Remember Me
A/N: Emmett/Bella story. Bella Swan and Emmett McCarty loved each other, though Bella is sure she loves him more. Mostly because he leaves without saying goodbye, only writing two words on a plain sheet of paper, and she's completely heartbroken. Three years later, they meet at an unexpected place. Will they rekindle a fire they had just ignited mere weeks before he left, or will it stay extinguished… forever?
Chapter One: Seeing Red
Remember me.
That's all the note says. They're the only two words on the sheet of paper lying on my desk. I stare at it. Just stare. I know the handwriting all too well, and my heart is slowly starting to break. My fist clenches around it, and tears come to my eyes. This can't be happening. I can't lose him, not yet. Not when things are just looking up.
"Bella!" Charlie calls from downstairs. "Dinner's ready!"
I wipe my face off and hurry into the kitchen. "Thanks."
I look at the spaghetti sitting on the table and realize that he had ordered it from this pizza place a few minutes away. I sit down and slowly twirl the noodles around my fork.
"Hey, you okay?" my dad asks.
"Yeah…" He gives me that look when he can tell I'm not. "No, not really."
"Want to talk about it?"
I set down my utensil, and it hits the plate with a clank. "Emmett's gone."
I stand up and run to my room, tripping on the stairs a few times. The tears are clouding my vision, and I barely manage to make it to my bed before I break down.
I love Emmett McCarty with all of my heart. He had been my best friend, my boyfriend, for so long, but I had never gotten to tell him how I really and truly felt. I had fallen hopelessly in love with him. Even though I'm only fifteen. But so what? I know what true love is. I remember when my mom and dad used to be in love, but then she said she had to leave Forks. I didn't want to go. I haven't seen her since two Christmases before this giant piece of news. Thinking about her just makes me cry harder.
I bury my face into my pillow, wrapping my arms around it like I did so many times before to Emmett. I try to sleep, but I know that hours have passed before I can even force my eyes to shut. When they finally do, though, I'm out like a light.
"You can totally find someone better," Alice tells me at school a few days later. I'm still sulking. I mean, he was my first love. "He doesn't know what he's lost."
"Maybe not, but that doesn't make me feel any better. I just… I miss him so much."
"I know, but there's more fish in the sea, hon." She rubs my back in a comforting gesture, but it doesn't call me down.
"Yeah," I reply simply, not knowing really what else to say.
We walk into Biology and sit down at our lab table, waiting for our teacher to say something. Jasper passes by me and kisses me on top of the head, making me smile. He's Alice's boyfriend and like a brother to me. When Alice fails to cheer me up, I turn to him.
"I heard about what happened, Bella," Lauren tells me, and I roll my eyes, wondering what she's going to say next. "He was right in leaving you. Who would want to be with a whiny loser like you anyway?"
Tears pierce the corners of my eyes, but I push them back with a fervor I didn't know I had. Then two words I never thought I'd say escape with a whisper through my lips. "Fuck you."
Her eyes grow wide. "Excuse me? I don't think I heard you correctly."
"You did."
"Aw, too chicken to say it again?" She and her best friend, Jessica, begin to laugh, and I stand up, anger growing deep inside me.
Before I know what's happening, my fist makes contact with her made up face, and blood is covering my knuckles. I throw another punch, and another, as I yell out obscenities. Barely aware of what's going on and only seeing red, I feel two arms wrap around my waist and pull me away. I'm kicking and screaming for whoever the hell it is holding me to let go, but they don't. And I don't stop fighting. I just want that bitch to go to hell where she belongs.
And I realize... this is just the beginning of what is sure to be a terrible ride.
A/N: Hope you liked it. (: