Chapter 4
With my luggage full and my heart broken, I ran out into the pouring rain to get to my truck.
Jake tried to catch up to me. He panted as he said, "Bella! Bella! I know you're mad at me, but, please, you have to listen to me."
With tears in my eyes, I shouted, "No, Jake, you listen to me! You know what they did to me during the three years of bullying! Why don't you put yourself in my shoes, tell me what it feels like then."
Oh, how I wished I had a life that had nothing to do with anything I was going through. I just wanted a normal life. What else did I want to ask for? Nothing.
"Bella, please listen to me," he said, almost as if he were guilty yet, sad at the same time.
"I'm sorry, Jake, but I can't forgive you or anyone who has treated me badly. I have to go." With that, I jumped into my truck and left my old life behind as I hoped to find the life I wanted.
As I was driving to the airport, an unknown number called my cell phone. "Hello?," I said into the phone. "Hello… hello?" I hung up after repeating the word several times.
They kept calling again and again I was starting to get scared. So, I called Aunt Esme and she said not to worry about it.
I drove up to the Port Angelus Airport, unloaded my truck, proceeded into the plane and picked up my cell phone. "I'm on my way."
6 hours later
As I got off the plane and entered the welcome center in London, I saw a sign that said "ISABELLA SWAN." So, I went over and said, tired yet happy, "Hello. I'm Isabella Swan."
It felt so good to have a new beginning where no one knows who you are and no one cares.
I loaded my luggage into the taxi and sped off to the Cullen's house. It was going to take another hour to get there so I called Esme and let her know.
As I rode along the streets of London, I felt so many surges of feelings through my body. Adrenaline burst through me the most because I was excited and happy because I no longer live in the stupid little town, Forks, and I was away from everybody that hated me my whole life. They were gone. And out of my mind forever.
When I arrived at the Cullen's house, it turns out it was really a mansion. How cool is that?
I rang the doorbell as I put my luggage down. Not even a second later, the door opens and a girl with spiky brown hair stood behind it. "Oh, are you Bella?" she said with a peppy attitude. I nodded with a smile. "I'm Alice."
I picked up my luggage and she took hold of my free arm and practically dragged me inside, shut the door behind us, and said, "Come on, I'll introduce you to the family," she finished in an excited tone.
Right as I was saying, "Okay," two beautiful people started to come around the corner. The woman said in wonderment, "Alice? Alice?" I recognized that voice, but I wasn't absolutely sure. We stopped at the name and I settled my luggage on the floor. The woman ran up to us and by the flow in her hair and her piercing bright eyes, I knew it was Esme.
The man walked up behind her and asked, "Who's your friend?" It didn't sound like Uncle Carlisle, and he certainly didn't look like him.
Slowly, and shyly, I stated, "Hi, my name is Bella."
At my name, he seemed to growl under his breath and Aunt Esme pulled me into a big hug. She let go and said to the tall man, "It's okay, Jasper. You know her as Isabella, Charlie and Renee Swan's daughter." She turned and looked at me, "Oh, Bella, you've turned into such a young lady."
Jasper was the one with dirty blonde and wavy hair. He looked at people as if they were his meal. And he was looking at me like that right now but I tried to ignore it.
He said to me, apologetic, "Sorry, Bella, but I seem to get a bit overprotective of my family. Especially my girlfriend, Alice." When he finished, he went over to Alice and hugged and kissed her.
I understood that if Jake were like that, I would still be Forks, but I want to test it out. So, I said, as I looked around, "So, where's Uncle Carlisle?"
Aunt Esme said, "Carlisle isn't here right now. He got called into worked."
"Oh," I replied. "Where does he work?"
As she seemed to hesitate, Esme responded, "At the local hospital."
"Oh," I said again.
Alice bumped in, saying, "Come on, guys, let's introduce her to the rest of the family.
We all entered the living room where two more beautiful people were sitting down on the chairs, talking.
"Bella," Jasper started, "meet my older brother, Edward, and my twin sister, Rosalie." I was still confused on whose voice I had heard a few days ago.
"Edward, Rose, this is Isabella Swan. But she goes by Bella," he concluded.
Rosalie was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. She had long and blonde curls that draped her shoulders and back. And her icy, blue eyes were the kind that made someone feel a little uncomfortable but still want to be in her presence.
And Edward…Oh! Edward was so handsome! He had a reddish tone to his brunette hair and those shiny, emerald eyes were so ghost looking that you couldn't stop staring into them.
I feel like every girl in the world would want him, if he knew him. And I knew for a fact that I wanted him, to be with him. There was something about his eyes, apart from the fact the they were ghostly. It was something that every girl wants to feel. Love. I felt like I was in love.
What am I talking about? Am I crazy?! Of course I am! I mean, you can't fall in love with someone after only one look. Can you? But it's not possible. I can't be in love with him already.
I seemed to have been under a spell because I was drooling out of the corner of my mouth while Alice softly said, "Bella."
Louder, she then said, "Earth to Bella!"
After realizing I wasn't the only person in the room, I snapped out of it and said, "Sorry, I was thinking."
"Mm-hmm," Alice said sarcastically. "Bella, this is my older brother and Rosalie's boyfriend, Emmet." She finished by gesturing her hand to the tall man on the other side of Jasper.
So this was Emmet. The one with the curly, brown hair and large biceps that looked like they were too big to stay on his arms.
"Edward is the only one whose single," said Alice with a wink.
All of the sudden my face turned as red as an apple.
