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Chapter 1: Hopes to a New Beginning
16 year old Haley Rose was sick and tired of being beaten by her adoptive parents. Wiping the tears out of her eyes she runs to her room and slams the door. Immediately she gets onto her crappy computer and opens the file labeled "MyREALFamily" and pulls out her writing pad and immediately starts to write down directions to Charlie Swan's address. She smiles as she's writing remembering when she finally decided to start looking for her birth parents.
She'd finally had enough of the beatings and the hurt from her adoptive parents. After another round of "Lets Beat Haley 'til we Pass Out" she ran into her room and immediately typed in her last name, Swan-Lahote into the search engine. A Rene, Charlie and Isabella Swan were all in a news paper article about Isabella's marriage to an Edward Cullen. There wasn't much on Lahote except for a small article on an Indian reservation called La Push. She couldn't find Rene's or Isabella's address but there as one for Charlie. She copied and pasted it all into a file and hid the file on her computer. She smiled as she now had new found hope.
Doing her math quickly she realized that Rene was too old to have been her mother, since she was told by her adoptive parents that her parents were just teens when I was born.
"I have grandparents" she smiled to herself. She tucked the notepad into her purse and began to hurriedly through whatever clothes she could into her backpack. She didn't need much from this hellhole. Once she packed and made sure that she had all the directions she deleted the folder on her computer as well as empty her trash bin. Now all she had to do was play the waiting game. Waiting on THEM to pass out. All she had to do was hold onto that hope.
(Bella's PoV)
It was really late when we heard a soft knock on the cottage door. Edward was closer to the door and answered. A very confused Alice came in with the look like she'd just had a vision.
"What's wrong Al?" I asked afraid of what she'd say.
"Is there someone related to you that you never told me about?" Alice said curiously. "Someone who'd want to find you?"
At first I couldn't think of anyone. Then those first four months without Edward came back and it hit me.