Chapter 2 Isabella Swan

Beep, Beep

I reached over and turned the clock off. It was time to get up and fix James's breakfast like always. Since he got a new job, his time to get up has been earlier, try five o clock earlier, which meant I had to get up at four to get him out the door to work on time. I went downstairs in my pajamas. I could hear James in the shower, so I would have to hurry and make his breakfast. I was almost through when he came down and sat at the table.

"Bella, I got you a job" James said. I finished with the bacon and placed his plate of eggs, bacon, and toast in front of him with a glass of orange juice. He looked at it approvingly.

"Alright" I really had no idea of what to say about that.

"Yes, it's at Newton's Outfitters. You need to be there at nine. Don't be late. It took me a lot to get this job for you. You will only be working about three days a week" James said.

"I won't" I said. James finished eating his breakfast and then left telling me one more time to be nice and not doing anything stupid. I had to roll my eyes at that. The man threatens killing my parents. Trust me I won't be doing anything to jeopardize their safety. James left me the toast crust, so I ate them, which was hardly much, since I hadn't eaten in a while. I washed the plate and made my way upstairs. I decided to go ahead and get my shower, which was freezing cold. I really hated the way James treated me.

Once I was done. I started working on my chores. Of course those still need to be done, like laundry, making the beds and having the house spotless. When I was finished I realized I had been working for a few hours now and went to finish getting ready. I had no idea of what to wear so I settled for a pair of jeans and a long sleeve shirt to cover up my bruises. I left my hair down to cover up the marks on my neck also. The last thing I had to do was put on my cover up. That was the only thing James allowed me to buy.

Since I had to walk and we lived on the outskirts of town I left an hour earlier. I really had no idea of where I was going, but it shouldn't be too hard in this small town.

The weather was nice and breezy today, even though there was always a overcast like in Seattle. I enjoyed every minute of the fresh air. The walk to town took about thirty minutes and spotting the only sporting goods store in forks was easy as pie. It was a nice looking establishment with all kinds of products out front. The sound of a ding above the door alerted people of my arrival. A nice middle aged woman with brown hair was working at the front counter. She smiled warmly at me.

"Hello dear, can I help you with something" She asked

"Umm… yes. I'm supposed to start working here today" I said.

"Oh, yes. You must be Bella?" She questioned. I just nodded "Well I'm Mrs. Newton, but you can call my Karen. Let's see if we can find you a uniform" She said walking to the back of the store. I followed eagerly behind her. She started rummaging through some boxes till she pulled out a mossy green colored shirt that had Newton's Outfitters written in yellow letters. She handed me two of them. "You look like a size small" I just smiled letting her know she was correct. "Alright, you will just need to wear that with some pants and tennis shoes. We're not really strict on the dress code" I followed her further back till we came to a small office. "You will need to fill out some paperwork and then we can get started with you in the stock room" Karen said handing me the paperwork to fill out. She left for a while and then came back once I was done.

"Thanks, Bella, I'm just glad I could find someone. Since Mr. Newton had his accident. It's just been me and my son, Michael, which you will meet later. He's still in high school"

"Well I'm glad I could be of help. It's better than just sitting around the house" I said. Anything is better than that. I wonder if I would be home in time to cook James's meal.

"Well dear. We got a whole truck load in off clothes and shoes. Which need to be stocked on the shelves back here, so that's where I will place you till Mike gets here. Then he can show you the store and how to run the cash register" She said and then proceeded to show me how to stock the back.

About an hour later I was a pro at it. I could tell this was going to be an easy job. Plus she was so nice. Mrs. Newton kind of reminded me of my own mother. She was warm, nice and kind of scatter brained, but I could tell it was because she was left to run the store by herself since her husband broke his leg hiking around the forest here. Thinking about my mother brought tears to my eyes. I quickly wiped them away. There was no reason to dwell on them. I just hoped one day I would get to see my parents again and they would be safe.

At lunch time, Mrs. Newton allowed me a break for thirty minutes, but since I didn't have anything to eat. I just relaxed out front where there was a picnic table. This town was really small and it seemed like every one knew each other. It made me wonder why exactly James would move here. It would seem like everyone knew the gossip and was in everyone else's business. Wouldn't that put James on the spot more if they saw my bruises and figured out what was going on? Sometimes I don't understand how his mind works.

