Title: Traveling Soldier

Penname: Edwardaddict17

Disclaimer: I do not own twilight or anything in it!

Summary: Edward Masen has no real family or friends and decides to enlist in the army after high school, but on the day that he is leaving he meets a beautiful girl with a bow in her hair in a cafe across from the bus stop. Bella Swan turns Edwards world upside down in a matter of hours. But now that Edward is off at war, will their love survive? Based on the song Traveling Soldier by the Dixie Chicks.

Rating: M (just in case:D)

Human or Vampire: Human

Submitted for the 'Edwartist and Bandella' contest.

Hey guys I have started a new story that I am entering into the 'Edwartist and Bandella' contest! I really hope you guys like it because it is not only for the contest but of course for all of my readers! I'm not sure exactly how long it will be, probably no more than five chapters though, so I hope you all enjoy it!!!! and of course review review review!!!

Two days past eighteen,

He was waiting for the bus in his army green,

Sat down in a booth at a cafe there,

Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair,

He's a little shy so she gives him a smile,

And he says would you mind sitting down for a while,

And talking to me,

I'm feeling a little low,

She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go.

EPOV.

I don't remember any real reason for my enlisting, except to get out of this town, so here I sat.

I mean I had just turned 18 not two days ago and now here I am being shipped off to battle.

I thought that Uncle Sam would have at least given me a little while.

Not that I'm complaining, I mean it was my decision to be here.

The only thing this town hold for me now is painful memories of the past, so the sooner I leave the better.

I have no real family here, and barely any friends.

So why not do something useful with my life. It's not as though I could have gotten into any colleges now.

It's not that I didn't try to get into any colleges, I just didn't get accepted. Which wasn't surprising.

I had spent my four years of high school doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and just guess how many times I wanted to study or do homework.

I was pretty much a walking cliche. The bad guy on campus with the leather jackets and his cigarettes that you stayed the hell away from unless you wanted to be seriously injured.

You see freshmen year of high school I was a good kid with a well respected family, popular, smart, on the basketball and football teams.

I pretty much was set up to be able to do whatever I wanted in life.

And then it all came crashing down from under me.

Me and my family were in the car coming home from Winter break. We had gone on a ski trip and headed back the day before school started up again.

You see it had been my dad, Edward Sr., my mom, Elizabeth, and my little brother Jeremy and myself in the car.

Me and my brother were fighting over who's turn it was on the x box, while my parents were in the front seats discussing dinner plans we had next week.

That's when a deer ran in front of our car.

My dad had tried to swerve out of the way, but it only made our car spin off the road and flip over landing us in a ditch.

Or at least that's what they tell me.

I only remember up to seeing the deer.

I was in a coma for a little over a week. The rest of my family weren't as lucky.

The hospital said they did everything they could, but all three of them had died at the scene, most likely on impact, so there was nothing they could do.

They said I was the lucky one.

Lucky my ass. I had to sit here alive everyday and wonder why me? Why was I the one who survived?

Why not my little brother who had barely even begun to live, or my mother who was the most beautiful and most kind woman I had ever known, or my father who struggled his whole life to give me everything he could just to have it all end too soon.

I shook all of those memories away quickly though. I didn't want to get into that now, because if I thought about it I would surely be a wreck.

So anyways, I had gone to live with my mom's best friend Esme Cullen with her husband Carlisle and their two kids. Me and her kids had always been close especially me and her son Emmett.

She also had a daughter Alice who ended up dating my other friend Jasper Hale, and of course his sister Rosalie who was dating Emmett.

So those were really my only friends.

They all of course urged me to stay home and go to community college, but after everything I had put them through over the years I just didn't want to be a burden anymore.

So here I sit.

I looked down at my watch.

Still a few hours to go before the bus gets here.

Talk about being early,but I had no where else to be today.

I looked over at the little cafe behind me and decided I could wait it out in there. Maybe I could get some food.

I walked in and sat myself at a booth in the corner.

I sat patiently waiting for my waitress and then after a minute I looked around to see if she had seen me come in.

That's when I saw her.

She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. Long wavy mahogany brown hair down to her waist that was put into a side braid with pieces coming out around her face and tied with a blue bow at the end.

She had this perfect pale skin that looked soft as silk. Who was this girl and where had she been all my life?

And as if I had called to her in my mind she looked up at me and I saw her deep chocolate brown eyes framed with feather duster lashes and these full red lips that look like two satin rose petals.

She must be an angel.

She smiled up at me then and held up a finger saying she'd be there in a minute.

