Chapter 6

Bittersweet

Everything was worse now…even though I had tracked Bella and saw that Jacob was now a werewolf and she was fine Edward was still depressed.

I told myself it was just a phase and he would be back to normal. I felt terrible…I wanted to do something to help him but he didn't do anything.

As it went into March and we were in Rio De Janiero Edward called Alice…I couldn't hear the conversation since he was talking too low for me to hear…only for Alice to hear through the phone.

Two days after the phone call Edward came up to me and said "Haze…I need to talk to you."

"What?" I asked skeptically.

"Remember how I was speaking to Alice on the phone and I didn't want you to hear what we were saying?"

"Yeah."

"Well" Edward swallowed and looked at the ground. He didn't look at me "I…I want you to be able to live. If that's even the right word. I feel like I've been keeping you away from everyone else and you're just sitting here while I mope around and I can't hold you here any longer."

"And what does this have to do with Alice?" I asked although I think I knew what was coming

"Well" he looked at his watch "she's going to be here in about five minutes to come and get you…I already got your stuff ready."

"What about you?" I asked.

"I'm going to not bother anyone and just be on my own for a while. But don't worry I'll come back…eventually" Edward said.

"So…I'm leaving?" I asked and if I could cry I would've.

"I just don't want you to suffer from my selfishness and my need to mope around" Edward said.

"Suffering!" I retorted "the only one suffering here is you!"

"Haze…just please? Everytime I see you sitting around I think of all you're missing…you could be doing actual stuff." Edward said.

I caught my sister's scent at that moment and ran to get the door. As much as I didn't want to leave Edward I missed my sister too.

I literally tackled Alice when I saw her…I was happy to see her.

"Geez do you think it could be a little less messy in here! You would think this is a war zone!" Alice said.

Of course Alice would make the atmosphere a little more…cheerful or at least try to.

Edward and Alice greeted each other and Edward told her to "make it as quick as possible"

Before Alice and I left he kneeled down to my height "Hazel…Remember I'm going to come back one day."

"You promise?" I asked.

Edward swallowed "I promise" he said.

I didn't feel my lie detector go off and I trusted him. He took me in his arms and kissed my hair.

"Love you Hazel" and with that Edward nodded to Alice who took me out the door.

The journey to New York was a big blur and by blur I really mean blur.

I briefly remember crying tearless sobs that were bittersweet since I would miss Edward but happy because I would be seeing the rest of my family again.

Being with Alice I realized how much I truly missed her and she told me she missed me too.

Since we ran two straight days and nights that was how long it took to get there. We arrived at a house in Ithaca, New York which was where we were staying.

"Do they know…that I'm coming?" I asked Alice and she shook her head.

"Edward told me to surprise them" Alice said.

"They probably will think he will be with us" I said.

Alice shook her head "they'll know."

I took a deep breath which was really unnecessary since vampires don't need to breathe.

"You ready?" Alice asked.

I nodded, turned the knob on the door and went in. Esme was sitting drawing a design for a house in the kitchen while Emmett was watching football in the den.

I tracked Rosalie and Jasper and saw that Jasper was in his room studying and Rosalie was looking at a fashion magazine. I then tracked Carlisle and saw he was at the hospital.

Esme looked up for a second after catching mine and Alice's scent.

"Hazel!" she cried and like any mother seeing her child she ran to embrace me. I missed her a lot too.

"What?" I heard Emmett from the other room.

"Is Edward…" Esme began but Alice shook her head and Esme's face fell a bit.

"Dwarf!" Emmett shouted coming into the room. He picked me up and swung me around.

I almost kind of hated to admit it but I missed hearing those words coming from him.

I heard footsteps and saw Rosalie and Jasper both coming down the stairs.

After I was reunited with them we sat down in the den. Esme had called Carlisle and told him to come home. When he asked why she said that he would see. It was good to see him too.

"How is he?" Esme asked.

I took another unnecessary deep breath "not good."

"Damn he really took it hard didn't he?" Emmett asked.

"Yeah" I said.

Alice just sighed and Jasper looked like he felt terrible…like it was his fault which it definitely WASN'T!

Suddenly Alice's face went blank and Jasper looked at her before handing her a piece of paper and a pencil.

"Alice?" I asked and she just had on a blank face as she drew out a cliff…what! And a girl falling…as she colored the girl in (with the colored pencils next to her) the girl was Bella!

