"Are you asking me out on a date?"
"In your dreams Lahote"
Mattea Whitner has always been a sometimes quiet person. When she moves to a small town named Forks Washington for an escape from her old life and a fresh start she is thrown into the world...
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I stared at the outside of the house I called my childhood home. All the memories etched into the walls playing on a constant loop in my head. Each brick with its own story screaming to be heard.
17 years spent in those four walls and a roof that I can never take back. The only home I've ever known. I didn't want to leave, but I did at the same time. There's something unexplainable about leaving behind your childhood home. The house that built you, that shaped you into the person that you are today. In a way it's like giving up your innocence. Letting that piece of you go and saying "it's time to move onto better things." Start a new chapter in your life. But nothing can replace that house.
It made me into who I am. Every tear, every laugh, has been engraved into the walls. I always knew this day would come but I never excepted it to lead me to this moment. It's bittersweet. As painful as it may be the tearful goodbye is needed.
Leaving can be challenging until you actually muster up enough courage. Then, for some people it becomes easy. For others, you never really get over it. I haven't decided which I'm most scared of yet. Moving can be by your own will, while sometimes it may be forced. For me? Well It's a bit of both.
I need to escape the life I'd lived in this town. Although I don't have many options to choose from, I feel like I'm drowning here in the memories of the past. Memories floating by everywhere I turn like clouds in the sky. In some twisted way, maybe what happened is what's gonna allow me to start over. That's if you ask the detective at the police station.
Moving to Forks will hopefully be my saving grace. The thing that will save me from everything that has taken place in this stupid town. Taking me away from the place of the incident that stained my brain.
I sighed as I tore my gaze away from the house I watched as my taxi pulled into the driveway ready and waiting to take me to the airport. I pulled my luggage over to the car thanking the driver as helped me load everything in the trunk. Before getting in, I looked back at the house still in shock of the fact that I'm leaving this place for good. The surrealism hitting me like a train.
Telling the driver I was ready I looked out at the house through the cars glass window. Watching as we slowly pulled out of the drive officially leaving the only home I've ever known in the dust.
