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Bella Swan was tired of everyone telling her what to do. It seemed like everyone was wanting her to do what they wanted her to do. Jacob Black wanted her to choose him instead of Edward Cullen, knowing full well that he could imprint on another girl. Rosalie, Edward's sister, wanted her to stay human and just be a wife and mother, which Bella thought was pointless. Charlie wanted her to reject Edward and kick him out of her life for leaving her several months earlier.
Bella sat them all down one day and said, "Look, I appreciate what you are all doing for me, but do any of you even take the time to think about what I want?"
"What are you talking about?" said Rosalie.
"You all want me to do things that are good for you, but they aren't right for me," said Bella. To Jacob, she said, "You want me to pick Edward instead of you. But what if you imprint on another girl? I can't face that at all. You'll break my heart the way Sam broke Leah's heart when he imprinted on Emily." Jacob stared at her with wide eyes. He knew that she was right.
Bella said to Rosalie, "And I know you want me to live a human life, but do you think I can do that now that I have experienced your world? Do you not think that God set me on this earth just so I can live a human life? Or He might have had a different reason why I am here. I might want to bring a change to the supernatural world as well. And as for children, do you think I might not want children at all? Not that I don't love children, but I just don't see myself as a mother. And besides, you had your chance to live, but for some reason, you ended up a vampire. Wouldn't it be wise to just get over it and move on?" Rosalie stared at Bella as if Bella had slapped her across her face.
Charlie knew that she would be dealing with him. Better get it over with, he thought to himself. "Dad," Bella was speaking to him now. "I don't understand how you can say that Edward had left me and that should be enough to have me cut him out of my life. Just because people leave us is no excuse to delete them from our lives! What if you realized that you were wrong to let mom go? Would you beg her to take you back?"
Charlie stared at Bella and he knew that she was right. Bella knew that forgiveness was the right thing to do and he knew better than to tell her to reject Edward. "And besides," Bella continued, "do you even consider how much it hurt Edward to have to leave me? He almost killed himself because he left me. Did you not suffer because mom left you? Were you not in any pain?"
Charlie nodded. He had no idea how insightful Bella was.
"And as for you, Rosalie," Bella went back to the vampire sitting in the room, "how can you be so cruel to Edward? You can get mad at him for dating me all you want, but to tell him that I was dead was the most inexcusable and unforgivable thing that you have ever done! And I will be telling Carlisle that the next time I see him."
Bella now turned on Jacob and said, "And if you ever in your life put your hands on me like that again, I will have Edward beat you to death! I will not be forced to make any choices, and especially not by you!"
"So what's the point of having this meeting?" asked Charlie.
Bella said, "Do you ever consider what I really want? I want to live my own life, thank you very much. So what if I don't choose Jacob? It's not that I don't love him, but to me, he's always been a great friend when I needed one. And if I decide to become a vampire, I will deal with the results and not try to hold onto the past. And if I take Edward back, it proves that I'm mature enough to put the petty things that drove us apart aside and rebuild our relationship."
No one had anything else to say to Bella after her speech. It was like she had taken their greedy selfish desires for her and threw them in the trash. At length, Bella said, "I'm going out."
Charlie remained in his seat ling after everyone else had left. Who was he fooling? Bella was his daughter, his stubborn daughter. She would not back down just because everyone had tried to butt into her life. He wondered if he even knew his daughter at all.
Jacob frowned as he wandered around La Push. As much as he hated to admit it, Bella was right. Could they really be together if there was a chance that he could imprint? The wolf would not allow them to be together at all.
Rosalie felt rotten after Bella yelled at her for trying to tell her how to live her life. She too felt bad for what she did, but there would be one other person who was not above giving her a good slap across the face. It was an angry Edward Cullen.
"ROSALIE!!!"
~to be continued
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