How to Save a Life

by bexie25

Step one you say we need to talk, he walks you say sit down, it's just a talk. He smiles politely back at you. You stare politely right on through. Meeting on a bus, Edward and Bella are immediately attracted to each other but their gloomy, abuse-ridden pasts make them both hesitant to trust anyone. Follow them as Bella learns not only how to save a life, but hers is saved as well.

9. Chapter 8

Sad, sad chapter.

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It is strange.

I keep stopping myself from glancing at him.

I can feel the wet that drips off his jacket and onto my bare arm.

Seattle weather, always unpredictable somehow.

I don't feel the cold; I never have.

With everything that I've been through, I hardly feel cold from hot and hot from scalding.

Not after that one time.

That one time that my father was really, really angry.

"Isabella!" My father shouts and I look toward my door.

From what I can hear, I don't think I have enough time to lock him out.

When I see him – finally – he is holding a light bulb.

I look at him, then at it.

Why is he holding that?

I hear it as it burns his fingers and I edge closer to the wall.

He comes forward and grabs my arm.

I scream as the burn causes welts.