This chapters kind of crummy but I'm just getting started and I needed the detail of what happened in there.
1. Katie
Bella POV
The dream started off normally, well normally for me anyway.
The vampires and wolves were arguing in the woods, in that awfully familiar clearing where my sister had disappeared. Suddenly one of the wolves phased, only not into one of the pack but into my sister. She looked just like she had the last time I saw her- the curly brown hair, chocolate brown eyes so similar to my own and her trademark look of irritation written across her face. She was wearing the same clothes as she had on that walk- a pink coat and embroidered jeans the exact same as me. She just stood there looking at me with one hand outstretched. In it was the bracelet. A streak of blood was flowing freely from a cut in her forehead.
"You did this to me. You left me." She closed her fist around the bracelet before pointing an accusing finger at me.
"I'm sorry! If I could turn back the clock I would!" I screamed before racing towards her but the more I ran the further away she seemed to get.
"I'm dead because of you!" She screamed at me, despite still having the body of a five year her voice sounded exactly like mine. Suddenly the ground beneath her opened up and she was pulled down
"KATIE, NO!!!!!!"
"KATIE, NO!!!!!!" I woke up screaming her name, fresh tears spilling down my cheeks as I had to face up to the guilt once again.
"Bella, what's wrong?!" Edward tried to hug me but I pushed him away, I didn't deserve his love. "Your Dad's coming." He whispered before disappearing. A second later the door burst open and Dad came running through.
"I know Bells, I know." He cried as he wrapped his arms around me tightly.
"I killed her, it's my fault!" I sobbed into his shoulder as he rocked me gently and patted my hair.
"No, none of this was your fault. You were only a little girl, Bella. You were both just little girls. I should never have let you go off on your own." I could feel him trying to keep his emotions together so it didn't upset me further but it was a battle he was fast losing.
"If I had gone with her..."
"NO! Don't you ever, ever say that! If you had gone with her then I would have lost both of you that day. It was bad enough losing one." He held me tightly as I sobbed, making soothing sounds to try and calm me down. "I can't believe it's been thirteen years today. She might not be dead you know."
"No, I hope she's not. Whenever I try to think about what happened to her I always hope she's with some nice family somewhere. It sounds far fetched but I hope that she was taken to order and given to a family who couldn't have kids and would look after and love her. She can't remember anything about us and thinks that they're her family."
"That's not far fetched. That's the best we can hope for." He whispered against my hair. "What were you dreaming about?"
"She was standing there with the bracelet in her hand, telling me it was my fault before being swallowed up into the earth." I decided it was best to leave out the wolves and vampires.
"It was not your fault, honey. And Katie would never think like that, you and her were so close. You used to curl up in the same bed because you hated being away from each other!"
"I remember. I miss her so much though; I just keep thinking what it would be like to have her with me now."
"I know, it would be lovely having the two of you here." He smiled sadly before kissing my head. "Will you be alright now or do you want me to stay a bit longer?"
"No, I'll be ok now." I smiled as he left. Edward came back almost immediately; I was expecting him to fire a million questions at me about Katie but once again he surprised me by simply holding me against him giving me the power over if and when I told him. "She was my twin."
"I'm sorry; I never knew you had a twin."
"Dad and I don't really tell people about her, its just better having her to ourselves rather then the whole world knowing and feeling sorry for us."
"I understand." He whispered gently into my hair. "Do you want to tell me what happened?"
"We were five, Mom and Dad had only been divorced for a year and we were spending time with Dad. He'd taken us out walking in the woods but Katie and I got bored so we decided to run off and play hide and seek. We were going to go straight back to him only we got lost. We ended up in this clearing: Katie wanted to go one way and I wanted to go the other so we argued and stormed off our separate ways. A couple of hours later they found me, there had been a massive search for us. I had expected her to be stood the gloating about being back home first but she was still missing. They search all through the night but they never found her. There was a huge search for her all across America, her face was beamed to every state and my parents had made countless appeals on the television but there had been nothing. The only thing they had ever found was my sister's broken bracelet a few hundred meters from the clearing where we'd argued. If only I'd gone with her." I sighed gently.
"Your Dad's right, you shouldn't say that. Katie wouldn't have wanted you with her either." He snuggled against his chest, desperate for comfort. After a while I turned in his arms to the drawer by my bed in it was my sisters bracelet. It was identical to the one on my own wrist, the one that I had never taken off since I was five months old- it was an intricate gold band that you could adjust as you got older.
"We were both given them when we were christened. We used to treat them as our friendship bracelets and promised to never take them off. They reckon that the catch on hers broke since there was no other DNA on it." He took it from me and gently twisted it in his fingers.
"Beautiful." He murmured before handing it back to me.
"I would give anything to know what happened to her." He kissed my head before leaning over to turn off the light.
"Go to sleep." He whispered against my lips. "You'll feel better in the morning." I nodded my agreement but I knew I wouldn't feel better in the morning.
Some cuts just run too deep.
