Starsong

disclaimer- I don't not claim to be Stephanie Meyer or at all affiliated with the Twilight franchise.

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Chapter 2

I couldn't keep my eye away from the screen. So much beauty and I felt it calling to me. I always felt trapped by cities, which was ironic given the fact that I was going to college in Baltimore. Nature embraced me in a way a mother would embrace her child…. Protect it, nurture it. A very specific occasion came to mind when I yelled at a group of kids trying to start a forest fire when I was in the 4th grade. It ended with me getting pushed to the ground and scraping my knees, but no fires were started and I told their moms. It was all worth it knowing that all 4 boys were grounded and had to buy me water ice to apologize. Karma.

A few minutes… hours… honestly I lost count, later my door swung open to Nory holding up a comic book in anguish.

"Breebear! Look at this!" She threw the comic book onto my bed, waking up a now ornery Fred the Cat. I leaned over to grab the comic book, seeing it was an issue of New X-Men: Academy X, a storyline in the x-men universe. I flipped through the issue quickly and looked up at my friend with a questioning view.

"They copied my life." Nory said as though it were the most obvious assumption one could make. My eyebrow shot up and I blinked a few times. "No seriously. There's a character named Wallflower and she controls pheremones. She can control what people feel, dude!" I nodded, following her speech patterns but not her connection, "I am the exact same way…"

"…Or you're likable and slightly manipulative?" I said with a hint of a smirk. Nory knew I was joking and took back the comic book.

"I take offense to that." We both knew that she didn't. "Besides, I… you're not wearing pants." She finally realized.

I looked down at my bare legs and shrugged, "I shaved." I said with a shrug. Nory laughed walking around the bed to sit next to me. Fred got upset at the invasion of his territory and jumped off, perching on top of my dresser.

"What are you looking at anyway? Porn?" Nory joked, peering at the screen. "Ooh, that's pretty." She said as she saw the pictures ahead of her. I looked at Nory, a serious expression on my face.

"I'm going."

"Sure… I'll go too… we can plan for spring break or something…" She began to plan, like she always did when new adventures are ahead of us.

"No. I'm going tomorrow." Nory looked at me now with probably the exact same expression I gave her during the X-Men rant. I shrugged, "I can't explain it. I just know this is what I need to do. I swear it's like it's calling to me or something."

"Yes, Bree, but that's a pop-up add saying that you just won a free IPhone." Nory tried to talk sense into me, but I shook my head, adamant.

"This is out of a dream… or a memory… I don't know, but this is where I need to be. I'm suffocating here, and I think that's where I belong."

Nory sighed, trying to think of a logical way to word her reasoning, "Okay Breebear, not even touching upon the fact that you wear jackets in seventy degree weather and would therefore become a breesicle if you do in fact move to Alaska, how can this be a memory? You are from Ireland, which is over here." She pointed her right hand to the right side of my room, "Alaska is over there." Her left hand pointed in the opposite direction. "You're good at finding you way around random places… but you're not THAT good."

I nodded; she did have a point after all, "Well, I can invest in an excellent parka, and I… can you just go with me on this one? I feel like I can help there, and they need students to study wildlife conservation!"

"Oh, we can get a baby polar bear!"

"We?"

"You honestly think I'm letting you do this alone?" Nory crossed her arms. "I'd like a change of scenery, I mean, I've been on the east coast my entire life. Besides, I'm sun burnt and therefore sick of the sun."

"Nory, the sun is everywhere." I pointed out.

"Um, have you not seen 30 Days of Night?"

"Point, but I hope you aren't expecting to find Ben Foster."

"A girl can dream but it's not my main M.O." I laughed a bit, shaking my head.

"Let's do this." I grinned, finally feeling as though I would be doing something with my life. Nory smiled, but raised a hand.

"You know we're road tripping this, right? WallE could make it there and he'd be handy to have.' WallE was the name of Nory's Jeep Wrangler. He reminded us of the quirky Disney/Pixar robot, and had gotten us out of many a jam.

"So… I'm going to have to spend all of my life's savings in order to get us to Alaska?"

