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First love, the love that clings to your heart forever, no matter how much pain it has caused, no matter how many tears have fallen, first love will never leave my soul. ~By Unknown
Chicago Present Time
"I promise you Bella, we will find each other again and we do, I'll make it our forever. I love you."
These were the words that ran through her head for decades and every day of her life, they were also the words she last heard from her lost love. Those words have haunted her but also gave her something to live for each and every day of her life.
She had many names but after all those years of being together she and him finally found one that they thought suited her, so the name given was the one which she is remembered by.
She was fortunate to have the same name that she picked for herself in the new life is was living. Her name is Isabella Marie Swan, she was born in a small town of Forks in Washington in the year of 1988 and now currently the age of 22. She was born to two loving parent Charlie and Renee Swan. In previous lives she had them has parents before and she was thrilled to find that she had gotten them again. She was surprised to find that her name was the name that she named herself.
Isabella, well Bella she likes go by, well she's a beautiful person also the appearance she took in this life was the appearance is had in her first life. She had beautiful long brown hair with a natural wave and chocolate brown eyes. Her bone structure was perfect and it could put models to shame. She also has an hourglass figure that anyone would die for. And a good size of plumb lips which was perfect for any kind of lip stick she'd want to but on.
But the sad thing is that she doesn't feel beautiful, she loves hearing the compliments that she get from others but she still sees herself as plain as crazy as it is.
This life for Bella had been surprisingly great for her she's got a great family, and she grew up in a great little town with friendly people who went out of their way to help you when you needed it and now you wonder how she ended up in the big city of Chicago when she lived in a great little town.
Since forever she had it in her head to come to Chicago, so during her summers so she go part time jobs in the summer and during the school year and saved her money in the saving account that her parents opened for her. She knew that if she wanted to go to a good college there she needed the money and impulse a place to live down there would be expensive also. When it came time to apply she applied to the very most protégés' colleges their knowing she could get a great job after she graduated with her degree in Literature that she wanted.
Not only did she get jobs to help her pay for college, but she also applied for many scholarships that she had also gotten for college, she got money from friend and neighbors in her home town as congratulations gift for graduating high school which help a bunch. He her parent also gave her money, at first they weren't so happy about her moving so far away but they wanted the best for their daughter so they knew that helping her through financial ways would help her.
So now four years later she graduated from The University of Chicago with top honors in Literature like she wanted to. And now has a steady job working at the top of an important publishing office.
But in those past years you would think that she came to Chicago to become successful to have a good paying, but college was never her ultimate goal, she did want a better higher education, she could have went to Hartford if she really wanted to because she was that smart because of her past lives. But reason she came here was to find her long lost love in a previous life they promised each other to come here when they could. Because when you're born in a new life you could end of on the other side of world or in a different state. But another problem they could have is if one of them is the age as of a hundred or close to the age of one which would be heartbreaking for Bella if one of those options did happen. But right now she hoped for him to be around her age, and she also hoped to find him soon so they could spend their lives together.
So through her years of studying in college and having a job in her between times she would walk around the city to see if she had any luck of finding him. She hoped to just somehow bump into him or met him in a store or a coffee shop of some kind. She kept hoping but pretty soon she knew that all her hope was running out when she knew that she couldn't let that happen so she kept her head high and planned on to till the day she would cease to exist in this life.
10th Millennium BC (10,000 B.C)
Location, Year, Age ~ All Unknown
I don't particularly know what her age in this time, she was late teens or early twenties all I know for sure. But Bella also don't remember to much from this time either, it was like her trying to remember everything from your childhood. It was also her first life which had an effect on her memory, but the only reason she remembers this first life was because this was the first time she met her long lost love Edward.
During this life Bella and her people weren't the brightest since many things have yet to be invented, but they were still smart in some way, they learned how to survive off the land, like by making tools and weapons from sticks and stones. The weapon they did made was then for the men and they would hunt for their village people, while the women would use the tools they had to make clothing and blankets from the animal skin the men had caught from previous hunting's. The women also cooked and grew food from the land to feed their people. The wood from the land also helped them make homes, huts for each family or one lone person.
