Okay everyone here is the next chapter. It's now Edwards' Point Of View.
Living A Dead Life
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY
Time Passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.
I was Dead. Physically, and emotionally.
No Bella. No me.
The only I ever left was to go hunting every few weeks, or rather it used to be every few weeks. But now...
I just let the thirst take over until it's unbearable, and I get too dangerous around humans.
I'm embarrassed to say whenever I'm not hunting, I'm curled up in a ball letting the misery take over me. I have no one to live for.
Bella has some one.
Alice's POV
Four months had past, no contact, no nothing. Edward was always dead. Last time I saw him it was about two and a half months back, he looked a wreck, thirsty for blood.
My baby, which was dew in 4 months, was perfectly healthy, carlisle had told me that when we visited him & the Denali's a week or two back. I kinda knew what the baby was going to be, but I wanted it to be a surprise for Jasper, so I kept my mouth shut-and between you and me can be very hard sometimes. Everything was absolutely perfect.
Unless you count the fact that my brother, edward, was leading a dead life, Emmett and Rosalie were half-way round the world, in Africa-we had seen them when we stayed with the Denali's-and my mum, Esme, and dad, carlisle, were in Alaska!
Me and Jasper were both well, if you count dead as being well!? Even if I was a little bit round and had a stomach like an inflated space-hopper!
A month or so later
Me and Jasper had just come back in from hunting...
When I spaced-out.
I was watching bella. She was standing on the top of a cliff in La Push.
It was not hard to convince myself that bella was about to jump off to the bottomless pit of sea beneath her, just as Esme had when she lost her little baby, but carlisle was there that time.
This time no-one could save her.
No edward to help her, their love used to be like two souls, one goal...to keep the other alive.
Then she jumped throwing herself to the sea beneath her. As soon as she hit the waves, they took her. Dragging her down, into the black pit.
I tried running but my feet felt like they were stuck to the ground...
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"Alice! Alice!"Jasper shouted. "Oh my god-don't ever do that again! You nearly bloody killed me! Oh god"Jasper hugged me and squeezed me and then kissed me full on, with a lot of loving passion.
Okay, so a little part of it was an extract, but it is at the point where the book has really entered New Moon and is unavoidable to make the story, without taking extracts.
