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POV: Edward
Driving down the road without Bella was hell. In fact to describe my entire life in one word, it was Hell. I knew I should be moving on and hopefully finding someone else to be with me but I couldn't bring myself to. I made a vow to Bella when I married her and even though it was possible she was dead I was never going to break it. Thinking about that made me remember how hard it was to convince her dad that I was a suitable marriageable option.
At least I was going to Chicago soon. It is the least I can do after all these years. I could never bring myself to leave her again if she is alive at this point but my hope was equal to zero at this point. I didn't want to get disappointed if she was actually gone.
"Edward, I know that you are nervous to speak of this with your siblings but you need to know that I am here for you if you need anything." Carlisle's reassuring voice sounded in the car from my phone.
"I know... Dad" I hung up on the call just as we got to the house.
"Edward!" A blurry object flew at me as I got out and I stumbled back at the force. I recognised the figure as Alice and I mused her hair, which got me a glare as she attempted to tame it. "Edward, did you really have to mess up my perfect hair? I spent hours just getting it spikey." He complained
"What is it with women and their hair?" Emmett complained as he walked out of the house to greet us. "Rosie started doing her hair in the early morning and she still hasn't finished." He threw his hands up in frustration.
"I feel sorry for you sometimes" I punched his shoulder
"Sometimes? You should feel sorry for me all the time." He mumbled, trying not to have Rosalie hear him.
"I heard that Emmett!" She shrieked and I knew how wasn't getting any tonight.
"I am sorry!" He wailed and ran in trying to get out of his upcoming punishment.
"Everyone, come down" Carlisle wasn't moved at all by the joking of my siblings "Edward has to tell you all something." He looked apologetically in my direction.
"Ohhh, Edward are you going to tell us that you aren't a virgin?" Leave it to Emmett to question my virginity.
"Actually I am not a virgin." Emmett's mouth fell open
"Since when?"
"Since a long time ago"
"Why have you been lying to us?" Emmett wailed, I could tell that he only wanted to make more jokes about my virtue through out the years but couldn't.
"I haven't" He shut up his whining "You never asked if I was a virgin. You just assumed that I was because I had nobody."
"Bu-t-t" He stuttered
"But what?" I rose my eyebrow
"Enough, Edward it is time you told us." Carlisle grew impatient
And so I told them about Bella; how we were in a passionate loving relationship, how we were married, and about her personality. At the end of my story they did not talk or comment. I grew worried that maybe they thought bad of me until Esme's carefree smile broke out.
"Oh Edward" She cried and pulled me into her arms "And all this time I thought that Carlisle changed you when you were too young." She started to dry sob into my shoulder and I patted her back. I wasn't exactly sure what to do at this moment. I was pulled into another flashback.
*Flashback*
Bella and I were playing baseball. Well, actually I was trying to teach her how to play. Bella was an amazing learner but her mother thought that I had a bad influence on her and forbid her from playing any boyish games. But Bella being Bella never listened to her mother and continued playing with me.
"Eddie!" She squealed when I pulled her in my arms. I didn't particularly like the name Eddie but for her I would make any exception. She was my life, even at such a young age. Well, if you consider fifteen young. That summer I had finally turned fifteen. It had took me a long time to convince her father that I was a suitable companion for her, but every second was worth the weight.
Bella and I were going to be married within a short time now and I was overjoyed. I spent many hours with my love, even if it was touch free. Society looked down on Bella for choosing me over Lord Mike Newton but she didn't mind. She loved me, as I her.
"What is it my love?" I tightened my grip on her, as if she were going to disappear in a few seconds.
"Put me down, before someone sees you holding me like this." I pulled her tighter for a minute then released her.
"You are going to be my wife in just a few months. It should not matter how we act." I puffed
"Weren't you teaching me this new game?" She stood up without me offering my hand and I frowned. I wanted to be a gentleman and help her, as I should, but she refused sometimes. It drove me insane but if it kept her happy, I didn't care.
"Yes, you swing the bat like this. When the ball is hit you need to run towards the first base over there." I pointed to first base and her eyes followed my pointed finger, towards first base.
"Okay" I nodded and went to the pitcher's mound
"Ready?" She nodded and prepared herself for the throw. I threw the ball and watched, in slow motion, as she swung the bat and hit the ball. The hit was perfect except for the fact that she threw the bat right between my legs. I gasped in pain and she ran to my side as I fell to the ground.
"Oh Edward, I am so sorry." She was crying trying to do something but obviously she didn't want to touch that part of me. I think she was afraid of hurting me.
"Don't worry, I am fine" I wheezed, obviously I was not fine but I didn't want her to worry. "It will be better in a few minutes." More like in a few days...
"Edward!" I heard my mother call me in the background and I pushed Bella behind me. My mother didn't exactly know that I was courting Bella.
"Yes mother?" I walked towards her after Bella had gone into the forest surrounding my house.
"Who was that girl that was in the field?" I groaned, nothing could escape my mother's sharp eyes. "Why was she with you?"
"Sh-e" I stuttered but was saved by Bella's parents coming up to my house.
"Who are they?" My mother turned towards Bella's parents. I was silent, refusing to answer the question myself.
"Hello, Mrs. Masen" Bella's father stretched out his hand, in invitation.
"Who are you?" My father came out of the house to witness the meeting for himself.
"Why I am Bella's father of course."
"Who is Bella?" My father turned to me
"I'm Bella." Bella came out of the forest
"Pray, what are you doing on my property?" My father was being incredibly rude today.
"I" Bella hesitated and I nodded "My name is Bella Swan, I live about one or two roads down from here." She began
"Wait Swan?" Bella nodded
"Yes, that is why we are here of course. Your son Edward has been courting Bella for quite the while now. Did you not know that?" Bella's father came back into the conversation, narrowing his eyes at me. I looked down in shame.
"You were courting someone's daughter without my permission?" He was close to yelling, that much I knew.
"Yes, father" I was mortified, my father hardly ever raised his voice.
"He doesn't need your permission to court someone" Bella's stubbornness was going to be causing be problems one day...
"You will not interfere with man business, little girl" He sneered. The entire audience gasped and my father was hit across the face, by Bella, my mother, and Bella's mother.
"Man business?" Bella hit him again
"Bella, stop" I warned her and grabbed her hand, before she could hit my father again, and possibly get in deep trouble.
"Fine" she grumbled but relaxed into my chest.
"I want you do get off of my property" My father yelled at the Swans.
Bella huffed in annoyance and stomped on my father's foot when leaving.
"Father, I-"
"I don't care, you will not spend any more time with that girl."
"I refuse to obey" I could bare to be parted with her
"Then get off of my property as well" He snarled
"Edward" My mother warned and grabbed my father to pull him over to a secluded place from me.
*End of Flashback*
I don't know what my mother told my father, but what ever she did, it made him like Bella.
Esme was still sobbing on my shoulder and I continued to pat her back awkwardly.
"We must find her, she can't be dead." Esme sobbed "Carlisle, please say we are going to help Edward find his wife." She turned her gaze on Carlisle and he shifted his weight, unable to resist giving in to her begging.
"Yes" He promised "We will do what ever we can to get Edward his bride again"
"Thank you" I bowed my head in respect for my father figure.