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BPOV
The college lot was empty by the time that Mum got here with Phil driving. Me and Alice climbed in and I left the crutches on the outside ground.
"Okay. I want you to run over my crutches. Now. They deserve it." I said, and they all looked at me. "What?"
"Phil..." Mum sighed, and he climbed out of the driving seat and ran over to the other side of the car to pick them up. I said 'Hello' when he passed, and Phil put them in the boot. I sighed, feeling like a immature child. Phil got back in and started driving back home.
"Bella...while I have you all here, me and Phil have been thinking. You've gotta go live with your Dad. Back in Forks."
"WHAT? Why? I'm not going? W-w-what do you m-mean? Uh-Uh-b-b-b-u-bu-but w-w-why?" I stuttered. Mum smiled sadly.
"You aren't going back to that school full of judges and wannabees. You need a new start where you can meet new people and trust them. You need to learn, and you can't possibly learn when your current situation here in England holds you back. Nobody will know who you are in America. They will want to know you, and you can tell them what you want them to. They won't know your past, and you can finally move on. Once you've done that, you can decide whether you want to...to come back." Mum had tears in her eyes, and I was stunned. I can't leave my mother. She needs me. Alice needs me. Heck, Phil needs me. I shook my head.
"No. I don't want to leave-"
"-You're holding onto the past, Bella! If you don't go, I will kick you out. You too, Alice. You can't leave your sister." We both looked down, nodding, hands gripped together.
"I'll book a flight for you for Seattle for as soon as I can. I'll get the suitcases down from the loft and you two shall pack everything you own. Phil, can you buy more suitcases? They used all the suitcases when they went for a 2 week break, forget indefinitely." I knew she was trying to keep everything locked up, so I put my hand on her shoulder.
"I love you Mom. You know what this means? You can follow Phil on tour. You can have longer breaks. You have the house to yourselves." I smiled, thankful that my Mum would risk her happiness for me. We stopped on our drive, and we got to work. Phil drove off alone to buy more suitcases, and Mum logged onto the computer to deal with the tickets.
"I can get you...Can you get ready by Thursday? That gives you a few days." Mum called. Me and Alice were in our bedroom, opening our suitcases.
Alice had a look of debating on her face. She hummed as she pondered whether we'll have enough time. I shrugged.
"YES THAT'S GOOD THANKS!" I shouted back. I could only do so much with packing, when I was sitting on a bed. I didn't have much energy. I stared at the suitcase, you know where you just stare at something and not take your eyes off it, because you just can't? It wasn't anything special, just the pattern on the inside of the suitcase, but I was still for so long my eye started to twitch.
"Bella. Bella. Bella. Bella. Bella. B-"
"-Bella."
"B-what?"
"What?"
"Eh?"
"What?"
Alice looked confused, and went back to packing. I smiled in glory that it worked. She shut up. Heheh.
"I need a wheelchair. Or something. I don't want to walk on this cast" I got off the bed, wobbling as I hopped towards my wardrobe. I opened the doors and saw a ton of clothes, all from Alice having spent too much and pretended they are for me, when they aren't.
"What's the weather like in America? Isn't it warm? Why are you packing your cold stuff?"
Alice looked confused. When was the last time we visited Charlie? "I'm not sure. I vaguely remember it being cold in Forks. Its in Washington, isn't it? So why are we going to Seattle? Shit we are going to have to learn all 50 states now!"
"Isn't it 49 states?"
"I don't know. But it was cold in Forks. Pack up!" Alice then started singing Pack Up by Eliza Doolittle. The rest of the day was sorting out the new suitcases, and having to FOLD all our clothes up into them, to conserve space, and put our other belongings in the suitcases too. I rolled up my Paramore posters, as well as put all my books in the suitcase. I sighed. I'll miss this place. I remember Charlie's house being fairly big, but I was young, so now it could be ...fairly...small...
"Do you think it'll be tough to learn American slang? When will we get their accent? Would it be easy to go to other states?"
"Um...no I don't think so. I know a few words they say that is different to our version, but other then that I think their language is pretty much the same. They can understand us, right?" I smiled. "And it'll take some time for an accent, do'nt you think? And Alice. Please tell me you failed at Geography, because America is WAY bigger than the UK. Check the map."
Alice skipped off to the office to fetch a map and sat down on my bed, flicking through.
"So...what slang do y'all know? Haha, did you see what I did there? Geddit?" Alice laughed, and i smiled.
