His Cold Embrace
As Bella was falling, she got a sudden sense of elation. It started in her heart, and reached to her fingertips and toes. It came with the release of all her pain; I won't be feeling pain over my love any longer, she thought happily.
She spread her arms out wide, feeling the wind. The pump of adrenaline wasn't scary…It was…relieved. She felt more at peace with herself than she had in ages. She screamed, but in delight, not panic. She never wanted this fall to end.
Suddenly, it ended: quick, slightly painful, hard, and cold.
Am I dead? she thought. She noted that her body was not broken, so she looked around. She was moving. She hadn't fallen on the ground, she had fallen into a pair of stone-cold, rock-hard, bone pale arms.
Edward had saved her life. Bella gasped in shock and joy. Suddenly, with what seemed like a single step, they were in her bedroom.
"Edward!" she exclaimed, "Edward, you came back." Tears gushed from her delighted eyes.
"No," he said flatly.
"Alice had a vision of you jumping, and Rose called me," he said, his face masked.
"Oh…" was all Bella could think of saying, her mind blank from the shock of the fall.
Edward set Bella on her bed, and opened the windows wider.
"Wait, please!" Bella cried, as she looked up at him though her tears. "If you didn't come back to be with me, then why are you here?" she asked, her voice saturated in such despair that Edward had to close his eyes so she couldn't see the pain behind them.
Edward stepped onto the windowsill. "I wanted you to move on, Bella, not kill yourself," he said in frustration. Edward looked into her warm, chocolate-brown eyes that were stained with misery.
After a half hour of looking hopefully out the window that Edward had shut behind him, Bella got up. She walked over to her bed, and thrust the window wide open, in hopes that Edward would visit her as he did every night, so many nights ago.
As she walked back to her bed, the tears began to seep out from under her tightly shut eyelids. Bella crawled into bed and cried herself to sleep. Her dreams were filled with pain and sadness.
Bella's Dream
"Edward, I love you," she said with love and happiness.
"I've never loved you; you're just like the rest of them: a filthy human," Edward replied with disgust. He turned around and ran off, without so much as a second glance.
Bella sank to her knees. "Edward!" she cried, "I love you! Please - "
"Don't go!" She woke up screaming those words. Bella lay there, staring into the darkness. Slowly, her eyelids grew heavy, and she fell into a night of sleep, dreaming about Edward the entire time.