Part 13: What does she want: Seth

Once Leah had left I dumped my plate in the sink as well and went up stairs to grab my wallet and get changed.

I was in desperate need of a present for Bella. I had wasted too much time trying to find something perfect and now zero hour was approaching fast.

Before long I was at the shopping area such as it was. The first three stores were food and camping supplies but next was an electronic store that might have something.

As I stared at some CDs waiting for inspiration to strike I felt some one tap me on the shoulder. I turned to see Bella's friend stood in front of me. "Angela?"

"Yeah, you shopping for anything special?"

I nodded and turned back to the rack and scanned the artist names. Nothing seemed to be the right sort of music for her. "Need a present for Bella." I started walking towards the back of the store.

Angela followed me. "Bit late aren't you? Any ideas?" Yes but you can't buy liquid happiness.

I wish I had gone into Seattle when I had the chance and got something then. I wanted her to see how much I cared for her. I wanted to see her face light up with joy when she unwrapped it. Nothing measured up to her. I would just have to find something she wanted but hadn't asked for but everything I thought of was impossible to find.

It suddenly registered that I still hadn't answered her question. "Nope I was waiting to find something perfect." I had looked at every CD in the store and there was nothing. I glanced around at the walls of the store and something on the wall sparked a half forgotten memory. "Wait that's it! A radio for her truck, she keeps saying she wants one."

I ran to the wall and pulled one off of the shelf. Angela patted me on the shoulder and I turned to see her smiling. "Good idea pup. Now about the two of you."

"W-what about the two of you, I mean us." I backed away slightly and held the radio up for the meagre protection it provided. This wasn't what I wanted to talk about.

"You keep dancing around each other and each step you take forwards she takes a step back, do you know why?"

"Yeah she was going to explain everything but then she didn't for some reason. I need to find some time to tell her I know what happened with Wesley, Jacob told me." I could feel the anger rising in me. My knuckles were white as I gripped the box harder and my jaw was clenched.

A hand reached out and rubbed my shoulder. "Calm down Seth, theirs two sides to each story. No one actually knows Bella's side but I think you can find out."

That one almost managed to make me to drop the radio. "How?" If her friends had tried to make her tell the story for years how could I, some one that had just met her this year, get her to spill?

"The pair of you just have a connection." Her parting words flew around me all the way home. Did we really have anything special? I hoped so but she seemed to shy away from me and then she would kiss me and totally confuse me.

Please help her

My head snapped up and I looked around. The street I was on was empty even for Forks. The voice sounded like it came from someone looking over my shoulder and from right in front of me at the same time.

Like someone was watching me walk in their footsteps. It was ever so creepy.

Please it wasn't her fault help her

There was that voice again. I put a finger in my ear and wiggled it about before carrying on down the street. I was nearly home when it happened again, it was getting more insistent and I couldn't ignore it any more.

You must make her see that it was me not her

"What wasn't her fault?" I asked the voice.

I am Yggdrasil I watched him fall The beast wants her to blame herself for some reason Please help her recover

"OK I will try."

There is no try Only do or do not

For the second time today a hand fell on my shoulder. I spun to see Bella, a pained look on her face. "Seth? Who are you talking to?"

"Oh, er, no one. Wait no, I wasn't talking to myself." I quickly hid the bag behind my back.

"Don't worry I don't think you are mad. Could you come with me?"

"O-OK, where are we going?"

She held the truck door open for me before she continued. "A place I like to go to think." The place turned out to be a cliff on the reservation.

OK you might notice this is a bit late, gonna be dropping the regular updates. Still try to get once a week but might fail that a bit.

Yggdrasil won't be revealed nor will the beast. That will have to wait for another story. As for Yggdrasil's speech, he does have sentences just no punctuation, look for the capitals.

Took me a while to find a present for Seth to give Bella but then I twig on this, I also have a little extra thing that you will have to wait and see. The cliff at the end is the cliff diving cliff BTW.