Chapter 01

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Bradley stared down the plane window, staring at the large thick forests and the occasional clusters of towns. Looking over to his left to see his sister peacefully asleep on her neck pillow. Sighing to himself as he pulled out his phone, going through the photos, stopping at an old photo from when their little family was still living in Forks, all under the same roof. 

A bell chime went off with the following announcement, "Attention all passengers, please fasten your seatbelts we'll be landing soon" and as they advised he fastened he seatbelt waiting for the plane to land. 

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In the state of Washington, under a near state of constant cover of clouds and rain, there's a small town named Forks. Population, 3,120 people.

The two teens got off the plane in Port Angeles with the common occurrence of rain starting to drizzle from the sky. "Bella! Bradley!", hearing the call of their names, the two spun around turning their heads in the direction their father, Charlie, was waiting for them in his cruiser.

"It's good to see you Bells, Bradley," he said, smiling. "How's your mom?" He asked the two.

"Moms doing fine," Bella told him as he and Bradley quickly put their bags in the trunk of his car. 

The drive at first was alright, the silence was fine for Bradley, but he noticed it apparently became awkward between Charlie and Bella. They both had that socially awkward trait to them. 

He could tell Charlie was getting antsy wanting to say something, so he decided to break the silence between them. "So dad, anything new happened while we were away?". 

Charlie took a glance at him from the rear view mirror, "Oh yeah, well not much happens in this town so there's not much activity unfortunately. But everyone is pretty excited for that game tonight". 

Bradley rolled his eyes dramatically, "A game is the most excitement this town gets I see" he laughed. 

Charlie stared at the road before talking to Bella, "Your hair looks longer Bella" he told her. 

She took a second before responding back to him, "I uh, actually cut it the last time I saw you...". The deafening silence returned as Bradley mentally sighed to himself. 

But thankfully both Charlie and Bella were able to have a steady conversation leaving Bradley to put on his headphone and stare out the window once more.

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They pulled up to the driveway, stepping out of the car. Bradley stared at the house that had stayed in the back of his mind the past few weeks after finding out he'd permanently be living here again, coming back to him like a flood.  Waking inside rolling his luggage up to their bedrooms. And god did he love the way the house looked, it felt more nostalgic and comforting than their house back in Arizona.

He followed Charlie, who was carrying Bella's luggage up the stairs, where he came across a familiar bedroom door, "Everything's still the same as you left it" Charlie smiled at him. 

That's right, there were often summers where Bradley would miss his dad and would beg his mom to let him stay with Charlie until school started in the fall. The last time he had done so was last summer.

"Thanks dad, and also thanks for letting us stay here with you".

"Of course, it's nice to have both you and Bella here together" their attention was brought to Bella grunting as she struggled to get some of her other bag up the stairs.

"Isn't she struggling a little too hard? She barley has any clothes in there anyways, Bradley said out loud for Charlie to hear. 

"Well you know Bella, she's never been an active person" And soon Charlie was gone to help Bella.

He took a look around the room realizing that he was really back, back in Forks. He walked over to his bed throwing his body on it like dead weight, sprawled out staring at the ceiling, ready to doze off to sleep. But that feeling was quickly dismissed when he heard a car horn honk.

Getting off his bed he looked out the window to be reminded of the truck Charlie got Bella. "Isn't that Jacob down there too?" he questioned to himself. Forget trying to sleep, he grabbed a light sweater from his suitcase and went out to join them. 

"Well if it isn't Bradley Swan" Billy said coming up to him. 

"It's nice to see you to Mr. Black, and I guess Jacob too" he  sighed disappointingly. 

"Hey!" They heard Jacob yell. 

Billy continued his conversation with Bradley, "The boys back on the reservation have been waiting for you since they found out you were coming up". 

He smiled, "I'm sure they do, I'm just that much fun". He'd have to remind himself to stop by after school and after his stuff from Arizona gets shipped up to forks. 

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