EPOV:
I am very depressed today I thought to myself.
Then Emmet walked into the room and said, "Why you so gloomy bro." I answered with a monotonous voice "exactly 50 years ago I lost my best and only friend."
Once I said this, the rest of my family came into the room. "Who is he" Emmet pushed.
"She" I replied. "Oh, I get it now you miss your special lady friend" "Yes, and no." "She was more of a little sister that I loved.
When she would get into trouble I would help her get through it and when I was facing hard times she would be the first to know."
"Why don't you tell us how you met her?" "It's a long story and it's filled with old memories."
"We have time to spare. You can tell us about the life you had with your sister." That's when I started my life story of how I met Bella.
This is how my story begins:
It starts when I was eight years old. I was running through the forest at what was near midnight. I was running away from home and away from family.
My only family: my mother. My father had passed away a few years ago from an illness.
I was running away from the problems I was trying to avoid and had faced.
I was only eight and I was running away from problems that I shouldn't be dealing with.
I was playing Indian with my friends just an hour ago.
I still was covered in mud and had forgotten my shirt at the valley we were playing at. I stopped running and started to walk.
I had run about ten minutes into the forest. Then, I heard a muffled cry.
I looked around for a while but saw nothing. But then I saw her. She was only a little girl and she was crying.
She was leaning against a tree which made her almost invisible. Then a thought crossed my head why would a little girl be hiding in the forest this late at night.
But, somehow a felt a pang of sorrow and guilt for this poor little girl so I asked, "What is your name?" she stopped crying and looked up at me.
Then, she whispered "Bella" and sniffled. "That's a pretty name" I said trying to comfort her. "Thank you" she whispered again. "Why are you out in the forest this late?"
"Why are you she responded?" "I asked you first". "I have no where else to go" "Why is that, shouldn't you be at home with your family?"
her face looked pained and was filled with sorrow. She then replied, "I don't have a family. They died a few years back. I have no other place to be."
"Why are you out here?" "I ran away" I stated. "You have a family and a home. You are so lucky that you don't even realize it."
I did some quick thinking and would return home if I get one thing in return.
So I said, "You can come home with me" "I can't your mother will only want you when you some home not a complete stranger.
I am better out here". "No, you have no where to go and I will make a deal with my mom if she wants me back she will take us both." I said with confidence.
"What if I won't go." "Oh, you will go even if it is the last thing you do".
"How's that because I'm not moving from this spot". That is when I went over the edge.
I ran to where she was and picked her up put her on my back and started to walk to my home. On the way to my home she whispered thank you and fell asleep.
When I got home I was ready for the punishment that I would receive. But, I would only stay if the little girl on my back would.
I didn't even know that little girl but I felt close to her already.
As I knocked on the door to my house my mother ran to the door and hugged me so tight that I couldn't breathe.
Then when she realized that there was some one on my back she said, "Edward, who is this?" I took Bella off my back and woke her up.
Once she saw that she was in my house she ran behind me and hid. I told my mom who she was and how I met her, she fell head over heals in love with her.
She picked Bella up and set her on her lap. Bella fell asleep on her lap. My mom absently started playing with Bella's hair.
I asked if we could adopt her but my mom said, "Edward you can't find a girl on the street and take her to your home away form her parents, they must be worried sick."
I told her that her parents had already passed away and had no where else to go. She started thinking and said, "I am not saying yes for your sake but because she has no home to return to and she is going to sleep in your room."
I was so happy not just my mother had adopted Bella and that she already loved her but, I had always wanted to be a big brother.
Now I had a little sister to look after and I was as happy as an eight year old could get.
"Whoa you mean you met that girl when you ran away from your home."
I nodded. "That is the most beautiful and sweet story I have ever heard", Esme said.
That was only the beginning of our friendship; there are multiple stories that changed both of our lives."
Can we hear the other stories of you and Bella? I nodded and thought of the first night she spent in my room …