I really wished I had something to eat. I sighed and looked across the way. A little further down the road I saw the hospital, but what I saw standing around outside was a God. Little butterflies started going crazy in my stomach. Since he was so far away it was really hard to make out anything, but his golden blonde locks stood out the most. He looked professionally dressed with a tie and long sleeved shirt on. The God looked to be talking on the phone and then he went into the hospital. The butterflies stopped and I looked away disappointed. Would I ever see him again? He looked to at least be in his late twenty's. I just wished I could have seen his face. I bet he had the prettiest blue eyes.

Deciding not to dwell too much on my long lost God I went back into the store. After clocking back in I made my way back to the storage room. I figured Mike would be getting out in a couple of hours and I wanted to be done so he could show me other things.

I was right at exactly three fifteen Michael Newton walked in. I could tell it was him. He looked exactly like his mother. After talking with her he came back to me. I was just finishing putting the last box on the shelf when he started talking.

"Hello Bella, I'm Mike" He said sticking his hand out. Mike looked to be about a year or two younger than me with blue eyes and a baby doll face. I bet all the girls at school probably went crazy over him. He was the jock, player type, not my type at all and I just hoped he would not try and hit on me. There would be no telling of what would happen then with James.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you" I said. He smiled back and then the rest of the day Mike showed me everything about the cash register, where certain things were in the store. It looked all fairly easy, but I wasn't ready to talk to any customers yet, so they sent me to take inventory of the shoes near the back of the store, which was fine with me. I could tell I was going to really like working here.

Carlisle POV

"Paging Dr. Cullen to room 204, Dr. Cullen room 204" I sighed and stood up from my desk and made my way down the hall to where my appointment was for the day. It had already been a long a stressful day; there was a major wreck on the 101 and the driver died and I had to deliver a baby early this morning. Even though I was a vampire I just wanted to get home to my family and catch up on some reading in my study.

I picked up the clipboard outside of the patients room and went inside looking down at the name. Ah yes. I should have remembered this was who was coming in today.

"Richard, how are you today" I said without even looking up. I knew who he was. My family frequently bought camping supplies from his families store in town. We only bought camping stuff to keep up the front. So the town would not find out me and my family being vampires.

"I'm great Carlisle, just ready to get back to work. I sure hate having to sit around the house". Richard Newton said. I chuckled. He had gotten into an accident while hiking in the woods; slipped and fell down the side of a cliff, which left him with three broken ribs and broken foot. It was amazing he didn't hurt more of himself. "I can imagine. Alright well let's take a look.

After finishing x rays and looking everything else over Mr. Newton left. I hated having to tell him it would be a few more weeks till he could go back to work. The store was his pride and joy. I walked back down to my office, when my cell phone started ringing. I decided to step outside and answer it.

"Hello" I said.

"Carlisle" Alice squealed in my ear.

"Yes Alice?" I asked wondering what it was she wanted. They never really called me while they were at school.

"I've seen her, I've seen her" She started saying. I could just imagine her jumping up and down

"Who?" I asked confused.

"Your soulmate" She squealed again. I literally stopped breathing. I had been waiting on this moment for over three hundred years. When I was changed into a vampire in the 1600's I hated it, but I learned to live off the blood of animals instead of killing people and spilling innocent blood. I practiced medicine and became a doctor.

In 1918 I changed Edward Masen one of my children. I wanted a family and was tired of being lonely. Again in 1933 I found Rosalie Hale and changed her to keep her from dying. Two years later Rose found Emmett McCarthy dying and I changed him for her. They are married now. By 1950 Alice Brandon and Jasper Whitlock found our coven and decided to join because of our beliefs. They are also married. So we all became one big family and have been together for years, but it just wasn't enough. I feel like I'm always missing something. I wanted someone that I could love and spend an eternity with to like the others. They say that when you find your mate you automatically know. I just figured along the way I had missed her and didn't realize, but this just changed everything now. My biggest dreams and prayers were coming true.

"Carlisle are you still there?" I heard Alice ask.

"Umm… yes, I'm here" I said. "Alice who is it?"

