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Any-who... this is the next little snip-it of my fan fiction. Sorry that all of my chapters are small but I haven't had much time to really write. Though, the bright side is that I'm in the year where you get the most work and that year is all most over. Yay! Can't wait.

This chapter is quite short -sorry- but I have some plans for the direction of this fan fiction. Muhaha!

It might get ugly! lol

The Waiting Game

EPOV

I think I'd feel better if I were able to cry, to let everything out, but no. Everything was bottled up inside and punishing me. Time has lost all meaning. It has been weeks, months, maybe even a year or so, of searching for her but nothing more then before. Small signs and traces of her scent bring my hopes up only to bash them down again when the trail stops dead.

Maybe she doesn't want to be found, would she want me to look for her? My head throbbed with troubling questions that left me bewildered.

What do I do?

My family cannot help me. They don't understand, as much as they want to they just can't do more then help me search for her.

Should I give up? Should I give in and stop? I could never love anyone as much I love Bella, so how can I simply give up on her. Does she not love me anymore? Although the question stung me, a part of me knew that she hates me. Why wouldn't she? I left her unprotected against threats that always seem to find her.

Thousands of thoughts and ideas span in my skull as I sorted them in to do's and don'ts. When I was finish I'd come to the conclusion that I'd wait. I'd stay home and if she wants to find me, she'll know where I am. I hope to god that she finds me.

If she doesn't find me, would I ever cope?

"Edward?" Alice called from behind me.

I stood up from the porch steps and turned to see her stood at the front door. "Yeah?"

"Are you okay?" Fiddling with her hands anxiously, she asked with a voice full of concern as she walked down the steps to me. "You've been out here for hours. Esme wanted me to check on you."

Hearing the fact that I knew already, that my family was worried about me, was still upsetting to hear aloud. I will try as hard as I can now to not scare them ever again. "Yeah, I'll be okay."

"You're sure?" She said uncertain.

My mouth twitched to a smile for a sixth of a second. "Let's do something, to get my mind off…everything."

Alice just looked at me, studying my features. Then, a third of a second later, her face lit up into a huge smile. "Okay. What shall we do?"

I told her what she wanted to hear, and what was going through her head, "You can decide, if you want."

"Alright," she squeaked enthusiastically. "Um…" She concentrated for a while, "There's going to be thunder and lightening later…so…Baseball?"

I grinned at her, forcing myself to not remember what happened the last time we played.

Emmett appeared out of nowhere, "I heard baseball. Are we playing baseball?"

Alice beamed, "It's all up to Edward."

They both turned to me. I had to please them and they had to think that I was the old Edward, so I gave them a crooked grin, "Why waste a perfectly good thunder storm?"

"Yes!" Emmett roared and sprinted back into the house to gather his equipment.

"Will everyone else want to play?" Alice wondered to herself.

"Like you don't know already," I chuckled at her.

She just grinned, "I'll go ask them," and she was bouncing back into the house.

I turned my back to the house and gazed into the forest in longing and wonderment, wishing to see Bella appear from behind the trees for the last time of obvious hoping.

"WOO!" Emmett boomed into the silence as we entered the clearing. He registered the six pairs of eyes on him, all with different emotions. "What?"

"Would you keep it down Emmett," Rosalie lectured.

Esme gave him both a humoured and judging glance, "we don't want to be found."

"Yeah Emmett, it's what you call a 'low profile'," Alice joked.

Jasper was at her side in a second and he rapped his arm around her, "he's not one for keeping a 'low profile'." He gave Alice a quick smile then picked up the bats and the ball and started walking towards were we'd be playing.

Emmett watched after him for a moment then jogged to his side, "I don't keep a 'low profile'? When have I not?"

Jasper laughed, ""Not including today?"

"Hey," Emmett rebuffed.

I let their conversation fade in the distance.

"When do the others get here?" Esme asked.

Alice looked evasive, so I turned to her "What others?"

She looked at me with an apology in her eyes and a guilty, half smile. Carlisle answered my question, "Tanya's family were planning a visit to us, so we invited them to join us."

"Oh," I really didn't want to see them, though they are family too. I just don't think I could deal with Tanya right now, but I'll have to deal with it. "Okay."

"Alright," Carlisle nodded at me when he knew that I'd be okay with this, "when are they getting here, Alice?"

She didn't even have to think about it, "They're close. A few minutes away."

I listened with my mind and tried to find their mental voices. "They're three minutes away, they're moving fast."

"Great," Esme smiled.

"We should get ready," while he said this, Carlisle took Esme's hand and walked to meet Jasper and Emmett, who were wrestling in the centre of the green.

I cast a glance over my shoulder to the space in the trees where Tanya and her family would appear. Rosalie followed my sight, and then almost sarcastically she muttered quietly to me, "this should be fun."

For once in my entire life, at that moment, something near impossible just happened that I didn't think would ever happen.

I agreed with Rosalie.

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