Stable Boy
* Bella Swan is 17, she lives with her mom, Renee, and her step-dad Phil, in Phoenix, Arizona. Her dad, Charlie, is a "Famous in a small town" Rancher near Texarkana, Texas. When a sudden job offer for Phil comes up, she finds herself on a train to her dad's, where she meets a very sexy, very shirtless, green-eyed god. *
I woke to the smells of bacon and coffee. My mom, Renee, never really cooks, except if she's nervous, or upset about something. When Phil, my step-dad, isn't home, I'm one that normally cooks. That was why I was thinking that maybe Phil took off of work today. Phil was a varsity baseball coach at the local college, so he works pretty much everyday. As I was getting off the bed, my foot got wrapped around the sheet, and I wound up with my face on the floor.
"Ouch!" I muttered. If there was anything to trip over, it would be me who'd trip over it. I was a walking safety hazard, or as other people call me, a klutz. That's why I don't have any friends here. I've never really been bothered by that though. I guess I've always been a loner. As I was walking down the stairs my toes got caught on my pant leg and wound up falling, face first down 2 steps. "This is so not my day."
"Bella honey, you okay?" my mom was cooking?
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why are cooking?" I finally made my way into the kitchen.
"Is it so wrong to cook breakfast for my sweet little girl?" she asked.
"Mom, I'm 17 not 7. I'm not so little anymore."
She sighed and started looking pretty tense, like she was afraid of what was to come. So finally after a long pause, I was about to say something when my mom blurted out, "We're moving."
"What? Why, we just moved here three years ago?" I would just like to stay in one place for awhile. When my mom divorced my dad, Charlie, ten years ago we lived in Texas; my dad still lives there to this year on a huge farm with horses. He used to have some livestock, but he didn't have enough people to help him. My mom
"Well, Phil got a job offer in Jacksonville, Florida, to coach their minor league baseball team. Also, you will not be coming with us; you will be living with your father in Texas."
"Why now are you sending me to be with Charlie? I like living with you and Phil, sure I'd like it if we stayed in one place longer than a year, and have a few friends."
"Bella, sweetie, that's why I want you to stay with your father. It's not fair you if you only see Charlie on rare occasions. You really need to get to know him, and he you. Now, I already talked this over with him. You will be going to school at St. Alvins High school; it has a very good reputation. Do you understand that it's not that I don't want you to leave me, it's just that I think it's for the best?"
"Yes, I understand. At least Phil will be able to take care of you, so that's a good thing. Since I seem to have no choice in this matter, when do I leave?"
"You will be leaving the day after tomorrow, which will give you a full day to pack. I already called your school and told them everything, so that way they could send your transcripts over to St. Alvin's."