Columbus, Ohio, 1911, Esme Platt was climbing a tree on her family's farm; she was halfway up when she slipped breaking her leg. Her parents rushed her to hospital where she was seen by the new doctor, Doctor Carlisle Cullen.
Esme looked into his face and saw her own personal angel sent by god to look after her, with blonde hair and eyes like molten gold he smiled down at her as she whimpered from the pain of her broken leg. She noticed he wore a white carnation in his button hole; she wore the same flower in her hair. As his cold hands brushed her leg she shuddered at his cold touch.
1921, at the age of twenty six Esme lost her first and only baby to a lung infection, she walked out of town to the cliff edge and whispered "oh my pale angel take me to my child" before stepping off the edge.
Days later she awoke to see him, her angel sitting above her, skin glistening like diamonds, she sat up and noticed another young man of around seventeen behind him, "what happened Esme?," Carlisle asked, "you were such a happy child" he said as she looked down, "my parents forced me to marry Charles Evenson, he abused me so when I realised I was pregnant I came here to have the baby but he died and I couldn't take anymore" she cried, "don't worry Esme, we'll look after you now" the young man said, "thank you" she replied.
It took a while for Carlisle and Edward to convince Esme that she wasn't dead but after a while she believed them and accepted, falling into place as Carlisle's wife and Edward's mother as they moved from place to place before ending up in Rochester, New York.