Bella P.O.V
You're there by my side in every way. I know that you will not forsake me. I give you my life, I would not think twice. Your love is all I need believe me.
We swayed slowly to the song other couples around us in the luxuriously designed gym. I tried to keep the tears from falling at what I knew was coming. Jacob looks down at me his tall muscular frame stares into my deep blue eyes.
I may not say it as much as I should. When I saw I love you darling that means for good. So open up your heart and let me in.
"Bella… you know if things were different." He said to me over the music as we swayed. I smiled as I looked up at my boyfriend well... ex- boyfriend. We broke up…or were breaking up. This was our last dance together and it wasn't even because of feelings.
"I know Jacob… I get it. Besides it's a mutual decision." I said as I rested my head on his shoulder.
And I will love you, till forever. Until death do us due part we'll be together. So take my hand and hold on tight. And we'll get there. This I swear.
"I just wish this didn't have to happen… Maybe this is a good thing… You always said two people who were meant to be together always find their way back in the end." He whispered in my ear.
I was wondering how I ever got by. Without you in my life to guide me. Where ever I go, one thing that's true. Is everything I do, I do for you.
"I just… I hate how this is so beyond us." I said.
"I know… you'll be my forever Bella. You just can't be my right now." He said his own voice cracking as if it just realized exactly what was happening.
I may not say it half as much as I should, when I say I love you darling that means for good. So open up your heart and let me in. And I will love you, till forever until death due us part we'll be together so take my hand, and hold on tight, and we'll get there. This I swear.
I let go of Jake's hand and I looked up at him.
"Let's go." I said and he nodded. We leave the gymnasium that looked like a million bucks thanks to the fact that our school had funds like that and we walk in silence to Jake's car. He puts his jacket over my bare shoulders. When we got to the Audi he opened the butterfly door. I got in and he started speeding into the darkness of the night. I just stared out of the window as he was driving me home. The perfectly manicured neighborhood lawns of the gated community we lived in… and all I knew slowly zipping past me as everything became a blur in the night. Jake doesn't say anything and neither did I. When he gates to the big Iron gates that say
DAWYER
On it I all but cried. This would be my last night in my home. My childhood home Jacob drives up the long luxurious drive way and parks in front of my glass mansion of a house. My father designed this house. I turn over to Jacob and hand him his tuxedo jacket. I open the door and he smiles at me as I'm about to leave.
"Hey Bella?" He said.
"Yeah."
"I really did love you." He said. I smiled before I leaned over and kissed him one last time.
"Goodnight Jacob." I said. Before I got out of the car. My jimmy Choo heels taking me to the front steps of my door. I turned to look back at the black car and it sped off.
"Ugh." I said in frustration as I entered my house. Bree walks down the stairs. My twin sister and my best friend in the entire world.
"That bad huh." She said. My mom walks down the steps behind her as she takes the two of us in. We both don't say anything. We've been giving her the silent treatment for a little over a month now. She just sighed.
"Are you guys seriously still not going to talk to me?" She asked as I slid off the heels and leaned against the knobs of the double doors. Bree just looked away and Phil walked into the room.
"Girls." He scolded us softly but even he wasn't thrilled at what was occurring. "Stop being rude." He said softly.
"We didn't even say anything." We both said in unison. Standing a united front.
"Yeah that's kind of the problem." Said my mother before she sighed and walked away from the three of us when she was out of earshot my dad looked at us.
"You guys could be a little bit nicer… her hands were tied." He defended her.
"Dad all she had to do was say no." I said and my dad looked at me.
"Bella she's 87 she wants to meet you guys."
"She's got other grandkids." Bree said throwing her hands up in the air. "Or are you forgetting the story." She said cocking her head at him.
"Look I don't want any attitude right now." He said. All my life Bree and I were daddy's little girls. But give attitude and your black credit card was being cut in half so quick you wouldn't even be able to blink.
You must be confused.
Well, I'll start at the very beginning. This all started seventeen years ago in a little town called Forks Washington. Where my mother moved her freshmen year of high school. There was a guy captain of some sports team couldn't remember the sport for the life of me. That she fell for. His name was Charlie Swan. Charlie Swan was the town golden boy got great grades, had lots of money got all the girls… and he was a "legacy". That meaning he had to marry someone just like him. Now don't get me wrong my mom had money… Just not the Charlie Swan kind. So when she went to him her senior year of high school and told him she was pregnant. He slid her the money for the abortion and told her it was over. My mother being the weirdo she was… Threw the money back in his face and spit in it too. Then she ran to the sunny state or Arizona for College while pregnant. She went to the doctor's office only to run into Phil Dawyer. A plastic surgeon. One of the best in the country to be exact. He looked into her eyes she looked into his and he knew that even though she was pregnant she would be his forever.
