DISCLAIMER- I DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THE TWILIGHT SAGA.
It was the morning of my wedding.
I was standing in the room looking into the mirror at myself wearing my wedding dress when I felt in my bones that this wasn't right.
I couldn't do it.
I didn't love Edward.
I didn't want to die.
I didn't want to be a vampire.
I didn't want to be controlled.
I couldn't breathe.
I couldn't think.
I needed help.
I needed a way out.
How could I? If I called anyone, all of the vampires in attendance would hear me. I looked cautiously over at my cell phone. Could I text someone?
I picked it up and looked through my contacts, only finding one who I knew would possibly be able to help me. Someone I knew I could trust.
I typed the message quickly.
S.O.S.
Need to get out.
Please help me.
-Bella
It only took seconds to get a reply.
I'm on my way.
Meet at boundary if you can.
I had a way out. Now I needed to find a way to the boundary line and quickly.
I took Edward's ring off and laid it on the table in front of me.
"Rose." I spoke quietly, though I knew she could hear me. She was in the room within the blink of an eye.
"You called for me?" She asked, her expression unreadable as she looked at my newly tear-streaked face.
I typed it out on my phone so that no one would overhear.
Please run me to the boundary line. I can't do this. I want to live.
Rose read the message and looked at me, smiling cheerfully and nodding. She didn't hesitate either. She had me lifted into her arms faster than the blink of an eye and sped out of the back door of the house before anyone even knew we were gone.
The trees passed by in a nauseating way, but I knew in my heart that I'd done the right thing.
As soon as we were at the boundary line, Rose put me down just across the border. My bare feet touched the soft mossy ground and I stepped further back away from the treaty line.
"You're making the right decision and I'm proud of you." Rose told me as two giant wolves appeared behind me. She nodded to them then took off in the opposite direction.
One of the wolves phased back and pulled on his shorts, pulling me away from the treaty line immediately.
"You'll be safe here." The deep voice said as I was pulled into his chest.
"Thank you, Sam." I muttered before looking up at him.
The very moment his eyes met mine, I knew for the second time that day that everything in my world had just changed.
The immediate feeling I got almost knocked the breath out of me.
I didn't have time to think about it though because I heard a growl and was immediately pushed behind Sam. The other sandy wolf, who I already knew was Seth, circled around in front of me as well, growling at something coming in the distance.
Within seconds I could see that it was Edward and Alice.
Sam held me back protectively.
"Bella, my love, come back home." I heard Edward say to me. "If you've got cold feet we can postpone the wedding..."
"She's not going anywhere." Sam told him with dominance. "Especially not with you."
"You can't hold her hostage!" Alice yelled angrily.
I grabbed onto Sam's arm and moved to his side.
"I'm not being held hostage. I'm staying here. I can't do this. I can't marry you. I asked for Sam's help to get me out." I told Edward truthfully.
"Why?" Edward asked almost painfully, but angrily at the same time.
"I don't love you, Edward. It was an infatuation on both our parts. You represented everything I wasn't in life. I was an enigma to you because you couldn't read my mind. I'm not your mate and I never will be. I'm only your singer. I'm just sorry it took me so long to figure it out." I said to him as Sam continued to hold his arm in front of me cautiously.
I could feel Sam's anxiety and protectiveness. What in the world?
"Why can't I hear you, mutt?" Edward growled at Sam which caused a surge of protectiveness to well up inside myself.
"Do not call him a MUTT! He's mine!" I yelled at Edward, completely shocking him and myself. Where had that come from? He's mine?
"What do you mean by saying he's yours, Bella?" Alice asked me with malice in her voice. "I-I can't see your future anymore."
"I meant exactly what I said." I reiterated. "I'm not going back. My place is here in La Push. I want you to go."
They both looked as angry as I'd ever seen them and they didn't move an inch.
"Sam, please." I looked up at him and knew that he knew what I was asking. He nodded and looked back at Edward and Alice.
"Remember that if you try to cross the boundary, the treaty is broken." He growled at them before picking me up bridal style (which I was tempted to laugh at considering I was still in my wedding dress) and carrying me in the direction of the reservation. Seth stayed put, waiting for the Cullens to leave.
