The Way it Could've Been
SophomoreMe
Summary: If the Cullens came five years later, how would that night in the alley in Port Angeles turned out differently? This is Bella's life meeting the Cullens five years later.
"Bells?"
"In here, Dad," I yelled to my father from the kitchen. It had be five long years since I moved back to Forks, and let me tell you, they weren't a cake walk.
"Grampa?"
I turned and looked at the light of my life, my four year old daughter. "Yes sweetie, Grampa's home." She was sitting on the counter and held her arms out. I picked her up and set her down on the kitchen floor so she could run to my father.
I'm 22 and I have a kid. I don't want to hear about how irresponsible I was…because I would still be a virgin if I had my way about it. When I first moved to Forks, Washington, I was 17. A few months later, I went to Port Angeles with some friends. We split up, and foolishly I got lost…and then I was raped.
My father, being the Chief of Police, put almost every man on the case…and eventually, the man was found and sent to prison. Coincidentally, he was wanted for other crimes too. I found out I was pregnant two months later, and I was too far along to get an abortion, not that I wanted to…but it was always an option.
"So what did you do today, Ness?" I heard my father grilling my daughter about her day.
"I went to pre-school and then Mommy and I went grocery shopping…and I tooked a nap and now Mommy and I are making dinner." I smiled.
Charlie had been amazing throughout the whole thing. I was certain he was going to throw me out when I decided to keep Vanessa, but he didn't. He surprised me, but my mother surprised me the most. She doesn't speak to me anymore.
She said, "You should have given that curse up." I remember that night clearly, she came to see me and then left not 20 minutes later, claiming she didn't know who I was anymore. Renee didn't bother to listen about how I was raped and that I couldn't have prevented it but that had always been my mother.
I wouldn't change anything though. My life with Charlie and Vanessa was perfect.
I pulled dinner out of the stove and began dishing it out onto three plates. "So, Dad, how was your day?"
"Relatively boring. I hear we have a new family in town, the Cullens?" he questioned. I only nodded. "The father is a doctor, apparently the best." I heard all of this from Jessica, but I humored my father.
"Really?"
"Mommy, I have to go." Vanessa said." I nodded and helped her out of her 'big girl chair'. She ran off and I continued to talk Charlie.
"Yeah. I hear one of the sons is around your age…" he trailed off.
"Dad…"
"I know, you 'don't want to date', but just go out and live a little…I promise it won't kill you."
"And what about Vanessa. Most guys my age don't want anything to do with a kid," I said picking up the dirty dishes.
"You never know who is out there."
"Sure, sure."
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