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.

34. Chapter 33

I don't reply.

I can't.

Instead, I breathe and I cry.

Alice seems to hear me, because then she's there, hugging me.

I cry in her arms.

She tries to reassure me, but it doesn't work.

I know the truth. I'm the only one who knows the truth.

If your own parents don't want you, then why would anyone else?

They wouldn't.

They don't.

"Oh Bella," Alice says, nearly crying herself. "It's ok, hun… please don't cry… please don't cry…"

But I do, I do and I feel like screaming.

Why is life so unfair?

Why did God punish me like this?

But then I remember something.

There is no God. And fairy tales don't exist.

Fairy tales don't exist…

Do they?

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Oh Bella, Bella, Bella.

Hope is not lost.

Or is it?

Nah, I'm fucking with you.

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bexie25