I lie on the floor of the carriage for what feels like hours. I watch as everything flashes past me In my mind all the dreams that taunt me. The wolves chasing me through the woods. Edward walking out of the woods before Edward and Chris starting a fight that, I jump into the middle of. Those were joined by the latest one. I was being surrounded by cloaks everywhere. No matter where I looked there were rows and rows of them staring at me. They surrounded me I couldn't move away from them. Their cloaks started vanishing and were replaced with bright and colourful dresses and suits. There are purple and blues everywhere. At the front is a flowered archway, under the arch Natalie stands with Chris. I gasp as I see how stunning she looks in her dress. It's a long dark purple dress that clings to her. It has a small train at the back and is low cut down the back. She has some purple feathers and roses in her hair. I watch as she slides a ring on Chris's hand and then he slides one on hers. They walk up the aisle and everyone starts cheering and clapping.

'Bella, Bella.' Someone shouts urgently at me the voice is familiar but I don't pay them any attention. I feel someone's hands go behind my knees and my shoulders as they pick me up and start moving about with me. I hear voices mumbled everywhere. Some voices are screaming orders while others are asking what happened. I'm placed on a bed/ I know I'm soaking wet but I don't care and just lie still. I hear two more voices coming towards me arguing over something.
'What happened?' I hear Natalie ask and I am shocked by how stressed she sounds.
'I took her to the sporting field to go for a walk. The minute she got out of the carriage she started screaming then she crumpled to the floor. I picked her up and threw her into the bottom of the carriage and bought her back. She just keeps mumbling the same words. 'Its the same'.' I can hear Chris reply as his voice breaks. I can't remember screaming. I don't even remember talking out loud.
'Her clothes are muddy and soaking wet. We need to get her out of them before she gets sick.' Alex whispers as he places a hand on my head. 'She is already getting cold. Bella sweetheart are you ok?'
'I'll do it. I'll meet you in the front room.' Natalie whispers back. I hear footsteps going away from me and then a door shut.
'Bella you need to talk to me. I can't help you if you don't talk to me.' I feel Natalie tugging around me trying to pry me loose and get my wet clothes off. She gives up after a while and I hear draws opening and closing. Then something metal against my skin as it is dragged over my clothes. I'm then rolled over and the metal comes against my skin again. Natalie must be cutting my clothes off. She never was one for messing about. My clothes are then pulled away from me and I feel a blanket thrown over me.

I drift back into my mind and see the university and Edward, My Edward. I feel my heart tear in two when my mind relives the dreams and moments I shared with Edward. The time he bought me a bribe so I would let him leave with his life as he said. The nights he had stayed with me to make sure I was safe and comfortable. I remember the time Edward and Alice showed me around Ilfracombe. The look on Edwards face when I gave him his picture. The time we spent shopping and exploring Exeter. Then there was the party Natalie invited us to and how Edward confessed to what he was. The first time he confessed that he loved me and the feelings that that bought on. I watch the faces and memories flood my mind.I realise as everything floats and swirls around my mind, that I will never see him again. I just lied there and burst into tears. I started crying my heart out and didn't stop even when my cry changed to hysteria. I heard people walking in and talking to me but I paid them no heed. I didn't care who was around me to see, none of them mattered to me - not at the moment anyway – I just wanted the hurt and pain to go away. I wanted Edward and I wanted my home back. Eventually I fell asleep in the ball I've made myself into. I let my dreams carry me away.

I walk off down a long rich corridor rich with art and historical artefacts. I catch a mirror and glance at my reflection I'm in a dark and pale blue ball gown. I twirl to look at it in the mirror. It has a silver pattern across the top that looks like stars. The top is a halter top type. I love the dress and it makes me realise how beautiful I look. I start walking again and watch as two men open a pair of large oak doors ahead of me. I walk in and look around at all the faces around me. I search them trying to find a face I recognise but they are all blank faced dolls. I feel a hand on my shoulder and jump hard. I turn around and stare into the eyes that make my heart stop and the world fade away. It's Edward. He holds his arms out for me and I throw myself into them. We start to waltz around the room. I hold him as tightly as I can. He guides me firmly then the music stops and Edward walks away from me again.
'Edward.' I call to him he turns around but keeps moving backwards. 'Please don't go. Please don't leave me.' I scream as the tears run down my eyes. I try to run faster but he keeps slipping away.

