Chapter 96

"Hey Bella" she said, stepping from out of the trees, great I wasn't ready for this.

"Hey, what are you doing here and how did you find me?" I asked,

" I know you, and I knew you would need to clear your head, Edward was unable to keep up with you or hear your thoughts, jasper couldn't sense your emotions, Alice couldn't see your future, of course demetri was unable to track you and none of us could smell your scent. But of course I know you so well, I knew you would run, and then swim somewhere, anything to distract yourself. Edward is such an idiot, he should have just told you when it happened instead of keeping it from you, none of us had any idea mind you. I am surprised that callum and demetri knew. Look I'm not condoning what he did but you must know that he does truly love you, and has never wanted another single soul in his life. You are his world he is nothing without you.

When he realised he couldn't catch up to you he came back to us, telling us that he was unable to catch up to you, which I might add is a first, I have never seen him look so broken. When he saw demetri he saw red and it took Emmett and jasper to hold him back. He wanted to rip him to shreds for telling you, until he found out that callum was the one who gave you your suspicions, and then he wanted to rip them both to shreds. Jasper tried to sense you but picked up nothing, Alice tried to see your future but as you hadn't decided anything she couldn't see. We have all been so worried, about you. I think you should come home and let Edward explain himself." She replied, I wasn't ready to go back yet, I didn't want them worrying about me, and I hated the idea of hurting them in any way. "Look I'm sorry your all worried, please don't. I just need some time alone to get my head together. In less than a week I gave birth to twins, discovered my best friend is now a vampire and lied to me, and just discovered that a huge part of my relationship was built on lies. I would say that is a lot to deal with. So I would really appreciate it if you tell the others I'm fine, and I just need some space and that I will come home when I'm ready, I don't know how long that will be. And please not to try and find me or follow me" She nodded and left me.

Of all the people to find me, well at least they would know I was okay and would stop trying to find me. I would start heading home tomorrow, I missed my kids too much but I need to talk to someone first, so when I got closer to forks I pulled out my cell and dialled, "hello"

"Oh hey Billy is Jake there?" I could hear him call Jake

"Hey Bella, what can I do for you?" just the sound of his voice made me smile, something I hadn't done for the past couple of days.

"I just need someone to talk to, could you meet me at the diner?" I asked, I knew about the treaty line and that the Cullen's weren't allowed in la push and as I was now a Cullen that meant me too, I knew Jake didn't put too much belief in the legends about werewolves and vampires but I didn't want to have to explain to him about what I was. "Sure I'll be there in about 10 minutes" and with that he hung up.

I knew I could make it to the diner in less than 10 minutes so I decided to opt for a slow human pace. I still arrived before Jake and went and sat in a booth and waited for him. I didn't have to wait long; he walked through the door looking slightly out of breath, like he had been running. He sat opposite me, the moment he sat down the waitress came over and took his order, he ordered quite a lot, and I didn't know how he would put all that away. The waitress was practically falling over herself to assist him in any way. When he asked what I would like I told him I wasn't really hungry. I couldn't tell him the truth. It wasn't until his order came that I noticed Jake smelt slightly but I didn't want to offend him, so I kept my mouth shut. "So what's up?" he asked in between mouthfuls, " I just need to talk to someone, a friend" I replied, I saw the smile on his face grow even bigger, it didn't take him long to finish his food, no sooner had the waitress put it in front of him, he finished it, he must have some appetite, I wonder if that had anything to do with his sudden growth spurt," cool, but don't you want to talk to your little sister or your husband about whatever it is that's on your mind" he said, looking at me and taking my hand in his large one, he must have sensed the temperature change but he didn't say anything or flinch away, " that's the thing, I can't talk to either of them about it, it's about Edward." I finished looking down at our hands; the waitress cleared away the table looking at our hands. "Don't worry you don't have to tell me if you don't want to" he replied raising my face to look at him, his skin was so hot, hotter than a normal humans; I guess he must be running a fever or something.

"Don't worry I won't burden you with the details, it's just he lied to me and I don't know how I am suppose to get past that." I felt comfortable talking to him but not enough to share the details. "Well as much as it pains me to say this, I know you will work this out, you both love each other so much. You're meant to be together. Whatever he has lied about I'm sure he had his reasons and that the last thing he wanted was to hurt you." Wow, I had never expected him to say that, I knew he had hoped we would be together but I guess he saw that me and Edward were meant to be together, and I knew he was right, we did love one another and I was sure we could work this out, we just needed to talk. Jake paid his bill and walked me to the door, "thanks Jake, for everything, you are an amazing friend. Speak to you soon" I said hugging him goodbye, and giving him a kiss on the cheek. I felt like someone was watching us. We parted and went our separate ways, as soon as I was out of sight I ran home. I took a deep breath and opened the front door; they were all waiting for me of course.

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