Hey guys here's the next chappy!
Previously...
"Ok guys I think we should make a move, the light should give us a good days worth of travel time. And if whatever was out here last night, well I don't want to be around it for another night" we all looked at Jasper. He was right, we did not want to have to face what we did last night.
"Alright" Emmett nodded and we all got to it. My body felt weak from the panic attack, I struggled to keep up with everyone else. Suddenly I felt my body leave the ground and onto Edward's back.
"Hold on" I didn't bother to argue with him, because in truth I was struggling.
"Thankyou" I whispered into his ear and kissed his neck. I didn't fall asleep exactly but my mind defiantly shut down. It didn't snap back until I heard the loud squeals coming from a small little pixie.
"WE FOUND IT!" I lifted my head slowly off Edward's shoulder and saw the beautiful Crystal Lake staring back at us.
"We made it" I could feel a silent tear trickle down my cheek and onto Edward's shoulder. This was the first time during this hell that I was actually crying tears of happiness. I felt Edward's arms pull me around to face him.
"We did it love!" I couldn't help but smile up at his gorgeous eye. I crushed my lips to his and kissed him with everything that I had.
And Now...
We all ran towards the lake, not bothering with our clothes and jumped into the water. It was warm and clean and pure. As soon as my head was under the water I opened my mouth and swallowed it. Clean, fresh water. My head broke the surface and I couldn't help but laugh.
Edward swam towards me and wrapped his arms around my waist holding onto me.
"I love you Bella" I smiled and kissed him.
"I love you Edward" I looked around and noticed Alice and Jasper together and so was Emmett and Rose. We were all together, we were safe.
"We actually did it, we can go home!" I smiled
"As soon as were back I'm taking you out for dinner. We can do whatever you want!" Edward was starting to get excited.
"God I'm so hungry!" we all turned and looked at Emmett who was collapsed on the bank of the lake holding his stomach. We all slowly crawled out of the water and sat back against the bank. I watched as the sun began to fall behind the tips of the mountain, it was going to be night again soon and we were still stuck out here.
"We should set up a fire" Jasper had the same thoughts as I did. I knew we were all too tired to try and walk more tonight, and it wasn't safe to go while tired not after what happened last time. By the time we had camp going it was pitch black. None of us were speaking; there wasn't much to say anymore we were all exhausted. I collapsed down next to Edward as he wrapped his arms around me, I fought with my eye lids to try and stay awake but they won over me. I fell into a dreamless sleep which I was grateful for, I didn't want any more nightmares.
When I woke up I watched as the sun began to climb of the trees and shine onto a small campsite. I listened to Edward's beating heart and his steady breathes. His face was so relaxed, so calm and serene it was as though we were back home, and that we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. His dreams were happy, not like mine had been. I slowly crawled up his chest slightly so that my face was now level with his and kissed his jaw.
I felt sneaky stealing kisses from him while he slept, but in truth I couldn't resist. He was here and he was mine. I kissed his cheek, his nose and then finally I got to his lips. When my lips touched his I felt his arms around me tighten and hold me there. His lips moved with mine when finally I couldn't take much more and deepened the kiss. I traced my tongue along his lip begging for entrance and within a second he opened his mouth and allowed me access. His arms tightened around my body moving me onto his chest. I was now all but straddling his waist and kissing him.
My hands moved to his hair and grabbed handfuls of it as he deepened the kiss. I heard his moans vibrate through my mouth and to my core. I wanted him so bad, I wanted him right here right now. I felt his hands move up and down my body as one of his hands moved up to cup my cheek. I pulled back slightly to look at him.
His eyes opened and revealed a very dark shade of green staring back at mine, his eyes filled with nothing but lust.
"Morning" I whispered. His smiled made my whole body shiver.
"How I wish I could wake up to that every day" I bit my bottom lip and leant down and kissed him again.
"Oh god my eyes! My sweet innocent eyes!" I pulled back and saw Emmett freaking out.
