AN: Hey guys, so I'm not getting many review for this one, although I'd like to. But I'm going to delete my other story I'm exactly where I want to be.

But I hope you enjoy this chapter.


Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns the characters you recognise.


Chapter 2: Is it legal to pretend you have schizophrenia?

My hand reached up for the millionth time to twist my hair, but once again I was let down by the shortness which now replaced my long locks. I'm not going to be 'I love it' because I hate it. It's not me; it's not what I've known. My long hair just wasn't long hair to me, it was a security blanket that I needed, it's what helped me get through a school day; because I could just hide behind it and become invisible almost. But now my short hair allows everyone to see my face, I can't hide behind it.

The bad thing about the move; was that I wasn't allowed any contact with Katie before I left. Which I'm sure by now she has heard about the whole situation. She wasn't allowed to be in contact with me, I wasn't allowed to phone her nothing of the sorts.

As I sat here and realised that this was it now, no going back to a real family, one which I could rely on for chats or even just a hug for comfort. I couldn't but help the tears that slipped down my cheek and dripped off of the corner of my chin. Watching the scenery of Forks outside the car window just whizzing by made me more depressed to know that I was hundreds of miles away from my once before home.

I angrily wiped the tears from my face and just sniffed. I had to be a whole new person. Not shy old Sophia but a bubbly Marley, ad I couldn't do that; that's like having schizophrenia. Was it even legal to pretend you had Schizophrenia? Pretty sure it was. Not like I really had to pretend to have it, just that; that's what it felt like.

I looked at Luke from the corner of my eye and couldn't help but notice he looked angry about everything. I didn't question his reasons for being so, I just furrowed my brow and looked forward, just in time to see us pulling into a small cottage on a deserted road.

The small house was cute, a little run down, but that'll get fixed, no doubt. I didn't want to fault the small home but I couldn't help but make comparisons to my home back in Minnesota. Whilst this house was very small my other house was large and had a big garden to follow, we had the edge the woods which lined the back yard; not looking very inviting. Everything about it was different.

Luke stopped the engine and turned his head towards me.

"Y'know Sophia, we can't be us anymore starting today, we have to get used to calling each other by different names. We can't slip up in front of people, I'm sorry you've had to go through all of this, but just know I'm here for you now. I am your 'brother' after all" He laughed when he said that, as the anger in his eyes faded.

He got out of the car and pooped the trunk to get our bags, what little bags we did have. Apparently this house had everything paid for, furniture, bills, the fridge was already stocked. But we would have to get some jobs to help with the food in the house.

I took my seatbelt off and just sat there, not ready to get out of this car and pretend to be someone else. I did anyway as I watched Jay walk into the house with our bags. I stretched my limbs as we'd been driving for a long time, not taking a plane which would have been an easier option, but decided getting to know one another and reading through our files in the privacy of a car was better than getting on a crowded plane and risking someone seeing the real us.

I looked around and couldn't help the sigh that came out of my mouth. I slammed the door shut with my foot and then walked slowly into the house. It was nice, not amazing but it was somewhere to live. Lu...Jay walked out of the kitchen and told me that my bags were in the room at the end of the hallway on the right. I followed his instructions and opened the door to my room.

It was nice, bright; as the walls were white. But I can change that, a small bed and a dresser were situated in the small room. I saw my bags lying next to the bed, I ignored them and curled up on top of the comforter and drifted off to sleep.


I dreamt that night. Small dreams which all merged into one; all of them with my mother and Father present, telling me that they loved me, until I realised these weren't dreams, but memories. And I rejoiced in the familiarity in all of the small scenes that played behind my eyelids.

Coming back into the real world meant, coming back into a false one. I didn't want to live my life as someone else. But Luke has told me for the last two weeks that it'll be a good thing, start fresh as someone completely unbeknown to the public, but who you never could be back home.

I just too on board his whole agenda and 'embraced' the new me; and so I got a job a few days after being here. In a coffee shop in the small town of Forks, but it was a job that I liked to go to. I could watch people come in everyday and see them go abut their business, knowing they had a real life, one life they had to lead; nothing crazy like me.

So today I did my normal routine, made breakfast for me and Luke, threw my work clothes on and walked into the small town and straight into work. I announced my arrival to my boss Annie and I put the apron I had around my waist and took my position at the till waiting for people to come in.

Being in the coffee shop helped me have some normalcy in my life, having a job; forgetting about my goings on at home. It still baffles me when someone calls out Marley instead of Sophia, but I've kinda got the jist that when I person is shouting Marley they mean me.

The shop wasn't that busy today, but when school finishes, around 2:30 the place gets full of teenagers wanting there daily dose of caffeine. But then a girl named Kim comes in and helps me with that shift. I don't know her, she keeps to herself, but she is fast at serving coffee to everyone. We spoke a few times; small conversations about her, she was older than me and graduated high school last year, she goes to college at U-Dub in Seattle studying Bio-chemistry. I know she also has a boyfriend who picks her up from the shop every Tuesday and Thursday. Not that I stare at her boyfriend or anything.

