"Misty, you have the floor."
I gulped and stood in front of the room. Arianne gave me a thumbs up.
"So," I began, "most of you don't know much about my past, well, the thing is, that I don't know my past either. I have amnesia."
I waited for questions, but none came.
"Jeez you all are quieter than Jacob after you tell him he smells like a dog."
"Misty, who's Jacob," Leigh Anne asked.
"I have no clue. Sometimes I shoot my mouth off and things fly out that I have no clue what they mean, that's what amnesia is. From some of the stuff we have gathered from random verbal vomit, I think my mothers name is Renee, and my best girl friend is an Alice, then a Jacob who smells like a dog needs to be thrown in there someplace. And when I hear the name Edward Cullen, I hear a velvet voice saying I love you."
"That's so romantic," Tara said in the back of the room. "Edward Cullen is totally to die for."
I smiled.
"So," Kaarin asked, "what can we do to help you figure out who you are?"
"Well, Kaar, Ari and I are heading to Washington for fall break, I said something about a town called Folks, but I couldn't find it anywhere, but I did find a town called Forks, Washington. If some of you would like to skip Aspen and come with Arianne and I, you are more than welcome to come along. I don't expect to find much, though."
"You have to be positive, Misty," Resa said.
"Okay," the president, Heather said. "Who thinks we should skip Aspen and go to Forks, Washington?"
I wasn't expecting this, but every single hand in the room was raise.
"Then it's agreed. Fall break is in Washington this year. We need a fundraiser to come up with the money."
"Already on it," Tara called from the back of the room. I went and set back down.
Ended up that only five of us could go, so it was Kaarin, Resa, Tara, Arianne and I that went. Arianne and I funded our own way to Washington, but the other three raised enough money to go. It's funny how it ended up being the five of us, we all pledged together, but maybe that was pre-determined, maybe the chapter wanted the five of us to go together, after all, you where normally closer to your pledge sisters than any other sister in the house.
"So," Kaarin asked, "where to?"
We had just landed in Seattle, and where getting off the plane. I'm sure the other passengers where glad to see us go. We had chattered the whole flight.
"Car rental, I rented a four door five seat car, it's gonna be a tight squeeze though," Tara said, she had been placed in charge of making reservations.
"There," I said as I spotted the car rental kiosk. We started our way towards the kiosk.
Tara got to the front of the group, I was slightly behind her, the clerk looked up and smiled. She was about our age.
"Welcome to Seattle, how may I help you? Do I know you?" The clerk looked at me.
"Unless you are from the east, then probably not." I read her name tag, Jessica Stanley.
"Oh, sorry, you look like a friend of mine who disappeared three years ago."
"Where did she disappear from?"
"Forks, it's about three and a half hours from here. Where are you all heading."
"Forks, actually," Tara said, I was reeling from that fact there was a missing girl from Forks, who looked like me. "My sister moved there, and she's been begging me to visit so my sisters and I are on an adventure to see the great Forks, Washington."
"Edward Cullen doesn't live there anymore, he moved when he got the acting job."
"I'm sorry, I didn't even know Edward Cullen lived there," Tara continued.
"Sorry, Edward doesn't want Forks invaded because he use to live there, and his family still does. He's been so depressed since Bella went missing. Opps, sorry didn't mean to tell you about his personal life, it's just hard to see a friend in pain."
"That's okay, I understand." Tara said, and Jessica finally gave us the key to a car and directions to where we where staying in Forks. We started walking towards where she said the car was parked.
"Hey," Tara nudged my shoulder. "Do you think you are this girl Bella?"
"I don't know, Tara, maybe, but can we keep this on the down low. It's weird though, I hear I love you in a velvet voice when I hear the name Edward Cullen, and now I find out he's from the town we are investigating."
"Don't think to much into it, Misty. We don't need to get your hopes up yet. Oh, and my sister really did just move here, good cover story, huh?"
"Yea, that's great." I said, not really thinking.
Three and a half hours and one whinny backseat later, we pulled into Tara's sisters house.
