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Chapter 3: Rational

It was quite early in the morning when I first awoke. Looking at the clock I realized that I only had a couple of hours of sleep. I was dead tired, but I tried in vain to go back to sleep.

The dream came crashing down on my tired head. For a second I thought I had seen the shadow of a malevolent creature holding a head, the sound of dripping blood echoing. My lack of sleep must be affecting my rational thinking, if I had ever thought rationally… and yet it brought a fresh batch of tears to my eyes. Come on Bella, you need to be stronger than this.

Feeling ashamed of my tears I quickly wiped them off with the sleeve of my pajamas. Keep it together Bella.

Getting off of the bed, my feet touched the floor. With a yelp I jumped back on the bed.

"Damn it's so cold."

Noticing that my window was wide open and that the cold morning breeze was blowing inside my room, I went to close the window.

The sun was just peeking its way toward the sky. It's sunlight slowly creeping towards my window, making the dew on the lawn glitter like millions of tiny jewels. Reminding me of that day in the meadow with Edward. That brought a smile to my sober face.

I don't know how long I was standing there, thinking of all the good times I have had with Edward, but my legs were starting to get cramped.

Glancing at the clock next to my bed, I noticed I still had 2 hours before the actual time I had to get up to go to school. But deciding that taking a shower would help me clear my mind, I took all my toiletries, tip-toeing to the bathroom trying not to wake Charlie, being that it was quite early. Plus I didn't want him asking me questions on why I was awake so early.

I was just standing under the shower letting the water pound on my back. I didn't even notice the water was getting cold, too deep in thought about the dream to even notice. Was it a sign? A horrible premonition of the future like the ones Alice has? Or some sick joke my mind is playing on me? It can't possibly be true. Jacob would never do such a thing to Edward, even if he wishes to, he wouldn't for my sake… I hope…

-BEEP BEEP BEEP…!-

"FU-!" with a startled cry I fell clumsily out of the shower. Remembering to grab a towel, I ran towards my room to turn off the horrendously loud alarm clock.

In my haste, I couldn't find the off button, so I settled with simply ripping the plug out of the socket.

"There, not so mighty now are you Mr. Alarm Clock." Giving my alarm clock one last glare, feeling as if it were glaring back, I threw it on my bed.

While getting changed, I felt something cold on my back. Turning around I saw that the window that I had previously closed was open again. Growing quite paranoid I slowly and cautiously walked towards my window. Hadn't I closed it? I'm pretty sure I had. Then why is it open? Unless someone… No, it couldn't be, your being paranoid Bella.

Looking out the window I saw nothing but rain and grass. Nothing out of the ordinary…

I had been staring at the lawn quite intensely without my knowing until I saw something that wasn't grass. My curiosity won over my anxiety.

Making sure to properly close the window yet again, I made my way down the stairs. Trying my best not to make a sound on the old squeaky stairs or in a worse case scenario, with my luck, trip on some invisible object or on thin air and fall down the stairs thus waking up not just Charley but also the whole damned neighborhood and getting a couple of broken bones in the process.

When I was on the last step, I let out a shaky breathe I didn't know I was holding.

I mentally did a quick "happy dance" for my success in doing nothing that may fatally injure me. And because of my excitement and lack of attention I walked right into a table holding the lap in the living room. To my absolute horror the lamp tipped over, as if in slow motion, and started to descend to the hard cold floor.

Using my non-existent fast reflexes I dove for the lamp, but I felt it was too late.

But the only sound that was heard was a soft thump instead of shattering glass. My body had successfully ended on the floor and in my arms I cradled the lamp, the completely INTACT lamp. I couldn't believe I had caught the lamp in time to save it and me from pending doom! I must be hanging around vampires a little too much… their abilities seem to of had rubbed off on me. Well maybe except their lithe grace. Wait till Edward and the others hear this! They will have a laugh, probably won't believe me. Looking to the stairs, I made sure no was coming.

Almost forgetting the reason for my trek to the lawn outside, I placed the lamp safely back on the living room table. Proceeding with my self proclaimed mission to find out what was on the lawn, I slowly and cautiously tipped-toed to the door and unlocked it. I felt the adrenaline pumping through my blood, making me feel a little light-headed. As quietly as I could, I slowly opened the door. The door, trying to make my life harder, started to creak. I abandoned my plan of opening the door slowly and quickly opened it, so fast that I almost lost my grip on both my towel and the door…

Today isn't my day…

A/N: WOW!! I finally updated!! Holy… Cow? Well anyways, sorry for not updating in like years! Had writers block! But I was able to do one more chapter! Kudos to me!! SO PLEASE REVIEW!! I wana know how good or bad I'm doing so I can make the story better!! So don't forget to review!!