Bella, Charlie and Renee are a happy family, when one night Charlie and Renee go on a date night and never come home. Bella has no family left so she gets put into the system. They leave her everything but she can't have it till she turns 16. She go's from foster home to foster home. What happens when she runs into the 2 people she thought she would never see again and why do they look different?
Charlie's POV
I was so happy. Today was Renee's and mine's 6th wedding anniversary. We're where going out to celebrate. I just got off of work, I got into my car and drove to the jeweler's. I pulled up and got out of my car and walked in to the store. There was an older grayed haired gentleman behind the counter.
"Ah Mr. Swan it's nice to see you again. Are you here to pick your gifts up?" He asked me with a smile on his face.
"It's great to see you too, Mr. Hughes and yes I'm here to pick up their gifts." I said smiling back at him. He went to the back to where the cash register was and came back with 2 white felt boxes in his hands.
"Here you go Mr. Swan there all set. I hope your wife and daughter enjoy them." He said handing me the boxes.
"I hope so too. Thanks again Mr. Hughes." I said giving him a smile as I left the store. I got back into my car and went home to my girls. I still couldn't be leave that 6 years ago today I married the love of my life. We were young, heck we still are. We got married right after High School and just a year and a half later our beautiful Isabella was born. Sometimes I still couldn't be leave that we're only 24. I'm only 2 ½ months older then Renee. But we don't care.
When I pulled into the driveway I turned the car off and got out of my curser and closed the door behind me. I walked up to the door opened it and walked inside the nice warm house. I just put my gun away when all of a sudden I heard a scream. I wasn't worried by it because I knew it was a happy scream. My little girl came running into view so I bent down readying myself to catch her.
"DADDY!" She screamed happily running into my awaiting arms. I hugged her tight to my body.
"Why hello princess did you have a fun day at preschool?" I asked her.
"Yep. Look at what I made you and mommy." She said pointing to a handmade card on the coffee table with 2 macaroni necklaces lying next to it. I bent down and picked the card up to read it. It was pink paper with a big heart on the front that said Happy Cake and on the inside it said I love you so much mommy and daddy. Love princess Bella. I looked at her and smiled.
"I love it princess, Thank you." I said giving her another hug and a kiss on the forehead. "Did you show mommy?" I asked her.
"Yep sure did. MOMMY!" She yelled for Renee while getting out of my arms and walking over to the coffee table. Renee came running in looking beautiful in an off the shoulder silk navy blue dress with black high heels. Her hair was hanging down in soft curls with the sides pined up with the beret that her mom gave her before she died. The sight of her took my breath away. She ran over to Bella with a worried look on her face.
"What's wrong baby? Are you okay? Are you hurt?" She asked taking our daughter in her arms.
"No mommy I'm fine. See." Bella said showing Renee her arms.
"I see now. Why where you screaming for me?" She asked.
"Because I wanted to give you and daddy your cake presents." She said.
"Anniversary." Renee said.
"Huh?" Bella asked looking confused.
"You mean anniversary presents." Renee corrected her.
"But I thought there was cake?" She said with a cute pout.
"There is cake at the wedding." Renee said giving me a small smile telling me that she was thinking about our wedding. I couldn't help but smile back I was thinking about it all day.
"Can we go to a wedding? I want some cake." Bells asked us. We just laughed. I grabbed Bells and put her in my lap.
"Well princess we can't go to a wedding unless we get invited." I was just about to say something else but she interrupted me.
"Oh. When do we get to go to a wedding?" She asked.
"Well with any luck, the next wedding we go to it will be yours sweetheart." Renee said.
"Ewe. But boys are yucky." She said
"Someday princess boys aren't going to seem yucky, and when that day comes a boy is going to make you his queen." I said.
"I don't know daddy but how do I become a queen that sounds like fun." She said looking up at me.
"Well a boy that loves you very much will come to me and ask me for your hand-" I was going to add more but Bells got scared.
"What! No daddy I want to keep my hand. I need it." She said with a scared look in her chocolate brown eyes.
"Oh silly Bella. It's your hand in marriage he will have not these hands." I said taking her tiny hands in one of mine. "And I'll be there to walk you down the isle when that day comes." I said smiling at Renee. She smiled back.
"Promise daddy?" She said looking up at me.
"I promise princess." I said giving her a hug. After another 10 minutes of talking Bella got out of my lap and went and picked up the macaroni necklaces she made use. She brought them to us and gave them to us. We both said our thank you's and where about to put them on the floor when she said.
"NO. You have to put them on." She pouted at us with her bottom lip stuck under her teeth as she nod on it. We looked at her then put them on, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked up smiling at us. I took her in my arms again and said.
"Guess what?" I asked her. She looked up at us and replied.
"What?" She asked with curies eyes.
"I got you and mommy a present too." I said looking at Renee. I sat Bella in Renee's lap and stood up and went over to the small wooden table we had sitting by the door that we put our keys on and grabbed the jewelry boxes that held there gifts. I went back and sat on the floor with my girls. I took them and handed the top one to Renee she opened it and a look of shock came to her face. Smiled at me and gave me a kiss.
"I love it thank you. It's beautiful." She said taking the locket out of the box and putting it on along with that macaroni one that Bella made her. I handed Bella's box to her. It was cute watching her try to open the box. Renee grabbed it and opened it in front of her. Her chocolate brown eyes opened so wide I thought they would fall out. Renee grabbed the locket out of the box and put it around our daughter's neck. Bella looked down at her new shiny necklace. When she looked back up at me she had the biggest smile I have seen on her face in a long time. She got up out of Renee's lap and came over and rapped her tiny arms around my neck and held on for dear life.
