Fox Chase 7: He Left Her
'He left her. She was alone. No one would ever love her. She wasn't worth the trouble.'
These thoughts ran through Bella's head for months after Edward Cullen left her.
Everything was going so well too. Their relationship got off to a rocky start when Edward came back to school after weeks of absence. After learning about his family, she stuck with him.
A family of vampires was much more interesting than anything else in Forks after all.
There was only some resistance from Rosalie, who thought that Bella was putting the family at risk by associating with her. Otherwise her life was utter bliss.
She and Edward were the only members that were dating besides Carlisle and Esme. When she asked why none of the others found anybody else to date they replied that they were waiting. Waiting for what she didn't know and didn't ask.
Everything was great until a stray coven of nomad vampires swept through town. They were actually going to leave before they heard the Cullen playing baseball outside of town during a thunderstorm. The rest is history as they say.
James, a nutcase tracker, decided to hunt Bella. He chased her all the way to Phoenix where he and Edward had a showdown. Bella was bit, but before the vampire venom could take hold, Edward sucked it out, nearly going into a frenzy in the process. It was a small miracle that he stopped. The thing that originally attracted him to her was her sweet smelling blood.
James was killed. Laurent, the coven leader, went to join the Denali clan in Alaska. And James' mate Victoria disappeared.
Everything went back to normal in Forks. Until her birthday party. She accidentally got a nasty paper cut and started bleeding. Jasper couldn't control himself and attacked her in bloodlust.
She never blamed him. It was an accident after all. But Edward was not the same afterwards. He started to distance himself from her. The Cullen's and hales stopped coming to school.
It all came to a close when Edward met her in front of her house. He led her into the woods, in sight of the house, and broke up with her.
He told her that he was pretending the whole time he was with her. That he never loved her and was kidding himself that they could be together. What he was saying broke her heart. It was too easy for her to believe. She thought he was amazing and that she didn't deserve him. His words just confirmed what she was thinking.
She wasn't good enough.
Still she chased after him when he ran into the woods. The least he could have done was make sure she got back to the house alright. She ended up getting lost and when she was too exhausted and emotionally tired to move another step she sat down. Then she lay down. She wasn't sure how long she was there, but the sky turned dark and it started to get colder. She laid there for hours thinking about her suffering, when a sound in the brush made itself know.
She could have sworn she saw huge yellow eyes looking at her through the brush. She tried to process what she was seeing, but she was too cold and too tired.
Then all she felt was warmth, someone was carrying her. They moved steadily through the woods until they came back to the backyard. Her father was there with a search party. After they got her into the house she knew no more. One year of happiness with Edward ended just like that.
She woke up three days later. She had suffered through mild hypothermia, dehydration, and mental exhaustion. That didn't matter to her though. All she could think of was Edward. He left her, the Cullen's left her. She was alone.
The next months felt they were somebody else's life. She moved as though she were wading through molasses. She got straight A's trying to distract herself from her own thoughts. As soon as she stopped she remembered and her depression would reassert itself.
The worst was the nightmares. They would be filled with ugly thoughts. All the things that Edward said would replay over and over a thousand times worse than reality. She would feel so lonely and sad that she would wake up screaming and crying, trying to let out her suffering.
For a while everyone was supportive. However, after that first month her school friends started drift away. Angela was the most insistent that they should help her. Even after the third month of her depression Angela still smiled at her.
Jake too was supportive. He would come over every couple of weeks with his Dad. Billy and her dad would watch the games together and she and Jake would hang out in the kitchen. His innocent and happy personality would help when he was there, but when he left she was left she went back into her depression.
This went on for months. It wasn't until mid February that things changed for the better.
She sat at the 'old' Cullen table; apparently she was too depressing to sit with the rest of the school population. Staring out the window and thinking about the Cullen's instead of your tablemates will do that.
She was sitting alone at her table at the cafeteria, when she suddenly looked to the side, sensing another student looking at her.
"Mind if I sit here? I like the solitude."
The voice belonged to a nondescript girl with beautiful royal blue eyes. The girl raised a brow and sat with Bella's confirmation.
Bella could only stare dumbly. "Who are you?"
"Vulpecula Lestrange-Black. I can tell your special Isabella Marie Swan, want to join the resistance?"