A/N: This starts off with Charlie and Bella, it's basically what happens if Bella did go to Jacksonville to see Renee for a visit, and just so happens that Edward is living there in a hotel close to where Bella and Renee take their little girls week out vacation. Hope you enjoy, review please, and dont forget to add in what you think needs to be improved on!

~Kristen

CHAPTER 1

~Dormant~

He left. I sat there for a while, unmoving. I saw the sun come up and set, as time passes I grow older, I die a bit more physically every day. But that doesn't matter, nothing matters, not if he isn't here. I didn't need to breathe, there was no amount of oxygen to beat my dormant heart again.

"That's it Bella," I heard distantly, the sound not even registering in my brain until it was too late for me to respond.

Charlie stood in front of me, his expression ripped between worry and pain. "I'm sending you off to Jacksonville," I was confused, and couldn't comprehend those words for a moment. It wasn't that I couldn't understand what he said, it was clear enough, I just didn't know the outlet for his decision.

"What did I do?" I asked, I was vaguely aware that my voice sounded very monotone and flat.

"Nothing, that's just it, you do nothing," he said, dipping his head. "You go to school, work, and then you come home."

"I don't understand, Dad, I'm in the middle of my senior year, and I have friends," I said hopelessly. I thought I was being alive, for him, it was a disappointment that I couldn't even do that much for Charlie.

"Friends?" he asked, his eyebrows lifted "Bells is that what you call them? You haven't even seen them, much less go out with them, anymore."

"I do see them, I see them all the time at school," I defended myself halfheartedly.

"Not like you used to," he said "maybe some time with your mother will help you."

I thought about that for a moment. I couldn't bear to leave Forks, I needed some sort of proof of him existing. I bit my lip, deliberating. Finally I said "for how long?"

"Couple of months, I don't know, Bells," he said.

I thought about that, "one month, and then I'll come back and return here."

"You can't keep waiting for him," he said softly.

I looked down, I couldn't stand to see the look on Charlie's face. "I'm not waiting," I said, and it was the truth. I wasn't waiting, I just needed to know that I wasn't imagining things.

"You leave next week," he said, and went to go watch the current game on the TV.