Chapter Six: Plans... Good and Bad

Mike's POV

I sat across from James, the owner of the asylum here in town. He was the man I had enlisted to help Tyler and I with our plan. Tyler cowered in fear next to me, and I wasn't too far from joining him, but I kept up my strong front and pretended he didn't faze me at all.

"So, you want to trick Bella into coming back by threatening to throw her father into the asylum?" James asked, clarifying everything I had just told him in the past ten minutes. I nodded and James laughed an evil laugh, one that made me flinch slightly even though it wasn't directed at me.

"Clever, clever. Of course I will help you," James said, sitting back in his chair. I smiled. Oh yeah, the plan is set in motion.

"C'mon, Tyler. We're going to the Swans' house," I intoned gruffly, grabbing Tyler by his shirt collar and dragging him out the door.

"Wh-" Tyler struggled to breathe. "Why are we going there?" My grin grew bigger.

"You'll see."

Bella's POV

There was a knock on my bedroom door and the door swung open without my acknowledgement.

"Bella?" Alice looked around the room hesitantly before finally settling her gaze on me. "Oh, there you are. Come on, Edward wants to have dinner with you, and you are not allowed to say no this time. I mean it." Alice glared at me so viciously that I didn't give a second thought to protesting and meekly followed her to the dining hall.

Edward's POV

I waited nervously for Bella in the dining room. I was pacing in front of the fire again and Emmett and Jasper were watching me.

"Hey, man, are you getting a strange sense of déjà vu? Cause I totally am," Emmett boomed. I stopped pacing a moment to scowl at him and immediately resumed making a hole in the ground.

Jasper sighed and I felt a wave of calm and serenity wash over me. "Sit," Jasper ordered. I sat in the head chair at the table. "Now take deep breaths or something." I complied.

"Hey, Jasper, look at that. He's listening to the servants. Who would have thought there would be the day..." Emmett whispered, but I heard him and would have gotten up and yelled if it hadn't been for two things: A) Jasper's calming waves that he was sending full force, straight at me, and B) the door at the end of the hallway cracking open, and a slender, brown haired girl slipping through.

Bella's POV

I hesitantly walked over to the table and looked nervously at Edward. He looked like he was trying to smile, so I smiled back. He motioned to the chair beside me.

"Sit down. Eat," he ordered. I complied, but only because I was ravenous. An apple really wasn't much food for all the time that I had been here. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Emmett whisper something to Edward, and then Jasper and Emmett left the room, nodding approvingly.

Halfway through eating my food, I noticed Edward was just sitting stock still and staring at me. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Isn't sort of rude to stare?" I asked. Edward broke his gaze immediately.

"Oh... sorry. It's just... you're so..." he trailed off, mumbling something I couldn't hear. I decided I didn't want any more food and pushed my plate away.

"So, Edward..." I said, buying myself time to think. "What things do you like to do?" I almost snorted at myself. That was the kind of question my brilliant mind could come up with? I needed a new brain.

"Uh..." I could tell Edward was almost as dumbstruck as me by my question, if not more. "Read, I guess." Wow. Interesting.

"Really? Emmett and Jasper mentioned something about a library..." I trailed off, thinking wistfully of the library back in Forks. I had read every single book there, but I enjoyed re-reading the classics anyways, so it didn't bother me.

I snapped out of my reverie to see Edward looking thoughtful. All of a sudden he stood up and started to head for the exit. My mouth dropped open and I made a disbelieving noise in the back of my throat. How dare he walk away from me?

He turned around and curtly said: "Thank you for eating dinner with me. Now please excuse me."He then swept out of the room, the door closing with a resounding boom behind him.

I got up from my place at the table slowly. How dare he start to leave, but then only thank me as an afterthought? The nerve of that man...

Edward's POV

Bella's mention of the library immediately started the gears turning in my head. I had a great idea for more time spent with Bella, but I needed to know if I could pull it off.

I had absentmindedly been leaving the room when a noise from Bella alerted me to the fact I hadn't said goodbye. I turned around and said thank you, then left hastily, in a hurry to find Emmett and Jasper.

I really needed help and it was so extreme, I was actually admitting it.

Mike's POV

I knocked on Bella's door for the fifth time. Tyler scanned the windows.

"Dude, she's not home. Let's just leave and come back later," he whined. I turned and glared at him. He was dead right, of course, but how dare he say it out loud? He was going to be punished for that one.

"Fine. I'll leave then. But you," I picked him up by the scruff of his neck again—geez, this guy was skinny—and dumped him behind a bush next to the Swans' front porch steps. "Are staying here, and you're going to tell me the second Bella and her old man get home."

"But—"

"No buts, Tyler. You're staying here." With that, I stalked off in the direction of town.

Oh yeah. Tyler was being punished, and Bella couldn't stay away forever. The thought of Bella put a smile on my face.

You're going to be mine, Isabella Swan, whether you like it or not.

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Ooooh, evil Mike. GgROAR!
I wonder what Edward's plan is... oh wait, I know his plan. It's just you that will have to wait and find out.
But feel free to guess! In your REVIEW! *hint, hint*
Also, if you review I'll tell you what Emmett whispered in Edward's ear. It's totally groundbreaking.