Hopefully the wait wasn't too long for this update, and I really hope you enjoy! I recently outlined the rest of this fic. I am planning about 30 chaps, including the epilogue. So, I hope you guys stick around.

As always, thank you to Darcysmom for betaing.

Things are about to get more interesting.

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The sky grew darker as rain pelted the windows. It became colder as I sat and waited. What else could I do?

And then a voice broke through my thoughts: "What the hell happened? About a mile or so out E."

Jasper.

The one person I could blame for all of this, but won't. That rest's on my shoulders. But he is also the one person that can help me the most and find her.

I only hope he forgives me for causing all of this hurt, Jasper thought, just as he walked through Bella's front door

I stood up. My eyes focused on the floor like a chastised child's would as I waited for Jasper to enter the room. I breathed in, exhaling slowly, still looking down at the floor. "It was never your fault, Jasper. I realize that now."

I stood there, frozen, waiting for him to yell at me for tearing our family apart, for leaving Bella, for everything that has happened up until now.

His scent enveloped me as I felt his arms wrap around me in a bone crushing hug. He had never been one to openly display affection, always stayed on the sidelines, soaking in all of our emotions. When it came to letting us know how he felt, he always pushed his out towards us.

The hug he gave me was everything I didn't know I needed in that moment. It could have come from any of them, just as long as it was a hug. I needed someone, anyone to touch me, make me feel like I am really here.

And yet I'm not here, not really. I'm not where I want to be, where I should be

"Edward, we will help you find her and figure this out, okay? This does not all fall on you," he said as he shook me a little. "We all left her, not just you. We are all at fault in some way. I left my sister behind. I almost hurt her. If I could take back that night, I would. Just for you and her, okay, just for you and her."

I finally got the guts to look up at him. He'd changed since I last saw him all those months ago. He seemed older, weary- Like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. But his eyes are bright, like he had just recently fed. I hugged him back, thanking him for coming.

"Now, what is that on the table?" He asked, pointing to the bag that held the fabric in it. I gave it to him, telling him my suspicions.

"Edward, the only scent I get from this shirt is Bella, nothing and no one else. Just Bella."

I shake my head. He had to be wrong. I knew what I smelt, and I knew that the vampire scent was attached to it wasn't from me.

"You are wrong, Jasper. I know that I smelled another."

"You have so much going on right now, Edward. You are not thinking clearly. Why don't we sit down, and talk this out. Try and think where she could be, and what exactly happened to this town.

I nodded and sat down at the table, my fingers drumming on the table top.

Jasper let out a long exhale as he rolled his sleeves up his arms before sitting down. "What made you come back to Forks? Why now?"

Alice had to have let him know. Had she really not seen anything?

I tugged at my hair as I remembered the phone call and her voice breaking me apart.

"She called me, said I needed to find her." I sighed. "I tried to call back the number, but it said it was no longer in service. I may have crushed my phone after that."

Jasper looked at me, head cocked to the side. "How could the phone had been disconnected that fast? Something isn't adding up here, Edward."

I start to become more agitated as I stood up quickly from my seat and began to pace back and forth in the kitchen.

"I'm not saying you are wrong, Edward, I just want to get all of the facts and go from there. Okay? Are you okay with that?" Jasper asked, his hands coming up in surrender. "Why don't we start off by getting your phone records? I have a laptop left back at the house, why don't we go over there now? I don't think there is much more we can do here at Bella's right now.

Jasper grabbed the bag with the shirt, while I made sure I had her note in my pocket. I locked the front door, feeling like it was something I should do. The next time this door opened, it would be because Bella unlocked it herself.

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