A/N: Okay the general concensus was that there should be an EPOV of what's happened so far. Writing in his POV is not my favorite thing to do so here's a bonus chapter for you. It's super long so get your fix now because this is the only time in this story that his point of view will come across. If you didn't want me to write in EPOV please accept my apologies. Don't forget to tip your waitress!! (Review!!)

Chapter 6

EPOV

I couldn't believe that Bella's only been gone for a week now. I hated what I was doing to the rest of my family in the past couple of days. First I insisted that they leave Forks, leave Bella. Rose had no problems with my idea, she just couldn't understand why I waited so long to come to the same conclusion as she did. Emmett wasn't sure, but he'd always go where Rosalie was. Esme and Carlisle agreed that if I thought it was best then we'd leave. Jasper felt guilty, knowing that the reason I was sending everybody away was because he couldn't control himself, so he willingly wanted to leave. Alice was the one who resisted the most. She was more vocal with her objections, than anyone in the past. Understandably so, she saw Bella as a friend and sister.

Then on the day that I was supposed to join them in Denali, the day I was to tell Bella I was leaving, I called them back. Every time I closed my eyes I remembered that day.

It was so hard to let her go. How could she just believe what I was saying to her? She believed me. She reached for me as I tried to walk away, but instead of pulling her to me, I pressed her arms to her side. She closed her eyes as I pressed my lips lightly to her forehead.

"Take care of yourself." The last words that I had ever said to her, before I ran away. Like a coward.

Bella tried chasing me, but I knew it was too late, I was a blur to her. I heard her running after me but it was no use. I needed to think.

I didn't want to go back to the house, it was empty, cold, dead. Like me. Instead of going straight to Denali, I ran to our meadow. Now that I had a chance to share my favorite thinking spot with the person that I loved, it was no longer magical to me without her. And now she was definitely gone forever.

I laid on the meadow floor for what seemed like minutes, but in reality it was a few hours. Looking up at the sky, I saw that it was a new moon tonight, and I finally decided it was time to go.

I started running, and after a few miles I caught a scent of someone I'd never smelled before, and yet there was an underlying tone that I knew right away. Vampire.

I doubled back eager to check on Bella, but I noticed that I was also following the scent back to her house. By the time I arrived at Chief Swan's house, police and ambulances were parked in front of the house, their lights on. I perched myself in a tree as I heard the County Sheriff coordinating the search party for Bella with Chief Swan on the walkies. She never made it back home?

I wanted to get closer to the house but there was no way that would be possible, there were too many people. But the scent went right into the house. There was another scent that was lingering in the air, but it was impossible. It was an old smell, one from my past about eighty years ago. But it couldn't be, the wolves should have died out a long time ago. If it was a wolf from the Quiluete tribe, I knew they would be responsible for Bella's disappearance, so whatever the wolf was doing here, it must have been in on the search.

I ran back to the house immediately, and dialed Carlisle's phone while I ran.

"Edward, we know, Alice told us all about it. We're on our way home now." My father's voice tried comforting me.

"Carlisle, what did Alice see? How did she know to be looking." This was my fault, and now Bella was paying the price.

"She only saw something when you decided to stay in Forks just now. She can't get a read of where Bella is though. Do you have any idea what happened?"

"No. I was on my way to Denali when I caught the scent of an unfamiliar vampire. I followed it only to be lead to her house. That was when I started running home. Carlisle, I smelled her blood."

I was at the house now, removing the white sheets from all of the furniture. "We'll be home in a couple of hours son." I knew that they'd be running home because they left their cars in the garage. I hung up the phone, changed my clothes into what would be appropriate for bedtime attire in case Charlie decided to show up with questions. Even if he didn't, it was only a matter of time before he did.

I wanted to go looking for her, but even when I thought I smelled Bella entangled with the unfamiliar scent, it disappeared as if there was a car waiting. But that didn't make sense.

When I had made the decision to leave in the first place, I did it thinking that I'd try to hone my skills at tracking. I intended on tracking Victoria so that I could dispose of her. Laurent had warned us not to underestimate her, and I wanted to make sure that wouldn't happen.

Maybe that's where I went wrong, maybe it should have only been me that left, and not my family. They could have stayed behind and protected her from whatever vile creature had her now. This was truly my fault.

It took Carlisle, Esme and Alice exactly two hours to get here. We talked the rest of the night about what we were going to tell everyone. Since the story was already out there that Carlisle accepted a job in L.A., him and his wife were looking at houses in the area, and just returned tonight. Alice wasn't feeling well and stayed home from school. I was to play stupid about what was going on with Bella until someone told me.

