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Previously: "We are moving. I just got a call from my boss telling me I'd have a much better job if I started working here. We are leaving in two days. And, Forks, Washington." He told me answering all my questions.

"Forks, Washington?" I asked, really surprised. A smile was forming on my face now. Would I actually meet Edward? I mean, Forks is a really small place, I'd have a big chance right?

"Yeah, why?"

"Oh no reason," I told him, pretending to sound clueless. I began to tell him about the pen-pal project, but I never really told him where our pen-pals were coming from. I think I could like this move after all.

Bella's POV:

I was practically jumping up and down when I got home and started packing. I had a 90% chance of meeting Edward! I will warn you, when I get excited I do tend to shriek. I had told Angela and we had our little heart to heart moment and definitely a lot of crying. No matter how excited I am to be going to Forks, I'm still going to miss her, she's like the sister I never had nor will have.

She promised me that we would stay friends one way or another and that even though I'm moving we'll find a way to get together during the summer or something.

So now, here I am in the middle of my room with boxes surrounding me. Charlie came home early from his fishing trip to pack up his stuff. We were going to have a moving truck come tomorrow to get all our stuff shipped to Forks. I was pretty much done except for little things like a few extra sets of clothes that I'll need to wear the next two days. Even my bed frame was down and there was just my mattress in the middle of my floor.

I had just decided to take a break from packing when my cell phone started to ring. It was Edward of course; he's the main person that takes up my minutes on my cell phone. I'm also not telling him about moving to Washington, I'm hoping to surprise him.

"Hey!" I said answering the phone.

"Hey Bells, what's up?" He asked. As you can see he already took a fancy with calling me Bells. Only my closest friends call me that.

"Nothing," I tried not to giggle. My voice sounded extra happy. "I have a surprise for you."

"Oh really? What is it?" he asked. Curiosity filling his every word.

"I'm not telling you." I laughed loudly, "You'll find out in two days."

He sighed but didn't put up a fight, he knows he wouldn't win. "Okay, well, then I can't wait until the next two days."

I fought back a smile. "Neither can I."

Two days later. In car going to new house in Forks, Washington!

"Wow, everything is just so……..green." I said as I looked out the window of Charlie's car. My truck was getting shipped here with the rest of our stuff.

"Yeah, pretty much everything in Washington is. All this damn rain." He mumbled.

"You'll get used to it." Charlie has always liked the sun. Nice and hot, here is the exact opposite though. It was all dreary and I know it's not just today that's like it, it's going to be practically every day of our lives here.

"All our stuff is going to be at the house by the time we get there," he told me, trying to make conversation. "At least that's what the company said, said if it's not all there then we get a fifty buck discount!"

"Does that mean you don't want it to be there?" I asked chuckling.

"Maybe," he muttered teasingly under his breathe.

It didn't take us long to get to the new house. Nothing in Forks takes long to get to. For the most part the house seemed nice. It was a two story building and seemed like it was made out of red brick. It had a white door and big white windows on the outside. Maybe not as big as our house back in Phoenix, but it's definitely got possibility to it.

"It's pretty nice, good picking dad!" I told him laughing as I unbuckled my seat belt and opened the door.

"Yeah, pretty much the only thing that was up for sale, this and some other house about a mile away." He said taking a big breath and looking at the house with high hope.

We were now standing outside of the car in a torrential downpour, "Uh, I think it might be a good idea to actually you know…..go inside!" I called as the rain started to pick up more making it hard to hear.

He nodded, "We don't need to do any unpacking right now!"

"Good plan," I said as I ran ahead and under the roof that covered the front of the house.

As soon as we got inside the rain started to lighten up, "Figures that it would wash us first then stop." I mumbled.

"Oh, you'll get used to it Bells," he said, copying my previous words with a smile.

I laughed and shook out my hair which was drenched.

"Well, I suppose we should at least get our clothes." We weren't really planning on unpacking today, but obviously, I think we should get some things like warm clothes!

He nodded. I put up my hood on my sweater, not that it did all that good since it too was wet, but I headed out. The moving truck was parked right next to my red truck and Charlie's car was next to the moving truck. Out drive way wasn't the longest one ever, but it was really wide!

I grabbed my bag with a majority of my clothes in it but when I did it rubbed against something of Charlie's and made it fall to the ground. "Oh shit!" I exclaimed as I dropped my bag onto the wet ground and picked up a…photo album?

We have a lot of photo albums at our house….my mom was always interested in putting away pictures and scrap booking, but I've never seen this one before. "What's this?"

He laughed, throwing a hand through his wet hair. "That's one that I recently found up in the attic. Look through it if you want. I haven't had a chance to yet."

