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I slammed on the breaks and looked to Esme. She had her eyes screwed up in concentration, desperately trying to hear where the female had gone. It was then when we heard footsteps running at an immensely fast pace in the direction we had just come. She had realised that Bella was not with us. "Get after her." Esme yelled, speaking for the first time this evening. I nodded performing a perfect 3 point turn and speeding in the direction we had come from. I was pummelling the accelerator in the vain hope of keeping up with the female. "Come on, come on" I groaned, why would you chose to drive this crap wagon!? I ended up smashing my fist into the dashboard when I couldn't get anymore than 62mph out of the truck, we would never keep up with the female. "We should get her scent" said Esme from beside me. "We'll be able to track her more easily."
"True" I answered. We were on a pretty deserted road so I stopped the car in the middle of the road. We both stepped out. Her scent wasn't hard to pick out. Only very few vampires came near here, and unlike their trails, hers was fresh. "Do you have her?" asked Esme who was crouching close to the ground sniffing. "Yes, she's distinct isn't she?" I said.
"She is rather" Esme answered, "Where do you think she's headed?"
"Must be back to Forks" I answered immediately, I too had devoted some time to where she must be headed." I mean, now she's realised that Bella" I spat the name through my teeth, "isn't with us she's gonna try and find out where she might have gone."
"Stands to reason doesn't it, but…." Esme stopped speaking, for a moment lost in thought. She stood suddenly. "We have to get back to Forks first" she hissed in an urgent whisper. "What?" I asked. Where the hell had all this urgency come from? "If Victoria goes back to Forks then she will go to the places that are most saturated with Bella's scent."
"Yes….?" I was still utterly nonplussed.
"HER HOUSE" Esme yelled frantically. I shook my head =, still missing whatever Esme was seeing so clearly.
"BELLA'S FATHER!" She screamed. Oh dear. Victoria could hurt him if she wanted information or she could feed off him, she would have no reason not too. I bit my lip, as much as I hated Bella, her father was an innocent and he deserved to live. "One of us will go on foot" I announced "it'll be faster and we may have more of a chance to catch up with Victoria." Esme was nodding her eyes were wide with fear. "Who shall run?" she asked. I considered this for a moment. Admittedly I was the better driver, but I was also the faster runner. "I'll run" I said in a hollow voice, I was not eager to run away from Esme. She was no fighter, and if it came down to her and Victoria, I was sure she would lose. "How will I contact you?" she asked.
"I have my regular mobile with me; call me if ANYTHING happens, anything at all." Esme nodded her eyes filled with worry.
"When you get back to Forks" I told her "meet me in the woods next to Bella's house. We'll set up a plan there." Esme nodded and stepped into the cab of Bella's truck. She gave me a weak smile before she revved the engine and sped off at the trucks top speed while I turned and plunged into the forest next to me. Victoria's scent was strongest here and I started to track her. I was running as fast as I could go, never breaking my pace. Victoria seemed to being headed in a fairly straight line, she only changed course 3 times in over a 100 mile stretch. The landscape around me was becoming more familiar, we were very close to home now. Within five minutes I found myself passing by the wood that ran next to our house. I expected the trail to carry on in a southerly direction, but abruptly it turned east, towards our house. Why would she go there? I followed her scent to our front door which had been forced open, and inside the house. The female had been everywhere by the smell of it. She seemed to have touched every draw in the entire house, and all the cupboards. She'd even been upstairs. What did she expect to find? I mean could she expect us to have left information about where Bella was going in our house? We wouldn't have been that careless…….would we? Yes, it's true that everything was done in a hurry, but I was sure that no one would have left anything that could implicate Bella's whereabouts. In fact was there even anything to leave? We had required no air travel so there was none of those kinds of documents to worry about. I carried on playing the events of yesterday evening in my head. No we were safe; Victoria would have found nothing by coming here. I realised that Esme would be nearing Forks soon, so I bolted from the house, and ran in the direction of Bella's house. Victoria had left another trail here. I followed partially but again, it lead not to Bella's but to Forks high school. This female was digging. I made the decision to find Esme before following Victoria's latest trail. I sped round to the back of Bella's house which was fairly close to the forest boarder, and I waited. After about ten minutes I heard the snapping of twigs underfoot, Esme must have arrived. I stood up expecting to see her come running in but the footsteps veered off, they were going towards Bella's house. What was she doing? I had not told her to meet me in the forest? Then I realised this wasn't Esme. Oh GOD, Victoria. I bolted after her. I reached Bella's house just in time to see a flash of red hair go through Bella's bedroom window. Without thinking I jumped from the floor to Bella's window in a single bound and vaulted through it.
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