"Wait, what are you talking about?" I asked.
"The Volturi killed Paul. What's not to get? And now I need-"
"Why?" I asked cutting him off.
"They killed him because he tried to attack the tiny one."
"Jane." I whispered. Edward tightened his grip on my hand.
"Why did he attack her?" I asked, worried for the rest of the pack.
"She said she found out about werewolves and wanted to take us all, to join her and her little gang of bloodsuckers and then station us in places, to spy, and see if there are any bloodsuckers breaking the rules. Sam told her 'no' and then she did some sort of mind thing and burned Sam, which burned us all."
"Then what happened?" I urged as he had trailed off.
"I asked her if there was something else that we could do for her instead, like a trade, and she told me that if we got Bella to join them she would leave us alone. Paul said that there was no such chance and she did that mind thing again. Once she stopped Paul leaped up and attacked her so she ordered her bloodsuckers to….." Jacob finished and everyone was silent, mourning Paul's death.
Edward was first to speak, "You are not taking Bella."
"It's either her or my whole pack."
"No, absolutely not."
"We have to do something." Carlisle spoke up.
"They are not getting Bella," growled Edward.
"No of course not but we have to do something."
"I hope you aren't suggesting that we fight the Volturi," Esme said.
"No of course not." Carlisle replied.
"Jake isn't there anything else we could do?" I asked.
"There are no more options. Please, Bella," he begged, stepping closer to me. "They're all I have."
"Jake I can't……live the life they live there. Don't you understand? They kill humans!"
"You are just as selfish as you always were. Letting the lives of six people get changed just so you don't have to change yours," Jake spat and then turned and left.
"I feel awful." I said and hid my face in my hands.
"It'll be okay." Edward told me as he wrapped his arms around.
"No, it won't I selfishly turned my back on friends in need." I dry sobbed.
"Bells, shh, shhh" Edward hushed me. I looked up and saw that the rest of the family had left.
"Edward you still haven't gone hunting." I traced the deep circles under his eyes.
"I didn't want to leave you when you were so anxious."
"Awww, that's sweet. Now go!" I commanded and he looked shocked.
"Why so demanding?"
"Because you need to hunt and you are so overprotective sometimes." My voice was gruff.
"You sound mad, love."
"No, silly, I'm not mad. I just want you to go. You never go. Now fetch Jasper. He is thinking about hunting, too."
"I don't want to abandon you in your time of need though."
"I'll be fine. I have Alice And if you don't go far we still have each other." I said tapping my temple. The farthest we had tested was 30 miles and then it started to get fuzzy. We think that it is farther than when we just read others thoughts because we are so in tune with each other.
"Alright, if you insist." He said and took off to find his brother. I went and found Alice. She was flipping through a fashion magazine but stopped when she heard me enter.
"Bella!" she said jumping up and hugging me.
"You just saw me five minutes ago."
"Yeah but that was before I found out that we would be spending the rest of the day together," she sang. I groaned. "Hey you thought of it in the first place."
"Yeah, to get Edward out of the house to hunt."
"Nonetheless we get to spend the day together. What do you want to do?"
"How about we play the silent game? Whoever talks first loses." I said with fake cheerleader peppiness.
"Bella let's be serious here."
"Says the queen of excitement." I rolled my eyes as I said this.
"Do you want to go shopping?"
"No"
"What about watching a movie?"
"Okay fine" I said knowing I probably I wouldn't even watch the movie but 'talk' with Edward. She pranced downstairs and went over to their vast movie collection in the living room.
"What do you want to watch?" She asked as I sat down.
"I don't know you can pick," I said, tired of her Energizer bunny of doom energy.
"Okay." She picked the movie The Devil Wears Prada, typical Alice, put it in the DVD player and sat on the couch.
"Alice you know I hate this movie. It makes no sense why someone would want to make a movie about fashion."
"Hey you said I could pick the movie and I happen to like this movie."
"Of course you would." She didn't respond because the movie started. I tuned it out.
"Edward, you there?"
"Yes, love."
"Where are you?"
"Just up in the mountains."
"Okay. When will you be home?"
"Later tonight."
"Okay, sorry am I bothering you?"
"Of course not. I can multi-task." I could almost hear him smirking.
"Yes I know, just checking."
"What is Alice inflicting upon you?"
"We're just
watching a movie, nothing too bad."
He mentally chuckled.
"You're too good to her you know that?"
"Yes, I know."
"What are you watching anyway?"
"The Devil wears Prada."
"That is such an Alice movie."
"I know."
It was silent for a few moments and I decided to watch a bit of the movie. Right after Andy got the job at the magazine Edward asked,
"Are you going to the club tonight with Alice?"
"What are you talking about?"
"oops. Alice didn't tell you?"
"No, she didn't."
"Well, Alice is planning a night out because she wants to take you mind off the stress at hand. I didn't think you would want to go though."
"Actually, Edward, I think I will go. I don't get out enough."
"Alice will be happy. She has been dreading telling you."
"Well I guess I'll tell her then she can stop worrying."
"Yeah she'll be glad to hear it."
"Hey Alice?"
"Yeah Bella?"
"I'm going to come tonight."
"You are? YAY!!" She hugged me and I smiled. I loved making Alice happy. I tried to tune into the movie again. After the movie was over Alice jumped up off the couch.
"Okay they're going to be home in a couple of hours then we'll leave. Okay?"
"Alright."
"Let's go get ready!"
"Do we have to?"
"Yes."
"Fine let's go." I said and stood up.
How did you like it? Next Chapter is their night out.