Writers note: I don't own Twilight. Frankly I'm not even really a fan, I just enjoy the challenge of writing these characters. Also this is set in the movieverse, not the books.

Chapter 1.

It had been a month since Carlisle (A/N: I hate spelling his name!) Cullen and his brood left town. Charlie Swan was very aware of this, his daughter was dating one of the Cullen kids, and was taking the break up very hard.

Too hard. She was crying and screaming at night, and during the day she just sat around looking out her window, waiting for them to come back. She also corresponded with one of them, or at least tried to, Charlie knew that the Cullens had changed their E-mail addresses and weren't receiving her messages.

Charlie had had enough. He knew in his heart he was far from the world's greatest dad. He wasn't there for his daughter enough, he didn't talk to her enough, he probably gave her too much freedom, and the fact that he read her E-mail while she was at school probably cemented him as a lousy parent. But he cared about his daughter. Bella was his only daughter, his only offspring, he loved her more than anything else in the world. And he had had enough of her obsessive and unhealthy behavior.

He knocked on Bella's door. "Baby we need to talk."

"No we don't." she replied, not even bothering to yell through the wall.

Charlie took a deep breath and rolled his eyes. "Yes we do. Now you can either let me in, you can come out, or I can smash the door down. But we are talking."

The door opened and Bella let her father in. "What do you want to talk about dad?" the girl asked.

"I think it's time you saw a psychologist, I'm really worried about you." Answered Charlie.

Bella looked at the floor. "I'm fine dad."

Charlie put his hand gently on his daughter's shoulder. He used his other hand to lift her chin up, and looked her dead in the eyes. "No your not. Ever since Edward moved away you've just been getting worse. I know that he meant a lot to you, and I'm not trying to downplay that. But it's over now, and it's time for you to get on with your life."

With a tear in her eye Bella retorted "Edward was my life."

Charlie replied to that statement with a single word, "Bullshit!" His daughter was stunned, and tears began to pour down her face.

The young girl backed away from her father, crying harder and harder every second. She wheezed "you don't understand" she snorted as snot began coming out her nose. "He was everything to me, and he told me he didn't want me anymore." Bella collapsed onto her bed "I wasn't good enough for him." She buried her face in her sheets and sobbed, loudly, a veritable Niagara Falls of tears poured out of her eyes.

Charlie took another deep breath. He was hoping this would be easier. "No Honey. He wasn't good enough for you. That was an asshole thing to say, and I refuse to hear my daughter talk about herself like that."

"Dad, I love him." Bella sobbed.

"And I love you, so I'm not going to just let you sit here waiting for some boy who isn't worth your time to come back. Tomorrow I'm taking you to see Dr. Kelley. He's a psychologist who'll help you get through this." Charlie said, with as firmness as he could muster.

"Fine just leave me alone." Bella demanded.

With that Charlie walked out the door, hoping to god this was just the rocky start of helping his daughter.