A Love Story Chapter 1: Tied Together With a Smile, a twilight fanfic

A/N:

Rosalie Hale's life changed when Emmet McCarty made the decision to spend the summer with his father and half-sister in Forks, Washington. As summer goes on, she falls in love, but he's got to go back when summer ends. What happens when they meet years later?

Each chapter is a song, more specifically a Taylor Swift song. First one's from Emmett's POV, but the rest are from Rosalie's. It starts out with his summer in Forks, and then continues through her life.

Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight and its characters. Taylor Swift owns all her songs.

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Chapter 1- Tied Together With a Smile
Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty
Is the face in the mirror
Looking back at you
You walk around here thinking you're not pretty
But that's not true,
Cause I know you...

"I can't believe that my baby's leaving for an entire summer." Lisa McCarty sniffled, trying to hide her tears.

"Mom." Emmett McCarty tried to reason. "You were the one that suggested I go see Dad and Bella this summer in the first place. Remember, to help Bella get adjust? " After all, Emmett thought sarcastically, she had only spent half the year in the school.

"That doesn't make it any less painful to see you go." Lisa sniffled again and Emmett wrapped his large arms around his much smaller mother.

The two were standing outside Lisa's parents' house, where Lisa would be spending a few days before getting on a plane back to Tennessee. Emmett would take his Jeep that they had driven up down to Forks, Washington. Well he would if his mother would let him go.

Charlie Swan, now Police Chief of Forks, had met Lisa in college. They had a quick romance and she had ended up pregnant. Not long after, he had met Renee and married her. Soon came Isabella Swan, Emmett's half-sister who went by Bella.

"Ok." Lisa said. "You should get going."

"Are you sure?" Emmett asked doubtfully. "I can stay until Joe gets here." Joe Breslin was Lisa's husband. He had four sons, all older than Emmett and one daughter, who was younger and Emmett was actually close with.

"Yeah." Lisa said. "He'll be here soon. You go on."

Emmett swept his mom up in his arms and kissed her cheek. "Bye Ma."

"Bye Em." Lisa continued waving until Emmett was in his Jeep and out of sight.

The ride to Forks was quick. He pulled into Charlie's driveway to meet Bella on the front steps. He swept her up and spun her around.

"It's good to see you Em." Bella said.

"You too Bells." Emmett said truthfully. He hadn't seen his sister in ages.

The two siblings didn't look alike very much. Emmett had brown hair that was buzzed off for the summer but when it got long, it would curl with blue eyes. He stood at 6'5 and was very muscular. Bella also had brown hair, but with brown eyes and only stood at 5'7.

The two siblings went around to the back of the car and pulled the bags out of the Jeep.

"We're going to meet Dad at the diner for dinner." Bella said. "But how would you feel about going to my boyfriend's house after for cake. It's his mom's birthday and she invited me over. I told her you were coming and she insisted that I make you come too." Bella was rambling again, something she did often.

"Relax, Bells. It's cool." Emmett said. "We can go see your boyfriend tonight." Emmett paused, before continuing with a serious tone. "But your boyfriend and I have to talk."

Bella rolled her eyes. "Please don't."

Emmett grinned. "Half the fun of being the older sibling."

"It's good to see you Emmett." Charlie said.

"You too Dad." Emmett said. When he and Bella talked together and when he thought in his head, both referred to their father as Charlie. To his face, they called him Dad.

"What'll you have?" A teenage waitress came over, sounding bored. She spotted Emmett and straightened up. "My name's Jessica."

"I'll have a burger, Jessica." Emmett said, shutting her down.

Bella giggled as she placed her order. "I'll have the same."

Charlie didn't notice. "I'll take one too."

"Three burgers." Jessica said. "Coming up."

"So how's life going, Emmett?" Charlie asked.

"Pretty good." Emmett said. Short and simple was the way to go with Charlie.

"Good." There was a small silence before Charlie got up to go speak with someone.

Bella began talking about school and Emmett pretended to listen, until he became distracted by the beautiful blonde that walked in the diner.

"Emmett, are you even listening to me?" Bella snapped.

Emmett nodded. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, something about school. But who's that?" He pointed to the girl at the counter as she leaned over and whispered something in a guy's ear.

"That's uhhh Rosalie Hale." Bella said. "She's probably the most beautiful girl anyone's ever seen. Her family's completely rich and everyone pretty much worships her."

Emmett nodded. Their waitress Jessica went over to Rosalie and began talking. Rosalie put a smile on, but it made Emmett frown, seeing it was fake.

Rosalie nodded at what Jessica was saying before waving good-bye and turning to leave.

She fixed her smile, but before she did, Emmett saw the look of pain flash in her eyes.

Hold on,
Baby, you're losing it
The water's high, you're jumping into it
And letting go...
And no one knows
That you cry, but you don't tell anyone
That you might not be the golden one
And you're tied together with a smile
But you're coming undone

Jessica dropped the burgers off and tried her flirting again. Emmett ignored her, thoughts focused on the blonde that had left recently.