"Oh shut it Emmett! We do worse than that" Rose slapped the back of Emmett's head.
"Yeah but that's Bella!" I looked at him shocked
"Hey!" I shouted.
"That's like watching my sister have sex! Not something I really wanna witness!" he covered his eyes with his hands.
"Dramatic much" Rose rolled her eyes. She looked over at Alice and Jasper who were barely containing their laughter.
"Hey Alice wanna trade, mines broken" she playfully slapped Emmett's arms.
"No way, he's my cowboy" Alice wrapped her arms around Jasper.
"Alright guys who's ready to get out of here?" Jasper asked. Alice and Rose squealed, Emmett pounded the air with his fists and Edward kissed me.
"I was looking for a simple yes... but that will do" I heard Jasper say sarcastically. We had managed to pack up our remaining stuff pretty quickly, we all refilled out drink bottles from the lake and started to head back down the mountain.
"Oh god I can't wait to have a proper shower!" Alice giggled.
"Me too, I just want to wash my hair. I swear it's so dirty it's about to snap" Rose laughed.
"I just want a nice Steak! Oh with potatoes, and gravy!" I could just imagine in now. My mouth started to water just thinking about food.
"Oh Bella can you do your steak with that special sauce, oh god if there was a cow here right now I would so prepare it for you" Emmett started going on and on about which types of food he was going eat, and in what order he would eat them in.
"All I want is a nice warm bed, with my girl in it" Edward wrapped his arms around me. Alice and Rose both awed, than Rose slapped the back of Emmett's head.
"Why can't you be that romantic?"She questioned him, Emmett looked gobsmacked. He had no idea how to respond to her. So instead he did the right thing and said nothing, anything that he would have said would have made the situation worse!
We kept walking as our stomach grew hungrier, our footsteps slowed down and our desires grew larger. Jasper was carrying Alice again, her ankle was bruised from the vice she was locked into. Emmett had his arms wrapped around Rose as she walked with her eyes closed. If I didn't know any better I swear she was sleeping.
While Edward had his hand gripped around mine tightly, I stumbled a few times and he always caught me before I did any damage, or took others down with me.
"Shouldn't we be near that rock wall by now?" I heard Alice whisper to Jasper. I started to wonder, on the way up it only took us a couple hours to reach the lake from the rock hill, and now we had walked several hours and nothing.
"Yes, but we were walking a lot faster on the way up than we are right now." Jasper spoke calmly to Alice, but I could make out the smallest fear in his voice. He was worrying too, Edward's arms wrapped around me. We were all thinking it, but none of us had the guts to bring it up into conversation.
"ahhh this is complete bullshit!" we all stopped at looked at Rose. She dropped her things and screamed into the air.
"Rose..." Emmett went to hold her and she pushed him away.
"Why are we still here, we have been walking for hours, for days!" she yelled.
"We'll be home soon Rosie" Emmett tried to comfort her, but she was having none of that.
"I can't believe we're following a star, I bet you were running around in little lost circles!" she yelled straight at me.
"Hey that star was our only way to the lake!" I yelled back in frustration
"Yeah, well ever think that there is more than one lake!" I didn't argue back. Maybe she was right, maybe there was more than one lake in this stupid forest.
"Hey don't yell at Bella, she was only trying to help!" Jasper stood up for me. I noticed Alice jump off Jasper's back.
"Don't speak to my sister that way" she spoke to Jasper.
"Well she doesn't need to be such a bitch. Were all in this together! Were all stuck here!" Jasper threw his arms up into the air.
"Jaz cool it man, we will be fine. Just everyone calm down" Edward tried to defuse the situation.
"Oh here comes Mr know it all. Edward we're lost for crying out loud, and your girl friend is only making it worse!" Rose screamed back at me.
"If it wasn't for her we wouldn't even be in this mess!" I cringed back.
"Rose don't" Emmett said forceful.
"No she should know, it's her fault that we're stuck out here in the middle of nowhere!"
