Bella wasn’t sure when exactly it was that she had lost herself, just that she knew had. She had a vague idea of how it happened, but not necessarily an exact moment. Maybe it was because it wasn’t an exact moment, more like a series of little ones that had chipped away at the person she was once so slowly over the last few years that she couldn’t see the damage until it had become too large to fix.

She would have to start over new. Become not someone new, just Bella but different.  

She stood in her kitchen thinking about the message that had started her on this spiral

“keep doing what you’re doing, you’re not doing anything wrong”

From the last place she would have ever thought she would get it from.

Bella had been in one of the lowest points of her life at this moment and in 10 words her world had done a full 180.

She was still bella, just different. With a soft sigh she quite easily yanked down one of the few remaining strings in the disentanglement of Bella and Linus