Summary: When Edward leaves Bella can't function. Lauren takes Bella under her wing and teaches Bella her ways of life. Bella has changed drastically over the last three years and when Edward happens to see her by chance one night he can't believe his eyes.
Chapter 1
The rain fell harder than usual in a little town called Forks. Yet rain wasn't that unusual in this town, so everyone continued going about their business. Well, almost everyone. Bella Swan sat on her bed staring at the ceiling. Her father, the Chief of Police was worried for his daughter. She hardly ever left her room except to use the bathroom and to do her daily chores, and Chief Swan had only one person to blame for his daughters sudden change in behaviour: Edward Cullen.
He hated even thinking the name. The boy who stole his daughter's heart and then abandoned her in the middle of the forest ten months ago.
Bella had shown little to no improvement since he left. She cry's just as much now as she did before, and her nightmares are just as bad as they ever were. He could also see a major physical change in his daughter. She had lost an unhealthy amount of weight and her once bright lively eyes have lost their spark. Oddly enough, she even moved and positioned herself differently. Always holding herself, as if she was trying to keep herself from falling apart.
Chief Swan wondered how he and his daughter could have such a different opinion about one specific person. He knew his daughter still loved Edward with all her heart and would take him back without a second's hesitation. Yet the Chief loathed him with such a fiery passion that he didn't know how he could bear it if that boy ever returned.
Lately she looked worse than ever. Since school ended she's had nothing to occupy her thoughts. So the Chief had to endure looking at his daughter depressed and broken almost every day. She would try her best to do as much as she could normally yet the Chief could see right through her little charade. Some days he didn't even see her around the house. She would have food ready on the counter for when he got home, and would stay in her room for the rest of the night. He wondered if she even ate. However Chief Swan could do nothing to change his daughter's behaviour, he even tried threatening to send her back to her mother's but she barely even responded. So he could do nothing but watch as the depression took over her life.
Yes, Chief Swan knew his daughter would never be the same again. He knew she was depressed and knew she needed help.
What Chief Swan didn't know though, was just how bad the situation had gotten. He didn't know what she did all day while he was working. He didn't know that his daughter had made new friends, friends he definitely wouldn't approve of. And he certainly didn't know that his daughter wasn't at home most nights. Chief Swan was completely clueless as to just how much Edward Cullen leaving had drastically changed his daughter's life.