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Chapter 11. Escape:
In spite of my exhaustion, sleep just wouldn't come. I tossed and turned in bed, thinking about Brad. Something just didn't ad up in my mind though. What
Would have made a careful driver like Brad run off the road? The day he died had been one of the few sunny days in Forks. And what could have gone through
The back of his hand if not a piece of glass?
EPOV:
The next month and a half was hell. We all continued going to school, but it was different. Coach Clap decided to make Emmett the captain of the football team. He figured it would help us all deal if we continued the season and in a way, it did.
Bella and I didn't talk much these days, but I would catch her looking at me from time to time. She would never speak though. It was like we had a silent understanding. Alice was trying to get us all back to normal and one day she finally succeeded somewhat.
"I can't take this anymore!" she shouted, running into my room. I looked up from my homework.
"You can't stand what?"
"This! Everyone's moping around like it's the end of the world. C'mon People!" By this point, Danny, Jack, Bella, Erin, and all the rest of my family walked into the room. "Think about it. Is this the way he would have wanted for us to act? This is Brad we're talking about here. Hell, if he could see us right now, he'd probably crack some sort of joke about us acting like emos or something. Yes, he's dead," her voice cracked slightly and I saw Danny wince. "But he wouldn't want us acting like this!"
"Alice is right," Bella said. "But what are we going to do about it?"
"Bella, didn't you say you had some friends down at LaPush?" Emmett asked.
"Yes I do. Jacob and some of the LaPush boys at the reservation."
"Let's go down to LaPush for a while!" Alice had that old spark back in her eye. "We can go swimming."
"I haven't seen Jake in a while," Bella said, plopping herself down on the sofa. "I'm sure he won't mind."
"Yes!" shouted Alice. "We can all go!"
"We do need to do something," Erin said, looking up. "What do the rest of you say?"
"I think it's a great idea," Danny piped up. I nodded. The others agreed.
"So when can we go?" Alice asked.
"How about this Saturday?" asked Bella. "We'll all meet up here?"
"Sure, why not?" I spoke up. "Around twelve."
"Why would we want to meet over here at midnight?" asked Jack.
"Twelve noon you jackass," Jasper punched him on the arm and for the first time in a while, we all laughed.
Later that night, I was just about to go to bed when Carlisle walked into my room.
"Edward, we need to talk about something."
I put down the book I was reading. "What do you want to talk with me about?"
He sat down on the edge of my bed and looked at me hard. "It's your father."
Immediately, my body tensed and I clenched my fists in my lap. "Did he finally die?"
Carlisle's eyebrows drew together and he sighed. "No, he didn't die."
"Damn it."
"Edward, you're not going to like what I'm about to say. Charlie Swan just contacted me about five minutes ago. Your father has escaped from prison. We don't know where he is or anything, so be on your guard."
I jumped to my feet in fury. "God damn it! Why can't something just go right for five god damn minutes of my life? My best friend dies, now my basterd of a father is out of jail and on the loose!"
Carlisle put a hand on my shoulder. "Edward, calm down."
"Don't tell me to calm down! I'm so tired of being calm!" I turned away from him and took off out the door and ran. I ran past Alice who said "Edward. What?"
I ran past Esme, who was washing dishes in the kitchen. I ran past Emmett who was coming in from the back yard and out into the night. Faintly, I heard Carlisle telling the others to lay off for a while and was grateful. Facing people wasn't what I wanted to do right now. I ran and ran through the pouring rain, not knowing or caring where I was going. I just ran blindly until I couldn't run anymore. I fell to my knees on the side of the road, gasping for air and fighting for control. I grabbed fistfuls of my hair and pulled it hard, trying to calm my breathing down.
Suddenly, a shadow fell over me and I saw someone kneeling down in front of me. Two small, cold hands took mine and gently pulled my hair free. "Please don't pull your hair out. You wouldn't look good bald."
BPOV:
I sighed as I left the Cullen's house. Was having all of us go to Jacob's such a good idea? Probably not. Would it happen anyway? Most definitely. Because when Alice got an idea into her head, it would happen whether the rest of us wanted it to or not.
I sighed and picked up the phone, calling Billy Black. The phone rang about three times, before Billy's familiar voice came on. "Hello?"
"Hey Billy!" I shouted into the phone. Billy was one of Charlie's oldest friends.
"Bella? Is that you?"
