Chapter One

There are only three people in this entire world that I would drop anything for. The first one being my daughter, the second being my mom, and the third being my younger sister Bella. So when Charlie had called me and asked me to come to Forks and help Bella you bet your ass my happy butt was on the next flight to Washington. Charlie had called me late at night, 1am his time and 4am my time here in Georgia. He could barely even speak he sounded so... broken. He quickly explained to me what had happened to Bella a few days earlier, I guess she was dating this guy named Edward and then all of a sudden he and his family had left the state for a family emergency. I could Bella screaming in agony upstairs. I cringed, that is probably the worst sound anyone could ever hear a loved one making. It didn't take long at all to convince me to come to Forks. All he had to say was that Bella needed me.

I dropped my daughter off with her father and promised that I would be back soon. I hated having to leave her, especially so suddenly. She's almost four so she understands that aunty B needs me. Her father, Anthony, wasn't as understanding and basically jerked Penny from my arms. It was that night that I left to Washington.

Anthony and I had met when I was a sophomore and he was a senior, I thought it was the coolest thing to date a senior at the time. Boy was I wrong. We had dated for a few months before we had sex- I lost my virginity to him- and then a month later I found out I was pregnant. Which lead Charlie and Renee both to send me to live with my birth grandparents in Georgia. We had tried to stay together, and after graduation he moved to Georgia to be with me and Penny, but it was only a matter of time before he left me. When Charlie and Renee first got married they had tried for years to have a baby and when they couldn't get pregnant, they turned to adoption and that's what lead them to me when I was six months old. Then, two years later Renee had gotten pregnant with Bella and they were over the moon. But just because I was related to them by blood didn't mean they loved me any less than they did Bella. When they split up when B and I were older, she went with Renee while I stayed behind in Forks with Charlie. Bella and I were really close growing up despite never having lived with each other for more than half our lives.

When I arrived in Port Angeles I quickly dropped my bag from baggage claim and went to the rental car booth. I had rented a 2010 blue jeep wrangler, similiar to the one I drove back in Georgia. It only took about a half hour before I showed up at Charlie's house. Usually the drive is an hour to an hour and a half but I would never tell my father how much of a speed demon I was. His old police cruiser was still parked out front under the tree like always and I recognized the orange truck in the driveway from all those times I would visit Billy Black when I lived here. I quickly grabbed my bags and went to the front door. I was about to knock when the door was thrust open and Charlie pulled me into a tight embrace, my bags forgotten at my feet.

I wrapped my arms tight around his torso and I let a few tears escape. I hadn't been back home in Forks since I was sent to Georgia. I know Charlie regrets sending me away and he blames himself for not fighting harder on Renee's decision, but I know how hard it would have been for me to stay here after I found out about Penny. We stood in the doorway for a few more minutes before he let me go and held me at arms length and gave me a good look over as I did the same to him. He looked the same, tired, but the same old Charlie I remembered.

"You grew up so much, Haze! I can't believe you just turned 20 a few months ago." I could tell he wanted to cry by the way his voice shook and the lump in his throat. "Uhm, Bells is upstairs getting ready for school, you can go ahead and head up. I didn't tell her you were coming so hopefully you'll get some reaction out of her." I could tell he was disappointed and sad about what B was going threw. I set my bags down in the living and started up the stairs.

I politely knocked on Bella's door, and I had to press my ear to it to hear her quietly say come in. When I opened the door my heart broke at what I saw. She was just sitting in an old rocking chair staring out her window. She was wearing jeans and an old sweatshirt of mine when I found out about Penny. It doesn't even look like she's brushed her hair yet. I slowly made my way into the room and crouched down next to her and ran my hand in her hair. She turned and looked at me and my heart broke even more at what I saw in her eyes. She had deep purple bags under her eyes and she looked so tired and lifeless. All it took was for her to take one look at me before she threw herself in my arms and started crying, loudly.

I wrapped my arms around her and rubbed her back in soothing circles and just sat there on the dusty floor holding her. As she cried I quietly hummed to her an old lullybye that Renee used to sing to us when we were younger and we were having a bad dream. I gently rocked her back and both and just held her as she cried. I took this time to look around the old bedroom we had shared. The bed was unmade and her desk was cluttered. There was a layer of dust covering everything that wasn't the bed or the rocking chair. Bella's sobbing started to quiet down and so did her breathing, it took a couple more minutes but she had fallen asleep in my arms.

Charlie came up not that much later and saw us on the floor. I waved him over to help me lift B up and set her gently in her bed. I had tucked her in and was about to head downstairs when I heard her speak.

"Please, don't go, Haze. I can't sleep alone." My eyes softened at my sister and I smiled at her before kicking off my boots and taking off my jacket before crawling in bed next to her. She turned toward me so she was curled into my chest with my arms around her. I listened to her breathing slow and her heartbeat slowdown and I made sure she was completely asleep before letting myself drift off. The last thing I thought about before sleep overtook me was that I was going to kick some serious vampire ass.