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R&R

"This is reckless Bella." Charlie paced up and down his living room.

"I..I know I just need some time to get my head straight." I put my palms to my temple and sat down. It was all to much.

"You go missing for three days, you're out riding motorbikes and now you spring this-"

"It's better than what I was like before.." Charlie looked calculatingly at me. He couldn't deny it. Anything was better than the depression, the black hole I sunk into when Edward left. If keeping my sanity meant leaving Forks for a while then so be it. The only real loss was Charlie since my Jacob would probably never speak to me again after leaving with Alice and I had made my intentions to cut ties with Edward clear as soon as I rescued him from the Voltori, which was a major factor in my decision to leave. Everything reminded me of him. My room, the forest, Forks high school, everything somehow tied in with him. I had to get away.

"How are you going to afford it anyway?" Charlie was at his wits end.

"I have some money in my college fund" He looked as if he were about to choke on something rather unpleasant "I can use that until I get a job."

"Bella you-"

"I'm eighteen Charlie, I'm legally an adult. I'll be fine, and I promise I'll call you all the time." Charlie took two large steps towards me and enveloped me in a big bear hug.

"My girl's all grown up," Charlie pulled away holding onto to my shoulders. He wasn't ready to let go just yet "Be careful Bells." Charlie kissed me on the cheek and helped me carry my bags to my truck.

I cried most of the way to Port Angeles. Then as I sat in the back of a dingy cafe, and then as I drove the rest of the distance to Seattle. It was a strange mixture of happy and sad. But it was a new start, which I desperately needed. Away from the worlds of vampires and their creepy government. The Volturi would come to check that I had been changed. It could be one year, could be thirty but if they found out I wasn't I was as good as dead. I shook my head as if to clear the thought from my mind and pulled into the parking lot of a run down old motel.

"Room 63" The stout lady behind the desk handed me the keys "enjoy your stay." She continued half asleep.

The lock clicked and the door hesitantly creaked open. I dumped my back down at the door and sat on the foot of the single bed. There was a small T.V opposite that would had to keep me occupied since I could no longer face reading Wuthering Heights. It reminded me to much of Edward. I settled on going straight to sleep. First thing in the morning and I could be out of this retched place. And explore Seattle.

JPV

I sat unspeaking on the edge of the small sofa in Billy's living room.

"Ahh come in Charlie." Dad wheeled over to the front door and flicked the lock. Charlie grinned and the two bound on with their childish games. Spinning around Billy's wheelchair for the most part as they threw the football to each other over my head. A nomad hadn't been spotted in months so Sam insisted I stay home to 'chill' as he so casually put it. I found a few day old note from Bella stuffed down the back of the couch in a fit of rage. Prying it out I smoothed out the wrinkles.

Jacob,

I really need to talk with you. Missing you heaps,

Bella xoxo

Passed from Bella to Charlie to Billy to me. Just like in second grade. I crumpled it up again and threw it across a grimace forming on my face.

"Teenagers, so moody." Billy rolled his wheelchair back in from the hall with Charlie on his tail just as a paper-snowball flew past.

"Mmm, how's Bella?" Billy reversed his wheelchair into a spot near the kitchen and Charlie pulled out a seat.

"She's doing better. She's decided to travel a bit. Start off in Port Angeles and work her way around the place," I turned to face Charlie who was smiling but his eyes gave his sadness away "my girls all grown up."

"There, there." Dad wheeled around to the other side of the island not losing the chance to shed me a warning glance before going to pat an unusually emotional Charlie gruffly on the back "How long's she gone for?"

"She doesn't really know yet, just that she's going to travel and then she's moving to D.C to 'start fresh.'" Moving! What, no surely she wasn't that careless. Not with Victoria still running around. Not with me still here in La Push.... Charlie's mobile went off.

"That'll be her now" Charlie sniffed and flipped open his newly acquired phone "Hey, Bells." he answered stepping outside with Dad. No! Bella couldn't have moved. That would mean...that would mean I wouldn't see her again. Ever again. I loved her, I couldn't just let her run off to, where ever she was. How long had she even been gone. I hadn't answered any of her notes, stupid, stupid stupid. When was the last one I got. I fished down the back of the couch pulling out a more recent letter. Three days ago tops.

"Dad" I yelled to him. He was outside but her heard and I ran over to him. "Where is Bella at the moment?"

"She should be in Seattle about now." Seattle, well that sure narrowed things down. Because she couldn't be anywhere in all of Seattle being attacked by deranged vampires as we speak. That would just be silly.

"What hotel?" Dad was suspicious at my sudden interest.

"Hotel, ha!" Charlie laughed "She's staying at the Murrey Motel." The two old men exchanged glances and strolled off.

"Creepy old place, that motel." One of them whispered.

I ran inside to scrawl a note apologising to Dad and Sam who would be furious anyhow. I phased and ran. Ran as fast as I could. With any luck I could make it to seattle by morning.