Chapter 1 Father Daughter Reunion
(Charlie's POV)
Charlie, I know after everything that we have been through I am probably the last person that you want to hear from; but I am asking to please listen to me, this involves Bella. Leaving the way that I did, was wrong of me and I know that, it must have hurt you so badly and I can't apologies enough, you never even got to know your daughter and for that I feel the deepest regret. Speaking of Bella, she is a bright girl, really smart, she just doesn't seem to want to live up to her full potential, this has always worried me, but as of late she has been more withdrawn, acting out more, getting in trouble with the law. This isn't my baby, I have no idea what happened, she just shuts me out. You are my last hope; I fear that I am going to have to send her to military school if this falls through. I know she doesn't know you and you have every right to refuse this request but I am down on my hands and knees begging for you to take her in for a year and try to set her on the right path. I love her to much to lose her; and if she keep wandering down this road I will! PLEASE SAVE MY BABY!
-Renee
I reread the letter that Renee had sent me a month ago, I have no idea how she let things get so out of hand with Isabella, but I can't blame her for everything, I could have tried more. Now I have my 17yr. old daughter, whom I have only spent two years with when she was a baby, a girl whom I don't even know how she looks besides the picture her mother sent with the letter. How am I going to set her on the right path when I have no idea how to be a father, not to mention that I have nothing to go by besides the fact that she now has a DWI on her permanent record. How will it look when the estranged daughter of the chief of police comes to town with a DWI. Augh, how can I even think about that in a time like this? My daughter needs help what should I care what people are going to say.
With that I got in my cruiser and drove towards Seattle International Airport, to go meet and pick up my daughter.
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(BPOV)
What the hell have I gotten myself into, Me Bella Swan, simple wholesome girl with long brown wavy, hair and big brown eyes is forced to move for no apparent reason. Seattle sucks, my so called dad is no where to be found and everyone here is just staring at me like I am some kind of freak. I have been waiting in the Airport baggage clams for over two hours, if I had any money I would have so been out of here by now, but nope, a girl makes a few mistakes and your life as you know it is taken away from you. Okay so granted it was a little more then a few mistakes but nothing that required me to be exiled, I mean come on Renee! Can you say over-reacting, yeah I can!
"Isabella, is that you" some strange guy in a police uniform asked while slowly approaching me.
"Who the hell are you" I spat back
"That is not the way to talk to anyone young lady, let alone your father!" ha is he for real!
"Oh so you must be my long lost daddy, here to save the world in hopes of winning back your ex wiffy" I said will pretending to swoon.
"Listen I will not be talked to with such disrespect, now you can either come with me peacefully or I will not be afraid to put you in cuffs!" He quietly spat back at me.
"Sure thing, daddy dearest" my voice thick with sarcasm
"Thank you"
"Oh don't think for one second that I am actually scared of your little threat, it's just that….I have no other way out of this God forsaken hellhole." I hate admitting defeat; with that I quickly turned and headed towards the exit, leaving a slightly stunned Chase, Chuck, Chimp, ha Chump, what ever the hell his name is. Do you think it's bad that I don't even know my own fathers name, hum NOPE I thought to myself, besides he didn't have enough manners to introduce himself properly, uh uh uh, what would his mother say. I chuckled slightly
"What's so funny" CRAP, I wasn't expecting him to be right behind me, I inwardly jumped.
"The fact that I don't know your name, hell I don't even know if you're even my father, you could be some deranged lunatic!"
"Well how the hell would I have known your name, MY name is Charlie, and what do you mean you don't know my name, your mom never mentioned me" Charlie said the last part with a hurt expression. Ah shit that kind of makes me feel bad, key word kinda
"Na maybe in passing these last few weeks, but my whole life I just thought you to be dead, back to the point, I am not getting in any vehicle with you until I have proof!" Okay so I might be a little harsh but he could drive me to the middle of nowhere and end up killing me.
"I mean a girl can never be to careful now-a-days, right….. surly you being a cop or whatever that little getup is, you should be able to understand that, I mean I would think."
"Well I am your only way out of this 'hellhole' and you eloquently put it, so shut it, and get in the car."
We were now standing in front of an older police car, um he's got to be kidding me right! I thought to myself.
"There is no way in hell I am getting in that piece of crap"
"Okay" He said with an evil smirk, what the hell can he be thinking.
Before I knew what happened he had dropped my luggage, turned me towards the car and pushed me up against it, garbed my hands, put them behind my back and put the cuffs on me.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING YOU CRAZY PSYCO!!! LET ME GO!!" I screamed at him, causing the few people that were passing by to stop and stare, but they weren't going to do anything, here I was dressed in form fitting bright red vintage dress that went a little past my knee, that had a tear drop hold right above the center of my chest with black 4" stiletto heels, (pic on profile) I didn't look hookerish but I also didn't blend in, however my 'Daddy' had his brown police uniform, so yeah I wasn't going to be getting any help any time soon.
