Disclamer: You already know my friends. Sorry for the delay. Let's thank Erin for her alsome betaing...
Chapter One: Bella's Savior
Alicia inhaled the woodsy air and smiled as she climbed out of the cab. After grabbing her things from the trunk she paid the driver, and started up the walkway towards the Swan residence with her luggage in hand.
She took a deep breath before she knocked on the door, and waited for an answer, but none came. Moments later she tried the door handle.
"Locked, great." She said to herself sarcastically, before she bent down to retrieve the spare key from under the mat.
Once she had the door open, she placed the key back under the mat and entered the small, two-story home. She dropped her belongings by the door and walked into the small hallway.
"Bella! Uncle Charlie! Hello, is anyone home?" She called out.
After receiving no answer once again, she flopped down on one of the kitchen chairs.
"Great! Maybe I should have called and told them I was on my way. I haven't been here in ages." She smiled to herself. She placed her head on the table and sighed. "Great! What am I going to tell them? Huh, what's this?" She said as she spotted a piece of paper on the table.
It read:
Dad,
I went for a walk in the woods.
Love,
Bella
Alicia crunched up her nose. "Why does the paper smell like a sickly sweet perfume. Wait a minute, it smells like…" She stopped as she inhaled her surroundings, and bit back a gag as she breathed through her mouth. "Why does it smell like a morgue in here?" She hissed.
"I have a bad feeling about this. Shit!" She said, as she tossed the note in the trash cans and bolted out the backdoor at a neck breaking speed.
Alicia jumped over a small log and stopped when she entered the forest. She waited until her eyes had adjusted to the darkened forest before she ran further. After about thirty minutes, Alicia stopped when she heard a small sob. She followed the weeping sound, and bit back a gasp. There on the ground, curled up in a ball was Bella.
Alicia knelt down and shook her lightly. "Jesus Bells, your freezing." She whispered.
Bella didn't move, nor did she answer.
"Bella, it's me Alicia. Are you hurt? What happened?" The teen cooed softly.
"He left me." Bella whimpered so low that if it wasn't for the girls advanced hearing she would have never heard her.
"It's okay, I'm here for you. I know how you feel, trust me I do." Alicia said, while she took off her thick trench coat and wrapped her cousin in it.
She bit her tongue on her own sorrow, as she joined Bella on the cold ground. She pulled Bella close to her body to keep her from getting hypothermia. Alicia fell into a light sleep while she held Bella close, rocking her back and forth in her arms.
Hours later, the rain began. Alicia's eyes snapped open when the first drop fell on her face. Seconds later the rain started. She sighed as she squeezed Bella tightly.
"See Bells, the heavens are crying with us. They feel our pain." And with that she sunk back into oblivion, while she tried to hold her cousin tighter. She bit her lip until it bled as she tried to stop the pieces of her broken heart from ripping out of her chest.
The two young women lied there broken in the rain. One trying to lock her pain away. While the other did just that, and tried to comfort her loved one. So in turn the heaven's shared their tears for both torn girls, as the rain turned into a downpour.