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Chapter 30
Except for me, the room was empty. "Edward...?" I asked again. I knew it was hopeless. He wasn't here. I had been right. He was gone. Hearing his voice was just like it had been earlier this year. A hallucination. He wasn't here. He was gone. He was dead.
Dead.
The room started spinning again.
Everything started going black. I was about to give up again, when I heard a strange noise coming from the bed. I sounded like a song. Or more, a tune. A happy, joyful, upbeat tune.
What was it?
I made the room stop spinning and forced myself to breathe. I stood up and walked over to the bed, trying to figure out what was creating this happy, upbeat sound.
I saw the cell phone lying on the pillow. Ringing.
I looked at the caller ID. It said Alice.
I picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Bella!?" she shrieked. She sounded overjoyed.
"Yes," I said, confused.
"Oh my gosh, Bella, you're alive!"
"Um...I know..."
"I had a vision about you! You lying on the ground with your eyes closed, and looked like you were wriggling in pain. And you kept gasping for breath, but it looked like you were having trouble breathing. And you kept muttering something. 'No,' is what I think it was."
"Oh, ya..."
"Why were you like that?" she asked.
"Well, I..." and then I stopped, remembering the situation. "Wait, Alice. What is going on!? Why aren't you here!? It's almost 12:00 and you said you would be here at 11:30!"
The other line of the phone was silent.
"Alice...?" I asked. No answer. Then I heard another voice. A voice I recognized.
"You'll never see them again. Never!" Then the line went dead.
It was a voice I had never wanted to hear again.
Victoria.
"No!" I yelled into the phone. I knew it was useless. I know it wouldn't do anything. But it was all I could do. I closed the phone and dropped it on the bed. I kneeled down next to the bed and started banging my fist on the mattress.
"No..." I said each time my fist hit the mattress. "No...no...no...no..."
How could I just sit here when I knew that not far away, Victoria was probably torturing Alice? Maybe even in the process of killing her. With that in my mind, I stood up and walked to the door. I stopped and sighed as I reached for the handle. I knew that if I tried to help, I'd probably just get hurt and end up making the situation even worse. There was no way I could take on a vampire, especially Victoria.
How could she be so cruel? No one in the Cullen family did anything wrong. Well, I guess they did, but it was mostly my fault. They shouldn't have to suffer for something that I did wrong.
I walked back over to the bed and reached for the cell phone again. I put in the number of the person I never thought I would call.
Speed dial: 7. Rosalie.
She didn't answer.
Could she be dea—
No. Not her too.
Speed dial: 6. Emmett.
No answer.
Speed dial: 5. Esme.
No answer.
Speed dial: 4. Carlisle.
No answer.
Speed dial: 3. Jasper.
No answer.
I didn't bother trying speed dial 2. I knew Alice wouldn't answer. Victoria probably crushed her phone. I tried not to think about what could be happening to Alice right now. But I couldn't help it.
She could be dead.
My best friend, dead.
I fell onto the bed and began to cry. Only one thought ran through my head.
Not her. Not her. Not her.
I don't know how long I sat there, crying. After a while, I sat up and wiped my tears away. Crying didn't help anything. And for all I knew, Alice could still be alive. She could be fine.
Who was I kidding. Victoria attacked her. There was no way...
No. I wouldn't think like that. I would look on the positive side of everything.
But even as I reached for my phone, thinking positively, I knew in the back of my mind that Alice was gone.
I tried one last number.
Speed dial: 1. Edward.
It rang once.
Twice.
Three times.
"Hello?"
"Edward!?" I screamed into the phone.
"Um, sorry Bella, this is Jasper," the voice said.
"Where's Edward!?" I yelled into the phone.
He ignored my question, but started to talk very fast.
"Sorry no one is there. We can't get ourselves away from the battle. Victoria brought 7 people with her."
"Where is Edward?" I asked again.
"Oh, um, well, he's..."
He stopped. I heard a crashing noise in the background. Then I heard ferocious snarling coming from the phone.
I heard voices in the background. One, I recognized to be Jasper, and the other I wasn't so sure about. It must have been one of the 7 people Victoria brought with her.
"You know that you will never win this," I heard Jasper say. I heard the other person laugh.
"No?" he said tauntingly. I heard the ferocious snarling again, and then I heard another crashing noise.
"Jasper!" I yelled. Not into the phone, expecting anyone to hear me, but in horror. Then I heard two more voices. I could tell that one of them was Emmett, and the other must be the vampire he was fighting.
How could I manage to simply sit in this small, protected room and listen to all these horrible things going on around me?
"Give up!" I heard one of the vampires roar.
"Never!" the other shouted. I couldn't tell who said what.
I heard what sounded like ripping. I heard the triumphant laugh of two vampires. I couldn't tell if it was Emmett and Jasper, or the two who were on Victoria's side. Then I heard crackling. I realized that it was a fire. One of the vampires was dead.
And I didn't know from which side they were.
I heard a crashing noise again, and what sounded like a door being slammed shut. Then I heard what sounded like someone picking up the phone.
"Jasper? Emmett?" I asked.
The person on the other line laughed. He had an evil, cackling laugh. It scared me. It sounded like something straight from a horror movie. Then he spoke.
"You'll never see them again."
The line went dead.
2 down, 5 to go? 3 down, 4 to go? How many of the Cullens have died so far? Is Edward still alive? Will everything turn out ok? Tune in to the next chapter of Before and After to find out!!
I think I'm only going to have a few more chapters after this. I will have a sequel—don't worry!!
Till next time
-danielle-