Chapter 2: Savior

Edward's POV

I was hunting when the blizzard started; I knew that not many animals are crazy enough to go out in a blizzard so I decided to go home. As I made my way through the snow, I thought I saw something black lying in the snow. I walked over to it and saw a girl curled up in the snow as if she was trying to keep warm. She was clutching her right arm as if in pain. I couldn't just leave her here to die, so I gently lifted her up. She moaned a name I think it was "Jacob". I wanted to comfort her so I said "you'll be okay, I'll take care of you."(did y'all honestly think i would keill Bella off?)

Carlisle would help her, if we could save her life with out changing her into a vampire, we would. When I made it home, Alice came running out to meet me.

"Edward, where have you been? I couldn't see you for some reason so I got worried. What is that?" Alice asked pointing to the bundle of clothes I was carrying.

"I found this girl; I think she is hurt, Carlisle is home right?" I asked hoping that he had gotten back before me.

"Yes, come on we need to get her warm." Alice said running inside, I quickly followed her.

Carlisle was at the door when I came in. "Edward put her in the guest bedroom with the fireplace."

I nodded and ran up the stairs and gently laid her on the bed. Carlisle was not far behind me. "Edward go look for blankets. Alice, I am going to need your help."

Alice's POV

Edward had found a human girl and brought her home to a bunch of vampires, I am going to have to talk to him.

Carlisle asked me to help him, I nodded and knelt by the girl's bed.

"Now we need to get this dress off of her, it is too wet from the snow, and it is just making her colder." Carlisle said.

He got a knife and cut the bodice of the dress carefully, not wanting to nick the girl, for we all knew what that would mean. She was wearing a corset made if some type of bone.

"Odd" I thought as I carefully undid the ties, Carlisle wanted to cut it off, but I knew that corsets were expensive.

Edward came back in with a pile of blankets, don't know why we have those, but thankfully we did. "Edward, go get one of my extra nightgowns." I said trying to keep him out of the room.

He nodded and left, Carlisle carefully checked to see if there were any breaks in her bones, luckily there weren't, but her right arm was badly bruised, poor thing.

After Carlisle made sure that she did not have any life threatening injuries, he allowed Esme and I to bathe and dress the girl in a nightgown. We laid her back in the bed and piled blankets on top of her. "She will be just fine." Esme said.

Edward's POV

I waited outside the bedroom, hoping that she would be all right. I don't know why, but I felt that if she died I would have lost something important. The girl was beautiful; it wasn't vampire beauty, but a softer human beauty. I wondered what her name was and why was she outside during the blizzard, Esme and Alice walked out of the room. "You can go in if you want to, but she is not awake." Esme said patting my head gently.

I watched over her the entire night and the next day, I wanted to be here when she woke up.

Bella's POV

I was fifteen and I was horse back riding with my best friend Jacob. We were racing back to the stables and I was winning.

"You are cheating!" Jacob called from behind me.

"How?" I called back, when I was with him I wasn't a princess, and he wasn't a stable hand. We were just a boy and a girl having fun. My mother liked the friendship, but my father did not.

My father met me at the stable as I was unsaddling Bellezza.

"Isabella, the stable hand is supposed to unsaddle your horse, you are princess." He said

"Father, Jacob has another horse to unsaddle, and I don't mind" that was my first mistake.

"You are not to call the stable hands by their first names, it is not appropriate." Father said.

"But he is my friend." That was my second mistake.

"Princesses are not friends with sable boys I forbid you to speak to him again." he said his face turning an odd shade of purple.

"But that is not fair, you cannot keep me from my best friend" I replied, third mistake.

Father took my arm and dragged me to my room. I cried all that night.

The next morning I watched from my bedroom window as Jacob left to go to a boarding school, which my father graciously paid for. We both knew exactly why he was leaving. He looked up at me, smiled and waved goodbye, I returned the wave. Before I knew it Jacob was gone.

"Jacob!" I cried, opening my eyes. I saw a handsome man with topaz eyes staring at me.

"w-who are you?" I asked a little afraid.

"My name is Edward, I found you in the snow two days ago. Are you hungry?" He asked.

My stomach answered that question. He smiled and said "I'll go get you something to eat. Don't go anywhere."

"Where am I going to go I can barley move with all these blankets on me." I thought.

A girl walked, more like danced into the room, "hello" she smiled.

"Why is every body so happy?" I asked, I realized that my arm was throbbing, and my head was killing me.

"We are just glad you are alive, when my brother found you, you were half dead. You are one lucky girl." She said. Her voice was very soothing. "By the way my name is Alice, what's yours?" she asked

"Is… Bella, my name is Bella." I said using the nickname Jacob had given me, Jacob! The events of what had past came rushing back. Tears of grief ran down my face.

"Alice what did you do to her?" a man asked as he walked in.

"Nothing, I just asked her what her name is. She must have been through a lot." Alice replied.

"She is grieving." The man whispered, he thought I couldn't hear.

"Bella this is Jasper, my husband." Alice said sitting on the bed.

"Ciao." I said softly. He stayed at the end of the room, as if he was trying not to hurt me.

"Ciao" he replied.

I tried to sit up, but Alice pushed me back down, "you almost died you need to lie down for a while." She said sweetly.

Soon Edward came back in with a hot bowl of stew, and despite what Alice had said he let me sit up to eat. "Thank you so much for everything." I said between bites. For some reason Edward watched me eat.

"My father wants to talk to you; do you feel up to it?" He was so considerate.

"Sure, it is the least I can do." I said trying to smile. Edward left the room and returned with a man that looked too young to be Edward's Father.

"Hello, Bella, my name is Carlisle." He smiled as he sat in the chair next to the bed.

"Hello" I replied the new word feeling odd on my lips.

"How are you feeling?" Carlisle asked.

"Sore and tired, but other than that I'm just fine." I said

"If you don't mind my asking why were you by yourself in that blizzard?" he asked

"I wasn't supposed to be by myself, you see my father had arranged a marriage for me that neither I nor my mother agreed to. So my mother asked a man named Jacob to take me to her childhood home in Volterra. Jacob and I are… were best friends. We had set up camp for the night when my betrothed found us…." Tears were streaming down my face. "He ran Jacob threw with his sword, and then kill my betrothed. Jacob died in my arms, but before he did he told me to run as fast as the horse could take me. In the blizzard she got spooked and threw me off. I thought I was going to die." I finished before the tears took me again.

I felt like a hole was in my chest were my heart should be, I curled up on the bed trying to keep my self together.

"What's wrong with her?" someone asked

"She is hurt emotionally, she needs time to heal." Another voice replied

Edward's POV

Bella just curled up on the bed crying and holding her hands to her chest.

"What's wrong with her?" I asked worried that she was dieing

"She is hurt emotionally; she needs time to heal." Carlisle answered.

Alice gently placed her hand on Bella's forehead and cooed "It's alright, Bella, everything will be just fine."

"Mother?" Bella asked.

I am being so mean to Bella, i really do like her. What do you think? by the way the Italics are Bella memories