Chapter One- Unwanted
Bella's POV
I couldn't force myself to get up again, although I still had to continue on. I crawled along the ground, scraping my palms and legs on sticks and stones and covering myself in dirt and leaves. The sun had gone down and it was getting darker by the second. I looked around realizing for the first time how dangerous it was for me to be out in the woods in the middle of the night. No one knew where I was, in fact I had no idea where I was. I blamed did you leave me? How could you do that, after everything you did, everything you said? My heart felt like it had been ripped from my chest, stabbed then cut up into a thousand tiny pieces then burned and turned to ash. I wanted to scream or at the very least cry, but I couldn't do it; the best I could do was lay on the ground and stare up at the sky.
I must have drifted off at some point because when I next looked up at the sky there was a full moon right above the trees. How long had it been? It was late afternoon when HE led me to the start of the pathway that lead into the woods. It was now early morning. Was anyone looking for me? Or had everyone left, just as he had? I was shivering and my hands had turned blue, but I couldn't feel the cold; I couldn't feel anything other than the pain in my chest and the throbbing in my head. I couldn't stop thinking about him, the way his hands felt wrapped around mine, how his eyes would sparkle whenever he saw me, how his lips felt pressed against mine. I broke down, tears running down my cheeks and into the dirt; a sob built up in my chest, needing to escape. I didn't fight it, just screamed until the tightness in my chest lessened.
I was too busy screaming and crying that I didn't notice you, at first. There were four of you although I didn't realize that until later. Someone placed their stone cold hand on my shoulder but I could tell it wasn't one of the Cullens. I should have been scared but at that moment all I wanted was some comfort, and when you wrapped your arm around me and lifted me off the ground I found that comport.
I felt you running, flying through the forest, I felt you swimming across the ocean although the water never touched me. Not once during the couple of hours that it took to get to Italy, did I sleep. By the time we reached the boundaries of Voltera I regretted my decision, I felt exhausted, like I hadn't slept in weeks. You must have noticed because that was when you told me to sleep; you were a stranger to me then and so I naturally wanted to ignore you but after a couple seconds I think I fell asleep.