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Chapter 38
"What are you going to do now? All your friends and your boyfriend are nowhere near here," She says jumping down from the tree limb she is standing on. This is it. I am going to die. But I'd rather have just me die, and not everyone I care about, and me. I start thinking of my options. I can run, I can fight her, or I can just let her kill me. I have to do something rather than just stand here. I know I can't out run her, or fight her off, but I have to try. There has to be something that I can do, to distract her, to give me the slightest chance.
"I'm . . . going . . . to . . ," I have no clue what I am going to say, I am making it up as I went along, "RUN!" I yell whipping around and sprinting. My leg hurt, but that wasn't stopping me from running. Nothing can stop me from running for my life. I feel the wind slashing across my face. My feet are sinking into the wet, muddy ground. I look up at the sky. It is a light blue-gray color. Perfect dying weather, I think gravely. I take my phone out of my pocket. My phone fumbles in my hands. It is hard to see since I am still running. I finally get to my contact list. I look for Alexis's number. I look behind me; Bella is no more than two yards away. I hit send as soon as I see her name.
"Hey Cleo, where are . . ."
"Bella is after me, help me!!" I say quickly. I pick up my pace, knowing that Bella will soon catch me.
"I'm on my way," and Alexis is gone. I am on my own, until Alexis shows up. She will probably gather everyone up first, and then come, and save me. Or maybe she will just come by herself. That did seem like something she would do. But how Alexis was going to save me wasn't the first thing on my To Do List. I can hear Bella's footsteps growing closer as I run. My heart is beating faster than anyone could ever imagine. So fast, I thought I might have a heart attack! I am growing tired, but I can't stop. I push to go faster. If I stop even for a second Bella would be on me in an instant. I would truly have no chance if I did that. I look behind me again; Bella is even closer this time. When I think about it, I know that if she really wants to have killed me, she would have killed me already, but she is playing with her food. That sick maniacal bitch. I start doing everything I can to stall my death. First, I weave through trees, and then I jump over logs, and rocks. Where the hell is everyone! I am so concentrated on stalling Bella, that I misjudged how high a tree limb is that I was jumping over. My foot then gets caught in the branch. I feel the world blur around me. I hit the moist ground hard. I can feel the wet muddy grass under my hands. In an instant Bella is over me. She has a leg on either side of me.
"I've savored the moment when I would kill you. I have waited for this very moment since I laid eyes on you. You ruined my life Cleo. You took the things I cared most about away from me,"
"I'm not the one who joined the Volturi. By joining the Volturi, you pretty much sabotaged any trust the Cullen's had in you," I say glaring at Bella. It's not like I said anything false, all this was true. Bella smiles an evil grin. She bends down close to my face. So close I could have spit on her if I hadn't been so terrified.
"I was just going to kill you, quick, and simply. But that chance is gone Cleo. You have no chance to live now," She then laughs. Her laugh is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. I close my eyes, and wait for Bella to kill me. Then I hear her shriek. I open my eyes, and see a flash of white fur. Alexis! And then I see a black flash. Mallory! I hear a bark. I look up. Mallory is shaking her head to the right. I think she wants me to run? I get up quickly.
I can see Alexis and Bella fighting. Alexis yelps. Her white fur is stained with blood. Alexis swipes at Bella with a massive paw. She slashes Bella across her arm. Bella shakes her head like she didn't believe what Alexis had just done. Bella disappears and then reappears at the back of Alexis. Before Alexis can turn around Bella takes her hind leg, and snaps it. I can hear the crack. The whole world could have heard that crack. There is nothing I can do, and I am too fear stricken to move. I can barely breath so much as run away. Mallory then takes Bella's arm in her mouth, and bites down. Bella throws Mallory off her. Mallory bounces back to her feet. Alexis growls at Bella. Bella then does something I would have never believed if someone had told me, but then again, much of the things I see now don't seem like they are real. Bella had thrown Alexis at a tree. Alexis's head is bleeding, but Bella looks in just as bad a shape as Alexis. Mallory howls. Bella whips around and Mallory lunges at her. I take one last look at my two best friends, fighting for me. I can't stand there and watch them die! I have to get away from here. Somewhere so far, even Bella can't find me!
I feel the mud splattering my clothing. Soon the sky is covered with dark menacing clouds. I look behind me. I don't see anything, but I sure hear footsteps, and they don't sound like human footsteps. I hear a crack of thunder. I look above at the darkening sky. The footsteps are growing louder. I feel a quick cold breeze, and then in front of me Bella appears out of nowhere. I stop short, almost falling forwards. I feel my foot sink into something. I try to back up, but my shoe is stuck in some mud. Something that could only happen to me in a time like this. I will have to lose my shoe. I pull my foot out and take a step backwards.
"You think that you can just have your little werewolf friends come and stop me?" Bella jeers, "This is it Cleo, say good bye to your little world, to you precious boy friend," Bella took my shoulders. She pushes me to the ground. I feels a sharp pain in the back of my head. I watch in terror as Bella cuts my arm with one of her nails. I cringe. I look over to see my arm bleeding. Then I see a blur, and Bella is off me. I can't move without some part of me hurting. My head is throbbing with pain, it's excruciating. It is a strain just to keep my eyes open. I feel cold hands on me.
"Carlisle! She's losing blood!" The person above me shouts. I see another person show up on my right. I assume it is Carlisle, but right now, I wasn't sure of anything. It could have been big foot standing next to me and I wouldn't have noticed.
I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. I couldn't tolerate the pain. I couldn't keep myself awake. I didn't want to know what was going on. I didn't want to know who had been killed, I didn't want to see if Alexis, and Mallory were dead or not. I finally got what I wanted though; an adventure. I wanted something new, and different to happen, and it did. I finally got my wish, but at what expense. The expense of losing my best friends? Killing off all the people around me wasn't what I planned my adventure to be. I couldn't live with myself if Mallory and Alexis died because of me. I wouldn't be able to survive if any of the Cullen's died, because of me. And this was it; my adventure was coming to an end.