Bella stood up so fast that she suddenly felt as if the ground was sinking beneath her feet. She was unable to balance herself. Everything is happening too fast. My life isn't supposed to end up like this. This is clearly unfair. She thought."What is it Alice? What did you see?" She insisted that she throws all of what she saw; she's already traumatized by all what is already happening.

Alice pulled her far away from Phil, so that he couldn't even hear a single word of what she was going to say. She grabbed her hand and took her to the next room, which was empty, since it was a small closet. She closed the door behind them and reached on to the light switch.

It was one of those old bulbs which had a chain attached to it. Phil loves authentic antiques.

She finally broke up the silence between them. Bella was already nervous about this.

"I saw your mum and Edward's face here. This was behind them. "Alice showed her a piece of paper that she drew on. It was a bit dark in the closet for Bella to see. She held the piece of paper high, putting it directly beneath the light bulb. That place. It was all where it began. She saw the mirrors of her old ballet studio. It started there; it would have to end there too. The picture was drawn perfectly. Bella could clearly see the expression on Renee's face in the photo. That face was terrifying. She has never seen her mother that way. That face could make her have nightmares. Bad dreams of her mother being in that state. It has clearly shown that she was shocked with something.

Her jaws were open wide; she looked like she was screaming at somebody and tears strolling down her face. Her hair was messy; her face was covered with mud being rubbed thoroughly off her face. Her finger was pointing at someone or something. Edward crouched over in front of Renee, he was furious. His teethe was bare and looked like he was hissing to someone. At the back of them was a mirror, there's a reflection, but it was too dark to see. Alice couldn't trace the shape clearly, she said.

"This is your old Ballet Studio, right?" Alice asked as to confirm the picture she drew.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go now!" Bella didn't see the reason why they were still here.

"Bella! Charlie is gone!" Jacob knocked the door down.

"Jacob, there is a fucking door knob there! Can't you see?! And what?! He what?!" Bella stammered her feet.

Bella could be Phil moaned.

"Sorry Phil. I didn't mean to do that." Another broken door to be fixed in the house.

Why God? A problem after another? What have I done to deserve this?

"I'm so sorry, Bells. I told Seth and Leah to watch over him. But, then, he suddenly disappeared. They traced his smell and they're tracking him down now. Leah said that the smell definitely stinks and she says that this may be the work of another vampire."

"I can't take this anymore, Alice. Let's just finish this!!" Bella was furious with all the problems that she has to face in this few days. It was all moving too fast for her to even breathe. She just has to make herself stronger so that she won't break down. She knows that her father and mother need her to be strong at this point. She can't let them down; she's their only hope now.

Let's take them down and end this. It was being repeated several times in her mind.

Bella read the letter that Jacob gave to her in the car. They were on their way to the airport. Emmett was being left behind to take care of Phil. The ones who followed and wrinkling their nose in the car was Rosalie and Jasper; sitting next to Jacob. Jacob explained to her that it was from the person that has kidnapped Charlie. The person had left it with a tear from Charlie's shirt. Leah and Seth were the ones who told Jacob the contents in the letter and he scribbled it down onto a piece of paper as soon as he shifted into his human form. It explains a lot in his writing as he was trying to remember all of it at the same time.

The game is not over Bella. I took your dearest father because Edward took my delicious dinner from me. He would really regret for taking your darling mother from me. But, I will definitely track them down and will tear her meat apart slowly. Letting her feel how it was to watch your partner die slowly like what Alice did to MINE. I would be rather full having three courses at a time.

~Red Flaring hair~

The words "track them and tear her meat" ran through her mind like an unstoppable wind on a windy day. Anger flamed through her veins. Usually she would be the one crying and the weakling now, but she has learnt a lesson that it would be none other than wasteful tears to cry as it would definitely not solve anything. She could picture herself being a stronger person and she would be able to save her parents all by herself, but she knows she wouldn't be able to do it without the Cullens. They would also insist to help her as they love her very much. Jacob on the other hand would never leave her to be alone. He would always be there for her.

She crumpled the paper in her hand and threw it on the car mat. It wasn't going to be a long journey to the airport; but it was going to be a long trip to Florida. The plan was to have Alice, Jasper and Rosalie beside her in the airplane and Jacob was being told to shape shift so that he would be there before they could arrive; just to make sure that everything there is no one other than the two vampires there. Only Victoria and Edward. The ride to the airport was cold and silent. Despite being in a car with two vampires and one werewolf; which she would have never imagined a situation to be in, no one had the enthusiasm to talk about anything. Even if there were conversations, it would be about the plan. It was to confirm what they were going to do. Bella knew what she had to do. She just has to show up. The others were told what to do as well.

To Bella, it felt as though she was going to involve herself in a war game. Like the ones that most normal teenagers would find time to build their empires and have structural coordinated troops and weapons. Only, it didn't feel that way. She didn't have troops to back her up when she has to face the vampire alone at first. She doesn't have armours like the ones in the game have. She's just bringing her body into the battle field. Bella shrugged at the thought of that. Being in a room facing the vampires alone and waiting for Alice's queue for the attack.

"Bella, are you okay?" Alice reached over to her and smoothly patted her leg.

"It's okay Bella. Everything is going to be okay. We have planned it much earlier and I'm sure that we can take Victoria and kill her if she still resist in letting Charlie go." Alice assured her. She turned her head slightly to look at Bella and back on the road again. Bella just nodded her head in response.

