Book 4 – Chapter 4: Funeral

We got back a day before my birthday, Edward saying that the others wanted to celebrate. He was right though. Alice and Edward argued over who would show me my present. Of course after several minutes of staring at each other, Edward won. He pulled me towards a garage where a shiny, black Ferrari was waiting for me. I sighed and turned to look at him with my eyebrows raised. "A car?" I ask him and he grins as he tosses me the keys. I catch them without any effort.

"Test run?" he asks me with a grin and I smile with a sigh. I gave up, we would have to take it for a test drive anyway.

"Sure" I say. "I don't know how to drive it" I say and he laughs.

"Just watch and learn" he says as he jumps in the driver's side and I slide into the passenger seat. He pulls out and drives towards Forks calmly. We're in forks as quicker than usual, and driving a lap around in clear sight of everyone. Eventually we pull into the local shopping centre and hand in hand, walk in. We quickly walk around, Edward having Esme's shopping list memorised. I didn't know why we needed food, we didn't even eat, and no human came over to the house that didn't know about us being vampires. The only thought that was logical was Charlie and he was…dead. I took in a calming breath, Edward noticed it and hugged me.

"Why do we need food?" I ask with a frown. He sighs.

"I…don't really think you'll take this so well." He says and I sigh and nod. "Esme was asked to cater some food for Charlie's funeral" he says and I take in a deep breath in through my nose, inhaling the scent of most of the humans that have been here and passed.

"Ok" I say as I quietly followed him around the shop holding his hand tightly in silence. He threw me a few glances every now and then, but my face was blank, clear of any obvious emotion. He sighed in frustration as we sat back into the car.

"Look, I'm sorry" he says and I frown. "I shouldn't have told you that knowing it might pull you back into your own ways" he says as he looks into my orange-golden eyes. I sighed.

"No I'm fine." I say as I look at him, not bothering with the hiding anymore. He smiles as he rubs my arm gently and kisses the side of my head. I smiled as I leaned against him, drawn by the electric pull from our bodies. It took us about ten minutes to get back to the house and about a second with everyone helping unload the car and Esme immediately getting started. "So what was the other present you were talking about?" I ask Alice and she smiles.

"It's not entirely for you specifically but for both you and Edward" Alice says as she pulls my hand and Edward's hands cover my eyes. After about a minute of human paced walking, we stopped and Alice let go of my hand and Edward's hands slipped from my face, down my shoulders and rested on my waist. I smiled as I took in the scent of metal, and multiple other building materials along with new other scents that I didn't recognise.

In front of me there was a small cottage nestled in the woods, the lights on and windows closed. Edward grinned at me as he watched me take in my…our house. I couldn't help but grin. "We thought that you would prefer to live afar from us for now…after a few years when we'd have to move you could have a new house but you and Edward could have your own and move close by. Esme didn't want you too far, but it's not too close" She says and I grin as I look at Alice. "Do you like it?" she asks me and I shake my head. "Love it?" she asks and I nod. "I can't wait until I tell Esme. She'll be ecstatic" she says and I smile.

"How could I not? Why didn't she come?" I ask her and Alice looks awkwardly at Edward.

"We…uhh…Ummmm…Edward you'll show Bella around right?" Alice asks Edward and he nods. I wondered what was wrong as she ran away, too quickly.

"What did I say?" I ask worriedly and he laughs and shakes his head and pulls me towards the house, not before surprisingly picking me up and throwing me into his arms without any difficulty. I take in a shocked breath.

"You didn't say anything. Alice just saw what was going to happen, which I have absolutely every inch of intention of fulfilling and decided she didn't want to stick around for that. Alone time was their other gift" he says as he opens the door. He tours me the house, and everything didn't matter until we got to the bedroom. "I warn you, the wardrobe is bigger than most of the house" he says and I fall out of his arms.

"A bed?" I ask him and he smiles as he looks at the pure white, wooden framed bed in the middle of the room. "We don't need to sleep" I say as his lips brush my neck. I shiver and turn to him.

"Not for sleeping" he says. "Although I don't want to ruin the bed anyway. Could come in handy one day" he says as he helps me out of my shirt and it falls to the floor with a muted thud. Then, we continue blissfully into our second honeymoon.

*Twenty One Hours Later*

Edward smiles as we lay on top of each other, my fingers tracing patterns in his back on the sand coloured floor in our bedroom, next to the still standing bed watching the sun hit the glass from behind us, turning the room a nice sunrise orange, and making our skin reflect the rays into rainbows. Edward sighs and kisses my forehead before standing up. My mind forgot to work, and I ended up staring at his beautiful body from below. "We should get dressed. Alice left you a bag in your side of the closet" he says and I sigh as I stand up. "You have to get dressed in it…It is a dress. It's better for the occasion" he says as he walks me towards the wardrobe. We walk in to find that he was not joking about what he said about the wardrobe before. It really was bigger than most of the house.

I stroked all the garment bags, until I found a set of draws, more than three quarters of the room separating it. I sighed. Alice. Edward looked at me and smiled. "Your side is bigger than mine. Alice invests too much time in you" he says with a laugh as he begins to get dressed into black. I frown. Why black? I shrug it off and open my bag, to see everything in there. Black dress and shoes and…why was everything black.

"Why are we matching?" I ask and he frowns.

"It's…It's been twenty one hours and thirty minutes. The funeral is at midday" he says and I nod sadly. I quickly get dressed and do my hair. Way quicker before him and wait in the living room where every moment comes flooding back to me.

