It was a Friday in October and in typical Forks weather it was raining outside. Jacob hadn't come by the bookstore that day, and there were very few days when he was late. Bella hadn't known how used to his presence she had become and she found that she did not like how quiet her day was without the warm joyful voice.
Carlile picked her up that day on his way home from the hospital. He said it was gonna be another loud stormy night and that the rain and wind was already too heavy for Bella to walk in.
Bella and Alice had dinner at the main house that night. Emmet and Edward had been gone for weeks yet Bella suddenly wished for their presence as well to fill the quiet space. The storm was loud and the thunder shook the house. Carlile played card games with Alice until she fell asleep on the couch. Esme and Bella sat around the fire and talked. Esme loved to hear Bella talk about Jacob. Esme had talked to Rosalie and made sure that she kept an eye out for Bella, but Rose had assured her the same as Carlile had that the Black boy was ' the sweetest boy ever' and that Rosalie was a 'trillion' percent sure that he would never even think of hurting Bella.
Bella woke Alice up to walk back to the cottage and then tucked her into bed and stayed until she heard her soft snoring. Bella went into the living room and turned on the CD player, smiling as the sounds of a mix CD Rose made her came over to fill the silence.
She sat in her overstuffed purple fuzzy chair and picked up her copy of Wuthering Heights. Braille of course. Her favorite color was purple, even if she could not see it. She had been told once that she always looked amazing wearing purple, and she remembered as a child the purple Carnations in the picture that her mother painted of the meadow.
Bella must have been having a bad dream. She woke in a cold sweat. She didn't remember much of the dream, but she remembered the sound of wolves howling in the woods, and that she was not scared.
Bella realized she was still in the main room and the CD was still playing on repeat. She put down her book and walked to the glad wall windows that faced the woods. She felt like she was being watched. But, what surprised Bella was that she sensed two different pairs of eyes on her.
One that she didn't like and was frightened of, and one that she was not scared of, but one that she thought should have comforted her.
However, the feeling of being frightened outweighed the comfort and she hit the wall button, hearing the shades come down to cover the wall of glass, effectively blocking out the world outside her little cottage. Bella shook off the fright and got ready for bed.
As she was nodding off to sleep she thought she could hear the sound of a wolf howling in the woods.