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Chapter 6

BILLY

We were leaving for Washington today, and although whatever was happening in La Push and getting there as quick as possible was important and taking over a lot of our concentration, the fact that I was having to leave Rissa here was killing me. I didn t want to ever be away from her again, yet here I was looking at a trip away from her for who knows how long, and it was horrible.

I finished throwing my clothes in my bag, and glanced to her sitting on the bed. She looked sad. She knew this was going to be hard on both of us, but I knew that she understood why I had to go. Sam and Seth would never have involved me and dad if it wasn t really important.

I went to sit next to her and took her hand in mine.

"You know how bad I m gonna miss you?" I asked her.

"About as bad as I m gonna miss you," she replied.

I put my hand to her cheek and brought my face close to hers. I kissed her gently on the forehead and then on the lips. I was going to miss those lips.

Alice had tried to see what could be waiting for us in La Push, but with us being blind spots for her, it was no use.

Rissa and I walked down the steps hand in hand to meet Carlie, Mom, and Dad who were waiting for us in the living room. Grandpa Edward and Grandma Bella would be over soon to go with us. We would call the others with an update when we got there to let them know if any additional help was needed.

I didn t want to go, and to think two weeks ago I couldn t wait to take this trip, but leaving Rissa behind felt like torture. I had to and Carlie could see the torment in my thoughts, because she leaned into me and whispered in my ear, letting me know that she would be ok, I would be ok, and I would be seeing her again soon.

That made it bearable.

Rissa walked us out to the car, prolonging the goodbye as much as possible. When all the bags were loaded and everyone was piled in, I had to say the dreadful goodbyes.

"It won t take long, I hope. And we can talk every night," I reassured her.

"Yep, and I ll be waiting for you when you get back, she whispered, tears soaking her cheeks.

"Please try to be safe, I would go crazy if anything happened to you. I will miss you so much!"

"Me too, call me tonight!"

"Bye." I kissed her lightly on the lips.

"Bye." She blinked away more tears. I jumped into the car, and we drove away.

We sat in silence for a few minutes before my sister broke the silence.

"Why didn t you tell her?"

"Tell her what?"

"That you love her"

"I don t want to scare her"

"Well I can read her mind, and trust me, it won t scare her."

"Really, what was she thinking?"

"I m not telling you, that s secret"

"But she feels it too?"

"Yes."

"Fine, I ll tell her tonight when I call her."

"Good."

"Billy, your father and I want you to know that we really like Rissa," my mom added.

"Ok, thanks....where did that come from?"

"Nowhere, just thought you should know how your family feels about the girl you plan to spend the rest of your life with."

"She seems to be dealing with the secrets and craziness quite well also," Bella added.

"And if anyone knows what that is like, it s Bella, so if she thinks Rissa is cut out for this, then your good to go," Edward reassured me.

"That s great you guys. I really like her, and now that I know how she feels about me, and how you all feel about her, it makes it easier to deal with all this craziness.

"Ok, now that all the Rissa talk is out of the way, can we please focus on the mission at hand?" Dad was regrouping us.

"Yeah, what do we know?" I asked.

"Carlie, could you pick up any latent thoughts from my phone conversation with your grandpa?"

"No dad, I could only read your thoughts, Grandpa Billy was too far away, remember?"

"Oh yeah, guess we will have to wait till we get there then."

When we pulled up to the airport, Carlie, Edward, Bella and I got out of the car, to check in the baggage. Mom and dad went to find long term parking for the car. They would check in separately and meet us at the gate.

I handed two bags to the skycap, and Edward could have easily carried the other four, but only grabbed two leaving one for each my sister and grandmother. They had to constantly keep up appearances.

"So just you kids today?" We handed him our itineraries. "You re headed to Forks Washington? Some kinda Summer Party thing going on?" he asked us.

"Were headed home from school for the summer," Bella answered, batting her eyelashes at him.

"Alright, well I ll take care of these bags for ya." He winked at my grandmother, who honestly looked as young as my sister.

"Ok, thanks sir." I handed him a twenty dollar bill.

We began walking into the terminal.

"You really should take it easy of those human men, Bella. They can t help themselves with you," Edward teased.

"From time to time, it comes in handy to look like this," she replied back modestly.

We got through security with no problems, and headed to our gate. Our flight wasn t due to depart for thirty five more minutes. Mom and dad would be arriving to meet us soon. We took a seat as far away from the window as possible. It was cloudy out today, but I guess it was habit by now.

I stared off into space for who knows how long, thinking of Rissa and wanting to call her right now, but I knew it hadn t been long enough yet. We had only been apart for a half hour, and I would talk to her tonight. I would wait.

I didn t hear whatever question my dad asked me, but snapped out of it when I recognized my name come out of Edward s mouth.

"He's just thinking about Rissa. Give the boy a break. We've all been there. Well most of us," he defended my day dreaming.

"Well Billy, I need you to concentrate, this could be important and your going to have to put her out of your head when the time comes," Dad told me.

"Dad, I ll be fine. I was just bored and never mind"

Flight 3134 to Forks is now boarding. Please line up according to your seat number to board the plane. If you re traveling with small children, you will board first, and then all other passengers will be boarded.

Once the plane took off, I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep, with dreams of Rissa. This was going to be harder than I thought.