"Oh my gosh!" Esme said.

"We have to stop her" Emmett said.

"Why?" Rosalie asked.

"Because…we still need to look out for her" Carlisle said.

I closed my eyes and tracked her "she's OK!" I shouted.

"But still…it may happen!" Alice said.

"But she's happy" I said.

My siblings, Carlisle, and Esme looked at me puzzled.

"She's…with her friends" I said because if they knew who she was really hanging out with I was pretty sure they would flip.

"We should still keep on alert" Carlisle said.

"Carlisle, she's not our concern anymore" Rosalie said.

"Rose" Emmett warned.

"Rosalie, Edward still loves Bella and would want us to protect her just as he would…I'm surprised he hasn't been back at all." Esme said.

"He wants to forget…ease his pain." I said.

"Well that makes sense" Jasper muttered.

"Alright…Alice, Hazel I want both of you to be on lookout for any signs of Bella trying to kill herself OK?" Carlisle asked.

"OK" Alice and I said.

One week went by and I slowly adjusted to being back at home…without Edward. I missed him but the reason I was hurting was because I knew that he was…I would track him and see him lying down in an undisclosed location in Brazil…he didn't know where he was.

My "heart" ached for him and for Bella. But knowing that my brother was wasting away killed me the most.

I learned that since we were close by Jasper attended Cornell University with Alice, Emmett spent most of his time with Rosalie, Esme usually would plan out architectural designs, and Carlisle worked at the hospital.

Me? I basically sat around and read all day. Occasionally I would go outside and play basketball but since the weather was usually too sunny I couldn't.

One day I was just finishing up some cliché book I didn't even remember the name of and I thought of Bella for some reason.

I saw it…her plunging into the water. She tried to swim but the current was too strong and it held her under. She gave up and the water quickly pulled her away. I saw something else…VICTORIA!

I screamed.

"Hazel! What happened?" Rosalie asked once again going into that motherly phase.

"N-n-nothing" I stammered since I was just so in shock.

"Come on dwarf" Emmett said.

I don't exactly remember what I said but I do remember I got out two words "Bella" and "jump."

Emmett and Rosalie's faces both showed exactly what they were thinking. Even Rosalie looked a little horrified.

"Oh my gosh" she said.

I closed my eyes and tracked her again and suddenly everything was staticy. "I think" I swallowed "I think Alice's vision just came true."

"WHAT!" Emmett shouted.

"It's true" I muttered.

"Track her again!" Emmett said.

"I can't…it's all staticy" I said.

"Does that mean she's dead?" Rosalie asked.

"No…it just…I can't see her. When someone's dead they're not anywhere." I said.

"Oh shit" Emmett said.

I knew Alice wasn't allowed to have her phone on in class but I didn't care at the moment.

Me: ALICE!

Alice: It happened!

Me: YES COME HOME NOW!

Alice: OK

She was back within five minutes with Jasper at her side since she didn't want to leave him alone.

"Hazel are you sure…are you 100% sure that you saw it?" Carlisle asked.

"I tracked her…she jumped. Then" I tried to imitate the sound of static "just static…nothing like a TV on the wrong input" I said.

"I can't see it either" Alice said.

Esme let out a gasp and Carlisle's face fell…it wasn't much different than usual as much as we all tried to be normal it wasn't…just wasn't.

"OK…here's what we're doing" Carlisle said slowly "Do not say one word about this to Edward do you all understand me? I know that he hasn't called much but still…we want to make sure that this is all entirely true." Carlisle said.

"I seriously hope I'm wrong" I muttered.

"We all do" Esme said.

"Maybe Hazel and I should go to Forks…to see what happened?" Alice asked in a small voice.

"I highly doubt that anyone in that town would want to see any of us if Bella is dead" Emmett said.

"Still…just please?" Alice asked.

Esme looked at Carlisle and nodded. Carlisle put his first to his mouth like what he did when he was thinking.

"Alright…but be careful OK?"

"OK" Alice and I said.

We dashed to Ithaca Airport and Alice managed to get us on the next flight through smooth talking and a little bit of flirting but that was Alice in a nutshell…using her resources to get what she wanted.

Just as we were boarding Alice said to me "you ready?"

And I could only reply "Define ready."

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