"Yes Billy. How is Jacob? Can I speak to him?"
"Yeah sure, just hold on a minute."
I could hear the phone being passed from hand to hand in the background and then, "Hey Bells!" Jacob's voice had deepened over the past year. I didn't realize how much I had missed him until now.
"Jake! It's so good to talk to you. How are you doing?"
"Everything is great! I've got some awesome friends and I've also got a girlfriend! Her name is Lea Clearwater and she's wonderful!" he told me with a proud note in his voice.
"Jake, that's awesome. I can't wait to meet her."
"I can't wait for you to met her. So why did you call?"
"Um, well you see, I've met some friends and well you heard about Brad right?"
"Yeah. It's really sad," Jacob's voice was serious now.
"Well, Alice got it into her head that if we went down to LaPush for a while, it would help take everyone's mind off of it for a while. So we were wondering if we could,"
"Of course you can," Jacob sounded excited. "I'll invite Lea too so you can meet her. So when were you thinking about coming over?"
"How about this Saturday?" I asked, uncertain.
"That would be great! Oh, by the way how do you like your motorcycle?"
"It's the most amazing thing my dad has ever given me," I said proudly. "It runs better than anything else I've ever driven."
"Well I'd hope so," said Jacob with a smile in his voice. "I spent days on that thing."
My jaw hit the floor. "You were the one who fixed up my bike?" my voice was incredulous. I knew he worked on cars, but I didn't know he was that good. "Jake, I love what you did with it! You've got talent."
He laughed. "I'm glad you like it. So I'll see you guys on Saturday?"
"Yeah. I can't wait. See you then," I said, walking over to where the cradle for the phone was.
"Bye Bells!" he shouted and we hung up. I felt a new surge of excitement go through me. It would be good to catch up with Jacob. I hadn't seen him in over a year.
After Charlie had dinner, I went up to my room and sprawled across my bed and thought about the past month. School had been pure torture and lunch was worse because we were all sitting together in silence. The silence was strained and uncomfortable and one of us would always leave before lunch was even over. Gym and Biology were also pretty unbearable for me as well. Edward was always slumped over in the desk like he was in physical pain. We didn't talk or teas each other like we used to. It was hard for me to even look at him sometimes, but I did it anyway and wished there was something I could do to help. Over the last month, he hadn't seemed to be getting any better. Alice was worried and I knew Emmett was too, even though he pretended like it didn't bother him. Maybe the trip this weekend would be good for us after all.
Suddenly I felt like I needed a ride to clear my head. Charlie had already gone to bed, so I didn't have to worry about coming up with an excuse, I just felt like getting out for a while. I grabbed my jacket and took off down the stairs and out the door into the rain.
It felt so good to just drive. I turned my face to the sky and let the rain wash over me. Pulling back the throttle, I tore down the streets of Forks, not caring who saw me. I let all my troubles go when I drove like this. Reaching into my pocket with one hand, I pulled out my iPod and put on my music, blaring it loud.
Hold me down, sweet and low little girl,
Hold me down, sweet and low and I'll carry you home,
Hold me down sweet and low little girl,
Hold me down and I'll carry you home.
Suddenly, I saw something in the road. Fear coursed through me as I swerved out of the way and slammed on my breaks. "Holy shit!" I pulled the ear buds out of my ears and jumped off the bike.
The last thing I expected to see was Edward, on hid knees, gasping for breath on the side of the road. He had grabbed handfuls of his hair in irritation. My heart clenched painfully when I realized that I had almost hit him with my bike. I walked over in front of him and knelt down, grabbing his hands and gently pulling them down. "Please don't pull your hair out. You wouldn't look good bald."
He raised his head and I was frozen, entranced by the look in his green eyes. "Hello, Princess."
His voice was flat, devoid of emotion as he said the words. "You can't stay out here, you'll freeze. It's the middle of October."
"So?"
He looked so sad just sitting there. Tentatively, I let go of his hands and slid my arms around him. I didn't know what else to do. He didn't pull away, or tense up. He just sat there, shaking. "Your family's worried about you," I finally broke the silence.
"My family's always worried about me."
"Cullen, stop acting like a fucking idiot! Alice has lost enough lately and there's no way in hell I'm going to let her lose you because you decided to sit here in the middle of the highway and freeze to death!"
I saw the corners of his mouth twitch up. "Did you just cuss at me?"
"My god! Are you bipolar or something?"