I haven't started school yet, I told Luke I didn't want to because I wanted to get used to the idea of being someone else. So he enrolled me to start Monday given today was Friday that would mean I have two days to prepare my self of the onslaught of Forks High. Luke got a job as the P.E teacher there; on his files it said he studied physical education in some university. So he had the qualificationsto do that. But they made him do a course, so he's Mr. Winston now at the school that I'll be occupying next week.

Happy hour was coming fast and Kim should arrive in the next 10 minutes; to say that what I call happy hour makes me nervous would be an understatement. There were loads of people just wanting coffee, couldn't they just go to the small diner across the road?

I the door jingled and everyone's head turned towards it including mine, I saw Kim walk through putting her glasses higher on her nose, she doesn't normally wear glasses; she must wear contacts. I smiled at her and she smiled back. We didn't speak, just worked.

Around 20 minutes later rush hour was heaving in the small place, I was handing out Latte's, Black coffee and any other coffee's you could think of. My hands shook the whole time, and I didn't mean to but when a coffee slipped out of my hand and I didn't have time to tell Kim as she was rushing around to, she walked straight into it and fell over on her ankle her back hitting the floor with a thud, spilling the hot coffee al down the front of her shirt.

I don't think I reacted so quickly in my life. I bent down to see if she was okay, but clearly she wasn't when tears were pouring down her face and her ankle was locked in a funny place. I stood up and rung the little bell that was on the counter.

"EVERYONE OUT! NOW! WE'RE CLOSED!" I shouted at the top of my lungs a little bit of an accent pouring out through my lips. As soon as I said that people began to leave and Annie came out the back room, about to scream hell on us for doing what I just did. But she took in the sight before me and realised why I did it. She got up called the ambulance from her office.

I sat on the floor next to her "Kim, are you okay? Does anywhere else hurt?" I asked

She whispered out "I think I winded myself" She told me through her tears. I looked at her with sad eyes.

"I am so sorry Kim, I didn't mean to I was a little nervous and I, I don't know just couldn't help it. I'm sorry." I sincerely said to her. I tried to help her up a little to sit against the cupboard, but she winced and I stopped moving her, I didn't want to hurt her again.

"Hey Marley? Could you ring Jared for me? Tell him to go to the hospital, my cell should be in my coat pocket" She told me whilst she was getting in the ambulance. I just nodded my head and went back inside the shop, walking past Annie who was cleaning up the coffee on the floor and picking up the broken mug.

I went to the back room where we hang our personal items and rooted through Kim's coat, found her cell and went though her phone book to find Jared's number.

The phone rang and rang. No one picked up the first time, so I rang again. Until someone picked up on the second ring.

"Hey babe, why you calling?" a deep voice answered, assuming this was Jared by the 'babe' bit.

"Uhhmm.. This isn't Kim" I told him

"Who is this then?" He bit back quite harshly

"This is Soph...Marley, I work with her. I'm sorry, she told me to tell you to go to the hospital and meet her there." I said, feeling quite scared, I mean I've seen this guy; you don't wanna mess with him.

I heard a sharp intake of breath "Why? Why is she at the hospital?" I heard shuffling around on the other end and a curse or two.

"She fell and broke her ankle and winded herself in the shop" I told him, and then I heard the line go dead. To which I presumed he listened to me and went to the hospital. I put the cell back in the coat pocket and took her coat with me.

"Hey Annie, could you tell me where Kim lives? I need to get this back to her" I asked her, while she was still cleaning up.

She told me where to go, so I headed home and waited a few hours until I would go and give it to her myself. I stopped off at the little convenient store on the way home and bought a small pathetic bunch of flowers and a card that said I'm sorry with a bear on the front hugging a love heart. I couldn't help but feel bad about the whole thing, if I wasn't so nervous this would have never of happened.

I came home and got a different set of clothes on, then made dinner for me; as Luke wasn't back from work yet. I washed and dried the dishes once I was finished.

I made a quick phone call to Forks general hospital asking if Kimberly Conweller was still there, they told me she was discharged an hour ago.

I put my shoes on and left a note for Luke, just in case he came home and worried. He may not be my real brother but he sure acts like he is. I jumped into the small car that I got a few days ago, which the people who took care of the house took care of the car and gave me and Luke each one.

I drove towards the reservation that was close by, which took about 20 minutes. The instructions to Kim's place were pretty easy so I got there easy enough. It was a small two-storey house, which she shared with her beast of a boyfriend. I was scared to turn up here, I didn't want to be shouted at.

