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It was my first day at a new school in La Push, Washington. I had come here to live with my father after the tragic accident with my mother. I just couldn't push the thought away that she was really gone…I suppose that is what often kept me out of focus when I was in school. My dad thought that if I just got away from it all and moved in with him after living with my grandmother for a few months, that it would help clear my head from the thought of my mother.

I hummed along to my iPod as I opened up my new locker, setting in my literature book and taking out the textbooks for my next class—math. My worst subject but still a necessity. My father was the math whiz in our family, not me.

I Wanna Be With You by: Mandy Moore came up on my iPod and I sighed, remembering my best friend I had left back in California. I felt like I had lost him forever once he got a girlfriend. Would he ever know just how much I cared about him and loved him? Would he ever be able to return my feelings that I had felt for him for many years. I was in denial anytime someone asked about our friendship, saying we were only friends. Nothing more. And that was true. That was all Bryan would ever see me as—his very close, best friend, who he could tell anything and rely on—and I just had to except that. It was better for both of us and not worth it losing a great friendship over that we had had for so many years since his mother had been good friends with my mom.

I quietly sang the words in my mind, humming as I shut my locker. A very specific verse came to my mind as I stopped singing and stood idly to listen intently.

Oh, baby

I can`t fight this feeling anymore

It drives me crazy when I try to

So call my name

Take my hand

Make my wish

Baby, your command?

Yeahhh

I wanna be with you—

I quickly shut my IPod off with a sigh and abruptly shoved it in my pocket. Wrong song choice for the wrong moment. I wasn't sure what hurt more—the fact that Bryan probably couldn't ever love me back or the fact that he was in love with somebody else…

My father shocked me with some very surprising news later that evening. Just as I was about to go into the kitchen to make dinner, Dad stopped me by calling out my name in a rush. "Abby!" He called out so fast, it hardly sounded like my name at all.

I turned around in surprise, my heart jumping in my chest with fright. "Dad, you scared the heck out of me! What?" I demanded.

"Don't make dinner. We're going out tonight."

He surprised me with this information. We almost never went out for dinner except on rare special occasions or when he had bad news. I was hoping this was a special occasion. "Why?" I asked confusingly.

He ran his hand through his brown hair and managed to look sheepish as he suppressed a grin. "We were invited over to dinner by a friend of mine. She has a son your age. I'm sure you two will get along great," he informed me.

My eyebrows rose in shock. Boy my age? Where was he going with this? And since when did Dad have a friend that was a girl? He almost never spoke to woman his own age since the accident and since my mother called for a divorce. The divorce had been hard, but seeing as my father was always working late nights during the week and weekends, I was never truly close enough to him that I had any special bond with him. So going off to live with my mother was almost as normal as it could possibly get, which at first truly scared and worried me.
"Since when do you have a friend who is a she?" I asked, suspicion creeping up in my tone. "And you say she has a son. Is she married or are you guys dating…?"

"It's not what you think, Abs. We're just very good friends, that's all. We met one day in my office when I was trying to help her solve a case and we became better friends the more I began to work defending her in court." My father is a lawyer and has been practically since he got out of college. He is one of the best lawyers I know—well, probably the only lawyer for that matter.

"Alright," I sighed. I shrugged and smiled for his benefit. "Beats a night of making dinner. Where does she live? What's her name? I want to know all about her."

"Now, Abby, I told you it isn't like that between her and I. She lives down in the farther area of La Push and her name is Sue Clearwater. Just, please don't try and embarrass your old man. Okay?" he said with a halfhearted smile.

I laughed. "Now why on earth would I do that?" I pecked a kiss on his cheek and ran up the stairs. "I'll be down in a few. Just have to grab my purse and shoes."

I ran upstairs as I listened to him chuckle quietly to himself as he headed for the front door. It was strange to be invited to dinner by a woman I did not even know, but the feeling and knowledge that she knew my father brought some comfort as I slipped on my black flats and went to my closet. I decided it was best that I wore something nicer, considering I would want to make a good impression, not only for myself, but for my dad as well. I switched my black and white print t-shirt for an aqua blue flowing blouse and stayed in my black skinny jeans as I made a bee line for my purse and the bathroom.

I looked in the mirror, my reflection staring back at me. My long black hair ran down my back in a curtain of soft waves, complimenting my fair skin and blue eyes. Everyone always told me I was beautiful enough to do without makeup, so I was never big on putting a lot of makeup on, mostly just on rare occasions. I decided to apply some black eyeliner and a bit of mascara to make my sapphire eyes pop, and I ran for the door before stopping to apply another coat of light pink lip gloss.

The whole process had only taken a mere fifteen minutes as I ran down the driveway and to my dad's old blue Chevy truck. I jumped into the warm car and we drove off to Sue Clearwater's house. I was both nervous and excited as we took the twenty minute drive and stopped in front of a small gray house. The scene would have looked depressing any other place, but with First Beach behind it, it looked beautiful as the light gray clouds cascaded around it and thin sunshine warmed my cheeks, if only barely. A huge change from California's warm sunshine all the time.

With a deep breath I jumped out of the car, already greeted by Sue and her son waiting on the front porch. His warm brown eyes met mine and for a moment I had to hold myself together as I drowned in the pools of intensity before following my father to his dinner "date."

Review! Thanks. I'll try to update as soon as I can. Trying to work around the new school year schedule. Oh, and btw, this fanfic is named after the Mandy Moore song! :) And sorry this chapter was soo short. The others will be longer, I promise! This is just kind of an introduction on the whole story and how she arrived in La Push :D

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