Stumbling across truth=change? You bet!
Summary: Being attacked and then finding her birth certificate and a couple of old photos changes Bella Swans life. Not only has her mum lied to her about her dad but she also has an elder brother. Will Bella now create for herself a new life?
Prologue: The disastrous week in May
Earlier today I was clearing out my attic, my mum thought it'd be something that I'd enjoy doing and it wouldn't upset doctor's orders. I was able to spend a whole day just looking at old photos of my mum and step-dad with their ridiculous clothes and hairstyles. Well…that was what was supposed to happen; the actual events went something like this…
(flashback)
I was looking through an old chest of photos from when my mum was growing up in America when I came across two photos: one of a guy and pregnant girl and another of the same guy, pregnant girl and a boy toddler.
The girl resembled my mum but I didn't recognise the guy, he was unfamiliar.
Then rooting around a bit more I found my birth certificate.
On it, it said mother: Renée Black
Father: Joshua Uley
On reading this I caught my breath, this meant my mum lied and Charlie wasn't my dad – my mum lied!
I heard the ladder creaking, indicating that my mum was coming up as Phil was out at work – he plays cricket.
When she came up I turned with tears in my eyes clutching the photo and my birth certificate to my chest, "you lied," I whispered fiercely, "wh-what" my mum stuttered.
"YOU LIED TO ME!" I screamed, "YOU LIED, MY DAD AIN'T WHO I THOUGHT IT WAS! WHY?"
"Please Bella, I can explain" my mum begged pitifully.
"What was wrong with explaining over 10 yrs ago? Why now when I just happened to stumble across the truth?" I yelled. "I have a dad and brother that you've never told me about! All the times I asked about if I had any other family besides you and Phil you'd say 'no, darling you get to be selfish and have us all to yourself.' Well what a load of crap, you were just saying that so I'd shut up and then it got to a point were I just realised I wasn't gonna get any specific answers that mattered.. but somewhere out there is a REAL dad and brother I've yet to meet! Where you even gonna tell me?" I shout at my mum.
By the end of that little speech we've both got tears streaming down our faces – difference is mine is out of hurt and betrayal whereas hers are out of self-pity.
"I'm gonna go down stairs and start packing, I'm gonna use some of MY money to buy myself a one-way ticket to La Push, Washington as that's what it says on this birth certificate – don't try and stop me, you've lost my trust in you and I wanna meet my brother and dad if they're still there, if not then I'll just start fresh." I say and at the end I walk past my mum down the stairs taking my birth certificate and the photos with me.
(end flashback)
Which brings me to where I am now, sitting in a cab on my way to the little community of La Push; with only 371 – now 372 – people living there.