Chapter 39 – Help Me

Laura's POV:

Ever since Edward and Alice had returned both had hardly said a single word, Alice however started getting back to normal; I had never seen her so upset before. Edward on the other hand was a totally different story, he was more miserable than ever before. He never dare come out from his room let alone move from the spot of the floor on looking the forest. Edward, only did one thing he held a folded up piece of paper tightly within his hand.

All of us had tried talking to him, but nothing absolutely nothing. We would all spend days and nights hearing the sobs coming from within Edward's room. He was suffering beyond repair, I was sat on the couch with Alec, and we had tried once using Alec's power to cut off Edward's senses seeing if that helped, but of course it didn't.

It's been years, we can't move because no one can well no one dares to try and move Edward, not even Emmett. So here we are still living in Forks hiding from the humans. Alec played with my hair it helped sooth me; I was worried for my family it was having a heavy impact on them too.

He doesn't even hunt, someone has to basically force feed him, and the men take care of that; once I and Alice tried he nearly ripped our heads off. Carlisle had said that within the next two weeks we could start school once again, everyone was pleased with the news they just wanted to get out of the house. Partly away from Edward. I felt most sorry for Jazz; he spent most days with Alice outside somewhere he can't bear to be in the same house as Edward, all the emotion is just too much for him.

"Alec I need to hunt do you want to join me?"

He shook his head.

"I hunted yesterday with Em sorry honey"

I gave him a brief smile and started running out the back door, just as screams of pain started to emerge from upstairs. It tore me apart to see or hear my family in any sort of pain what so ever. I ran straight towards the forest hoping I could make a quick hunt, but then again it was quiet, I could think. I could actually think without any distractions what so ever, it hurt me to be away from Alec but I think it was good for me.

The fresh forest air hit me fast, I took it all in I was able to let go out here be free from everything. I quickly caught a heard of deer's and then a few elk. It didn't take long to kill my prey, before I headed back I wanted some time for just me. I slowly walked through the forest; I started jogging but ended up running full vampire speed. That's when I didn't realise where I was going I knocked into something slightly hard, I flew back a few feet but whatever I had ran into had been thrown back through the forest knocking down a couple of trees on its way.

I did the natural thing and crouched ready to attack whatever it was. It didn't get back up, instead it let out a cry of pain.

"Please, please don't hurt me"

Slowly I walked over to where it had landed, as I saw I noticed it looked human but as I sniffed the air something was wrong I could smell both human and vampire coming off of her. She looked up the tear-filled eyes, she was as pale as me yet she cried and her eyes were a deep chocolate brown. I reached out my hand to help her up, she took it with hesitation.

"I won't hurt you"

She nodded slowly then grabbed my hand using my weight to pull her up; she looked around her as if she was looking for someone or something.

"Are you lost?"

She nodded.

"I was running from him, I didn't look back I didn't have a clue top where I was going, I just needed to get away from him"

More tears started to fall from her eyes, she fell on the floor soaked up in tears, I did the natural thing and hugged her, I just knew then and there I had to help her no matter what.

"I have to go, he may have followed me"

She tried wriggle out of my grasp but I firmly placed my hands onto her shoulders.

"Who?"

Then she mumbled something, she was truly this scared? Whatever It was I knew it meant her harm that she had nothing to do with, I felt weird like a sister connection with her, like a faded memory of her, did I know her from my young human memories? This puzzled me greatly.

"Jacob"

She whispered it so softly but she knew I had heard, Jacob? Why did that sound familiar?

"It's Okay my family will help you"

I grabbed her hand ready to pull her towards the main house, but she didn't move an inch, she just shook her head.

"No, I will only cause them trouble; I manage to kill people who I get close to"

"Fine; no family involved but I'm going to help you, there's this house where the old chief of police used to live, no one bothers going there anymore; I can re model it for you at least give you a roof over your head"

She shook her head forcefully.

"Oh no that would be too much trouble for you!"

I laughed and started dragging her in the direction of her new home.

"May I ask WHAT you are?"

She looked at me for a brief moment ten a small smile spread across her lips.

"I'm a hybrid as you call it, half vampire half human"

I looked at her astonished; once again the small smile appeared on her lips.

"Is that even possible?"

She just shrugged and we continued walking at human pace, she talked about a few things and I did the same.

"I never got your name"

She looked down to her hands, and then sighed lightly.

"Isabella Mason how do you do...?"

"Laura. Laura Cullen, nice to meet you Isabella"

She smiled slightly, there was an awkward silence ringing in the air, but before we knew it we reached the old chief's house, it was a little run down nothing a quick makeover couldn't fix.

"Stay here for tonight, I shall be back within a few hours with a bed for you, then tomorrow we start to fix this problem okay?"

"Thank you Laura"

I smiled, she hugged me lightly then dashed off inside, as soon as she disappeared I raced home as fast as my legs could carry me.