The names Bella Swan im 17 years old and about ten minutes ago I buried my mother. In five hours I'll be on a plane to a whole different life with my biological father, Charlie Swan. My mother wasn't one of the greatest women in the world, there were days when I really thought I hated her, but if there's one thing she always did, it was put food on the table and wearable clothes on my back.
How did she do this? She was a hooker. Not a profession I stood up on parent child day and professed. My mother was a drunk and drug addict and after three years on hard crystal meth, she died. I found her laid on our half rotted sofa in our shitty little apartment, which we shared with her so called 'friends'. All sorts of shady people I thought. Those friends threw me out on the street before my mothers body was even cold. The police called social services and they called the prick that produced the sperm that made me in the first place. Now as of 12 oclock yesterday night, he is my official guardian and I have to move to California to live with him.
Right now I have no more tears to cry, I feel cold and numb. I loved my mother because she was my mother but not because she was my mum. I haven't had a fantastic childhood but I sure as hell am going to do something about the future. I will not have any man use my body, I won't take any drugs and I sure as hell will not be wearing charity clothes while fending for my food at 1 am in the morning on the sidewalk.
I don't have many personal things, everything I own can fit into a shoe box and a black bag.
Apparently my father had paid for me to stay in a hotel, it was nice and warm, lavish and safe, but fuck any of that. I wasn't a little scared girl who needed protecting and money throwing at her, I wasn't interested in him. I hated him more than I hated my life. He's never been a father before, so I don't intend for him to be one to me now. Charlie Swan is co founder and head of SWAN&CULLEN corporate law firm. He's not only famous and insanely rich, hes a big shadow in my life, always seeing him on tv and in the newspaper. But never seeing him in real life.
My name is Bella Swan and this is my story.