It was in the midsummer that she had first meet Edward, she was thinking he must have been some kind of traveler or homeless person because he was passed out near their village which she lived in, when she stumbled upon him looking starved and skinny, with tools and weapons that one could use on long journeys. And even how sickly he looked he could still tell that he was a beautiful good looking man.
She then took him to her village and then told them how she had found him and that she wanted to take care of him and have him live with her. But she didn't tell them her attraction to him. Most of her villagers approved and thought it was a great to help someone else because if they were from and important village it could help them in the long run. But some were still also weary and scared because he could also be some kind of intruder to their village that didn't have to many defenses. But then a majority decided it was a great ideal and knew it would be the right thing.
So she brought him to her home and set up a place for him to sleep. He was still passed out so during that time she had also prepared him food and water for when he'd wake up, which would help him a lot.
It wasn't till later that evening that he had woken up, he was frighten at first which is always a natural reaction when one doesn't know where they are. Bella then spoke to him hoping to calm him and when he noticed he wasn't alone he had then calmed down, especially after hear her voice and seeing Bella he had thought she was an angel.
Bella then quickly gave him the food and water, which he eagerly took because of how starved he was and he knew he need it, he noticed he lost some weight and muscle so he knew he had to do something to gain it back.
It was now some weeks later and Edward looked healthier and better than ever. He gained the weight and muscle that he needed and was then a very hot man, and most of the village women had noticed but he had eyes for only one, and as you know it was for the beautiful Bella which he nicknamed her in his head. He wasn't sure if she felt the same for him as for her but he could always hope.
It was also during those weeks that he gained trust from the village; he would help on hunts, re fix home to make them better or fix anything else that needed. He also let others get to know him so he could let them gain his trust.
Also during those week Edward and Bella gotten to know each other better, so while the men were jealous at Edward for being close to Bella the women were also jealous of Bella for the same reason. So they had gotten to know each other more than before. He told her how he came to their village. He told her that he and his village were attacked by an unknown enemy, and they had wiped out their whole village and only he and a few others had escaped. It was then that they decided to elsewhere for a new home. And so they then split off and said farewell while they were still in pain over what happened. He also told her that he was one of their most go to person in their village and they looked up to him. So when the attack happened he felt he had failed his people.
Edward also helped Bella in his free time which was like all the time. He would take care of her as she done to him. Bella thought of this as his thank you and also for making up for his past mistakes of not being there for his people but she didn't know that it was because he had grown to love her over the time course they had gotten to know each other.
The more she had grown to know him the more she felt for him. She knew that her people knew how she felt for him and knew that some of them wanted them to end up so she wouldn't be alone.
It was later that evening that she acted on her feelings because she knew if he had any kind of feeling for her he would keep them hid because he was that kind of person. Her feelings for him were more than love and so she couldn't hold it in anymore. So when she cracked she pounced on him and kissed him. It had also defiantly taken him by surprise so it took a couple of seconds before he responded to the kiss. Before they knew it that turned into something more and they both then lost their innocence that night.
The next day they then had a ceremony which we would call marriage, but it was not only marriage but it was more of connecting their souls together as one which would bind them together forever.
Months had then gone by and Edward, Bella and her village were living in harmony, everything was at peace. But as everyone knows the saying, all good things come to an end. It was a peaceful day as any other, the sky was blue and they had a nice breezed out which helped everyone enjoy the day. Bella and Edward spent the whole day together, which they find now was the best thing ever because they got to be together till the very end.
It was later that evening that the lovely couple and the village when to bed, and that night as of so many of months ago when Edward's village was attacked theirs had then suffered the same fate. But this time the only thing different was that there were no survivors.
It was the first end of many of their lives.
Chicago ~ Back to Present time
Isabella Marie Swan POV
Today was an exhausting day, I had two new authors that I had to work with, and they're not the greatest of people and I would know because I've met them before in one of my previous lives, which at all wasn't the greatest experience for me and they were people I didn't want to remember. But I was thankful for them not being able to remember.
So the first client was named Caroline. She was one of those girls that wanted what others had and thing that she couldn't have and that one thing was Edward. She would flirt like no other and it was the most disgusting thing ever. Not only would she flirt with Edward she would flirt with many of my friend's husbands or boyfriends. So to get to the point, she was a slut.