"Rose lay off!" Jasper yelled.
"Stop it Jasper!" Alice barked. That's when all the yelling got worse, everyone attacking everyone. I couldn't take much more of it. They were right, it was my fault. If I hadn't fallen, then we wouldn't have been separated. Than we would be back with the group, back at the hotel. They would be better off without me, I was only interfering and making things worse. I stumbled back slightly, and watch the scene before me. Friends against friends, family against family. I turned and ran, I ran straight through the trees and kept running till I couldn't hear their voices any longer.
I sat on a large rock and just cried, I cried for my friends, cried for us being lost, cried for being starved and exhausted. All I wanted to do was go home, I wanted to be in my bed. I wanted my dad here, he would always know how to fix things. I needed him right now, I needed him to hold me and to tell me that everything would be alright, that we were going to get out of here.
"Daddy!" I screamed out into the air.
"I don't know what to do, help me!" my voice was barely a whisper. I wrapped my arms around my legs and buried my face into my knees. I noticed the sky getting darker around me, the sun had quickly fallen behind the trees. It was yet to be pitch black, just light enough to see the outlines of the trees. I wondered if the rest of the group managed to find a way down yet.
Suddenly I heard movement behind me. It was the same sound that's been haunting me over the past few nights. I stood up and turned around to face the sound.
"Edward!" I heard nothing. I prayed that it was him.
"Emmett! JASPER!" I heard nothing. I turned around quickly and saw movement to my left.
"Alice! ROSE!" I felt the tears build up in my eyes. "Edward!" I screamed again. I heard a sound behind me. As I turned I heard the same sound from the other direction. I turned back.
"Whose there!" I screamed out to the phantom. I heard it again from the other side. It was my dream all over again, accept this time it was real. My dream was a warning for this very moment.
"Come out you coward!" I grabbed a large stick from off the ground, something I could use as a weapon. I saw movement out of the corner of my eyes; I flipped around as it disappeared.
"Show yourself you sick bastard!" I felt eyes burning into my back. I flipped back around and saw more movement. I saw a flicker of light in the corner of my eyes and faced it. Suddenly the light brightened, it blinded me. I tried to shade away the glare but something grabbed my throat. The light disappeared and everything was black, darker than black. He wanted to blind me, and now as I was forced back into the darkness I couldn't even make out shadows or movement.
"I'm coming to get you... Isabella..." I felt the force around my throat disappear and I couldn't help but scream out. The pressure off my throat was lifted and I scurried backwards my back hit the rock which I was just leaning against.
Suddenly I heard the whooshing of air next to me and a loud stabbing sound. I looked to my left and noticed a red dart sticking out from the rock right next to my face. My eyes widened, I jumped to feet and ran back in the direction I came from. I felt the tears streaming down my face and my adrenaline over powered me. I felt the branches of trees whipping my arms and my legs, stinging me as I ran.
"EDWARD!" I screamed out. Hoping that they were close.
"JASPER!" I screamed through my tears. I didn't see the branch in front of me as I tripped to the ground. I heard the whooshing sound again and as I looked up I saw another red dart sticking out from a tree in front of me. I cried and stood up running again. I felt my phantom on my tail, chasing me.
"Leave me alone!" I cried out. I saw a small flicker of a light up ahead, I ran towards it faster and faster.
"HELP!" I screamed. When I got closer I noticed several faces looking out into the darkness from where my voice was coming from.
"RUN!" I screamed louder.
"RUN NOW!" I cried out, I broke through the final trees and saw my friends staring back at me. I heard the whooshing sound again and I ducked. I heard a gasp, as I looked up I noticed Jasper looking at his stomach. A red dark sticking out through his shirt. He pulled it out and stared at it.
"Jasper!" I screamed out as I noticed him wobble slightly. Emmett held him up and threw him over his shoulder.
"We have to go now!" I yelled. No one bothered to argue as we raced through the trees. I noticed Alice falling behind.
