Bella's POV-
"Y... your mom?" Alice said, I nodded in tears, "Oh, Bella… I am so sorry." They said, I shook my head,
"It's not your fault." I choked out the words, "It's mine. I should've never left her." I said, "It's because of me she's dead." I said, most difficulty on the word: dead.
"No, it's not." Edward said,
"We should've been guarding her." Alice added, I shook my head again,
"I mean it. It's not your fault… You couldn't take care of me and her at the same time." I said, Edward hugged me again and kissed the top of my head. Why was he so… His temperature it was… the same as mine. A vampire's temperature. It hit me, he wasn't human, I looked into his eyes, Gold, so fast.
"Why are your eyes… gold?" I asked him, he looked at me confused and so did Alice, then Alice examined him more closely.
"Oh my god. They are gold." Alice said,
"He changed? When?" I asked, demanded, really.
"I don't know." He said, I could tell when he lied, like my superpower that only applied to him.
"Liar. Yes you do. When?" I asked,
"Um…" he said looking at Alice,
"You knew too?!" I said at Alice,
"What? No!" she said, laughing nervously,
"This is really really not funny. Knock it off!" I said, and I meant it. How could they lie to me about something so important?
"Well…" she said, admitting it. As I stood up out of my tears,
"Where are you going?" they asked me,
"Well… I think I can find my way out of the lying zone myself. So excuse me if you don't see me at home." I said, as I stormed out of the room, finding my way out of this strange, hideous, place. 'Cause I don't wanna see anywhere where I've been lied to. Carlisle texted me I found out a way for it to charge itself, solar power. He asked me where was I and that I haven't been home while Alice and Edward are already there. I just replied that I wouldn't be there for a while. I told him I wanted to be alone for a few days or so.
So I walked around Forks (or wherever I said this story took place), I went deep into a forest to find a waterfall. I looked closer behind it, as if I was being sucked in, and there I saw it, my mother's dead body nailed to the rough edges of the cave behind the waterfall. "Your fault" the writing said beside her, written in her blood. I resisted the action of almost drinking the leftover of her blood, as I left the waterfall. I wonder, would he be bending his family's ear talking about me? But I just ignored it, and continued to stroll as it was becoming dark, I was cloaked inside the darkness. I decided to get to the hunt that I never got to.
Edward's POV- I knew not telling her was a bad idea. And now Bella was I don't know where, and Carlisle decided to text her, she replied an explanation and that she wanted to be alone. Everyone told me to let it go, and that she'll come back when and if she wants to, I couldn't allow that. I took out my phone while everyone was out hunting but me, and I tracked it, leading me to cave, with her mother's dead body. I moved on searching for her, it was dark and I hoped she'd already gone home, but I didn't take the time to check. I kept on looking for her.
Bella's POV- I stayed on top of a tree, just sitting on the branches. Then, I saw Edward basically under the branch I was on. I stopped breathing and moving so he wouldn't hear me. But then I noticed there was a rat on the same branch as me, I covered my mouth, the rat was coming towards me, so after he ran a few blocks away, I forgot I was on a branch and that it can't carry my weight, then I fell off, I landed on my feet, this is tricky, I think he heard me. I stood up and ran, I heard him chase after me. And then I saw him in front of me, I decided to turn but he was to fast he caught me in his embrace and he sighed.
"What?" I said,
"Why do you keep running away?"
"Well, if I knew my mom was alive, after all this time I've been running around believing she was dead, I would've saved her and she would be alive. But no. I couldn't do that because I couldn't get the risk of being caught of being a vampire, so right now, I can gladly tell you, I hate myself and regret not doing whatever I should've done to keep my mom safe from whoever-" I said and I got interrupted with a kiss he planted on my lips, after he pulled away, he told me, besides the person I left in Phoenix, was my aunt, but I think by being so mad about my mom dying in that stupid car crash when I was three, I abandoned her in some way.
"It wasn't your fault."
"It is. Open your eyes. Everything is." I said, looking down. It was true. Everything was and is my fault. If I hadn't got in that fight with Edward before I became this… this monster, maybe everything would be different. Maybe she'd still be alive. Maybe she would've came to me and said, I'm sorry for leaving you. And letting you think I was dead. I hadn't realised I said that out loud, and that I was in tears. And then I accidently added this part too, I'm sorry about being so mad. I'm sorry about the fight we had about dad before you "died". I regret all of the things I've said that day. And I regret not being able to ever say what I was thinking all these 14 years (she's [Bella] 17). He let me cry, he kissed my forehead and buried my face into his chest as he stroked my hair. I pulled away not too long after, and looked down.
"I'm crying like an idiot." I said, wiping my tears away, and Edward shook his head, he continued to stroke my hair.
"You're not. You're just grieving." He said, Why was I taking this so hard? I thought, Why must I be such an idiot? I thought again, Why did she have to leave me, and abandon me? I lastly thought. As I knew, hoped actually, that this chapter would come to an end.
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