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Chapter 28-Epilouge

Two weeks later…

Rose POV

I stepped out of the convience store after I had to pick up some stuff after school. I got into my truck and rubbed my face with my hand. I couldn't wait to be home.

The past two weeks have been just crazy. After the voting back at the Cullen's, I was thrown into school and work like no tomorrow. At first, Emmett wasn't thrilled that I got a job working at Newton's Sport Goods store, but I told him that I need the money for myself as the school year was winding down. Not to mention, I need it for tuition when I go off to college.

Speaking of college, I did hear from those that I applied to that were out of state, mainly around in Florida and back in Arizona only to get either rejected or I was on their waiting list. At least I had other options for backup.

I got home awhile later and checked the mail. I grabbed it and started to flip through it when I saw someone's name on our address. I didn't recognize the name as I went in the house.

"Anyone home?" I called out.

"Living room" I heard my Dad saying.

I walked in there and dropped the mail on the lamp table and only took out one envelope that had the different name.

"Dad, how come we keep getting someone' mail?" I asked.

"Do they have our address on it?"

"Yeah except now the receiver of this if named Renee Dwyer" I said. "Did they use to live here?"

"From what the realtor told me, there was a couple that lived here years ago; it was the chief of police and his wife along with their daughter. One day, their daughter disappeared only to never be seen again. Everyone looked for her until one day, they gave up. That's when the parents moved out of the house, because it bared too many memories for them" Dad explained.

"That must've been awful. Did they tell you what the daughter's name was?"

"You know I don't remember, it was only a year ago I heard the story" he replied. "Then again, I really didn't get to know everyone around here with work and all."

"It's okay I was just wondering, that's all" I said.

He nodded before he got back to work. I headed upstairs and went on my laptop for awhile. I looked out the window and the clouds were still there while the sun was still trying to come out. Emmett and his family were back home while they went on their 'camping trip'. I know the real reason so I didn't want to judge.

I played around on my laptop before I shut it down. I grabbed my books and I started to study for my finals.

The next night, my parents went out to dinner. I decided to stay home and do some homework for the last time for high school. It was hard to believe that I'm graduating soon but I didn't think that it would happen so fast.

I was watching TV, well more like listening to the TV when I heard creaking coming from upstairs. I looked up and didn't hear anything when I continued to write in my notebook. I heard it again and I stared upstairs a little bit longer.

What the hell was that?

I grabbed my cell phone and shoved it in my hoodie pocket as I slowly made my way upstairs. As I was going up the stairs, I had a sudden weird feeling going through me like something was up there. I checked on my parents' room and saw nothing. I looked in the bathroom and linen closet and it was still the same.

I walked slowly to my room and grasped on to the doorknob. I turned it slowly and opened the door. I saw that my room was still the same. I walked inside and stood in the middle of my room. Then out of nowhere, my cell phone started to ring. I took it out of my pocket and sighed when I saw who it was on my caller ID.

"Hi Emmett" I answered.

"Is everything alright? You sound scared?"

"No, I'm fine I thought I heard something in my room but I was just imagining things" I replied.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come over? Unless your parents came back…"

"I'm fine Emmett but thanks" I said. "I must've been hearing things it's no biggie."

"If you say so…"

"I'm fine" I assured him.

"Okay I love you, you know that right?"

"Yeah I know and I love you too" I said.

I hung up after we said our goodbyes and checked on my windows and they were closed. I started to leave my room when I heard the creaking again. I looked down and saw my foot on the rug. I pressed on the floor and heard it creak.

How come I'm noticing it now? Could it be that it was making the noise the entire time?

I crouched down and pressed on the floor again and felt it moving. How I never noticed this until now was a mystery to me. I flipped the rug as I was on the floor. I tried to pull the plywood off the floor until I saw the piece sticking out. I took it gingerly and lifted the board off of its place. I saw that there was a hole in my floor and it was dark. I grabbed my flashlight from my nightstand and I turned it on and looked for a second until I saw a box.

I reached for it and blew the dust off the top of the shoebox. I read the top of it when it said "Forks Shoe Supply 1975."

What would a box from 1975 be doing underneath my floor? I let my curiosity get the best of me as I opened it up.

What I saw in there I found shocking.

I saw old pictures of people who I don't even know from the '70s. I took a few and flipped through them. All I saw was pictures of a man with dark brown hair and a woman with dirty blonde hair smiling at one another in one picture, the next picture they were facing the camera and from the looks of it, the woman was pregnant at the time, and there were a few more pictures of that and the last picture was them holding a baby.

I was still confused as to why I all of this hidden underneath my floor. I continued to look through the box until I came across a few newspaper clippings. I saw that the dates ranged from Late May to Mid June 1976.

The first headline read 'Police Chief's daughter goes missing.' The article was dated on May 23rd 1976.

I scanned the article as I read it out loud to no one.

Forks Police Chief's daughter Isabella 'Bella' Swan went missing two days ago. The seventeen year old daughter of Chief Charlie Swan and homemaker Renee Swan was last seen at school around 3:27pm when school was let out.

"It was unusual for her to be home late. Normally she would call home and let us know" Renee said, tearfully to the reporters.

Neighbors say that Swan was one of the top students at Forks high who was set to graduate the following year. She would've been eighteen come September 13th. "I don't think she would be the type to run away" one neighbor said. "Sure it's the '70s and weird things are going on, but I don't think that she was the type to get into that stuff."

Police have been sending out search parties in the Olympic Peninsula for the past few days as the town looks for her. The last person to be seen with was with Edward and his sister Alice Cullen at the school. They said that they offered her a ride home due to the weather but Bella refused saying she was going to walk home.

If you have information on her where about, please contact the police station.

I continued to read the articles following that until I came across a picture of Bella. What shocked me more was that the picture of Bella in the newspaper. She looked so different back in the 1976. She was wearing different clothes that's for sure. She was smiling brightly as she was pictured with her parents. Bella looked happy in the picture.

I wonder what happened that made her so miserable.

I found the last article which dated a week later June 1st 1976. I saw the headline which read, Missing Girl's body found in woods.

The search for Bella Swan came to a sad end when her body was discovered a week later in the woods near the borderline of the reservation.

Sam Uley and Jacob Black were the ones to discover the body near the reservation. Police are still investigating on whether this would be classified as a homicide case. Seventeen year old Swan went missing three weeks prior which sparked a search which ended in tragedy.

"The body of Isabella Swan was discovered around ten thirty three this morning by two residents who lived on the reservation. It looked like she was beaten up badly and possibly strangled and left to die. We're still continuing with the investigation and we offer our condolences to the Swans during this difficult time" Assistant Police Chief Shawn Brady said in a statement.

The body will be brought to the morgue for an autopsy which will determine the cause of death.

Funeral and memorial arrangements have yet to be made.

So Bella was killed when she was only seventeen. But she was turned into a vampire so people thought that she died.

My main question was how did Bella get turned and why did she get turned in the first place?

A/n: So there you have it. Bella's story will be explained in the next installment of the Rose series.

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