I jumped up, letting go of him and walked back over to my bike. "Come on Cullen. Let me give you a ride home."
He stood up slowly and turned to the bike, getting a slightly sulky expression on his face. "What are you sulking about now?"
"Can I drive it?"
"Hell no," I grabbed the bike possessively. "No way!"
"Man, I have to sit in the bitch seat."
"Edward Cullen! Either you get your ass on this bike right now or I will leave you on this highway all by yourself!" I had had enough and started the engine.
He smiled slightly and stood, walking over to the bike and getting on behind me.
"Okay. Please take me home," he said, putting his arms around my waist and his head on my shoulder. I shivered at the contact, but said nothing. After all, he was only holding onto me and shielding his face from the rain, right?
I pushed these thoughts from my mind and gunned the engine, taking off down the road to the Cullen's. All the lights were still on when I pulled up in the driveway and shut off the engine. Alice, Carlisle, Esme, and Emmett ran out onto the front porch. Emmett ran forward and lifted me up into a big bear hug, swinging me around in circles. "Bella! Did you miss us already?"
They all laughed and Alice looked over at Edward. "Are you done being emo now?" she asked, concern shining in her eyes.
Edward's lips twitched again. "Yeah, I' think I'll be okay now."
"Emmett, can't, breathe," I got out and grinning, he put me down. I grinned at Alice. "Don't worry about his emoness, worry about him being bipolar."
Alice laughed and Edward shot me a look. "Hey!"
"Thanks for getting him home Bella," Carlisle smiled at me gratefully.
"You're welcome," I replied, turning to my bike. "Now, I must be going. I have places to be and people to irritate. You know how it is."
Carlisle laughed. "Bella, I don't think it would be wise for you to try to drive home in this weather. Do you want to just stay over?"
I looked at him for a moment. "What about Charlie?"
"I'll call him dear," Esme offered.
I shrugged. "Okay then."
Alice let out a squeal and I let out a groan. "Bella Barbie time!" she shouted, pulling on my arm as she tried to get me up the stairs.
"Alice, let go of the Barbie," Emmett laughed and pulled her away. "She's a human and you can't just drag her around everywhere like that."
Alice pouted, but set off to her room to get the spare bed ready.
"Thank you," his voice was so soft I wasn't sure if I had heard him right or not.
"Excuse me?"
"I said thanks for the ride, Princess," he said, turning to go back into his room.
"You're welcome your highness," I said and walked into Alice's bedroom.
Saturday was thankfully one of the fine few sunny days in Forks. This put us all into a good mood as we all climbed into Emmett's jeep, since it was the biggest car.
"If I get anything, and I mean anything on this car, I will kill all of the girls and castrate the boys. Am I understood?" Emmett asked as he drove down the interstate toward LaPush.
"All right Diva," Edward teased his brother. "Don't get your panties all in a bunch."
This earned him a slap in the back of the head from Rosalie. "Hey! I was just stating what the rest of us were thinking," Edward complained, rubbing the back of his head.
"Shut up Edward," Rosalie could barely keep the smile out of her voice. "Shut up before I do it again."
This got his attention and he was silent for the rest of the ride. When Emmett pulled up in front of Jacob's house, I leapt down and sprinted to the door, knocking on it.
"Coming!" came a very familiar voice from the other side of the door and it opened to reveal Jacob. I let out a gasp and then was engulfed in a gigantic bear hug that could put Emmett's to shame.
"Bells! I've missed you so much!" he finally put me down and I made a dramatic show of falling to the ground in pain.
"Jake, I'm glad to see you too, but if my ribs are bruised in the morning, there will be hell to pay," I threatened, looking over my shoulder to see the others laughing at my pain. "Hey! This so isn't funny! Okay maybe it is."
Danny stepped forward and helped me up. "Bella Bella. What are we going to do with you?"
"Okay now you're starting to sound like Edward," Tanya had a scared look on her face. "Danny! Come back to us!"
Edward was smirking. "I have taught you well."
"Okay people," interjected Alice. "Didn't we come here to swim?"
Jacob laughed lightly and turned into the house. "Lea, there's some people I want you to meet."
A pretty girl with long dark hair and olive skin walked out of the house to greet us. Jacob put an arm around her waist and smiled proudly at us. "Everyone, meet my girlfriend, Lea."
Introductions were made and Jacob walked with us down to the beach.
