AN: Well hey there... this is a new story that I've been working on recently. Keep in mind whilst reading that this is my first ever fanfiction, so I'm still learning the ropes, and finding out what makes a good story.

Story Summary - Edward left Bella alone in the woods. Her heart broken completely, seemingly beyond repair... until a terrible and traumatic experience brought her the biggest joy in her life. 150 years on, Isabel, the world sensation has five unexpected visitors to her concert. What emotions, long since buried, will be uncovered all over again? Bella's changed, is she too different? Can true love really survive anything?

Prelude

Bella's Point Of View

'My heart was taken by you... broken by you... and now it is in pieces because of you.'

Words. Words can hurt so much more than any physical pain, they can cut deeper and the cut isn't as smooth. The cut it gives is rough, the edges jagged and painful when they dig into your internal organs. Your organs like your heart, lungs, and brain. All the organs you desperately need for survival stopped momentarily by the excruciating pain of the ragged edges stabbing small holes into them. A small hole, in itself, may not seem like much at first, but if you jab enough small holes in something, the structure will eventually break and it will collapse, rendering it un-fixable.

Words have such power. They can create love, peace and even new civilizations but they can also create hate, war and destroy all the good in people lives. They can cause loss of feeling, loss of worth and loss of hope. They can make lives, but they can also end them.

What hurts the most are the words said by a so-called friends and family. The words that dig deeper into your subconsciousness, hitting all your weak points because they are the ones who know you so well, so completely and know what will hurt you the most, what spots to hit to submit your brain to paralysis, to darkness. That is a pain worse than anything you can imagine, it's a pain worse than death. Those are the words whose cuts pierce your heart, leaving your head spinning and your hands shaking. They leave you in a deep dark abyss of emptiness, the weight of the blackness crushing down against your body, leaving you helpless to its clutches. Those are the words that can end lives.

That's why we must be careful about what words we use and how we use them. That's why the use of words is such a careful and studied art. Because what we say may not seem like a lot to us, but they shape other people's lives entirely.

I can feel my heartbeat slowing, shortly it will stop completely and it's entirely your fault! I was fine, living my normal, boring life before you came and changed everything. You changed me completely, inside and out. So then why did you leave me? So alone, so empty, stumbling through the darkness, through the unknown. I kept on falling and I still do, but it isn't the falls that hurt the most. It's the fact I'm no longer with you.

My name is Bella Swan. I am older than you could possibly imagine and until recently I was completely alone.