I nodded as I reclaimed my stuff and tucked the album tightly under my arm so it wouldn't fall.

When I got inside I plopped myself on the ground with my back against the wall for support. The album was very dusty with a light yellow covering. There were little swirls coming from all angles in a dusty rose color.

Charlie was still outside; he decided he'd help some of the workers bring some stuff in after all. I'm not being lazy or anything trust me, I did offer but he wouldn't let me. He said I'd probably end up falling and knocking down one of the worker guys….honestly, that's probably what would happen.

So anyways, back to the photo album. I blew some of the dust off and opened it. The first picture was one of a Renee and Charlie standing outside of a high school. They looked so young and my heart automatically stiffened at seeing Renee smiling and full of life. The last time I saw my mom before she passed had been in the hospital. Her smile was faltered by the pain of the cancer overtaking her body.

I was in the room with her when it happened. I was the only one there. When her monitor started going crazy with all different sounds and lines all over the place her breath started to pick up. She motioned for me to come closer to her and she whispered with every little last bit of strength in her, "I love you baby, remember that. Take care of Charlie for me. Tell him how much I love him and how much I'm going to miss you two."

When she said that her eyes closed and I started screaming for help. They hadn't been able to do anything to help her. I was only 14.

A few tears escaped from the corners of my eyes but I wiped them away fast and tried to get the mental picture out of my head. I continued flipping the pages.

The next one was of Renee and Charlie again outside of the same high school with some friends. There was a man with blonde hair and insanely pale skin. He was very, very handsome. He had his arm around a woman with caramel curls that went all the way down her back. She too had very pale skin and was also gorgeous. The blonde man had his arm wrapped around the girl with a huge smile and the girl had her head up in the air with her mouth open looking like someone had just told her the best joke in the world.

My parents looked so happy in that picture. My mom was sitting down on a sign with my dad standing next to her. His lips were on smashed on her cheek. She held a grin on her face that was like no other. Her eyes were slanted sideways a bit trying to get a look at my dad while still looking at the camera. I closed my eyes and tried to imagine them standing there so happy with their friends. They were probably my age in that picture.

Then, the sign they were sitting on caught me off guard. It was a brown sign with a lighter brown writing. I squinted so I could see the writing, it said, "FORKS HIGH SCHOOL. HOME of THE SPARTANS." And a little character head that I'm assuming is the school mascot.

My eyes popped open. They used the live in Forks? How come I never knew this?

I kept going through the pictures trying to find more evidence of them living here. Pretty much every picture of them from their high school years was with those two people that had been in the first picture and it was almost always rainy which was a big signal saying they lived here.

"Dad!" I yelled, getting myself off the ground with the album and looking for him. He was up in what was going to be my room helping the workers put together my bed.

"Oh hey Bells," He smiled at me. "Just about done your bed, what's up?"

"I need to talk to you." I said eyeing the workers.

"Okay, just one minute." He said as he put one more thing into place for my bed. "Ah-ha. All done, alright, we can go downstairs; they already put the couch in.

I nodded and followed him into the living room and plopped down next to him on the couch.

"You used to live here?" I asked him.

He nodded, "Yeah, I moved here with my parents—your grandparents—in the middle of my 8th grade year. I didn't like it too much….too much rain, but I did love the people that lived here." He took the photos from me and skimmed through all the pages as he kept talking. "Everyone here was always open to new people. They welcomed us as if we lived here out whole lives.

"Your mom was a year younger than I and had practically lived here her whole life. She didn't mind the rain. She just went with the flow with anything that came her way. She's always been like that." He stopped at a picture of the four young kids outside of the school posed for a picture. "This was in 11th grade. Well, I was in 11th grade, Renee was in 10th."

He placed a finger on the two other people. "These are Carlisle and Esme. Esme was friends with Renee and Carlisle had been my very first friend when I moved here. Same age difference with that couple as well. The only difference was they had been together since middle school. I didn't get the guts to ask Renee out until 10th grade."

I listened patiently to everything. Charlie was never a big talker, but when he got started it was hard to get him to stop.

He shook his head and laughed, "It was pretty funny once I actually did ask her out. She didn't believe me. She thought I was tricking her. She kept saying you don't mean it; you're a year older than me, why would you mean it. But I meant it with my full heart. After a while I finally got her to believe me by taking her to a school dance. She was so fun to talk to, always bubbly and laughy. Never in a bad mood." He smiled, his face filled with pain from thinking about her.

"You really loved her," I said quietly as I came up closer to him.

He nodded. "Of course, she was my first and only love."

