I didn't expect Alice to get anywhere to near me and my blood for a while, even after I had wrapped it up in gauze, but it seems I was wrong. Alice was behind me, chirping into her cell phone to Charlie that I had taken a rather spectacular tumble down the stairs and knocked a bookshelf into the middle of the living room. Destroying the living room and injuring my hand. I had to admit it was something I'd do. Being a klutz came in handy when fabricating an alibi.

Alice was telling Charlie to come drive me to the hospital, but I couldn't have that. Edward was coming here. I had to be here.

I held my hand out for the phone, grasping it lightly with my good hand when I got it.

"I'm fine Charlie. No, the cut isn't that deep. Don't come get me. I'm fine."

He grumbled a little about how I should be more careful, but I quickly convinced him that it wasn't that bad. I'd had worse. Charlie had to agree with me there.

After my phone call with Charlie I sat down with Alice to wait for Edward. My heart gave a little squeeze even thinking his name.

We sat in the kitchen to avoid stepping on any glass, When Alice had knocked over the bookcase it had hit a window. While we sat there Alice kept opening her mouth and closing it again so fast I wasn't sure if I was imagining it. It seemed as if she wanted to tell me something, but kept stopping herself.

After a few minutes of awkward silence I asked Alice the question I was dying to hear the answer to-

"How soon do you think Edward will be here?"

"He was somewhere in South America, so maybe forty five minutes tops? Twenty minutes at least. It depends where in South America he is. It also depends how mad he is. When he ran from here to Phoenix, well you remember, he made it cross country in about fifteen minutes, but I've never seen him move that fast any other time." Alice talked slowly, obviously worried that she would set me off like Charlie had described to her.

I shivered at the memory of Phoenix, but knowing Edward was coming seemed to color everything in a positive light, and the memory wasn't as bad as usual.

"Well I'd guess it was like ten minutes ago I told him and he said he was coming. He sounded pretty pissed, I guess you guys really don't like were-wolves, huh?"

Alice got halfway through rolling her eyes when she caught herself. "You really think this is about him being a were-wolf?"

Alice's words confused me, what other reason would there be for Edward to run cross country than to beat up Jacob. Hopefully I'd be able to convince him that Jacob wasn't worth killing, but my mind couldn't hold on to anything negative like that for too long, all I could think about was Edward.

"what do you mean?"

Alice seemed to realize she had said the words aloud just then. "Nothing. I have to give him the chance to explain. And if he doesn't, well, I will."

It had been twenty thee minutes since I had talked to Edward, and my euphoric mood was beginning to wear off in favor of the little voices in my head that wouldn't stop reminding me that he didn't love me. He might not even stop to talk to me. He was just coming to kill Jacob, and I didn't want him to kill Jacob. No matter how much my hand hurt or how annoying that kid could be.

I had taken to pacing the kitchen, Alice warily following me with her eyes.

Where was Edward? I know Alice had said twenty minutes was the minimum, I still had jumped up to look out the window as soon as my watch told me it had been 20 minutes. I was fairly tired from the strain of the day, and that worried me. I didn't want to sleep anytime soon. The nightmares would be worse now, that I was certain of.

Twenty Four Minutes: No Edward

Twenty Five Minutes: Alice is frowning, she says Edward got stuck behind a barge of Tourists in the Panama Canal and can't move until they leave or they will see him

Twenty Six Minutes: No Edward

Twenty Seven Minutes: Alice's eye glaze over for a moment, and I know she's seen something, but she won't tell me what, though she is in a considerably better mood.

Twenty Eight Minutes: No Edward

Twenty Nine Minutes: No Edward, but Alive finally gives into my badgering, she says Edward has decided to tell me what she was talking about earlier, so she wasn't going to have to. Also, Jasper, Carlise, Esme, Emmett and Rosalie were all on their way, Jasper was the closest besides Edward.

Thirty Minutes: Alice is beginning to look tense as well, He must be close!

Thirty One Minutes: No Edward

Thirty Two Minutes: No Edward

I feel like a prisoner scratching little marks into a wall, counting the days until my release. I had taken to watching Alice instead of the window, because she would know before I could see him.

Thirty Three Minutes: No Edward

Thirty Four Minutes: No Edward

Thirty Five Minutes: No Edward

Alice suddenly leaps up and holds out her arms, politely asking permission to pick me up.

I climb into Alice's cold arms and we're flying. Not nearly as fast as I went with Edward, but I could tell we were headed towards him based on the glazed look in her eyes. She tracing his future path and putting us on it to intercept him.

We're deep into the forest when Alice slows down, dumping me next to a creek, on a tree stump.

"Don't move. Knowing you you'll trip over your own feet, fall into the creek and bash your head on something." Suddenly Alice is gone and I don't know which direction she went.

For a moment I remember the night Sam found me out here. We can't be far from the root I tripped over before I gave up. The one memory that caused the most pain, is suddenly all I can see. Edward telling me he doesn't want me. Edward leaving. Not being able to find Edward. Tripping. Falling.

That night Sam didn't really find Bella. He found parts of me. The rest was gone, and was never coming back.

I realized I was crying silently, my knees pulled up to my chest. What a way for Edward to see me at last. He couldn't be far away and my face is probably red as a beet and I'm blubbering like a mental patient. There goes the dream of convincing him I was worth it.

Now even Alice is gone. And I'm alone in the forest. But this time he's coming for me. I have to believe that. I have to or I won't last another second.

I force myself to leave the fetal position and wipe the tears of my face. Alice said not to move, so I won't. Edward is coming. Edward is coming. Edward is coming!