"Thank you daddy I love it but I love you more. You're the best daddy ever." She said and fell back into my lap.
"Look mommy we match." She said.
"Almost sweetie." She said. Renee had a white gold (silver) locket with a dark purple diamond in it. The inside had a picture of the 3 of us take this year on Bella's birthday. We were sitting on the porch swing in the back yard. We had just finished eating cake and ice cream when my mom said to smile. We did. Bella had pink frosting all over her face. It was one of Renee's favorite pictures and on the other side was engraved just one word forever.
Bella also had a white gold (silver) locket but hers had a dark blue sapphire in it. Inside hers were 2 pictures that were her favorite. The first was a picture of our wedding day. Renee was in a beautiful white gown. I was in a black tux. Bells always says we look like a prince and a princess. The other was one was taken a mouth after my mom died. We took Bella to the beach for the first time. It was our first trip to LA as a family. We were on the beach lying on the sand. I asked this old guy to take a picture of us. It was just of our heads, the way we were laying made it look like a triangle. We were smiling up at the camera. And on the back was engraved. We will never leave your side. Love always Daddy.
A little while later the doorbell rang. Renee got up to answer the door. It was Bella's babysitter Mia. She was a senior at Portland High School. She also just happened to live next door. Bella loved Mia she thought of her as a big sister. She loved it when Mia came over. Sometimes she would take Bella out for ice cream so Renee and I felt really good about leaving her in Mia's hands.
"Hey Mia thanks for coming over tonight." Renee said letting Mia in the house.
"Hey it's no problem I love watching Bella, she's like a little sister to me. So what are the plans for tonight? Something romantic I hope?" Mia asked. Renee was about to say something but I cut her off.
"That is something she does not know and I plan to keep that way." I said taking my Renee in my arms. That's when we heard a scream. It was a mix of happiness and scared. We looked behind us and saw that Bella was giving Mia a hug but we could tell she was a little worried about something. I looked back at Renee and told her I was going to go upstairs and change. When I was done I went back down stairs. When I reached the bottom I heard two gasp. I looked up and smiled. Renee was looking me up and down like she wanted to eat me and Bella had a small smile on her face. She came to me and I picked her up.
"Wow daddy you look pretty." She said.
"Handsome. Daddy looks very handsome." Renee said coming over to us. We looked at each other for a moment then looked at our baby girl. I sat her back on her feet and grabbed Renee's hand and headed for the door. We didn't have to give rules or tell Bella and Mia what to do. They just knew. I was just about to close the door when Bella screamed.
"WAIT!" She came to the door with a scared look on her face. We both kneeled down to her level.
"Promise you come back to me. Promise you won't leave me and that you'll be here when I wake up." She said with a scared look on her face. She may be 5 but she was very smart for her age. We both looked at each other for a moment then looked at her. That's when we both grabbed her and held her in our arms as if our lives depended on it. We both pulled back and looked at our little girl.
"Sweetheart your daddy and I are never going anywhere. We promise that when you wake up it will be to the smell of blueberry waffles." Renee said smiling up at her.
"Really?" Bella asked. Blueberry waffles where her favorite.
"Really." She vowed.
"So you're coming back?" She asked.
"Yep sure are kiddo." I said smiling at her and ruffling her hair. Renee gave her a hug again and stood up. I took her in my arms and gave her a big strong hug. As I pulled away I couldn't shrug the feeling like it was going to be the last hug I ever gave her. I took Renee's hand and led her to the car. I opened her car door for her. I went to get into my side. As we were pulling out of the driveway we heard Bella yell to us.
"I LOVE YOU MOMMY! I LOVE YOU DADDY." I saw her smiling at us in the rear view mirror with Mia standing next to her. Renee held on to my hand as I drove us to the pear. When we got there we parked in the parking lot and got out of the car. I held my arm out to my lovely wife and she took it. We walk down two blocks to the restaurant I made reservations at weeks ago for tonight. The last time we came here was for my birthday. We were walking back to the car when Renee pointed to the restaurant and said she would like to go to it sometime. Keep in mind that it was too much money for us to spend for dinner but I deiced that if it would make her happy then I would do it. So I called and had everything set up a few weeks ago. When Renee realized where we were going she was shocked.
"Oh Charlie, this is amazing. How can we afford it?" She asked me knowing it was going to cost an arm or two to pay for it.
"I think because it is a special night for us that we make the most of it." I said. "Care to join me for dinner Mrs. Swan?" I asked.
"I would love to Mr. Swan." She said smiling up at me. With that said we walked into the restaurant. After we were done eating dinner we went down to the pear and watched the sunset. It was one of Renee's favorite things to do. She loved it even more when I was there to share it with her. A half hour after it got dark we deiced to go home to our baby girl.
We deiced to take a short cut threw the ally to get to the car faster. We just got to the middle when we heard a noise like someone kicked a can or something. I turned around but no one was there. I could tell Renee was getting scared because she held onto my arm harder. I turned back around to keep walking but I bumped into what felt like a concert wall. When I looked up I saw that it wasn't a wall at all it was a man. A man with pale white skin and red eyes.
"Oh sorry." I said trying to walk around him while still holding on to Renee. He grabbed my so hard I thought he was going to break it.
"Oh I don't think you're going anywhere." He replied. That's when he pushed me into the dumpster that was a good 20 feet or so behind me. I think I blacked out for a second when I hit my head. I opened my eyes to see that he just picked Renee up by her waist and threw her into the side of the building with such force that I thought he might have killed her. I was so angry that I got up and was about to punch him when he punched me in the stomach and set me flying again. The last things I heard before I blacked out where growling and a man saying.
"I'm sorry but this is the only way to save you and your wife." That's when the fire started.
TO BE CONTINUIED.