"Okay...y'all...is you all, I think. Sidewalk and pavement. Attic and Loft. Fall and Autumn. Um...they have a few. I can't name them all. They also spell some things differently, don't they. Like Color and Colour..." Alice squealed. I looked down and she found a large picture of America.
"Here is Seattle. And I think Dad lives...here!" She pointed somewhere close to Seattle. I didn't know. I'm not going to make a very good American, am I? I wonder...where did Edward say he lived?
"Ali, do you think we'll see Edward or Jazz over in America?" I sighed, staring at what would be our new home. Alice studied the map intensely, peering at any state and place she could.
"Well...it's highly...unlikely, with America being this huge...I want to go to LA!"
Our bedroom was empty. The beds and closets were the only remaining there, and the door, because we weren't entirely sure how long we will be gone. Me and Alice said our goodbyes to the house, then put the suitcases in both cars. We had already said our sad goodbyes to our friends. We promised to keep in contact, but where did that get me with Edward? I blinked back more tears. It was incredibly difficult to let go of what has kept you together, and what has also kept your worst nightmare. When the place you love the most is the place that is pushing you away, do you stay or go? Guess I never really had a choice. I am just a piece of the puzzle that will get replaced. Maybe Mum and Phil will have a child. That'll be good. I can come visit her when that happens. I can visit on Christmases, Mum can visit too.
I slammed the taxi door as me and Alice climbed in, telling the driver to follow the large car in front of us, Phil's family car, which takes up most of the suitcases. Mum has the other car. I sent our friends a goodbye text as we reached the airport. It was going to be a LONG flight. The drive took just under an hour, and we waited with some suitcases for the other two cars. they both offered to wait until we checked all of our bags, before they left. We waited with our bags in the queue to Seattle. We stuck out like a sore thumb. Once we checked them all in, the lady at the desk made us pay loads for going over the allowed suitcase weight. We moved to the side next to the electronic board. Mum had tears in her eyes.
"My babies! Come here!"She pulled us all into a group hug. I turned my head to see Phil just standing there.
"Come on, Phil, you're family too! You married this woman, who's suffocating me right now."
"You have no idea" Alice wheezed. I laughed dryly. Phil joined the group hug and we stood there.
"Honey, we can't keep the cars in the parking lot. We have to go." He released us and Mum did too. She stroked our faces.
"Look how you two have grown up. America is going to make big things for you. Tell Charlie I said 'Hi' OK?" We nodded and gave her one last hug. We waved as she and Phil walked off, hand in hand. I sighed, looking at Alice. We are all grown up now. We have to make her proud until the end. I went with Alice and we wondered around the airport, stopping at the perfume shop once again. When we came out I decided for a hot drink and snack.
"Is there any place we can get something to eat and drink?" I pondered, looking around.
"Um...how about there?" she pointed towards a dainty looking cafe. We took a bar seat and waited.
"Your order?" I looked up into a pair of bright blue eyes. My mouth fell open slightly and I took a better look at him. Blue eyes, a cheeky smile and brown locks on his head, he looked muscular, and Alice had to order before I could speak again. he locked his eyes with mine, and I cleared my throat, before asking for a hot chocolate. He grinned slightly and walked off to make our drinks. I gave Alice the eye and nodded a tiny bit. Alice smirked and whispered to me.
"He's cute!" I nodded again. He was more than cute. I did my best to posture myself before he returned. He came back and served us our drinks. I saw him trying to stick around, so I made conversation.
"How long have you been here?" He looked up, surprised. His lips twitched upwards, and I smiled a toothy grin.
"Umm...well working here...about a month...but this morning I've only just got here, really." He leaned on the bar counter. "Where are you traveling to?"
I frowned. "Well, me and my sister are kind of moving. To America."
He leaned back a little, shocked. "America? Why so far away?"
I laughed " You'd probably say the same if I were flying to London, or the closest airport." He smirked. "Personal reasons. and plus my dad is living there..."
"What state?" he glanced at Alice.
"Washington."
"Ah I have family close to there."
"Really?"
"Yeah. My older brother moved there when I was 12." I nodded, interested.
"What's your name?"
"Jenks." he nodded. "Everyone calls me Jenks. Because my surname is Jenkins."
"Hi, I'm Bella. What is your first name?"
"Liam."
"Hi Liam."
"Say, if you do happen to bump into my brother, his name is Riley Jenkins." He winked at me.
