What all humans do to nature, in the end. :I
How had Alice convinced me to go on a picnic with Edward? I mean, don;t get me wrong, I love food, and spending time with Edward, but it just seemed a little mean to me that he couldn't eat, and I was the only one able to enjoy the food. It was a light lunch, jsut some toasted sandwiches and a bottle of champagne and some strawberries. It was sweet, and nice.
I donned a sundress and sandals when I left the Cullen house. Ewdward was in a light, whit button-up with a pair of blue jeans. I sighed. He had the most perfect elegance, no matter what he wore. He could have worn a dishtowel and pulled it off. Hmm, just a dishtowel? I wonder....
We were on teh road soon, a piano riff playing through the car, and he left the windows open and let the sunshine came streaming in. It wasn't hot: there was a slight breeze through the air, and it seemed to cool it down. Alice had made me apply sunscreen ("There's nothing sexy about being hot and uncomfortable, and then burning and turning read a s a lobster, Bella. That's exactly what you'll do."), so now my skin had a slight sparkle in it, like a shimmer. It wasn't nearly as flashy as Edward's, but it was still there.
We held hands as we walked from the car into the woods, and kissed, and made converstion. My stomach growled once, and Edward's laugh ran through the trees, and sounded out of place, for some reason.
We were about a hundred yards from the opening to the clearing. The hole through the trees where you could see it was, somehow, bigger, and it was more bright than I'd ever remebered. Edward furrowed his eyebrows, but we walked on.
It was about fifty yards after that when he suddenly stopped me, and said, "Bella, there's something...."
"What is it?" I asked, giving him a slight peck on the lips. "Bella, its not like you rember it. I don't think you'll want to see it."
"What, did all the flowers die, or something?" I laughed, and then ran ahead. He ran after me, calling out my name, and telling me not to look.
It took a cold, hard second after I entered the clearing, to realize what he ment.
All the trees on this side were gone. There was no soft, billowy grass, and defenalty no flowers. Stumps had been pulled up, and trees lay on their side, partially dried out and dead. The grass was gone; all that was left was brown. Hard brown dirt, that had dried up and had deep crackes in it. The sound of a slight stream of water was gone, there was only a wet spot about six feet away.
Edward was behind me in a second. "Bella, I...."
And I began to cry.
This place, the palce I had loved, was gone. It was just dirt: just terrible brown hard dirt that didn't mean a thing more to me than a speck of dust on a knick-knack. This palce that Edward and I had told each other of our love. This palce was everything to me.
Edward took me away, and I cried all the way home. He carried me in, and when Carlisle and Esme rushed foreward, gave them a low and quick explination to what had happened.
How could a man have dystroyed something so pure?
I knew what I would have to do.
Tommaorw, there was going to be hell to pay.