Chapter 2

Esme was surprised when she go back from hunting to find a letter waiting for her. She could not remember ever having received a letter at least since she had become a vampire. She picked it up and as soon as she did she recognised the sent on the letter. Bella. She opened it with tender hands. She did not want to even slightly rip this precious gift from her youngest daughter. Oh how she missed her, how it had broken her to be forced to leave her. As she began to read the letter her heart broke.

For a moment she allowed herself to sink. Her daughter actually thought that she was not loved. That she had not been a star in the sky to her. As Esme read further in the letter fear struck her and she knew that she must go save her daughter. She called her husband quickly grabbing the car keys from the table. As he came into the room she grabbed him and dragged him to the car placing the letter into his hand. "We have to go."

As soon as he read over the letter he knew what had so upset his wife. He took the car keys and swung round to the driver's side. It would normally take around 10 hours to get to Fawkes but Carlisle knew that if he drove they could be there in 6. Esme was very quite during the drive she had pulled a piece of paper from her pocket and was reading it over and over as she had done the past few weeks. It was her own letter that she has written to Bella when they has first left her. She had not sent it having gone along with Edward's pleas for a clean break for the girl that they all loved. Now she wished that she had had the courage to send it when she wished to. Looking at Bella's letter on the dash board Bella would have been so much better off she would not have been in the danger she was in.

"Dearest Bella,

Oh my beautiful girl, I am so sorry that I have had to write this letter. When Edward begged us to leave you, to act like you had never been part of our lives, a part of my soul was broken. You see Bella though I did not want to leave you and all I wanted to do was to hold you to me and protect you all I could remember was the look of devastated look on your face when I was forced to leave in the face of a tiny paper cut. You had become of one of my family, my daughter in everything but blood, a sister to Alice and Rosalie (though she would never admit it) and to Jasper and Emmett. Carlisle to felt as if you were another daughter to him, he felt especially close to you Bella because out of all his daughters he was able to take care of you. With Alice and Rosalie he was never able to clean there scraps and was never able to feel that they needed him to protect them. He did not say, because he did not wish to hurt Edward but I am his wife, I know it almost killed him to have to leave you.

Please know my dearest Isabella that you are loved. You are one of the stars in my sky and I will never stop thinking of you and not even in a million years ever stop thinking of you as one of my daughters. If you ever need me Bella please call, though I am not sure when or if we will ever see you again I will always come if you call. Always

Your loving mother

Esme"

Why hadn't she sent it she asked herself again as the sign stating WELCOME TO FORKS. She looked forward and became determined Laurant would not harm a hair on Bella's head she would kill him first and she would not leave her daughter again despite what Edward said, never again. She just prayed to god that they were in time....