I rested my head into Sam's extra warm chest and let the tears begin to fall once more. In one day I'd left the entire future I'd planned and somehow walked right into another. I had nothing. None of my clothes, none of my belongings. I didn't want any of the clothes. Alice had gotten rid of all of my old clothes and replaced them with designer everything. Things she knew I hated. Not to mention, now they would smell like vampires and I couldn't do that to Sam—
Sam. I knew in the back of my mind what had occurred at the treaty line but I wanted him to confirm before I said anything. Why had it only happened now? Why not the many times before that I'd looked him directly in the eyes?
Where would I live? I knew I needed to stay on the reservation. I didn't know what the Cullen's (more specifically Edward and Alice) would do. I realized then that I was afraid of them.
Had Edward been dazzling me the entire time we'd been together? I remembered what he once told me, that everything about him was designed to lure me into his trap.
Before I knew it, I was being laid on a soft couch.
"Sam, what happened?" I heard a feminine voice say as she walked over to me. I opened my eyes to see Rachel Black standing in front of me. Paul's imprint.
"I left him, Rachel. Sam saved me." I muttered, sitting up and wiping at my eyes.
"Can you give us a moment, Rach?" Sam asked her and she nodded, walking out on the porch.
I looked up at Sam who reached forward and wiped a stray tear from my cheek.
"I think I know what happened back there, but I need to hear you say it." I whispered to him. He gulped and nodded.
"I imprinted on you, Bella." He confirmed. "Did you mean what you told them at the boundary?"
I thought about it for a second and nodded. I meant it. Every word. I could feel with every beat of my heart that my words were true.
He's mine.
"Do you have anything I can change into?" I asked him and he nodded. I stood up and began to follow him until we reached the stairs. I was barefoot but the dress wouldn't let me lift my legs far enough to get up the steps. He chuckled and picked me up, carrying me the rest of the way to what I assumed was his room before sitting me down on his bed.
He walked over to his closet and picked out a t-shirt, then walked over to his dresser and grabbed a pair of sweatpants with a drawstring.
"This is the best I have until maybe Rachel or Kim can get you some women's clothes." He told me, setting the clothes down next to me.
"They're perfect. Thank you." I told him. He went to leave the room but I called out, "Sam?" He turned back around to face me. "Can you help with my dress?"
He smiled and nodded, walking back over to where I'd stood up. I felt bad, the dress had about 100 buttons running down the back. He began unbuttoning them and I felt his warm fingers brush against the cool bare skin of my back.
"For what it's worth, you look beautiful." He spoke quietly as he continued.
I laughed. "Even with my makeup running all down my face from crying so much?"
"Always." He replied.
Once he got to the last button that needed to be unbuttoned before my dress could just fall off, he let his hand rest on my bare back for a moment. I pulled my sleeves off and the dress fell to the floor. I crossed my arms in front of my chest, having forgotten I didn't have a bra on.
I felt his hand retreat. I looked over my shoulder to see him walking toward the door again and I panicked for a split second without even knowing why.
"Sam." I whispered. He halted. "Please don't leave."
He was back at my side in a moment, wrapping his arms around my form. At that moment, I didn't care at all if I was 9/10ths naked. I let go of my chest and wrapped my arms back around him as well.
I was literally standing there in nothing but a lace thong, completely pressed against Sam who was half-naked himself. The strangest part was that I'd never felt so safe and comfortable in my life. I wasn't embarrassed at all.
After a few minutes of standing like that I pulled away, completely uncaring if he saw me naked. I trusted him. He grabbed the shirt off the bed and pulled it over my head being a complete gentleman about all of it.
He then helped me into the sweatpants and tied the drawstring to where they would fit me. He knew I didn't need the physical help, but I needed this. The closeness, the intimacy of the act. It wasn't sexual in any way and it didn't need to be.
"What am I going to do?" I whispered into his chest as he held me close again. "I have nothing. I can't live back in Forks…"
"You're going to stay here with me where you belong. We'll figure out everything else along the way." He reassured me before grabbing my hand and pulling me toward his bathroom.
He lifted me to sit on the counter while he got a washcloth wet then proceeded to wash the running makeup off my face. When he was done, he helped me off the counter and turned me around, beginning to take all of the clips and pins out of my hair.
He finished with my hair and I felt the immediate relief of it falling down freely. I felt his hands rake through it before he turned me back around.
"Are you okay?" He asked me, tilting my chin up for me to look at him.
"No, but I will be." I replied.
A/N- You guys know me by now... I always have more than one story going at a time and this time is no different. I decided to take a different approach to this story (which will be an exclusive Sam/Bella story). It will be a fast moving story, just as a warning.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
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