Edward
Chicago, 1901
A new era, a clean start
The year I was born into this ill-fated world
Edward Anthony Masen
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The world was mine for the taking
Every door was wide open`
I had the ideal life of an intelligent and successful teenager
Until the year that I turned seventeen
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Summer, 1918
Spanish influenza
I did not think anything of it
I thought if I stayed away, I would avoid it
Until my parents got sick
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My father contracted it first,
It was miserable, watching him slowly die
Knowing my mother and I would receive the same fate
I would die young and alone
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Fever racked my body, but I was freezing
My mother tried to take of me,
I was destroying her chances of survival even more
But she did not care, I was her biggest concern
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I was expected to die first
But the fever took her first, and she left a single dying wish
She pleaded with the doctor, to do whatever it took to save me
He merely acted on whim when he saved me
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I was fading
I would be dead within an hour
But then I was overcome with excruciating pain
Never-ending, agonizing, burning
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When I awoke, I felt different
Like I had been reborn
Icy skin and red irises
Unfamiliar, confound thoughts racing through my head
Edward Cullen
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Vampires were an impossibility
I had only read about them in books
But now, now I was ready to believe anything
Fictional or not
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But I was still lonely
As my family grew and my "siblings" found love, I remained alone
My thoughts on life: I was monster, I believed that I did not deserve love, or so I thought
I would soon find forbidden love, with a human.
Eternal and Undying Love
Edward Anthony Masen Cullen
