Chapter 1
Living with the Memories
The girl moved slowly.
She wasn't as comfortable as she should be.
Well, no one would be comfortable after a slow tedious beating and abuse.
She never really minded them anymore.
She was used to all the pain. All the bruises. A trickle of crimson ran down a slash in her cheek.
All the blood.
But everything would end soon.
The girl moved slowly. Inching closer to her dead-beat step-father.
Gripping the cold metal handle of a long kitchen knife.
He's passed out drunk in his pull out sofa.
She's crying though, from the fear of him waking and finding her above him with a knife. But she knows this is the best for her. She's only 8 years old.
A rodent on the side of the bed squeaks as it see's the shimmer of the knife from the hall light. On the other side of the bed is another dresser, smaller then the one holding Fluffy the hamster. Only three things take up the dressers space; an empty alcohol bottle, an old alarm clock with a wide crack in the screen, and a small silver picture frame.
She stares at the picture inside.
Her mother's beautiful smile and long curly brown hair. So much like herself.
She blinks and tears fall. She's gone.
She slashes the knife.
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8 years later...
The girl pulls her hair from her face. Her hair has grown much since her stepfathers passing.
She has changed a lot in the past eight years. Her hair has grown, her eyes have changed from a dark bronze brown to a dull gray, and the smile she has, though quite pretty one, has only been shared a hand-full of times.
She had moved much since her residence in Chicago.
New York, Seattle, a month in Japan, even New Zealand for a while, yet no place her foster parents loved more was Forks Washington.
She fits in well there, but only with one girl at school, but her home life has completely turned around. They had been overly happy to take her in after the incident with her stepfather. They hated the bastard that hurt her in more ways imaginable.
But she has changed, Dawn, to a scared little girl to a now grown young lady.
Dawn Summers.
She's now in 11th grade in Forks High school, and having a constant flirting feud with a boy at school. She even ended up punching him once, but it was completely his fault, he was egging her on.
Stupid Jasper Hale.
