Set in Stone
The Beginning
BPOV
I guess you could say our beginning was a little clichéd, names carved in a tree and written in the stars, you know….typical romance stuff.
Edward Cullen moved in with his twin sister Alice and his brother Emmett, his parents- Esme and Carlisle- were just about the nicest people you'd ever meet. They moved into the house next to mine where I, Bella Swan, lived with my Dad Charlie and my Mom Renee. His house was bigger than mine, but it never bothered me. If we sat out on the roof of our bedroom windows we could talk to each other at night, we did that a lot.
Growing up you never really think about all the things that can really happen to you in life, you hear about something, give them a silent thought of condolences and then you move on, you never expect it to happen to you. Especially on certain days, like a birthday, a wedding, you don't think when you're little, about how your actions can affect things. People change, no matter what they say. People change and people move on.
We met when we were seven -that's when he moved in- and we'd been playing together in the sand box ever since. We were the typical kids, we loved sand boxes, and we loved to bake cookies with our Moms, though we normally made them more with Esme because my Mom really wasn't the baking type. My Dad took us all fishing sometimes and Carlisle liked to take us to get ice cream on the weekends. I felt really special around them because they all treated me like family.
Everyone loves in their own way….we loved each other forever, sometimes it was a best friend and other times it was a little something more, but the point was that we loved each other. And sometimes, you have to think of the people you love before you think of yourself. We all know that, but we never really understand how hard it is to do until we have to.