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Warning: This story aims to highlight everyday struggles for victims of bullying and abuse, and therefore, may contain content that is sensitive or a trigger for some readers, please do not continue reading if this is you.
Prologue
I never quite understood why bullies chose certain people to pick on. Their selection of victims was generally random and completely illogical to anyone other than themselves. Unfortunately for me, I turned out to be one of those victims.
I had attended Forks High School since I was a freshman, moving from Arizona to live with my father for my high school years had been my mothers decision. After her second marriage to Phil, a minor league baseball star, she had become rather selfish. She had become obsessed with recreating the perfect life that she had missed out on because of her teen pregnancy that I was unceremoniously pushed aside. When Renee decided that her and Phil were going to move to a luxury apartment complex in California with her trophy wife friends, I was sent to live with my father because she had specifically chosen an apartment complex that didn't allow anyone under the age of 25 so that she could finally be rid of me.
My father, Charlie, had tried his best to accept me into his already perfect life but I knew he wasn't really ready for his teenage daughter to be back. He already had his wife Sue and step-children living with him in what seemed to be the American Dream. Perhaps that was why I had never told him about the incidents that happened at school but I knew I should have.
As for the bullying itself, I could never really pinpoint what caused it. Maybe it was because I hadn't grown up in forks or maybe it was because the other kids had sensed a nervousness in me that caused me to be their new victim. A victim that I had continued to be since the first moment I arrived.
And so it continued till my senior year when the Cullens moved to town. Where this story begins.