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Chapter 1
I'm Here to Help.
Seattle, Washington. My current location, it was raining, No surprise there. As I walked down and through the airport I grabbed my luggage carrying it towards the waiting area. The doors of the air port opened and closed bringing the cold chilling air inside.
I still shivered through my 3 layers of long sleeves, and jackets. I already could tell this wasn't fun. Things would be different, but I was here for reason not to run away with some fiancée, not to study the wet wild life of Washington. Only to comfort my only cousin who I haven't spoken to since I was five and she was four.
Charlie, my uncle, still hasn't even given the reason of why Isabella was such in a deep depression in the first place, and why he called me of all people. Probably so another Isabella would be around the house who is happier. Great.
Why did I say yes so easily? If I was even like my mother I would have been stubborn, maybe I was so desperate to escape Sacramento hot sticky, weird weather, and to live somewhere...simpler.
Outside the doors I saw a man walking in, smiling ear to ear. "Hey there Adele!" he said laughing, picking up my bags. He hasn't changed a bit.
"Hey Uncle Charlie." I gave him a smile as we walked out. I would correct him on my name but I just let him use it.
"Bells is going to be really happy to see you here." he said putting my luggage in the cruiser, I leaned against the cruiser looking at him, he was decked out in his police anterior. He was the same old Charlie when I was little.
"Yeah hopefully." He closed the trunk and opened my door and I climbed into the war car.
We made it smoothly out of the exit, and the rain came down. I sighed looking out; Charlie said how the weather would usually lighten up. Ha, I doubt it. It was a quiet drive, kind of glad it was.
"So how's my sister?" he asked, I turned towards him a bit and tucked my hair behind my ear.
"She's um fine I guess, you know her always busy." we both laughed mostly him.
As we pulled up to the house I remember vaguely, I saw some construction people leaving. I stared at him questionably. He parked the car, and I quickly got out sprinting to grab my bags before he did; only to find out he got to them quicker.
We walked to the front door and walked in, everything was the same, and it was scary how same it was. "Bella is with the Cullens, some friends of hers." I nodded, he told me over the phone about the Cullens how I should try to get to know them a bit.
"Oh okay." Shrugging wearily.
I followed him up the stairs, I thought I would be sharing a room with Bella but across the hall, there were now four doors not three. "Well I added a guest room so you would be more comfortable."
Wow. I wasn't use to this happening. "Uh thanks just, I wow, I really appreciate it." he smiled and mumbled a thank you. He opened the door to show a semi medium sized room, green walls, and a desk with a bed. Nothing flashy, it was perfect.
He put my stuff down, as I walked in, hands in my pocket, I looked around then peered out the wide window that looked out through the woods. Then to the second medium sized window that peered down the street and the drive way. "Well I hope you like the err colors."
I nodded. "I do, thanks Uncle Charlie." my lips lifted into another smile. He was about to turn out when I asked. "Why am I here?" I wasn't known for bluntness but this seemed like a perfect time too.
He turned and looked down. "Bella, she needs a friend, she needs someone who aren't the Cullens." He put acid on the name Cullens.
"So I am here because Bella can't make friends?" I sat on the bed. "There has to be something more than that."
He groaned and nodded. "Bella had a boyfriend named Edward, and she really liked him, and his sister was her best friend and both of them recently died." I became silent, and my head fell down a dark curtain forming around me.
"I didn't know..." he nodded.
"Just be easy with her, patient." I nodded, then he was gone closing the door behind him.
I tossed my body more on the bed, covering my head with the pillow. Why were things so complicated? I shut my eyes tightly wanting to be gone but nothing helped. I got up and started putting things away, and getting myself settled.
As day I think turned to night, I had my room set up, few pictures hung up on the walls, laptop plugged in with phone, and clothes stuffed away in the old pine dresser. My ears caught a sound of some old vehicle pulling up, and a soft hum of another car.
I walked out of my room my sneakers hitting the wood silently and the door open to Bella's faint voice. I stood on top of the staircase, she stopped in her tracks looking at me, and a blonde girl was behind her staring at me.
"Bells this is Adele, your cousin she is now living with us." Bella looked at me and some look came across her eyes, she remembered me.
"Oh hey, Addie." good she remembered my nick name I smiled. Then I looked fully at Bella, she was pale, very thin, brown hair seemed beautiful yet so dead, she looked dead and I realized why Charlie was worried.
"Hi." I said simply.
"Uh this is um Rosalie Hale. She is one of my friends; I didn't know you were going to be-"
"It's fine." I said cutting her off. "I have things to do anyways." I smiled I walked down stairs and faced her; I was just trying to grip of what in god's name happen to her.
"Well it's nice to see you-" I cut her off again with a hug. Then I pulled away. "What was that for?" she said obviously not use to that.
