Book 2: Esme

177 Years Ago

Song: Running Up That Hill

A/N: Unless it is otherwise stated it is Aphrodite that is giving the intros to the chapters (books). Thanks for reading.

I must start out and say I may of blessed them, but I can not control our dear Romeo and Juliet's lives or when they would die. But I would soon find out what the Fates had in store for more people then just them. This is a chapter of a woman named Esme's life. You may wonder why I choose to tell you about her, but you will soon see.

I bring you to three glances into this woman's life: the happiest time, the saddest time, and the day her true love found her.

The Happiest:

I was sitting on our porch waiting for my husband Michael to get back from town in his carriage when I felt my water break. This is it- my baby is coming. I called the servants to run and get the doctor and help me back into the house. 10 hours later my two baby girls were born and Michael was standing next to me handing me our babies. The moment I saw their eyes I named the brown eyed girl Amanda and the blue eyed girl Alexandra or Lexi for short. I later found out that my best friend Lizzie had also given birth that day to a baby boy John.

The Saddest:

I was knitting next to the fire with Lexi thinking about my Amanda and Lizzie's John. They are growing up so fast. It seems like just yesterday they were born, not 17 years ago. They've been inseparable since birth. It's also as if fate would have them be destined for each other.

Flashback (Last Week):

Amanda, a girl with deep brown eyes and hair and John, a boy with raven black hair and piercing blue eyes were out on the porch of Amanda's home. Esme and Lexi, a girl with ice blue eyes and blonde hair- who looked just like her father, stood in the field near them unseen.

"Amanda, it's time to come in, say bye to John." –Michael

"Alright father. Bye John." –Amanda

John grabbed her hand and spun her back around.

"Amanda wait, this is for you (he pulled out a wooden horse he had made himself)." –John

"John, oh my, you made this, thank you so much. You always know just what I need, even if you can be a devious little boy some of the time. haha" - Amanda

"Amanda of course I know, because I know you, I'll always be here for you, I'll always be the one that can get you what you need. You'll see, when we both are older we will be married and I can buy you all the horses and ribbons you could ever want." –John

"Of course John, I guess we're just meant to be, haha. I'll call on you tomorrow." –Amanda

"Amanda, come in the house." –Michael

"Yes, Father./ Wait, John."–Amanda

Amanda ran up to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek and ran back to the house blushing. John walked home with a smile on his face. Esme walked up to her husband, while Lexi ran over to talk to her sister about what she just saw her do.

"You know, I have a feeling both Amanda and John will be just fine with out our families encouraging; they must be destined for each other." –Esme

"It would seem so." –Michael

End of Flashback

Then one of the servant's brought Esme's friend Lizzie's husband George into the room. He had a devastated look about him.

"Esme there's there's been an accident." –George

"No, No, what? WHO?- Esme

"It's Michael and the children. Their- their go- gone." – George

"No! How?" –Esme broke down.

"We don't know, it was an attack on the carriage. I'm so sorry. We both lost much of our family today. Let me take you to our house. You should be with us now." – George

The next few weeks past in a blur for the two families, well one family and Esme. Rumors spread around town among the more radical, even for the time, people about vampires being responsible since it appeared that only their necks had been attacked. Lexi was the only one missing from the carriage but presumed dead. (A/N: Since they went for the neck, lets just say it was the TVD type of vampire that attacked them.)

It was a crisp morning and Esme was standing at the edge of the cliff. The wind blew through her crème colored dress and her brown hair. She made her choice and she jumped. She briefly saw a man with blonde hair watching her in shock and a blur of motion and then there was blackness. Then, a pain that had to of come from Hades himself. For three days she thought she was in hell. And then she opened her eyes to see Carlisle Cullen for the first time.

Her Love (1 Year Later):

For weeks after I came into this life I hated Carlisle. I wanted to die to be with my daughters. But eventually I came to accept life, well undead life, again. Carlisle helped me see that this is not what my Amanda or Lexi would of wanted me to do, they wouldn't want me to kill myself. They would want me to live on and remember them. I eventually fell in love with Carlisle.

(Time Skip- Flash Forward- 1924)

"I still don't think this was a smart idea, changing Rosalie Hale, I mean think about it Carlisle, Esme." – Edward

"Edward, how many times do I have to tell you, call me mom, at least she's alive now, the poor girl." – Esme

"Alright, Mom." –Edward

"Alright, we must get ready, she's going to wake up soon." –Carlisle

"I have children again." –Esme said looking at the wooden horse that John had made her daughter Amanda all those years ago.

Little did she know that in only about 100 years everything would change in her life again.

(End of Flash Forward)

One lesson she would learn, the past is never truly in the past.