I couldn't help it anymore, a single tear dripped down my face. The little girl side of my came out, "I miss her daddy." I said tucking my head into his shoulder and letting the tears fall freely.

"I miss her too Bells." He said quietly his voice breaking with each word. "I miss her too." He rubbed my hair slightly as we sat there with the only noise being from the workers upstairs.

* * * *

"Why don't you go take a look around? The neighborhood I mean. It might be good to get used to it." Charlie told me as we finished putting away the dishes in the kitchen.

I got him to let me help out after all. I just wasn't aloud to lift heavy stuff. Pretty much everything was done now, maybe just a few little things left.

I nodded, "Okay." This would be the perfect time to surprise Edward! "I won't be too long."

"'Kay, take your phone, I don't think you'll get lost but with you, you never know." He smiled teasingly.

"Ha-ha. Very funny," I told him grabbing my keys. "I'll see you later."

I all but ran to my car. As soon as I got in my phone beeped twice in a row telling me I got two text messages.

One was from Angela.

Hey Bells! How's it going in forks? Like it, hate it? Text me back soon, I miss you so much and you've hardly been gone a day!
--Ang

I quickly wrote back telling her it was going good, I like it but it will take time to get used to the rain. I also told her what I was about to do. Surprise Edward!

The other text of course was from Edward.

Hey. What's up?
-Edward

I sent back:

Nothing. Just driving around in my car. What about you?
--Bella.

Hanging with Jasper and Emmett. The whole gang is here. Alice and Rose are upstairs though.
--Edward.

Nice! If everyone is there it will be perfect. Everyone will be surprised.

Oh cool. Well, listen. I g2g but I'll tlk to you l8er! Bye Edward.
--Bella

I started my car and it made its normal loud sound. My car really needs to start being quiet. It's not loud to just turn off, but when I turn it on it sounds like a freaking bomb hit us! Well, maybe not that bad, but still!

I was driving around when I realized I didn't even have an address to look for……it wouldn't be all that hard finding somewhere if I had the address….but without one, it's pretty much pointless.

I pulled my car over to the side so I could grab my cell phone and go on yellow pages dot com. Thank god Charlie invested in getting me internet on my phone.

It wasn't that hard to find, there was only one Cullen family in the neighborhood. So, I'm hoping it was this one.

I tried to follow the directions but for some reason I kept just going in a circle. These directions were not helping me!

I was driving around in the same circle for the fourth time when I saw a car with a cute, blonde, baby faced boy in it. He looked about my age. He was parallel parked in front of a house.

I came up closer and opened my windows, "Uhm, excuse me!" I called, his windows were open too.

His head popped up and I saw him fumbling with a cell phone. "Oh, hey, do I know you?" he asked me with a confused look on his face.

I smiled. "No, I'm new here, I just moved in with my dad. I'm Bella."

"Well, nice to meet you Bella. I'm Mike….you look a bit lost."

I laughed, "Nice to meet you too Mike and uh yeah, I kind of am." I told him. I would be the one person to get lost in such a small town. "Do you know where I could find the Cullen's house?"

"Sure, you just go up this street," he told me pointing down a long narrow road. "Then you take the second right. Once your there you take the first left. Then you keep going straight, they have a very long drive way. They have parties there all the time; you could ask pretty much anyone how to get there."

"Alright, thanks again Mike!"

"No problem, hey listen, are you going to go to Forks High?" he asked me.

"Yeah, I'm starting Monday, 11th grade."

"Nice, same grade as me. Well, I'll see you around, hope you get there okay."

"Okay, thanks!" I called and rolled up my windows as I drove away.

"Okay, straight, second right, first left, straight up the driveway." I mumbled to myself so I wouldn't forget. It was simple enough.

I followed the directions and it turned out to be really easy. I made my way up the big drive way and was amazed at the huge house in front of me. It had three stories from what I could see. The bottom story was a nice stone colored black. The middle was glossy wooden and then the top again was stone colored. There were windows everywhere! The whole top floor was window after window after window! The house was huge as well, probably the biggest house I've seen in Forks all day.

I took a deep breath as I turned my car off, grabbed my phone and hopped out of the car. I wasn't all that nervous until this very second. I had butterflies flying in my stomach as if there was no tomorrow.

I walked up to the big wooden door and held my breath. I slowly brought my hand up to the door and knocked.

The door creaked open and someone that seemed very familiar but not Edward answered. "Hello, may I help you?" he asked.

A/N: How did you like it? Who do you think is at the door? I'm sorry for the cliffy but I couldn't resist! I'll do my best with updating soon! PLEASE REVIEW!