I was a little upset with Alice for blocking her thoughts from me. I could tell she blamed me for being to over-bearing, but I honestly thought I was doing the right thing. Esme's heart was breaking as she saw mine shattered. Carlisle was being extremely optimistic about the situation, and was trying to figure out if there was a way we could find her.

Finally, Alice let me in, 'Edward I'm sorry, but she hasn't made any decisions in the last couple of hours. I don't think she's alive.' There was such heaviness in her voice that I knew there was no way I could ease the pain. I allowed her best friend to be stolen from us. No not us, from me.

Maybe an hour after we nailed our story down, Chief Swan knocked on the door. Carlisle let him in, and from around the corner, I could see Sam Uley and a couple of other member of the police force.

"Gentlemen come on in I suppose." Carlisle said. "Can I get you some coffee or anything? Esme can put a pot of coffee on for you if you'd like."

"No this won't take long." Charlie said. 'I know there's no way Edward had anything to do with Bella disappearing. I've seen the way he looks at her. Why is Billy insisting I look into him?' I picked from his mind. So this was at Billy Blacks insistence? That made sense to me, seeing how the tribe refused to come to the hospital when they heard Carlisle was a part of the staff. He thinks I had something to do with Bella's disappearance. "We just need to talk to Edward a moment."

"Me?" I said innocently sitting up on the couch. The group made their way into the den and choose their seating arrangements. Only Sam remained standing. "What can I help you with?"

"Edward, I need you to tell me what you did afterschool yesterday." Charlie said in a very stern matter.

"Well I went to the post office for Bella. She had a package of pictures and a letter that she needed mailed to Renee. I told her I'd take it since the Post Office was on my way home."

"Can that be verified?" Charlie's deputy asked.

"Yes sir. Mrs. Conrad, Lauren's mom, was the teller there that helped me. After that I came home. Bella had a French project that she wanted to work on, I take Spanish, so there wasn't anything I would have been able to do for her." I looked at everyone questionably around the room. "What going on?"

Charlie looked down at the brim of his hat. I knew exactly what he was going to say, and yet when the words, "Bella's gone missing. We think she was abducted," came out of his mouth, I was floored.

The next few days up until today, were strained. Everyone was careful with their minds and what they thought around me. I hadn't even noticed when Rose, Emmett, Jasper came home. Carlisle had told them to wait a few days after us, since they were all "away at college." Sometime around Tuesday or Wednesday, the Denali clan came down, well minus Eleazar. I heard Carmen mention something about him entertaining guests. I vaguely paid attention to Rose when she practically chewed Tanya out for prancing around me while I was in mourning. Everything was meaningless.

What was I to do, now that the reason I existed was no longer breathing? Carlisle and Esme helped me out of the car, and continued to walk with me into the high school auditorium. This was the first time I'd been out in the public since Charlie told me about Bella's disappearance. Ha! Disappearance, I knew it was more than that. She wasn't abducted either. A vampire got to her and probably drained her. My singer. Her blood was wasted to some undeserving imp.

The town seemed split of whether or not I had a hand in Bella being missing. I was grateful for Charlie when he made it clear to everyone that my alibi had been confirmed, and that I had no part in the abduction of Bella Swan. Most of the townspeople knew that the Cullen's were good kids and outstanding students, and there was no way that any of us could be involved in something so horrific. The trivial few, like Lauren and Jessica thought of ways they could try to comfort me, now that Bella was out of the picture. There was only one thing that would comfort me, and Alice was sworn to secrecy that she wouldn't tell a soul. I planned on going to the Volturi once everything here settled down, Alice's entire spring closet was on the line. I know at some point she would betray me, when she saw that my plan was a definite formulated decision.

As soon as we walked through the door, I picked up on a slight scent of freesias, strawberry, and vanilla. That was my Bella. It was leading to the front of the auditorium, the exact spot where we were asked to sit by Bella's mom, and Charlie.

This was the second time that I'd seen Renee. The first time was in Phoenix, both time were under the saddest conditions concerning Bella. She recognized my pain, as it matched hers. I don't think there were any two people that were on this earth that could possibly love Bella the most more than me and Renee.

Carlisle and Esme continued to escort me down the aisle to our seats when I heard someone ask, "Who are they?" I heard Charlie start his answer with the preliminary story of Carlisle and Esme. It didn't take long to register who was asking about my family. Next to him, was a girl that unmistakably looked like Bella; only she had light brown hair, almost blonde, and blue eyes. This girl also had a nice bronze like tan all over her body.

"Oh. At least she was happy before she was taken. She was so lonely in Phoenix, knowing that she found someone here that she loved makes me happy." I heard her say, but in those last few moments, I doubted Bella would have said those very words. When I told her that I didn't love her anymore, I could see now that I was sending her into a downward spiral.

