❝He loves her because she is a fierce, wholly unexpected, electric storm, yet she is a constant, quiet, pure and utterly calm shelter from the cruel, cold world. She Is a Wild Thing! She is nature's most enigmatic, rare and magical creature and he i...
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Forks, Washington
A few months after the incident, Emily and her father packed up all their belongings and boarded a plane to Forks, Washington.
Her father had made sure Emily had recovered well enough, and that she was both mentally and physically fit before the big move. Originally, she had felt terrible for what happened. All Emily wanted was to spend her last moments in Gatlinburg surrounded by what she loved, not to get mauled by a bear.
Although her father never blamed her, she knew he would probably never let her set foot into the woods ever again. And that realization made her heart crack.
When they arrived to Forks, however, the constant overcast excited her father.
"This is great." He said, "No more getting sunburnt on the job."
Emily shifted her attention from the truck's window and forced a smile.
"I never had that problem, dad." Emily said.
He looked at her funny for a brief moment before turning his eyes back on the road.
"That's 'cause you took after your mother. If I recall correctly, I'd reckon you and her would always laugh at me for turning red at the lake." He chuckled.
Emily's grin was real this time around. She did remember that afternoon they had spent at the lake, and how her mother laughed herself silly at how red he had gotten. She was Native American, and beautiful too. Her father would always tell the story of how they met on the job.
He was barely a wildlife expert at the time when he received a call about a coyote pack spotted lingering near a house just off the reservation. He had his gun raised and ready for when he entered the woman's backyard, but it turned out the coyote pack was only a couple of raccoons that had made their way into her trash cans. Afterwards, Emily's father recalled how embarrassed her mom had felt, but it was he who had laughed and laughed until finally she did too.
And that's what made Emily's mother love her father, it was the way he always made her laugh even when she wasn't in the mood.
Now, Emily's father was a published wildlife researcher and travelled quite frequently to study endangered animals across the globe. It was for this reason that Emily and her father were now living in Forks, Washington.
The board that sponsored her father wanted him to study the gray wolves native to Washington, which were growing more and more endangered as time went on. So, they decided to pay him a hefty amount to study the beautiful animals over a yearly period. Which for Emily meant that she was stuck there for a year, or possibly more.