"Nope, I'm not telling. You will see soon enough" I groaned. What was the point in her calling me if she wasn't going to tell me? "I just wanted you to know that I had a vision of you and her together. I know how lonely you have been" Alice said answering my unspoken thoughts.

"Okay Alice, thank you for telling me. It gives me hope" I said sincerely.

"You're welcome, well I got to go the bell rang. Also you're meeting Jasper and an Em at Newton's when you get off, we need more camping supplies" Alice said hurriedly and then hung up the phone. She sure is one energetic pixie. I closed the phone and went back inside.

The rest of the day went by pretty slow. I just had a few sick patients with colds and I finished up some paperwork. The whole time I kept thinking about what she looked like and what she was like. All these questions were just running through my head that I finally just blocked them out. If we were supposed to be together then it would happen and obviously Alice had seen us together happily or she wouldn't have said something. I finally looked at the clock.

Finally I could go home, well meet the boys at Newton's. I shut my computer down, grabbed my jacket and briefcase. I walked out into the hall and locked the door to my office.

"Have a goodnight Dr. Cullen" The head nurse Gloria said on my way out. All the nurses here tried to flirt with me all the time, but I was not interested in any of them. Gloria was an elderly lady that I got along perfect with. I always hoped she was the one working when my shift came.

"Goodnight" I said walking out the hospital and got in my sleek, black Mercedes. Vampires loved to speed, it's like it just ran in our blood. I pulled across the street where Jasper and Emmett were waiting. They both had huge smiles on their faces.

"Hey, dad" Emmett said.

"Hey, guys. So what are we here for?" I asked.

"Just some camping supplies, we need a new tent" Jasper said trying to keep up the charade. We probably had a million tents at the house. Sometimes we did actually use them when we did go hunting. So they weren't a total waste.

"Alright let's get this over with" I said passing by them and going into the store. Time I opened the door I was hit with the sweetest scent ever; strawberries and freesia. It wasn't the kind that made me what to drain someone. It was drawing me in. I need to be closer to whatever it was. I quickly looked around to see who it was coming and spotted an angel in the back. She was petite with long brown hair. She had her back to me, so I couldn't see her face. I was just enchanted with her. It was then she turned to face me, but didn't look up. She was reading some paper, but I could see she had silky pale skin and dark brown eyes. She was a beautiful goddess in my book. A raw passion was burning in me making me want to be closer to her. It was like she was the most important thing in this world now to me, nothing else mattered but making her happy. There was a magnetic pull wanting me to be near her. I went to step forward and greet her, but two strong arms grabbed my shoulders holding me in place. I broke the trance of my angel and turned to my sons glaring at them from keeping me from her.

"Sorry, you can't meet her yet, Alice's orders" Jasper said. Then it register this feeling was me finding my mate. The girl was my soulmate. I had waited this long and I couldn't go talk to her. They say that a vampire finding his mate is like the local shape shifters imprinting. Time you see the person you are supposed to be with the world shifts and you feel complete.

"Why?" I asked.

"Alice said that is something you will have to ask her, but I'm sure it's a good reason. She wouldn't tell us and you know not to go against her"

"She said it was necessary for you to go head and feel the call of your mate, so that everything will work out" I sighed knowing what Alice said was always right. I would need to talk to her, but I wasn't ready to leave the presence of her yet. I needed to be near her and I didn't even know her name yet.

"Alright, is this the only reason we came in here?" I asked.

They both nodded "We still need to get the tent though since we came in here" Emmett said. I nodded and they both gave me one more look that said stay put and they walked to the tent section. I followed behind them not taking my eyes of the angel.

She never did look up at me once. She was so busy looking at that paper. Couldn't she feel the call of me nearby? Maybe it was because she was human. I had never thought my soulmate would be human. What would that mean? It changes everything. I gave one last look at her and exited her presence. Time I was outside despair and sadness hit me. Jasper grabbed me and helped me into the passenger's side door of my car and climbed in the driver's side cranking up the car and heading home, sending calm the whole way, which I was thankful for.

"Is this what it feels like always?" I asked

"No, Alice says it's because she is human. I think once she becomes a vampire, she will feel the call of you and then after that it is just content love, like the rest of us, because you will know you only have love for each other" Jasper said. I nodded. It made sense to me. Once we pulled up I jumped out the door and ran to my office where Alice was already waiting. I heard the others go off into the forest, obliviously giving us time to talk. I lay down on the leather couch while Alice sat on top my desk.