Dinner was quiet. Charlie made and few comments and his children would comment back.

When they finished, Bella announced where they were going. "We'll be back later on. We're going to the Cullen's for Esme's birthday."

Charlie nodded. "Tell Esme I said happy birthday."

Bella nodded. "Will do." She paused. "Emmett's driving us. We'll be home at 1, latest."

Charlie nodded. "Don't forget the pepper spray."

Bella rolled her eyes and Emmett had to the distinct impression that he missed something. He shrugged it off as Bella climbed in the passenger seat.

He began driving, with Bella's directions on where to turn.

"So," He said casually. "Tell me more about this Rosalie girl."

Bella shrugged. "She might be here tonight. She's really close with Edward and his cousin." Emmett looked at her, confused. "Edward's mom's sister and her husband died in a car accident when their son was 4, so Jasper came to live with Edward and his family."

Emmett nodded. "How much longer?"

"Turn here." Bella instructed. "And once you get up this path, then we're here."

It didn't take long to get up the path. Emmett parked his Jeep next to the silver Volvo and stepped out.

A red BMW sped up the driveway and pulled up next to the Jeep. The blonde, Rosalie, stepped out.

"Hi Rosalie." Bella said.

Rosalie looked up from getting a large gift bag out of her trunk. "Hey Bella." She said quietly.

"This is my half-brother, Emmett McCarty." Bella introduced.

"Rosalie Hale." She said. She held her hand out for him to shake. He took it.

"Nice to meet you." Emmett said.

"You too." She smiled. "We're eating around back, if you guys just want to go right there. I'm going to go put this inside." She slowly began walking to the front door.

"Come on, Em." Bella said, snapping Emmett out of his trance. "Let's go."

He followed her around back, unable to shake the feeling that there was something off about this girl.

I guess it's true that love was all you wanted
Cause you're
Giving it away like it's extra change
Hoping it will end up in his pocket
But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain
Oh, cause it's not his price to pay
Its not his price to pay...

"What's up with her?" Emmett asked, as they began to walk out back.

"Look," Bella stopped walking and turned to face him. "I don't know the whole story. Edward says that it's her story to tell me. All I know is that she doesn't have the best home life, Edward's parents consider her their daughter, and she has her own room here." Bella paused. "Don't bring it up. It's her life." Emmett nodded. "Good." Bella said and she began to walk again.

Bella introduced everyone to Emmett. Carlisle and Esme, Edward's mother and father, told him that he was welcome anytime. Emmett responded with a small laugh and said that if they always made food like this, he would be over every night to eat. This caused everyone, including Rosalie, to laugh.

"Hey." Emmett said, coming up to Rosalie, who was sitting on the swing.

"Oh hey." She said, snapping out of her thoughts. She moved over to make space for him to sit down.

He did. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Nothing." She said. "Why would you ask that?"

He shrugged. "You look upset."

"My parents left." She paused. "Again." She looked over at him, eyes wide with vulnerability and tears forming at the corners. "Why do they always leave?" She leaned her head into his shoulder.

He moved his arm to wrap it around her shoulders. She moved in closer. He closed his eyes.

He barely even knew her name and he was already in too deep.

Hold on,
Baby, you're losing it
The water's high, you're jumping into it
And letting go...
And no one knows

He felt her begin to cry into his shoulder and gently brushed his thumb on her arm. "It's ok."

"Oh God." She cried. "And now I'm telling my entire life story to a total stranger who I don't even know and I'm crying and my make-up's going to run and I look like crap."

That you cry, but you don't tell anyone
That you might not be the golden one

"You look beautiful." Emmett said, before he could stop himself.

"Yeah, right." She scoffed. "It's ok Emmett. You can tell me I look like crap. They tell me that all the time." She didn't say who, but he could tell who the they was.

"Yeah, right." He said. "Don't listen to them, Rose. You're gorgeous."

"Not to them." Rosalie said, sniffling. "Nothing I do is good enough. I'm not pretty enough, not smart enough, just…not enough."

He leaned down to whisper in her ear. "You're more than enough for me."

You're tied together with a smile
But you're coming undone...
Oh, oh, oh, oh

They sat on the swing, his arm around her shoulders, for another 10 minutes, while she collected herself.

"Thanks." She said, faking a smile. She turned to walk away.

You're tied together with a smile
But you're coming undone...
Oh, oh, oh

"Rosalie." He called. She stopped and turned around. "Can I take you out sometime?"

She nodded. "Yeah, I'd like that."

He grinned when he saw the real smile come on her face. "Good. I'll see you around then."

She turned to continue walking, adding an extra bounce in her first step.

With a smile, baby, baby

A/N: So, please tell me if this is a good idea. I wasn't really sure but it was nagging at me so I had to write it.