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Forks 98331 Chpt. 20 Part Two:

Charlie did not like what he was about to do but it was necessary. He had the proper papers in his hands to search the Rutledge premises for the crown that had struck Rose's head as well as any other evidence he might need in order to arrest Miranda for the part in the accidental death of her sister. He knew from Alice's account that she had been angry but had not meant to kill her sister when she shoved her. Still, he had to make the arrest and take her statement then let the courts decide what to do with her from that point.

Ringing the doorbell he stared into the grieving face of Mr. Rutledge as he handed him the document with his two deputies behind him, he explain to the father why he was there. He watch as the rage cross Mr. Rutledge's face.

"It's my job sir." Charlie look down and inhaled a sharp breath as the owner of the house began spatting ugly words at him.

Charlie nodded at his men as they push Mr. Rutledge aside and began the search.

Riley had just ran up from his jog when he witnesses the police at his house, heard his father screaming profanities he did not know was even in his father's vocabulary. He heard enough to know that somehow Miranda had been involved in the death of their sister.

He had wondered about it when he first got home. Her strange behavior. The text messages and emails he had received from Rose a few days before her death. If he were to take a guess he would bet that Miranda's mental health problems had return.

It hurt him knowing how worse off his parents would be when they took Miranda away from them. They needed her more than ever now.

Opening his phone he dialed Miranda's number. He needed to warn her. He needed to get her into a mental health facility before the police could arrest her. Maybe the courts would show her leniency if they saw that she sought out help on her own.

She did not pick up. Frowning he knew she had gone to meet Alice today. She told him so when they cross each other on their way out of the house early this morning.

"Miranda, it's Riley. Do not go home. The police are there. I need you to meet me in our secret meeting place from when we were kids. I know you remember it. Hurry get straight there when you get this message."

Riley closed the phone and snuck into the garage to grab his bike. He had not rode on the ten speed in what felt like a million years. Slipping out of the garage and down the sidewalk he began to ride in the direction where he hoped like hell Miranda would be waiting for him.

Miranda drove slowly listening to the music from her radio wondering what Alice had said to the police. She had found it odd that the sheriff had not spoken to her after he had specifically set up an appointment with her the day before the funeral. She knew that Alice had been the last person to speak to him. She had someone spying for her. It was one of the perks of being beautiful. Nerds would do anything for a kiss or a little bit of attention from her. Rose had taught her that.

She squinted her eyes underneath her shades as she spotted Alice and Edward talking together on the sidewalk outside of the Starbucks where they were suppose to meet this morning. She had a bad feeling when it came to those two. They were spending a lot of time lately talking alone.

Miranda was naïve in some things but at the moment she was on alert. She suspected they were up to something. She knew they both were completely aware of her lack of medication. Was it possible they were planning on telling her parents? They knew if they did what the results would be. Her parents would have her locked away again. How could they call themselves friends of hers if they did that to her? They were not friends but enemies as far as she was concerned.

Turning the radio down she heard a beeping sound, alerting her she missed a call and a message was waiting for her. Picking up the phone she listen to Riley's frantic voice. Slamming the phone down she knew without a doubt that Alice had turn her in. Why? Why did Alice tell the cops she was off of her medications? Why would they arrest her for that? It did not make any sense? Still, Riley was scared enough to want her to meet at their private place. Their one safe haven.

She watch as Alice made her way across the road, Revving up her motor she watch as Alice look both ways as she began to cross the pavement.

How could Alice call herself her friend and turn her in like that? She deserved to be punish for hurting her. Now her whole life would be gone thanks to Alice.

Pulling out of the parking lot, she push the gas pedal down with all her strength as she ran her car straight into Alice's unsuspecting body and watch as Alice flew up in the air a few feet and then slam down on the pavement a few feet away. She heard the screams but kept driving. She could not afford to be caught doing this. NO, she was already in enough trouble. Still, she had to admit not being on her medications would be the best defense for what she had just done. She laugh loudly like a mad woman as she drove turning up the music singing as loud as her vocal chords would go.

Edward rush to Alice's side as he dialed 911. Alice's body laid limp as he knelt down by her.

"Alice! OH God!" He look up and down the road as bystanders jump out on the road stopping traffic from running over him and Alice as they waited for the sound of sirens to inform them that help was on it's way.

Edward could not believe it. He saw it with his own two eyes. He knew that car. He saw the tags. It was the very car that he had made love to Miranda on. Miranda had just ran over her best friend. The girl had gone insane.

