I thought about this for a while (more like a few minutes) and decided that I was going to go ahead and skip a big chunk of time, right to when Brooke goes to Alaska, so this story can really get started. I was going to throw a "Christmas" chapter in the middle of this chapter and the last one, but I decided that skipping to Christmas and then skipping again right afterwords to March would be weird. Besides...I don't want to boringly drag this out any longer, it's time for some action to begin! ;) The past twelve chapters were almost an introduction to Brooke and Carlisle's relationship, the next chapters will now be the challenges they will face. And Alaska is the start of them. Maybe someday after the story is finished I could type a "Bonus-Lost Christmas chapter" or something. :) Now please, enjoy.

Chapter 13

I hadn't wanted this day to come, but it unfortunately did.

The day where I had to board a plane with Bella and Edward, to fly all the way to Alaska, away from my family, my friends, my job, and the absolute love of my life.

But I was here, and there was no turning back now. Besides, I had to attend this program. If I ever wanted to make anything out of me as a doctor, this program was essential.

Nothing much had happened in the time after Viviene's last visit. She hadn't come back yet, and according to information I got from various of the Cullens, she wasn't coming back too soon.

Halloween wasn't anything spectacular. I passed out candy with my aunt at their house. I screamed every time I saw someone wearing a very convincing vampire costume. I had my dream again that night.

During Thanksgiving, I took Dr. Cullen to my grandfather's house, so we went to the Cullen house for Christmas. Gosh that was an event.

All I have to say is Christmas, and Emmett. Those two words never mix, and they sure proved that on Christmas day. And Alice had gone crazy with mistletoe...everywhere.

New year's Eve was nothing special. I actually spent that night with Natalie. She tried to convince me to watch Blood Lust with her...but I passed.

Valentine's Day was amazing. I had never had a boyfriend before on Valentine's Day, so this was a new thing for me. He gave me so much candy, and so many roses that I swore my apartment smelled like chocolate flowers even at the very moment.

March had been a depressing month, as little of it that had passed. He was even in a very down mood, I had never seen him frown so much before.

The entire Cullen family had came to say goodbye to me and their other family members at the airport. Now I had to say my goodbyes, and so far, I was doing pretty good with not crying.

Jasper and Rose were easy to say goodbye too. Alice and Emmett were a little harder. Tears threatened to fall as I hugged Alice. Maybe not exactly because I would miss her, but because I knew who I was going to have to say goodbye to next.

When I was finished issuing my goodbyes to Alice, he pulled me a little off to the side.

Now I couldn't stop crying.

"It'll be alright Brooke." He said. "I'll see you in two weeks, and in the meantime you can call me whenever you want, even if it is at three o'clock in the morning."

I couldn't help but smile a little.

"Here," He said smiling as well, and walking behind me. "I got you a going away present." I felt him place something around my neck, and when I looked down I saw that it was a beautiful, silver, heart-shaped locket. It was small, and simple, with little diamonds bordering the heart.

"So now you know my heart is always with you." He whispered. "No matter how far apart we are."

I knew that I was never going to take it off. I turned to him, throwing my arms around him, hugging him as though it would be the absolute last time I would see him. He was so perfect...and he was mine. And now, much to my utter despair, I had to leave him here.

"I'm going to miss you so much." I managed to choke out.

He ran a hand over my hair. "I'll miss you too."

I made myself look at him, and I starred straight into his brilliant topaz eyes. He quickly looked around him before he kissed me, short, soft, and sweet. It was the most public we had ever gone with any form of affection. I could hear Emmett chanting happily in the background. We both laughed, before he turned his attention back to me.

"I love you Brooklyn Cassandra Elizabeth Jeffers."He said, gently wiping away a few of my tears.

But his efforts severed no purpose, because I started crying even more as soon as I heard him say my full name. The way he said it was so full of affection...he was making me miss him already.

"I love you too." I said in between my sobs.

"Now have a fantastic time up there ok?" He said smiling at me. "I don't want your time up there to be terrible just because of me."

I nodded, and I tried to wipe a few more tears off of my face.

"All people flying first class on flight thirty-one to Alaska, please board the plane at this time." A voice called over the loudspeaker.

"Brooke!" Bella called, motioning toward the gate.

"Goodbye Brooke." He said, gently kissing me on the cheek.

"Goodbye." I said, and then quickly walked over to where Bella and Edward were waiting for me, that way I didn't have to look at him anymore and cry even more than I already was. Bella wrapped her arm around my shoulder and lead me onto the plane.

It was then I remembered I had a major hatred of loudspeakers.

We had to fly first class, apparently, because I had lost the battle over who was going to buy the tickets. And he had to go overboard, as always.

Bella and Edward were sitting across from me, I sat by myself, and there was one other man in the seat in front of me.

My mind was racing with emotions. Excitement, nervousness, worry, longing, sadness, etc.

Two weeks suddenly seemed like a really, really, really long time.

"Can I get you another water Miss?" The flight attendant asked, snapping me out of my trance.

"Yes please." I replied. She shot a friendly smile in my direction.

"I'll be right back with that then." She said. She was tall, with long, straight, fire-red hair. She had brown eyes, and a little too much black eyeliner. She wore a black polo, a long black skirt, and black high-heels, just like the other flight attendants. Her name tag indicated that her name was Kaylee.

"Thanks." I said, as she took my empty water bottle and walked away.

Bella smiled at me from across the aisle way. "We can help each other unpack our stuff when we get to the house." She said.

I nodded in approval as Kaylee returned with my water.

"Need anything else Miss?" She asked.

