Eternally Yours

Chapter 2

Art should comfort the disturbed

And disturb the comfortable

-Cesar Cruz
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“Alright, let’s go ruin our lives.” Bella spoke, pulling her bag from the carousel and walking off with me to find Charlie.

“Don’t complain, this was your idea sis, all your fault if you’re miserable.” I giggled and she glared jokingly before she was pulled into a hug by her father.

“Hey Charlie.” She greeted before I was hugged as well.

“How was the flight girls?” He asked as we walked outside and put our suitcases into his cruiser.

“Good, we mostly slept the whole way so it didn’t really feel that long.” I told him as we began driving towards Forks. The trip seemed longer than it was as it was filled with awkward silence until Charlie spoke again, passing the ‘Welcome to Forks’ sign.

“I fixed up your room for you Bella, new bed and everything, and I had the attic cleared out for you Hope, all of your art things are already up there and you can set it up however you want, Renee said you needed the extra room as a studio.” I nodded.

“Thanks Charlie, that’s really awesome of you.” He nodded as we pulled up and unloaded our bags, carrying them inside. I walked up the stairs with Bella but continued to a door at the end of the hall and maneuvered my suitcases up the narrow stairwell, closing the door behind me. I grinned, seeing the queen sized bed with black and read sheets and pillows, before dumping my suitcases on it and turning to my supplies in the boxes that were mailed. I unloaded my easel and began setting everything up beside the window, exactly how I had it at home, hanging a few of my better paintings on the walls. I had taken an art class Renee signed us up for and loved every second of it, realizing how good I was at it and making sure to keep with it. Renee never skimped on my supplies, knowing how relaxing it was for me, very few things in the world had that effect on me anymore. After unloading all of that I heard footsteps and saw Bella coming up the steps.

“Need some help?” I nodded and she set to work unpacking my bathroom stuff for me in the bathroom beside the stairs while I began stringing up my fairy lights above my bed and all around the room. “I’m still welcome in your studio right?”

“Of course, you’re the only one, you know that.” I unpacked my clothes while Bella went downstairs to greet Billy and Jacob, who it seems had given her a truck…a deadly truck. As I finished unpacking I placed a new canvas on my easel and began working.

By the time Charlie called me down for dinner I was half way through my work, seeing a little wolf pup sniffing at some flowers in a field. I ran down the steps, catching my sister from falling as she stepped down behind me. “Thanks…again.” I chuckled, sitting at the table with her, eating the lasagna she made and talking with Charlie.

“So I signed you up for school exactly how Renee asked me to, Bella, you’ll have regular classes and Hope, you will be taking AP courses to make up the last credits you need to go to senior year on time.” I nodded, understanding him as Renee had already explained. Since I had never been to school before moving in with Renee and Bella, I didn’t even know how to read and write. I was given a tutor who came to my house 3 times a week and helped me with Math, English and Science until I caught up, however Forks has a credits system and if I don’t have the required credits from passing all my classes I won’t go to senior year with Bella and graduate.

“Thanks Charlie, that’s perfect.” I went up to bed that night, nervous for tomorrow, never having been in a real school before. I packed the things I would need in my bag and changed quickly, hopping into bed, turning off the light, and praying that tomorrow would go well.