Stephenie Meyer's is the genius Who owns the characters I just took them added a little story.

Story

In Three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-Robert Frost.

"You see Isabella fifty years ago when I was your age, I fell in love for the first time. I've never truly gotten over it. Till this day I still think about him. I'm going to tell you a story about my first true love, a story so wonderful yet horrific all the same. His name was Edward Cullen He was perfect, in every sense of that word, not just in beauty but in everything." I let out a long sigh almost too tired to keep my eyes opened.

These days it's hard to talk for any long period of time. Not sure why I have the need to do this, to tell my grand-daughter the story of my first love. Maybe knowing my life was coming to end, I wanted someone to know the beginning. I consider that fateful day I met Edward the day my life truly started.

"Gram, maybe you should take it easy" I could see the concern in her eyes, my dearest Isabella; she's like me in every way not just in looks, but also in personality. She's more of a daughter to me than anything.

Her mother Alice, my daughter died when Isabella was only six her father not knowing how to care for a child left her with me. He comes around every so often but isn't much of a provider even though he tries.

"No honey I need to tell you this, no matter how strange or unreal it seems I need you to listen to my story but no matter what you can't tell anyone what I tell you do you understand that Isabella?" as I said that I held her small hand with my old fragile one, i looked straight into her eyes, eyes that were so much like mine. "I understand" she said with a sad smile on her face. Ever since I got sick, that's the only smile she uses.

"Good, now listen closely. It all started when my mother your great grandmother Renee married Phil. We lived in Arizona he traveled all around for baseball, she was so sad not being with him. So I did what I thought was best for her, I sent myself to live with my Dad your great grandpa Charlie to the small rainy town of Forks, On my first day of school I met a lot of new people, but most importantly Edward Cullen." I smiled as a said his name, his name that no longer brought tears to my eyes.

"I saw him from afar during lunch, him and his beautiful sisters and brothers. He had this bronze colored hair, chalky pale skin. Paler then you or I Isabella, if you could believe that" I said with a laugh Then started to cough. Isabella got up and got me a glass of water from the pitcher by the bed.

She's been so good taking care of me these past few months. "Thank you." I said then taking another sip of the water, helping to clear my throat so I could continue on with my story.

"My god how beautiful he was, it was amazing it was like looking at an angel. After that I had biology he was there and I had to sit next to him. He looked so mad at me like he hated me with such a passion like I was his worst nightmare. He didn't say one word to me during that class, when the bell rang he got up and left before any of the other kids even had their stuff gathered. He wasn't in school after that for a week, and I couldn't get him out of my head." Thinking about that day brought back so many memories. Memories so fresh almost as if it happened days ago, not years.

"Why did he act like that gram?" Isabella asked me with shock in her voice. "I'm getting to that honey. Anyways he came back to school and acted as if nothing happened, he even saved my life in the parking lot at school when this boy Tyler's started to slid on the ice and almost hit me. After that he was distant again. It frustrated me to no end, he kept saying it was dangerous to be his friend." Looking back I still think he was the safest thing that happened to me.

"Finally he said he couldn't stay away from me. He was done trying to avoid me and that if he was going to hell he might as well do it thoroughly. After that he saved me again when these three men fallowed me... they were going to do… well god only knows what they were planning for me. You see he was my hero, but he never thought he was good enough for me and kept waiting for me to run away from him, but I never did in the end it was him that ran away from me." I could feel the tears streaming down my face as I said the last sentence.

"Gram its okay, everything happens for a reason you know. I know it hurt at the time. But if it didn't you wouldn't of met grandpa you wouldn't of had mom, you wouldn't have me" She said trying to cheer me up. "I know honey, and I'm glad I met your grandpa and had your mother and I'm very glad you're here today. It just brings back a lot of old feelings... you see over there... in the closest there's a blue box? It says dreams on top, can you bring it here please."

As she went to get the box I was trying to figure out away to tell her the rest of the story. How do you tell someone that your first love was a vampire that left because he was scared of you living a dangerous life next to him?

I need for her to know. I need her to do something for me. As she sat back down with the box on her lap she took the handful of pictures out. The only proof I have of the Cullen's, the only thing that I had that showed me they weren't a dream.

"Is this him gram?" she asked as she showed me the picture, it's one of us that Alice took. He had that famous crooked grin smile on his face that drove me crazy I nodded my head yes "He is beautiful, gram"

"He is, isn't he? I never understood how someone like him could love someone like me. I always felt so plain next to him, so unworthy of this man's love. That's why it's so easy to believe he didn't love me, that day he left." I said as I looked at more of the pictures

"Why did he leave gram? Did he move away or something?"She asked looking at me with a frown on her face.

"you see Isabella; his family is different from us, because of that he thought being around me always put me in a constant danger. He didn't want me to get hurt so he left, even though he promised me he never would, he did. It broke me beyond repair, you see it's like when a mirror breaks you can glue it back together but it won't ever be the same it'll always have cracks."

"Isabella, my friend Jacob Black's son called the other day, he told me the Cullen's moved back. Now, while I'm in the hospital for the few days of my treatment I want you to go there for me and give Edward a letter for me." I had to say it before I backed out. Even now thinking about him now makes me heart speed up, something I'm sure is not good for my sixty-seven year old frail body.

"Of course gram anything you want, you know you don't have to ask." She gave me a kiss on the check and brushed the tears away. "Now, this is going to sound crazy Isabella but I need you to know this, so you don't find it strange when you see him or his family..." with a heavy sigh I said it the first I and last time.. "Edward Cullen and his family are… vampires."

revised on 8/16/08
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