He was right. He was there with my mother the rest of her pregnancy not caring that she was only seventeen and he was a good eight years older than her. My sister and I were born September 20th 1998 at Sunnybrook hospital in the sunny state of Arizona.
Isabella and Breana Dawyer. We were their pride and joy. Although my dad didn't like it. My mother told Charlie of our birth. He in turn said she better not ask him for any money. So that was the end of that. I'd never met Charlie Swan last my mother heard the year we were born Charlie had another daughter too, from his wife… Sue. But other than that I really didn't know much about him. My mother didn't talk about him but I think it's because she never found the need too. I mean Phil has been my father since before I was born, why would I care about some man in some weird town? My sister saw it that way too. Plus when my mom married Phil she had way more money than Charlie Swan money. She had Phil Dawyer money. He wasn't a millionaire. He was a billionaire. His family dipped into real estate owned hotels and that was just family money. Dad wanted to be self-made but if he threw away his practice and decided to quit my mom wouldn't notice. My mom being the independent woman she is started her own makeup line. It took a lot since she wanted to do it without dad's money or her parents money. But it happened. And when we were three the line Dawyer launched and the rest is history. My sister and I grew up in this lavish lifestyle we were one small happy family. My father wanted no more kids and neither did my mother. My sister and I were absolutely fine with that. Everything was going great. Bree and I were co captains of the cheerleading team. Threw parties at the house or as my friends liked to call it.
"The glass mansion."
I was dating Jake and Bree was dating James. Life was fine, life was great. And then some old hag Elizabeth Swan spoke. Apparently my sperm donor Charlie Swan was having a conversation with his mother… Elizabeth about how he regrets his decision that he wasn't in our lives. SO the old fart decided to call my mom and turn on the
"It's my dying wish"
Bullshit. To meet her other grandkids. So my mom thought fine… I'll send them for a week she gets her wish and all is fine with the world… But no. Elizabeth wanted us to know Charlie she wanted us to get to know that side of the family. But what I didn't like was this whole.
"Family." Thing.
I had a family.
My mom's side and my dad's side. We spend Christmas with my mom's parents and Thanksgiving with my dad's family and every year it alternated. It's been that way since before I was born. There was never any.
Charlie Swan's family.
We weren't family.
"Is she even dying!?" Bree exclaimed the afternoon my mom and dad told us the bad news.
"To be honest I don't really know." My mother said.
"Dad." We said in unison looking at him he just shrugged.
"I'm not really happy about you guys going to Charlie Swan's house… but it's been sixteen years we've all matured and… she wants to meet you guys." He said.
"We can go for a week but that's as far as I'll go." I said.
"Fuck that I'll go for a week… end." Bree said. My mom and dad both sighed. "They're not our family we're a family." She said gesturing to all four of us.
"Aunt Nick, Uncle Luke cousin Jade, Cousin Margret. That's our family. I'm not spending my senior year away from my boyfriend in some small town In Washington dad all it does is rain there!" Bree yelled her face turning red. My mother passed her hand through her red-brown tresses.
"I'm sorry guys but… it's only fair that… you at least meet them." She said.
"But we've agreed that if it's really horrible… you can come back. But you have to try. You have to." My father said.
"I hate you guys!" Bree yelled before she grabbed her duffel bag as she just came from cheerleading practice and disappeared into the main foyer where she'd go up the stairs.
"Bella." My mother said softly. I just looked at her shaking my head before I ran up the steps.
I'm taken out of my memory when my mother calls my name.
"What?" I ask softly.
"I'm sorry about you and Jake… I know he was supposed to be your forever." She whispered.
"Whatever." I said as I started climbing the stairs.
"Bella for what it's worth." My mom started. "Charlie Swan was supposed to be my forever too." Is all she said. I just looked at her for the first time in a month. And then she walked away.
-Next Morning-
"Are we flying in the Jet?" I asked. My dad nodded.
"Yup." He said as he backed out of the driveway. "With all the bullshit you guys are bringing with you."
