A/N: Thank you all for all of the support so far. It really encourages me to continue writing these stories. Got up early this morning to get this chapter written. Majority of the chapters will be written in BPOV, later chapters may feature Edwards. The chapters will start to get longer don't worry.
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Chapter Two
BPOV
Isabella had always been a strong-willed individual. She would readily admit that to anyone that asked. She knew that she wasn't the easiest child to take care of; but despite that fact, her mother had done a fairly spectacular job in raising her. She could not comprehend where those alternate universe stories of her mother being flighty and irresponsible stemmed from. If she had to put some thought into the matter, her guess would be that the words had initially spewed from Charles Swan's mouth. He likely wouldn't have wanted the entire town of Forks to know that he was a useless spouse. Yes…rather place the blame on the "flighty" wife that had only left him due to his ineptitude as a husband and as a father than let the town know that their "precious" Chief of Police was a failure.
He had never been her "dad", no matter how much he urged her to address him thus. To her he was Charles; Charlie if she was feeling particularly generous. Not to his face of course…no, she never did say much to his face during his government sanctioned visiting times. She waited for him to initiate conversations, and as he was a relatively introverted person, those situations were few and far between. Thank heavens for that small respite, was her opinion on the matter.
Her decision to relocate to Forks had not been decided upon the event of her mother's marriage. It was more due to her desire to travel; to explore the vast world around her before the physical reality of adulthood set in. While her "old soul", as her mother fondly called it, was far beyond the maturity of her actual age; she had yet to physically deal with ideas such as taxes and mortgages. Her mother Renee had of course taught her the concept of these ideas, but her own wish to travel before things such as these took effect, overlooked her knowledge of these concepts.
"Not that any of that now mattered", she vaguely mused. She would not be inhabiting the same building as Charles for very long. She would put her terms and conditions of living in the same abode as him down, finish her last remaining year of high school education at Forks High, say goodbye to her loving mother, and then disappear for the rest of eternity to live her life and travel the world as Isabella Cullen. And if Charles Swan happened to object to the idea…well, who really cared about his opinion on the matter anyway.