So I now have to work with her on her starting novel, the book she wrote was fantastic so all I needed to do is edit it, but the problem is that she's very picky on how anyone edit's. She complains, and complains so she was trying to find an editor which would fit her standards so she finally settled for me and I was the best she thought she could find.
The next client I had was Michael or Mike for short for his name, he's not the greatest with grammar but the story is great which sucks.
The other problem with him is that he's a big flirt like Caroline and I hope that I could just hook those two up. He loves to make moves on the girl's especially me and when he was alive in a past life with Caroline, I had to handle her advantages to Edward, while Edward had to handle Mike's advances on me.
So after I was done working with them today I had to schedule a new appointment with the each of them after I was don editing their books. So then the rest of the day at work after they had left I started editing Caroline's book to get done because I knew her book was going to take the longest, because of all the complaints on how she wants it edited.
I finally got done with what I could and made it back home to my apartment that I shared with my best friend, I knew her in most of my many lives, and I was so glad she was one of those lucky people who got to remember their lives.
She had many different names in her past like me and currently now she's known as Alice, or should I say Mary Alice. Alice hated the name Mary so she just tells everyone that her name is Alice.
Alice and I are alike in many ways with our lives; we both found our soul mates in our first live an then would try to find them all over again in the next life, so now here we were both living with each other in the house I got down here when I first moved and then let her move in with me when I found that she was in one of my classes one day.
We also have another best friend named Rosalie but she like Rose for shot, she's the same as us. She lived with us for a while before she found her soul mate Emmet again.
Like me both Rose and Alice had meeting spots so that when we die and become reborn we can find each other, which we thought was smart. But it was sometimes not so great when you live to far away from it in your new life.
It was evening time and Alice would be home work soon so I decided to busy myself buy making supper for us and getting myself lost in my thoughts.
Nineteenth Dynasty 1279 BC
Ancient Egypt Part 1
My name is Ayah in this life and this also wasn't the best of my lives it was during the rule of Ramesses the second it was also the beginning of his reign, and I was Hebrew which was not a good thing. Life was not easy at all, I was a slave to the Egyptians and I was slave to one of the most important families there that were very well known with the pharaoh.
The duty's they had me do were paint the buildings they have, clean very often, cook, and gardening.
They had a shed for me and others salves they owned that we would sleep in when it was night, but that was the only use we had of it.
Most Egyptians thought they were better than anyone below them so they thought they owned all of us Hebrews, which was a lot of bull I say.
Each day was horrible to say the least, we were always tired, and if we did something wrong we would get punished badly, we were at least feed every day. When gardening we were able to sneak fruits and vegetables for one another when one was not feed that day from punishment.
I wish everyday was as it was before when we were free and with our families, in my last life I had a great family and I gained another in this one, and this family was also great to me and I'm miss them so much. But back then we still lived under supervision from the Egyptians, but we worked the land for them and sold them food. And then somehow everything changed which I don't really know what. I was taken then from my family at the age of ten, and have been a slave ever since.
The people who own me now have had me for a long time, so most of the times I was the most favored from time to time. I behaved very well and got my work done very well which pleased them. When in favor I had the chance to go with my masters when they visit the pharaoh. The only reason I loved going with them was because of the home he lived in, it was very beautiful, but it'd be more beautiful without the statues of his self.
Today was actually another visit for them to have supper that they were invited to and I was being taken along, so they gave me a bath and nice clothes, so I would look more presentable than I usually look.
When ready we were on our way to the temple. We arrived and was lead to the main dining room. I of course wouldn't be eating since I wasn't invited but I was there to help my masters when they needed anything and was to show that they had money to own a slave.
Not everyone had arrived, some new family with their eldest son about my age was coming which I overheard and the pharaoh had wanted to make them feel welcome because this family would help a lot out with money, slavery and trading wise.
Not to soon later one of his servants announces that the family has arrived. Pharaoh stood and went to greet them while we all staid back. When they arrived I was in shock, not only did I know these people from long ago but the eldest son is Edward. I was so happy and thrilled that he was here but I disappointed that he was Egyptian even though I know he couldn't help it. That whole evening we gave each other side glances knowing that it might be long before we see each other again. It'd be too hard to also talk to one other any time soon and I knew tonight I wouldn't be able to have that chance which made me sad.