"Edward, Alice!" Edward looked back and nodded. He grabbed her hand and pulled her onto his back.
EPOV
Walking down this god forsaken mountain was draining, every part of my body was aching, begging me to stop. I looked around and made sure that everyone was ok, Jasper had Alice which was happy about. He could keep her safe. Emmett held onto Rose as she walked silently. Bella clutched onto my hand with dear life, I could feel her tension through her whole body. I could tell that she was scared, we all were.
The light conversations of what we desired when we got back lightened the mood slightly, but it wasn't long until we were back to the silence.
"Shouldn't we be near that rock wall by now?" I noticed Alice whisper from Jasper's back. I could see the fear on my sister's face. I noticed the now dark purple bruise that circled her left ankle.
"Yes, but we were walking a lot faster on the way up than we are right now." Jasper spoke calm I'm guessing to try and not let Alice see how panicked we all really were. The situation we were in right now was defiantly not good. We had barely eaten, slept or drunk any water in the past couple of days, we were all physically and emotionally exhausted and it was just a matter of time before someone snapped and we were brought out into a full blown argument.
Little did I know that, that was exactly what was about to happen and Rose was the first to snap. The arguments started innocent until, they started to attack Bella.
"I can't believe we're following a star, I bet you were running around in little lost circles!" she yelled straight for Bella.
"Hey that star was our only way to the lake!" Bella yelled back stepping forward out of my grasp.
"Yeah, well ever think that there is more than one lake!" Rose snapped at her. Bella stayed silent, she stepped back, almost defeated.
"Hey don't yell at Bella, she was only trying to help!" Jasper stood up for her. Alice jumped off his back and stood right in front of his face and yelled back.
"Don't speak to my sister that way"
"Well she doesn't need to be such a bitch. Were all in this together! Were all stuck here!" Jasper threw his arms up into the air in frustration.
"Jaz cool it man, we will be fine. Just everyone calm down" I tried to calm everyone down, if this went any further it was only going to get worse. And right now we didn't need to be arguing with each other.
"Oh here comes Mr know it all. Edward we're lost for crying out loud, and your girl friend is only making it worse!" Rose screamed back at me. I tried to restrain myself from yelling back but I couldn't help it, Bella had done nothing wrong.
"If it wasn't for her we wouldn't even be in this mess!" I yelled back.
"Rose don't" Emmett said forceful.
"No she should know, it's her fault that we're stuck out here in the middle of nowhere!"
"Rose lay off!" Jasper yelled.
"Stop it Jasper!" Alice barked. T
"No Alice, she has no right to talk to her like that!" Jasper yelled.
"Rose calm down baby" Emmett tried to sooth Rose
"Don't you tell me to calm down Emmett, if it wasn't for your stupid idea in the stupid DARES we wouldn't be in this mess!" Rose yelled louder
"My fault! Would you listen to yourself, we are stuck in the forest. This is no one's fault!" Emmett stepped closer to her.
"Emmett back off!" I yelled towards him, as much as she was in the wrong. He did not just talk to her like that.
"This is no one's fault!" Jasper yelled.
"It's Mike's fault he let go of her!" Alice yelled.
"Yeah but who got kidnapped and took us on a wild goose chase!" Emmett said sarcastically.
"That was not my fault!" Alice screamed.
"Emmett don't you blame Alice!" Rose screamed back.
"Well Bella was the one who found Alice, if it wasn't for her she would probably still be locked up in the room!" Emmett screamed.
"She saved me!" Alice whined down a little. Jasper wrapped his arms around her.
"If it wasn't for Bel... guys where's Bella?" I looked from Emmett and turned around. She was right next to me a minute ago.
"Bella!" I yelled out. I turned back to everyone and they started to panic.
"Not again..." Alice panicked
"BELLA!" Jasper and Emmett yelled together.
"Where'd she go!" Rose asked starting to worry.
"Well you were yelling at her, no wonder she ran" I yelled back at my sister. I noticed her eyes start to water.