"Un truthiness!" She declared, "Zach, our lovely boy, let his straight show a few days ago and made WallE a biodiesel engine."

"Aww, now he really is saving the planet!" I cheered. Fred looked up, giving us both a look of confusion. "And Fred is coming too." Nory nodded as though we have just decided to go into battle. I got up and slipped on a pair of jeans. "It's decided then, we leave tomorrow morning. This is probably a good time to break it to the boys and tell parental units."

Thankfully, Charlotte is a very natural human being. She said that if I felt that this was something I needed to do, she couldn't be happier for me. James was slightly concerned and told me all of the safe routes to go and that he wired some money into my account. At that moment, I couldn't have been happier to all them mine. They loved me like I was their own and truly wanted me happy. I told them I loved them and hung up the phone, preparing for the anger I was about to go through.

I called UMBC to withdraw from the semester. Roughly an hour and a half later, I was contemplating suicide… no, homicide towards the many different departments they connected me to. Seriously, has no one withdrawn from college before? Finally they said all paperwork was in order just in time for me to hang up my phone and throw it against the wall. Zach walked in and paused, looking a little scared.

"What did the phone do to you?" He asked, approaching me and giving me a hug. I returned the hug, still glaring at the phone, somehow still intact.

"I had to deal with the bursar's office…" Zach hugged me tighter.

"Oh you poor thing!" He said, "You want a stiff drink or something?" I laughed and shook my head.

"No, but I do have to talk to you." I replied. We walked over to my bed and sat on the end. "Has Nory told you anything?" Zach shook his head, curious. "I'm leaving… tomorrow… for Alaska." His eyes widened into the size of saucers as he gave me an incredulous look. "I know, it sounds insane… but trust me baby, it's something I need to do. I don't know how long I'll be gone… or even if I'll come back." Every word was getting more and more difficult to say to my best friend, as he sat there. "You can come and visit. It looks so beautiful up there and there are mountains so you can go skiing." I offered, knowing that he and his family went to the Poconos every winter. Zach was a bit of a skiing fiend.

"The trails better be kickass." He finally said with a hint of a smirk. I let out a sigh of relief and gave him the biggest hug I could achieve at that point in time.

"Some of the best in the world." I said into his shoulder, trying to hold back my tears. Feeling moisture on my ear made me realize that he was crying as well.

"I'll miss you love." He whispered, and I lost it. We sat there for hours, crying and reminiscing. We spoke of our plans to get married and date other people, to adopt a bunch of kids and teach them foreign languages and how to tap dance, and then grow old yet still look incredible until we run away and join a band of gypsies where he will give sage advice and I would tell people's fortunes with the same pack of tarot cards that we found together at a flea market in Philly.

Before we knew it, it became nighttime and I knew I should pack. Zach helped, not caring about the night out he was missing with Eric, saying that his own friends are far cooler than his boyfriend's. I realized that I really didn't have that many possessions, and therefore packing wasn't that hard. Soon enough my belongings were all in my Tinkerbell suitcases and Zach was standing there unsure of what to do.

"We're on the same carrier so calling and texting is free… and I better hear from you at least once a day." I said to him. He scoffed,

"Um, duh! Unless I meet up with Daniel Radcliffe… then all bets are off."

"Baby, if you met up with Daniel Radcliffe I would be completely alright with not seeing you again… I'd be ungodly jealous but that's another story."

We drug my bags out to WallE, where Nory was already sitting, her bags in the back. I chucked up my own, laughing at the contrast of light purple Tinkerbell bags and black suitcases with random stickers all over them. The sun was rising and WallE was ready to go. I knew Nory filled up the tank because she was munching on a McDonald's hash brown. I gave Zach one last hug and kiss goodbye and jumped in. Nory said her goodbyes and soon enough we were off to the insane adventure ahead of us.

Run, run, run. Don't look back. Run faster and you won't feel the pain. Hungry, tired… no, keep going. Faster, faster, faster… STOP. Take a look around, no one in sight. Hunger takes over… hunt. Look the way you came. Double thoughts? No. Jesus, Jacob, no one wants you. Keep going.