"Shoes are not bullshit." Bree says as she leans against her seat putting her Ray Bans on. I did the same my mother was in the passenger side drinking her Starbucks. As much as I couldn't fathom her right now. My mother was beautiful with long black hair and blue eyes and my father was definitely a looker. She intertwined her hands with my dad and he kissed her knuckles. She smiles as she looks out the window.
I thought about what my mother said. About how Charlie was supposed to be her forever and then I look at her and Phil. It was hard to believe that she could be with anybody but my dad. I mean… the only time they were separated was when they were at work. My mother and father could be in a room of people and they'd know exactly where the other one was. They finished each other's sentences and they always fell asleep in each other's arms in front of the television in our home theatre every Saturday night, while they both got bored watching some romance movie. They were so in love so in tuned with each other I wanted that. I wanted love and I thought I had it… but I had never said I loved you to Jake… All I said was that he was my forever… But isn't that the same thing as love? I was starting to think otherwise. I had a feeling that as much as I hated that I had to leave my somewhat perfect life in Phoenix… I would learn a lot being in Forks. I didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
-Next day-
"This place smells like damp." Bree said as the two of us made our way off the private plane.
"That's because it rains a lot." I said to her slightly annoyed. Although were twins Bree and I were different. As we tried to make sure that everybody knew which one was who. For instance even though I was a minute older. Bree was a whole inch taller than me. Our natural color hair was a dark red-brown color. I dyed my hair black so you could tell the difference. Bree had a nose ring where I did not. We both had blue eyes plump lips and freckles around our nose area. Then there was our personality.
Although co captains of the cheerleading team. Bree was the loud one. She was the outgoing one and she loved attention. I was the quieter one, I liked to read and listen to music… we both just happened to love cheer. Bree liked anything pink, I liked anything green. At times we fought like cat and dog but for the most part… we stood a united front. I grabbed my Louis Vuitton speedy and walked my YSL heels clicking as we walked into the airport while our stuff was being unloaded. We pass through the terminal and Bree just rummaged through her 3.1 Phillip Lim purse. As soon as got it she picked up her phone and dialed a number furiously.
"James." She said and When we left the terminal I didn't look around for Charlie and his wife. I just stood there so Bree could finish her call to her boyfriend… unlike Jake and I those two didn't break up. She didn't care where she was they were together. James didn't care either… he was Bree's forever. Bree also didn't have worries about other girls either… because she would kill them and James was aware of this.
"Baby it's rainy over here." She said as she inspected her long red nails with a pout. She walked away for a minute for some privacy and I just sighed leaning against the wall.
"Isabella?" Said someone I didn't recognize I turn to see that it's a man and the minute I see the freckles on his nose I know it's my sperm donor. He was standing beside a woman who was shorter than him. She was native and had hazel eyes… she was pretty but my mom was prettier. I don't even care if that was a biased decision.
"It's Bella but hi." I said giving him my hand to shake. His wife.. Sue just stared at me like I was a ghost, she laughed.
"The freckles Charlie." She said to him.
"I know." He said staring at me as they laughed together.
Well weren't they fucking jovial.
"Where's your sister?" He asked. I pointed over to Bree who was on the phone making extreme hand gestures and walking back and forth as she spoke frantically into the phone about how she needed to get out of here. When Charlie got a hint of her conversation he cleared his throat and the joking was gone. It was as if it finally registered in his peewee brain that Bree and I had a life and we didn't appreciate being plucked from it for him. She hangs up the phone and walks over to us her heels clicking.
"You guys are so grown up." He said staring at the two of us. Bree just narrowed her eyes at him with a disgusted look. Sue just looked at Bree's nose piercing.
"Elizabeth will love that." Sue said in a joking tone.
"Well I'm not taking it off. So she's gonna have to." Is all she said crossing her arms.
Another thing about Bree and I. Bree didn't really care if she showed her distaste for you to your face. It really didn't bother her at all. I on the other hand didn't mind doing it alone in my room.
Charlie cleared his throat.
"Well why don't you show us where your luggage is?" He asked. Two men in suits push three large luggage carriers with all of mine and Bree's luggage. Charlie's eyes widened at all the Louis Vuitton suitcases.
"Our dad is having a van deliver it to the house so you don't have to worry about driving it or anything."
"… Your dad?" He said looking at us. Bree raised her eyebrow.
"Phil?" Sue asked.
