Chapter 1- Prologue

Bella's POV

So this is death... Finding out that someone, someone who you knew and you loved...was dead. Someone you would give your soul up for. Someone whom you treasured above your own life, beyond anything else. Someone whom you loved. It hurt a lot more than if you yourself were the one hurting, or the one who were lying still, cold; pieces of yourself strewn around. And then burnt.

I felt like I was the one killed, tortured, so savagely and mercilessly by the gutless murderer, who killed... him.

My other half, my lover, my vampire, my soulmate--His name was Edward.

It hurt me more than the time I left, I remember, that time so dark, that night so moonless... the period where I was in an extremely depressed state... Where there was a hole in my chest... until the person who'd killed my soulmate healed it slowly... And when I saw him again, MY him, MY soulmate, on the verge of death, it was like the hole had never been there before. And I'd saved him from death.

But now...

I couldn't.

I didn't.

Death was right there beside me, lying soundlessly.

I could've saved him.

I wonder why I ran away instead.