Chapter 9
Comfort
The sound of their voice made me angry. I could feel the rage build up inside me. I could feel it what to make it way out. I felt the familiar burn tingling under my skin I could feel it on my fingertips as the flame of the anger coursed its way throughout my entire body and yet I could not look away from them. I just couldn't believe that after all these years, these decades that I would run into them again in Forks.
Their eyes read surprise, caution and an emotion that I could not quite understand it was one of love. But not even could stop my fury. I knew that deep down I was not mad at them, but at him for what he had done. They weren't the ones that left me that day in the woods, but they didn't come to say goodbye. I guess that I was really nothing to them.
I could feel in fire of rage seep out of my body and into my hands. I knew that I could make them pay for what they had done to me, that I could kill them right there and then, but I didn't want to do that. Still I looked them in the eye and let my tears slip silently down my face.
No one moved. No one spoke. No one even blinked.
My fingers ached to release the burning that was in my hands but I just couldn't hurt them. So I ran in to the forest. I ran until there was no trace of civilization and I let all the pain, the anguish, the ire everything that I felt. I fire rushed out of hands before I could even make a move to stop it. But then again I had been holding on to it long enough, 100 years. I let everything I could out.
I fell to the ground spent. I had let all my energy out. I heard them before I saw them. They were right behind me. They gasped as the trees around us burned.
"Bella?" she said "Bella, please talk to us!"
"Why? You were the ones that abandoned me. You were the ones that left. Why should I talk to you now?"
"Bella please listen to us we …"
"NO!" I was breathing hard now "I can't" I whispered. Because I couldn't yell at them, because even though I was mad with no control at them. I had loved them once. I still loved them with all my heart. There before me stood the people that I had once thought of as parents. The ones that I thought would become my parents after he turned me. I couldn't handle this, not now not after visiting Charlie's and my grave. My emotions were all over the place and I could not take it any longer.
Esme was in front of my before I collapsed to the ground. She wrapped her hands around my waist and held me as another wave of tear went through my body. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, as Carlisle picked me off the ground with ease and ran back toward the cemetery, to my car where he put me in the back seat with Esme as she once again embraced me. I was exhausted and let her and Carlisle take me where they wanted. I was so tired that I just let myself drift out of consciousness.
One of the reasons that Aro was so reluctant to let me go was because I was like no normal vampire. I was unique. I had all the characteristics of a human but none of their weaknesses. I could go out in the sun without shining like a rainbow, plus I could sleep. Aro was very protective of me not because he cared for me as person, if I could even be considered a person, but because he was protective of his possessions and in his eyes I was a possession.
I fell asleep in Esme's soothing arms. At that point I didn't care where they were taking me. I didn't care that they had left me. I just wanted rest. I wanted someone to comfort even if it was them.