"Thank god, I never want to be a sardine again!" Arianne complained.
"You and me both sista," Resa said.
"What's for supper? Is there even a McDonalds in this town?" Kaarin asked.
"I don't think so, maybe my sister has supper ready for us?" Tara said. She ran up to the front door, and barely knocked before a women in her late twenties opened the door.
"Karen," Tara squealed. They hugged than introductions began.
"Guys, this is my sister Karen Marks, Karen, this is Resa, Arianne, Misty, and Kaarin."
"Hi, I wasn't sure when you guys would get in, so I didn't cook, but there is a nice diner up the street."
We nodded and all set out on foot for the diner.
"So, Karen," I asked, "what brought you to Forks?"
"Oh, I'm the sheriff of this town now. The old one retired to Arizona I believe."
"I think that's where my mother is from," I spouted off.
"Really, do you like it there?"
"Uh… I don't remember."
"Oh, Karen there's something I should tell you," Tara said, she launched into the story about my amnesia, and how my verbal vomit had lead us to Forks.
"Oh, I'm sorry, is there anything I can do?"
"Maybe, can you see about missing people from here?"
"Okay, you get to see one tonight at the diner, there is a section of the wall dedicated to finding Isabella Swan, she disappeared three years ago."
We made it to the diner, and I saw a wall dedicated to the missing girl. I ordered dinner, then went to look at the wall. There wasn't a picture, but she was well loved by her friends and family.
Bella, come home safely. Mike Newton
I miss you, Bells, love your dad.
Bella, where are you. I need my shopping partner back. Alice Cullen
Bella, my heart was once in full bloom, but now it's dead, just beating, no emotion. E.C.
I wondered who E.C. was. He sounded as though he loved this girl Bella. I wanted to weep for their love. But I composed myself quickly. I found a date that claimed Bella as missing. It was after I was found.
"Misty," Kaarin yelled from our table. "Feeding time."
I laughed as I headed back to the table. Forks didn't know what was about to hit them.
"Misty, did you call your folks when you landed?" Arianne asked.
"Oh, no, they are probably worrying."
I snatched my phone out of my pocket and saw three missed calls. All from my parents. I quickly called them back.
"Hello, Misty?"
"Hey, mom, sorry, my phone was off. We landed and made it to Forks."
"Okay, I will let you go, give the girls our love. Love you."
"Love you to." I hung up, not wanting to tell her of the missing girl, who somebody had already said I looked like.
"Mom and dad send their love, guys."
"Oh, how sweet. Misty I wish I had parents like yours."
"I wish I knew my real family. John and Mara are great though. I never told you guys that they uprooted my sister and moved to be close to me when I went to college."
"Chow time," Arianne said, trying to get me off the subject of families. I smiled gratefully at her.
We all dug in, and soon we where stuffed. Then the commotion started.
"Hey, Linda," I turned to find an attractive boy, just a few years younger than myself coming into the diner flanked by two other boys. All three where muscular, and dark skinned. Resa had said there was a Native American Reservation near by, and I wondered if these boys weren't from the reservation.
"Hi, Jake, Quill, Embry. If you're going to cause any trouble just leave now, I don't want a repeat of last week."
"We will be nice, brought you some of Harry Clearwater's homemade fish fry. Oh and Charlie called, said to say hi. He says he sure misses Forks, but he can't stand to be here with memories of her everywhere."
"Well, next time he calls tell him to give me a ring, I sure miss him."
"I'm gonna go look at the wall," Kaarin said, and the other three agreed. I let them go for a moment, and watched the banter between the waitress and the boy named Jake. Then he saw Kaarin at the wall, and his attitude changed.
I got up and went to the wall as well, ready to back my sister should something happen.
"How sad, this E.C. looks like he loved Bella a lot. So many people miss this Bella, it's sad."
"Get away from that wall," I heard the boy named Jake shout at us, Kaarin turned and gave the boy a glare that would bring most fraternity guys to their knees, didn't even faze Jake though.
"Why should we?" Tara asked.