She could take all the time in the world.

I just watched her weave in and out of the tables with plates and coffee mugs. Throwing them around to all of the right tables.

Smiling and saying Hello to everyone she saw.

She turned to begin her walk over to my table when her foot caught on a bag a woman at another table had left on the floor.

She was headed towards the floor and I couldn't have that. I leapt from my seat and caught her just in time.

I now had the angel in my arms, her eyes closed as if she waited for impact.

Realizing she hadn't hit the floor she opened her eyes. She saw me and looked startled, but then her eyes locked with mine.

I wouldn't have noticed if the cafe had began to burn down, I was too busy swimming in her beautiful brown eyes. I had never seen brown eyes with so much depth before, like I could see all the way into her soul.

She broke the connection first, realizing where we were again, and began to right herself.

"Thanks for that, sorry I'm such a klutz." Bells chiming. That's what her voice sounded like. This girl could not be real.

"Don't worry about it." I said smiling as I sat back down, never breaking my eyes from hers.

She just stared at me for a moment as if she had forgotten what she was gonna say, and then looked away quickly back down at her pad of paper.

I wish she'd stop doing that. If she keeps looking away I won't be able to see those eyes and that is surely a crime.

"So what can I get you?" she asked.

"Just a cup of coffee will be fine."

"Alright I'll be right back." She said looking up at me and smiling before she turned to get me my order.

It physically hurt me to watch her walk away, but she was back with my coffee in a minute.

"Anything else with this." she asked.

"No thanks." I said frowning, I didn't have any more money on me and now she would have to leave.

"Oh okay then, just call me if you need me." she replied, frowning also, as if she was sad to leave me too.

Don't get ahead of yourself Edward.

She began to walk away, and I wasn't having that.

"Who exactly would I be calling?"

She turned and smiled. "Bella."

Bella, even her name means beautiful.

"Well Bella, my name is Edward, Edward Masen." I said putting out my hand.

"Nice to meet you, Edward." She said taking my hand. Her skin was so soft. What I wouldn't give to be able to hold her.

She let go and I felt empty.

"Well I better go, some more people just cam in," she trailed off as she began to turn towards a new family who walked in and was sitting a few tables down.

"Wait!" I called.

She turned and looked at me curious.

Crap, I don't have anything to ask her, I just didn't want to see her walk away again.

"Well, ummmm, you see, " I stuttered and looked up at her to see her smiling at me. I could wake up to that smile everyday.

Now come on Masen, now is not the time to be shy.

"Well I was actually wondering if you could sit down, and I don't know, just talk for a while. I could really use someone to talk to." I said sadly looking up at her.

She just smiled again, but this time there was something more there, sympathy maybe. I don't care what it was as long as she stayed.

"Well I can't right now," And there it is again, that empty feeling, and now it was just at the thought of her leaving, man I need to get a grip, I barely know this girl, "but I'll be off in about an hour and I know somewhere we can go."

And you know what I don't care if I hardly know her! I can get a grip in my next life cause right now all I wanted to do was be irrational.

I'd be anything as long as it meant I got to spend more time with her, to see her smile, to hold her, to kiss those rose petals she call lips.

And at that moment I felt like I was on top of the world.

"That sounds perfect." I said smiling up at her again and swimming in her eyes again.

She just stood there and stared back at me, as if she was seeing into my soul as well.

"Miss!" shouted a woman at the table that had just come in a moment ago.

At that moment I wanted to ring her neck, because as soon as she called Bella turned her head away with a startled expression.

She looked back at me for a moment and smiled a sad smile and walked away.

It still hurt me to watch her walk away but at least I know she'll be back soon enough and in the mean time I can keep ordering refills and just watch her work.

Every now and then over the next hour she would look over at me and smile and I couldn't help but feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

For once I agreed with the doctors. I was the lucky one.

And then I'd remember that in a few hours I would be leaving for 6 months, and that was only my first tour.

Lady Luck must hate me, I had to find this perfect creature right as I left this miserable town, after living here my whole life.

So I just tried to make myself enjoy the time I did have. And soon enough the hour was over and she was walking towards me, now just wearing a simple white dress instead of her uniform.

I stood as she walked over and put my jacket on.

"You look beautiful." I smiled at her.

She blushed the prettiest shade of red and in that moment I had myself convinced she was just a figment of my imagination.

"Thanks, so you ready to go."

"Absolutely."

"Great follow me."

She turned and started to walk out the door and I followed, and in that second I realized something.

I would follow her anywhere.

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