Chapter 2- Bella POV
It had been 3 weeks since I left the orphanage and I was surprisingly comfortable in my new house. I had 2 new siblings. Alice was a very beautiful, short girl, with brown hair that stuck up in every direction but never looked messy; she loved to shop and dragged me to the mall everyday saying that I wasn't allowed to wear the same thing twice. Emmett was the best brother anyone could ever have, he was so tall and muscular (which reminded me of Edward) but he was just like a giant teddy bear, he was very protective of me and was pretty intimidating to anyone who came near me.
Charlie was also very easy to get along with, he didn't ask many questions but I could still tell that he cared and loved me very much. He just had some trouble showing it. The house that we lived in was a very good size, it had 4 bedrooms: one for Charlie, one for Emmett, one for Alice and me, and one for Alice's clothes. Yes, it's true; Alice needs a whole bedroom as a closet because she couldn't fit it all in our room. I loved my new sister, I mean how could I not, she was the most adorable thing I've ever seen, but her shopping addiction was already beginning to drive me insane!
I was really looking forward to seeing Edward again; it was just one more week until I could. I had stayed up every night thinking about how he said 'my Bella' instead of just 'Bella'. I couldn't describe how right it was to feel like I belonged to him in some strange way. He was my best friend and the only thing keeping me living was the thought of being able to see him again very soon. Surprisingly though I was able to fall asleep every night without Edward, I just listened to the sound of Alice's soft snoring and I doze off.
Finally the time came when Charlie drove me to the orphanage to see Edward. I rushed through the doors and ran up to his room as fast as my legs would take me, only to find he wasn't there. Tears started to form in my eyes as I scanned the room, searching for any trace that he had once been there. All I found was piece of paper, titled 'Bella'. I tried to read it through my tears but they blurred my vision; I didn't want to read it. No, I couldn't read it. All I knew was that he left me; I stumbled my way down the stairs until I found myself looking up at Miss Gates. She started to explain what had happened and where Edward was but I didn't want to hear it, I didn't want to hear anything. I found myself collapsing at the bottom of the stairs, curling up in the fetal position and crying until there were no tears left for me to cry. I'm still not sure but I think it was Charlie that slipped his hands under my knees and my back so he could carefully carry me to his car.
Weeks past and no one bothered me anymore. Alice moved into her closet because she hated seeing me like this, so I was all alone in that tiny room. My family knew better then to talk to me seeing as they would only get a one word answer. Most nights Charlie would leave my food outside my door until I was ready to come and get it. I was a mess all because of Edward, if he was really my best friend he wouldn't have left me like this, he wouldn't have hurt me. I never read the letter, from that point on I was forgetting Edward forever just for my family. I hid the letter and some other things he gave me in the short time I knew him, under the floor boards. I would never think of Edward again.