Previously on Edward X Jessica,
Victoria tried to hunt down Bella's mother, Renee, but failed. Instead she hurt Phil and the Cullens now are searching for Edward and Renee.
She was looking intensively into his eyes, trying to see if he's lying. Like she had some sort of lying detector; making sure that he was telling the truth. "Who took her?" She pushed him to the wall, lifting him up with only one hand. Phil's eyeballs looked as though they were going to come out. He was shocked by the girl's strength. She's not human, they're both not. He was remembering the scene where the pale-gorgeous boy jumped out of the window of his half story house.
"A young boy, he took my wife away. He didn't say where." Phil answered. He saw that she had thrown the baseball bat to the next room. So much for his escape. In that split second, he remembered that he had a pen knife in his left pocket of his pants. He was striving to take it out without her noticing. She was looking away from him, she was definitely thinking of the guy that he was talking about. Although what Phil had told her seemed like he might have betrayed his wife. But, he wanted to get out of this now and to get Renee back.
Phil took out his pen knife slowly, but the blonde grabbed it from his fingers without even looking at him.
"That's not nice; I thought you want to help me, so that I won't hurt you. Now, I have to think again whether to kill you or not." She smirked. Phil had an image of the Grinch that ruined Christmas when he saw her evil smile. She threw the knife away. No, not again! Phil thought. She grabbed a piece of glass from the floor when Phil had broke the vase and showed it to him.
"This is a reminder, so that you don't try to mess with one of us again" one of us? What did she mean by that? She slowly cut the glass through his pale skin just below his stomach and that leaked out a large amount of blood. It was crimson red. Phil yelled out the pain. It was like an operation without anesthesia. It was like tearing pieces of your skin off little by little. She did it very slowly so that he suffered every minute of this. She enjoyed it; loving every minute of Phil suffering.
The cut was really deep. The blonde took the glass – now covered with blood and she licked it. She licked every single pool of blood on the glass. When she was licking, he saw what looks like fangs. It was carnivorous; she's definitely abnormal and not human. Phil was petrified and didn't believe what he just saw. He didn't think that these types of things don't really exist in their world.
"What are you? Are you even human?" Phil shot her that question even though it was painful to ask. His voice was shattering. He didn't expect this at all; the blonde girl lifted up his shirt and started to lick around the cut. He could sense that she was giggling because her lips were moving differently. Then, she lifted him up and threw him to the bookshelf. Books came tumbling down and some of it hit Phil on the head making his visions blurry. "I'm not human, you stupid human! In your world, we don't exist." She grabbed hold of his chin and looked into his eyes. Although Phil wasn't looking back, he was unconscious. He didn't even want to look at the blonde at that moment.
She bent her knees and whispered into his ear "Your blood is not tasteful as you're your wife's going to be when I get my fangs on her. Or maybe your lovely daughter, Bella, would make a delicious and splendid meal."
Suddenly, the blonde wrinkled her nose and she turned her head to see that there was a big looking teenager – looks young, but in a body of an old man, he seemed lost in that body; she hissed at him. Phil opened his eyes slightly to see what was going on because he thought that this might be the end for him, that the blonde was going to kill him at that instant. The boy crouched and was going to attack the girl. He jumped like a tiger hunting down one of its prey at both of them. The girl was fast; she jumped and crashed out of the window. She ran away. The big kid rampaged into the bookshelf; he wanted to attack the blonde that was supposed to be there. So, he fell to the floor. So much for a savior – Phil thought. Then, all of the books fell on top of Phil again. The books buried him. The boy whimpered and for a moment there, Phil thought he sounded just like a dog before he was in his deep unconscious sleep.
~Bella~
Bella was really shocked with her step father's story.
It was too much for her to take in 30 seconds of her life. Because they killed James, now, veronica – James mate is hunting her family until she gets her. But, why did Edward took her mother? Was it because he wanted to save her from Veronica? But, why would he do that? It kept running through her head. He knew it must have been him because Phil described him carefully to her. It kept running through her head. The images of Edward saving her mother were too good to be true. What benefit was installed for him? What would he get from this?
A warm hand gripped her shoulder, Jacob. "Look Bells, we have to act fast, we are going to save your mother, okay? Don't worry." Bella nodded. She just responded with a nod because she was too tired with what has been going on these past few days. First, Edward, that bastard, cheated on me – who could ever thought a vampire can cheat on the ones they love, especially when it's not another vampire. Now, her mother is missing.
"Owwwww!! I'd rather die than to have put up with this pain. Oh…##%" Phil was yelling and cursing at the same time. God knows how many bad words that he used. He was complaining all this while when Alice put the alcohol around the wound.
"I'm so sorry, sir. I know it's really painful, but this is for your own good. And if I don't clean it, it'll get infected and it will be even worse than it is now." Alice took the first aid kit and gently dabbed alcohol around the wound. Then, she covered it with a big plaster. She threw away cottons that were soaked with blood. It would take a lot of strength and will power for a vampire to resist their thirst like what Alice is doing now.
"What are you people, he must have sensed Alice's cold fingers on his body – Bella thought, I mean, that girl, Okay, he doesn't know it yet – Bella confirmed. What is she? Is she even normal? Is she human?" Phil asked Bella, who looked like she was a lost puppy. His hands were trembling.
"Phil, this is not the time for questions and answers. We will explain to you later as soon as we get mum back." Bella replied. She bent her knees to get a close shot of the cut. She was worried of Phil's condition, he looked so pale.
