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.

379. Chapter 377

"Where did I go wrong?" Edward asks, minutes later. He's looking straight at his mother and the sick son of a bitch that's next to her. "I lost a friend in you that day, mother," he says harshly and Elizabeth flinches at the tone of Edward's voice and the look on his face.

When he receives no answer, he keeps talking. "I used to think that it was my fault, you know," he says and my heart nearly breaks except for the fact that he used the word 'used'. That makes me smile. "I used to think that somewhere down the line of all this bitterness and shit that's been going on, if I'd stayed up with you when you cried and drank yourself away because of your divorce with Dad, that I could have fucking saved you."

He swallowed. "I would've done that if I knew that'd save you."

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Ok, this chapter's lyrics (the chorus, actually, which is fitting as what Edward says here is basically the downfall for what happened… not the reason for all the shit, but the reason behind everything that happened – the everything being the bitter, broken person he became. Does that make sense?) ANYWAYS: The chapter's lyrics were kind of twisted to fit the story. Here they are:

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life.

Just another note: The "how to save a life" part, as in the fact that he'd 'save' her was saving her from becoming the fucked up bitch – quite frankly – that she is today.

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