Chapter 3:
I lay in bed; trying to figure out if the past night had been a dream or not. Wait, no, not a dream- a nightmare. Why did Laurent have to come back? I thought he was the good guy- unlike Victoria and James. Ugh. I lay there, completely motionless. I wish I wouldn't wake up, that there would be no new day for me; that I would stop putting the ones I loved in danger. The last words Laurent said were, 'I just wanted to let you know that I won't be to far. So you might want to watch out for everyone you care for.' I shivered violently at the thought.
"Bella?" I heard the velvet covered voice, "Are you cold?" I suddenly realized that I was much to comfortable to be on my bed. I was in his arms. I knew now that there was no way that the events of the previous night were a nightmare. When I was with Edward I never had nightmares.
"Edward!" I whispered enthusiastically. He smiled his crooked smile and pecked my forehead.
"Bella…I was wondering.. Did you have any bad dreams last night? I know Laurent was not a dream, so not that.. Anything else?"
I was confused, I didn't remember any dreams; or nightmares except for the real one. "Um.. No. Why?"
"Well, you have been worrying in your sleep again. And this time I think it is something." What did he mean? Why WOULDN'T I be worrying?
"Edward," I said in a real serious voice, "Why wouldn't I be worrying?" I said echoing my thoughts.
"I know, but it's just that this isn't the normal worrying…or the usual person…" His flawless eyes had a deep tint of worry in them.
"Who Edward? Who is going to get hurt?" Panic flooded my voice. Who did Laurent know I associated with? Alice? No, she's to hard of a target. Of course if he was watching, he would know…What if he had special abilities like Edward, Alice, or Jasper and he cleverly blocked the fact from his thoughts when he was around Edward? God, why was my life so complicated? I realized Edward never answered me, "Edward, WHO?"
He looked slightly pained to form the words, "Well…You have been worrying about…Angela a lot." My mouth fell open and I couldn't find the place in my brain that was in charge of pulling it shut. I felt the tears starting to form in my eyes. Angela. I never ever would have thought of her. No, no no no no- NO. She was my only human girlfriend I had! I couldn't, he wouldn't, ugh ugh ugh! "Has Alice seen anything yet?"
"No, I called her… This could be nothing Bella, nothing. I just picked it up because it was so clear and I never heard that name in your sleep before, how I wish I could read your thoughts when you sleep." Normally, I would object to this, but I didn't care this time and I wanted desperately to find out if Angela was in danger or not. I also wanted to know how my mind came to the conclusion that Angela was in trouble…or so we think.
"Edward, what about Ben? Ben is always with Angela!" I gasped at the thought couldn't Laurent take someone like.. Lauren away? That would be nice for a change, someone ,I guess I would care about a little but wouldn't be devastated. I shook my head because I couldn't believe how shallow I was being.
Edward shook his head, "You didn't say anything about Ben. You know I am fairly curious now to see what you would be like as a vampire." I straightened up at this. He chuckled, "Bella, I still wish you would change your mind, you know I will never leave you again, even if you get older, you will still be the most beautiful woman I know." I felt the blood rush to my cheeks in a blush at this comment.
"Edward," I took his granite face in my hands, "Everyone keeps coming after me. This puts all of the people I love most in trouble. How can every evil vampire suddenly be coming at me?" I felt moisture clouding my eyes.
"You know, Laurent is really here because of me, and the Volturi are only trying to get you to be a vampire because of me," I shuddered because I had forgotten about that one, "James and Victoria were after you, again, because of me. So if you are really looking for an evil vampire to blame, you have one right here." He looked down and grabbed my hand.
"You know I do not blame you for anything at ALL. It's my fault I decided to fall in love with you." He looked up at me with sobbing eyes. I knew he always felt bad for putting me in danger, and he shouldn't.
"But Bella, I let you, I didn't push you away." I put my fingers to his lips to stop him.
"No, Edward, it was to late, my life was already nothing without you." I saw a smile hiding in his lips wanting to break through. He carefully composed his face and spoke.
"Angela is already in Seattle going to college, how Laurent would know she is there is far beyond me. Angela and Ben. I don't really know if they are in danger honestly, but I doubt it, and I don't…" At that moment I froze because in my mind, I hope it was in my mind, I heard the all to evil laugh of the retched vampire. So now Edward didn't know if I had some strange sleep like relation to the ones I cared for, or not, well that helps.
"You are so helpful," I said smugly. He smiled a sarcastic smile back at me. A question came to me that I should have asked earlier, "Has Alice seen anything about this yet?" He looked at me and was hesitant to answer, like he didn't want to tell me.
I was about to object to his hesitance when he spoke, "Bella, Angela's future…Well, we don't know why, but, it keeps disappearing. This would be like she was hanging out with werewolves…" My eyes were suddenly wide, I opened my mouth to respond, but remembered Edward's theory again. His so called theory was 'The wolves never touched him, but sided with him'. I tried to figure out how this would be possible. No, they would not do something helping a murderous vampire, Jacob defiantly wouldn't, neither would Sam. I knew it. Especially going back that far, all the way to the point where I was alone in Edward's [and my Meadow. Jacob loved me then, and still does. I closed my eyes and tried not to think about Jacob, and how I left him, how I forced myself not to be in love with him anymore. I finally built up enough strength to create a steady response,
"Edward, you know they wouldn't, don't you, especially not Jacob." I stared at him with grave seriousness.
"That is the thing Bella!" He said this practically yelling, "I know I was absurd to consider that before! The wolves would never do anything to hurt you, that much I can see. I don't know of any other places where werewolves could be!" Here he paused, wide eyed and clearly rendering stupidity, "Oh, I can not believe I did not see this before! The south, Bella, the south. There are Indian reservations there, right? Well, I think that there must be werewolves born to fight off vampires, the ones who were thought evil. This would be because of their natural locations. If Laurent appeared trying appear good and… then got one of them to interact with Angela… Wow, Laurent might have a talent at figuring things out or something. There is no need to worry though Bella, at last resort we have the werewolves here on our side, and the seven of us." He looked proud of himself that he figured it out, but he still had a hint of distress in his voice.
"Edward, that is here, not in Seattle where Angela is. I still don't think she has her e-mail address hooked up and I don't have her phone number yet, I have no way to get her and Ben out of there! They don't have a chance Edward, I don't have a choice! Laurent is going to keep destroying the people I least expect until he can get to me. I am pretty sure he won't be playing the hostage thing out like James did," I thought about a minor detail, "You are sure Victoria and James are gone-for good?"
He seemed to enjoy this thought, smiled and responded, "Bella, we are not a bunch of idiotic dogs. And by the way, I take back every other time I said I owed them for killing him except for the part about saving you." I almost smiled at his words, but took the deeper meaning and stopped myself.
"Hey, how late is it anyways?" I just realized the blinds were shut and I had never gotten out of bed. For that matter I couldn't even remember if it had been morning when I woke up. Edward smiled and pointed to the digital clock on the computer desk. "Wow, it's 1:00, that's it? I felt like I slept longer than that, and that…" I could barely speak the name, "Laurent was here."
He smiled a heavenly smile and gently pushed me back down in bed and laid next to me, "Go to sleep my Bella." He started to hum my lullaby and I quickly was drifting off to sleep.
Soon I was dreaming of the red eyes that haunted me. Was that only a few hours ago? I also dreamed about gigantic wolves with personalities, but these were not the oversized wolves I had come to know. I focused on sleeping.
Now I could feel I was asleep but did not remember dreaming to break into a cold sweat; worrying. Suddenly I saw Angela lying there with red eyes floating above her. "ANGELA!" I woke up screaming.