Bella POV:

I could feel my whole world crumbling down. Nothing made sense anymore. The only good thing left was Edward. If I didn't have him, I know I wouldn't make it. But just because he was there for me, I could still feel myself slipping away. I was falling into a deep depression, and I couldn't stop it. It's just I didn't know what to do with myself now that they're gone. Everyone was sympathetic, but eventually I tuned everything out, and became more and more numb, until eventually, I felt nothing.

~A couple days earlier~

I was floating on air. Well not literally, but metaphorically. My life was just at a great point right now. I had Edward in my life, two amazing parents, and a second family that I trusted with my life. And on top of everything I was starting high school soon. Which I was excited about but also really nervous about as well. But I knew Edward would be there to protect me.

Tonight I'm spending the night at Edward's house, which wasn't an uncommon thing. Edward and his family were already family to me since I basically knew them since birth. We were going out to dinner, but my parents couldn't come unfortunately. They wanted to celebrate their anniversary alone. Doing stuff I really did not want to think about. After packing a bag I went downstairs and saw my mom and dad on the couch, cuddling. It really was a cute site. I am just glad I didn't walk in on them going at it. Walking over to them I gave them each a hug, then said,

"Bye mom, dad I am heading over to Edwards."

"Okay honey, be careful." Mom said.

"Yeah and no hanky panky Bells." Dad Said.

"I know dad. We only go down on each other." I joked.

"BELLS!"

"ISABELLA!"

My parents both yelled at the same time.

"I'm joking! Calm down, were not like that." I reassured them.

"Good cause you know better. But I also trust Edward; I know he would never pressure you. He's a good boy. Well, you better get going they will be waiting on you."

"Yeah. Are you sure you don't want to come? It will be fun." I said, as a last ditch effort to convince them.

"We're fine. Plus we already had dinner with all of us together just yesterday. Tonight's our anniversary and we love you but we would like to spend it alone." Dad said, hinting.

"Yeah, yeah I know. I just wish you were coming. I will see you tomorrow. I love you both." I said, giving them both a hug and a kiss.

"Love you bells."

"I love you Bella."

"Bye!"

"Goodbye."

I left the house and walked over to Edward's. When I entered the house I saw Carlisle and Esme on the couch, probably waiting for Edward.

"Hey, are you waiting for Edward?"

"No, Alice. Edward was done first and got tired of waiting down here so he went back up to his room. Emmett is done too, and he's playing video games."

"Well I will go up and see what is keeping Alice."

"Okay sweetie."

I walked up the stairs and entered Alice's room.

"Alice? Where are you?"

"In the bathroom! Bella I need help!"

I walked over to the bathroom and when I saw Alice I knew immediately what was wrong. She had started her period. After helping her with that, then calling Esme in to answer all of Alice's questions, we were all finally ready to leave. I went to go get Edward from his room, while Esme went to get Emmett. When I saw him, he was staring at a picture of us from the carnival we went to. He didn't look up as I approached him so I decided to surprise him by jumping on him and showering him with kisses.

"God I really hope this is Bella cause if its not it's about to get really awkward." He said with his eyes scrunched up.

"Oh course its me! Who else would it be?" I said laughing.

"It could be anyone, have you seen me? I'm irresistible."

I snort while saying, "Ugh huh, I also remember seeing you when you were 6 on a sugar high, running around in nothing but your underwear, and screaming at the top of your lungs 'I LOVE BELLA!' until eventually you took off your underwear, put them on your head and chased me around until you got a hug, and would not stop until you got your hug." I said cracking up at the end. He blushed and then looked at me with a cocky smile then said,

"But I also remember you throwing a tantrum when they had to put stitches right next to your eye, when you accidentally fell face first on the corner of a speaker, and when they would not let me in the room, you screamed and screamed until they let me in." I then blushed myself, and very maturely stuck my tongue out. Before I could rein it back in Edward captured my tongue and started to suck on it. I grabbed his head and smashed it forward so that I could stick my tongue in his mouth. Eventually we were making out furiously while grinding on each other. I could feel him get hard under me and that just made me grind harder. We were once again interrupted, but by Emmett instead of Alice, which was a whole lot worse.

"Hey! Free sex show! I could do without Edward, but you get what you get." Emmett yelled, while grinning wildly with his signature dimples.

"Shut up Emmett!" Edward and I both yelled at the same time.

"Okay! Okay! Geeze, with all the pent up lust, I understand how you two are both tense. What you need is a nice, hard, fu-"

"Emmett! We get it! Were going now, we'll be down in a minute."

