Alone

Chapter Two

I was standing in my cave, happily humming to myself when I heard a deep, rough growl. I spun around to find my self face to face with a grizzly bear.

I stood there, frozen, starring into its wild eyes. Then I screamed.

Bad move, Bella.

The bear pinned me to the ground with its huge paws and barred its sharp teeth at me. Then in one, swift moment, the bear had its mouth around me and chomped down. I screamed once more before my cry was cut off. I was dead.

I sat straight up, screaming, with tears streaming down my cheeks.

It was just a dream, Bella, just a stupid nightmare I told myself, trying to calm down.

When my breathing was back at a normal speed, I stood up and went over to cave opening. It was daybreak in the silent woods.

I sighed, missing my perfect life I had at this time, yesterday. I wanted to wake up to Edward's arms around me. I wanted to be normal again. This life isn't-

Hold it right there, Bella. Stop yourself before you start crying again.

I internally nodded and went back into the cave to get a little more sleep.

Four Months Later

I awoke from yet another nightmare, trembling.

I shook my head, trying to rid myself of the dream. After a few minutes, the dream was gone from my mind, no more than a bad memory. Sigh. No more than another bad memory, I should say.

Then I remembered my worst memory of all time. The night Edward left me.

I had lived in these woods ever since that dreadful night, but I was missing the feeling of being with people. I didn't think I could last much longer in the woods, all by myself.

I sighed again and decided to go hunting. I still hadn't made weapons yet, so I was still feeding off of small animals. And boy, I was getting hungry. I had brought no other clothes with me, so I was still wearing the outfit I had worn on that night. And it was feeling bigger and bigger, as I grew thin from starving. I could see my bones through my thin skin, and my ribs stuck out. I was in bad health, starving to death.

I went farther then ever to hunt this time. I found a few animals, and was about to kill another when a horrible scent reached my nose. Something was burning.

I ran to find the source of the smell. I stopped, scared by what I was seeing.

The smell was coming from my cave. And my cave was burning. I had forgotten to put out the small fire from this morning.

I turned my back on the sight and thought to myself, well, it's a good reason to live in the main world again.

And that is exactly what I did. I walked through the woods until I found the high way and then I followed it until I found the city of Port Angeles. My legs were dragging from the long walk, but I kept going, trying to find a place to live.

I found it. An old, abandoned shack in the middle of town. It was quite nice, and if a professional fixed it, it would be a beautiful place. It was perfect.

I started walking around the shack, thinking. How would I get food now? If I did find something, how would I cook it? Sigh. This life is hard.

I had just sat down when I heard voice out side the shack. I gasped, scared. I shrunk into the corner of the room as the shack door opened and three teenage boys walked in.

Then the boys spotted me and said "who the hell are you? What are you doing here?!"

Being the stupid girl I was, I just wimpered, instead of running.

"well, you're in our hide out" one of the boys said.

"h-h-hide out?" I stutterd.

"yes, idiot, hide out. A hide out for our gang. But, oops, now you know about our gang, so, we'll have to kill you. Boys, finish off this piece of trash" the boy said as the other to walked to me, grabbed me under my arms, and slammed me against the wall.

I screamed, knowing it was useless to fight back. It was three, strong men, against one, weak, skinny girl. They punched and kicked every part of me they could reach.

Then the sound of people talking scared them, and they ran off, afraid of being caught. I lay there on the floor, bleeding to death.

I curled into a little ball, crying, muttering my last words. Then I said "Edward, if you can hear me, please remember this. I will always love you with all my heart, even if you hate me. I love you, goodbye"

Everything went black.