A lot of thanks to everyone that has reviewed and/or has this story on favorites/alerts!!
I'm going to explain how the Bella-dying thing works. Okay, so, basically she did die! Since she drinks venom, the venom that entered her blood-stream practically got devoured by her white blood cells, because white blood cells fight infections and illnesses. And to the body, the venom is an illness. But the venom was powerful enough to fight back. The venom and white blood cells were an equal match to one another and so, they both died in the end. Which caused Bella to die, because you can't live without white blood cells. So, there ya go!
Also, I have watched the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and I must say that it is one of the most remarkable movies I have ever seen. The idea of a man aging backwards is just compelling and beautiful, too, if you think about it really. I am not much of a Brad Pitt fan to be honest, but in this movie, I have to give him credit for being breathtaking. I compliment the talent of the movie and everyone starring in it, and I highly recommend that you watch it!
Disclaimer: All characters and the Twilight Saga itself belong to Stephenie Meyer. I do not own any songs in this story. I also do not own Pride & Prejudice.
Previously
With her last breathe, she let out those few words that I would hold onto forever, even when I do annihilate myself.
"Love you, Edward...."
The stunning heartbeats came to a conclusion.
I could hear the front door shut downstairs and the shuffling of footsteps.
I heard their thoughts as clear as it was that Bella is dead. But I could hear one over the rest.
I am so sorry, Edward. I should have.....known. I should have saw it coming, Alice cried in her head to me.
I chuckled darkly and whispered, "But you didn't."
I held on tightly to Bella's lifeless body and weeped tearlessly so much that at a point, I wished I could fall asleep and never wake up.
Chapter 6
The End – Bullet For My Valentine
Your hair reminds me of a time when we once were,
Your fingernails that marked my back now rot in earth,
The sheets we slept in blew away and now the storm is over,
The taste of you inside my mouth remains but still I'm hearing.
There's no love, everybody's crying,
There's no truth, everyone's misguiding.
And now the end is here,
There's no more pills to swallow,
The bitter taste I feel won't lead me to tomorrow.
Your scent reminds me of a place we used to go,
The kisses placed upon my neck show signs of no return,
The bed we fucked in smells the same but now the stench is fading,
The taste of you inside my mouth remains but still I'm hearing.
There's no love, everybody's crying,
There's no truth, everyone's misguiding.
And now the end is here,
There's no more pills to swallow,
The bitter taste I feel won't lead me to tomorrow.
Cries for anger, lies for power,
Fighting for nothing is what you were born for,
Cries for anger, lies for power,
Fighting for nothing is what you were born for.
Cries for anger, lies for power,
Fighting for nothing is what you were born for,
Cries for anger, lies for power,
Fighting for nothing is what you were born for.
"I'm leaving now," I muttered to my family dolefully as I swept up the Pride & Prejudice book off of the tiny table and then trudged mournfully out the front door.
Please, be home before five in the morning this time because we have things to do, or so Alice says. We all love you, and we loved Bella, but it has been a month. To us, that seems like years. You need to get over her, or at least stop being so depressed all the time, Edward, Esme scolded me uselessly.
I chuckled slightly at her idle attempt. Her brain could not register the emotions I was feeling everyday since Bella was taken from me. Hell, even Jasper was confused sometimes about how I was feeling.
While escaping to my peaceful meadow, I made up my mind on which chapter I was going to read Bella today.
I knew it was irrelevant to read to a lifeless person who was inside of a navy blue, black velvet casket deep in the Earth. But I couldn't bring myself to stop reading to her. I loved her, and I still do, and I am never going to stop loving her.
When I read to her, it is almost as if she is sitting there beside me, smiling and reading along. Almost as if she is alive and well again, and marrying me today on August thirteen. It was true, what Esme thought to me. It has been a month since she died. Today was supposed to be our wedding day. But that is never going to happen to either of us.
As soon as I arrived at the opening, I stepped through with my eyes closed and felt the sunlight beaming down on my now glittering skin. I walked forward slowly, taking my time as I smelled the beautiful flowers all around.
When I nudged the tombstone with my foot, I halted my feet movements and opened my eyes.
My black eyes were drawn to the ground beneath my feet. They were attracted to the body that lay under it. The body that lay inside a casket, motionless and pale and fragile. A body with the skin still attached and not decaying just yet.
I heard faint heartbeats all around me, but I knew that they weren't hers. I looked up and just as I expected, a deer was eating the emerald leaves of a Black Cottonwood Tree. I sighed morosely, because I also knew, that I wished that that heartbeat was Bella's heartbeat.
I settled myself with my back against her tombstone, not even bothering to read it because I already perceived what it said. It explained how Bella was dead and never coming back to me. Only I could go to her.
I opened the book and began reading the favorite chapter of her favorite book, "'Chapter 1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be.....'"
As I continued to read the first chapter of Pride & Prejudice, I began to hear footsteps and angry yells coming from the woods.
I stopped reading. I put the book on the ground and stood up. My eyes narrowed at the woods around, and I listened to the voices.
"It's not my fault! It's your fault! If it weren't for you, she wouldn't be dead," a woman-like voice screamed at someone.
A man replied in his coarse, deep voice, "Just shut up, will you? I don't care whose fault it is! I am going to dig her body up. You are going to give her life again. We are going to fix everything!"
"I shouldn't have to though. Can't you just leave me alone, Charlie? First, you ruin my life by giving me this so called 'gift' and then, you want me to revive a dead daughter that you experimented on. She's going to want to know how she got her life back. And what are you going to tell her? 'Oh, hi, Bells. This is your mother, Renee Dwyer. I lied to you when I said that I never experimented on her!' Yeah, that's gonna go real well. Why do I have to do this? What did I ever do to you?"
"You left me. That's what you did to me, Renee," was the man's simple answer back.
The man and woman were talking about Bella. They wanted to dig her up. And give her life again. I wanted to laugh at the idiotic ideas of the two people, but I didn't. I just watched as they walked into the meadow.
The woman was shocked to find me here, but I could tell the man wasn't.
Hello, Edward. My name is Charlie Swan. This woman to my right is Renee Dwyer, my ex-wife. We're Bella's parents, as you probably already figured out. I know you hate me, but I'm here for a good reason, Charlie said to me in his head as he walked forward, tugging Renee along with him.
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---J