hi, I'm Embry. Sorry you got hit with the volleyball, Brady doesn't know his own strength yet. And Paul just sucks at volleyball." I giggle for some reason. Maybe it's because he's cute or I'm nervous or even both. But I NEVER giggle. "I understand. Things happen. No problem. And I'm Cassidy." I say flashing my best smile. I finally give him the ball and turn around. I started to walk, but I'm stopped by Embry grabbing my hand. "Do you wanna play with us? Were down one player cause Seth is finishing school shopping." Embry says. I turn around. "No thanks." I say "If I beat you guys, which I will, you'll be mad." He laughs and says "How do you know you'll beat us?" I smile my best smile again and say "Your looking at the five time, all star, state champion, volleyball team captain." I try to turn around again. But he picks me up over his shoulder and says "have some faith in us. And your on my team."

We played a long game. And my team won three times out of three. Embry hugged me and picked me up again. "Embry, put me down! I do not like being picked up!" I scream at him, but he doesn't listen. He just keeps laughing. From the side of me I hear whose voice I've heard to be Jared's. "Embry, just out her down before she hates you." Jared says. "Nah, I'm good."Embry says still laughing. I hear a sigh which I assume to be Jared's. And then footsteps moving closer. I feel someone's hands around my waist and then a growl one that sounds like it would come from a dog. "I can put her down myself!" I heard Embry scream at Jared. I was so shocked and kind of scared that I just stayed quiet. Embry puts me down and says "sorry for yelling." He says smiling. "Whatever" I mumble walking away. "Wait! Cassidy!" Embry calls to me, but I just keep walking. I pick up my stuff and start walking to my car. I start to open the door when I hear someone behind me. I turn around. "Embry, leave me alone." I say. "Cassidy, I'm sorry I was acting weird. I don't know what got over me." He says even though I can clearly tell that he's lying. "Ok fine, I forgive you, just please leave me alone for right now Embry." I say getting annoyed. He hugs me, smiles and leaves. I sigh and get into my car.

I didn't sleep well that night, even after I was done crying. The constant clatter of the rain drops on the roof and windows wouldn't fade into the background. I pulled the fluffy blanket over my head and later on added my pillow as well. But I couldn't fall asleep until after midnight, when the rain finally settled into a quieter drizzle.

I got dressed in my best outfit for the first day of this new go horrifying school. I wore a burgundy skater dress with long sleeves, a faux leather light jacket (that I would put on before I left), burgundy knee high socks and black faux leather combat boots. For my hair I did a french braid and in the front I pulled out a small strand of hair and curled it. For my nails I just put on black nail polish. For accessories I wore burgundy sunglasses, on my iphone I had a phone case that said 'dress like your going to see your ex', the locket that my grandmother gave me before she passed (Melody dropped it off with my dad last night before I went to sleep) and on the inside it had a picture of a wolf on one side and the other it had me. earrings that said fuck this and a necklace that was heart shaped and said fuck you. I thought those were appropriate for the occasion.

Breakfast with my mother was quiet and uneventful. She wished me good luck at school. I thanked her, knowing her luck was wasted. Good luck tended to avoid me at all cost. I had a tiny scar on my forehead to prove it.

My mom left first to go to the hospital, where she worked as a doctor. After she left, I sat at the dining room table. Nothing had changed about this house. No one has lived in it for about five and a half years. This house was in my moms family since they came to live hear about 200 years ago. So it's old, but there have been renovations done to make it a little updated. Over the fireplace still stood pictures of our family my grandmother had kept over the years first was a picture of my mother and father on there wedding day, next was a picture of my parents holding Raina at the hospital the day she was born, next was me in the hospital with my parents the day I was born and the was Melody in the hospital with my parents when she was born. After that was picture of Raina, Melody and me every year of school we had been in before grandma died.

It was impossible to be in this house, it brings back so many memory's. And I just don't like it.

I didn't want to go to school, let alone be early. But I just couldn't bring myself it stay in the house anymore. I donned on my leather jacket - and headed out the door.

It was drizzling still as I left, but obviously not enough to soak me.

Inside my car was nice it had the smell of oranges. And I loved the smell of oranges. Maybe not the taste. But defiantly the smell. The seats also faintly smelled like peppermint. The engine started quickly and smoothly, to my relief.

Finding the school wasn't difficult. It was about a fifth-teen minute drive and if I was walking probably a thirty minute walk. It was a very nice looking school. Big, considering it's lack of students.

I had parked in the front of the first building. It had a sign over the door that read

'FRONT OFFICE'. No one else had been parked there, so I assumed it was off limits, but I think it would be better to get directions rather than to circle around the school like a complete idiot.

I waited in the car for a while, I walk into the front office I walk to the closest desk and ask a lady bright red velvet hair.

" Hi... Um I'm Cassidy Blake and I'm new, obviously. And i was just wondering where the student parking was so that I could get to the main building." I say with a confused look on my face.

" Actually. Your mother called a while ago and said you were coming early. So your guide for the day had to come in early today so we told him we'd call him down when were ready. So I'll get him." she says walking out.

I stand and at her dest and lean forward on it a little and started texting my friends from my old home.

I stand there for a long time And I finally hear The door open I Turned around as the lady with the red velvet hair says. "Cassidy Blake. I'd like you to meet Seth Clearwater. You are in all the same classes together, and he will be your guide."

When i see him all I can think is 'wow' I put on my smile. Held out my hand and say " hi Seth. I'm Cassidy. Nice to meet you."

He took my hand looks me in the eye. Smiles. And says "Nice to meet you."

This was the first time I met Seth Clearwater.

so again this was the first technical chapter in 'Everything Changes' and I don't know if any of you guys who read it noticed but it was similar to the preface in the first 'Twilight' book and what I'm doing is trying to make it similar obviously there's going to be a lot of differences. But there's still similarities. So yea, anyway 2nd disclaimer time.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TWILIGHT SAGA WHICH IS OWNED BY STEPHENIE MEYER! BUT I DO OBVIOUSLY OWN ANY OC'S SUCH AS MY MAIN CHARACTER CASSIDY BLAKE