Chapter 7 ya'll! Time to meet Charlie. Love him or hate him please let me know! Thank you itsmereading for your betaing!
Chapter 7
Song of the Day
Steven Curtis Chapman : Cinderella
Charlie
How did I end up here? Renee has always fucked my life over, since the minute I met the bitch. The only remotely good thing about her was my daughter Isabella. That child made me marry Renee and stay married to her. The woman never could keep her legs closed. I'd question Bella being mine if she didn't look like my and my own Mom's clone. There were other pregnancies, which weren't mine. God knows who the fathers were or what she did with them. I don't ask, she doesn't tell. Thank God her parents live in Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. She went to visit her parents a lot in our marriage. On to other topics.
Renee was in the process of trying to quietly divorce me. She apparently met a younger man. A baseball player named Phil something. Never heard of him. She was traveling a lot to be with him. I am unsure if Phil knows about Renee's marriage or daughter. Why is this relevant? This is why I started to turn a blind eye on what Bella's long time boyfriend was doing to her. They have dated since they were in kindergarten. Why would he hurt her intentionally? He comes from a good family. Loving Mom Esme and Dad Carlisle. Adopted after his real parents died in an accident when he was two. Loving sister Alice. There are people who fit the mode and others who don't. It eats me alive that I let this go on.
The first time she came to me about him being rough with her sometimes was when she was in Middle School. When she told me I thought it was in gym class. They were playing dodgeball. Makes sense that someone would hit her with a ball, and I told her as such. Then there were more bruises. I asked about them, she said she fell. Still trying to figure out how she fell with hand print marks on her arm. She started wearing makeup. A lot of makeup. Looking back, it was to cover the bruises. There were times she came to me wanting to leave Edward and press charges. I knew that those charges might cost him his chance at being a doctor like both of his dads, I talked her out of it. He was supposed to go to counseling and change. He went to therapy and bull shitted his way through. Come to find out, he played a lot of people. While Bella wasn't allowed to have friends other than him and his sister, he had other girlfriends. Many of them. Poor girls. Looks like he's going to be a deadbeat daddy for at least two or three kids, at least that's not Bella.
I should have seen it sooner. I should have done something besides stay out of the courts. If I had, I would have my little girl.
So I will dance with Cinderella. While she is here in my arms. Cause I know something the prince never knew. Oh, I will dance with Cinderella. I don't wanna miss even one song. 'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight and she'll be gone.
No. She is gone, and it's my own damn fault.