R&R please!
EPOV
I arrived in Seattle late afternoon, welcomed by a very grumpy looking man and of course... rain. Uncle Howard seemed to be in quiet a bad mood and didn´t really make an efford to hide it. Hm looks like I can´t really blame him, first of all my mom called him literally in the middle of the night almost begging that he would let me live with him. Second I haven´t seen him since my aunt Jenny´s funeral 4 years ago and we didn´t really have a close bond before then. But even worse he´s the police chief of Forks and probably not really thrilled to have his „addicted" nephew live under his roof.
„Hello young man",were his first words and we shook hands both equally feeling awkward.
„So you´re giving your mom a hard time, he? Well you´ll see things are going to be different here understand?", all I could do was mumbling a small „Yes sir" ,and then I hung my head adding „I never ment to hurt her. Please believe that."
Howard seemed to be surprised by that but didn´t pry. I followed him to his..oh god police car(!) and shot him an sarcastic look. „Do you want me to sit in the back?" We´ve both been a bit stiff until then but that little joke seemed to ease both of us. He just chuckled and told me to take my seat in the front. On our way to Forks the only thing I could see was green, green and again green. Wow that´s...different. When we arrived in Forks I could tell this town wasn´t bigger than 2000 inhabitants, so that´s not too bad after all, school should be okay then. I started thinking of me being at school, having one or two friends...that would actually be nice. Suddenly I realised we´ve already stopped in front of an old house, uncle Howard´s and now as well my house, and he was eying me suspiciously. Oh great I probably looked to him like a crackpot, smiling at my what it seemed to him „punishment" .
„Alright kiddo I´m just going to show you your room and then I´ll have to go cause my shift starts in 20 minutes. Do you think you can cope?" he asked with concern in his voice. I nodded my head now lightly annoyed, it´s not like I´m going to crave my drugs or cry for my mommy I´m not a baby. He must have sensed my being tense, that´s when the mumbling in my head started again. „Okay lets go." was all I could say without the strain in my voice giving me away. The last thing I wanted right now was him thinking I`m on cold turkey. The house was small but had enough space for Howard (who was still single) and a second person. It did almost look the way it did when aunt Jenny was still here, the only thing added was a bigger TV and lots of pictures of her. We were going to share the bathroom but I didn´t mind and my own room was just big enough for me and the few things I brought with me from home. I would be okay here, I could feel it right then. Howard said quickly bye and that he would check on me when he got home. There was an akward silence between us than he mumbled something like „Hope it´s going to work out kiddo, I really do..." but I couldn´t be sure so I just gave him what I hoped would be a reassuring halfsmile. I started to unpack my stuff knowing I would have enough time tomorrow to see the town. I got ready for bed exhausted from the day and the good bye and all my emotions. When I finally fell asleep I felt a strange mix of sorrow,hope and peace..it hasn´t been so quiet in my head for some time.
The next day wasn´t that exciting. Howard took the day off so he could show me the town. We had a terrible tasting breakfast with burned eggs and I mentally made a note for myself to start learning cooking now! After some small comments about my lack of appetite he told me he had a surprise for me. I knew what it was probably a car for me to ride to school, I knew it wouldn´t be flashy or anything but that didn´t prepare me for the car I did receive....a volvo 740! Oh god, I´m not going to make any friends with that car..it´s not like I´m a material person or anything it´s just...I´m going to be the laughing stock of the whole school with that ehr...car. Ah never mind there are more important things in the world right? I thanked my uncle quickly, not showing how I really felt about the car and he seemed to buy that I was happy with it. We made a roundand Forks was just the way I expected it to be – small. We´d seen all off it by noon so I decided to cook some dinner ( the recipe seemed to be easy enough: lasagne) . Unsurprisingly it did not taste really great but okay enough to be completely finished off by us. We decided to watch a football game in the evening, not that I really care for that sport but it seemed to be the right thing to do regarding Howards feelings. At ten I said night and went to bed nervous about what was going to follow tomorrow- a new start or just another glimpse of hell?
I´m going to post the rest of the chapter next time, but I´m in quite a hurry right now...college is waiting =/
Ps. google the volvo...it´s hilarious =)
poor eddi (no offence to those who actually like the car sorry ^^)