Disclaimer: Me-to my mom-"Do I own any of the Twilight charecters, books, or plots?"
My mom-"Sorry sweetie, not yet. Maybe you'll get them for your next birthday!"
Me-"Darn."
Author's Note: Based in New Moon. The only change that made it so this story happened is that Harry didn't die until Jaccob was dropping Bella off. So Bella answered the phone, Alice saw Bella alive while driving towards Forks so turned around, and the whole thing played out like this:
Jacob dropped me off at my house. I think he was about to come in, but there were suddenly wolves howling out in the woods, so he left in a hurry. I walked in just as the phone rang. I picked it up.
"Hello? Who is it?"
Silence.
"Hello? I'm going to hang up."
Silence.
"Hanging up now."
"Bella."
I stumbled backwards at the sound of the voice.
"YOU!"
"Bella, I"
"YOU!"
"Bella, let me"
"YOU!"
I took a rattling breath through my teeth.
" Do you know what I am? I'm INSANE, Edward. It's been eight months-EIGHT MONTHS and I shouldn't still love you-but I DO! How much of an idiot am I?"
I was crying now.
"and you-YOU!...Are...SO...STUPID, Edward! Were you kidding? 'It will be as if I never existed'-was that supposed to be FUNNY?"
"Bella, I'm"
"I'm barely even ALIVE, Edward. I'm forcing myself to live through every-single-minute!"
"Bella, why did"
"I can't even bring myself to HATE you! Do you know how hard this is on me? I'm pushing myself not to die because of some STUPID, INSANE hope that you're going to come back. Do you know what you've DONE to me?"
"BELLA!"
I shut up for a second, tears streaming down my face.
"Bella, why did you try to kill yourself?"
That one threw me. "What?"
"Why did you throw yourself off a cliff?"
"Oh-THAT. THAT was cliff-diving. It's very in with the werewolves these days."
I heard an intake of breath on the other line. "Werewolves?"
"Yeah, Edward, werewolves. You know, the ones keeping Victoria from murdering me. Those werewolves."
"Victoria?"
"Edward. Did you really think that leaving was going to keep my life from being dangerous? Yes, Victoria. She's here. She's trying to kill me. To get back at you for killing James. Although I guess that would imply you CARE what the hell happens to me."
"Bella."
"I mean, SHE doesn't know that you left. Oh, and have I mentioned Laurent?"
"What about Laurent?"
"HE was trying to kill me too. He actually got pretty close. He wasn't ten feet away from me when the wolves got him. That's how I found out about the wolves."
"Bella."
"What?"
"I love you."
"Mmhmm."
He could hear the sarcasm.
"I do. I was trying to keep you safe by leaving."
"I haven't been all that safe so far, though."
I still didn't believe him.
"That's why I'm coming back."
I took a sharp breath. "What?"
"I'm coming back."
I dropped the phone. The voice I'd heard hadn't been coming from it, anyhow. I turned around, slowly, trying not to get my hopes up.
Too late.
