Chapter 1: Escape

Nessie's POV

My heart was beating fast. We had been preparing for this moment for the past week but that didn't make it any less scary. I was only 11 years old and if everything went according to plan this would be the first time my brothers and I would be on our own. Without adult supervision.

A month ago I never would have imagined that my brothers and I would be escaping a foster home. It amazed me how much could change in just a month. Just a month ago my brothers and I were living with our mom. Just the four of us. We didn't have a dad. The kids at school love to tease us about not having a father.

The kids at school were cruel. They made fun of my brothers and I for a lot of different reasons. Besides not having a dad we were also teased because we didn't look anything alike besides the fact that we were triplets. Technically Jacob and Anthony are identical twins. I was the weird one since I was born a girl.

If you looked at my brothers and I you wouldn't know that we were related though. My brothers looked like Taylor Lautner from that movie Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Meanwhile I couldn't look more different with my extremely pale skin and bronze curly hair.

I got teased a lot because of my unusual name. Renesmee. Most people called me Nessie. Which only made them tease me more for being nicknamed after the loch ness monster. For all the bullying we suffered through Anthony had it the worst. He was born without vocal chords so he's mute. He communicated with everyone either through sign language or writing down whatever he had to say. However he could hear and understand everything perfectly so all the insults that were thrown his way on a daily basis really hurt him.

When we weren't at school though we were happy. We didn't have much at home since we were a poor family but we had each other and we had mom. Mom was usually busy working two jobs which made the little time we had together extra special.

Then everything changed a month ago when mom got into a car accident. The doctors say that she is in a coma and they weren't sure when she was going to wake up. Or if she was going to wake up. The thought of losing my mom saddened and terrified me.

Since we didn't have any other family to take care of us we were placed in foster care. Both grandpa Charlie and grandma Renee passed away a few years ago. We had never met grandpa Charlie since he lived in Forks, Washington. Mom avoided all places that were constantly wet, dark, and cloudy. Even if it meant that we could never meet our grandfather.

We never met grandma Renee either. Actually I'm not even sure that my grandparents never knew of our existence. I sighed. None of that mattered anymore. The only thing that mattered was escaping foster care.

A week ago we overheard our social worker and foster parents talking. We couldn't stay here any longer because there was no room for us. We were going to three separate families across the state of Hawaii. We were terrified of being separated. We had already lost our mother. We couldn't lose each other as well.

So we made a plan. We were going to run away. We were going to go to Forks, Washington where mom was from. We didn't know our father but we assumed he was from there as well. Mom refused to talk about our father no matter how many times we asked. All we knew is that she was married to him before. She had slipped and told us without meaning to. She still had the big oval wedding ring.

I hoped we could find out who he was. Maybe we could find him. It wasn't the best plan but it was better than being seperated. I was really good with computers so a few days ago I hacked into an airline and added my brothers's and my name to the passenger list and got tickets. I had set the whole thing up so it would look like we were flying as unaccompanied minors.

I jumped when I felt a finger tapping my shoulder. It was just Jacob and Anthony.

"Are you ready? We better leave now because if we wait until later it will look suspicious," Jacob said.

"The flight's not for another six hours,"

"Yeah and in six hours it's going to be midnight. Don't you think three 11 year old kids walking around in the middle of night will look suspicious?" Jacob questioned.

"You know he is right. It will look suspicious," Anthony added using sign language.

"Fine but what are we going to do until then?"

"Maybe go see a movie first? If we ask permission to see a movie that'll give us an excuse to get out of the house,"

Anthony nodded in agreement.

Even once we were out of the house walking toward the theater my heart wouldn't stop pounding. What if the plan failed? It was a question that was constantly on mind as we sat through Aladdin. Not even a movie was enough to take my mind off of my worries.

As soon as the movie was over we had to start our journey to the airport if we wanted to make it in time. We couldn't exactly drive and since we didn't want to risk anyone noticing us we chose to walk all the way to the Honolulu airport.

Security questioned us a few times about why we were alone. Thankfully our story about our parents just dropping us off at the airport and leaving was enough to satisfy them. It wasn't until we were in our seats that I breathed a sigh of relief. The plan was working.

When the airplane took off I just looked over at my brothers. One look told us all we needed to know. None of us could believe that we had succeeded. Now I just hoped and prayed against all odds that we wouldn't end up on some missing children's list.

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