At the Market: Chapter one
Hi everybody! This is my first Twilight fanfiction! And as a forewarning this is NOT for Edward haters OR lovers! I hope you enjoy it and leave a review if you are feeling like a good citizen :P Thanks for reading!
It was a normal day, Charlie's birthday if something special needed to be pointed to. Bella was with her boyfriend Edward at the Forks market where she was picking the last few items for Charlie's birthday dinner.
Bella wanted to make this day really special; she hadn't lived with her father since her mother and her had moved away when she was just four years old. Sometimes she would stay with him in the summers but as she got older she came to see him less and less. Now that she was here with him in Forks, she wanted to make up for lost time.
Bella and Charlie had a special connection, they were friends more than father and daughter; they really understood each other. They were both quiet people for the most part, and they both knew how to have fun when the occasion called for it.
Bella tried to rein in her thoughts so that she could pick up the spice she needed and get on her way. When Edward noticed that Bella had been staring at the shelf for much too long he picked up a spice from the shelf and handed it to her. She looked at him with surprise, so he explained.
"I believe that this is what you are looking for" He spoke softly and it made Bella smile happily.
"I believe that you are right." She responded but then a crease formed between her eye brows. Edward chuckled lightly and smoothed the lines that had formed.
"What?" He asked her.
"It's just… I thought that you couldn't read my mind." Bella asked just as softly, there was an odd air to the market, no one was really talking and it was bothering her, she was afraid to talk too loudly, which was strange.
"I can't love, but I do know you rather well by now." He laughed, and it seemed like a louder laugh than it really was. Bella just had a really strange feeling. Everything around her felt strange and her stomach was twisting into knots.
"Bella, love, what's wrong?" Edward asked her, no longer smiling, but looking rather tortured.
"I don't know… that was weird." She answered him, the feeling passing her and when she looked up from her shoes she met a pair of dark chocolate eyes.
She was transfixed. The man before her was pulling her to him, only with his eyes. She felt like she should say something but nothing was coming to mind. She literally could not think of anything but the man standing in front of her, Edward was probably talking right now, but she couldn't even bring herself to acknowledge him at the moment.
Finally she was able to grasp herself as Edward had introduced himself, earning a handshake from the man she now knew was 'Sam Uley.'
"I'm Bella Swan, I think we have met at some point before though… at least I recognize you…" Bella trailed. Once she was looking at all of him instead of just his eyes she saw that he was tan, like all LaPush men, which she knew included him, he had slightly wavy black hair and was tall. Really tall. And shirtless. He was fine.
"Yeah, I think we have met. Right!" He exclaimed suddenly remembering something, "I was with Jake and Billy when you came over to Billy's for dinner your first night here." He told her.
Bella remembered exactly now. It seemed like forever ago.
"Well I need to go, get my… stuff." Sam told them, taking steps backward but never taking his eyes from Bella's, causing her to blush. "I'll see you around."
With that Sam Uley was gone and left Bella extremely confused as to what had just happened.
Edwards Thoughts:
Damn. That is MY girl! MY Bella! MY world. And HE has to come into this store and do this? He doesn't disserve her! Apparently fate thought differently from me.
I wanted to cry. I wanted to kill him. I wanted to be mad at both of them, but I knew that it was neither of their fault. I knew what I needed to do, even if I didn't want to. Fate hates me. I love this girl with my entire being and fate just had to come and take it all away from me.
I love you Bella…
SAM'S SIDE:
Sam was on his way home from work when he had the most random urge to go to the store. He wanted to just send Paul or Jared to do it but that apparently wasn't what his wolf wanted.
Even stranger, his wolf would not let him go to the LaPush market, it wanted him to go to the Forks market. Once he got close enough to it, he knew why his wolf was furiously trying to get him there, he smelled vampire. He pushed his blue pick up as fast as the poor thing would go and swung into the parking lot.
He ran into the store taking note to the sign that said, "No shoes, no shirt, no service." Behind the desk the sign was stapled to there was a woman wide eyed.
"You're fine, Darlin'" She told him, still staring him down, and as he looked up there were several other women staring along with her. He mumbled 'thanks' and followed his wolf's instincts which were still pulling him in the direction of the spice aisle.
He skidded to a halt when an auburn headed woman with the scent of a goddess looked up and made eye contact with her.
She was easily the most beautiful woman Sam had ever laid eyes on. Her milk chocolate brown eyes were staring just as frozen into his. Her hair was a beautiful auburn-brown and had soft curls, her skin alabaster white. Beauty in its true name.
All Sam could feel was a sense that all the previous cords in his life were snipped apart and were now attached to her, she was his world, she was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and in turn he would be the world for her; obtain the world for her.
He knew he had just imprinted on this woman. This Bella Swan. Oh yes, he knew her already. Seen her in Jake's thoughts, and seen her on her first night in town. He was just pulled out of his thoughts and longing stare into Bella's eyes when her vampire boyfriend, pretended not to know him and introduced himself.
Sam didn't like any of the Cullen's by any means but he knew that he could trust them, so after a short conversation he left. A thousand thoughts rushing and racing through his mind.
Sam walked, once more, past all the staring women and hopped into his truck. The ride home went by extremely fast and when he opened the door he was not prepared for the female voice that was calling out to him.
"Sam? Baby, is that you?" His fiancé, Leah, called to him. He didn't need to answer though, as she was already bounding down the stairs while pulling a peach colored t-shirt over her head.
Leah walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him, resting her head on his chest, and Sam just didn't feel right. He still loved her, he knew, but it was a brother, sisterly love.
"We need to talk Leah." Sam told her as gently as he could. When Leah didn't respond to him, he continued. "Look. I love you, a lot. But that love? That love is like you're my best friend, or my sister, and I don't think that we should get married. I'm sorry."
As he waited for her to say something, she did something he wouldn't have expected. Sam had expected her to hit him, maybe throw something at him, but all she did was shed a solitary tear, then let loose a smile.
"I agree. I have been thinking about it for awhile." Leah told him.
That was that. They hung out, as Sam helped Leah pack all of her stuff to take back to her parents house, they talked and laughed and joked all night, acting like brother and sister.
LEAH'S THOUGHTS:
I know I had been thinking about it a lot. If I really wanted to get married or not, but now that he is gone… it hurts a lot. We had a lot of fun, just like old times when we were packing up.
I still love, maybe as more than a brother, or really in a bit of a different way. But I know that I'll get used to it over time.
I think he found someone new, I also know that he had been thinking about it for awhile. To be honest though, I don't think that I was ready to get married anyway. Maybe there is still something else out there for me.
This really is an opportunity to find someone to love me who will love me with all of his heart. Either way, it still hurts for now. I thought as I slipped down my door and cried my heart out, ready to stand when this crying spell ends.
OK! So that was the first chapter! There was a lot more POV change than there will be throughout the story since it really was more of a prologue than the first chapter but like I said, there will be much less POV changing in the future. I wanted to make both Edward and Leah's thoughts sad but not overbearing because trust me; there will be plenty of hurt in this story by the end. Thanks so much for reading and please Review if you are feeling like a good citizen!