Edward's P.O.V
WHAT!?! Bella was not leaving. I wouldn't let her.
"NO!" I yelled, she shrunk away from me, I cringed. "Sorry, but I won't let you leave. I... Bella.... Look, if you leave...I..I don't think I can.... leave you alone, never mind carrying on living like normal." I sighed, I was never good at telling my feelings. "Bella, you mean everything to me. Without you I'm not even half a person. I love you Bella and I won't let you go and get yourself killed by a bunch of sadistic vampires." She took another deep breath, I knew her to well, she was about to argue with me. I got there first though. "Bella, you are part of me and I am part of you, so if you think about it, your problems are my problems. We will face them together." She looked up at me with those deep brown eyes. They were all puffy and red.
"I love you to Edward. Look, you left to protect me and now it's my turn. I love you more than... More than my own life, I would do anything to keep you safe. That is why I am going and going alone." She looked so determined. Same old stubborn Bella.
"Bella, you have no choice in the matter. Oh, and you haven't banked on the rest of your family either. If you think Emmett, Alice, Rosalie and Jasper are going to let their little sister go running off to Italy on her own, you have another thing coming. We are going to come with you, when you are fully changed and at your strongest. Until then we can keep moving, the Volturi will never find us." She sighed.
"Nope, not happening. I'm not dragging anyone else down with me." What did she mean by that?
Bella's P.O.V
Opps, Edward was sure to notice the whole dragging anyone else down with me thing. I tried a quick save.
"What I mean is... Taking on the Volturi wasn't my best idea and now I'm going to have to pay the price. And I don't want anyone else to get hurt." He stared at me.
"And what are you going to tell the others?"
"I'll go and tell them now." I took a deep breath and ran back to the motel.
Alice and the others were standing outside, arms crossed or on their hips. Stupid future seeing pixie.
"Don't try it Bella. You're not going to Italy by yourself, we won't let you." Rose said.
"But... But.. Please?" I resorted to begging. It didn't work.
"I am coming with you whether you like it or not. The Volturi are out of hand, killing small children is beyond insane, they need to be taken down." Rose can be so, so, rose-ish.
"Well," I sighed, defeated. "But, why do you guys hate me so much! All I want to achieve in my life is to take down a vampire royal family, on my own. That is the only thing I want to do. But will you let me? No! You have to go all protective and ' we're your family, Bella' and 'We can't let you do grown up things because you've not celebrated you 100th birthday yet'" I mimicked their voices. "That's it, isn't it? You're a bunch of ageist vampires!" Ok, now I was rambling, clutching at straws and yelling. They all stared at me like I was insane, in fact I'm pretty sure I was at that point.
I took the opportunity that had been given to me and grabbed my pack and ran. It didn't take them long to shake of their confusion and they were on my tail in no time. First I went into the woods but I couldn't run my fastest without tripping every three seconds, so I went to the road and ran at my fastest down the relatively even surface. I heard their footsteps behind me and sped up until I was going at my fastest.
That's around the time I saw the car on the horizon and had to move off into the woods. I stumbled slightly but managed to stay upright. I know, amazing isn't it? Then I fell flat on my face. Cold strong arms picked me up by my waist.
"Crap." I muttered as I looked up into Edward's very angry face.
A/N Sorry it's such a short chap and it took so long to get up but I'm a busy girl!!
Love always,
