A/N I don't own twilight or any of the characters that's all Stephanie Meyer!
Also pretend that Bella did write the songs in this story and perfect by simple plan is sung (is that even a word?) by a dude I get that but she's trying to convey a message to her father just go with it Also the version of perfect is the acoustic one.
BPOV
"Ang is he here yet?" I asked already knowing the answer to that question.
"No Bells he isn't here yet." she sighed
"Fine then go tell Eric to change the track we're going with the other song." I said.
"Are you sure Bells?" she asked
"Yeah Ang I am." I sighed.
She turned around and walked over to the DJ booth. It was the end of my sophomore year at VAA and like last year my father Mr. Executive wasn't here like he promised me. I knew not to get my hopes up but I thought this year would be different but all in all it wasn't.
"Yo B what's up the parental not show up again this year either?" said one of my best friends Jasper Whitlock
"Nope Jazz my father isn't here again but no worries it's all good." I said
"Are you sure B I know how much this show means to you and how happy you looked all semester when he promised you he'd come." He hesitated when I didn't answer it's true I was looking forward to this show especially when my father said he would come but hey not all our wishes come true.
"Yea Jazz I'm sure I changed the song I'm singing, if you'll excuse me I have to go change."
And with that I turned to go to my room and changed into some black skinny jeans, and my light blue tie dye hole tank top paired with my over the knee suede boots and I was ready to go. When I got back down to the stage Angela was there waiting for me as well as Jasper.
"Ok I'm ready." I said
"Are you sure about this B?" Jasper asked
"Positive."
With that I turned towards the stage and listened to our principle Aro announce that it was my turn.
"You all know her, you all…well almost all of you love her…"
I had to roll my eyes there because it was true Rosalie and her posy of Barbie plastics hated me
"...give it up for Isabella Swan!"
You could hear everyone cheering "Bella!", "Yea bells!", "Go Bella!"
I got up to the stage with my acoustic guitar and sat on the stool, fixed the microphone and started playing the song I wrote with everything I had.
"Hey dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan?
And do you think I'm wasting my time doing things I wanna do?
But it hurts when you disapprove all along
And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't pretend that
I'm alright
And you can't change me
'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
I was trying to sing without crying but it was getting harder and harder. I couldn't believe that he couldn't take off some time to come and see his daughters' performance something that meant a lot to me.
"Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be my hero?
All the days you spent with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don't care anymore"
He needed to know that I needed my father not the executive that was never around I know he was disappointed that I wasn't a boy but he needed to learn how to live with what's given to him.
"And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't stand another fight
And nothing's alright"
I can't keep fighting with him on the same things over and over again I know he blames me for my mother's death but what can I do about it, it happened years ago and I can't bring her back, I know it hurts him but I miss her too.
"'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Nothing's gonna change the things that you said
Nothing's gonna make this right again
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard
Just to talk to you
But you don't understand"
I had to let him know that what he did couldn't be changed that it was too late to change things back to how they were that he couldn't keep hurting me and think that I would forgive in the end.
"'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect"
I had tears in my eyes threatening to spill over I looked out to the crowd and I saw him, he was standing by the doorway with a blank look in his eyes. He came! He actually came! I closed my eyes and sang the last couple of chorus' with everything in me
"'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect!"
When it was over everyone was cheering I just kept staring at my father trying to read his face but he turned and headed to where the principle was to talk to him. I got off the stage to a teary eyed Angela and a sad looking Jasper.
"Well it looks like he did decide to come I gotta go come on Ang"
with that I turned around pulling Angela with me and headed up to our room that now had three beds instead of two due to the fact that we were going to have a new roommate in the next school year.
"Ang don't say anything please I just had to do it and you know it, at least it was better than the song I was going to sing."
I laid down on my bed and tried to just forget but the knock on the door I heard Angela answering.
"Mr. Swan um please come in."
"Bella I'm going to look for Ben ok?" Angela said with uncertainty in her voice.
"Yea Ang that's fine." I said watching her leave.
I turned back to look at my father.
"Bella what was the purpose of you signing that song?" he asked.
I gaped at him didn't he hear the lyrics?, didn't he understand anything at all?
"You have to be joking me with this bullshit right?" I asked.
"Don't talk to me like that young lady. Was it some kind of joke? Well it wasn't a good one I don't understand your behavior Isabel-"
"Enough!" I cut him off
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
He tried to cut me off but I didn't let him.
"No shut up you will listen to me and listen carefully. I'm sick and tired of acting like a fucking princess all the time, I'm not. I was trying to tell you how much it hurts me that you're never around. Ever since mom died you've cut me out of your life what do you not know that I was hurting too? That I too needed comfort? No you fucking left me with nannies all the time like I was a piece of shit. Not until you fucking put me in this hell hole but it's not all bad I actually like it here. But I never get to see you dad, all the time that I'm here I never get to see you once, but even on vacation time because you're fucking spending it in a different country all the time..."
