Starting Over

Chapter 1

"Goodbye, Bella," "Take care of yourself," were the last thing he said to her before he was gone. She didn't understand. She ran after him, but Bella was only human. She wouldn't reach him anytime soon. Edward had left and he wasn't coming back.

She ran for a while knowing she wasn't going to reach him till she fell on the forest grounds and didn't get back up. She soon forgot she was suppose to go home. She forgot about everything and let the numbness take her. Hours passed and it became dark and still she didn't move. She heard the voices calling but didn't pay attention. She didn't want to feel anything. She was by herself now. No Edward to take care of her, no Alice to look into her future….

That's when she saw him standing a few feet way from her looking at her. She stared. She couldn't help it. There was some sort of light coming off of him. He wasn't Edward but he was beautiful. He had hard blue eyes with dark brown hair. He had a long tan coat on and he seem to be debating with himself. He stared at her for two minutes before saying anything to her.

"You must get up." he said quietly. His voice was deep and stronger that it gave her shivers. Even though he said it quietly it seem to carry a lot. He waited for a minute and seeing that Bella wasn't going to move, he moved closer to her and bended down and told her again, "Bella, you must get up."

She flinched as he said her name. she turned her head to hide behind her arms which she drew closer to her.

"He's gone." she said to the stranger with the tan coat.

" I know." was his reply.

She turned her head at his reply because his voice had been different. It hadn't been so strong like the first time he had talked. His eyes seem different too. They were less hard, like he knew what was happening to her. She studied this stranger who seem to know her. And he did her.

He didn't have a sweet smell to him like He had but he still smelled nice. Under the coat she saw a suite and dressing shoes. Where had he come from? She thought. Bella knew everyone in Forks, and this stranger wasn't from here.

"You must get up, Bella" he repeated.

She was still looking up at him when he suddenly turned to his right. He stared at the trees for a few seconds before he got up and started walking away.

"Wait!" said Bella half way getting up. He stopped and turned around to look at her.

"Who are you?" she asked.

He looked at her a full minutes before saying "I'll be back." and he kept walking. She blinked and he was gone. She went back to her curled up position thinking she was going crazy.

A tall man walked around the trees a few minutes later. He was caring a lantern but it didn't seem to give off that much light like the stranger's own light had. He saw her and walked towards her. He got really close trying to see if Bella was ok.

"My name is Sam Uley. Have you been hurt?" he asked.

Bella looked at him. He wasn't the same stranger with he strange light. When the stranger saw Bella just staring at him, he said "Charlie sent me to look for you."

"Charlie?" Bella whispered.

"Come on." He said as he held out him hand. But Bella just stared at it not sure what to do. He saw that she wasn't going to do anything so he leaned closer and grabbed her off the floor and started walking with the lantern hooked on his fingers. She never said anything, just laid there in the stranger's arms. Soon they got out of the forest and he kept walking. Bella could hear people now and still she didn't move.

"I have her." Sam said. Bella heard people talking but still she didn't say anything. She was trying not to feel anything, to just lay there and go to sleep but it wouldn't come even if this Sam Uley wasn't moving that much.

"I think she fell asleep." said Sam adjusting her weight in his arms.

"Bella!" she heard someone say.

"Charlie?" she called back wanting to see her dad.

" Hey Bells," he said looking at her "did you get lost?" He didn't wait for her to answer before he started walking with Sam right behind her. She notice when they got to her house because it got warmer as soon as they entered the house but she blacked out the rest of the trip up to her room.

The next few weeks were hell for both Bella and Charlie. Charlie had a hard time because he saw Bella go through all that pain and there was really nothing he could do. He tried to get her out of bed to eat but she refused. She wouldn't even eat in bed.

Bella couldn't seem to get away from her memories. She tried to just stay in the present but no matter how much time passed she would go back to a time she had Him in her arms. She started dreaming about Him which always ended with Him going away which would cause her to wake up screaming.

She thought of the stranger with the tan coat but found herself not believing the more she thought about it. Had she really seen him or was he a part of her imagination?

Bella stayed all day and night in bed for a whole week and a half before Charlie brought in Renee. Even before they told her she was going to go stay with Renee she knew she wouldn't go. She had to stay here. Not only for Him but for the stranger that said he would be back. She needed to believe that someone would come back.

So she got out of bed on the twelve day. She took a shower and eat her three meals of the day. She cleaned out her room and went back to school. And so the waiting began.

She waited for two months before anything happened……