'I didn't mean – she wasn't supposed to – oh god what have I done" she started to cry into Emmett.
"It alright Rose, we'll find her I promise" Emmett soothed her than looked back at me and Jasper.
"We need to find her now, girls you stay here. Start a fire as its getting dark. Boys lets split up. Meet back here just before sun down." We all nodded and headed off into different directions.
"Bella..." I called out into the unknown. I kept calling and calling her name. I really hoped that she was ok, that she was safe. I screamed her name out again and again. I noticed the sun disappearing and started to head back. Praying that Emmett or Jasper had managed to find her. When I got back to the camp, Emmett was already sitting next to Rose.
"Anything?" he questioned me as I walked through the trees. I just shook my head. I heard movement to my right and looked over and saw Jasper walking back.
"Bella?" I asked. He shook his head. I heard Alice and Rose start to cry. The sky started to get darker by the second, and my worries didn't lesson.
"I'm going back out there" I grabbed a stick off the ground and placed it in the fire to create a torch.
"You can't Edward, its pitch black out there" Alice pleaded with me.
"I can't just sit here, while Bella is out there alone" I noticed another tear roll down Alice's cheek. I sighed and knelt down in front of her.
"I'm sorry Alice, I didn't mean to snap at you. I'm just really worried about her" her eyes finally looked up to mine and she nodded.
"I miss her Edward" I smiled at her weakly and wrapped my arms around her.
'Edward...' I heard a voice behind me. I let go of Alice and turned around.
"Yeah..." everyone looked at me weirdly.
"No one said anything..." Rose spoke softly. I stood up and looked around.
'Jasper' Jasper stood up next to me.
"You heard that didn't you?" he asked me. I just nodded. Emmett stood up next to us as we listened out into the darkness.
"HELP!" All of our heads snapped up. We knew that voice, the voice was panicked. The voice was crying.
"Bella!" we all screamed and ran towards her voice.
"RUN!" we stopped
"RUN NOW!" That's when I saw her, she was running straight for us, he arms and legs had small cuts all over. Tears running down her cheeks, she looked petrified. She ran through the small clearing and stopped. I heard a gasp next to me and looked to Jasper. He was clutching his stomach. A red dark sticking out through his shirt. He pulled it out and stared at it.
"What.." He started to fall as Emmett caught him and slung him over his shoulder.
"Jasper!" we all screamed out.
"We have to go now!" Bella looked straight at me. I nodded. Without hesitation we were all running again. I couldn't wrap my head around what I just witnessed. Jasper was hit with what looked like a tranquilizer dart. Someone was chasing us, someone was trying to get us.
"Edward, Alice!" Bella's voice broke me out of my trance and I looked back and noticed Alice falling behind slightly, she was limping off her ankle. I stopped and grabbed her hand and flung her onto my back. I heard her gasp as soon as she was on me. I looked back and noticed her eyes closed.
"No Alice!" Bella screamed but kept running. Alice was hit. I held onto her tightly and kept running. Rose tripped over a branch. When we looked ahead I noticed a dark sticking out from a tree. Rose screamed when she saw it.
"Come on Rose get up" Bella gripped onto Rose's arm and pulled her to her feet. Another dart came flying past my head as I dodged it.
"DOWN!" I yelled but I saw it hit Emmett right in the shoulder. He stumbled forward but didn't fall. He held on tightly to Jasper and kept moving, his spare hand reached for the dart and pulled it out. I felt a prick on my leg and as I looked down I noticed a dart sticking out from my calf. I looked up and noticed Emmett clutching onto a tree before he collapsed to the ground. I looked over to Bella.
"Edward!" she screamed. Her voice drowned out as my vision went blurry.
"Run..." was all I could say before I felt my body grow weak and fall into the darkness.
My next Story: Broken...
Bella has grown up in foster homes, she has been passed from family to family and each family has broken her a little more each time. What happens when she is sent to Forks to hide... Who will she meet, what past faces will come back to haunt her...
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