He was just staring at me with wide eyes so I continued.
"I hate that I don't get to see you but I can't keep living without you knowing. I waited daddy I waited for you and you didn't come I kept my hopes up all this time just to see if I actually meant something to you but you never came. How do you think that made me feel? I waited for hours before I went up there to sing the song that I wrote to you to let you know how I felt!" "
BUT YOU NEVER CAME! I WAITED FOR YOU GODANMIT!"
I was sobbing at this point.
"Daddy why don't you care anymore huh why?"
"Because you remind me of her!" he screamed.
"You look so much like your mother when she was in high school I couldn't spend time with you because you remind me so much of her, everything you do it's like I'm seeing her again I couldn't I I-" he coked out.
"And it's my fault? It's my fault that I look like her? It should be something you're proud of not something that should drive you away! I hate you! All this time and that's the reason I hate you! I hate you so much! Just leave dad I don't want to see you leave and don't come back I was doing fine without you before and I can do fine without you now! I don't want to go to Europe with you anymore I'm staying here the summer with my friends. I'm not going to ask you for anything just go ok?"
When he didn't move I screamed
"LEAVE I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU ANYMORE!"
I ran to my bed and cried as I heard him leaving. I couldn't believe that was the reason. I didn't know how long I was crying until I actually fell asleep. When I woke up Angela still wasn't back so I decided to finish the song Jasper, Angela, and I would be signing in the welcome back show at the beginning of the school year.
When I finished with that I decided to go to sleep seeing as it was past two in the morning. I went to sleep that night thinking of the long summer ahead.
*****************VAA*****************
EPOV
Video
"GO EDWARD!"
Edward looked over at where the voice was coming from to find his father Carlisle Cullen next to his mother Esme Cullen and his little sister Nessie, screaming at the top of his lungs looking very proud of his son. Edward smiled over at his father and waved at him before focusing back to the soccer game he was playing. Edward couldn't believe his father was here just like he had been promised.
Edward couldn't have wanted to put more into the game he was playing if he wanted but he was determined to show his father everything he had just to make him proud. With that set in mind he put more energy into making the winning goal. The score was tie at three to three with Edward having possession of the ball. He rushed towards the goalie with everything he had, dodging every player that got in his way.
When it was just him and the goalie, Carlisle stood up from where he was sitting next to his wife and held his breath as he watched his son spike the ball up in the air, twist his body and score the winning goal with seconds on the scoreboard to spare.
Carlisle and everyone in the bleachers started cheering so loud it was deafening. Edward stood up from the ground and was attacked by his teammates but Edward wasn't paying attention he was looking towards his father pointing at him with a smile on his face dedicating the goal to him.
His father pointed back with a smile on his face knowing exactly what his son meant. With a smile and tears in her eyes Esme recording the whole thing.
End Video
I closed the cam cord and stood up from the bleachers in the exact same place where my father had been sitting the day we won the finals. I wiped my face from any tears that might have spilled over, ran I hair through my unruling hair and started walking down the bleachers and toward my bike I put my helmet on and got on my Harley and drove towards my house.
I really wasn't in the mood for anything; I hadn't really been in the mood for anything in months ever since that fateful day when my hero was ripped from us. Driving down the streets of Chicago wasn't really like it used to be, I was dreading that this was going to be the last time driving here in the cold air of my hometown. When I got home the lights were on meaning my mom was up. Great. Not! When I parked my bike and went inside my mother's eyes popped open.
"Where have you been Edward?" she asked through clenched teeth.
Here we go again, I had the sudden urge to just roll my eyes but thought twice when I saw her expression she was mad beyond mad.
"Out mom." I replied with a sigh.
I started to work my way out of there without a fight but as always that's was impossible.
"Out? Do you have any idea what time it is, it's almost three in the morning and all you have to say is that you were out? I've been sitting here worried sick that something might have happened to you and all you have to say-" I cut her off
"YES mother I was out for fucks sake I was out just getting some air and thinking, damn I'm fucking stuck in here all fucking day because mommy dearest is fucking paranoid in letting her kids out!"
before I could say anything else a hand connected to my cheek she hit me so hard that it made me to turn my head to the side "oh Edward I'm so so-" I cut her off by hugging her.
"No mother I'm sorry I shouldn't have spoken to you that way, I'm sorry mamma I'm so sorry" I whispered to her, then I told her something I always told her in Italian "La Mia Bella Regina"
she sobbed at that and held onto me even harder until we heard my sisters voice
"Mom? Why, why are you crying?" she asked in a voice thick with sleep
"Princess go back to bed I'll be there in a bit to tuck you in" I told her.
