Separare i Genitori
Chapter 1
RPOV
Renee Hale
March 12, 1968- January 12, 2008
Beloved mother and daughter
To be missed
Brianna Stevens Hale
May 17, 1991- June 28, 2006
Beloved mom, sister,
daughter and friend
I stood looking down at the tombstones before me; a single tear ran down my face. The silence that surrounded me was broken by my twin brother, Jasper.
"Rosey, come on we have to go." Before I turned to see him holding my baby boy, I laid to white lilies down on the grave sites before me.
"I know, I just—I couldn't leave New York with out saying goodbye to mom and Bri. Come here angel." I said reaching for Ayden, just as our younger sister, Bella reached into the front seat and honk the horn. I stretched my hand out for Jasper—we linked hands and took our first steps towards our new future.
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We drove for pretty much the next two days across the states to Forks, Washington where our estranged father lives.
If it had been just me and my siblings we wouldn't have stopped for the night but with an almost three year old, hotels were a must.
Thankfully Charlie sent us money for the trip not knowing we had some from our inheritance so we could stay somewhere better than the Super 8.
Thanks to Jaspers and my need for speed we made pretty decent time. It only took us a day and a half to make what should have been about a three day trip. When pulled into the driveway of Charlie's house the cruiser and another car were already there despite that it was almost eleven at night.
I looked around at my siblings; I could tell we were all trying to prepare ourselves for seeing our father for the first time in almost two years. He'd only seen Ayden once and I wasn't sure he even remembered I had custody of him.
I was the first to get out of the car. I went to the back seats and opened the door for Bella on my way. I carefully got Ayden from his seat without waking him. I waited for my siblings before going to the front door.
"Jasper you knock." Bella whispered. I rolled my eyes and knocked while the other two bickered over who was knocking.
They were silenced by the door opening and seeing Charlie in the doorway.
"Oh—hi. I wasn't expecting you so soon, but come in." He said surprised. We followed him in silence. "Well your rooms aren't completely ready but they'll do for tonight. I had to rearrange some things but Rosalie you've got the master bedroom because you're going to have to share with Ayden since there aren't enough rooms for us all to have our own." I smiled; he remembered and I got the master bedroom, way more than I expected.
"Thanks Dad." He nodded, not one for shows of affection.
"You kids look tired, why don't I show you your rooms and we can get the rest of the boxes from your car tomorrow." We trailed behind him to get our room assignments; Jasper was in my old room, Bella in hers and Dad in Jaspers.
I noticed when we got to my room Charlie had got an addition since we were last here.
"A few years back I had a study built on but I repainted it and moved my stuff to the sun room below it so you could use it as Ayden's nursery." I gave him an awkward hug and when I stepped back he cleared his throat.
"I put Jasper's old crib in there; I figured that would work until we could find him a toddler bed."
"Thanks dad. I should put him down; my arms about to fall off." I smiled.
"Yea, okay; Good night Rosalie." He sounded too formal to be my dad but then I remembered refusing to answer him if he called me anything but my full name after the divorce. I sighed and walked through my room, not paying any attention to it, to Ayden's nursery. When I opened the door my eyes welled up with tears. It was beautiful; I couldn't imagine how hard Charlie must have worked on it.
The walls were a blue with a horizontal tan strip about two thirds of the way up. And around the room were traffic signs; right above the crib was a mural of a city with a plane going across. Charlie had not only dug out Jasper's old crib but all the matching dark wood furniture. I laid Ayden down in his new room and noticed a new stroller between to the bed and dresser. On the other side of the dresser was the old rocking chair from my room. 'Wow,' I thought. 'Charlie must be really trying to make up for the lost years.'
I switched on the baby monitor and went back to my room. I noticed as I walked out the pictures on the wall. They were framed pictures my mom had taken. They looked brand new as well as the dark wood four post bed, end table and dresser. On the dresser was a picture of the three of us kids and my mom that dad had taken on our last family vacation before the divorce. I marveled at my room and wondered what the others looked like.
I took the monitor from the night stand and opened the door slowly to peer out. Much to my surprise my siblings were right on the other side.
"Rosey, let us in, we want to see what he did to your room." Bella pushed the door open and into my toe.
"Ow!!" I exclaimed hopping up and down.
"Sorry Rose. Whoa!" Bella apologized then got distracted by the new appearance of our parent's old room. "Well I guess we know who Charlie's favorite child is." She joked. Jasper was surprisingly quiet through this. He was looking at the pictures on my walls.
"These are moms pictures…I'm surprised he still had these." I saw his tears in the reflection off picture frame.
"I miss mom." Bella whispered.
"Me too Bell, me too." I agreed hugging my little sister. Jasper crossed the room in a few long strides and joined the hug.
