A/N: Oohk, so i know that this is short, and its been a few days since my last update, so i just wanted to say sorryy. lol. i'm almost done with midterms so as soon as those are done with i'll be writing more and updating hopefully quicker. thanks :)
TWO: Bella's POV
Paul's grip loosened in surprise just enough to make my break for it. I twisted in his grip and ran towards the door.
"Fuck, Bella, come back here!" Paul yelled as I shut the door. I see a white figure move down the hallway.
"Emmett?" I ask, fumbling with the light switch.
"Bella!" the deep bass voice I knew so well appeared next to me. Cold muscled arms scoop me into a vice like bear hug and swing me around in circles.
Emmett puts me down and flips on the switch.
"Bella," Emmett looks at my face. "You look like hell," he grins.
"Near death experiences do that to me." I say casually, hoping he won't catch it. Of course he does.
"Near death?" he asks.
"Near drowning," I correct.
"Bella, why would you try to kill yourself?" he demands.
"Well, I was trying to, but, then I wasn't anymore."
"Wait, Bella, why does it smell like wet dog?" he asks.
"Cause Jacob's kind of a warewolf." I look down.
"That didn't sound like Jacob out there," he nodes. I stiffing as I hear a distant howl in the woods.
"It was Paul," I mutter.
"Explain," he demands. I dodge around him and head for the kitchen. I silently begin to make tea when he speaks again.
"Bella, explain. Alice saw you jump, but then it changed. That time, she saw Victoria on the cliff. You fell, and she followed before everything disappeared. What the hell happened?"
"Well, I was going to jump, but just for fun," I rush to explain. "Then Paul appeared and stopped me from jumping. But then Victoria appeared, I fell, and then almost drowned. Paul pulled me out and scared Victoria off." I explain.
"Why the hell is she here though?" Emmett asks after a moments thought.
"He killed James. A mate for a mate as she sees it."
"Fuck, I knew we never should have left. I knew it." he growls.
"Well, I don't know. I just know that Paul sc…scared her aw3ay for now. She'll come back. But I don't know when." I sat on a chair and focused on breathing for a minute.
The kettle whistled from the stove so I got up to pour my tea.
"What is that?" Emmett scrunched up his face. "It smells disgusting."
"Its tea and I like it, so deal." I tell him. I surprise myself with the biting edge to my tone.
"Hey, chill," Emmett put his hands up in an 'I surrender' gesture. "I only asked." He grinned.
I shrugged before walking into the living room without bothering to see if Emmett was following me.
"Bella, I'm sorry we left." Emmett began. "We didn't know what was still here," he stopped as his phone buzzed.
"Emmett," he answered. I hear a quick, female voice on the other end.
"No shit. That fucker. I'm actually already here," Emmett responds.
I hear screaming on the other end. My eyebrows rise as both a silent question and in surprise. He winces at the pitch and volume of the scream.
"Alright, bye." Emmett closes the phone.
"What was that about?" I ask in surprise.
"It was Alice. She called to tell me that Edward," I wince as he says his name. "Lied to us all. I'm so sorry, Bella," he drops his head into his hands.
"Emmett, its okay, it's not your fault. Hell, I don't eve know what he lied about this time."
"This time?" Emmett asked.
"You explain first, and then I will," I compromise.
"Alright, well Alice said that she just found him talking to himself in a vision about feeding us more lies and then continued to find out that when we left, he lied to get us to go."
"What'd he lie about?" I ask.
"He said that after what happened on your eighteenth birthday, you decided that you just wanted to live a normal human life without the supernatural. He said you broke it off with him to be human and asked that we leave. I knew he was lying, I told Rose that you wouldn't actually say that. I told her."
"Ooh," I muttered, processing this slowly in my mind. "I can't believe that he would even say that I said anything like that! I love all of you guys. What the hell!" I rant.
"I could quite literally kill him for this," Emmett says quietly. "But what about the lying again?" he asks.
"Well," I begin slowly. "When you guys left, and he told me goodbye, he said that I don't belong in your guys world and that you all wanted out and you were all angry at me because of the type of thirst that I brought back to you all." I looked down, upset that I even let myself believe that that was true.
"Bella," Emmett said quietly. "How could you believe that? You know that each and every one of us loves you so much. How could you let that get to you?" he asked, enveloping me in a vice-like hug in his giant, rock hard arms.
"I'm so sorry," he muttered to me. I sniffled in return, pulling back to wipe my tears off of my face.
"Come on, Charlie's on his way down the road. Go start dinner for him and I'll wait for you upstairs." Emmett tells me before disappearing up the stairs. As I walk to the kitchen to start putting together Charlie's dinner, I couldn't help but think that this was going to be a very long night.
A/N: ok, sorry it was short, i'm working on chapter 3 right now, so before you can kill me, it should be up either today or tomorrow.
