Chapter One- Bella's POV
I've been at this orphanage since I was 3 days old, yes my parents did not want me and Miss Gates found me on a park bench one evening. I've been living in the Little Tinkers home, as they call it, for all of my life. I was always a loner and even though I have been there the longest out of everyone I didn't fit in, until I was eleven years old and he came.
I was the last one to see him seeing as I was always sitting somewhere on my own where no one could find me. Miss Gates finally did find me though and brought me downstairs to see the new guy joining our house. As soon as I walked down the stairs I saw his beautiful green eyes staring at me, no scratch that, beautiful didn't cover them, beautiful was an understatement. They were so easy to get lost in and the depth of them made my heart flutter like wings, I had never felt that way before and I ducked my head, embarrassed by the connection I felt to him. But being as clumsy as I was I managed to stumble over my own feet and fell straight into his strong, muscular arms.
That was just the start of mine and Edwards's relationship; he became the only one I could talk to, we spent most of the time either sitting in the den late at night watching funny movies or camping outside after spending hours chatting on the swings. He never seemed to get bored of my rambling but I had to be careful not to look into his eyes, like I said before I always got lost in them and I really didn't like it when he stared at me like I'm a freak when I'm staring into his gorgeous eyes, stuttering things that I can't even understand. I even managed to tell him the truth that I tried to hide from myself every day of my life, my mother died giving birth to me. Three days later my dad left me for being a devil child and killing his love, he was so upset about losing everything he loved that he committed suicide.
Edward has also had a bad past, his dad used to be an alcoholic. I say 'used to' because he managed to drink himself silly and climb into a car with his wife, Edward and Edward's little sister. Out of all of them Edward was the only one to survive, he has a huge scar that starts at his collar bone and extends all the way to meet his other collar bone. He has never told anyone his story and hasn't showed anyone his scar but me. The same goes for me; I have never been as comfortable as I was around Edward as I have been around anyone ever. And I've only known him for 3 weeks!
Edward practically slept with me every night (not in the way you guys might be thinking, I mean I was only eleven then and even though he was twelve, we were way too young!), I couldn't get to sleep any other way. Most nights he'd go back to his room and he'd then sneak into my room as soon as he heard my faint cries. Oh! That's another thing, I cried every night. I blamed myself for what happened to my parents and I wasn't surprised that I had no parents because I was such an evil child. He would curl up and whisper sweet words in my ears about how beautiful I was and how everything would be okay; and he actually made me believe everything would be okay. Even though I never understood how he thought I was beautiful he told me I carried myself in a special way and wouldn't explain anymore than that. Well except for my hair, it used to be his favourite part about me; he would always twirl it around while humming a gentle song in my ear if his sweet words didn't work.
By that time Miss Gates stopped caring that he slept with me but was utterly surprised that someone could talk to me without becoming so depressed they ran in the opposite direction to find some crazy pills to make them happy again. Edward's smell was the best thing to wake up to, he didn't wear cologne or anything he just naturally smelt so good! He was the most mature guy I have ever met as well, and even though I haven't met many I knew that he would do better than any other guy at anything, well that was the way I saw him.
Everything was perfect for us for another two weeks and there was nowhere I would rather be then at the orphanage with Edward with me. But then the day of my twelfth birthday became the worst day of my life. Charlie Swan, the Head Chief of Police at Forks came looking for a little girl. He got told my past as well as many others but he just had to choose me. Edward told me to go and be happy but I didn't want to leave him. I made Charlie promise to let me come see him in exactly one month, I couldn't wait! I still remember the exact words Edward said to me before I rode off in Charlie's police truck; "Until we meet again, my Bella"
