I'm sorry for not updating sooner guys! I went on a field trip over the weekend, so I didn't have much time to type anything fantastic up.

The question about what kind of doctor Brooke wants to be was presented to me, and to tell you all the truth, I'm not quite sure. I guess I never thought about all the different kinds of doctors there were. (I want to be a vet, so I'll be doctoring very different types of patients.) I just thought she'd be like Carlisle, working in a hospital, kind of doing a little bit of everything.

Well I wanted to give you a little preview of what's coming in the chapter after this. Since Carlisle isn't around much right now, I'm going to make Chapter 15 in his POV. The entire chapter! *Cheers* So you can get inside his head and know how much he's missing Brooke, what he feels about the terrible Viviene, and more. So I'm looking forward to that. But for this chapter, we're still with Brooke. :)

Chapter 14

I was sort of lost in my own world. I was barely hearing anything that was being said. It didn't seem like long at all, and we were dismissed.

I quickly jumped up out of my chair and walked through the aisle way, trying to squeeze my way through various groups of people. I heard the buzzing voices of many different groups that were mingling together. I figured the people here from other countries probably had to be very fluent in English in order to be here. The professor didn't repeat the introduction in fifty different languages.

I felt so out of place. At least at school back home, I kind of had a general group of people to hang around with. For the most part, we were all from the same place, and did things the same way. Here, I wouldn't even know how to begin talking to someone from a foreign country. I had never been out of the United States before. I had only taken three years of French in high school, that wasn't enough to be able to freely communicate with someone from France though.

And even the people that were from the United States were not from Washington. They were from places like Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, and New York City, no where like the pathetically rainy state of Washington.

And I'm sure that none of them worked in a small town named after an eating utensil.

I was really starting to feel lonely. I missed home, and I didn't know anyone here at all. I was suddenly extremely thankful that Bella and Edward had come with me. But that still wasn't enough. I figured that I probably needed to befriend somebody here, anyone, someone I could talk to and spend a weekend with...someone who...

"Excuse me." I heard someone call behind me. I turned around to look at the voice that called after me, and saw the guy who had sat beside me earlier. I stopped and waited on him to walk over to my side.

"Hi." He said simply, smiling at me. "I'm the guy that picked up your pens."

I smiled too. "Yes, thanks for that."

"Not a problem." He responded, shifting his books around so he could shake my hand. "I'm Adam Chandelier....and you are?"

"Brooke Jeffers." I said.

"Brooke, that's cool...I have a cousin named Brooke."

"Oh really." I replied. "I don't know anyone named Adam."

He grinned. "Well now you do."

"Yes I guess I do, don't I?"

"So where are you from Brooke?" He asked me as we finally managed to walk out of the room and into the open.

"I'm from Seattle."

"Seattle, Washington...doesn't it rain a lot there?"

"Oh yeah." I said, clutching my books closer to me so that I didn't drop them. "Where are you from?"

"I'm a California guy." He replied, looking very proud of himself.

"I should have known." I said.

"Why?"

"Well, your pretty tan...California was the first place I thought that you could have come from."

"I'm not entirely a California person though. My family actually has a summer house up here in Alaska. So I come here every summer, now I get to be here in the spring too."

"That would make it nice." I said, as he waved at someone who walked by. "That way you already know the people around here."

"Yeah it is pretty convenient." He said, pausing for a moment before asking his next question. "So do you go to Seattle U?"

"Yeah I do." I said.

"That's a nice school, I looked into it myself. But I decided to stay closer to home, so I applied to California U."

"That's good." I said.

"Well, it's not the best school I could have gotten into, but it works." He said. "So do you live there in Seattle then?"

"Yeah, well I do now. I bought an apartment up there. I used to live a little outside of town with my grandfather in our.." I sighed, "Pretty much mansion."

"Ahh so your decently rich?"

"My grandfather was a very, very, very successful doctor. He has a lot of money."

"My dad's a doctor." He said. "He's pretty rich himself. We pretty much live in a mansion ourselves."

"Well I would say so, you have two houses."

"Yeah." He said, looking pretty proud of himself. "So where do you work?"

"Have you ever heard about the town of Forks?"

He nodded. "Yeah, my brother's girlfriend has family up there, so I've been there a few times."

"Have you seen the hospital there?"

"Yes I have."

"I work there."

"You work there?" He asked. "What do you do?"

"I'm a doctor's assistant." I replied.

"A doctor's assistant...that's pretty cool." He said. "I follow my dad around at work sometimes, but I can't ever find any medical related jobs. So I work as a lifeguard at my friend's parent's country club. They have an indoor pool there for their guests in the winter and stuff, so that's when I work there, since I'm not down there in the summer."

"A lifeguard huh, that sounds like fun."

"Yeah it's the best job I could find that still sort of bounced back to the medical profession."

"Have you ever saved anyone from drowning or anything?"

"No, not yet...which is a good thing."

"Yeah it is." I replied.

"So what's your family like?" He asked.

"Oh, my family."

"Do you not like your family?"

"Oh no." I said shaking my head. "I love my family, it's just that I don't have very much of one."

He was silent, looking at me for an explanation.

"My parents died when I was young, and my grandmother died a few years later. I've spent most of my life with my grandfather. But I have an Uncle named Todd, and an aunt Mary. They have three daughters. Sandra is absolutely crazy, but she's like a younger sister to me, she's about seventeen. Melody and Destiny are twins, they're fifteen."

"That's all?"

"Yeah, that's my family." I said, biting the side of my cheek.