She was a danger to anyone she came near now. There was no turning back. She was lost to them. Edward felt his heart hurt as he thought about how he play his own part in her insanity. He should have told the Rutledge's at the funeral the day before. He should have been man enough but he had failed her. He was so worried about losing her friendship that he did not consider the danger she was to others and now one of his closest and oldest friends laid on the ground next to him possibly dead.

Charlie put the crown in a evidence bag. He was about to leave the young woman's room when he saw a familiar bag in the far back of her closet. Pushing the boxes of shoes aside he knelt down picking up his daughter's book bag. Opening it up he found her phone and other personal belongings. He now knew that Miranda had been the one who had stolen Bella's bag. Was she the culprit who hit Bella over the head as well?

Stepping out of the room with the bag he watch as Miranda's parents held one another weeping.

"This is my daughter's bag. It was stolen." He explains as they look at him with a puzzled face.

"Our daughter would not steal. She has everything a girl could want." Stephen shouted furiously.

"I don't think she wanted it for her own pleasure but to torment my daughter." He explains as he watches the couple look at one another before glancing painfully at him.

"Was Miranda not taking her medications? We found several empty pill bottles under her bed?" Charlie had a bad feeling that they were unaware of their daughter's returning mental issues.

Alice had mention that as a friend she was not sure how to tell the girls parents that she was not taking the medicine necessary to help her stay focused and less agitated.

"What?" Stephen step up as Charlie handed them the bottles.

"NO!NO!." Stephen threw them down the hall as his wife came up behind him wrapping her arms around his waist. Her head in his back as Stephen covered his face with his hands, weeping loudly.

"I take it you were not aware of it then." Charlie spoke gentler as he watch the couple fall apart in front of him.

"No." His wife spoke up from behind him.

"How dangerous is she when she is not on these medications?" He had a gut feeling he knew it was bad but he had to hear it from them to confirm his fears.

"She can't think …clearly. She gets furious. Very angry. Easily." Stephen answers as his wife sobs heavier into his back.

"So we need to find her fast." Charlie made a quick call to put out a search for Miranda Rutledge. If located she was to be brought into the police department for detainment.

"Are you serious?" Charlie listen as Sue inform him of the hit and run down main street. He had a bad feeling that Miranda might be involved in this. This town was not exactly famous for it's high volume in crimes.

"It looks like Miranda has hit someone and left the scene." Charlie warn the parents. Stephen shove his wife away as he slam his fist into the wall so hard that he put a hole as big as his fist in it.

"We will find her." Charlie warns them as he leaves them alone to grieve for the loss of not one but two daughters.

He could still hear them both sobbing as he step out the house.

Bella was a little less stressed knowing she was going to meet Jake in a few minutes. She needed some alone time with her boyfriend. Boyfriend. She giggles inwardly at the joy of saying that word even if no one was around to hear her. She was totally and irrevocably in love with Jake. She could not imagine being with anyone but him.

Everything about him was warm and sunny. He was like a big ball of light. A sun. Her sun.

Her shoes were pressing against her heel rubbing a small blister. She had put on the new shoes, a gift from her mother before she left the house. She had not considered they were new and would need to be broken in when she began to walk into town. Brenda had offered to give her a ride but she had declined. She wanted to enjoy the last few days of warm weather. It was going to be cold in the next few days. The weather forecaster had predicted winter was on it's way as scheduled for this time of the year.

Pulling her hood back she look up enjoying the rays of the sun as it warm her pale face. She remember the times she use to complain about the unbearing sun in Arizona. Now she knew how to appreciate the less frequent days of sunshine. Here it was most likely to be cloudy than sunny.

She was starting to approach the main stream of town when she look across the road at the business buildings that she had not paid much attention to before. She was always busy, never had much time to look and see what was around her. She saw a book store that look interesting. She saw a nail place. She look at her hands and grimaced at the shape of her nails. She use to take better care of herself. Laughing at the thought of one of her friends seeing her hands and how her nails were bare from paint they would have a cow. She continued to walk when she spotted a bar. Frowning she did not know that Forks had their very own bar.

She realized that every town must have a place for guys to join up and get shit faced. She look at her watch and thought it odd that so many vehicles were already parked there for a few drinks. A truck pull out as she made her way across the street. She spotted a red motorcycle parked on the side of the bar. Her heart froze. The air in her lungs were like icy pricks. She choke.

