Chapter 3: Bella Swan
APOV
Moving to Forks brought back memories of my once best friend…Bella. I know for sure that she would be dead by now…after all she was not immortal like us. Once we had set up the house to look like what it did when we were here the last time, I decided to take my time to figure out the hazy visions that I have been getting. Jasper was good at information retrieval and hacking. I decided to take his help in trying to find out what had happened in Forks after we left. Keeping my thoughts covered, I decided that I would go to the Forks library to look at the old newspapers for any information about our Bella.
"I just want to go and find some nice clothes for school tomorrow and look around the town for any changes that might have happened after we left" – I announced to my family sitting in the living room watching the television…any human would think that the television was on mute…but it was loud enough for our vampire ears to catch. "Jazz, honey, would you like to come with me?"
"Do I really have a choice…you would have seen me accompanying you anyway…didn't you?"…Jasper was looking at me with a loving smile like I was the only one in the world.
I skipped off to give him a small peck on the lips before we left hand-in-hand from our house in my yellow Porsche 911. Almost all of us had our separate cars… Rosalie had a red BMW 3 Series Convertible 335i, Carlisle had a black Mercedes E-class Saloon, Edward had a silver Volvo XC60 and Emmet had his Mercedes M-class off-roader.
Jazz gave me a puzzled look by sensing my emotional state- I was stressed and excited at the same time. I told him quickly about my hazy visions and what I palled to do now. He agreed with me in my decision to keep the vision from Edward or the rest of the family. Once we reached the library I pulled out old newspapers that had been stored as films and started going through the films from around the time we had left Forks. There were a few crimes reported here and there, a couple of major road accidents and a few betrothals. My breath caught in my throat when I found a small condolence article about Isabella Swan…our Bella. In the article it said that Bella had drowned in the beach in La Push during one of the storms and had died before the life-guards found her. She had died exactly 6 months after we had left Forks. If I could cry tears would be streaming down my face now…our Bella had died…shortly after we had left…I wondered if she had drowned naturally or had jumped off the cliff in an attempt to give-up her life. I had told Edward so many times that it would never work out…that Bella could never cope when he left her. I had been right once again…why did my brother have to been so arrogant and not just accept an advice?! Bella had not lived a full, happy human life that he had wanted her to. We had killed her…If only Edward had made my first vision come true, I would have had another sister by now.
Once my emotions hit Jasper he looked away from the films that he was going through and came to my side to stare at the screen. His sadness hit me with double the impact and I found my self gasping for air (something that vampires do not need!) and soon Jasper had composed himself enough to calm me with his touch. We then continued to go through the films until we found the article about Charlie's death. He had died cardiac arrest at just 50 years of age. Soon, we put the films back in their shelves and left to Port Angeles to keep up our pretense. I found some clothes for Rosalie and myself…I did not of course spend a long time in the shop or pay attention to what I was buying. I was too caught up with my vision and what I had read. If Bella had died nearly a century ago, why do I keep seeing her when I look out for our future…the haziness in the visions ad disappeared. I could clearly see that it was Bella and it was in Forks high school…only she was no longer driving the monstrosity of a truck but a sleek blue BMW Z4 M Coupé and had a good sense of dressing.
I was back to writing the Bible in mandarin to in my head to prevent Edward from seeing my vision. I know he would go berserk.