… I am sick. I hate being sick. It sucks. (Well, no duh, Juliann). My throat hurts if I even just swallow and I have the beginnings of a migraine. (Yeah, I get sick when I'm ON break, but not a week before!). I got up at 6:30 this morning, after going to bed at sometime around 2:30 (or maybe three…) so I am tired, and there's a gap between my brain and everything else. My friend Bus came over the other night, and she's still sleeping, and my little sister's room is super hot because we left the heater on high all night, and my friend stole the covers. The only socks I can find are orange with ghosts on them, and have a hole near the toes on the bottom. And … being sick sucks. So this is for those people who are sick too. If anyone else is. And if no one else is, enjoy NOT being sick… I know I do.

BAM!

I winced at the crash, but didn't stop. Maybe I could actually get past them this time….

I ducked as Jasper flew over me, then dodged Rosalie. Unfortunately for me, Alice hit me from the other side, tackling me to the ground. I fought back, snarling as I tried to get her off me. Emmett came over and picked me up.

"Now, Bella, calm down. It's not like we're trying to kill you or anything." he laughed. I stuck my tongue out at him. He laughed loudly and carried me - kicking and pounding his back with my fists, screaming obscenities - up the stairs and deposited me in the Alice's room. I sat indian-style on her bed, crossed my arms and glared at the wall.

Alice sat on my other side. "Bella, come on. Don't be angry… we're only looking out for you."

"Yeah, what do you think you could do against all those dogs?" Emmett asked.

You know that things have gone down-hill when Emmett starts sounding logical.

I turned my glare to him. "I thought you wanted to have a go at them?"

He shrugged. "Well, yeah, but shouldn't we have more of us to go against them?"

Great, more logic from Emmett.

"I don't want to kill them… they're only doing what they think is right."

Rosalie snorted. "Bella, that is practically impossible. If we left them alive, they'd just come after us again."

I growled. "We'd find some way to stop that."

"How?"

I decided I wasn't going to grace them with an answer.

Jasper sent a wave of calm out, but I threw up barriers around myself. I didn't want to be calm.

I wanted Edward.

Three days had passed since I revealed that Edward was alive, and I was still stuck in Denali. Alice and Rosalie had both made sure I was never alone, and had coaxed their partners into their little scheme. I was reminded of when James had been after me, and fooled me into thinking he had my mom. Jasper and Alice had never left me alone for a second then either. I'd had to resort to trickery to get away… I doubted that a bathroom excuse would work this time. For various reasons.

I pouted, and said, "Can't I be alone for one second?"

"No." they all said at once.

Dax and Kara walked into the room. "We'll watch her. You guys can go… camping." He grinned.

Emmett shrugged and left the room. Kara grinned evilly and put out her foot quickly, so that he tripped. When he looked over his shoulder at her, she smiled innocently. Rosalie laughed, and followed him out the room, giving Kara a high five on the way.

Alice looked between Dax, Kara, and me. "You won't let her get out? Or let her out of your sight at all?"

Kara nodded sincerely, and Dax said, "It'll be like lock-down."

Jasper nodded slightly, to let Alice know that he could sense the honesty in his words, and - reluctantly - they left.

I stayed on the bed, glaring daggers at the door, like it was to blame.

"So, Isa, they not letting you have your way?"

"No." I said, huffing.

Kara laughed. 'You are the baby in their family.'

I stuck my tongue out at her and signed 'whatever'.

Dax laughed. "Course, you're not anymore. We are."

Kara grinned suddenly. 'I'm older than you.'

"Oh, by what? Ten seconds?" he scoffed

'Two and a half minutes' she corrected.

I shook my head and rolled my eyes at them.

"Yeah, well, if you average it out, between our real ages and our vamp ages, I'm still the oldest."

'No.' Kara signed, and they kept at it for about four minutes, with Dax insisting that he was still older, and Kara just plain saying no.

Abruptly, they stopped. Dax laughed. "Bells, why don't you block us all from Alice's powers?"

I grinned, catching on. "Sure. Would love to." And I did, throwing up barriers around myself, Dax, and Kara. (In case you don't remember, or I didn't mention it, Bella can block other powers too.)

"So, what's the plan, my minions?" I asked.

Dax raised an eyebrow. "We are so not minions."

Kara grinned, and jumped onto the bed next to me. 'We need codenames!'