"Um, guys I'm not so sure swimming is such a good idea," I started off. "I mean it's the middle of October and that water looks freezing."
I felt a pair of strong arms around my waist then and screamed. "Edward Cullen! If you throw me into that water I will make sure you go with me now put me down!"
He just laughed and tossed me to Jasper, who in turn tossed me to Danny. "I don't think so Princess," Edward had an evil grin on his face. Danny lifted me up even higher, and threw me away from him, into the water. "You will be sorry! You will be," the rest of my tirade was cut off by the loud splash of me hitting the water.
I came up spitting seawater and thoroughly pissed off. "I will get you back for that one Cullen!" I shouted, glaring up at him from where I was floating in the water.
He laughed. "Sure you will."
I shot a grin in Jacob's direction and his eyes widened in fear. "Edward, I'd watch out if I were you. When she gets that look in her eye, something is up and trust me. You don't want to get on her bad side."
But did he listen? No he did not listen and now he will pay. The great Isabella Swan will make sure he will pay. I got out of the water and walked slowly in his direction.
"Cullen?" He turned slowly to look at me. "Your fli's open."
I saw Erin trying to hide his laughter as Edward looked down at his swimming trunks. That was when Jacob pulled open the back of Edward's trunks and dumped an entire bucket of ice into them.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" he shouted, dancing around in little circles. "It's so cold!" then his eyes fell on me. "Oh you are on evil little girl."
I smirked innocently at him. "If you had only listened to me in the first place we wouldn't be in this situation right now would we? Admit it Edward. I was right and you were wrong."
He glared at me haughtily. "First you dump ice down my pants, then you make me humiliate myself in that way? I don't think so."
"Actually, the ice thing was all me," Jacob said with a grin. Edward was still dancing around.
"Edward, if it's that cold, just take them off," Alice advised through fits of giggles.
"There's no way in hell I'm taking off my drawers right here in front of everyone," Edward said stubbornly.
"Fine, then freeze your balls off. No one cares," Danny said with a chuckle.
"Fine then," Edward grumbled. "Everyone turn that way." Then he turned his back to us, and dropped his trunks. Before I could stop myself, I darted forward and grabbed them up, throwing them into the water.
Jack and Erin were rolling on the ground by this point and Edward turned around, one hand covering his… the other pointing an accusing finger at me. "You will pay for that!"
"Oo, scary," I mocked, then went and hid behind Jack.
"If I'm so scary, why are you hiding?" he asked. I thought about that for a minute, then poked my head around him. "I'm hiding because you're kind of naked in front of us, so you might want to get your swimming trunks before they float too far away."
Edward let out a yelp and dove into the water to find his pants.
I laughed along with the others until Edward came back, with his pants on thankfully. We continued playing around in the water for the next few hours until it was time for me to fix Charlie's dinner. Alice pulled Jacob and Emmett aside to talk to them for a minute, but when I asked her what they had been talking about, she refused to tell me.
Emmett drove us all back to the Cullen's house, so we could leave from there since our cars were still sitting in the driveway. When I got on my bike, I drove around to the back and snuck in through the window. Going up to Edward's room, I removed every single pair of his boxers from the drawer and was about to leave when I heard voices coming down the hallway. Swiftly, I jumped into the closet. The door opened, then closed. I heard footsteps, the sound of clothes being thrown on the bed, then the footsteps retreated and I was left alone again. I let out a breath I didn't realize I had been holding and slipped across the hall to Alice's room, praying no one would suddenly walk out of the bathroom or something. Once in Alice's room, I scribbled a note and placed it on her desk before taking some of the underwear from the drawer. I made sure to only take the pairs she hated and wouldn't ever wear, so Edward wouldn't suspect they were her's. Then, I hid the boxers under Alice's bed, went back to Edward's room and replaced his boxers with granny panties. Then, I left through the window and drove away.
So, what was Alice talking to Jake about? What does Edward's father have to do with the plot? I will make you all a deal. Ask any question and I will answer it. However if you ask a question that will spoil the whole plot, I will answer it, but I won't like you very much, because I have an extremely complex plot planned out. Now I'm going to go and sulk because instead of getting Breaking Dawn, I was here, writing this chapter because so many of you begged for me to update soon. By the time I get to Target, there won't be any left. I may forgive you all in time though. Just kidding! I wasn't able to go get the book anyway, so I would have updated anyway.
