Chapter Nine—
I woke up to find Edward gone and a note on my dresser. I read it and broke down. I slid down and started crying. I got a phone call then. I hoped that it was Edward.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Bella? Have you seen Alice?" It was Carlisle.
"Hey, Carlisle… no, I haven't." I was whispering this.
"Are you alright, Bella? You don't sound very good." He must not know this…
"Edward left again… he was here last night, and then this morning he wasn't. There was a note and…" I broke off crying again.
"Oh… I'll be right over, Bella…" He hung up and when he got here, I was sitting on the ground, the phone still in my hands. He gently took it and hung it up and then gave me a hug and just held me.
"He said that he wouldn't leave again… and I still have his mother's ring…" I didn't know what to think at all. Then Emmett came through the door with Felix in his hands.
"Look who I found. What have you got to say?"
"Your little girl… Alice… we have her. Aro will keep her forever; it depends on whether or not you come if she stays with him completely sane." He said, and he pushed passed Emmett and ran. Emmett couldn't capture him again.
"So, it was the Volturi…" Carlisle said. He sighed and didn't know what to do. For once, the know-it-all Carlisle was at a loss.
"So we go and get her…" I whispered. I had been training with Emmett, and no one knew. I was now stronger than a normal human.
"No, Bella, we need to plan. We…"
"I'm going." I got up and left. I walked around and then thought that I should check Port Angeles. I didn't go back to get my truck and walked there. When I was there, there were barrels with fire and dancing couples everywhere.
"I touch the fire, and it freezes me,
I look into it and it's black.
Why can't I feel?
My skin should crack and peel.
I want the fire back!" I looked up from the fire and my hand and continued on.
"Now through the smoke, she calls to me.
To make my way across the flame.
To save the day, or maybe melt away.
I guess it's all the same,
So I will walk, through the fire.
'Cause where else can I turn,
And I will walk through the fire,
And let it—" I stopped. Unbeknownst to me, though, Edward was still singing.
"The guilt I bear, it drags me down.
Bella's crying, I've no doubt.
I hope she lives,
I hope she gets over me,
I better go on back."
Aro: "'Cause she is drawn to the fire,
Some people—"
Edward: "She will never learn."
Aro + Edward: "And she will walk through the fire,
And let it—"
Carlisle: "Will this do a thing to help her?
Am I leaving Alice in danger?
Is my daughter too far gone to care?
Emmett: "What if Bella can't defeat them?
Rosalie: "Emmett here is right! We're needed.
Or we can just let him take them there…"
Rose, Emmett, Carlisle, Esme, and Jasper: "We'll see it through it's what we're always here to do,
So we will walk through the fire."
I searched warehouses while singing.
"One by one, they turn from me,
I guess my friends can't face the cold.
But why I froze, every one among them knows.
And don't need to be told."
Rose: "She is now way more depressed."
Edward: "First I'll come and then she'll cry."
Alice: "Everything is turning out so dark."
Edward: "No, she'll cry and then I'll come back."
Esme: "I think that this line is mostly filler."
Carlisle: "What will it take to strike a spark?"
Bella: "These endless days are finally ending in a blaze."
All: "And we are caught, in the fire.
The point of no return,
So we will walk through the fire and let it—
Burn,
Let it—burn,
Let it—burn,
Let it burn!"
I found where they were by looking through a window and kicked down the door.
"Showtime…" Aro said, and I walked into the room fully.
Aro actually is supposed to sing more in this, but it's hard to write overlapping parts. See? Edward is hardly gone. He is now on his way back…