"Okay, I want to see your rooms now." I said pulling back from my siblings embrace.
We went to Bella's room first since it was closer. The room was the same pale blue it was when we used to live here only the bed was replaced with a larger black one a new bed set covered it. Next to the bed were black end tables that looked like the ones our parents used to have in their room. The rest of the room was bare and it looked as if they were in the process of decoration.
"Let's go see Jasper's room now." Bella declared bored with hers. I followed Jasper to the room that used to be mine.
My old room had been transformed. The wood bed and night stand were the same but Charlie had built matching bookshelves into the wall, with a ladder and all. My old polka dotted bed set had been replaced by a dark blue and red plaid one. The walls in his room were also bare and incomplete; even so the room was very much Jasper.
"Wow, Charlie must be really trying to get on our good sides huh?" I laughed. Before either of my siblings could react I could hear Ayden waking up over the baby monitor and it would only be a matter of minutes before he started to cry.
"I gotta go, Ayden's waking up." I rushed back to my room not noticing my little sister following.
Ayden smiled up at me when I entered the room. I pulled him out of the crib and turned around a just about dropped him when I saw Bella right there.
"Holy shi—shoot. You scared me." I laughed.
"Sorry, what are we going to do with Ayden when we're at school?" I sat down in the rocking chair before answering her because I wasn't really sure.
"Uhmm, well I suppose I'll have to find a day care that's hopefully in town otherwise I'll have to go to La Push or Port Angeles everyday for his daycare. I don't want to get a nanny, so I guess we'll see." Bella yawned but offered to take Ayden so I could sleep.
"That's okay Bell. Get some sleep; we have a big day tomorrow what with registering for high school and what not. Night babe, love you."
"Love you too Rosey." She blew me a kiss and left quietly. I rocked Ayden a little bit longer before giving up and taking him down stairs for some milk.
I went down softly thinking everyone else was in bed but heard voices when I reached the foot of the stairs.
"Sorry about that tonight, I didn't know they were going to be here so soon." I heard Charlie whisper…who was here?
"Don't worry about it. I'll meet them eventually." A woman whispered back. I stood in shock. Before I got caught I went back up stairs to Jasper's room.
Without knocking, I went it making him jump when I spoke.
Jasper POV
I nearly fell off the ladder connected to my book shelve when my twin started talking to me. I didn't even know she was in my room.
"Charlie has some women here." She spat the word women like it was a foul word. I looked at her trying to understand why she was so upset.
"Rose, what's the big deal, mom and dad got divorced." She groaned and turned to leave without another word; mine was clearly not the reaction she was looking for.
"Rose, lets go down there and meet her. Come on; let's see if we can embarrass him." I knew the last part would get her to come. She followed me down the stairs and sure enough there was some women standing by Charlie by the door.
"Hey Dad, whose your lady friend?" I asked smiling at her. Charlie whipped around looking like a deer in headlights.
"Hi, I'm Candi; you must be Jasper and Rosalie. And that little guy must be Ayden; it's nice to meet you all." From the corner of my eye I could see Rose scowl and go back up the way we came.
"Sorry about my sister, she's a little sensitive. Don't take it personally. I'll leave you alone now; I just came down to make Ayden a bottle. It was nice to meet you Candi." I went to the kitchen before either could say a word. I made a sippy cup of luke warm milk for my nephew and went up stairs, trying to be quiet so I didn't have to talk to Charlie and his lady friend again.
I bypassed Rose's room and went to Bella's knowing Rose would be ranting to her.
"Thanks Jazz." I took Ayden from her and left the room for the girls to talk.
Rose came back to her room about a half hour later just after I got Ayden back to sleep.
"Night Rose, Love you."
Rose POV
"Rose!! Wake up! We have to go register for school and find Ayden a day care." My younger sister shook me awake. I rolled over and looked at my alarm clock it read 7:16.
"Ugh, Bella, let me sleep, Ayden's not even awake yet." She jumped on the bed to annoy me.
"Yes he is. Jasper got up with him at seven. He's all dressed and ready to go. And we have to be at the school at eight." I groaned but rolled out of bed.
"Shottie shower." I claimed without looking at her to see she had already showered. I dug around in the suitcase that one of my siblings must have brought in for me. I grabbed a plan dark blue long sleeve, a pale yellow Hollister zip up, medium wash skinny jeans and my UGG Felicity boots.
After I was showered I found breakfast waiting for me on the kitchen table. I had to smile; my siblings took such good care of me and Ayden. I ate the banana and took the bowl of lucky charms with me to find Ayden and my siblings.
"There you guys are." I said finding them playing with Ayden on Bella's bedroom door. "You guys ready to go?" They were very ready, they had Ayden dressed, his dipper bag packed, even though it wasn't really necessary anymore. He's pretty much potty trained.
