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The drive included an awkward silence as Renee tried to digest the information I had just fed her. I was looking at the phone's screen hoping that Alice would tell me everything would be alright.

"Bella will you carry the cooler and I'll get the chairs?" Renee's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

"Sure mom. No problem." I lifted the cooler out of the back seat and pulled the handle up so I could wheel it across the beach. Phil and packed us a few sodas and leftover food from the barbecue. We found a good location and set up the chairs and stuff.

"I'll be right back mom. I'm going to use the ladies' room up on the boardwalk." She smiled and took out her book as she sat down. I walked up to the boardwalk and took out the phone. As I was about to dial Edward, I heard my name called from the shadows.

"Bella, I need to speak with you. Please come over here." I looked towards the voice and saw Emmett standing there. What was he still doing here? Now I was really getting angry.

"Emmett! I thought you went home. What are you doing here?" I lowered my voice for the next part knowing that he'd still hear me. "The sun is out and there aren't many shaded places here for you." He grabbed my arm and pulled me into the shadow between the two bathrooms.

"Bella you need to make some kind of excuse to leave the beach." I was not going to let him say anything else until I knew exactly what was going on.

"Emmett Cullen. You are going to tell me what is going on right now. First you show up claiming that it was random. Then Edward claims he was shocked when Alice had the vision of you catching me. Now you're hiding in the shadows telling me to leave the sunny beach. I am not going anywhere until someone tells me exactly what is going on." Emmett sighed and took the phone out of my hand. He hit the speed dial.

"She saw me." Alice or Edward? "I was hiding in the shadows near the bathrooms." I still couldn't figure out who was on the other end of the conversation. "You can talk to her. I still don't even know why exactly I'm here." A few more seconds passed and he handed me the phone. "Alice wants to talk to you." Alice?

"Alice? I want answers and I want them now. What is going on?"

"Relax Bella. Emmett's just watching out for you. I told him to stay away unless you needed him. He's just not very good at hiding." Emmett growled. Obviously he could hear everything Alice was saying.

"Why did you send him here in the first place? What did you see Alice? I think I deserve to know if my life is in danger. Again." Emmett started to laugh, but he stopped when he saw that I was glaring at him.

"Fine Bella, but you have to promise not to overreact. And you can't say anything to Edward. I've been trying very hard to keep him out of my head so that he wouldn't ruin our trip worrying about you." So Edward was telling me the truth when he claimed not to know about Emmett's sudden trip to Florida.

"I won't overreact. But I want to know what's going on Alice. I'm serious."

"Sometime tomorrow you just disappear. I'm not sure what's going to happen but it's actually similar to-" she hesitated. Never a good sign. "Well, it's similar to that day I saw you jumping from the cliff." I can see why she hesitated. None of us liked to remember what Edward and I refer to as the dark times. "When that dog blocked my vision of you. This time I didn't see you jump or fall or anything. Just disappear. I knew if I told Edward he would have insisted on flying back to Jacksonville on the next plane to be there for you. I asked Emmett to keep an eye out because I knew he wouldn't let anything happen to you." At least now I was getting the truth, even if it meant I was about to disappear.

"Alice, I wish you would have just told me the truth right away. I appreciate you trying to protect me, but I don't like being lied to or spied on." There was silence on the other end of the phone. "Alice?"

"I'm sorry Bella. I really thought I was doing the right thing by not telling you. I didn't want to worry you over something that might be nothing." Another moment of silence from the other end. "Bella, the vision just changed. You and Emmett are both about to disappear." Emmett heard her because he suddenly crouched into a defensive position and pushed me behind him so that I was boxed between him and the bathrooms.

"At ease bloodsucker. I just came to talk." Jacob?

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