"Ok Eddie do you promise?" she asked, she was the only one that got away with calling me Eddie I hated that name.
"of course I promise go, I'll be there in a bit."
She turned around and walked upstairs towards her room. I took a deep breath and turned around to look at my mother once again.
"Mom I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said those things to you."
I went and sat down and she followed, she grabbed my hand and smiled.
"Its fine Edward, you're right anyways, I have been paranoid but what else do you want me to feel, especially with what happened to your father."
"Mom I get it, its fine but please, please try and give Nessie a childhood she'll be proud of. It's not fair for her to live a secluded life. We shouldn't live our life in fear every day. Dad wouldn't want us to live our lives like this." I said to her.
"You're right son. I just miss him so much, it's not fair, he didn't do anything wrong." She cried into my shoulder.
I clenched my fists and my jaw locked in place. Every time I thought about that day it was the same feeling, HATRED, I hated that asshole for what he took from us.
"I'm going to go tuck Nessie in ok?" she looked up and wiped off her tears.
"Yeah um, I'm going to go to bed good night." She said.
"Yeah I'll see you in the morning." I started walking towards the stairs before she called to me again.
"Edward?"
"Yeah mom?"
"I love you."
"I love you too. Goodnight."
And with that I turned around and ran up towards Nessie's room. When I got there Nessie was sitting up looking at a picture with tears in her eyes. I knew what picture it was without even looking at it. It was the picture taken the day before the accident, in the picture we were all wearing our favorite soccer team's shirts at our old house sitting by our fireplace. We all had big smiles on our faces.
"Hey boo." I whispered to her.
She looked up at me and her tears spilled over. I hated seeing her cry.
"I miss him so much Eddie, so much." She cried.
I walked over to her bed and pulled her into my lap.
"Shhh. Boo come on don't cry boo. I know you miss him I do too. But come on we can't always be sad."
I continued rocking her until her cries died down. She looked up at me
"why did he go is it because he got tired of playing with us?" she asked through her tears.
How could I explain to her that an asshole of a man took her father away because of money?
"No sweetie he never got tired of playing with us." I told her.
"Than why did he die?"
"Well because a bad mad played him wrong." I told her.
"Is that why we had to move and we were left without a dad?" she asked.
"Yeah boo it's because of that bad man.
"Do you know that man?" she asked.
"Not yet." I told her.
She didn't ask any more questions and just kept hugging me.
That man is going to pay he's going to pay for everything that he did to us and to my dad.
The next day I went to go sell my bike. I had to get enough money for the bus drive from Chicago to New York. My mother thought that I was going to college already since I had graduated early from high school, but in reality I was going there to avenge my father's death. When my mother found out that I wanted to go to New York to study she totally flipped, said that it wasn't worth going all the way to New York t study when I could go to college there. So I decided just to leave and leave a letter explaining why I did what I did.
My best friend Carter was the one to drop me off.
"Hey man I really appreciate this." I told him when we got there.
"No big deal E I swear just be careful man. I still don't get how you plan on getting revenge on one of the big executives out there."
I laughed if only he knew.
"Don't worry I'll get him." I told him.
"But how if it's not too much a problem to explain." he asked.
"I'm going to get him where it hurts the most." I said simply.
He looked at me confused.
"And where is that." he asked genuinely curious.
"He has a daughter."
His expression went surprised.
"Really? And how do you expect to get close to his daughter?" he was trying to calculate if I was bluffing.
"I looked online and found out what school she went to and asked for a scholarship-"
He cut me off.
"Wait, wait you mean to tell me that you are going to redo your junior and senior year?" he asked surprised.
" Um yeah besides this school she goes to isn't like other schools." I said.
"What do you mean it's not like other schools?" he asked.
"It's called VAA better known as Volturi Arts Academy." I told him.
"You mean to tell me you are going to an Arts Academy just to get this girl to notice you?"
I opened my mouth to say something else but was cut off.
"Good luck man you'll need it and don't worry I'll look after your mom and Nessie." I smiled at that and thanked him again before I turned and walked towards the bus that I was to take.
I would be on that bus for seventeen hours, seventeen hours of planning my revenge.
End Note: So that's the first chapter, I wonder what Edward has up his sleeve. Oh by the way "Mia bella regina" roughly translates to my beautiful queen. Let me know what you think with a review, for those of you who are fairly new I have revised this chapter a lot and I have been away for more than a year but I am back and hopefully I am able to write more soon and try to finish this story this year. Make it a new years resolution but I do still have school so that's a main priority right now. until next time XOXO Kaure