"I can't hug my own cousin?" I laughed and patted her head. "Well I'm calling it a night." I looked at Bella. "Night Bella, Night Charlie." I paused and looked at the stunning blonde. "Night Rosalie." she nodded her head.
I made my way up to the bathroom, and quickly got into the shower imagining myself back in California nothing seemed to work. The sweet smell of vanilla from my shampoo filled the bathroom, the warm water washed over me, and my muscles relaxed in some ways.
After the shower I pulled on an old camp shirt and gym shorts. As I made my way quietly out the bathroom, I heard soft voices coming from Bella's room. Quickly I slipped into my room silently, shutting the door, and clicking the lights on.
I tossed my bathroom necessities on my dresser and then made my way to window to close it, as I peered into the darkness of the night I saw the shimmering glossy red BMW parked into our drive. My mouth dropped a bit, damn they must be rich.
The window closed swiftly, and I put the curtain over it. I made my way to the second window, the largest that faced the entire forest, I stared at it a bit, and I could see the lining of the tall forest green trees.
My body shivered deeply and I closed the curtains quickly, terror slowly creeping up into me. The floors quietly creaked as I walked towards my heater that my mom forced me to have when I got here. I plugged it in and put it on max.
I grabbed another brown box that I brought filled with pictures of my family and put them on the dresser suddenly my old Nokia phone rang, I remembered how I begged my mom to give me the white one with the pink dialing board. Ew, that was my girly stage.
I flipped the phone open and said "Hello?" I shuffled with pictures, placing them neatly.
"Hey sweetie!" said my mom, her voice sounded light, and happy. I balanced the phone with my shoulder and ear as I tossed the box away.
"Oh hey mom." I bite my lip and started organizing my dresser. "How is Sacramento?"
"Lonely! Oh so lonely! Greg has been working late, but your little sister wants to talk to you!" Great Sara, I was dreading to talk to the sweet six year old that I left without saying anything. "Hi Addie!" said a little voice.
"Ha, hey Sara have you been good to mom?" I asked making my voice change so it wasn't so…teenager like.
"Yes I have! But when you gonna come home? We miss you." My body paused and I looked down. I then held the phone with my hand, leaning on the dresser.
"You guys get to come down from my graduation when school starts, then we will see each other." I said slowly weaving away the fact I may not even go back to California because I was stuck here.
"Awwww okay! I miss you Addie!" I laughed quietly, a tear slipped down my cheek.
"I miss you too." I heard shuffling of the phone, then a series of coughing. "Mom are you sick again?" I laughed a bit.
"Yes I am, I work with preschooler all day how can you not get sick." She laughed soulfully. "So tell me about Forks, how is Bella, how's Charlie?" I shook my head, walking to my desk, sitting in the rolly chair.
"Well Forks, its green, really, really green." She laughed a bit. "Bella is Bella you know." I bit my bottom lip thinking if I should tell her.
"Is she alright…Charlie said she was very depressed."
"I don't know, I saw her today she looked well not Bella. She just looked bad." I said whispering into the phone. "It's about something with a boy named Edward, and her best friend and him dying something like that."
"Oh dear, tell her I send lots of love!" she said as I heard more shuffling on her end.
"Okay I will, and Charlie, he's Charlie."
"Ha, okay sweetie, well I have to go and get Miss Sara asleep. I love you!" she said happily.
"Love ya too." And she hung up, I snapped my embarrassing white cell phone close, I closed my eyes tightly, I missed them so much but this is what I had to do. I swung out of bed and towards the door, tossing my phone swiftly on the bed.
My feet hit the stairs, and in the kitchen I saw Bella and Rosalie. Bella was getting something to eat, and Rosalie was watching her. "Sup." I said as I got in.
"Uh nothing much." Bella said quietly, and Rosalie over all ignored me. I grabbed some cold pizza and Gatorade and headed up stairs.
"Night again!" I called from upstairs and I head Bella softly reply. I got into my room taking a huge bite of pizza; I clicked my lap top on and typed into the search bar Forks High School. A page came up and my hell was there.
School in a new city was bad enough but school in a new town where probably everyone already knows you and you don't know them is really bad. I sighed heavily and finished off my pizza and drinking the blue Gatorade.
My hands quickly typed in depression, and I started reading about depressions in the Forks Medical Center. One of the quotes from a doctor seemed to spook me a bit. "Depression comes and goes, but sometimes when you lose someone, like how I lost my daughter and son the depression stayed but for the people who were close to them hurt the most."
The quote was by a Dr. Carlisle Cullen, I scrolled down more, and my eyes started to get heavy, and I slowly made my way to my new cold bed.
I'm not going to lie I am terrified for tomorrow, scared of what will people think of the new girl maybe I can pass invisible for heck sake maybe I can dress like Bella and no one will talk to me so much.
I turned over to my side, and pressed the pillow over my head slipping into a restless sleep.
Thanks for reading :D ~Aci