A/N: I would like to dedicate this chapter to mattybabe, who lives in England and can't wait till it's 8 o clock our time to read the 21st chapter. This one goes to England!!!!!!
Bella's POV
It was 2 days after Alice left, the phone kept ringing. I got smart this time, and didn't answer. Other than than everything was fine. I knew that in about 5 days, everything would be solved and I would be in Edward's arms. Until later that night...
A hard knocking on the door brought me out of my daydreams and fantasies of Edward. This I hide behind the sofa and I felt my mind go blank, but I fought it. I stayed there for a a minute or two and I was about to call Edward when I heard his voice. It was a voice that had hauted me for days and when I heard it, it took all my strength not to scream. I thought Alice would saw him coming in week! How could it be possible?
"Bella, I know you're in there. Come on now, don't be that way. Just come out, before I go and get you myself." his voice was creepy-calm and it scared me. None of this made sense at all! When I didn't answer, he sighed and said "Ok. Ready or not, here I come." and he kicked the door down and it fell with a big thud. I stopped breathing in an attempt to make myself unknown to him. But I soon realized he knew I was here and he had planned all of this. I didn't know how, but somehow, he had fooled Alice. I decided I had to rise to the occassion and fight him. Now I knew what to expect and now I would not freeze. I would win.
"Here I am." I got up from my hiding place and walked towards him. "I am ready now. It has to end." I tried to control him, even though I knew it wouldn't work; I still had to try. It didn't work of course, but then I couldn't move. I could control myself. In trying to freeze him, I had frozen myself. How could that have happened. I was powerless now! I couldn't defend myself. It was over.
"Bella, I thought you'd know better. That doesn't work on me. Actually, you just froze yourself." I could even move my lips to ask how. But he could tell I was curious. "It will all be explained later. But until then," he took me in his arms and carried me through my now broken door. "you're coming with me."
I can't really remember what happened after that, but I remember arriving in a dark room, against the wall. It felt like I was tied up or something, but it turned out I still just couldn't move. My eyes wandered, trying to find some light, or something to let me know what was happening. But there was nothing.
Only darkness
I stayed where I was for hours before heard foot-steps, followed by a dark and malicious laughter...
Edward's POV
Alice came back (from Bella's no doubt) confused. I asked her what was wrong.
"Edward, what does James's mind tell you?" she asked.
"Uh...let me check." after a while I found out that.. "he's waiting a week to find Bella?" I asked more myself than her. "That's odd."
"Yes. I just had a vision of that. I thought something was wrong." she was shaking her head. "It seems unlikely, that's all." I knew how Alice hated the future to be confusing to her. She was so used to knowing everything, that even if one little thing didn't make sense, she'd get very confused.
"Yeah well, if anything happens, Bella will call." and she would. And if nothing was wrong, she'd at least call to say hi. There was nothing to worry about, or so it seemed...
2 DAYS LATER
About an hour to two later, Alice had another vision and she ran into my room gasping.
"Alice? What changed?" I asked frantically. "Alice what happened?"
"Bella...James has Bella!" she almost screamed. "How could this happen? I was sure...and you saw his mind! One week!" I felt my whole body turn into stone and I felt my instincts going into over-drive.
"What is he doing? When will he get her?" I was already putting on my jacket and grabbing my keys.
"Edward! You don't understand! He has her NOW! In some place I don't even recognize and she can't even move!" she ran after me as I went downstairs.
"What?" I stared at her incredlously. "How long has he had her?" I was furious with myself. How could I let this happen?
"For hours." she answered. I began walking outside.
"How could I let this happen?" I yelled at myself.
"Edward, it's not your fault" she stopped me. "He just outsmarted us."
