A/N- sorry, this chapters a bit short :)

EPOV

"Stop . . . end! Pleease. . ." as always, the stressful state of Bella's sleep worried me. She'd been blabbering on about the same thing for eleven nights now, each day getting more and more restless, waking earlier and earlier. I was beginning to fear for her well-being. She tossed around her bed again, resting on her stomach, face flat on her pillow. I tightened my grip on the armrests of her rocking chair to restrain myself from getting up and flipping her onto her back. Was it possible to suffocate in your sleep?

She flipped restlessly onto her back again and ran her hand halfway across her forehead before resting it there. "There has . . ." she whispered, her voice trailing off. There has what, Bella? I listened intently as her lips formed themselves around new words that escaped from her soft, warm lips. "Closer, not farther. Don't run, no, no run . . . far . . . far, far . . ." she repeated. Far what? What was far? Why not run?

Every night she'd been repeating the same nonsense. Always about something being so far away. I was dying to know what this was she was speaking of, but surely she wouldn't even remember when she woke. She didn't even know I was in here. "Gone." she whispered, catching me off guard. I shifted my full attention back to Bella. She shook for a second and began to curl back onto her left side when suddenly she snapped back, shaking her bed frame with a mute thud. She gasped and her eyes snapped open.

I was lucky that the rocking chair was so close to the window, otherwise I doubt I would have made it out in time. The moment she had gasped I was up and I had fled by the time her eyes were opened. But the window, I'd left that open. Bella, I'd learned, was extremely observant, she'd certainly notice that she hadn't had the window open when she'd fallen asleep. Some small part of me hoped that the window would trigger some small familiarity about me in her mind.

I didn't have to think about where I was going, I'd run this path so many times I wouldn't have been surprised if Ii had craved a path in the ground. Of course I ran to fast for that to ever become a reality. It was long until I'd leapt over the river and approached the house, an usual high flowed through my body and I couldn't quite define why.

Alice met me at the bottom steps. She was sitting straight up with her right foot tapping speedily with excitement. I sighed. Only two things could ever make Alice this excited, shopping and meddling. Both of which I'd rather not be involved in if she was.

Almost got caught there, eh smarts? Her thoughts teased me as she rose from the step and flitted next to me as I walked inside at a human pace, planning on going and changing for school. I wonder what Bella would have thought, you know, if she'd found you watching her sleep. Probably the same as Emmett, ah crazy, obsessed vampire!

I turned and scowled at her. "Don't you have someone else to go annoy?" I snapped. She shied away from my hostility for a second before she pressed her case further. I'll give her one thing, she sure was persistent.

"Jeez, you are no fun anymore Edward." she whined, pulling out a devastated look. That might have made me feel guilty for a good maybe, decade or two, but I'd grown immune to it. Her smug thoughts were enough to break the trance.

"Sorry to disappoint."

Alice sighed from behind me as she stopped short. I ignored her and kept walking up the stairs. She's ready Edward. I suppressed a groan and turned reluctantly to face her.

"I'm not in the mood for code talk, Alice." I groaned. I disliked how she had such amazing control with her wild thoughts around me, it wasn't fair. I had no way to hide from her visions unless I decided to go befriend a werewolf. Ha . . .

"I'm going on a hunting trip with Jazz and Rosalie for the next few days," she informed me as she rocked back and forth on her heals. Was it possible for vampires to have ADD?

"And. . . ?" I hinted. I still didn't follow where this conversation was going.

"And Bella will need a study partner," she smirked triumphantly, taking in my uplifted expression as understanding trickled in. :I don't want her to fall behind on her schoolwork when she's already behind . . ."

I starred at her in overjoyed bewilderment. I quickly fought for control over my expression and tried to scowl at her. "You have to explain one thing to me though." I demanded. She raised one brow at me incredulously as her thoughts asked me what she could have possibly done wrong this time. "Why can't I show up earlier then three?!"

Alice laughed in relief. She smiled at me before she began to dance away.

You two better behave. . .