Chapter 1 : The Eclipse

"The clouds I can handle but I can't fight with an Eclipse." - Jacob Black

Bella's pov

My heart felt like it was stretching. I gripped Alice's arm with such force because I was afraid that if I let her go, she would vanish.

"Bella," she said, her voice strained. "It's Edward, he thinks you're dead."

"What?"

"I had a vision of you jumping off a cliff and Rosalie told him and now he thinks you're dead so he wants to die too, He's going to provoke the Volturi, and if that doesn't work, he's going to reveal himself at the Saint Marcus Day festival," she said frantically. "Bella he has to see that you're alive. We have to go to Italy."

I felt stunned. Alice searched my eyes for an answer because I was undecided. Jacob was my best friend. Could I risk our friendship to save Edward? Edward who left me in the woods, telling me it was over, that he didn't love me anymore?

Jacob came out of my truck looking sad and upset. I didn't have to ask. He had heard everything. He grasped my free hand and our fingers intertwined.

"Bella, please don't go. You know what will happen and you could get killed. Stay Bella. I'm asking you, for me, stay."

"Jacob, I have to go," I said now that my decision was made.

Edward could stick needles in every inch of my body and still it would be him. Still, I would go. It happens when you've experienced a love so strong you know if you let go, anything else would be second best.

But Jacob and Edward were both first in my heart. But I had to do this for me, for Edward. If roles were reversed, I would save Jacob in a heartbeat.

Jacob let go of my hand and closed his eyes.

"The clouds I can handle but I can't fight with an eclipse," Jacob said. He walked away and headed in the direction of the woods. Alice's eyes flickered between me and a now disappearing Jacob before she pulled me through the front door.

"You have to pack quickly and just grab stuff you really need and your passport," Alice said.

I hurried upstairs to my room and got out a small suitcase and stuffed two shirts, two pairs of jeans, my passport, some money, underwear, toothbrush and a pair of sneakers. I quickly scribbled a note and left it on my bed. When I headed back downstairs Alice wasn't there.

I panicked and ran outside with my suitcase. Alice was outside, thank God, but she was crouched in defense baring fangs at Jacob.

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