Foreword: Hello again! To be straight to the point, this story is a repost. My Beta and I have tweaked some things in the story, although it is irrelevant to the plot.

I hope to update daily, even though my exams are coming up.

So, that's it really. I hope you guys like it and please review your comments down below!

she sits still in beauty

Caged Bird

By: Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

Chapter One

She's quiet.

She's staring at nothing in particular.

I look at her; her emotions are in turmoil but her face is blank. Maybe a little weary, but she gives nothing away of how she is feeling.

She's just sitting silently on that rocking chair where Edward used to sit.

I want to go to her, to say that I am sorry and hopes she will forgive me.

But I am a coward.

So I sit here on a thick branch of a pine tree near her house.

I sigh.

Bella is still quiet.

I left them. My family.

I know I need to fix this myself, I need to prove myself.

Yet here I am, just quietly watching her.

Afterword: It is a short chapter...the following chapters are almost as short as this, but know that it does not continue that shortness in the...'more-later' chapters.

Thank you for reading, would you grant me a review, if you will? :)