I'm shaken awake to Alex speaking to me. Leaning in over me.
'Bella. . . . . . . Bella. . . . . . It's just a dream. It's just a dream.' I keep crying as he whispers to me.
'Are you okay?'
'I'm okay. . . . I want Edward.' I scream before going into another round of panic-stricken sobbing. I hear more footsteps running towards my room.
'Is she okay?' I hear as they stop at the door. I look towards the door. I can just barely make out Marie, Natalie and Chris peer into my room through the tears. I notice that they are in Pyjamas and dressing gowns.
'I. . . . . I . . . . . I want . . . . . . Edward.' I scream through my sobs.
'Oh Bella.' I hear Natalie whisper near me as she starts rubbing my back.
'We have to do something.' Alex just keeps stroking my hair.
'I know but what can we do, until it's safe we can't let her go home.'
'Some of this has to be due to exhaustion. I think we are going to have to seriously think about giving her a sedative or sanding her.' Chris responds from the doorway.
'That is not the answer Chris.' Natalie barely raises her voice but I can hear the anger in her tone.
'Come on sweetheart, let's get you back to sleep.' Alex whispers as he helps settle me back down. I start to drift off when I have a strange dark dream.

'How did you get here so quickly?'
'I'm living on Bella's couch. I get up before she notices.'
'Alex.' Natalie and Marie gasp at him in shock.
'I have to look after her I am the reason she is stuck her. This is entirely my fault and no one else's.' I can hear his voice demoralized by what is going on.
'Ummm, Just voicing ideas here but could we get her in front of the council. Let her tell them how she feels see if we can't send her home.' Marie was speaking now.
'It's worth trying. Maybe they will consent to allowing us to give her a guard. Then she can go home.'
'I doubt they will let you do that.'
'We need to do something before this destroys Bella.'
'I'll talk to the council tomorrow.' I then hear the door click and am enveloped into a peaceful dream of love and joy with my sister by my side. This dream doesn't bring on the fear as I stand surrounded by my family and friends.

I wake up at midday again feeling ill and nauseas. I hobble around my room. I keep walking around today as I feel lost in what to do. At around four I finally decide what to do. I will escape the brambles and go home. I run to my room and grab a few things before I head downstairs flicking my shoes and a coat on.
'Where are you going?' someone angrily shouts at me. I keep running through the door as I try to escape the Brambles. My aim is to get out of the place that traps me. I have to get out of here I chant to myself as I keep running. I make it through the front door and see freedom about me. I run into the nearby woods and keep running away. I stop after what seems like hours. I stand straight and take a deep breath of air letting my lungs fill with the clean countryside air. It starts to drizzle slightly and I lift my face to the rain. I feel the rain wash all the stress and pain away from me. What do I do now? I try to think of where I am and I have no idea. I decide to just put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward till I find a road and then find my way home, my way back to Edward hopefully. I keep walking and imagine my time with Edward. I picture myself in the dance studio learning to do a new dance or in the ceramic studio. Slowly I start to notice the pain and exhaustion sink into me again.

I notice my legs starting to hurt and I'm struggling to keep my eyes open. I keep moving forward till I start falling and tripping over things. Finally after about another hour I give up and sit down on a nearby tree root. I start to wonder why I decided to do this in the first place and then I remember Edward. I start to cry again. At some point I fall asleep against the tree trunk. It's peaceful for a while till I wake up and look up at the sky for the first time, it's pitch black apart from the stars. I have no idea what time it is but I can just about see the full moon right above me. I smile to myself and start walking again. 'I am going to get home' I say to myself with my new found motivation. I stop in my tracks when I hear a loud growl. I look around me and think I am imagining it. After a few minutes I see a pair of eyes come out of the bush. I get to the nearest tree and start climbing. I get up as high as possible in hopes that I am higher than the animal can get to me. I look down as it emerges from the bush. I gasp at the giant brown wolf and then climb up higher into the tree. I look down and the lone wolf is now joined by two others. I hug the tree tightly and stare down as I wait for the wolves to go away.

