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Antonia Carlie Swan-Cullen
Age: 10
Mother: Isabella Marie Swan
Father: Edward Anthony Masen Cullen
As I looked to the top of the stairs and looked into the concerned green eyes of my daughter I remembered the day that I almost lost her.
Flashback:
Sitting in the waiting room of the clinic, still angry for why I was here. The cheating bastard that was my now ex-fiancee, Edward Cullen. I began to calm down as my friend Angela tried to smooth my anger by rubbing circle on my back. I looked around and all the different faces and wondered what kind of circumstances brought them to this place. I thought about how much that I had wanted children in the future. I thought about how my anger was getting ready to take a life. I thought about even though things didn't work out with Edward that this child was still concieved out of love even if it was just on my side. I looked at Angela and she could see the difference on my face and just took my hand and we left the clinic. When we got back to the dorms I made plans to leave town after the semester was over. I called my mom and asked if I could come live with her and go to school in Florida. She was more than happy for me to come. I wonder how happy she will be when she learns why I had to come.
A few weeks later the semester was over and I was saying good bye to Angela at the airport promising that I would keep in touch. We did keep in touch and she told me about Edward leaving school after I did and going to Chicago. We lost track of him after that. On Valentines Day, Antonia was born and she was the light of my life from the minute that she was placed in my arms. I promised that when the time was right she would learn about her father. I put Edward as her father on her birth certificate and even gave her his last name. She looked so much like her father with the greenest eyes, beautiful auburn hair, and the same crooked smile that could get you to do anything she asked.
End Flashback
When we moved back to Forks to take care of my father after his heart attack I got in touch with Angela and we were able to keep the Cullens from knowing about Toni. It was not easy considering that we lived in the same small town but we were able to make it work. I would being Toni to see Charlie at night when I was sure that noone would be visiting him. Dr. Cullen usually came to see him during the day when Toni was at school.
What would Edward think when he finds out that I lied to him? Did I really care? He lied to me for who knows how long. Did he even want children? I thought that he did. We talked about it for the future. Toni knows that she has a father that is not in the picture right now. I had to tell her at the age of 8 when she came home from school crying and asking why she didn't have a father to go to the father/daughter dance at school. It was not an easy conversation for me to have but I was able to make it through for her.
Once I see if he is going to keep his word about another chance then I will tell him about his daughter. On second thought I will tell him about his daughter anyway when I think that the time is right.
