And this should be the last time I post such a short chapter.

Day Five:

"...Must... Find... Jacob..." Bella staggered again, finally collapsing in a heap at the foot of an old tree. She hadn't stopped running for five days, and she needed a rest. Banging into all those trees had made even her vampire skin bruise just a little.

She sighed. She would never find her love. She was doomed to wander the woods of America for days, especially since she had no idea what direction she'd been going in in the first place.

And then she had a thought... If there was anyone who could help her, it would be the Volturi.

"Yes! That's what I'll do!" she said aloud. "I'll go to Italy..."

Bella made her way back to the Cullen house as fast as possible, leaping over the trees she had toppled when her forehead had hit them on her journey out. From the Cullen house, she could get her bearings. She wouldn't go inside; she'd skirt the area and head to the airport as quickly as possible, head straight to Italy. The Volturi would know what to do...

Um, okay. It's kinda PSA time. I know it's long, but I'd appreciate if you took a couple of minutes to read it.

Let me stress first off that I'm never doing this again, so you don't have to worry about getting confronted with far more author's note than actual story in the future. I'm making an exception here.

Perhaps more importantly, I need to stress that Renaebeth_Amelia_Cullen does not know I am doing this, and she didn't ask me to.

She's not one of my readers, so she's not going to find out. I'm not connected with her in any way other than stumbling on her story, and that's kinda what this PSA is about.

What I wanted to say was: please, if you can, head on over to her story That Duck Again (www. fanfiction .net/s/5039219/3/That_Duck_Again), or any other one of her stories and review her author's note. Heck, review her actual chapters. Give her some good points about them! A slight bit of concrit! Encourage her to continue! (Just don't all do it in a rush, or on every single story, or she'll realise something's up.)

She's just as good as a lot of the people here, and her story wasn't bad! It made me laugh! So instead of reviewing this chapter, go and review HER story.

Why should you? Because we're all here to learn to write better and to have fun. As Renaebeth puts it, writing was her release. And now she feels that she can't write because she believes that she sucks. She's hurt and unhappy. Wouldn't you be? Can you think of anything worse than someone telling you that you couldn't write and that they were so much better than you?

Yeah. That's what happened to her.

She's a fellow author. A human being. And the act of doing something she loves has been taken away from her. We're all on here because we love to write, right? She's one of us. She deserves some solidarity. She deserves some encouragement.

Please, please, don't overdo the comforting, and if she's got enough reviews saying she's awesome, don't add way more that make it all sound fake and contrived (they'll make her think something's up, and I don't want that). Just offer her a simple, sincere word of comfort or encouragement, or something. Please. Do it for all the times someone's said something bad about you. Do it for all the times you hope they never will again. Do it for all the times you've been ashamed of being who you are for no good reason. Do it for the things you used to love until someone made fun of them. Do it to show the people who say those things that it doesn't matter what they say.

Do it in the hope that someday, someone may do this for you-come and encourage you with friendly, sincere words, and help you to get back up on your feet.

I'll sign off now. *crawls back into corner*