"No thank you." I said. She smiled again before moving on to the man sitting in front of me. I figured she probably had a very hard job. Most of the people that flew first class were fairly rich. She had to be ten times more formal with them than she would have to be if she worked in coach.

I starred out the window, looking at the clouds below me. I yawned, and quickly fell asleep. Next thing I knew, Bella was shaking me awake.

"We're getting ready to land." She told me.

Sure enough, just minutes afterward, we landed, and Edward helped me with my carry-on luggage. The little bit of Alaska I could see through the plane windows seemed beautiful. It was exactly as my grandfather and the Cullens had described it to me. The weather wasn't incredibly warm yet, but it wasn't freezing cold. There was still snow on the ground, but most precipitation was over with for a while.

"Thank you for flying with us." Kaylee chimed as we were getting ready to get off of the plane. "And welcome to Alaska."

We ushered our thank yous toward her as we headed into the tunnel that lead into the airport. Bella and Edward walked ahead of me as I fumbled in my purse, searching for my phone. Bella looked back, noticing my absence, and smiled as she grabbed my arm and dragged me a long.

"Come on Brooke, you can wait to call him for like thirty more seconds."

I just shook my head at her as I dialed his number. "He told me to call as soon as we landed."

"I don't think he meant this soon, but ok." Bella said, laughing at me.

He answered immediately.

"I take it your alive." Was what he said.

"Yes, I'm alive." I said, as I laughed at him.

"How long have you been off of the plane?" He asked me.

"Like, two minutes maybe?"

"Wow, you must really miss me."

"Gosh," I said as we got on the escalator that led to baggage claim. "You have absolutely no idea."

"You guys are one hour behind us in time up there aren't you?" He asked.

"Um...yeah I think we are." I noticed a clock on the wall. "It's around three thirty here, what time is it at home?"

"Around four thirty." He replied.

"Alright, I guess we should keep that in mind for calls and such."

He laughed. "Brooke you better help Bella and Edward with the luggage, you can talk to me as much as you want later."

I groaned. "Ugh please, I don't want to stop talking to you."

"Well dear, your phone or mine will die at some point."

"Darn phones." I said, looking over at Edward who was shaking his head and laughing at me. "Your son seems to have developed some of your qualities."

"How so?"

"He laughs at me whenever I do something stupid, just like you do."

"I can't blame him." He replied. I could just tell he was smiling. "Really Brooke, you probably should get going. I don't want to keep you hung up."

"Fine." I replied with a sigh. "I love you alright? I'll call you later."

"I love you too darling. Goodbye."

"Goodbye." I answered back as I finally hung up the phone and turned to assist Edward and Bella.

"I have a feeling this is going to be difficult for you huh?" Edward asked me.

"Yes, it will be Edward...it really will be."

"You don't want to look too geeky, but you don't want to look too un-geeky...if that makes any sense." Bella told me the next morning as I was trying to decide what to wear to my introductory class that morning.

"How about..." I said pausing, digging around in the closet. The Cullen's vacation house up here was as large as their actual house. This family was crazy. "This top," I said pulling out a flowing red, long-sleeved top, "With these jeans." I continued, taking out some dark jeans.

Bella looked at me funny, obviously because she noticed that if I was to wear just the top alone without something under it, that everyone would get a lovely peek at my bra.

"Ok, and this black tank-top." I said, and she laughed.

"Yeah, and put one of those silver headbands in your hair, and make it wavy like you do sometimes. The silver from the headband will tie in with your necklace."

"Good idea." I replied, rubbing my fingers over the locket. "Since when did you become an expert at fashion?"

"I've lived with Alice and Rose for far too long." She said, smiling.

I laughed and went to quickly change in the bathroom. Bella was a genius, I looked awesome.

I ate a quick breakfast of cereal and made a mad dash out the door to head to the car that we were renting while we were up here. I called Dr. Cullen on the ten-minute ride to campus.

I had decided not to bring my cat with me, so I had left her at my grandfather's. I called him too, real quick, just to check up on how everyone was doing.

When I pulled into the parking lot of Alaska University it wasn't too crowded. I walked through the parking lot quickly, because it wasn't very warm outside at that particular moment.

I spent about five minutes wandering around the campus, trying to find the room I was to report too, when I finally realized I was standing right in front of it.

I walked into the room, which already appeared to be full of at least eighty or so people. Most of the seats were taken, and I didn't know where to sit. I walked past a few girls speaking in an unknown language to me, perhaps French, and a group of stereotypical "geeks". I finally noticed a spare seat a few rows from the back, in between a normal looking guy and girl. I wedged my way over there and turned to the girl who had long blond hair tied back into a bun, and black rimmed glasses similar to mine covered her brown eyes.

"Is this seat taken?" I asked her.

"Oh no, it's not." She said, in a very distinct Australian accent.

I merely nodded toward her to indicate my thanks as I went to organize my stuff. Wonderful me, as always, dropped my pens all over the floor. Before I even had time to pick them up, the guy beside me handed them to me, with a simple smile on his face. He had spiky brown hair, bright blue eyes, and fairly tan skin. He looked more like he should be in California rather than here in Alaska.

I smiled back as my means of thanking him, when at that moment the professor walked in to welcome all of us into the program.

I sighed, and starred blankly ahead, wondering if I really should have done this after all.

Two weeks now seemed like a really, really, really, really long time.

I'm very proud at myself for actually thinking about looking up what the weather is like in Alaska during the spring, and the differences in time zones from Alaska and Washington. Woo! Kudos to me! :) lol.

Thanks for reading! Please shoot me a review with your thoughts so far!

~Hazl~