"Oh be quiet, you know I didn't want to do this but you forced my hand, so quit complaining, your causing a scene!" Oh so mister perfect cop doesn't like to make a scene, well I have no problem with that, I can fly under the radar, for now. I quickly stored that piece of information for future references, as I was roughly shoved into the back of the police cruiser.
"Yeah, your not doing anything to prove my earlier theory wrong, now are you!" I spat towards him once he came around to the drivers side of the car.
"I want a DNA test done NOW, there is no way I am going to stay with a complete stranger who gets kicks out of having young girls handcuffed in the back of their car!"
"I can show you a copy of your birth certificate but there is no way I am going to have a DNA test done" he sad back in a forced calm voice.
"well then there is no way in hell I am going to stay with you because I am not going to believe a COPY of my birth certificate, you know how easy those things are to be forged, and I am pretty sure, you won't like it when someone finds me living on the streets, only to find that YOU are my so called father, just think of what they'd say" I said the last part with fake concern lacing heavily in my voice.
"FINE, well go to the hospital" uh I so love being right! Score one for me that makes us tied in this stupid little game I am being forced to play, but I will get him back for his little handcuff stunt, it won't be that way for long!!!
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After what seemed like a million hours of driving I saw the small town where I will be calling home for the next 365 days of my life, ha home, yeah right, this place can only be home for bears and other woodland creatures, How can people actually live her! Before I knew what was happening we were parked right in front of a three story crown Victorian sky blue house, it was so beautiful that I just stared, it toke me a few minutes to realize that the car was turned off and Charlie was walking towards the house with my luggage already in hand, leaving me alone, LOCKED in the car.
After a few minutes he came back and opened the door for me gently helping me out of the vehicle.
"Um, yeah Mr. Cop man, now I know that I am new here and all, but I am pretty sure that this is not the hospital!" I said sarcastically.
"Do you always talk like that?" My 'dad' asked showing no emotion.
"Um…..Yeah, how else is there to talk I have to move my mouth and change positions of my tong, while breathing and sounding out the correct sounds to form the words right, just like everyone else, well except the people who talk through the computers, you know what I mean" I said knowing full well what he meant by his question.
"That's not what I meant and you know it" He said icily. Wow I'm not even here, wherever here is, I am guessing his house for more then a minute and he is already having a hard time controlling his anger.
"NO I DON"T, if you would be so kind and explain to me maybe I could answer your question more towards your liking, daddy." Boy I sure am pushing it, but hell
no one once asked me if I wanted to come and live with my father whom I believed to be deceased till a month ago, so I think that I have every right to be just the slightest bit bitchy!
By now we had climbed up two flights of stairs and were standing in a big white bedroom on what I believed to be the third floor, of this house that I am currently being held captive in! Maybe, just maybe I should stop talking and try to figure out where the hell I am at, or maybe I should have paid attention and at least realized that I was being herded up the stairs and into this room, boy time sure does fly when your having so much fun!
"Every word out of your mouth is just so full of sarcasm, don't you ever get tired of it!" Charlie angrily spat back at me.
"Um, let me think about that for a sec." I pretended to ponder "Okay second over, well seeing as how I am a teenager, we are naturally programmed to have a little backlash in us, and um to top it off I am a female, so that means that I'm also part bitchy, so, to answer your question, NOPE it doesn't bother me one bit! You should be glade it's not that time of the month" I said whispering the last part to fringe embarrassment.
"Whatever, if I take of the handcuffs are you going to try and make a run for it?" He asked me trying to hide the light tint of pink tinting his cheeks.
"Well seeing as how I have no clue where the hell I am, and you lied to me, um I think I am going to have to go with NO I WON'T TRY TO RUN" I said the last part a little…..okay a lot louder with fake innocence written all over my face.
"Alright then, you can just keep them on a little bit longer, and I never lied to you." Was this guy for real!
"Well alright then, do you have one of those home DNA test lying around someplace, just waiting for the day that your illegitimate daughter will be forced to live with you for no apparent reason?"
"Humph, yeah no apparent reason, okay!" He so did not just HUFF at me
"What the h…"He cut me off before I could finish.
"I know What the HELL" he spat "That seems to be your favorite statement!"
"You know as well as I do that when your mother had to call me out of all people to help her deal with you, that it is not just for NO APPARENT REASON!"
"Well then you don't know her at all, because Renee has a tendency to over react for any minor mishap!" Now I was really starting to lose my carefully controlled emotions, "You, some guy I know nothing about, have no idea about anything in my life, let alone been there for more then two years, that don't count since I can't even remember anything about you, and you have the audacity to stand there and tell me what the hell I know! Um Yeah okay buddy! No wonder Renee left your sorry ass!" I said with as much acid as I could muster, which was quiet a bit.
Without another word Charlie turned on his hills and left the room slamming the door behind him.
Well nice going there Bella, now you are stuck in a room, that is in a house in the middle of a shitty ass town, handcuffed with my hands behind my back, I know I'm flexible but I am not double jointed, there is no way out of this shitty room, who has all the damn walls white in the first place, maybe we are at a hospital, after all, ha I crack myself up sometimes! Now get your head straight I need to find a way out of this mess? The window maybe I can open it a little and then nudge it open?