"Rene's husband they got married when she was still pregnant with the twins." Charlie explains to Sue.
"Yeah Phil Dawyer. Our dad." She said to him like he was stupid.
"I heard your mom was married I just didn't know that."
"What?" I asked softly. "That we were considered his kids… yeah when you raise two twins from the time of their birth. You tend to become their parent." I said quietly as I looked at Charlie. Bree just put her sunglasses on before she walked away.
"I've had enough of this airport can we just go." Is all she said before she disappeared.
*House*
"Seth, Leah!" Sue and Charlie bellow as the four of us walked into a nice big house… it wasn't as big as ours back home but I guess it was big… for Forks. The two people I'm assuming were their kids ran down the stairs. I was faced with a girl that looked exactly like Sue only her skin was ten times lighter. And a boy who looked exactly like Charlie except nothing… he looked like the twelve year old version of Charlie.
"Hey." They both said to us in unison. The four of us just stared at each other, sizing each other up.
"Wow… you guys really are dad's kids." The girl said walking toward us. Bree raised her eyebrow at Leah.
"My father… Is Phil Dawyer." She said slowly. Leah nodded.
"Don't worry… I know." Leah said. "Nice nose ring." She said to Bree. "I'm not allowed to have one." She said glaring at Charlie.
"It's your grandmothers' dying wish-
"She's not even dying." Seth, Leah Bree and I all say to him in unison. Sue looked up at her husband with a smirk.
"They're your kids… you deal with them." She said with a shrug before she left the four of us in the foyer with a smirk and a pep in her step as she walked away. Leah looked over at me.
"You have my fathers' freckles." She pointed out. I just nodded and she sighed. "That's as much family bonding that I can take. See you guys later." Leah said grabbing a black purse and leaving through the door. Seth just looks at the two of us before he smiles, waves and walks away. Bree looks at Charlie.
"Please don't tell me we have to share a room." She said Charlie shook his laughing.
"No don't worry this house is pretty big plenty of space for both of you to have your own room." He said as he guided us up the steps. We make our way into the highest floor and it only had two doors.
"These are your rooms… uh their both decorated exactly the same and have the same layout so … I mean whichever one you guys want." He said. Bree just grabbed her small suitcase before opening the first door she got.
"Thanks." She said tersely before she closed the door on the two of us.
"You look more like your mother but she acts more like her mother." He said mostly to himself.
"What are you … taking notes on us or something." I said as I lifted my duffel over my shoulder.
"I'm just getting to know you guys I guess." He said. I just narrowed my eyes at him shaking my head with a smirk.
"If you wanted to get to know us… you could have just done it the old fashioned way… you could have just raised us." I said with an eye roll. He sighs.
"Look Isabella." He started.
"Bella." I corrected.
"Bella… I know it must have been hard for you-
"Whoa, whoa, whoa clip it right there." I said. "Nothing was hard for me or Bree. Phil was there from before we were even born. He's always been my dad. It wasn't hard without you… we didn't give you the time of day… The only thing that's hard for me is being plucked from my life away from my loving parents… and being brought here… That's the hard thing." I said. "Especially since I'm living with a man who gave my mother the money to kill me." I said his eyes snapped up.
"Yeah… she told us the story of our horrible beginning one night when she was drunk… But I guess it wasn't Elizabeth's dying wish to know that her son wanted to have an abortion." I said. He just sighed.
"I was young." He explained I shrugged.
"It doesn't bother me Charlie… It really doesn't I loved my life and my friends and my family." I said. He nods.
"I get that…. But as much as Bree or you don't like to admit it… we're your family too." He said softly. I shook my head.
"You will never be our family… and we're here until we can convince our mom to let us leave." I said to him. He just looked at me calmly.
"Did it ever occur to you that you might like it here?" He said.
"Did it ever occur to you that that's impossible." I said.
"I take it back you're both exactly like your mother." He said smiling little bit to himself as if remembering her.
"And if you're just like you're mother… then you might take to Forks a lot more than you think." He said in his own head as he smiled to himself and walked away. I just narrowed my eyes at him before I went into my room. If Charlie was implying that I would fall for anyone in this damn town. He had lost his mind on so many levels.
Well! That was the first chapter. Poor Bella has absolutely no idea what's in store for her. None what's so ever. Wait till she meets a blue eyes blonde haired God. Her life will change forever.
Hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter. I'll be back soon!
