Bella's POV
I remember the day that I first decided I needed a fresh start. It had been a year since the Cullen's had abandoned me. Not long after the Cullen's left, I found out that Jacob was a werewolf and meet the pack.
After that, I spent all my free time with them. It was with their help that the hole in my chest finally healed. They showed me that the Cullen's weren't really all that. The pack was my family now and I enjoyed every second I was with them.
Not because I so desperately needed to be with them but because I wanted to be near them. With them I could be myself, I never had to worry that they wouldn't understand me or that I wasn't good enough.
When I was with the Cullen's, I constantly watched what I said, worried about how I acted, and always felt inferior to their beauty.
I never once felt that way around the pack, they were always so welcoming. All except Paul, but his distaste for me taught me to stand up for myself. He taught me to never allow anyone's opinion of me to effect my self-worth and his snide sarcastic comments helped me to grow a thicker skin.
The day I decided to leave Forks was also the day that Victoria killed Charlie. I was hanging out with Jake and the pack. We were laughing and having a good time.
It was a rare sunny day in La Push, so we decided to hang out at first beach. The guys had just started to throw a football around, when there was a howl. The boys rushed to say goodbye to their imprints then sprinted into the woods to phase.
Collin and Brady, the two youngest of the pack, were left behind to protect Emily, Kim, Claire, Rachael and myself.
We waited breathlessly for the boys to come back and inform us of what had transpired. What felt like hours later, a grim faced pack returned. Just from their expressions alone, the girls and I could tell that something terrible had occurred.
*Begin Flash Back*
"Sam, what happened? Your paler than Bella," Emily anxiously questioned her husband.
"Jake, I think you should be the one to tell her. Come on everyone lets leave them be." Everyone turned and followed Sam back in the direction of his and Emily's place.
Leaving Jake and I alone, their departure filled me with dread. I knew then that it could only have been one of two things. Something had happened to Charlie or the Cullen's were back.
"Jake?" I anxiously waited for his response.
"Bella…. I am so…. So…. sorry honey," Jake choked out as he tried to fight back tears. With those words alone I instantly knew that Charlie had been killed.
"How," I managed to choke out.
"Victoria…..leaving…..before," everything after he said her name was a blur. I blacked out and when I came to I was in Sam and Emily's guest room.
*End Flash Back*
After the funeral I stayed just long enough to graduate. Once I had my diploma in hand, I packed up my belongs and left Forks for good. For months I aimlessly wondered, with no destination in sight.
I knew that I was running from my problems like a coward. However, stricken by the grief of loosing my father. I could do nothing but run.
When I reached Texas, I was low on money and needed more to continue on. A job was soon found working as a waitresses in a small cafe. I had originally only planed to stay long enough to replenish my bank account, Texas had other plans for me though.
I soon found myself falling in love with the tiny town I had landed in, to such an extent, that I decided to stay.
I purchased a quaint little farm house on the outskirts of the little town of Wichita Falls and secured a more permanent job. On the weekdays I worked as a farm hand at the large horse ranch just outside of Wichita and on the weekends I tended bar at Red Rock Tavern.
It was while I was working at the Tavern, that my life changed forever. I was behind the bar filling an order of drinks for a waitress named Cindy, when it happened.
The day had been normal so far and I was surprisingly in a good mood. I was in such a good mood, that I found myself humming along to the Joe Diffie song blaring from the speakers.
She walks into Smokey's one hip at a time
Like a broken field runner slippin' through the line
He likes the way she looks so he calls the little wife says
"Don't wait up for me I'll be workin' late tonight"
Wife hangs up the phone, bursts into tears
Calls her sister up and cries "Get over here"
Sister tells her boyfriend be back in awhile
Boyfriend wants a beer, the store is just a mile
He leaves the motor running he'll only be a minute
His car drives away with teenagers in it
The driver tells his buddies, got one life to live
They scream into the night "Let's get it over with"
"Bella, come dance," Ally, another waitress and my best friend, called to me from the dance floor. I looked over at Logan, who was helping me main the bar tonight.
"Can ya cover for me Logan or do ya need me to stay?"
"Naw go on Bells, I got ya covered. Sides' not like its too busy in here tonight," Logan drawled to me in his heavy Texan accent.
Needing no more reassurance than that. I jumped the bar counter and headed for the dance floor. Finding Ally in the middle of the floor, we started to line dance to the song. Pretty soon almost everyone in the bar was on the floor dancing with us. Following our lead as we swayed to the music.
'Cause and effect, chain of events
All of the chaos makes perfect sense
When you're spinning round, things come undone
Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun
The kid guns the gas, the car starts to swerve
Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb
Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot
And flies through the air takes out the bank clock
Clock strikes a light pole, transformer sparks
Lines go down, town goes dark
Spinning around in a circle, I stomp my foot to the rhythm of the song. Swaying my hips, I turned back around towards Ally. Offering her my hand, I twirled her to the other side of me.
I now stood were she just did, swaying and rocking to the beat of the music. I soon lost all sense of everything around me and bump into someone. Looking up, I saw two blood red gleaming eyes staring back at me from the face of a god.
Waitress calls the cops, says she saw it all
Swears a giant alien has landed at the mall
Cops ring up the mayor says there's panic in the streets
"We hate to wake you up but we can't find the chief"
Mayor says "Use your head if he ain't in his car
He's hiding from his wife, down at Smokey's Bar"
'Cause and effect, chain of events
All of the chaos makes perfect sense
When you're spinning round, things come undone
Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun
"Vampire"
Author's Note: I know I am evil for leaving it like this. I personally hate it when an author leaves it at a cliff hanger. I just got writers block and could not write past this point. So please fans of this story *Hides under my computer * don't kill me. I do not own the song. The song is called casue and effect and is by Joe Diffie.