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Last Chapter
"Jake," I said, reaching out to him, "I didn't…I don't want you hurt." He pulled back from me and said a quick sorry and ran off into the woods. After a few minutes of waiting to see if he would come back, I left.
Chapter 2 (Bella's POV)
After a week of waiting for Jake to come back, I gave up and called Sam's house. Nobody answered. I hung up and tried again. Finally after three tries I gave up. I had to go to school now that spring break was over. I wanted to go to La Push and see Jacob after school but I didn't think he'd want to see me. I had lied to him, I could've told him sooner, but I just didn't want him chasing after her. I couldn't stand him or anybody else getting hurt because of me. Though I did think that Jacob was overreacting. He probably just had better things to do.
As I pondered if I should go see Jake after school or if I should just let him decide if he still wants a relationship with me, I realized I had driven past the school and was on my way to Seattle. I decided to keep on going, just to get away from it all. I knew it was stupid, I didn't have barely any cash with me or my checkbook but I still went on until an hour later, when my truck ran out of gas. I sat there for awhile, cars going by every once in awhile. I got out of my truck and started trudging on to the nearest gas station. I didn't get far, when somebody hit me hard over the head. I fell forward and only saw the ground before completely losing consciousness.
I woke up with my hands tied behind my back. I had a horrible headache like someone had beaten me over the head with a frying pan a couple times. I looked around me and all I could see was darkness but I knew someone was there watching me. And I had a pretty good idea who it was.
"Victoria. I know your there." I said softly, not trusting my voice. Also, if it was some creepy guy, he wouldn't have heard me-only a vampire could with my voice so low. I heard a laugh over to my left. Bright light flooded the room and for a moment I was blind.
"Well, well, well." She said sneeringly. "What have we here? I finally caught you Isabella. But not the way I wanted to." She added disappointed.
"What do you mean?" I knew what she was talking about but I was curious what exactly Laurent meant in the meadow if you knew what she had planned for you, Bella, I swear you'd be thanking me for this.
"Well, first I wanted you to suffer like I did when James was killed. I was going to kill your father slowly while you were watching, then your friends and then bite you and right after her heart stopped beating, kill you again." Victoria ended with a spark in her eyes as if she would've loved to do that and could've imagined it.
After a brief pause, I told her, "You know, I thought it would've been more terrifying, but it kinda isn't. Though I would hate to have had Charlie and my friends go through that, you would just be doing me a favor by killing me. Even though my life was getting better, oh well. I'm ready for whatever you throw at me."
Victoria just stood there, disbelieving and astounded. When the shock wore off, she asked a question that tore me to pieces, "Where are the Cullen's?"
I didn't say anything. Just pressed my lips together hard. Think of something else, Bella. Quickly.
Victoria stepped right in front of me and her face was only inches from mine. "WHY?"
I didn't care that I was crying in front of someone who had been trying to kill me. I didn't care that I was tied up with no means of escape. I didn't care what she was going to do to me. I didn't care about life anymore. "It's obvious, isn't it?"
I was still crying when she wrapped her arms around me to untie me and then stood back, watching. After my crying dwindled down to a sniffling, she started talking again, "Tell me what happened and I'll let you go."
I didn't know why the sudden mood change, so I just stared at her disbelieving. She waited, though the only sign of impatience was the twitch of her lips. I didn't really want to say anything, but I could at least try to get out. No harm in that. "He told me he didn't want me anymore, he didn't love me. I was a fool to think he ever did. I should've realized it sooner. He didn't want to change me because he didn't want to spend eternity with me." I barely said it loud enough for her to hear. I started crying again remembering the day in the forest.
Victoria's POV
I looked at her, eyes wide. I couldn't believe those goody-two-shoes vampires did this to her. A human especially, their extremely breakable. Looking at her closer, she realized she looked different from when she saw her the first time in the woods of Forks. She was thinner, paler, her brown eyes were flat, but the thing that stood out the most was, there was no life left in her.
She was still crying when I decided she had gone through more pain than what I would've made her go through. Killing her would just put her out of her misery! I think I'll let her go through her days in pain. My plan was nothing compared to what the Cullen's did to her.
"Bella," I said softly, wanting to get out of there. I knew something was coming so I had to escape now. "Bella, I'm going to go. I promise I won't ever come back for you."
I ran quickly out of the house. I could hear the werewolves getting closer. I would have to go to another continent so they wouldn't follow.