*Flashback*

While tracking the deer, I crossed a new scent and a voice filtered the trees. "Ok, I think the bear was over here, go north just in case though" the voice sounded familiar, but I didn't notice because nothing was filtered until I stopped hunting. I caught the familiar scent and hid among the trees, going further west, following him. And when I was sure we were alone, I pounced

I didn't know what I was doing and who this was when I was pulled off his body by someone, I turned to attack but his pained and shocked eyes stopped me. I was pulled out from my daze… this was my father…I killed Charlie

I feel my body shake with dry sobs as I turn into Edward's chest. He soothes me…he soothes me… as If I was a child who broke their doll… I cringe. Why was he doing this? "We need to leave, they'll think that it's an animal attack. Could you walk?" he asks me and I shake my head and close my eyes. I feel his body glide gracefully as if he was walking as he holds me in his arms tightly. I let the sobs continue.

*End of Flashback*

"Bella" Edward says as his arms rest on my knees. I realise that I was crying…more like sobbing again. "Bella" he soothes and I sigh. "We need to go" he says, not bothering to tell me it would be ok, knowing I would snap at him. I had forgotten all about it for the past month, thanks to Edward and his distractions. The wedding was the last I remembered, remembering him. We walk at a regular human pace towards the house, holding hands, in complete silence. The house, when we enter is filled with the same sadness and despair as myself. Esme and Carlisle had gone to drop of the catering but would be back in, According to Alice, seventy three point thirty six seconds.

We stepped into the car, Edward drove ourselves over there. Alice and Jasper were in the back seat of my car. Even though I was not looking at them, I felt all eyes on my face, watching closely in case the smallest thing provoked me. We got there in silence, Edward holding my hand tightly, before Renee came up to me and hugged me. "Oh darling" she whispers as she notices my black face, she turns to Edward. "What's happened? Why isn't she speaking?" she asks and Edward frowns.

"I don't know. She's been like this for the past hour" he whispers as his arms constrict around me. I lean into his embrace, closing my eyes. Then I sob into his chest, and he soothes me. "Hey" he whispers as he gently kisses my forehead.

"She's grieving?" Renee asks and I feel Edward nod.

"I don't know what to do" he confesses. I had to be strong for him. I sighed as I released myself from him. His shocked eyes look directly into mine, difficult to read with my golden contacts. "We have back row seats, for more…privacy." He says and I nod as I walk towards Jake and Lucy holding hands, Lucy smiling at me. I walk over to her slowly and hug her.

"Jake Explained it to me about what you are and what they were and imprinting" she says and I nod. "Its fine, I'm happy with Jake in my life. I love him" she says and I sigh and nod.

"I guess I wouldn't expect Jake to be my cousin in law soon anyway" I mutter and she smiles.

"I am sorry to hear about Charlie though. Did they find what killed him?" she asks and I shake my head. Of course I knew, it was me. But only the Cullens knew that. I frowned.

The funeral went for a couple of hours, the reception for an hour before I had enough of it. The grieving had turned everyone drunk, Edward noticed everyone's thoughts, except the vampires, who couldn't drink and dragged me out of the drunk crowd and into the car, where we patiently waited for Jasper and Alice, who weren't long to follow. Once again I noticed everyone's worried eyes on me. I sighed. "I'm not going to break down and start crying my eyes out ok?" I snap as I jump out the car and run. Not towards the house, but the most unpredictable place they could think off.

The mountains.

Alice wouldn't have seen, it was a snap decision. I weaved in and out and around the trees before it started to rain, my scent would have disappeared now. I stayed there for hours, shutting my phone so they couldn't bother me. After a few hours, Emmett runs into where I am. He sees me before calling out for me. "Bella", and with that, I jump into the water. He wouldn't follow me, he couldn't find my scent. And after I few hours, during sunrise, I rose from the water and found a place in the tree, sitting there until one person I wanted would find me.

Part 2 of Ch4: Edward's POV

She ran just like that, a snap decision. I groaned as Alice suddenly searched for where she would go, but no luck. Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle and Jasper arrived not long after, my wife was missing, and Jasper could feel myself growing more anxious and worried per second. Where's Bella? Jasper thinks as he looks around.

"She ran" I say as Jasper calms me down. She ran? He asks and I nod. "Yes, got a bit upset and just ran for it. We can't follow her scent, it's about to rain. I'll check our special spot. Alice can you check the baseball field." I say and everyone chooses their locations and runs in the direction of it, before the rain pours and her scent disappears. I let out a frustrated groan and run to the meadow only to find it empty. The wet droplets of water soak in my shirt but I ignore it as I run around the woods, trying to find her. Then a particular thought catches my attention.

I found her! ... Where's she going? Emmett's thoughts bounce into my head, I run towards his location, the mountains. The image of Bella soaked in water, she looked like she had been crying, in Emmett's mind. "Bella" Emmett calls and then I watch as she jumped into the water. Shit… Edward's going to murder me. Emmett's thoughts ring into my head. Esme's thoughts bound into my head as she runs into my perimeter. She runs into Emmett as I'm almost there.

"Where's Bella"

"She jumped, she hasn't resurfaced"

"I'll wait for her. You should go back and alert the rest of them. She might just want to be alone." She says and I walk out. "Edward, you'll go back with Emmett. It will be easier to find them with you" She says and I look into the water anxiously.

"But-" I start to say and she shakes her head.

"Go. You can't read her mind, it isn't going to make a single difference." She says and I look back at her. Sometimes, we girls just need to talk to other girls Edward. If she doesn't come out with me then I'll come back and you can go and find her. She'll either talk to me, yourself or Alice. We're the closest to her. Esme's thoughts assure me a lot more than anyone else's, and she had a point. So I ran.

I ran away to find my siblings.

Where we would wait for Esme to return.