"I'll keep an eye out for him." I smirked.
"Good. When is your flight?"
"Actually, it's pretty soon. Alice, do you think we should go through now? We don't want to miss it..." I sat back, disappointed.
"Erm...yeah we really should. We have to go through customs before too. Bye Liam." She got up and waited for me. I took my half full drink and took another sip.
Liam stood back, clearing his throat. " Yeah it was nice to meet you. See ya." I stepped back form my chair, smiling gratefully and moved along with Alice to the elevator, to get closer to the gates. I turned once more, and I saw Liam look dejectedly at the ground, before he had to serve another customer. I sighed. If only I weren't moving. But his brother is close to WA? Then again, close could be the next state...
We mae our way through customs and went through the metallic door. I went through first, and when Alice passed, her alarm went off.
"It was a matter of time..." I whispered under my breath as someone came over to pat Alice's arms and legs, running a hand held metal detector thing around her. She forgot to take off her belt. Damn. The person rolled their eyes as Alice flustered over almost becoming a danger to the airport. I laughed and Alice hurried over.
"OhMyGosh I was so scared. Did I forget something? Would they take it off me? Eep!" We grabbed our handheld luggage and made our way forwards. Alice checked the flight details on the board.
"Our flight is in an hour. We have plenty of time to hang around here. Maybe we'll find another Jenks!" Alice giggled and I rolled my eyes.
"Come on! He was cute. Admit it." Alice laughed at me and nodded.
"Okay, Liam was the hottest cafe bar-guy there is in the airport. Don't get me started on other cafes. Some guys are sooo good looking." I nodded, agreeing with her as we decided to get a bottle of water.
"Hey, look at those sunglasses! Nice, or what?" Alice put on some sunglasses. They were Ray-Bans, and reminded me of |Edward's red ones. At the end of the holiday he had offered for me to have them permanently, but I refused. Sunshine is rare in England after the holidays. It was pointless. he lives in America, where there is probably much more sun.
"You should buy them." I told Alice, who gave me a look.
"Didn't we exchange most of the money Phil and Mum gave us? Currency Bella! We now need to know if a pound is 2 dollars, or what? We only have £50 left, for the airport."
"oh, yeah, I forgot. Um, well we'll have to transition into dollars ourselves. How do we know they aren't ripping us off? Eurgh this sucks! Why can't we all stick to one currency?"
Alice shrugged. "Beats me." She put the sunglasses back on its stand. "I'll buy some stuff when we get there. We have to take a trip to a warmer state. I always wanted to go to...America knowledge! TN and TX? Tennessee and Texas? Yeah. I want to go there. Also Canada and California."
I laughed. "I don't think Americans talk about their states in letter form. TN, CA, IL, WA...I sure won't say them like that. It sounds too weird for me." Alice pulled me towards the refreshments, and I grabbed some flavoured water and a sandwich. We then went to the counter and handed the girl at the checkout some money and left her the change. She smiled gratuitously and we walked to the seating area and ate our grub hungrily. We then heard our call, so threw our junk away and headed for the gate. Thankfully, we weren't late at all, and had time to spare in first class. A flight attendant passed our way, and I asked for a hot drink and wondered what films were being played today.
"Well, I think that we are showing a few television shows, before we show today's movies, Facepunch and Only Tonight. I will have your drink in one moment, ma'am. Would you like anything, chick?" she asked Alice, I nodded, thinking back to when those films had been out on the adverts and cinema. From what I recall, Facepunch was an action film, which I showed little interest to. Only Tonight was the film that she hadn't seen yet, but she really had intention to watch. Some supernatural romance between teenagers.
The flight took at a guess, 7-8 hours. Give or take an hour. I stayed up to watch the TV shows, then I decided to fall asleep. I watched the last half hour of Facepunch, which I strangely enjoyed, as there was alot of thrill and action. I couldn't sleep as I drank some coffee. Whilst the next film was on, I ate the lunch they served on board the plane, to get the sickening taste out of my mouth. After another hour, the plane suddenly lurched, then I felt the plane slowly make its way down to the ground.
We will be arriving shortly in the next 20 minutes, please take your seats when the seat belt sign turns on.
I heard the 'ding' of the seat belt light, and re-buckled my belt. Alice was just coming back from the toilet, and took her seat as well. She looked at me excitedly.
"We're almost here!"
We certainly were.
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