I walked up the steps and knocked on the door. I waited a little then the door was yanked open by Jared who had a not so happy look on his face, he stood there and looked at me with flowers card and Kim's coat in hand and allowed me through into his home. He walked in front of me and led me into the living room, when I saw Kim lying with a cast on her foot watching some re-run of a soap on the telly. I didn't want to interrupt but I had to say I was sorry again.

She lifted her head and turned around to face me, her face was shocked.

"Marley? I didn't think you'd come here. Come sit down, please. I would get up, but he wont let me" She shot daggers at Jared who was stood behind me. I walked around and sat on the arm chair that was unoccupied.

"I bought you something, to say sorry" I smiled and got up and handed her my pathetic present. "Oh and your coat and cell, you left it in work" I told her

She opened the card and read what it said. She then looked at the flowers and shook her head "You didn't have to get me anything Marley, I'm okay trust me. My foot is a little sore but okay. I guess." She shrugged her shoulders and sat up a little more wincing. Hearing her wince Jared ran over to help her, but was shooed away by the slap of her hand.

"Go away, go for a run or something, we want to talk" She told him, he contemplated it before kissing her on the lips and walking out the front door. She sighed when she heard the door click closed.

"I love him to death, but he's to there all the time" She gave a throaty laugh. I just smiled at her. "We haven't really spoke much, how are you?" She asked me. Oh y'know I'm fine, my real name isn't Marley and my parents were murdered, yeah absolutely perfect.That's what I really wanted to say, I want to tell somebody, but if I do everything will be fore nothing and I could be found and killed.

"I'm okay I guess, but I really am sorry, about everything." I told her.

"Stop saying you're sorry. It's okay anyway, I don't have to go to work for a while and I get two weeks off of college, I can spend more time at home" She smiled at that. "You know what, because I'm at home now for a few weeks, you come and visit me. I don't really have many friends around here accept for Emily, but she's always at home. So I need a new friend."

I smiled at her and nodded "Yeah, sure I'll come round"

"How about tomorrow you can come round and stay the night? Have some movies, pizza the whole nine yards? I mean it's Saturday tomorrow, and Jared is working all day and night, so I need a friend." I just looked at her. Here she is a girl I've basically known for maybe 30 minutes and she's offering me to stay round her house.

"I don't know, I'll have to ask my brother, but it probably won't be a problem" She frowned when I said brother, probably not understanding I actually had parents. But nodded all the same, "I've got to go but why don't you give me your number and I'll call you when I have the verdict?" I asked.

She nodded and grabbed a pen from the side table wrote it down on a piece of paper and handed it to me. I hugged her goodbye and walked out the door. I bumped into Jared on the way him going back in the house with no shoes or a shirt on? I ignored it jumped in my car and drove back towards home.

When I parked outside I noticed that Luke's car was sat in the drive way. I got out slammed the door closed and jogged up into the house. I strolled in and smelt food cooking, so I presumed that Luke was in the kitchen cooking his dinner. I was right and so I sat at the dining room table.

"Hey Marls, have a good day?" Although Luke persists to call me Marley he gave in trying to get me to call him Jay, around others I do, but not at home. And Marls was just one of the nicknames he gave to me.

I couldn't be bothered going into detail about what happened so I just shrugged "Nothing really. But I want to ask you something" I told him, he turned around and looked at me.

"This girl I work with; Kim, she asked me if I wanted to stay at hers tomorrow night and watch movies and have Pizza, would that be okay?" I asked.

His brow furrowed " I don't know, it's only movie and pizza right? Nothing more? Because you know how guarded we have to keep ourselves Lei, w can't just trust people left and right. But if this girl seems genuine then, yeah go ahead. But call me every hour, just to put me at ease" He told me.

He really was more like a brother than someone who I had only known two weeks. But I liked our little relationship; it was nice having a sibling who looked after me. So I agreed that was fair and got up and walked back to my room. Which was now painted grey and black.

I picked my phone up and pulled out the number Kim gave me. It rang until she picked up just as I was about to put the phone down.

"Hello?" I head her voice

"Hey Kim, its Marley. If it's still okay, tomorrow is a go, my brother said yes." I smiled, which she couldn't see but I still did it anyway.

"Oh hey, Great! I'll see you tomorrow then, around about 5 o'clock?" She asked me

"Yeah, that's fine I'll see you then, bye" I told her.

We hung up and I couldn't help but think that I have a friend, but that fact of the matter is, that a friend isn't a friend when everything about them is a lie.


AN: So I decide to carry on with this story, believing it has more potential than the other.

Ages of the people, now and future.

Sam, Emily Leah: 21

Jared, Paul: 20

Kim: 19

Jacob, Embry, Quil: 18

Seth: 17

Brady, Collin: 15
(Keeping to the original Pack, more just gets confusing.)

Please review, I need them to put the next chapter up, other wise I just won't.

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