"Alright, alight. God so much stress, I'm just saying all you need is a good release, and-" He said, trailing off, while walking away.

We all finally got to dinner when Carlisle got a call, paging him to the hospital. He left to call them to ask what it was about, and if it was important. When he came back I could tell it was serious. And by the look on his face I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

"That was the hospital. A couple needed operating on for severe burns. They were paging to call me in to operate on them, but by the time I called back, the couple had already died. Bella," Carlisle said, while looking at me, I could see the tears forming in his eyes, and I knew what had happened before he even said it. And that bad feeling in my stomach just got worse and worse. "Bella, the couple that died in the house fire, they were your parents. I am so sorry." By the time he had finished I had passed out.

As time went by I fell into a depression. I had cried so many times, it had just seemed like I was crying a lot more than I wasn't. When I had stopped crying I eventually just felt nothing. I didn't cry, I wasn't angry, and I was defiantly not happy. Numbness was all I felt. I couldn't go home, because that was burned down. So I stayed with the Cullens. We had my parents lawyer read the will, and since I was their only child I got everything. It was a small fortune; I did not have to worry about college, and would have enough money to live on afterwards. But I did not care. It all just did not matter. My parents were gone, and just that loss left me with nothing. If it wasn't for Edward I would have lost myself completely. The will also stated that if anything happened to them that I would go to Carlisle and Esme. It only made since. I have known them my entire life and my parents trust-no, trusted them with their lives.

They had already had that talk. When Edward and I were younger, apparently it was sort-of a coincidence because when they wanted to talk to each other, they both wanted to ask one another to look after each others child(s), should anything happen to them. Currently I was watching out the window, staring at nothing. Everyone had said they where sorry at the funeral, but they didn't understand. Sure they felt sympathetic, but they did not get it. I knew Esme was having a hard time. My mom was her best friend. Carlisle was sad as well, he knew my dad since they were in high school. Everyone had already tried to pull me out of my depression, but it was useless. I was useless. I should have been with them! If I didn't decide to spend all my time with Edward, I would have died with them. I was pulled out of my thoughts, by Edward. Edward had just let me be. He understood me better than anyone, and knew that he just had to let me feel this way. Edward grabbed my head in between his two hands and forced me to look at him in the eyes.

"Bella, love, your scaring me. I tried to give you your time to grieve, but this is not normal grieving! You have done nothing but sit and stare and say absolutely nothing. You only eat once a day, and that is if we force feed you! I care about you too much to let you just sit and do this to yourself. Please Bella! Please, your life is not over just because they are gone! Just imagine how your parents would react if they saw you like this! You have to accept that they are gone, and know that it may hurt that they are not physically here anymore, but they will always be watching over you and they will always be in your heart. Please Bella." Edward said.

Towards the end he started to cry and he then put his head in my lap. Crying on my clothes, that have not been changed since the funeral. I was shocked, seeing Edward cry. Edward was not one for crying, usually he just sulked and brooded in his room, but I could always get him to cheer up, by simply just hugging him and telling him it was going to be all right. I hated Edward crying, because I knew that it took a lot for him to cry, and knowing that I was the one causing him all this pain, made me feel very upset with myself. And that is when I realized I was finally feeling something. Edward was making me feel again. I knew what Edward said was right. I had to be strong for my parents and to make them proud. They would be disappointed to see me like this. It was going to take baby steps but for now I did something that would let him know that I was going to be okay. I hugged him, and I felt him stiffen in surprise. This is the first I had moved when it wasn't to go to the bathroom or to eat. While hugging him I whispered, knowing he would hear me,

"It's going to be all right."

Eventually, when he got over his shock, he hugged me back fiercely, as if he just saw me after a long separation. And in a way it was. He then said to me,

"I love you Bella, I will always be there for you. It's all going to be alright"

And I believed him. With time, it was going to be all right.

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AN: I hope you're not mad at me for killing off Charlie and Renee! This was one of my original ideas when starting this story. It just felt right to do. I did NOT want to do a typical story you see a lot where it is all about high school, cheating on each other, girls flirting with Edward and guys going after Bella! There are a lot of stories out there like that, and I wanted this to be somewhat different. So this story is mostly about REAL problems, and stuff that actually is a serious problem, like health, deaths, creepy guys trying to rape you in the street, ect. Cause if you like those kinds of stories, high school-like stories, then this is not the story for you. Sure there will be some of that kind of stuff, but it will NOT be the main focal point, it will be just a snippet, very small part in the story, not too important. Just to spice up the story every once in a while.

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