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Great news, after only a few days, Book(.)Choi has agreed to take over this story for me.

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Happy Reading.

I am not Stephenie Meyer and I do not make money out of writing this.

Only hours

I stood there completely numb. He didn't love me. He never had, just didn't hurt me by breaking up with me. Bit late for that now. I stared at the spot he had just been standing, the silence pounded in my head almost defining. Not thinking about what I was doing, I just let my feet take me, trying to follow him, even though I knew it would be useless.

I walked for hours not feeling, not thinking, and not caring. After hours of mindless wondering I finally collapsed on the forest floor.

I don't know how long I lay the forest floor, it could have been minutes, and it could have been hours. Time no longer meant anything to me.

I herd a rustling in the woods. The animal sounded big, like it could do some serious damage to me, yet I couldn't bring myself to care. A menacing laugh broke through the woods, echoing off the trees and shattering the silence.

"Hello Bella. Long time no see." A voice I did not particularly care to hear again sneered above me.

"Hello Vicki. Nice to see you again" I said in a sickly sweet voice pushing myself up on my elbows to look at her.

"Where's that animal drinking family of yours, we went to the house but no one was there. I thought for sure they would have taken there little pet with them. I guess I was wrong," she said sweetly.

"Save the crap Victoria, I know what you're here for, so just get over with. Not that it will make a difference. I'm already dead inside, you'll just be making it official," I spat out.

"You see little Bella, I was planing on killing you, like your mate did to James," she said snapping my leg were James had 6 months ago. It took everything I had not to cry out in pain. "But now that I think about it, what better form of torture than to make you live an eternity without the one that you love," she said, grabbing my wrist out from under me so half my body was held up by my arm, then bent it in a way that I knew was unhealthy until I herd a sickly snap. I knew it was going to be painful, but realise just how painful until I felt shoot up my arm. I gasped for breath, still not screaming out in pain.

Victoria lent her face in so it was inches from mine, "I'm going to make scream, I'm going to make you cry, and only when I have extracted the last ounce of pain will I bite you," she said picking me up roughly and started carrying me through the woods at vampire speed. My foot snagged on a branch, ripping my shoe off and scrapping the skin on my foot.

She throws me to the ground when we reached the middle of a clearing. But it isn't just any clearing, it was the baseball clearing. This was the place where everything had started, and the place where everything would finish.

She tortured me for hours breaking 68 bones in my body, bruising every inch of visible skin. I was so hazy from pain that I lost track of night and day. Yet, though the whole ordeal I did not scream once.

Finally, once Victoria knew she was not going to get the satisfaction of my screams, she bit me, and not just once. No, she bit me 68 times, over every bone she broke in my body.

The pain was so excruciating that I couldn't even keep my eyes open. I felt movement under me, but I couldn't be sure.

For an eternity I burned. Nothing but pain meant anything to me. I didn't scream, I didn't cry, I didn't make a sound. Almost impossibly the pain got greater, my heart beat quickened and pain exploded through me. I let out a scream at the end.

I kept my eyes closed and listened to the sounds around me. I herd the rustling of leaves in the distance; I herd the sound of crickets and the sound of a car coming from a road very far away.

When I finally opened my eyes, I realized how blind I was as a human. I saw everything in crystal clarity, every surface, every speck of light. I wanted to scream in pain and loss when I realized where I was. I was lying on a black leather couch. But it wasn't the couch that was the problem, no. It was the fact that the couch was in Edwards' room.

I sat up and looked around, savouring the sights the smells and the tastes that I wouldn't have picked up on as a human. I herd the door open and looked up to see Laurent enter.

She's awake.

"Way to state the obvious," I said in a cool voice that still managed sound like bells, "and she has a name."

I felt shock hit me in a wave, which made me feel really weird.

I didn't say anything Bella," Laurent said walking a step closer to me. Is she okay, cause I'm sure I didn't say anything when I walked in.

I didn't have time to retaliate, because all of a sudden I wasn't seeing the room in front of me like I should be. Laurent walked over to where I was seated on the couch and handed me an envelope with my name on the front. I tore open the envelope and read the letter then the looked up at Laurent. All of a sudden the vision faded out and I looked over to Laurent standing in the doorway.

"I believe you have a letter for me" I said raising an eyebrow.

"How did you know that?" he asked as another wave of disbelief and shock washed over me. I felt like I wanted to be sick with the feeling.

"I saw it in a vision," I replied, "and if my hunch is correct, I think I can also read minds and feel emotions."

Wow.

"Yeah, wow."

Laurent walked over to me and handed me the letter. I tore the envelope off and started to read.

Dear Bella,

I am sorry for the pain that I have put you trough. Not only now, but last spring when I tried to kill you for the first time. I realise now, that you were stronger than I could ever be.

You had already lost everything when I found you, and yet, you were still strong enough to suffer in silence. You didn't let the pain show for fear of showing weakness, and that is something I can respect.

I know that you will probably never accept this offer, but I would be honoured if you did. I would like you to join Laurent and I, and become the leader of our coven. We would even convert to animal drinkers if that were what you would like.

If you would like to accept this offer Laurent can bring you to where we are. If not, you are free to go your own way, but know you will always have a sister in me.

Love Victoria.