Was it James? Surely, red motorcycles were owned by more than just one person. Her heart unfroze as she watch as a tall blonde headed guy walk out of the bar wearing a smug smile with a tiny brunette by his side. The woman was giggling like a fool while he handed her a helmet. Bella squinted her eyes trying to get a better look at the helmet. She saw the letter B clearly painted in hot pink on it. Her heart began to pump, her pulse escalated. Taking off in a fast run she felt her body screaming to leave.

Trying to escape being seen by James was harder than she imagined. The park was around the corner. She was a open target as she continue to run despite the pain the shoes were making on her heels.

She had to get to Jake. She had to warn him. NO! She could not tell Jake. If she told Jake that James was here and he found them, he would want to fight James. He would feel the need to protect her. That was the sort of guy that Jake was. As much as she loved that about him, it would also be the one factor that would cause a big fight with James. A fight that would end up putting both of them in harms way and possibly jail time.

Bella could not let Jake get involved with her past. James was her problem. Her shameful past. Not his. She could not taint Jake with it. He was too pure. She was not the one who had the black mark on her soul.

If Jake discovered all the shitty things she had done to others, all the drugs she had taken to please James, how pathetic would she look in his eyes? Pretty bad and she knew it. She could not afford to lose Jake like that. She already knew how he despised girls who acted horrible. Would he believe that she had really changed that much in the short time she had been here in Forks? She seriously doubted it.

Jake was always the good boy. A freaking boy scout. He would not want to be associated with a girl who had blackmailed her friends to do what she wanted. He would see her as a twin to the one girl he had despised more than anyone else. Rose. Yeah, she was just like her, once upon a time.

A car pull up in front of her almost hitting her.

"Hey where is the fire?" A familiar voice called out as Bella glance down at the driver. It was Miranda. Bella was not sure if this was a good or bad sign.

"Hey." Bella greeted her as she made her way toward the passenger side.

"What's the rush?" Miranda ask curiously, checking her rear view mirror for any signs of local authorities hunting her down. Seeing no threat at the moment she found herself contemplating a plan as she look at Bella's flushed face. She realize that none of this would have happen to her had Bella Swan not come to town. Everything was perfect before she arrived.

"No rush. Just meeting someone and running late." Bella was not sure why but she stop herself from saying Jake's name. She did not want to cause Miranda anymore pain. She knew the girl was suffering like hell as it was.

"Oh, well ….would you mind. No." Miranda look away as she considered how she could get Bella in the car with her. She knew she was playing a dangerous game just by still being in town but she could not resist the temptation that was screaming in her head.

Take her. Take her with you. Hurt her. She deserves to be hurt like you have been. Why should she walk away unscathed?

"What?" Bella look intrigued as she lean into the car closer.

"Would you mind helping me with something?" Miranda chew on her lip, trying to look as sad as possible. She knew the only way she would get Bella in her car was to play the grieving sister role.

"Welll…." Bella look up and down the road, checking for any signs of James. She did not see the threat of running into him anymore. She also sense that Miranda was struggling with something and truly needed a friend. Bella had once considered herself a friend of Miranda's.

"Please Bella. I have to take some of Rose's clothes to a Goodwill. My mom insisted I do it. She just …well…it was killing her." Miranda made tears fill her eyes as she look at Bella with a earnest grim smile.

"I guess I could." Bella look toward the backseat and noted it was empty.

"I have them in the trunk." Miranda reply understanding why Bella look a bit suspicious after seeing the backseat empty.

"Oh." Bella open the door and hesitantly slip inside the passenger seat.

"Put your seat belt on." Miranda says as she revs up the car and flies out of town.

She had to hurry. Riley would be there soon. She wanted to get rid of Bella before she met up with Riley. He would not understand or accept her reasoning for wanting to hurt Bella. He had no idea the pain she had cause for her or Rose. Yeah, this was for Rose. She was doing the very thing Rose would have done if the shoe had been on the other foot. She smile to herself as she thought of how happy Rose would be to see her bring down Bella Swan.

Pushing hard on the gas pedal she fled town while Bella wonder if she had just made a enormous mistake getting in the car with a former friend who was probably still in love with Bella's present boyfriend. She spied Miranda smiling rather viciously as they passed the town's city limit sign. Bella grip the door handle. Yeah, she had definitely made a big mistake.

Jake grew restless while he waited for Bella outside of the coffee house. When he heard the sounds of the sirens, then caught sight of not only a police car but an ambulance flying by him, he got a bad feeling. Jogging in the direction they were headed he pray like hell that he did not find Bella somehow harmed.

