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A/N: I don't really like Bella so after rereading Twilight once again I decided that enough was enough and got typing. This is the finished product.
Contrary to my family's beliefs, except from Carlisle who knows everything about my past – including the parts I keep from the others, Bella was not my first love. Bella was my second love; Mary Hans was my first love…my human love, the love I lost before I was changed.
Mary had been beautiful. A tall willowy girl with soft ivory skin and blue eyes framed by ebony lashes, wild red curls cascading down her back like fiery waterfall. She had died three days before Carlisle changed me. Spanish influenza had killed her as it would have killed me. I hated Carlisle when I realised he could have saved her too, but forgave him soon after knowing it was not his fault.
There hadn't been a day or night that had gone by that I hadn't thought of Mary since and, although I loved Bella, it was Mary who owned my heart. Bella was the love that I had forever. Mary would last so much longer than that in my eternal heart.