Alice said quickly "We would have to call Carlisle here straight away! He might bleed to death. He's losing too much blood." She was holding the large surfaced plaster on his wound. She was right. The blood did not stop pouring out. "Well, that's not the first bad news of the day isn't it?" Phil grinned sarcastically.
Bella tried to fight a smile. She nodded when Alice said that his condition is getting worse by the minute. Then, she called Carlisle on her speed dial.
"Carlisle, we need you here now. It's an emergency. Phil, Bella's step father is hurt badly now. He needs blood real bad. What blood type are you Phil? Alice spoke into the phone and turned to ask Phil.
"I'm an A blood type" he replied weakly. He was not even looking up at Alice. He held the plaster in place. Alice told him to maintain the pressure, so that the bleeding would stop for now.
"A type and hurry!" Alice cried to Carlisle.
Bella was quite sure that Carlisle might just drive up to Phoenix, since it was not that far from Forks. She remembered the life she had before this, it had no chaos and she liked it. Now, because she was a girlfriend of a vampire, sorry, ex-girlfriend of a vampire, all of a sudden, her life was in danger. It was hard for her to believe that one little mistake leads to a whole bunch of possibilities.
"Bella, I have to go first…" Jacob said softly.
"Jake, you're not going to leave me here aren't you? You're being just like that stupid blood sucker, sorry Alice, I didn't mean you." She whispered gently so that her step father couldn't hear.
"No no no…I need to shape shift first, I will talk to Leah and Seth since they were running near your house, I wanted them to check up on Charlie. I'm afraid that Victoria didn't get Renee, so he might be on to Charlie next." His eyes gazed into hers. He was really sweet to have thought about Charlie. But now, Bella is worried about her father. Why the hell did Jacob had to bring up Charlie's condition now! – Bella was angry at him, but, at the same time she really appreciates his help and concern. Jacob whispered gently so that she will accept his action to leave her for a few minutes.
"Okay, that'll be a good idea. I'm afraid of that too." It was all clear to her now; she shouldn't have been with Edward. It was a wrong decision; a mistake that she was not able to undone. But, she also saw the good sides of being with Edward, she felt love. No one has ever treated her that way. And she learnt what a "family" really means in the Cullen family. Stay together for all eternity, of course she had no eternity like the Cullens.
Jacob dashed to the door; Bella heard the door slammed shut. Since Jacob has turned into his wolf form, he doesn't really know his strength anymore when he's in his human form. She smiled at the thought of him lifting her off the ground without him even feeling the weight. So, he definitely wouldn't mind if she put on several pounds.
Alice called over to Bella "Bella, could you take care of Phil for a moment please? I need to check something out."
As Alice walked pass by her, she whispered "I need to breathe fresh air for a moment if I sit here long, he would be losing blood even faster."
Bella giggled. Emmett followed Alice behind, he snickered to have the thought that Bella might think that he's a wuss for not able to take in all those sight of blood.
"So, you too eyh, Emm? And I thought you of all Cullens are the strongest? – Making that baby mimic voice.
"If you were a vampire, you would know too. Do you want to be one now? I could sure use some taste." He smirked at me as he continued walking.
"Bella, I need you to tell me, what's going on here? And who are those guys? Who was the boy that jumped out of the window? Is he even human? And your huge friend, he bled just now, but he seems fine now, his wound healed fast. Who are these people? Bella was really irritated by Phil's questions. She felt like she was being investigated for a crime and that she was one of the witnesses. She didn't want to answer this now. Not now, when everything in her life was tearing to pieces and falling apart. She wanted anything more than not having to explain to Phil about this. It would only kill him faster with everything that he had to take in and to tell him that his wife is with one of them.
How is she supposed to tell him?
"Oh, all those people out there are my friends, it was their brother that kidnapped mum from us. I'm still figuring out the reason behind that. Maybe he was still upset that I ended our relationship. Oh, and by the way, they're all vampires. Yes, they are blood suckers. And there is this woman, whom you just met just now, who Edward killed her mate, who I used to love before. She's upset and wants revenge. So, that's why you're in this condition. She would try to hunt me down by getting up my sleeves with the ones that I love. So that it would be a sweet payback. And that huge boy you were talking about, he's a werewolf and he could heal himself as to what you already saw just now. Pheww! Got that over with right, Phil? Phil?" She was looking around for Phil and saw Phil holding the piece of glass, cutting his wrist and now he's dead.
That was the rough idea she had installed for him if he continues to irritate her with questions again.
She could just imagine how he would accept all of that shit. Either he was going to take it in as a joke from his step daughter or kill himself after finding out the truth. Maybe he would think that he has married the wrong person and now Bella was on drugs. Of course he wouldn't really understand it all. Above all, who the hell would spend time to joke about serious things NOW, It's not April fool's day!
"It's hard to describe it to you the problem that we are currently facing now. So, I will explain all to you when you are healed. You should not strain yourself; it might get worse with all the stress you're thinking about now." She smiled sincerely at him, though just to convince him to keep his mouth shut. She would do anything now so that she would be able to find her mother.
God, please answer my prayers – Bella thought
"Bella, I have something to show you! I might have a rough picture of where Renee and Edward are. Quick!" That was fast – Bella thanked God for helping her. She smiled and looked up. Alice came rushing through the front door and into the living room. She grabbed Bella into the hall, she looked very excited and really positive about this…