"Tell me everything" I said.

"Well her name is Bella. I did some research around town, aside from my visions. It seems she just moved here, but she is living with someone" Alice said pausing a minute "Carlisle ever since I had my first vision earlier, more have been coming to me and well I have a feeling someone is hurting her… physically" I jumped and started growling, feeling very protective of my mate. I hadn't even met her yet and my possessiveness of her is coming to me. That just proves how special this is.

"What makes you think that?" I asked rather loudly.

"I keep having visions of her in pain and bleeding, but I have never seen who does it or how it happens. Then I see us taking her away from it and then something horrible happens and Bella's not the same again. There's like gaps in between my visions and it's rather irritating. Something is blocking me" Alice said.

"So what are we supposed to do?" I asked pleadingly.

"For know I think we should find out more about her. I think it's safe for you to see her at night, while she's sleeping" Alice said winking at me. A smile lit up my face that I would get to be in my mate's presence.

"Alice have you seen how it turns out?" I asked.

"I haven't seen how you get there, but it's safe to say I have seen the happy ending" With that she walked out of my office and went to joining the other's for a hunt. I got up and went to my bedroom. The girls had done a wonderful job of decorating it. It was done mostly in light blues and gold's with a big black four poster bed in the middle and large bay windows with a window seat. The bathroom followed the same color scheme with a big walk in shower and tub.

I changed into some jeans and a t shirt. It was really time for me to hunt and then I wanted to go check on my mate just to see what was going on. Once changed, I ran back downstairs, grabbing my jacket on the way out into the forest.

A mountain lion and three deer later I was done for a while. I would still need to hunt every few days. Now it was time to find Bella. I had no idea of where see really lived, but something in me told me exactly where to go. I came upon Bella's house ten minutes later. It was a little white house on the outskirts of town. In the driveway was a rusted old pickup truck. It was about eleven o clock and all the lights looked out. I went to the side of the house where Bella's scent was more potentate and realized the window was open on the second story. I jumped in the tree and climbed towards her room. Quietly I sat down on the window sill and saw my angel sleeping right under me. Without make any noise I made it into her room. What I saw disgusted me. She was sleeping with just a ratty old blanket. I took my coat off and laid it on top of her. Bella instantly cuddled into it more trying to get warm. I took a look at her face there were cuts and bruises, some looked fresher and other's weeks old. I was scared to even look at the rest of her body and I would not violate her like that, even though I was a doctor. I sat back and looked around more.

Why was she living like this? I opened the door and stepped outside. There was another door across from her's where another heart beat was coming from. Opening that door quietly there was a man with blonde hair laid out on his stomach naked. I didn't even want to think about what he probably did to her, but what angered me the most was he was sleeping in the bed while she slept on the floor, freezing cold. So Alice was right something major was going on here.

I walked around the rest of the house finding it sparkly clean and full of other furniture. I made my way back to the goddess and sat down next to her just wanting to take everything in that was her. The way her cheekbones sat and made her beautiful eyes pop out, her thin pink lips, that her bottom one was fuller than the top, and how her hair curved around and showed her heart shaped face. She was still gorgeous with all her little imperfections.

I looked over in the corner and saw some books. She must like to read. That's one thing we have in common and on top of that they were all classics. In her window sill sat two different pictures. One I imagined was her parents. Where were they? The next was a girl that looked similar to Bella. They were both wearing graduation gowns and holding their diplomas; must be a friend or sister.

I sat there watching her quietly the entire night. She would sigh every now and mumble little nothings that I could make out. What really got me was she kept coming closer to where I was sitting and I would have to scoot back every once in a while. That gave me hope that somehow she knew I was here and was drawn to me as I was her. At the break of daylight I decided to go. I knelt down beside her and cupped her cheek. An electric shock ran through me that went right to my heart. Bella leaned into my hand and I leaned forward placing a cool kiss on her forward. She sighed continently. The brought a smile to my face.

"Bye, my angel, I promise I will do anything to make you safe again" I said and then I was out the window.