Seventeen-year-old Harper Thorne thought moving with her mother from her crowded hometown in California to a small, gloomy town in Washington called Forks would be a wonderful fresh start, and would help her move forward from her agonizing past.
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It had been almost exactly a week since Alice and I's first "official" date — along with it being a week since Alice asked me to be her girlfriend officially — and I couldn't be happier with how our relationship was going thus far.
I had to admit to myself, I never knew dating a vampire would feel this easy, nor this enchanting as it felt compared to a human.
During my past life in Fresno before moving to the rainy town of Forks, I admittedly thought what me and Greyson had was real, true, and loving — not something that would eventually trample my heart and leave me to bleed out.
Those eleven months I chose to give of my life to be with him was a mistake I still felt regret over. Yet, I knew I'd eventually need to find the courage to forgive myself for trusting and loving a guy that I had no idea would turn their back on me the way he did — blaming myself was not a healthy solution at the end of the day.
As for the relationship I had now with Alice, I felt much more love, care, and respect in only a week-long relationship than I ever did in the almost year-long relationship I had with Greyson.
Regardless of it all, after taking some time to acknowledge my feelings and emotions towards this subject, I felt in my heart that I didn't have a specific preference towards which gender I would be better off being with — despite that man in Seattle titling me as a lesbian. I knew I could've corrected him, though I was not sure yet up until that point, as I was still questioning it.
Nevertheless, I knew what I was in at the moment was what I wanted. What Alice and I had was healthy, joyful, and full of nothing but love, light, and gentleness — that's what I deserved, and what every individual in the world deserves in a significant other.
We had off this Friday due to a teacher work day at school, meaning I had three free days to myself at home and away from Alice. Though I wanted to cherish my free time — especially away from school — I missed Alice tremendously.
I started wishing I had invited her over to hang out for the day at my place, or that I would've suggested we go out and do something for the day together.
Regardless of how close we were at this point, I still felt incredibly shy and nervous around her — though I would expect that's how most vampire-human relationships would go if there were many.
In that instant, I built up the courage to grab my phone lying next to me on my bed and went to search for her contact in my phone to call her, just to see how her day was going — and possibly see if she wanted to see me if she was free.
Just before I could press the phone icon next to Alice's name, I felt a loud thud against my bedroom window that nearly shook the whole house — startling me beyond measure.
Wide-eyed, I looked over at the closed window and saw her — holding onto the frame of my window and looking in with an ecstatic expression on her face.
