A/N: So this is post Twilight now. Between Twilight and New Moon. It's summer time!


Chapter One: Angel

BPOV

Forks didn't have a library or a bookstore and it was frustrating me to no end. My copy of Wuthering Heights finally kicked the bucked and I needed to replace it. I had bent the spine far too much and now my favorite book lay in two pieces.

Port Angeles didn't have a proper bookstore either, I already went down that road and wasn't prepared to go wandering in search of another one. That would be stupidity personified.

So I made plans to go to Seattle on Friday when I got off work. It was starting to become difficult going anywhere anymore. Alice freaked at my every decision and I couldn't explain it. It just got worse and worse, even Edward couldn't explain his sister's new protectiveness. She was blocking him, he said.

My phone rang. "Hello?"

"Bella, please don't go," she pleaded like it was the most important thing in the world.

"It's just Seattle, Alice, calm down. What do you see happening?"

"You go to Border's and buy a book, but I don't see anything else," she said in a worried tone.

"I'll be fine, Alice. I promise not to get out of my truck except to refuel and to go into the store. How's that?"

"Okay," she said reluctantly. "Be careful, okay."

"I promise," I said and hung up.

Friday rolled along and after I was finished my shift at Newton's, I went to my truck and made sure I had everything for my trip. Edward and his brothers were on an extended hunting trip in the Rockies, so I was on my own for a few days. Well almost alone.

Alice constantly tried to convince me not to go, all week. It was going to be sunny in Seattle so she couldn't accompany me. I wasn't going to have any of it, I was a grown woman and almost eighteen (despite my attempts to put a stop to that) and I would go to Seattle whether Alice liked it or not. I mean, really, what could happen at a bookstore. If I was going to get hurt or even die, she would tell me, and if she wouldn't tell me, she would definitely tell Edward. So since she did neither, and she didn't seem to be physically trying to stop me, I was going.

I pulled into the parking lot outside Border's and got out. I made my way through the store, loving the smell of books all around me and the hushed atmosphere of the whole place. I went straight to the classics and quickly found what I was looking for. I briefly considered staying a while and perusing the shelves, but I didn't want to worry Alice too much, so I went straight to the register to pay for my book.

My phone rang just as I took my receipt and the bag with my new book in it. I answered it, pausing before exiting the store.

"Alice?"

"I'm sorry, Bella," she sobbed. "I should have tried harder to stop you, it's too late now, and I don't know what to do to stop it."

"Alice," I said shakily. "What's going to happen?"

"I don't know!" she wailed. "But in less than a minute, your future shuts off, like you don't exist anymore. I don't know what to do and I don't think there's anything I can do. I'm so sorry—"

The line went dead. I looked at my phone. No battery, damn! I should have charged it before I left the house.

I looked cautiously out the glass doors, contemplating the distance from here to my truck. I should be able to make it, it wasn't that far and obviously my threat wasn't a vampire since it was broad daylight. Maybe I could outrun it.

I had to round a corner to get to where my truck was parked. I continued to look around, anxiously as I walked quickly around the corner. I stopped, suddenly face-to-face with a life-sized statue of an angel, hiding it's face behind upraised hands. It wasn't there before and the surprise of almost running into it made me drop the bag with the book in it.

There was something about this statue that made me nervous. I had been counting in my head and my minute was almost up, but so far, I had seen nothing to threaten me. But this angel scared me a little and I couldn't figure out why.

Four...three...two...one.

My minute was up. I blinked.


A/N: Dun dun da! What's gonna happen? R&R! Especially you cosmoGirl666! You can't just read and not review :D Show me some love!