Chapter 2: The Past Returns
Bella sighed as she got ready for her first day of class. Renesmee was at the table eating the waffles she had made for her. "Okay sweetie, mama's going to class, you be good for Aunt Alice," she told her daughter.
"Otay mama," Renesmee answered smiling.
Bella kissed the side of her daughter's head before grabbing her bag and leaving the apartment.
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Bella pulled up at the school and got out of her truck, closing the door. She pushed her hair out of her eyes as she walked up the stairs. She walked into the school and a smile came across her face. She had transferred to Dartmouth after going to a community college for a couple of a years.
She walked around the school, looking at her schedule for her classes. She bit her lower lip as her mind started to drift a little when she found her first class. She sat at her desk and closed her eyes for a second.
(Flashback)
Bella let out a gasp as tears fell down her face. "Bella, you're so close," Carlisle insisted. She shook her head, letting out a sob.
"No, I don't want to do this anymore," she sobbed.
"You have to, you're so close," Jacob answered.
She gripped Jacob's hand and let out a small scream. She fell back against Jacob's arm when the pain finally passed and a baby's scream filled the room. "It's a girl Bella," Carlisle told her as he quickly wrapped the baby up, placing her on Bella's stomach. Bella looked at Carlisle in disbelief.
"A girl? I thought it would be a boy…" she said quietly.
He chuckled softly. "No, it's a girl," he assured her. Bella held her daughter in her arms with a small smile on her face.
"I guess I'll have to think of a name for a girl," she said quietly.
Jacob smiled, his hand resting on his best friend's shoulder. "She's beautiful," he commented. Bella held her daughter's hand letting out a sigh.
"She is beautiful," she whispered softly.
She kissed her daughter's forehead with a smile.
(End Flashback)
Bella opened her eyes to see her daughter's picture staring back at her. She smiled a little, moving her fingers over the picture before the bell rang. "Welcome class," the professor greeted. She reached into her bag and pulled out her book and notebook as he started his lecture.
After class, Bella was walking to her next class when she bumped into someone. She gasped when their books were all over the floor. "I'm so sorry," she told the person.
"Don't wo…Bella?" The person asked.
Bella looked up and her entire world fell at who was standing in front of her. "Edward…" she said quietly. She got down on the floor and gathered her books.
"Here…" he started, bending down to help her.
"I don't need your help," she insisted.
She grabbed her books and stood up from the floor again. "Bella…" he started.
"I have to go," she said quickly.
She looked into his green eyes and felt the same heartbreak. However, she just walked by him, acting like he wasn't even there.
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Later on, Bella arrived home and Renesmee ran to greet her "Mama!" she called beaming. Bella lifted her daughter up, kissing her forehead.
"Hey sweetie," Bella greeted quietly, kissing the side of her head.
Renesmee smiled as she hugged her mother tight. "I missed you today," Bella said quietly, kissing the side of her head again. She had Renesmee sit on her hip. "Alice?" She called. Alice walked out of the toddler's bedroom with an innocent smile on her face. "Alice…what did you do?" She asked.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Alice replied innocently.
Bella stared at her sister for a second. "The last time you said that, Renesmee was two-months-old and I went to check on her to find her in a pink frilly dress with a white bonnet on her head," she commented.
"I did no such thing," Alice insisted.
"I have the Polaroid's of it Alice," Bella answered with a sigh.
Bella walked into her daughter's room and her mouth dropped. "Alice, what was wrong with the stuff I put up?" She asked with a sigh.
"They made the room look blah," Alice answered.
"You're obsessed with pink," Bella muttered.
She set Renesmee on the bed and looked at the pink drapes with ballerinas on it. "You can't be serious about these drapes," she insisted.
"What even you did ballet," Alice pointed out with a smile.
"Yeah and I was bad at it," Bella replied as she took the drapes down.
Renesmee was on the bed giggling. "Where are the purple drapes?" Bella asked.
"In the closet, you really know how to spoil a girl's fun," the young woman whined.
Bella rolled her eyes as she got the drapes out of the closet and put them back up. "Stop trying to girly my daughter up," she laughed. Renesmee gently gripped a lock of her mother's hair.
"Well she's a girl," Alice pointed out.
"Yeah, but not one to be dolled up like a china doll," Bella answered with a sigh as she left the room.
Bella moved out onto the balcony of the apartment and sat down in one of the chairs with Renesmee in her lap. Renesmee started babbling to her mother in her baby talk. Bella smiled as she held Renesmee's hands, making her clap. The toddler giggled hysterically. Bella kissed her daughter's forehead again and let out a sigh. "Mama," the little girl said quietly in a sing song voice.
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Back on campus, Edward walked up the steps when he stopped and leaned against the wall. Seeing Bella again brought back all the painful memories, all the reasons why he left Forks in the first place. He pinched the bridge of his nose before walking up the stairs to his dorm room.
Once in the dorm room, he threw his books on the floor and lied back on his bed. He closed his eyes and tried to think back on better times before he left Forks. "It doesn't matter, she's with Jacob now," he muttered.
