A little about Edward before he changed this might help so you can understand the story better
Born June 20th 1901
Lived in Chicago
Changed into a vampire September 1918
Bronze hair
Green eyes
6' 2"
Mother was Elizabeth Masen
Father was Edward Masen
Life was fairly happily and uneventful
Father was a lawyer
Moderately wealthy
Mothers biggest worry was him being drafted into WWI
Edward was a year away from the draft
The draft age was lowered to 18 in august 1918
Sepember of 1918 the Spanish influenza hit
His parents died of it
He almost died of it
attending physician was Carlisle Cullen (you know where it goes from there)
It was Edward's mother who requested Dr. Cullen save Edward. She seemed to "know" that Carlisle could save him in a special way and begged him to do it
This is just a little background knowledge you might want to know about Edward
Thank you neige for pointing out my mistake