"It's public domain, we have as much right as you do to look at this wall," Resa said.
"You didn't know Bella, she was my best friend, the person I could turn to most in my life. You have no right to read what her friends and family write about her. She was the most amazing person to live, and she's gone." His two friends came up behind him and pulled him out of the diner. He glanced at me as he turned away, but didn't say anything.
"Wow, people must have loved this Bella."
"They sure did," our waitress, Linda said. "She was one in a million. She could light up a room just by stepping in it. Then she disappered, gone with out a trace. Her '04 Camero was found north of LA, where she was scheduled to stop. There was a deer carcass in front of the car, skid marks on the road, but no body and no Bella. Some hope she is still alive, others have given up hope."
"Where was she going," I asked.
"Phoenix, her mother had cancer, and she wanted to be close to help her mother, while she was sick. Unfortunately, the cancer got the best of Bella's mother. She passed away about six months ago. Bella's father realized how serious it was a moved to help Bella's mother about a year ago. He refuses to come back to Forks now. To many memories of Bella."
I felt tears running from my eyes, Bella's father must be heart broken. First he lost his daughter, then his daughters mother. Even if they hadn't been in love when she passed away, they must have been close since he moved to be closer to her, and help her through a trying time.
"Bella's friends that still live here, guard this wall, that's why Jake was so mad, he doesn't like anybody looking at this wall that didn't know her, and Edward is even worse. Bella and Edward where close, some thought they where secretly dating. He would wait for her when she was editing something at school, and she would wait for him after the football game. After she disappeared, Edward fell into a great depression. Nothing could make him surface, not his family or his friends, he stopped playing football, and started concentrating on getting away from this town. He moved to LA, near where Bella's car was found. Then he was discovered by a talent agent. His name is Edward Cullen, the actor."
"When was Bella's car found?" Resa asked. She was the most inquisitive of us all. She could get to the bottom line of any mystery.
"Oh, dear, I can't tell you the date anymore. It's on the wall, oh here it is, March 18th of 2005, three years ago."
I looked at Arianne and she knew that the date was three days before I was found. If I was Bella, why wouldn't I have been found closer to the accident?
"Well, thank you for the information. I really hope Bella is alive and out there somewhere." Resa shook Linda's hand and we made our way back to where Karen was sitting.
"Hey, guys, I just got a call, I have to get out to the Cullen place, seems like Edward made an unannounced trip in, and some of his fans found out."
I smiled at her, and we set off for the house. We made casually talk while we walked. I was happy no body brought up the Bella situation. I knew it would be the talk once we got away from Karen.
We went into the house and Karen left in the cop cruiser.
"I wish I could see the car, maybe it could give me some flashes."
"But what if its not you at all Misty, what if you aren't Bella, and you are just hoping you are," Kaarin said.
"Yea, I know, but still, I would love to know who I was."
"We will find your past."
I nodded, I looked at my friends and saw three of them, Resa was nowhere to be found.
"OMG," Resa yelled from the computer room.
"What," we raced to see what was the matter.
"Here's the article that ran in the Forks newspaper."
Isabella Swan Missing after hitting a deer
Isabella Swan, Bella to her friends, 2004 Camero was found wrapped around a tree with a deer carcass near the accident.
Ms. Swan was not found near the car.
Officials say Ms. Swan was wearing her seat belt, as it looks that the seat belt was cut.
Officials urge anybody who know the whereabouts of Ms. Swan to call the TIPS Hotline.
"That's not a lot of information," Resa said, but pointed at the picture. "But here is what you wanted to see, the picture of the car."
The car looked like something from my dreams, I had dreamed of a similar yellow cars many times, it was always wrapped around a tree.
"Nothing else?" I asked.
"I'm sorry, this was all I could find."
"Guys, I want to be alone for awhile, I've learned so much information in the last three hours that I'm scared this girl might be me."
"Don't get your hopes up though," Kaarin said.
"I won't." I went to the room that was set up to house the five of us. I laid down on the bed and fell asleep.