bree tanner works at a convenience store halfway between her trailer home and her school. she’s going to school less and less as her dad starts drinking more. bree tanner quits going to her math class when the rent falls through. she likes to read but she doesn’t. she fails ap lit. she hoards gift cards and crumpled up dollar bills in her socks. her dad gets arrested on dui charges. and bree tanner goes to class once a week so that she can keep the electricity bill on. bree tanner’s teachers whisper about what a shame it is, that the tanner girl won’t graduate. her counselors would stop her in the halls, but she picked up another shift at the store. bree tanner smokes under the bridge and will forge signatures for fifty bucks. when bree tanner disappears, it takes two weeks for her teachers to notice. bree tanners been missing from her class for longer. it’s a shame, the teacher says in the break room, but no one expected her to complete her diploma anyways.
but bree cullen sits with esme everyday going over sixth grade multiplication tables until she begins to remember what PEMDAS means. bree cullen brings her assigned reading list to carlisle at the beginning of the year. they read together, and he helps her with the literary devices until she feels comfortable enough speaking in her socratic seminar. bree cullen starts to fall behind in chemistry and doesn’t know how to ask the questions that’ll help her understand. when she walks in to find edward sitting in as the teachers assistant, asking questions for the class to answer at the same time bree gets confused, her grade starts to steadily improve. edward pins her 81% on the final to the fridge. bree tanner had been put in art classes before, but it was rosalie who convinced bree cullen to pick up a pencil. esme hangs the first drawing she brings home next to her chemistry grade, and the walls of carlisle’s office are decorated in watercolors and graphite drawings. alice and jasper start prepping bree cullen on pop quizzes, and steady her nerves before each day of school. bree tanner had never been to a football game before, but emmett and bree cullen have been to every one. she’s not allowed to get a job until her junior year, but when she does, the time goes by quickly because while bree cullen and bella make awful librarians, their shifts are filled with laughter and poorly done reshelving.
bree cullen doesn’t worry about making rent, or where her next meal was coming from, or if her father was coming home angry. bree cullen does everything bree tanner couldn’t. but bree cullen does everything bree tanner knew she could.
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