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Chapter 1:
"Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard (1856 -1915)
BPOV
Our mothers – Esme, Lillian and Renee – were BFFs & roommates since their freshman year and apparently attached by the hips ever since. Since they got married and had families of their own, they would always get together and spend every summer at the Cullen's huge house in The Hamptons.
Esme worked part time at the Hood Museum of art in Dartmouth and was involved in every charity event to help young students get scholarships. She married Carlise Cullen, her high school sweetheart, who became a prominent surgeon and lived with their children, Edward and Alice, in New Haven, Connecticut. They were the perfect sit-com family, and I loved spending time with them.
Lillian quit college and became a famous model. She traveled all around the world doing several fashion shows and shootings, but before long she ended up marrying one of the most prominent publishers in New York, William Hale, the only heir to a prominent fortune and President of Hale Magazines Corp. Lillian became pregnant with twins right after their honeymoon and decided to stop her career and stay home with her kids. Unfortunately, she never got to be a real housewife since she became very ill with a rare disease and died just two years after Jasper and Rosalie were born. The Hale twins ended up living next door to Esme and Carlise and spend almost every day with them, since their father was always too busy to be around them with work. Apparently, he immersed himself with work to evade the fact of loosing his wife, so Jasper and Rosalie were practically raised by the Cullens since they were kids.
Renee moved to California right after college when she got a job writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she met my father, Charlie Swan, a journalist who worked with her for the same newspaper. Not long after they started dating, she became pregnant with me, and even though she wasn't completely convinced about it, she agreed to marry my father three months before I was born. They tried their best to become a "family" for me, but after a couple of years of "pretending", Renee got an offer from The New York Times and decided to move to the East Coast. Charlie decided to stay in San Francisco. So, apart from boarding school I used to spend my early years holidays either in SF or NYC to be with Charlie or Renee and their busy journalist's agendas…
I used to look forward for summertime and spending my days with Alice, Rosalie, Edward and Jasper. Since I was an only child, they were the closest thing to brothers and sisters I ever had. We would do everything together, even at that age when most boys think that girls have the cutties…
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