AN: Yay! I'm finally on time again xD Enjoy!

10. GONE

I waited for Jacob's call to tell me he got home okay, but all night when I waited, it never came.

Three days later, Jacob still hasn't talked to me. No text messages, no phone calls, no connection what so ever.

My worry eventually got to Charlie, who told me Jacob was just so sick that Billy wouldn't let him do anything. I knew that I should respect that fact, but I was getting so impatient. What is it that Jacob could have that would make him so sick that he wouldn't contact his girlfriend to let him know how he felt? I just wanted to hear his voice at least.

Kyle apologized about the party and I gave him a lousy acceptance. Jacob was all that was on my mind.

I imagined Jacob and me in his garage laughing before, holding hands, his lips on mine… They all seemed like such a long time ago but was really only about a week ago, almost two.

I actually noticed that Charlie was out a lot more, he'd say he was going to friend's and was checking that bear problem, so he was out of the house so much I was usually alone during the week.

Alice phoned a few times telling me about her Pokémon conversation with Jasper by text message, and I talked about Jacob. She never told my mom and dad, I was sure that the last thing they needed was to know I was off in a romance not doing my job.

I went to work finally over the week, it wasn't that bad. It was great to talk about town, it kept my mind off of Jacob.

Finally, before two weeks were up, I decided to visit. I could always bring a can of soup or something, right? Billy couldn't take care of him all by himself, especially handicapped.

I didn't tell Charlie about my plans before he left for the station again in the afternoon, Billy didn't allow anyone to visit. As soon as he was gone, I grabbed my bag that I always took with me, put a two cans of soup inside and slung it over my shoulder.

I tried not to imagine how much pain Jacob was in. Not to imagine him moaning in pain and him sweating from his high fever and his dad, by his side with worry on his face as he had a towel whipping the sweat off him. Tried, but no success.

Half an hour later, I arrived at the small red house and for some reason, a police cruiser was parked there. What would the police be doing there?

I got out of the car and saw that it was from the Forks police station, it was specifically Charlie's. Why would he lie and say that he was going to the station? Was it like this all week or just today?

I tried to stay calm as I approached Billy's doorstep, rethinking if I should just leave and come back tomorrow, it was rude to show uninvited.

I lightly knocked, no answer.

I could hear mumbles through the door. I put my head on it to listen.

"We won't stop trying, Billy. But I can't keep lying to Nessie about this." My eyebrows furrowed in confusion and I listened for more.

"You can't tell her! We both know that Nessie and Jacob really care about each other, imagine what could happen."

"Like? It looks more like love to me! She's all Jacob talks about!" What was Quil doing here?

"Now you're making things worse, Quil. If we can't find Jacob and she finds out, I lose my granddaughter!"

I stopped listening then… Jacob was missing? As in, hiding? Or he ran away from home?

I froze, nothing twitched, nothing moved, I felt numb, I could barely breathe.

I couldn't hear anything anymore, but somehow, someone knew someone was at the door and Quil opened it. His face red with embarrassment and he frowned.

"Crap." Charlie mumbled.

It was silent. No one said anything, as I stared at everyone in the room, everyone's eyes had worry in them. Either from the fact I knew or what my expression looked like.

"Where's Jacob?" I finally was able to say.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Then Billy sighed and wheeled over to me. Charlie followed.

"Nessie…" Charlie spoke first. "Jacob's… away for a while."I raised one eye brow in confusion.

"Do you know where he is?" I asked, testing to see if they were going to eventually tell me the truth. Billy spoke next after a long pause.

"No, Nessie… he disappeared a few minutes after he came home."

I expected myself to freeze in place, or faint, I actually wanted to… but couldn't. Instead, I dropped my bag and started running toward the forests behind the house.

"Renesmee! Nessie! Come back!" I heard them all shouting to me, but I kept running.I don't know why, but something told me that where ever I was headed, Jacob would be there waiting…

The calling eventually stopped, I guessed they figured I would come back soon, but I had no intention to stop, not until I find Jacob.

Jacob was all that was going through my head, pounding more than ever on me, more than this whole week. Visions of Jacob flooded my head, so much I thought I could see them.

Jacob and I first meeting, feeling that current through our hands, bringing the bikes, our first kiss, our last... They felt so far away, but were not long ago.

I kept shouting Jacob's name as if I thought he would reply back at some point.

"Jacob! Jacob! Jacob!" Was all I said, all I heard, all I saw, Jacob was everything.

I was pushing through tree branches, running and trying not to trip over anything or rip any clothing or scratch myself but eventually, my throat started to hurt and I was wheezing Jacob's name.

It was dark now and I couldn't see anything. I was tired, weak, hungry, and lonely… this time when I tripped, I stayed there on the cold hard ground and curled into a ball. I let tears fall and allowed myself to sob a little too.