As I strapped Ayden into his car seat I looked over what Jasper had put him in. I had to admit, I was impressed; he wore a white tee shirt underneath a dark blue quarter zip sweater with little jeans and tennis shoes, and of course he had a winter coat on over it, as well as a dark blue sweater.
Finding the high school was no problem, it was off the highway just like everything else in this town. We had to park out on the far edge of the parking lot since school had already started.
"Hi, can I help you?" A large red-haired woman wearing glasses smiled up at us when we entered a warm office building.
"We're the Hale—I mean Swan's. We need to register." I saw the immediate awareness in her eyes. I knew we'd be a topic of gossip. The other two women in the room were staring at Ayden. I glared at them and set Ayden on the floor and took his hand.
"Ah yes, I assume you have transcripts with you." Jasper handed her some papers wordlessly.
It took about a half hour to get everything set up for the following day. We received our schedules and maps to learn for the day to come.
As soon as we left the main office building I went off.
"UGH! Did you see those judgmental old hags staring at Ayden and me? That is so stupid! They just assume he's mine and that I'm a slut and that I had him when I was 15." I took a deep breath feeling better know that I had ranted.
"Let's go out to eat then we can look for a day care, we can have Italian, you'll feel better." Bella suggested.
We had to go into Port Angeles to La Bella Italia for my Italian food. The hostess was big blond and all over my brother. So to make her mad I made some BS up about Ayden asking for daddy today while we were making breakfast. Jasper and Bella bit their lips while I smirked at her as she led us to a table.
"Your waiter will be right with you." She mumbled. After she left Bella raised an eyebrow at me.
"Jealous Rose, that your twin is getting hit on and not you?" she teased.
"No, Jasper is NOT going to date a bimbo like that though." Jasper laughed.
"You dictate who I date now?" I nodded. Lunch definitely relaxed me and helped me forget about my earlier annoyance.
"Oh Rose, I did some research while you were in the shower and I found a day care. There was one in Forks called busy babies but they don't take three year olds so next closest is BoBaggins Daycare & Learning Center here in Port Angeles." I groaned but thanked her. It looked like I was going to have to drive a half hour twice a day for Ayden's day care.
Before going back to Charlie's we decided to walk around the port for a little while and do a bit of shopping, after signing Ayden up for daycare. Ayden, tired of being carried around walked between Jasper and I holding our hands, Bella bringing up the rear since she doesn't like shopping and was pouting. As it got closer to the lunch hour the streets got more crowed and I resorted to carrying Ayden, and getting many dirty looks. I could handle the looks if they were only directed at me but they glared at Ayden. Finally I lost it at some women who had the nerve to glare at Ayden, shake her head and mumble as she passed us.
"He's my GODSON thank you very much!" I yelled after her. My siblings looked horrified and pulled me into the closest store.
"Rose, calm down." Bella took Ayden over to look at some kids books while I calmed my self down.
"I'm sorry Jasper." He sat down next to me but didn't say anything. "Let's go home. I wanted to take Ayden to the park today and then we can unpack."
"Okay, Rosey, I'll go get the car and you three can wait here." Jasper suggested; I nodded and wondered off to find Bella and Ayden. I found Bella reading to him from one of her favorite books; Wuthering Heights. Only this copy was new and held together, where hers is older than her and falling apart and the seams.
The ride home was fairly silent except Ayden's noises as he played with his toy cars. Back in town I dropped Bella and Jasper off at home and took Ayden to the near by park that I had played at when I was little.
Ayden was climbing up to the slide when I saw the most beautiful man I had ever seen, he was tall with dark curly hair and was crouched at the foot of the little slide to catch the dark haired girl that was coming down. When she reached the bottom she said something and he laughed the most enchanting laugh, it was loud and booming but musical. Darn he has a kid and looks like he's graduated and probably married.
After a couple more slides the hot guy and his daughter left. Or niece, or god daughter, she might not necessarily be his; I reminded myself. When he passed us he smiled at Ayden and me and nodded. Sigh double swoon. I let Ayden play for about ten minutes more than took him home so he didn't get too cold.
For the rest of the afternoon Ayden played and my siblings and I unpacked the few boxes we had. Bella got off easy by volunteering to make dinner while we unpacked the four of our rooms. Dinner was a quiet affair with Charlie; he didn't talk much so neither did we. I bathed Ayden and put him to bed easily since he was so tired from being out so much that day.
That night I fell asleep thinking about the man I saw at the park.
A/N: I know I know!! Bad Ali for starting a new story! But! I think I'm going to finish Another Chance soon. I'm getting the next chapter beta-ed now. so then I can have this story. And I'm kinda excited about it. I like the idea and I hope you guys like it too! Let me know! Reviews!
Much luv!
Ali
