2014- Forks
My fiancé. We were to be married in March when he had to go to war. He didn't want to leave but they came round asking for one man from each household that was fit and healthy to fight. Jasper had already volunteered for our family so my father didn't have to leave, but because Edward Sr. had broken his leg, it fell upon my Edward to fight. The wedding was cancelled as he had to leave at the beginning of January.
My life fell apart after that. Both Edward and Jasper were gone and in July we got a package notifying us that both my brother and fiancé had been lost to the war. My nightmares had come true. In the package were two silver tags on individual silver chains. One had Edward carved on it and the other Jasper. I kept them around my neck since then, along with my engagement ring on Edward's chain.
My nightmares changed. I started dreaming of an illness taking Elizabeth and Edward Sr. I dreamt of my father living in an unknown place. Of my mother becoming ill and no one to look after her. I didn't know where I was as all this happened. It wasn't until a cold winter day in 1919 that I found out why. I regularly went on walks so as not to be surrounded by the constant memories. A figure emerged from the bush, stalking towards me. I sped up until I felt the air moving around me and the ground disappeared beneath me. Pain erupted from my neck and I blacked out. I awoke three days later to find myself alone, deep in the forest. After draining some deer nearby I realised what I had become.
Now here I am, a vampire driving to the small town known as Forks. I had moved around many times so as not to look suspicious. I hadn't come here yet because this was where I had seen my father in my nightmares. My father left my mother months after I went missing as he blamed her for Jasper and my deaths. Edward Sr. soon became sick as the Spanish influenza spread through Chicago. There was nothing that could be done to save him and he died after two short months. Elizabeth then became ill and followed her husband. My mother became more and more depressed as the days went by; she lost both her children, her husband and her best friend. All I could do was sit on the side lines watching my family die out. I bought my house and Edward's as I couldn't bear to lose them. Since then I have worked as many jobs as I could and accumulated enough money to not have to work again as I had bought many shares in successful businesses. After my father passed I acquired his house here in Forks.
I pulled up outside a small white house. It was detached and a large bush separated it from the house next to it. A dense forest stretched out behind the house and off to the side. It would make hunting easy as I could slip into the forest unseen.
I grabbed my bags before making my way inside. There was a faint scent of my father that lingered in the walls. After cleaning up a little and unpacking what I always took with me, I grabbed a book and sat before a fire until it was time for school.