Hi... I'm um... back. *ducks rotten tomatoes thrown by mob* I know I've been gone for quite awhile... But my computer was sick and.. I wasn't able to get it fixed until recently. Don't hate me. *Ducks to avoid another blow.* Go ahead. Read and review.

About twenty minutes after I got home, I heard the phone ring. It was the hospital, telling me about Charlie. He hadn't been seriously injured, but they were keeping him overnight anyhow, to make sure he was okay.

Wednesday morning

Halfway through breakfast, the phone rang. It was Alice. "Bella?" She asked. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." I replied. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"I just heard about Charlie!" She sounded worried. "Do you know what happened?"

"I'm not sure. The hospital told me he'll be ok. Nothing's broken."

"Oh, that's a relief! I thought maybe it was serious. The officer on the news said he was levitating and fell!"

"Yeah, I heard that." I said, pouring myself some cereal.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked again.

"I'll be fine."

"OK, we'll talk more when we get to school." She said, then hung up. I chewed my cereal thoughtfully. Hopefully, Charlie had learned his lesson. I still had the doll if he needed to learn another.

The school day flew by. Various students came up to me to to tell me they were sorry that Charlie had gotten hurt. Several more stopped me to ask questions. Of course, to everyone else, this would seem unusual, to say the least. A guy suddenly just levitating wasn't exactly an every day occurance.

But I knew what had really happened. And I wasn't sorry I'd done it. Any man who would hit a woman deserved punishment. And I truly believe it should be the woman's decision to choose his punishment.

The hospital called when I got home. They wanted me to pick Charlie up. They said he was medicated and not fit to drive. So, reluctantly, I left to pick him up.

Once we were a good distance from the hospital, Charlie told me to pull over so he could drive.

"No dad." I told him calmly. "You're on medication. You can't drive right now."

"I said Pull over."

"No. I have to get you home safely."

"I SAID NOW, YOU FUCKING WITCH!" He lunged for the wheel.

I screamed. "CHARLIE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

He stopped. "Never. Call. Me. Charlie." He grabbed the first thing he could find. Unfortunately, that was the toolbox I kept in the truck.

"Ch- Dad. Put that down. I'm sorry, ok. Just-just let me drive you home."

"I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING! I AM NOT DRUGGED!" He yelled. He then threw the tool box at me.

I said the first thing I could think of. "Tempo congelato!" I said quickly. These were the words to freeze time. I glanced up from where I was hiding crouched on the floor. The tools from my toolbox were hanging in midair. I slowly bought myself up. I opened my door and ran. I wasn't sure where I was running, but I didn't stop until I had run deep into the forest.

I sat on a rock by a lake and just stared into it. I didn't cry. I just sat and stared until I heard voices. "No. I'm telling the truth! The deer I was chasing just... froze mid-leap! Come over here, I'll show you."

Before I knew what was happening, I saw two guys step out of the trees. "Bella?" One of them asked. "What are you doing all the way out here?" By now I could see that it was Jasper and Edward.

"And why aren't you frozen like everything else?" Edward asked.

Why aren't you guys frozen?" I asked, turning the question on them.

"We don't know." Jasper answered. "We thought you might know."

"Why would I know how this happened?"

Emmett came up from behind them. "Because you're hu-" Jasper elbowed him in the ribs.

"What?"

"We were just wondering." Edward said. "We can't figure it out."

To take attention off me, I whispered, "volta scongelato." Immediately, the animals around us began to move again.

I watched as Jasper took off like a flash and brought the deer down with his bare hands. Then, I watched him as he bit into it.

"Jasper!" Edward and Emmett yelled at the same time.

"Oh, sorry guys." He turned. Revealing long, sharp fangs. They were covered in blood. That was the last thing I saw before the world around me went black.

Hello again.

I don't speak Italian, but the words Bella said in this chapter, "tempo congelato" are Italian. It means "frozen time" according to:

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And "volta scongelato" means time unfrozen, according to the same site.