Chapter Three: Luck

Bella was upset.

The one concert that she had actually wanted to go to was sold out! And this was going to be the last concert tour that Michaela Reynolds would ever perform. Seattle was the last stop on her tour.

“I’m sorry, sweetheart,” Edward sat sitting down on the couch with her in their cottage, while Nessie slept in her bedroom. “We all tried to get tickets for you, but it just wasn’t possible.”

She nodded as she fought back the tears as she went back to reading the series of books that she had become infatuated with over the last few days. Edward sighed in defeat as he collapsed on the couch, next to her. He knew that this concert meant the world to her. He really wished that there was a way that he could have gotten tickets to that concert for her.

With all that had gone on with the family in the last few weeks, this concert would have been a great escape for them. Between Alice’s vision of the child of light to mysterious visitors in the forests surrounding Forks, everyone on the Cullen family was on edge.

But it seemed to him that Carlisle was on edge more then anyone. And Edward wasn’t sure why.

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The ER at the Forks Community Hospital was packed with people. There had been an accident out on the 101 between a car and an 18-wheeler. The driver of the 18-wheeler had suffered a fatal heart attack and had veered into on coming traffic. Luckily, there had only been a SUV in the other lane, which had moved out of the way and smashed into a tree.

It wasn’t the accident itself that had everyone attracted to the ER, but the passenger of the SUV that was drawing all the attention.

“NO NEEDLES!!” a young woman yelled as she was wheeled into the ER on a gurney. “I swear I am fine! It was just a collision with a tree!”

“Miss, your vehicle is totaled,” the paramedic calmly said as he stood next to her waiting for a doctor to come and take a look at her. “You are lucky to be alive.”

“Luck had nothing to do with it,” she murmured under her breath.