She didn't want to say anything. She has too many things on her mind now. She rethinks again about their strategy and assures herself that there is no way for Victoria to attack them. There is...But then, only if...She shivers at the thought of having to leave one of her parents behind.

She was too tired to think about it anymore. She leaves it in the hands of God and fate to encounter this problem. She tried to force herself to sleep as Jacob was already snoring in the car. Rosalie and Jasper were whispering something that no human can hear at that frequency. Somewhere in Jacob's snore made her find peace and enabled her to take a nap for a short while. The song playing on the radio was also rather soothing and comforting for Bella.

Then a few minutes later they arrived to the airport. Jacob was woken up by Rosalie.

In her dreams she saw Renee and Charlie together. They looked so happy. It was like the old times. She realised that she was then looking into a mirror and reached out for the imaged lay in front of her. She saw those small finger-like sausages reaching the mirror. Then, she looked at her cute chubby face; she was white as a pearl. Then, she crawled over to her parents at the back of her. Renee lifting her up and down and Charlie was making funny faces behind Renee. He was waving a toy from left to right. Bella heard herself giggled.

Then, the picture became suddenly grey and white. Charlie was gone. He was nowhere in sight. Bella looked around to search for her father and started crying.

"Why, my Bella?" A sweet and familiar voice came.

Bella was brought front by Renee's arm to face her again. Only, the face was not Renee. It was a white pale skin woman with curly red flaming hair, the ones that looked like phone wires. The face started to change to Renee and changed back to the women again. Bella cried and felt a warm tear came down her cheeks.

"You will never get away from me! You hear me?!!" The woman repeated so many times and laughed hysterically.

Bella tried to get out of the dream. But she felt like Victoria is pulling her back.

"Hey you! Dog! Wake up! We need to go now! Oh my god!!! You drooled on our expensive leathered car! You're so going to get it when we're done with this!" Rosalie screamed at Jacob when she saw the pool of drool that he has made on the head rest. That surely woke Bella up as well. She rubbed her eyes to see what the fuss all about was.

"Relax Rosalie. I just drooled on one head rest. You want me to drool on the other one just to make it even? Then that way, it wouldn't be too different in a way." Jacob smirked and made a loud noise when he was trying to gather all of his saliva and slime in one spit and getting ready to spit on the other head rest.

Rosalie dragged Jacob out through the passenger door by only holding on to his right ear. She was definitely strong to have pulled out a large werewolf that way. God knows how heavy Jacob is; since he has the metabolism of a werewolf, he eats enormous amount of food. He can't get full, he would always be hungry. Poor Sam's wife has to cook almost every 5 hours for the pack. She's the main cook for them; they would never complain anything about her cooking because they knew she would be the only one who is able to cope with their large food intake. She has the most patience in a woman then there could ever be.

Bella laughed hilariously at the sight of them fighting.

It was the first time among these stressful days that she is able to laugh like this. Just the look on Jacob's and Rosalie's face made her laugh so hard. Rosalie was really serious and Jacob was like always with his nutty behaviour and making faces at her. They would always have something they each wouldn't agree with the other one.

"What the hell is so funny, Bella Swan? May I know? A dog just messed up my new car and that is funny to you is it?" Rosalie was already flaring up with Bella's response because she won't scold Jacob for doing that and now she has the courage to even laugh at this situation.

"That's my girl! Laugh all the way!" Jacob laughed along as well.

"Can we stop laughing and let's get going. There's not much time left. Based on the picture that I have sketched, it must be in the afternoon because the sun is rising in a different direction. We have to be fast here." Alice went between Rosalie and Jacob who was now brushing off the dust from the street.

"You dirtied my favourite shirt, blood sucker."Jacob reminded Rosalie.

"Oh...You mean that ugly plain white shirt, that you people call clothing? You can find it anywhere but not leather seats!" Rosalie laughed sarcastically.

"Back off Rosalie! This is not the time and you know that." Jasper finally broke his silence.

Rosalie hissed at Jacob at went into the car to park it in the basement. She slammed the door. Thankfully the car door did not fall off by it.

"Jacob, you know what to do, right?" Alice confirmed with him again.

"Yes, Alice." Jacob answered.

"Jake..." Bella ended with sigh.

"Bells, everything would be okay. You don't worry too much, ok? It's just for a short while that we're going to be separated. You know what the plan is, right?" Jacob held her face in his warm palms.

Bella closed her eyes tight. She tried to pull back the tears, but she just couldn't stop it from running down her face. She has to convince herself that everything is going to go as planned. She has come this far, she can't just quit like that.

Bella nodded in return.

"Bells...." There was a sense of worry in Jacob's voice.

"Yes..." Bella looked down at first and looked into his eyes.

"It's going to be okay...I bet my tail on it." Jacob assures her by gazing into her eyes deeply as though he is able to hypnotize her with his.

Bella chuckled.

"Whatever happens, I love you. I want you to know that." Jacob ended with a soft warm kiss on her lips. It felt that her lips burnt for a while, but then it went away as the cold morning breeze cushioned it.

Bella was not really in a state to accept this now.

"I love you too...Jacob." She responded after several seconds her lips felt out of its numb state.

Jacob is really sweet and she doesn't want to upset him. She loves him because he has always been there for her. Never left her side. Persuaded her to love him several times because he doesn't want to see her get hurt like this. But Bella treats him just like any other guy friend. She doesn't know whether she could ever love him as much as she loves Edward. But, just one promise that she can give to herself and Jacob, she will try to love him.