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Chapter One:
APOV
I stared out the window of my bedroom to see nothing but another gloomy day. Another gloomy day filled with the same old gloomy things. Across the street Mrs. Stanley was muttering to herself about the morning paper being wet...again! The scowl on her face was incredibly irritating. What did she expect?
Next door to me I saw my best friend Bella sneaking—or trying to sneak—out the back door of Edward's house. They had been together since the second grade. I envied them. They were eight when they found true love, while everyone else had to wait years or lifetimes to find even a wisp of that kind of love. You know the kind, irrevocable and unconditional. We were supposed to meet at the local diner for breakfast in 20 minutes. She was in the same outfit as yesterday. I wondered if she would try to run home and change first. Not likely.
Then, I looked down at my drive way. I always saved this for last because it made me feel a pain in my chest because of what I saw, or lack there of. My father's car was never there. Or at least it felt like it was never there. He was a lawyer/ business man with a big firm in Seattle. To any other teenager, it would be a dream. Being home alone all the time. For me it was just lonely.
I sighed. Was it wrong that I wanted the day to end before it had even begun? I got up from the window and grabbed all the things I would need for the day. You know the usual: phone, wallet, make-up bag, giant-ass purse...I sighed again. It was all very tedious. Though I had to admit, there was a voice in the back of my head that said that today would be different. I hoped so. Which was actually very stupid of me. I knew not to hope. It would just make me depressed in the end.
I headed down stairs and grabbed my keys in the bowl by the door. After double checking that I had all my assignments for school that day, I walked out the door to my car and headed to the diner that was five minutes away. As I was driving to the diner I got cut off by a moving van. It was large and cumbersome and out of place. Not because it was large and cumbersome but because this was Forks and who in their right mind would ever move here? Everyone I knew was always speaking about how they couldn't wait to get away from this god forsaken town.
I pulled into my usual spot in the diner parking lot, second from the left of the door, and proceeded inside. It was pretty empty, as usual. Cora, the main (only) waitress, greeted me with a smile. How anybody could be as cheerful as her this early in the morning always astounded me. I took my spot at the counter and saw that I was ten minutes early. I had a math test today, so I thought that I might as well go over my notes some more.
After I had been sitting there for a while, I glanced up at the clock again. I guess Bella decided to go home and change after all. She was 15 minutes late. I went back to my work and five minutes later, I finally heard the bell above the door ring and felt someone sit down next to me.
"You've kept me waiting a long time," I joked.
There was a brief moment of silence before a quiet and very bewildered voice answered, "I'm sorry, ma'am."
JPOV
I looked out the kitchen window to see nothing but green. Green trees, green lawn, green moss covering the roof of the old shed. The old green shed. I sighed. It was so different from Texas, but that was sort of the point. No reminders. After all, she would never be caught dead—NO! Don't think about...her.
Luckily, I could hear my mother and sister arguing in the living room behind me. Their arguments always served to be good distractions. Today, it was about the breakfast situation. Should we eat in or go out? Go out, of course, seeing as there was nothing in the kitchen. Should we eat eggs and toast or pancakes? Each person should order what they want. We don't all have to eat the same thing! Should we all go or should there be a person at the house? Send someone. We don't all have to go. And so it went on.
It was decided that I would go and get everyone breakfast after the movers had arrived. And when they did arrive, I could only think one thing: Do we really have so much stuff that we had to get a truck that size? When my mother and sister started to argue about who would direct the movers, I got out of there as quickly as possible. I still didn't have a car, so I just walked until I got to town. There weren't many options as far as eating was concerned. There was a diner that said '24 hours' on the door, and then there was something called 'The Lodge'. I opted for the diner, thinking that was the safest of the two. That and it was the closest to me. It had started to rain and I was soaked in seconds.
The diner was pretty empty when I went inside. There were a couple of old geezers sitting in a booth in the corner. Another man was sitting at a table by the window. There was a waitress walking around with a coffee pot, humming to herself. Then, I looked at the counter. There was a girl sitting there. She didn't look much older than seventeen. She was alone and you could see a sadness in her.
I don't know what made me do it. Maybe I thought I could offer her some comfort for whatever was making her sad? I don't know. But I certainly didn't expect the words that came out of her mouth after I sat down.
"You've kept me waiting a long time."
I honestly didn't know how to respond to that. So I did what any good Southern gentleman would do. I nodded my head and apologized.
"I'm sorry, ma'am."
She froze for a moment and in a very tiny voice replied, "You're not Bella."
"Not the last time I checked. No."
Suddenly, the bell above the door rang and a brunette, who looked about the same age as the girl, rushed past me and sat on the other side of...God! Why hadn't I asked her for her name yet? She started going on about how sorry she was for being so late. Something about waking up late and car troubles. She kept apologizing for making her wait. Then I realized that this must be "Bella".
"...had to come over and jump start my engine. He really is the best boyfriend when it comes to stuff like that. I am so sorry, Alice, to keep you waiting like this. Hey, who's your friend?"
The girl, Alice, didn't reply. She seemed to still be frozen from our exchange earlier. She kept staring at her notebook with a deer in the headlights look on her face. When it didn't seem like she was going to respond, I reached around behind her and introduced myself.
"Jasper Hale. I just moved here. I was just keeping her company while she waited for you."
"Oh, that's so thoughtful! Thank you. I'm Bella, by the way."
"Nice to meet you, Bella."
Suddenly, Alice seemed to come out of her trance.
"Why?"
"Excuse me?"
"Why would you want to move here?"
She turned to look at me and the entire world stopped...And not in a good way. When I looked into her eyes, all I saw was her. The one who broke my heart. The one who stabbed me in the back. The one that caused me to runaway from Texas and move here.
Maria.
I didn't think. I couldn't. I just stood up and left that diner as quickly as possible. I know that it was rude, but I wasn't going to stick around and let everyone witness the panic attack that I could feel coming on. Once I reached the road, I started running full speed. In the back of my mind, I acknowledged that I didn't pick up breakfast, but I wasn't going to turn around now. I was determined to leave that diner (and the girl in it) behind.
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