AN: Hello there and welcome to the first proper chapter of our fic.

This is written from my POV and I am Rachael :D, obviously this follows on from the Introduction. Once again I would like to warn you of swearing, I do believe there will be some in here as it was written by me :D Apart from that I don't have much else to say. So enjoy fine ladies and gentlemen :)

God...?

"How depressing is this place??" I said to Ellie who was stood on the porch with me looking a Katie buckled into the back seat of our newly acquired 4th hand SUV we bought for $500. The black paint had begun to rust around the wheel arches and my eyes darted between the dark grey clouds hanging in the sky and the squishy green moss covered trees."I like it" We chuckled as I headed towards the car. I looked back at the house. It was a faded white colour with yet another green lawn that we wanted to make unique so we stuck in some hippy colour windmills to brighten the place up. It didn't work and the slick concrete drive I trudged down was aptly depressing. If you really looked the house slightly tilted to the left but that didn't matter to us. I reached the passenger side door of the car and opened it, ready to burst Katie's bubble and suffer the consequences. "Katie, it's like 5:30 at night. Your gonna wanna go shoe shopping, me and Ellie want to get some books!" I said very matter of factly. "We're in Forks luv; to get all that we'll need to drive to Seattle it will be like 10 when we get there." I stated.

"But I wanna go shopping" I unfastened her seatbelt.

"We'll go first thing tomorrow and I swear if you buy anymore Reese's Pieces you will be sleeping on the drive." We giggled and she got out and we made our way back into the house. I sighed in relief.

Outside it was just an ordinary house. A white walled, red roofed house floating a mushy sea of green with an old SUV (Named Lestat) parked on the drive. There were 7 rooms spread over two floors; a living room, kitchen and toilet downstairs and three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. The kitchen was fully fitted with cupboards, which from the moment they arrived had instantly been filled with the sickly sweet greatness that was Reese's pieces, a big bulky black cooker that although she never planed on using Katie had instantly fallen in love with it and named it Alphonse Elric, a sink and finally a fridge. The living room contained a red couch and a seriously small TV, people may say size doesn't matter but when it comes to TV's it sure as hell should! Upstairs there were three bedrooms one belonging to each of the new occupants of the house, one at the back which I had claimed, that overlooked most of the quaint town of Forks. Zeppie then fell in love with the smallest room of the house, which suited Katie fine because she didn't think she could deal with. We reached the house and I slammed the door behind me. I started towards the kitchen ready to make up what I had bought in the airport in England for dinner before we went shopping again the next day. I yanked out Ellie's Panini, My pasta salad and Katie's duck wrap. Of course I had to stuff it in my hand luggage. I left them on the counter and headed to make myself comfy for the night in front of the couch.

The others filed in behind me and sat on the couch while I leant against the arm and we began munching and chatting about our new lives in Forks. "This is gonna be the best time of our lives." I said and for once we all agreed on something. I had a feeling this was gonna turn out good for us all. We carried on devouring our packet dinners and chatting. I got up to walk to the stairs. There hung a full length mirror with detailed scrolling and I caught a glance of myself. I wished I was paler. Maybe Forks would grant me that wish. We, unlike most girls loved paleness. We then said our goodnights in view of the 20 hours we had been up and the flight, our exhaustion had caught up with us. I trudged into my room my eyelids heavy and was asleep within a minute.

As dawn broke, which was around 8 in the morning over here I woke to a beautiful grey haze and busied myself immediately with unpacking and planning out the route to Seattle. My belongings now scattered throughout the room in an orderly fashion, I sat on my bed and smiled. I decided that by the time I had been in the bathroom and dressed the others would just be rising. I was right. It must have been 9:30. I sat and stared out of our front window at the drive the wind gently blowing my cheerful hippie windmills that where embedded in the sea of mush that was our lawn. I smiled from ear to ear as I heard the bustle of my friends in the background. "Shopping!" I screamed.

"Shopping!" I heard being bellowed from upstairs. I giggled merrily and didn't move until Katie poked me repeatedly in the head while bouncing up and down saying "Can we go now?" I laughed and replied

"Yes" She squeed and dived out the door towards the car. I grabbed the keys and followed leaving Ellie to come out last and lock up. We all got in and did up our belts. Katie had taken the front seat today, much to Zeppie's relief and much to my despair. "Next time poke me in the arm Katie my head is ticklish!" I reminded her

"Freak" She retaliated and as I fired up the engine she immediately put John Barrowman on. I smiled and drove on.

The drive to Seattle was a good 3 hours and we got there at about lunch. Zeppie had busied herself with a book and Katie read some printed out fan fic slash that she occasionally read out and me and Zeppie eww'd at in the most graphic places. I was quite happy to let my thoughts wander anywhere they felt like. I announced "Welcome to Seattle!" They both looked up and smiled.

"How did you not get lost? We have only been in America 1 day?!" Katie asked.

"It's a talent" I smirked. We all made our plans to go separate ways after we had scuttled round the Wal Mart doing our food shop. Katie had a dyspraxia fit bumping into a perfect pyramid of toilet roll with her hip as we where carrying out our shop. I dropped my bags and managed to save the display before it crashed to the ground. "Fuck's sake Katie!" She laughed

"Sorry, at least it didn't hurt this time." She giggled as Zeppie and I shot her a look of disdain. I collected my bags and we made our way back to the car where we dumped our food in the boot of our SUV. We planned to meet back at the car in 1 hour as Ellie wanted to hit the 'common' bookstores and Katie indulged her shoe obsession. I went to hit the Classic Book Shop I knew was in the mall. I wasn't used to American style pedestrianism and people just walked straight into me looking at me like I was from mars. I was blocked by 3 women having a chat in the middle of the walkway. I hated that.

"Excuse me!" I mumbled, they looked so shocked and stepped aside. I can only assume nobody says that in cities in America.

I stood in front of what must have been the biggest book store I had ever seen in my life. I was small I know, but I felt like a dwarf! I strode towards the vintage doors and pushed my way in. Rows of mahogany bookshelves stretched in front of me. I saw out of the corner of my eye a 30 something year old dressed like a Goth. I knew exactly what Katie would say about her and her piercings. I smirked and headed towards the isle labelled 'A'. I found the book I left back home 'A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.' The only book I had come to purchase. As I reached out and pulled it off the shelf I was greeted by a perfect pale face on the other side. I took a step back in shock. "Afternoon, sorry to scare you." He said his voice like silky chocolate. I tried to regain my composure but couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"Afternoon" I stuttered. "It's quite alright" I pouted quickly looking down. Had I met God? For a moment my mind actually considered that option. I rapidly realised I was being a knob and tried to dismiss the thought but it was all too good to be true. When I looked up he'd gone. I gazed down at my book wondering if I'd finally lost it. Quickly I headed to pay and began marching back to where we were to meet, day dreaming.

He was gorgeous, Maybe even God, I purposely stood on my own toe trying to shock myself out of this behaviour

Either way, He would be mine.

Edit 5.2.09: Since Rach is very bad mannered I figured I (Katie) Should say thank you all very very very much for reading and reviewing our first chapter. And thank you for reading our second chapter and Rachael's first chapter. Hope you enjoyed it, please review :D