"Well my mom Gina is pretty awesome, she dresses up crazy though. My dad Fredrick is a doctor, like I said, but he's also cool just to hang out with. I have a brother who's about twenty-two, his name is Lance. He actually goes to school here." He said, motioning around. "He loves sports...he's pretty much my best friend in the whole world. Then he has a girlfriend, her name is Lacey Landacare. She's around my age, I went to high school with her. She's going to some arts school back in California. She teaches dance though, ballet and stuff. She's a really good ballroom dancer. She's won a few competitions and stuff. She comes up here every weekend to visit Lance. And then she comes up here with us in the summer."

"Sounds like you have a pretty cool family." I said.

"Yeah they are pretty cool." We didn't have any more classes that day, just the introductory one, so we were now heading toward the general direction of the parking lot. "What are your friends like?"

What were we playing here? Twenty questions? Oh well...I was just glad that I had actually talked to someone here. I didn't feel like a total loser now.

"Well I don't have too many friends. I was popular in school and all, but I was just too busy studying to have time to hang out with anyone. I got most of my friends after high school. I'm pretty good friends with this girl named Natalie that goes to college with me. She's very hyper, and always full of energy. Then I'm friends with a few other people. Bella and Edward are two of them...I'm actually staying with them while I'm here. They have a vacation house up here too."

"Well that's good you got your friends to come up here with you." He said. "I have one best friend, his name is Ned. He's the kind that you can just sit down and play video games with all night. I hang out with some other guys too, but Ned and Lance are pretty much it."

We were now standing at the door that led out into the chilly parking lot.

"How often are you going to go home?" He asked.

"Oh...every other weekend." I replied.

"I guess that would be reasonable, since your family is still back where you live and all. I'm maybe only going to go home once or twice, just to visit my friends, since my family is up here."

I nodded in response to him.

"Well I probably should be going." He said, motioning toward the parking lot.

"Yeah, me too."

"Hey it was really nice to talk to you Brooke." He said.

"Yeah, it was nice talking to you too Adam."

"I'll see you around here I guess." He said, grinning as we walked out into the parking lot.

"See ya later!" I called after him as he took of for a mad dash after a pretty nice looking car. I didn't even waste time taking out my phone and calling Dr. Cullen on my way home. He asked me how my introductory class went, but since I was a little unsure of the details on that, I tried to distract him by telling him how much I missed him. We talked for another hour or so after I got home, before we got off the phone.

I wondered if he missed me as much as I missed him. Did he miss me at all? I wasn't sure. He said he missed me, but maybe he could live without having me around a lot better than I could live without him. I marked off the days on the calendar until I got to see him again. It was too long.

I kept trying to tell myself that being away from him for two weeks at a time would be worth it in the end, because I would be a very successful doctor. And then my family, my grandfather specifically, my friends, and even him would be so extremely proud of how much I achieved.

But yet, since having met him, I almost seemed just as content to forever be a doctor's assistant, if it meant not having to be away from him.

However, I was still in a sense the same stubborn girl I had been before I had fallen in love, because I still had a little voice in the back of my head telling me not to let him in the way of my future. And as I had always done in the past, I was listening.

I was extremely bored, Bella and Edward had left me a note saying they had went out and would be back later. So I was left in a strange new house, in a strange new place, alone, and I didn't know where to go or what to do for fun around here. I could go outside and chuck snowballs at the walls of the house, but that didn't sound like a very amusing activity. Maybe I wouldn't be as bored once all my classes started up.

How bored I was then on a Monday night got me thinking about how bored I could get over the weekend if Bella and Edward weren't here. That would be an absolute disaster. I'd probably talk to Dr. Cullen on the phone for so long that I'd lose my voice.

But that didn't sound like a bad idea, it did sound more fun than throwing snow at the house.

I groaned and flipped through TV channels, nothing was on. I was bored enough that I decided to attempt cooking, and I made myself a not-so-perfect omelet. The Cullens didn't have many groceries in here. I guess that made sense, due to the fact this was just a vacation house. Edward had gotten a few of the essential cooking items the night before while Bella and I unpacked.

I suddenly knew what I could do. I would drive into town and buy a lot of grocceries. The only thing is, I had no idea where to look for the store. So I figured that I'd just drive in circles around town until I found it, and if I didn't find it, well I guess I just wasted a whole bunch of money on a useless tank of gas.

So I put my coat back on and braved the cold on my way out to the car. I drove into town and only drove in two circles before I found the grocery store. I was very pleased with myself. I walked through the aisles of the store, filling my cart full of vegetables, canned goods, chips, cookies, and other food items. The look on the cashier's face was priceless as she scanned all of my food. I had to explain to her that we had absolutely no food whatsoever and that buying this much food was sort of necessary.

I loaded my purchases into the car, drove home, and placed all of the items into their respective locations in the kitchen. I looked at the clock and saw that I had only managed to kill two hours of my time. Bella and Edward still were not back, and I still had a lot of time before the night was over. I took a shower, brushed my teeth, picked out what I was going to wear the next day, called Natalie, called Sandra, called my Grandfather...and that all killed an hours worth of time. I had never been so bored before. I was going to yell at Bella and Edward for leaving me alone like this.

I laid there on my bed starring at the ceiling, and my mind drifted to Dr. Cullen. It was right now at this moment that I missed him the most.

I really needed to make some friends here or something...or this was not going to be as enjoyable of an experience as it should be.

Ehh...kinda boring...I know...but Carlisle's POV next chapter! Yea!

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~Hazl~