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Chapter 1: Pain
Nessie's POV
Saying goodbye is the one of the hardest thing a person will ever do in their life. Nobody wants to say that final goodbye to the people they love. It didn't matter if it was sudden death like a car accident or it was a long drawn out death like an illness. It all hurt just the same.
You don't expect death at my age. When you're in your mid twenties you believe that death is a long way off still. That as long as you ate healthy, and exercised you would still be around a long time.
Sometimes though no matter what life has other plans in store for you. I never, in a million years, expected to get a phone call from the hospital saying that a drunk driver had taken my husband away from me.
I cried. That was all that I've been doing for the past two weeks since it happened. I just cried. He was only 26 years old. Same age as me. We'd known each other since we were in elementary school and now just like that he was gone.
Jackson and I first met back in the third grade. I was the new girl in town and everyone picked on me. Jackson stood up for me and right away he became best friends. When we were 14 we became boyfriend and girlfriend. On prom night he proposed to me. We got married at 19 and our first child, a boy we named Jackson Jr., a year later. Two years later we had a girl and named her Isabella. Mainly we just called her Bella though. That name always meant a lot to me for some reason. Just three months ago we had another child, another boy we named Carl.
Raising three kids by myself was going to be a challenge but I would do it. I had to do it for my kids. I loved them more than life itself. They were the only thing keeping me sane right now.
Right after the funeral my dad told me that the kids and I should move in with him up in Alaska. Said he didn't want us to be alone after what happened. That we could come live with him as long as we'd like to.
I gracious accepted the offer. Being here in this house that my husband and I used to share was just way too painful. Lord knows I could use the help with my kids. Before my husband was killed I'd been going to school full time at Seattle University studying Psychology. I was one semester away from graduating with my Master's Degree. I couldn't have done it without my husband helping out with the kids.
When I mentioned quitting school right after the funeral my dad was having none of it. Said that "I'd worked too hard to just quit when I'm already so close," so he helped me transfer all of my credits to the University of Alaska.
My dad really was my rock. Biologically we were not related. He and mom adopted me when I was a baby. He and mom found me dumped on the side of the road in Forks, Washington. Less than a week later they had officially adopted me.
Mom passed away from Leukemia when I was 16 years old. Losing her hurt dad a lot. He often said if it wasn't for me he didn't know what he would've done. Now the situation was reversed.
I was positive that with my dad's help my kids and I would be okay. I finished packing my bags the night before we were set to leave. I went to bed early that night.
My kids weren't happy about me waking them up early the next morning but I wanted to head out early. We had a long drive ahead and I wanted to drive as long as I possibly could before stopping at a hotel when it got dark.
Bella and Carl fell back asleep almost right away but Jackson was wide awake. He kept kicking the back of my seat because he thought it was funny. It wasn't until I threatened to take away his iPad that he finally stopped. That six year old boy of mine could be the biggest headache sometimes.
We stopped for lunch at a restaurant in Canada around noon. As soon as we were finished we got the road again. Now that all of my kids were awake I had to listen to all of their crazy shenanigans while I tried to drive.
The sun was beginning to set when I decided it was time to check into a hotel for the night. I glanced down at the map on my phone for a second when my son screamed "Mommy look out!"
I looked up and swerved out of the way when I saw a man standing in the middle of the road. My car went off the side of the road and flipped over several times. The pain exploded in my head causing me to lose consciousness.
I couldn't breathe at all. I kicked and thrashed around my watery enclosure. Desperate to escape.
"Get him out now!" that was my mommy's voice. I had come to recognize the sound of my mommy's beautiful voice. I had learned that her name was Isabella but she liked being called Bella but to me she was my mommy. That was the last time I ever heard my mommy's voice.
Suddenly there was a bright light and I was violently yanked outside. The man who held me looked at me in disgust and anger. I suddenly got very scared looking at him. I cried.
I took one look at my mommy and saw her covered in blood. She didn't move or make a sound.
"I always knew that you'd kill her," the man, my daddy growled. "I told her that you were nothing but a monster but she insisted on having you and now look where that's gotten her,"
I cried as my daddy held me tightly by the neck.
"If she survives this I'll tell her you didn't make it. That's what I'll tell everyone. It'll be like you never existed. You're nothing but a monster that killed my wife slowly from day one,"
I cried. I was feeling really scared. "I won't kill you," he said as he threw me. I landed face down on the side of the road and cried in pain. "So hopefully you'll get hit by a car and that'll take care of the job for me,"
I was suddenly opened my eyes and the first thing I registered was pain. I saw two men with red eyes and pale skin approaching me.
"What do we do with her?" One asked.
"She's perfect," The other one answered.
"and the kids?"
"You know the law about immortal children. Besides the boy is already dead. It won't be much longer before the girl and the baby are dead too. We don't even have to kill them ourselves,"
No. No. No. please tell this one cruel sick joke and my son wasn't dead. I couldn't lose my husband and my son. I couldn't lose him too! I couldn't!
Suddenly one of them bit my neck and then I was in the most excruciating pain I'd ever experienced.
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