They circle the tree a few times and then lie down. I try to work out what I can do to get rid of the animals. I sigh and lean back as I settle in for a long wait. There is something about those wolves that is bugging me but I can't put my finger on it. I look up at the stars and think about home I look down every now and then to find the wolves still looking up and watching me. After half an hour they get up and bound away I start to skimmer down the tree and then I hear my name being called. I stop moving and wait. A few minutes later I see people in purple cloaks walk past me.
'Bella.' I close my eyes and prey no one looks up the tree and sees me.
'Bella.' I move as close to the tree trunk as possible and hold on tight. I watch as the torches move around the floor. I think they are just about gone and prepare to come back down when one of the giant wolves appears and starts barking at me. I freeze hoping no one thinks anything about the wolf and keeps walking away.

I'm out of luck as I hear footsteps running towards where I am hidden. The wolf sits down and bows his head one of the cloaked figures scratches his head and asks 'what's wrong?' The wolf then looks straight up at me and the person next to him follows his eye line to see me.
'Bella.' The voice gasps.
'Damn.' I mumble.
'Bella get down here.' She then turns to the wolf. 'Seth, go get Natalie and Alex.' I thought it was stupid to talk to a wolf like it understood but the wolf bowed it's head and ran in a different direction from us.
'Bella, I told you to get down here.' I shook my head. No way was I getting out of the tree. I wanted to go home.

'Flo, Where is she? Is she hurt?' Flo, so that was the woman's name. The clearing started to fill with cloaked people as a small group ran in to the space around the tree
'She seems fine. As for where is she.' The cloaked Flo pointed up the tree at me.
'Bella get down here now before you fall.' Natalie screamed as she took her hood off.
'No' I screamed back at her as I shake my head. There was no way I was going back. I wanted my home.
'Bella please.'
'No' I screamed again as the tears started to show themselves.
'If you don't come down we will have to send someone up there for you.' The voice belonged to a man I guessed by how deep it sounded. I just kept screaming 'no' I couldn't say anything else as I fought the tears back.
'That is not the answer George.' Natalie reprimanded him before turning back to me. 'Bella, what's wrong?'
'I . . . . I. . . . I want to go home.' I screamed as the tears escaped again.
'I know Bella. Honestly I do know.' I held the tree trunk tightly as I sat there crying. I felt the tree branch move slightly and then a pair of hands grasp my shoulders.
'No. I want to go home.' I screamed again. I held on to the tree trunk tighter but the person was pulling me to them so roughly. I couldn't fight them off.

I felt my body being moved into a ball and then we just dropped out of the tree. I had lost the fight. I started crying harder till I felt the needle go into my arm.
'We have to do something other than drugging her.'
'Give her to me.' Alex was here too? His voice sounded so hurt and in pain. I felt my body shuffle and then I was pulled to his chest
'Sorry Bella.' He whispered. I drifted off into a drug induced sleep. I felt very peaceful as I dreamed about all the happy little moments I had experienced with the Cullens.

I woke up back in my bedroom at the brambles. I got up and headed to the door. I pulled on the handle but it wouldn't move. Damn I was locked in. I went to the window and saw I could fully open it. I grabbed the sheets off the bed and started cutting them into strips before weaving them together once my rope was long enough I tied it one of the posts on the bed and threw it out the window. I climbed down the rope and got to the ground. I crouched low and quickly took my surroundings in. I was at the back of the brambles and less than 20 meters in front of me was the woods. I started running straight to the woods. I was half way to the woods when I was caught again. A blond hair guy in shorts came out of the woods. I look horrified as we stared at each other. A few seconds latter he was joined by six others. I started running between them and the brambles to try to escape.

'Isabella.' One of them shouted but I didn't look back. I just kept running till I found a set of arms wrapped around me. They lifted my feet off the ground so I couldn't move.
'Isabella , stop fighting me.' the person behind me ordered. 'Someone go get Hateya' He shouted behind him and then I heard footsteps and tree branches moving. I kept fighting him off.
'Do you want a hand with her Josh?'
'No I got her.' He grunted out.
'Okay. I wonder how she got out on her own.'
'I don't care how she got out. I like her. She's fun.' A younger shy voice replied from behind them.
'What's up Josh?' I heard from the trees.
'Josh needs Isabella Swan knocked out again. She managed to escape her room.'
'Well she sure is determined to go isn't she.' The woman chuckled.
'Isabella, stop fighting me before you hurt yourself.'
'Here let me.' the woman spoke before I felt her blow a odd dull brown powder into my face. I managed to stay awake long enough to feel us drop and Hateya mumble 'Damn I over did it again.' before lots of laughing and someone snoring behind me.