Hello Everyone and welcome to my story! Like the summary says there are some references to abuse but I know this is a touchy subject for some people including myself so I don't want to focus too much on that. Please read and review I love hearing what you think! I don't own twilight I just like to play with the characters the Twilight Series has brought us! Looking forward to hearing what you all think! Have a great day!
Prologue
If you would have told me at 22 years old I would be standing here in a white dress in front of all my family and friends I would have laughed in your face. I've never really believed in marriage, I think it stems from being in the middle of my parents' divorce and being passed from state to state in the midst of it. My mother wasn't the type to stay in a relationship long and my father always wanted the white picket fence dream with little kids running around and a wife who adored him. Unfortunately when they met as teenagers and got pregnant very quickly my mother was forced to move from Arizona to Forks in order to raise me with my father. That created a lot of animosity and resentment from my mom breaking down their relationship slowly until she left 2 years after having me and after marrying my father in a courthouse a week after my birth. Arizona quickly became my home where I grew up and my father's house in Forks Washington was just a place that I visited once a year.
Until the Whitlock's moved to Forks my summers were filled with fun on the La Push Reservation with my friend Jacob and his sisters Rachel and Rebecca. I can pin point the day I met Rosalie Whitlock, her twin brother Jasper, and Cousin Peter. It was the day we found out that Jacobs' parents Billy and Sarah were in a car accident, Jacob and I were both 14 at the time, Sarah didn't make it and Billy would never be able to walk again due to his injuries. I sat on my front porch for hours with Jacob holding my friend as he cried. Before my dad left to go sit with Billy at the hospital he let me know to talk to the Whitlock's if we needed anything. About an hour later these three blonde kids made their way over, Jacob glared and I offered a halfhearted smile, they sat down and told us about the day Jasper and Rosalie lost their parents in a similar situation and were sent to live with their Aunt Maggie and Cousin Peter. After that Jasper, Peter and Jacob became very close. Rosalie and I did as well, and now well I love her like a sister to this day.
When I was 16 I stopped visiting my father, Rosalie met a guy whose family moved to Forks and she fell in love fast. I met Riley that year, he had moved to Arizona from Seattle and that was the year my life started to head downhill. Just like Rosalie I fell in love fast telling her every detail until one day he decided that I shouldn't associate with Rosalie because she was a whore. I know it sounds ridiculous now but I would have done anything for Riley then. I cut off all communication with everyone from Forks, Riley felt like I was living in the past and if I wanted friends in Forks than I should just move there. Over the years he got worse, he called me names, made fun of my looks, degraded and disrespected me every chance he got until he controlled every aspect of my life. I was a shell of a person with no voice, my mom was always concerned and talking to me about abusive relationships. Deep down I think she knew what was going on and as a daughter of a police chief you think I would have known better. But I remained blind to the things going on around me.
The night I left Arizona was the best day of my life I cannot even begin to tell you how my life changed in that instant, it was the first time he hit me and I vowed to myself that it would be the last time. I'm Bella Swan and this is my journey of finding myself again and falling in love in the process.