Bella walked out of Hogwarts on her way to Hogsmeade. She had a lot on her mind. First she had to decide how she wanted to get to Forks, Washington. Actually she had to figure out where Forks, Washington was. Geography outside of Europe really didn't interest her; especially since all significant magical communities stayed in Europe.

When Bella was finally far enough out from Hogwarts, she apparated to her flat on the outskirts of London. She loved her lofty apartment. The upstairs loft was decorated in shades of purple. Downstairs the walls were of heavy cream colors that were covered in pictures. Right of the staircase that lead to loft was her reading corner. She had a lamp with an old recliner in the corner, with books following along on both sides of the wall.

She just recently picked up fiction written by the muggles. She was taken by surprise of what they called the classics. Austen, Bronte, Shakespeare were just of the few that she found enjoyable. Even if they didn't involve magic, the muggle writers sure knew how to draw out a plot line.

However as she set down, she realized she really didn't have a lot of books about America. Since she pretty much ignored the muggle world, she only knew the basics about it. Like it was on the other side of the world, its government was different, and that the magical community there was just a bit more open. Their magical government ran things a bit differently than the ministry. Maybe, she thought, that was because there was more room there and not everyone was apparently as traditional as the magical community of Europe.

So Bella decided to get out a quill and some parchment so she could organize what she would need to do and gather for this assignment. First and foremost she knew she would need to figure out where Forks, Washington actually exits. Then find out as much information about that town as she could. This would give her an idea of how to plan.

So first Bella went to her bookshelves to see if she had any books on magical America. As she looked, she realized that she had none. So that meant a trip to Diagon Alley. Bella was hoping that Flourish and Blotts would have some books on magical America. So as she apparated to the little outdoor part behind The Leaky Cauldron. As she appeared there she took out her wand, and tapped the brick wall to open the archway.

As she walked through a smile began to grace her face. Bella loved coming here. It was a place where she could feel at home. Not to mention everyone always had something new to show off. As she meandered her way down the street, she was watching the kids surround Quality Quidditch Supplies; since they were advertising a new Firebolt.

Flourish and Blotts wasn't really busy today since Bella knew that the Hogwarts hadn't sent out the school supplies list yet. As she perused around she saw a lot of books that she thought would be interesting just in furthering her home skills and some new styles of cooking with magic. Yet as she wandered around the store she only found one book for American magical society.

As she opened up the book to see what the contents were about, she saw a map with the names of the cities and states. Yet there was a city called Washington D.C. and a Washington State. That made Bella just a little bit anxious. As she flipped through the book it was only how the magical community their lived on the outskirts of society and didn't mingle with the muggle community at all. Also their government was apparently in some obscure place in Colorado. Apparently the rocky's a good place to hide a magical government.

So Bella realized she was going to have to find information in a completely different way. So the only place Bella could think of going to find information would be a muggle public library. She stumbled upon one day, which is how she found the muggle fiction. So she decided to go there and see what kind of information she could find.

She walked out and headed back towards The Leaky Cauldron. She knew she would need to apparate back to her apartment. That was the only way she was going to find the Library. Bella really didn't know muggle London very well. She was really wishing now that she took muggle studies now. She was starting to spend a lot of time in their presence.

As Bella got back to her apartment she went upstairs so she could change. Muggles dressed very differently than her. She normally wore robes around, but she knew she would stand out horribly walking around London in them. Madam Maulkin however actually had something that could be worn wherever. So Bella as reached her closet she dug around for a flowing brown peasant skirt with a tight dark blue sweater.

Then she ran out and walked to the Swiss Cottage Central Library. It was a bit of a distance but she needed to figure out where she was going, and what kind of community she would be in. Also this would give her the initial plan of how she was going to accomplish this. She also realized she would need to ask for help. Last time all she did was go grab some books and went to the front once she realized through someone else she could check out books.

Getting a library card wasn't hard, but she never looked up information. Bella knew muggles had ways of finding information and apparently they no longer used books. She saw in the library these machines that people used, but she didn't know how to use them. Also it seemed that all muggles knew how to use them and to ask would really make her stand out. That wouldn't be good.

So as Bella walked into the library and decided to watch the people that used the machines. They apparently held a lot of information so she needed to figure out how to use it. She figures that out, then she might be able to ask for some help and not look like she was standing out to much. So she went to the book case next to the machine's and decided to act like she was looking for a book.

As she watched she realized images showed up on the machine and that people were using some other component with their hands. Whatever they were using with their hands it was helping move the images along the machine. So as soon as one of the machines came open she went to sit down. Bella realized what they were using with their hands were typing in letters. So as she looked at the screen she saw all of these little pictures on it. The person next to her as she saw through her peripheral vision grabbed a little rounded object with a string coming from it and it moved a tiny image on the screen. He hit the top left twice over a little picture and the big picture changed.

The little picture started with an I so she did the same. As her image changed she continued to watch what he was doing. He used the long slender one, on it, it had letters. She saw him move the really little image to some part of the screen then he started to hit the letters and hit a key and the image started to change. Her image changed and it said Google. Bella was wonder what the bloody hell was Google, but she saw a line and figured that was where she needed to move the little image.

Bella grabbed the little rounded thing and moved the little image to there and did the click again. Some blinking line appeared. She then did what he did and hit the little letters. F O R K S W A S H I N G T O N and hit the bigger key. Nothing happened for a second or two then the image changed. It went white. A few more seconds a list appeared. While this was happening she was watching her neighbor and saw his list. He used the small rounded thing to click items on the list. Then his image would change and information would come up. So Bella went to hit one of the items on her list.

What came up was about this small town. 3,000 people live in this community. On this map she realized it was the state and not the city. Also it stated that it was surrounded by woods and had some kind of outdoor tourism industry. The weather was mostly cloud cover, so that was how the vampires were able to be out in public. Now that she knew where she was going Bella needed to go home to plan and pack.

So Bella got up and quickly exited the library and went to the alley where no one was and apparated home.