AN: I do not own Twilight.
Prologue - Country roads, take me home...
September 17, 2019
Aurora, Colorado
She carefully rolled open the map of the United States and taped it to the wall of the dingy apartment.
It was time. She had enough of the area and was feeling the itch the move on. Find a new place to live. Finding game in this area was getting harder. She had lasted longer than she had thought she would - a whole two years - and she had grown fond of this place. Maybe one day she would come back and stay a little longer. Years from now.
But it was time to go.
Her eyes flicked over the apartment with a fondness. It was empty, just as it had been when she got it. The only things she really owned in the world was her backpack filled with clothes and her laptop charging in the corner. She hadn't bothered to furnish it considering she never entertained guests and it was easier to pick up and leave at a moment's notice if there was barely anything to pick up. Her...lifestyle...needed her to not have connections - to any person, place, or thing. A free spirit, she chuckled wryly. She had always wanted to be a little more connected to her mom, apparently she had adopted her mom's flightiness.
So this is what she did when she felt that it was time to go. She bought a new map, taped it to the wall and taking the old dart she had snagged from a random dive bar years ago, she closed her eyes and threw it.
Wherever it landed, so would she.
She was kind of proud of her way of choosing a new place. It kept things interesting, moving from place to place could get boring and tedious. At least this added some excitement in her dreary little life. Taking a breath, she opened her eyes and was a little surprised to see where she would land. She had never gone that south before. This would be different.
Running a hair through her wavy brown locks, she thought hard about this. She always gave herself the right to veto the destination, lest she put herself in a dangerous situation. She weighed the pros and cons of this location and found very little arguments against going there.
With resolve, she glanced back at the dart and sat on the floor to open her laptop. It was time to find a place to live. Given that she had to live relatively off the grid, she searched for places through craigslist mostly. Also it didn't really matter if the apartment was considered a shithole by some standards. It was a place and that was that. She smirked a bit and felt a little thrill when in the location box she typed in her new (temporary) home...
Houston, Texas.
