Disclaimer: All things twilight are not mine, im just borrowing the characters and adding a new spin to it!
Chapter One: I Am Female.
When I was born, one would possible expect a congratulations for the mother or father, unfortunately in my case, my mother received nothing more then abuse from my father for giving birth to yet another girl child, he said that she was a useless wife and that she would be punished for not giving him what he desired. My father also didn't receive congratulations for my birth, he received condolences from his friends and family, after all what could be expected considering that he was stuck with another unwanted daughter, though daughter is a very liberal word for what he considered me, I was more like a thing.
My name that was bestowed upon me is Isabella Marie Swan, I come from a family that although lives in a free country where women are able to vote, and choose there life's course, I was unable. In all technicalities I am free, its not as though im a slave or kept against my will, the fact is I just don't have a will left, my Father had beaten that out of my by the age of five and then when my younger brother was old enough to do it, he continued to make sure I knew my place. I have no education, my only skills in this life are to cook, clean and hide from approaching footsteps.
My father is Charlie Swan and he is a strict member of the religion called Eclipse, there are small congregations world wide, my father was born into this life as was his father. My mother Renee was also born with the Eclipse upbringing, its noted through out our small circles that once you are born an Eclipse if you are female, you remain an Eclipse, occasionally males look to other things in life as our nature is sometimes to docile for them, but not often, after all what male would turn down the chance at having two wives legally, and getting worshipped like a god from his family, unfortunately the answer to that question, is once again 'Born an Eclipse, Die an Eclipse".
We live in a small town called Forks, I only know this as I have heard the males speak of it, the country I live in is a mystery to me, other then it rains ninety percent of the time and is extremely cold during winter to the point of snow.
I have two older sisters and a younger brother, My eldest sister is now eighteen her name is Alice and she is married to Jasper, Alice was married on her sixteenth birthday as is the custom of our family, luckily for Alice as we grew up close to Jaspers family, she already knew him although they had never spoken because that was never allowed, but she use to tell me stories about how she would marry him one day and live happily ever after, I always thought she was crazy, knowing the males of Eclipse, I could never see how she could get her happy ending but Jasper although a firm male, she says that he is a kind man as well.
My other sister is seventeen and her name is Rosalie, she was also married though much unfortunately for my father, her husband returned her to him, stating disobedience, when she came home she had changed dramatically, once a beautiful girl that had a smile that could blind you, now its been ten months since she returned and I don't think she has smiled once, at night I can still hear her crying but she refuses to tell me why. Rosalie wasn't as lucky as Alice when she was married, she was married to a man called Royce, he already had another wife and he was a man already in his forties, when ever he came for meetings with my father he was always rude and nasty to the females and could make my skin crawl just by looking at me.
My younger Brother is Jacob, he is the golden child, my mother finally got it right when she gave birth to him and received gifts from my father instead of abuse for once. He is two years younger then me and is the exact clone of my father in every way, especially in temperament and beliefs. As he is male, he gets to go to school and have friends outside of family, which in his eyes also makes us females nothing more then dirt at the bottom of his feet, one of my first memories of him after he started school was him telling on me to my father because I refused to play hide and seek with him, of course I was beaten for that, even though due to my lack of education I could not count. Jacob from then on teased me because I was illiterate and always tried to push me to play games with him that he knew I couldn't play, just to get me in trouble with my father.
The main principle that females of Eclipse learnt to live by was to 'Obey' the males. Whether that male was a father, brother, uncle, cousin, we were to obey because the males are our superior, Females are made to continue on the male race of Eclipse only, we are to be seen only when wanted, heard only when spoken to, though even then we limited our responses to mainly 'yes sir'. We are required to dress in clothes that cover our whole body at all times, though only dresses and long skirts and nothing tight or we would be deemed a harlot, We were not to speak to another male outside our family unless our father ordered it, when we went to town for supplies, we had to be accompanied by others, never look up into others faces and always have our entire body covered including our head with a dark veil. Some days I wondered when I was younger what I did wrong to be born to this life, but now I know the answer is simple, .female.
In seven days it is my sixteenth birthday, and I have been advised that I have been promised to a man on that day. Tomorrow is the first day of my marriage preparations, and I am for the first time in my life, even after getting beaten and abused, am truly scared.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed reading this first chapter, I have big plans for this story, so I hope you stay tuned. Don't forget to review so I know what you think