A/N: So I know that this chapter could definitely be better. I promise you that next chapter will DEFINITELY be a lot better. I hope you enjoy this chapter though. Please review. ) Feel free to pitch in ideas and give me tips for the future chapters.

Chapter One
Decisions

"Hope Elizabeth Cullen! Get down here right now!" Isabella Swan yelled from the bottom of the stairs. It was going on seven o'clock in the morning and Hope was going to definitely be late for school. The fourteen year old teenager groaned and called back, "I'm coming!" Tiredly, Hope forced herself out of bed. She had been up most of last night finishing a family tree project at the last minute. As she walked around her room to her closet, she glimpsed at the project. Her mother's side was full. Her father's side barely had anything. Her mother's side had pictures. Her father's side didn't; just names. "Here's to you, Dad," Hope grumbled as she pulled a pair of jeans out from her closet. "Hope!" Hope heard her mother call for her. "You're going to be late!"

Hope groaned to herself as she finished getting dressed. "I'm coming!" shouted Hope as she pulled on her shoes and grabbed the poster. "God, Mom," whined Hope as she made her way down the stairs. "Could you be any louder? I don't think all of New York heard you." Bella rolled her eyes and grabbed her car keys off the nearby table. "Remember," Bella told Hope as they climbed into Bella's Mercedes. "I'm picking you up early so you can finish packing. Your plane leaves at seven for Forks." Hope nodded as she stared at the poster on her lap. "I'll join you in two days."

"Huh?" Hope asked confused. She barely heard anything that her mother had told her.

"Hope, have you been listening to anything I just said?" Bella scolded Hope. The teenage girl slouched in her seat in hopes of avoiding her mother's deadly glare. "I'll pick you up at 1:30 so you can finish packing for Forks. Your plane leaves at seven. Carly and I will join you and the twins in two days," Bella repeated for her daughter.

"Mom, my birthday is in three days. I'll be fifteen," Hope began. She chewed on her bottom lip, nervously. She didn't know how to speak to her mother about the coming subject. "Don't you think it's about time that I meet my father? Or that you at least tell him about me? I really don't want to go through my entire life with just one parent." Bella stopped in front of Bell Academy and turned off the car. She turned her body to face her fourteen year old daughter. A look of determination was on Hope's face. For a second, Bella swore she saw Edward's personality in Hope; as if looks weren't enough. "I went through my life with just one parent, Hope," Bella said.

Hope Cullen rolled her eyes and replied, "But you knew both of your parents. Look at this poster! I only know the names of my father's family. I don't know anything else. For instance, what does Aunt Alice look like? I don't know! I only know what my father looks like. He looks just like me! What is Uncle Emmett's personality like? I couldn't tell ya!" Bella stared at her daughter with wide eyes. She couldn't believe the conversation she was having with her child. "Calm down, Hope," Bella soothed. "When the time is right you'll meet him but right now there are things about your father and his family that you don't know about."

"So tell me," Hope demanded. "What don't I know about my father?" Bella sighed and looked away. She couldn't tell her daughter that she was a dhampir. She definitely couldn't tell her daughter that her father's family wasn't his original family and that they're all vampires. Hope would definitely think she was crazy. What's worse is that if Hope ever found her father, he wouldn't be a thirty three year old man. Instead, Hope's father was now a 121 year old vampire, who appeared to be a seventeen year old boy. That definitely wouldn't go over well with Hope. "I can't, Hope," Bella told her daughter. "Now's not the right time."

With a huff of angry breath, Hope climbed out of the vehicle and before walking into the school, she said to her mother, "Fine! But I'll find out sooner or later." The car door slammed causing Bella to jump in her seat. She didn't like when Hope was angry with her. All hell usually broke loose.

"Why are our mothers sending us off to Forks?" whined fourteen year old, Cassie Newman. "It's always raining there." Hope and Ryan nodded in agreement with Cassie's statement. "On the bright side," Hope told her two friends. "It's near some of the best shopping places. Like Olympia and Seattle." Cassie squealed in excitement as they waited to board the plan for Forks, Washington. Ryan groaned at this little piece of information. One thing he knew that would become of him during spring break was that he would be the one carrying the bags. "Has Bella told you about your father yet, Hope?" Ryan asked as he handed his plane ticket over.

"No," Hope snapped. "She says I can't meet him right now. This morning she said there are things I don't know about the Cullens family. Things that I can't know." Hope and Cassie handed over their tickets. Soon all three teenagers were boarding the plane and taking their seats. "You deserve to know," Cassie told Hope. "He's your dad." Hope nodded as she looked out the window of the plane. She longed to meet her father. She wished that she was going to Forks to see him, not to see her uncle Jacob or her grandfather Charlie. That's when it hit her. She had a brilliant idea on how to find her father. "I got an idea!" Hope exclaimed as she quickly turned back to face Cassie and Ryan. "My mom says he's either in Forks or Seattle. I know that if we go down to La Push, my Uncle Jacob will help us find him!"

Ryan looked at Hope as if she was crazy. "If Bella or our mother find out what you're up to, we'll all be grounded for life," Ryan whined. He only received eye rolls from the two girls. "I'm in," Cassie told Hope. "If you're right about your uncle, from what I've heard, he can never turn you down. Just bat your eyelashes a bit and tell him he's the best uncle in the world." Hope and Cassie laughed together while Ryan groaned. Hope was definitely glad that she had Cassie as a friend. She always came up with the best ideas.

Hope smiled to herself and leaned back in her seat as the plane took off. She couldn't wait to land in Forks and start the search. She had a lot of planning to do before her mother and Carly arrived in Forks. She'd be sure to have her grandfather drive her down to La Push tomorrow afternoon.