Sometime later when supper was finished they spent time talking and visiting with one another, during that time Edward would still sneak glances towards me without notice from others. The new family and the rest started talking about their plans and what they would bring with them here. An hour later the sun was starting the set and it was time to make it back to my master's home.
While everyone bid everyone else goodbye's see you soon, I snuck one glance to Edward and mouthed see you soon while he done the same without anyone noticing us. I then was ordered to enter the carriage and then we left but not before I had another glance back.
I was heartbroken knowing that it could be months before I would probably see him again, but it also gave me hope knowing that in the future I would see him, and I know right now that he was safe in Egypt for the time being.
Later we got back and I helped my masters prepare themselves for bed. Later when I'm finish I made my way to bed also.
Chicago ~ The Next Day
Alice is moving out, so now today were packing all of her things. I called work to call in for a sick day or two, so I could help her out. I knew that it would probably take days because of all the clothing and accessories she owns. And if you include the furniture and all of her other stuff she owns a lot.
It was last night at supper when Alice told me why she was moving.
(Flash back)
"Hey Bella, I'm back!" Alice yelled coming into the apartment.
"Ok great, perfect timing, just got supper finished." I yelled back.
I then got the table set and we started to eat dinner.
"Umm Bella, there's something I need to tell you." Alice said.
"What is it?"
"I found Jasper, or I mean he found me, he was one of my clients today!"
"Oh uh wow, Alice that's great, so I assume, you're going to move out." I got out after the shocking new.
"I'm so sorry Bella, I can still live here if you want, I'm not going to abandon you, and Jasper and me can always visit each other."
"No, no Alice I would never let you do that for me and I'm so happy for you, you deserve to be with him you love him, and if I found Edward I know I would want to be with him also."
"Bella, you're the greatest friend anyone could have and I can't do this to you, because I know that you don't want anyone to see you hurting but we can tell Bella, and when you hurting we're hurting too."
"Alice, even if it hurts, I'm still making you hurt by have you being away from Jasper and I can't do that to you, I won't, so promise me you'll go, okay."
"Okay Bella, okay."
(End of flashback)
We took most of the day to pack her clothes in boxes and tubs. The next day we got a moving truck and packed her furniture and the boxes that we packed earlier. After that she was moved out and now I was alone again as I have always been when he wasn't with me.
Ancient Egypt
Couple of Months Later Part 2
The days have been going slow since I've seen him those few months ago. Every night when I dreamed I dreamed of him of how and when we were together with each other and how much easier it was for us to be together. And now since I haven't seen him and that I am a slave it would be impossible for us to be together as we were before.
Every day has been the same since the dinner; I would take my orders and do what was needed to be done each day. Also in these two past months we lost a few of are good servants but then gained some new which I was sad about because no one deserves to live a life like this.
The next morning like before, I had gotten my work done as always. But today was different for some reason. I was called in to see my master which is a serious matter if you're being called in. So as natural as it can be I was worried and scared because I might be in trouble for all I knew but I know I haven't done anything wrong and I've done everything that they've told me to and obeyed orders so I shouldn't be worried but I was.
I was now in front of my masters and ready to find out why they needed me.
"Ayah you can relax" said one of my masters when upon noticing my tense posture "you're not in trouble."
After hearing that, I did relaxed finally feeling much better.
"We wanted to tell you that you're not going to be with us anymore, the new family that recently came here has been looking for a servant slave for a while and they offered to buy you at a very good price that we couldn't refuse. So they will be here soon to pick you up. We expect you to be as respectful to them as you were to us and I know that won't be hard for you at all, we knew what we were doing when we sold you. So go pack your things and say goodbye quickly." He ordered and explained to me.
I was in shock, it was Edward's family that bought me and I couldn't believe it. I was so happy and now I couldn't wait to leave. Saying good bye to the friends I made over these past years, giving them the best wishes and packing the very little clothing I have I'm ready to move.
When I arrived back to the front of the house, I noticed a carriage pulled up at the same time as me, knowing that it was my new masters.
I was then taken from them by the man and the husband/father of the house who was my new master and we were now headed off to my new home.
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