I wanted to feel strong, to stop the tears and hold my head up, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything without Jacob, Jacob was my everything…

After I gave up crying, I began to think about something… what Quil said back there… Did Jacob love me? Or did I love Jacob?

The thought of me being in love with him gave me more doubt as I thought about the possibilities. I was honestly terrified of being in love, I didn't know how to do it, or even do it right. It was a fantasy, but I never thought of it coming into reality.

I thought of the possibilities, Jacob seemed angry before, no, he wouldn't run because of me. But wouldn't he have at least came to see me if it wasn't? My house wasn't that hard to find, he knew the directions, it wouldn't be hard walking.

I thought about his fever, him being sick all alone… I cried even harder than before thinking he would be dead by now.

I cried now because Jacob was gone, I cried because I was confused about everything. Nothing added up: The fever, him being gone, he seemed so weak going home, no way he could be gone and not found. He would probably still be running, but very sick by now.

I think I fell asleep but when my eyes opened, it was raining and I saw lights in the distance. They were calling out both mine and Jacob's name, it brought pain back.

There was a pain in my chest now, a broken heart, maybe worse, but it ripped through me when I thought about Jacob. Them calling his name was reminding me he was gone and it wasn't all a bad dream Jacob would wake me up from.

I wanted to call back, but my throat hurt and I couldn't find it in me to call back.

I closed my eyes, letting the rain soak me and my hair and cover me in mud.

I heard a rustle in the bushes suddenly, I didn't bother to look up, then I heard a growl, one similar to what I heard in my nightmare, same sounds and everything. But I wouldn't mind being eaten now.

The sound in the bushes stopped and were replaced by footsteps, I didn't open my eyes to see who found me though. But they spoke.

"Renesmee Cullen?" A husky, unfamiliar male voice said.

I could only nod my head.

"Can you get up?" I didn't do anything, but then the man sighed and lifted me into his arms.

He was incredibly warm, just like Jacob was. I cuddled into his chest and I found out he was shirtless. I looked up to see who it was, someone I never met before.

He had short hair, handsome face, black hair, of course, he was a Quileute. But I felt like I have seen him before, I just didn't know his name. He kind of looked like Paul from the beach.

"Who are you?" I tried to say, but came out sounding hoarse. He smirked, but didn't look at me. He was about to tell me when we reached Billy's house.

"She's fine!" The man said.

Charlie ran to us, behind him was the search party looking for me. It looked like all of Forks and La Push was looking for me and Jacob.

"Thank you, Sam!" Charlie said, trying to take me out of the man's arms.

Sam… as in Sam Uley? The leader of the cult Jacob was scared of?

"Charlie, I don't know if you can handle her. She's light to me but—," Charlie rolled his eyes.

"I was trained to do this as a police officer, I'll be fine." Sam let go of me and Charlie carried me the passenger side of my truck. He followed behind just in case Charlie's hands gave out, the rest of town followed.

"Sam, can you get some blankets for Nessie?" Billy asked. Sam nodded and ran inside the house with two other people following, one of them being Paul.

The third one stared at me while I lay in the car. He blinked a few times, shook his head and waited outside for Sam. He looked oddly familiar. I soon conclueded it was Embry, Jacob's best friend he lost to Sam. And now, I lost my best friend, but only to the unknown.

I was laying in the car for a while. Charlie was double checking with Sam to see if I was okay, I could hear everything.

"She's fine, but all she keeps saying is 'he's gone.'" Was I saying that out loud?

"Doctor Snow, meet me at my house for a checkup. I want to get Nessie comfortable before we do anything."

I didn't hear Doctor Snow's response because I heard Sam talking to the rest of his group.

"This is only going to get worse." I heard Sam whispering.

They responded in an unfamiliar tongue that I guessed was Quileute.

"He'll be back, he'll calm down eventually." Paul said in english.

Sam talked in Quileute again, not wanting anyone to know what they were talking about. But I did hear my name there. What were they talking about? I had some odd feeling they were discussing Jacob and his disappearance, but they also knew something they didn't want anyone else to know.

Before I could listen harder, Charlie asked me to tuck in my feet so he could close the door. I did so and we drove off.

It was a long night, but I fell asleep again. It wasn't that nightmare this time though. It was just a replay of me and Jacob together, so many times, so many memories.

I woke up crying when the thought of Jacob never coming back came to my head, realizing it was all only a dream.

AN: Review review! Waterworks anyone? (I didn't expect any :/)

Q. Why would Jacob run away? They only JUST started their relationship! At least let it go for a bit!

A. I actually have been thinking the same thing while writing this... Problem was that I guess I didn't want you to get too comfortable with Jacob being human, we have to move onto the next parts of the plot soon! I wish I wrote more about Jacob and Nessie being human and falling for each other as humans, but you all saw what happened in the last chapter, too late for that now, and now, we shall move on to the next chapter of Renesmee/my life... anyone wanna guess who's coming to town? (Other than Santa xD)