Frankie Vander Waal sat in the backseat of her parents SUV beside her was her older brother Mikey and her older sister Ronnie, everyone's eyes where puffy from crying and there noses where shinny for the same reason.

"This is so stupid." Ronnie muttered, crossing her arms. "We're driving across the country to spend the weekend with your brother who've we've only met a handful times. "

"We need to be around family right now, Ronnie." Tori said.

"We're family! He's not; we need to be together right now at home."

"That place hasn't been your home in a year, so don't act like it holds so many happy memories for you." Frankie snapped.

"What is that suppose to mean?"

"It means, you took your first chance to leave and you did and you didn't give a fuck about anyone else."

"Francis Kate, watch your mouth!" Tori yelled.

"Someone needs to tell her! How many times did you call us sense you left for University? Three times? You skipped Thanksgiving all together and you staid a whole six hours for Christmas. You didn't know Alexei and you didn't care about her."

"I did so!" Ronnie yelled back.

"She called you all the time! I was there when she'd text you over and over asking if she could come up to visit you, but no you where to freaking busy with your life to care."

"It isn't my fault she killed herself!" Ronnie said, tears filling her eyes. "You where the one who were suppose to know her so well!"

At that Frankie lunged across Mikey and started to hit Ronnie, but Mikey quickly pulled her away.

"Francis, stop it, this isn't helping!" Tori yelled. "Stop it this instant!"

"I hate you, Veronica."

"Ditto."

"This isn't what Alexei would have wanted." Billie said from the driver seat.

"She should have killed herself then." Frankie said, grabbing the ear-buds of her Ipod and sticking them in her ears and turning to stare out the window.

The rest of the drive was spent in near silence, Mikey was stuck in the middle of both of his sisters wanting to comfort each but getting slack from the other. They arrived in Forks, Washington a small town on the Olympic Peninsula around six that same day and Tori easily found her childhood home.

"Listen to me right now, all three of you." Billie said, turning around to face them. "I don't care what is going on between us, you will behave in there, and do you hear?"

There was a chorus of 'yes's' and then everyone climbed out of the SUV, the front door of the small house opened and a brown haired man in his early forties is standing there, a police uniform on.

"Tori, I'm so sorry for you." Charlie called as everyone walked forward, he pulled Tori into an awkward hug and ushered everyone in.

"Wow, I haven't seen you guys in a long time. You're all grown up." Charlie said and Frankie, Ronnie and Mikey smile awkwardly.

"Bells get in here and meet your cousins." Charlie called toward the kitchen and a girl with pale skin and the same dark hair and brown eyes as Charlie walks in drying her hands on a rag.

"Hi." The girl said. "I'm Bella."

"Bella, this is your cousin's Ronnie, Frankie, and Mikey." Charlie said, uncertainly pointing to each of them. "And you Aunt Tori and Uncle William."

"Call me Uncle Billie." Billie said, shaking her hand.

"Dinner's almost ready." Bella said, her voice was soft and almost nervous sounding.

All seven of them ate dinner, Tori doing most of the small talk and then it was time to go and get a hotel room.

"You can stay here if you want, I mean it'll be a tight fit but –."

"It's okay Charlie, we don't want to put you out." Tori said with a smile. "We'll be over first thing tomorrow morning."

"I am not sharing a room with her, no way." Frankie said, they where standing in the lobby of a Four Season's that was just off of the highway. "I'll share with Mikey; I'll even share with a stranger but not Ronnie."

"We are getting two rooms, Frankie, one for you three and one for us. You and Ronnie will share a bed and that's it."

"Nope, not gonna happen." Frankie said. "I'd rather sleep in the car."

"Fine then." Billie said. "That'll be your choice."

Frankie sighed angrily and held her hands out for the keys which Billie dropped into her hands.

Getting little to no sleep that night Frankie was woken up at 7:30 in the morning when everyone pilled into the car to go out for breakfast.

"Sleep well?" Ronnie teased as they walked into a diner.

"I slept better then I ever would beside a bitch like you." Frankie hissed under her breath.

After breakfast they drove back to the hotel and Frankie took a shower and changed her clothes before they set off back toward Charlie's house.

After a little awkwardness Billie, Charlie and Tori sat downstairs to talk and watch TV and Ronnie, Mikey, Frankie and Bella congregated upstairs in Bella's room.

After about ten minutes of awkward conversation Ronnie and Mikey excused themselves to go downstairs.

"I'm sorry about your sister." Bella said, in an uncertain voice once it was just Frankie and her.

"Me too." Frankie said nodding. "My mom said you just started to live with Uncle Charlie, why'd you move here?"

"My mom got remarried to a minor league baseball player so he travels a lot and well – it made her sad to stay home with me so I figure I'd move in with Charlie for a while."

"I almost wish my parents had divorced so I'd have a place to go, I can't imagine going back to live there with Alexei being gone." Frankie said. "She was my best friend, we where only ten months apart."

"That's really close in age."

"Yeah, Mom had kids' one right after another. Ronnie's nineteen, Mikey's eighteen, Alexei was seventeen and I'm sixteen. "Frankie said. "We where in the same grade even, it's going to be so hard without her."

"Ronnie seems to be taking her death hard too."

"No that's just Ronnie, she's a bitch." Frankie said angrily.

"Oh."

Frankie hated the tears that welled up in her eyes and tried to stop them by humming the tune of a Green Day song, after a few minutes it worked.

"So tell me about your friends." Frankie said.

"Well there's Jessica who's kind of shallow, Mike who has a huge crush on me so it's really annoying, Angela is my best friend she's really sweet you'd like her, and I was sort of interested in this one boy Edward, but he's a total jerk and now I'm sort of seeing this guy named Jacob."

"Do you have pictures?" Frankie asked and Bella grabbed her cell phone showing her the tiny screen where there was a group photo of everyone and then another photo of an Indian boy with tan skin and short black hair.

"He's cute." Frankie commented.

Frankie and Bella started to talk a while longer and then after a bit they headed downstairs and Ronnie, Mikey, Frankie and Bella decided to go to Port Angeles for some shopping and a movie.

Frankie was sifting through a rack of clothes when she noticed someone outside the window staring in at them; he was very beautiful looking but, with a confused look she nudged Bella.

"Huh?" Bella asked, she didn't seem as interested in the shopping trip and was only being a good sport.

"Who's that guy?" Frankie asked, pointing to the man.

"That's Edward." Bella said angrily. "I'll be right back."

Bella stomped out of the store and toward Edward where she seemed to be yelling at him in a low voice after a minute Frankie decided to follow.

"You can't follow me Edward, I chose Jacob!" Bella whisper yelled.

"Did it occur to you I'm not here for you?"

"Something wrong?" Frankie asked, standing beside Bella. The stance meant that she was on her cousin's side even if she didn't know the situation.

"Nothing's wrong." Edward said his voice smooth and velvety. "Bella seems to be under the assumption that I am in Port Angeles for her."

"Then why where you staring at her through the window?" Frankie asked, linking her arm with Bella's.

"I was merely curious, when I saw her." Edward said with a shrug.

"No one likes a liar." Frankie said rolling her eyes. "Let's go Bella, we can pay for our things and go see the movie."

"Okay." Bella said eyeing Edward meaningfully.