Chapter 4

To much

"Mmm…Mike?" I spluttered I recognized his face from so many of the blurry human memories.

"Bella? Is that really you?" he replied not answering my question "Edward." He growled obviously displeased to see him.

I did not know how to answer his question. All I could think was how was this possible? Was he? Could he be? I was so lost in thought I did not notice everyone staring at me. "Mike are you..."I could not get the words out. I took a deep breath. Instead, I asked, "What are you doing here?"

Mike replied uneasily "Well see, I was just walking around Forks, you know getting fresh air and this gorgeous woman walked up. I thought she was going to like kiss me. Then she bit me! For the longest time I was withering in pain, then all of a sudden it stopped. But my throat was still burning, and whenever I was near someone I wanted to bite them and drink their blood!" he paused reading our reactions "I started to run and I somehow swam al the way to Italy! Then I was in this walled city, and I couldn't wait any longer. I killed a bunch of people!" he paused again "then these people, well they weren't really people tried to kill me. They said I'd broken the law and so I ran and then swam but I got off course and ended up here. But I need to know, what am I?"

We were all shocked, he didn't know!

"Well Mike you probably won't believe me but," I paused unsure of how to phrase it. I had to be blunt "Mike we're all," I forced the word out "vampires."

After I told Mike what we were, he just looked at me like I was crazy. "You have to be kidding." He said. "Unfortunately I'm not, Mike." I replied." Wait. Mike what did this woman look like? Did she tell you her name?" I turned to Edward and asked. "Do you think it could be?" I asked

"I'm not really sure of it; Alice did not see anything or anybody coming." But we need to find out who is doing this before it is to late. I don't want it to be like last time with Victoria."

I turned back to Mike "Mike I need you to tell me everything about this woman you remember."

Mike paused "Well, I don't really remember much. My memories are clouded for some reason."

"Don't worry Mike that's normal" I told him

"Well," he continued "she had flame red hair. That much I remember. She moved almost cat like. But other than that I can't remember anything."

That was all we needed. Victoria, could she still be alive. No it wasn't possible. I watched her die, sort of.

"Edward," I needed to know, just in case "are you sure you killed Victoria?"

"Positive." he replied "besides Alice would have seen her" he turned to her "Alice?"

"Nothing I swear" she told him

I was confused I didn't remember much about Vitoria, but the 2 things Mike said were the 2 things I remembered most.

"That's odd… did Victoria have a sister or something?" We needed to know this as soon as possible.

"Not that we know of" Edward replied "but it is possible."

"Well, are we going back to Forks to investigate?" I needed to. All my old friends and Charlie were in Forks

"No" Edward responded "I'm sure that the Quileutes have it under control."

"Can't just you and I go?" I asked anxious now

"We don't need to." Edward responded

"Fine then. I'll go by myself!" I knew that he would cave once I threatened to go alone

Then Renesmee joined in, "I want to go to!"

"NO!" Edward and I said together
"But I need to see Jacob!"

I couldn't help but feel her pain, it was hard for her. So I gave in "fine you can come. I'll help you get ready. We'll leave tonight."

"NO!" I could tell Edward was really mad.

"Edward," I had to explain why "don't you realize if there's a vampire, especially a newborn, everyone in Forks is in danger. I can't abandon them."

"No" Edward refused to let us go. "You can't leave me I can't survive without you."

"Fine Edward you won't let me go to Forks, I'm going to Florida. And I'm NOT coming back. Not until you learn that I don't need you to control my life" I hated doing this to him but he needed to learn that trust was important to me and if he couldn't trust me there was no point to our relationship. Well not really but I had convinced myself this was the right thing to do. I could tell everyone but Mike was upset. Mike was in shock, apparently he thought Edward and I never fought, yeah right.

I walked away from them. I knew this was kind of childish but I didn't care.

"Bella" Edward called me "Bella just listen to me and be reasonable…" his voice trailed off as I continued walking. Before I entered our house I told him

"Edward there isn't much for me to listen to. You can talk while I pack but it isn't going to change very much." He stayed where he was.

I took out my cell phone and called the flight agency then my mother. We had long ago told Renee the truth. At first she didn't believe me but she eventually grew accustomed to it.

I still hadn't seen Renee in about 5 years. Not too much for me but it seemed like ages to her. Renee was thrilled but then again I didn't tell her the ENTIRE truth. All I told her was I needed a break and I had decided to visit her for a while.

So I started packing. I knew I would need to hunt but I could do that on the way. This reminded me of the things I told Charlie before I ran from James. Though the memories were fuzzy I could hear my words echoing in my head.

Then I left. I just left. I took a boat to the mainland and got my "after" car. I would probably exchange it later.