A/N: If you recognize it, I don't own it. BTW major Bella bashing, and some Edward bashing!
Bold italics is Greek.
Upon hearing the confirmation that this was our flight that was now boarding, I stood up and grabbed my purse before making my way over to the line to board, knowing Bella was behind me. Soon we were on the plane and taking off for the hour long flight to Port Angeles.
I was excited to get there, knowing that we had an hour drive back down to Forks with Charlie. It was something Bella was dreading, while I was excited for; an hour to talk to Charlie and catch up with him was something I couldn't wait for. He had told me on the phone a couple days ago that he had a surprise for me, and one for Bella when we got to the house, and I couldn't wait, though I knew Bella would find something to complain about.
The hour long flight seemed ridiculously short to me after the four hour one we were just on, but I still thanked my lucky stars that I didn't have the demigod ADHD, otherwise this tip would have been impossible. Soon enough, we were getting off the plane to meet Charlie at the gate. Well, Bella stumbled off, the graceless mess that she is, while I just about vibrated out, I was so excited to see Charlie.
I saw him catch Bella from her near faceplant into the floor, and squealed. He looked up at my squeal and opened his arms, which Bella had just vacated. I wasted no time in barreling into him and nearly knocked the poor man on his ass. "Charlie! I'm so happy to see you! Renee says hi, the plane ride was boring so I listened to music for four hours, I met a friend from camp's cousin and got to practice my Greek with him, and was bored for another hour up here, and now I can't wait to have someone to talk to!" I exclaimed all in one breath, making him laugh.
"You had me to talk to." Bella said, making me pause. "Oh yeah, let me rephrase that then. I have somebody interesting to talk to now!" I said to Charlie before turning to Bella. "better? Or have you forgotten that you were too busy pondering all the so-called horrible things that Forks has to offer." I told her, pulling out of Charlie's arms as he sighed.
Both he and Renee knew I didn't like Bella, but thankfully it was chocked up to the two of us being so different and having clashing personalities. Bella, however, never got the picture on that. We went down to baggage claim where Bella grabbed her one measly bag, while I grabbed my three huge suitcases. Honestly, Bella acted like she was just visiting for a few days, while I actually looked like I was moving in.
I knew that Renee would be sending my guitar soon with the stand, which I was excited for. I could Iris Message daddy Apollo at night to write music with him when it got here, something I looked forward to. I especially looked forward to it since momma Demeter went to Iris to get a compact mirror messenger that she wouldn't charge so I could talk to my parents every night.
It had been a 16th birthday gift from the rainbow goddess herself, something I loved. I had actually startled poor Iris with the way I launched myself at her to give her that hug. I shook myself out of my thoughts as I saw Charlie's cruiser come into sight since I hadn't even noticed we were walking. "Shotgun!" I called, rushing to the passenger door.
Charlie laughed from behind me, while I heard Bella mutter about how childish I was. "You go ahead and get in Stella, Bella and I will get the luggage into the trunk." He said. "You sure, because I don't mind helping." I told him, hesitating to get in, prompting him to shake his head. "Yeah, I got it." He said, putting my first suitcase into the trunk just to prove his point.
I just waited, since I knew that the suitcase he had just put in was full of my posters and pictures, the other two were clothes. As he started to lift the next suitcase, I saw his eyes widen.
I had to hold back a laugh as he hefted my suitcase full of shirts and day dresses into the trunk, followed by the shorts and jeans. Once I saw he had actually managed, I climbed in, laughing as Bella climbed into the back. She immediately set to pouting out the window while Charlie climbed in and started the drive home.
bella didn't say anything the entire drive, but, Charlie had filled me in on a few things going on in Forks, including telling me all about the family that had moved down from Alaska two years previous. The Cullen family sounded interesting, and I was sure that we'd meet Dr. Cullen soon with how graceful Bella is not. I was looking forward to meeting the Cullen kids at school tomorrow though.
Charlie may have said that they keep to themselves, but when I am determined to make friends, they give in eventually. I told Charlie a bit about camp, the friends I made that were actually siblings, omitting that they were actually siblings.
I told him more about some of the activities, that I'm good at archery and fencing, since I didn't want to tell him I worked with real swords. I told him that the camp had a rock wall that had hand holds that would randomly heat up to make it more challenging, leaving out the fact that the 'heated hand holds' was actually lava. I also told him that the camp doubled as a strawberry farm to give the kids 16 and older some work and sales experience, something that he thought was cool.
Bella may say that Charlie is a man of few words, but the truth was that she just didn't care to talk to him much. Before either of us knew it, we were pulling up at the house.
The house Charlie and Renee had bought after they got married was a simple little two bedroom, one bathroom house that had been perfect for the family of three. However, when that asshole Hercules kidnapped me and dumped me on their doorstep, they built another room in the attic since it was just as well built as the rest of the house.
The attic had stairs that lead to it, instead of a latter, so it was perfect when I was a child. As I grew up, I grew to absolutely love the attic, since it was my own little space the size of the first floor. Charlie had surprised me with a remodel when I was in sixth grade and had gotten straight A's, by making one part of my room into a walk-in closet about the size of the kitchen.
Bella had an old dinosaur of a computer in her room, while I had a 45 inch TV with a DVD player and Netflix in mine. Unlike Bella, however, most of my luxuries, I had paid for myself with my saved money. As we got out of the car however, we saw two unknown vehicles in the driveway.
One was a rusted red truck from what looked like the fifties, and the other was a brand new ocean blue Ford Mustang convertible with a big red bow on the hood. "Uh, Charlie? What are those?" I asked as I got my suitcases out of the trunk. He looked over, a grin on his face, before it morphed into a look of confusion. "Well, the truck was supposed to be Bella's surprise, but I don't know about the mustang. Want to go check it out and see if there's a note or something?" He asked, grabbing the last suitcase which was Bella's from the trunk.
I nodded before going over to the beautiful car. I started looking along the windshield for a note, before noticing that the driver's door was unlocked. Confused, I opened the door and started looking inside the car, finding a note in the driver's visor along with the key. Grabbing the note, I got out of the car and held it up. "Found a note!" I said, jogging back over to Charlie and handing it to him.
He opened the envelope that the note was in, and pulled out the piece of paper and scanned it before handing it to me. I was about to ask why when he gestured for me to read it. Shrugging, I looked down and read aloud. "'Dear Stella, I remember at camp, you talked about how excited you were to move in with your adoptive father, Charlie in Forks. I did a bit of research to find out where that was since you never said, and decided to do this. Since there's only one Charlie Swan in the whole town, all I had to do was tell them who to deliver it to. Hope you enjoy the car, insurance is paid for a year, and the title and licensing is in your name. Good luck! Your friend, the Traveler.'" I read.
I knew instantly who it was from and made a mental note to call daddy Hermes later to thank him until I annoyed him. "Do you know who would do something like this for you, Stella?" Charlie asked, actually looking kind of amused. Knowing I couldn't say that the Greek god Hermes did it, I just shrugged before turning to face him. "There's a lot of people at camp, and a lot of them talked about places they've traveled to. It could be anyone as far as I'm aware." I told him, secretly reveling in Bella's envious looks at the mustang, my mustang.
A/N: Holy shit guys! I've gotten almost a hundred views since I posted this just a few days ago! This is freaking awesome, you guys are so freaking amazing, thank you so much for reading this! Hope this chapter is satisfactory, love ya! R&R
