"Alice?" I called out a few times. "Alice?" I called even louder, I was extremely worried.
Alice was almost always in her stateroom. If she wasn't with me or Jasper then...Jasper.
I ran out of the room and down to third class. When I reached their room I knocked on the door. Jasper answered. I remembered what Alice had told me about Jasper, that he could control and sense your feelings. But that if you were careful and didn't show any emotion on your face that you could lie about how you were feeling.
"Bella? What are you doing here?" He asked with a smile.
"Nothing, I was just looking for Alice I thought that she might be down here with you." I smiled back.
"No, but she was just down here a while ago."
"Really did she say where she was going?"
"Nope she just said that she wouldn't be at dinner. That she would be busy."
"Oh well, I hate to admit it but I won't be at dinner either."
"Why not?"
"Um Ben and I are going to talk about the wedding and things after we reach New York." I looked up to notice that there was a clock on the wall.
7:55.
"Oh."
"Well, I've really got to get going. Ben hates it when I'm late."
"Okay. Goodbye."
"Goodbye Jasper."
I walked away. I waited until I heard the door close from his room, then I ran.
I ran all the way upstairs and to the front of the ship. Apparently I was too worried to be clumsy.
When I got to the front of the ship, no one was there.
I sat there, leaning over the rail as I waited for J. to come for me. I still didn't know who he was, and I wasn't planning on spending my last moments thinking about him. I could think about the benefits of dying. If there were any , I could only think of one. Ben. I wold never have to see his face again. I wouldn't have to worry about the pressure of marrying him, and I would never have be abused by him again. The down side, wold never being able to see Edward or Alice again. I loved them both, each for only a shot time. I-
"Bella. Bella. Bella." a voice laughed from behind me. I turned around to see a farmiliar face, I couldn't place him tough. But whoever he was, he was holding a knife, to Alice's throat.
I could tell that Alice was cyring, her head was pinned up against his chest. His arm was around her stomach holding her to him. I didn't know what this had to do with me, besides that Alice was my best friend, but I know that I had to at least try to stop him.
"Don't you dare hurt her. I-"
"You what?" he was suddenly holding a gun.
I stared at him in horror.
"What? Oh this." He turned the gun around on his finger. "Don't worry. I'm not gonna hurt you. Alice is." he smiled at her darkly. She looked completely an totally defeated. He put the gun in her hand and then made it so she was pointing at me.
"Alice? What's wrong? Why do you even care if she dies, would you rather it was your life." he tightened his grip on the knife and pulled it in closer to her neck. I knew that I didn't have anything ahead of me, if I was truly going to marry Ben. But Alice did. She loved Jasper and he loved her. They would end up together if Alice got to live through this.
"Alice." It wasn't until then that I realized I was crying. "Shoot. You deserve to live more than I do."
I knew that this was alot of pressure on her. We had only known each other for a few days but we had a live time of experiences together. We had even talked about moving in with each other when we got to New York.
"Just shoot, Alice." I mouthed.
"Either shoot ,or you'll both die." the man said from behind her.
"I can't." Alice said her voice was weak and more tears streamed from her eyes.
I wasn't positive if it was from the knife, or that she was crying so hard that her voice cracked. I had never seen Alice like this. I remembered only a few days ago when Alice was my cheerful new friend. Always welcoming and thoughtful. I felt as if I could trust her with my life. And it seemed almost surreal that that was the same girl standing in front of me with a blade to her throat.
"Fine then. It's your funeral, not mine."
Just as he was about to jab the knife through her neck. I heard a gun fire and the thud of his body on the floor boards.
Alice jumped back in time for the knife to miss her throat.
When the man was laying on the ground in suddenly became abundantly clear to me that the man, the same one who's goal was my death only a few moments ago, was Jacob. So that was why I didn't know exactly who he was at first, I had tried to forget his face forever.
When I focused my eyes I saw that Alice was standing a few feet away from the dead body, holding a gun.
She had killed Jacob.
I guess when Jacob let her arms free she had enough control over them to reach back and shoot.
I ran up to her and hugged her. I knew that wasn't easy for her. Taking a life could be a bit stressful to a person.
"Bella, what happened?" a velvet, yet frantic voice said from behind us. I knew the voice well.
It was Edward's.
I looked up at him.
"Where's Jasper?" Alice asked after she wiped her tears. Her voice still weak.
"He's in our room." He said not taking his eyes off of me.
Alice ran off to third class.
I walked to him, which eventually turned into a run.
I hugged him. I felt the coldness of his skin through his shirt. I thought that I would never had been able to feel his body against mine again. I thought that when I left Edward in my stateroom earlier that that was the end. I thought that when Edward was holding me earlier, that would be the last time that I would lay my head against his chest and just sit there with him. I thought that when Jacob had Alice hold the gun up to me, that I was dead.
I began to cry even harder tha I was before. I knew that no one would care. I looked up at Edward, he was looking at me too.
His eyes bored in to mine. And I realized that our faces were only inches from each others.
Our lips crushed into each others. His lips were as cold as stone as I had expected them to be. Our fingers intertwinded. His other hand brushed across my jaw line and then played with my hair.
He suddenly pulled away leaving me terribly disappointed.
"We have to leave. Now!" He said frantically.
"What why what's wrong?"
"Ice Burg!" The man in the crows nest called out as the bell rang.
"Ice burg ahead!"
"Oh, that's why." I said simply.
"Come on!" he grabbed my hand and ran to where the lifeboats would leave. Vampire speed of course.
"No Edward stop!" he put me down but was a few feet ahead of me.
"Why?"
"Alice, she went to go get Jasper, in third class. You know what will happen to them!"
"Bella, there's no time! Jasper will take care of Alice don't worry about them! I promise they will be fine!"
"No Edward if you won't take me I'll go myself!" I began to go to third class when I heard him behind me. I was then on his back as he ran us both down to third class, taking the shortest route to his room.
When we got there I saw Alice and Jasper kissing outside of his room.
"Alice, Jasper, we have to leave now!" I said as soon as we were in earshot.
"What?!" Alice said. She was clearly upset with my interruption.
"There's and ice burg the we have to get to upperclass now!"
There were many people in the narrow hallway. They were all yelling over each other. I had never seen so many people yelling like that in my life.
"Bella, the ships unsinkale. Nothing is going to happen!' she put her hands on my shoulders.
"No we have to leave!" Edward said.
"If this was just a drill they wouldn't go to such extreme lengths. The ships going down and there's nothing we can do to stop it!"
We ran to the end of the hallway where we could most easily get first class. There were so many people that Edward and Jasper couldn't really run, in fact no one could. There was too much shouting for people to hear other people shouting.
The hallway was starting to clear up, people were trying to get as many things from there rooms as they could, we could see the end of the hallway, there were still too many people in the way to charge it.
Then, just as they could have slung us on their backs and made a run for it, there were two men. Closing off the doorway with metal gates.
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