April 13th; around 6:30.

Bella's POV~

There I stood.

In Alice's stateroom. She was reading the note.

"Who wrote this?" she asked me her voice soft.

"I have no idea, Someone with an initial J." I cried.

"Bella don't worry about it. Nothing is going to happen to you or anyone else." she stood up and hugged me.

"You don't know that for sure ,Alice."

She pulled away. "Come on let's go tell Edward. He'll find the person who wrote the note and kill him before dinner. You won't even have to see him."she shrugged.

"Alice, I can not tell Edward!" I shrieked.

"Why not?"

"Because he might get hurt. If he goes after this person, then other people will find out what and who he is. The outcome of that can not be good."

"Well Bella you can't just do nothing..."

I wiped my tears and pulled myself together.

"I won't do nothing, I'll listen to the note, meet whoever wrote this, and then be burried at my funeral when the ship gets to New York." I threw the note down and left the room.

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It was getting closer and closer to the time I had planned to go to the front of the ship. I was meeting the author of the note at 8:00 and I was hopping that wasn't too late.

I reached for the door knob to my stateroom but couldn't stand to go back and look at the mess that this J. had left. I sunk down to the floor and began to sob again.

"Bella." I heard a voice from behind me.

"Edward." I stood up and straightened my dress out . I began to reach for the door knob.

"What's wrong?"he asked reaching toward me.

"Nothing." I lied.

"Bella I can tell when your lying to me."

"Edward, you've known me for two days, you really don't know all that much about me. I had my hand on the door knob, but I couldn't make myself actually open the door.

"Are you going to go in?"

"Excuse me?" I raised my eyebrows.

"You're just standing there with you're hand on the knob."

"I will enter my stateroom when I feel doing so is necessary."

"Alright then I'll wait here until you feel it is necessary." he leaned against the wall casually.

"Fine." I turned the knob and was about to push the door open, I still couldn't help thinking that the last person to walk through these doors was the very person to threaten my life.

I jerked my hand off the knob.

"Bella what's wrong?"

I just looked at him, his eyes seemed sincerely concerned.

"The truth would be nice." he encouraged.

"Nothing, like I said." And I pushed the door open and slammed it shut behind me before he could see me fall apart.

I fell to the floor knowing that he was still out side waiting for me. If I saw his face while I was speaking to him, I knew that I would eventually tell him.

"I can speak to Alice. She will tell me in the end." he said through the door.

"There's nothing to be told."

"Bella let me in we can talk about whatever is bothering."

"There's nothing to talk about." I whispered.

"Bella please let me in."

"You won't give this up will you?"

" No, not really."

I stood up and opened the door. I didn't know what he was thinking when he saw the stateroom. His face looked calm,at first, as if he thought that I did it. Then his expression grew furious.

"Bella who did this." I wondered if I could ever lie to him.

"Ben. When I was at breakfast with you , Alice and Jasper. He was angry at me and destroyed the room. It's my fault really, I didn't even let him know where I was."

"Where does he think you were?" He asked.

I couldn't believe that had worked. Did he really believe that's all Ben was capable of?

"He thinks I was with Alice. I told him that when I was speaking to her I...fell asleep."

"Where. Is. Ben?" he spoke slowly.

"I'm not sure."

He stormed past me to the door.

"Edward, you're not aloud to kill Ben...today."

"And why not?"

"Edward he's my fiance, I have told him that I'm going to marry him and I will."

"Bella after all the terrible things he's done to you, you're going to stand here and defend him?"

"Edward, you know why I have to do this. I can't...I...I have to...." I stuttered as I began to cry...again.

"Bella,calm down." he pulled me into his stone chest and let me cry. We stood there for at least ten minutes while I cried everything out.

My thoughts were going through my head at a million miles per hour.

I remembered my father's funeral and my conversation with my mother afterward.

I was walking home from the funeral and I was trying to comfort my mother as we walked.

"Mother, it's alright. We'll get through this. It will all work out in the end." I hugged her as she came to a stop.

"Bella, what are we going to do about the money?"

"What money?" I asked meeting her eyes.

"Your father, he owes so much money."

"To who?"

"Most everyone. I don't know how we'll ever be able to pay it all off."

"We will mother we will. We'll...we'll do whatever it takes." I promised as we walked home.

The first time my mother introduced me to Ben.

"Okay Bella try to be on your best behavior. He's rich. Filthy rich even." she smiled smugly.

"Mother what if I don't we don't agree with him. What if we actually hate each other?"

"Deal with it!" she screamed.

There was a knock on the door.

"That's him Bella please. Try to be the least bit appealing." she answered the door as the last of myself asstem, which I ad been losing over the last few months, slowly slipped out of my body.

"Bella this is Ben. Ben this is Bella." my mother introduced.

I looked up from my hands and up at his face. He looked completely devasted that he had o be there and I couldn't bring myself to blame him. I didn't want to do this anymore than he did.

"So I hear we're getting married." were the first words out of his mouth.

When he told me that we were going on the Titanic.

He stormed in through the doors of the house. I was still in pain from the night before when he had beaten me...again. This was at least the 7th time.

"Bella pack you're bags. We're leaving." he said in the rudest manner.

"Where are we going?" I asked trying to be polite.

"On the Titanic. The unsinkable ship Bella , be excited. You better have a good attitude about this , or else I guess we'lkl both have to be difficult."

"When do we leave?"

"In a few weeks. Bring your best dresses and finest jewelery."

"Absolutely." I ran upstairs and started packing.

I knew that the next month or so would be absolute torture for me if I didn't do exactly what he said when he said to do it.

"Bella, why put yourself through this. It's unnecessary. You shouldn't be sacrificing yourself for your mother."

"Edward, she could be on the streets if I don't do this." I said meeting his eyes, I was furious now.

"Bella you shoul-"

"No Edward! I'm going to do this...and you can't stop me." I stormed past him and flew out the door.

I knew that he could follow me and beat me to where ever I was going.

But if he cared about me he would let me think this out on my own. It was 7:30. I was trying not to think about it. If I went into this not expecting to come out alive, I wouldn't be shocked when I felt some sort of pain from death. If I was expecting to walk away, I knew that I would be greatly disappointed.

Time passed to quickly, it was 7:50 now and I went to see Alice.

I knocked at the door 3 times and she didn't answer. I knocked again, hitting the door harder this time so she was sure to hear me. I turned the door knob and opened the door.

The stateroom looked normal except there was one thing missing.

Alice.

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Yeah if you know me at all than you know that I almost always leave each chapter with a cliffie. I'm so evil. But I don't care. Maybe I should. Nah, forget about it.

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