Author's Note: This is my very first published piece on this site. Please don't kill me if there are a lot of mistakes. I am not very good at grammar and I don't have a Beta reader yet. Also all the characters are the property of Stephenie Meyer I do not own them.

3rd Person POV

Bella remembered the day that he left her very well. It was the day that she gained her freedom back, it was a day that she would never forget. Their love had been dissolving around them for many months now. After she was attached by James, Edward started to change. He was more controlling and manipulative.

He controlled what she ate, what she wore and who she hung out with. Her birthday was a perfect example of his manipulation. She didn't want the party, she didn't want to celebrate the day at all. For her it was just another day, Alice wanted to throw her a party though and Edward was well known for giving Alice everything she wanted.

So it came as no surprise to Bella when Edward ignored her wishes and let Alice have her way. The party Alice threw was obnoxiously pink and frilly, definitely not what Bella liked. She smiled and played along though, because she thought her love for Edward was worth the torture Alice was heaping upon her. The day Edward dumped her in the woods, like yesterdays trash, would forever be ingrained in her memories.

* Begin Flash Back*

"Bella, happy birthday," Alice sung cheerfully. "Shh Shh, Alice I said no gifts,"

"I've already seen you open it, and guess what? You love it! You're gonna wear it tonight. Our place. Come on please? It'll be fun,"

"Okay. All right" "Great! Okay, I'll see you at seven" "Jasper! No fair with the mood control thing" "Sorry Darlin' happy… never mind"

"Sorry about this Bella we couldn't rein Alice in," Carlisle whispered to me.

"Time for presents," Alice chirped gleefully. "Alice I told you no presents" "And I didn't listen. Open it!"

"Ow, Paper cut"

"Come for a walk with me," Edward demanded then began to drag me towards the woods.

"Bella, we're leaving" "When you say we" "I mean my family and I" "Ok, I'll come with you"

"Bella, I don't want you to come with me" "You…don't…want…me?"

"No," then he vanished leaving me completely alone in the middle of the woods with no way of finding my way home.

*End Flash Back*

Thankfully, Sam and the pack found her, on the verge of hypothermia and comatose. With the pack's help and protection, she started to gain back her independence. It wasn't until many months of hanging out with the pack, that Bella realized what Edward and Alice had done to her. They had virtually beaten her down, took control of her free will, and essentially made her into a puppy who followed their orders and shadowed them every step they took.

That was not her, at least that wasn't her before she came to Forks. Before she meet the Cullen's, it was after this realization. That she truly took control of her life and she went back to the Bella she used to be.

Later after Victoria killed Charlie, Bella packed up her belongs and moved to Texas. She needed a fresh start, somewhere that nobody knew her. Where no one would judge her as the Chief of Police's crazy daughter. It would be in Texas that Bella's life would change forever.

Author's Note: All the flash back scences are scenes from the New Moon book or from the New Moon movie, I just changed them a little.