Innocence Lost; Chapter Two
I sat down at the piano, ready to unload all my feelings on the ivories, but Bella's good-bye was the only thing running through my mind. Her beautiful smile and delectable smell that wafted through the air as her hair blew in the wind.
It was so difficult not being able to go down to the beach and keep an eye out on her, to listen to the groups thoughts, to hear what she was saying. To be part of her human life, take her to the beach in the sun.
Things I would never be able to do with her.
Bella.
I hit the record button on the stereo and began playing. The notes came fluidly from the piano and reverberated off the walls.
"Edward!" Alice's scream pierced the room; I tore away from the piano. I had inadvertently blocked everyone's thoughts from my mind while playing.
"What?" she looked up at me with terrified eyes, more frightened than I had ever seen her before. Jasper sat behind her, stroking her hair, failing at calming her down.
She took a deep breath and relayed the vision to my mind.
It was of Mike and Bella, Mike had Bella against a rock. Pushing himself into her. Bella's face was tearstained and frightened, her mouth was covered with Mike's hand but I could still make out her feeble cries of help. Calling my name.
And I wasn't there to help her.
"When?"
She looked back up to me, the answer in her eyes. I was in the car and half way to First Beach when my phone rang, a number I didn't recognize.
"What?"
"Edward!" Bella. My dear, sweet, hurt Bella.
"I'm almost there, Bella. Everything's going to be okay. Is Black there?" As much as I wanted to stay on the line with Bella I needed to get permission from one of the werewolves to go onto their land.
"Edward! I need you right here. Mike- Mike- he-"
"I know, sweetheart. I need to talk to Black, please put him on the phone."
It pained me to hear her hand the phone over to Black, her sobs growing louder.
"You can come on the land, just come alone."
"Like I would have the audacity to do anything right now," I threw the phone onto the passengers seat and pushed the car to 150. I needed to get Rose to work on the car or switch to the Vanquish permanently.
I parked the car in front of the walkway at First Beach and scooped Bella into my arms.