Instead as he got closer to the scene he saw Edward wiping tears from his face as they lifted a body up on a gurney.

"Edward!" Jake shouted out over the crowd that had form around the scene of the accident.

Edward turn his head spotting Jake on the backside of the crowd. Pushing people aside he made his way to his friend.

"What happened?" Jake hope like hell that he was not involved with the accident that was putting someone in the back of an ambulance.

"A car hit Alice." Edward mumbled as he look back at the scene while running his hands through his messy hair.

"A car? Did you see the car? Who was it?" Jake suspected that Edward knew more than he was wanting to tell him.

"I think it was Miranda." Edward whispers as he pulls Jake further away from the crowd.

"WHAT!" Jake shouts out with disbelief.

"I know. I was in denial at first too." Edward shook his head with a sad smile on his face.

"Why would Miranda hit Alice? They are best friends. Are you sure it was her?" Jake push Edward's hand off of his shoulder as he shove his hands in his back pocket looking around trying to make sense of what Edward was telling him.

"I am sure it was her. Miranda is not the same person you use to know. She is sick Jake. Mentally sick." Edward knew that Jake was going to have a hard time hearing this from him of all people. After all he had slept with Jake's ex-girlfriend while she was having this mental break down. What kind of guy did that make him? A pretty sick one.

"Mentally sick? What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Jake growl as he spotted Bella's father pulling up to the scene while a few other cops began to push people out of the way so they could get as much evidence as possible from the scene.

"She stop taking her meds Jake. Apparently when she drinks she can't take the medications. So when she was drunk she was also a little crazier due to the lack of meds in her system. She went completely off after you two broke up. She needs the medicine to keep her moods calm." Edward was not sure if Miranda had ever reveal to Jake about her mental illness.

He had a gut feeling she had not. It was not exactly something you tell guys you date.

"I …medication? I never knew." Jake ran his hands over his face as he struggle with the horrifying news that Edward had apparently been privy too before Jake became one of them.

"I did not think so. She was not proud of it. She always fear that people would make fun of her. Rose knew how unstable Miranda could be. She tried to kill herself once." Edward reveal even more information that only a handful of people knew about.

"Shit. Shit! So….she hit Alice cause Alice knew she went off of her meds?" Jake was trying to fit the pieces together. He was sure there was a big chunk of the puzzle missing to this story.

"No, not exactly. You see, Miranda shoved Rose down the stairs. They were arguing and Rose threaten to tell their parents about Miranda being off of her medication. She did not mean to hurt her. She was just angry. She made Alice promise not to say anything. Alice told Sheriff Swan the truth when he pressure her at the police station." Edward informs Jake what he and Alice had been hiding from the rest of their friends and their parents.

"Miranda killed ROSE!" Jake blink several times as Edward simply nodded his head "yes".

"Oh sweet Jesus! Where is Miranda now?" Jake was stun by everything he was learning all of a sudden about the girl he once loved.

"She took off. She did not even stop to check on Alice. She drove away." Edward exhale loudly.

Sheriff Swan walk up on their private conversation.

"Edward were you here when it happen?" Charlie demanded.

"Yes." Edward gave Jake a look that warn him that this was only going to get worse now.

"Who hit her?" Charlie knew from the look on Edward's face he knew who was driving the car that had hit Alice.

"Miranda. I am pretty sure it was her." Edward answers as his head drops.

Charlie glares at Jake who look stupefied by the whole ordeal.

"Where is Bella?" Charlie asks as he continues to glare at Jake.

"She was suppose to meet me twenty minutes ago." Jake look at his cell phone. Still no missed call or text message explaining where she was. Jake was surprised by her lack of thoughtfulness. Normally, she was on time or call ahead if it look like she might be late for one of their dates.

"Where at?" Charlie's stomach knotted up as he watch Jake closely.

"The coffee place." Jake pointed back in the direction where he had ran from.

"Go see if she is there. If not, come back and tell me." Charlie order as Jake did not hesitate for a second as he race off back to the coffee place. A few minutes later he return to see Edward getting into a squad car .

"She is not there." Jake stated with fear in his eyes.

"Shit." Charlie mumble under his breathe.

"Is she at home?" Jake ask with a ounce of hope in his eyes.

"NO, I already called Brenda. She said she left awhile ago." Charlie shook his head with a grim frown on his face.

Both men stood there wondering where the hell Bella could be and if she was somehow in danger.