Dax gave her a weird look. "Why?"

She shrugged. 'For fun?'

I laughed. "Sure, sure. We can have codenames."

'I'm Scooby Doo!' Kara signed, going a little sloppy in her excitement.

I looked at Dax. "Why, may I ask, is she so excited about this?"

He shrugged. "I think she watched some movie with spies the other day… it must have affected her."

"O-kay." I said. "Kara is Scooby Doo. Dax?"

He laughed. "This is so stupid."

Kara smacked his arm.

"OW!"

She glared, and he said, "Alright, alright. I'll be… Bond." He laughed.

I rolled my eyes, and Kara snorted.

"Well, what are you going to be, Isa?" ha asked, sounding a little insulted that we had laughed.

I tried to smother the giggles that had started leaking out, and thought. "I'll be…uh…hm." I frowned as I tried to think of a good one.

"Not as easy as it looks, is it?" Dax asked smugly.

"Bonnie." I stated.

They stared at me, before Kara burst up laughing. 'I like it,' she managed to sign. 'The most famous robbers… and you're going to steal Edward from the mongrels!'

Dax, getting what she was laughing about, started laughing too. Soon even I was laughing, mainly at the sight of Kara rolling around on the bed, clutching her sides.

"So," I gasped out after we had - for the most part - calmed down. "I'm Bonnie, Dax is Bond, and Kara is Scooby Doo." I couldn't stop a stray giggle. "We shall be the most vicious band of robbers and jail breakers ever to walk this planet!" We erupted into giggles again.

"Ok, ok! Can we get past the code names please?!" Dax said loudly over our laughs.

I swallowed back some more of my laughs. "He's right. So… what are we going to do?"

We sat and talked for a couple hours, coming up with plans and dismissing them. Nothing seemed to be good enough.

"So, we can't just sneak you out to hunt with us, because one of them would want to come with us and it'd look suspicious if we didn't want them to." Dax said.

"And we can't keep them locked up long enough for me to get away, because they can break out or something, and there's not enough of us to hold them back." I added.

Kara was frowning, looking like she was lost in thought. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. She wrote quickly on a piece of paper - fastest communication with me involved - and passed it to us.

Why don't we combine the plans? We take her hunting - she needs to go anyways - and when one asks to join, we let them, so no suspicion. Once we're far enough away, Dax and I can gang up on him or her, and Bella is free to run. It's genius.

We looked up at her wide-eyed, and she smirked at us smugly. 'What?' she signed with wide, innocent eyes.

Nearly a week later, we put Operation G.E.B into action. (Kara had been totally into the whole spy-escape-thing, and insisted on a codename for the plan).

"Why don't Kara and I take Bella hunting?" Dax offered.

"I'll come with you," Alice said, standing up.

"We'll be back in no time." Dax said to the family, and we all ran into the woods.

Once we'd gone far enough that any fighting wouldn't be heard, we stopped. Kara and Dax turned quickly, and came at Alice from both sides, and grabbed her.

"What?" she said, surprised.

"Bella should be allowed to go after Edward if that's what she wants." Dax said. "So we're helping her. Once she's gone, we can all go back to the house. Hell, we could go right now, really."

I smiled at both my friends. "Thanks for understanding guys. I'll be back in a few days."

I turned and ran into the woods, going to where Kara had hidden my car earlier that day. I pulled the keys out of my pocket, unlocked it, jumped in, and gunned the engine, peeling onto the highway.

I'm coming for you, Edward. I'm coming.

I totally changed this chapter from what I had it as originally, but I like this one better. (And I wrote it yesterday, when I WASN'T sick.

Oh! Oh! Moonlight comes on tonight!!! Yay! Last week they just did a re-run of the first episode, and I was all "No! Stop making us wait for new episodes!" and that reminds me that I need to call my friends Lisa and Ana 'cause they want to come over new years eve (our neighbors built a bar - with 26 diff kinds of tequila - on the back of his house some summers ago rolls eyes) and there's a party, and they're not doing anything… and I'm rambling again….

Well, people, enjoy your day. It is cold here in sunny (not right now. It's all foggy. And Monterey Bay never was sunny when I went there. Always cloudy. But I like that.) California… and my mom is sick too. She gave this little bug to me. sends glare to mom, then laughs at self

Yeah… I'mma gonna stop talking about nonsense now, m'k?