I caught Bella's scent again, only this time it wasn't a lingering smell, it was strong. Either someone in this room smelled like Bella, or Bella was here? I looked all around but I couldn't find her. All I could see was this girl, who was now clinging to a tall kind of stocky guy next to her. He had his arm around her and I felt protective over her, though I didn't know why. She reminded me of Bella.

Charlie messed up her name, along with the other two people that joined her. Brianna, Davis and Cayla, friends from Phoenix. Well that explains the tans. But what I couldn't explain was why I couldn't read their minds. None of them, just like Bella. At first I thought maybe something was in the water over in Phoenix, but I could read Renee's mind perfectly fine. What was going on here?

The row behind Bella's parents was reserved for us, and we took our seats since the ceremony was slated to begin in a few moments. I made a point to shake only Brianna's hand and before I sat down, I smelled my hand, only to have my suspicions confirmed. The scent was radiating from her.

I was trying my best to block out the thoughts of everyone around me, mainly my family. They were noticing my reactions, but couldn't figure out what was making me act strangely. I couldn't take my eyes off of the back of the girl sitting in front of me. I even heard Jasper ask Alice if I was going to attack, but she whispered no.

There was an opening prayer from Angela's father, the town's only clergy. The middle school choir sang two songs, before Charlie finally introduced me to speak in front of the entire audience.

I gave a sideways glance to the visitors way and saw Brianna still curled up in David's arms, as I made my way to the podium at the center of the stage. Charlie had asked me if I would like to say something at the memorial today, so I already had something prepared.

I opened the sheet of paper, and then adjusted the microphone for my height.

"From the day I first met her, I was in love with her, I just didn't know it then. I was stubborn and it took me months to realize it. She apologized for things that she had no control over, and was exceptionally clumsy. But despite all that, to me, she was by far the most graceful person I knew. She was beautiful in every way to me, and there is no one that could ever replace her. My family loved her: My parents saw her as another daughter, my siblings had a friend and confident in some cases, and I had love. Bella, and I, were nearly inseparable. My only wish is that on that day, we stuck together then. Maybe then, she'd be here today, and this memorial wouldn't be necessary. With all my heart I love her and I miss her terribly. I don't think I can imagine life without her."

There were some other things that I mentioned, but when I looked at Brianna, I forgot all of it. I continued reading through my mini speech, even though she ran out of the auditorium. I held back a growl when her David ran after her. Arm in arm, she rested her head against his chest, as they took their seats again.

I tried telling myself that there was no logical explanation for my need to feel protective over this strange girl. I was becoming possessive for no reason. Or maybe the right word was obsessive.

After my speech was over, my family quietly made their way out of the auditorium. I debated on staying in the room since I saw David was getting up to speak, but I decided I didn't want to hear anything he had to say. Renee was in no mood to speak, so Carlisle let Phil know that we were leaving to finish setting the house up for the repast, even though it was already done. I followed them out, but I wanted to hang back. I needed to know more about this girl that was Bella's twin, and yet not the same.

I waited patiently on the side of the building for the ceremony to end. Luck was in my favor as she was one of the first people to exit the building and she was alone. "Perfect," I said to myself, though my actions next were inexcusable.

In a blind fury, I reached for her wrist before she stepped to far away from the building. I didn't mean to shove her into the building though, I hadn't realized the strength that I had used.

"Owww. What the hell's the matter with you!" She screamed.

But having her in such close proximity, this was Bella, but it wasn't. I didn't know which of my senses to trust. She sounded like Bella, she smelled like Bella. And for the most part she looked like Bella.

In my confusion, the rage, picked up steam and took over. "Who are you?" I hissed at her. There was a hint of disdain in my voice, and I hoped it was subtle.

"My name is Brianna Johnston. I'm from Phoenix." She said in a rush. She looked frantically in mine as I did hers. The shade of blue was beautiful, but they weren't contacts either.

I released my grip slightly, but not enough for her to run away from me. I didn't want her to leave me.

"What are you? Why do you smell like Bella?" My voice betrayed me and sounded hurt. I growled involuntarily in response.

"What am I? What are you? Some kind of freak, who goes around sniffing people? Eww, gross. Get off of me!"

I replayed her answer in my head. It was a typical answer that any sane person would say. After all normal people don't go around smelling other people. I really think I'm losing grip with reality. She tried pushing me away so I let my hold of her go, but she just stood there, holding her wrist. My God! I hope I didn't break it. I tried desperately again to read her mind, but it was still just the same.

"Babe! There you are! Is this guy bothering you?" David asked as he ran towards her. I checked the jealousy that rose within me as she was smothered by his presence. His arms enveloped around hers, and she willingly went to him. "What's your deal man?" He asked me. I needed to cool it, fast. It wouldn't do any of us good if this turned into a fight. He was a big guy, but he wouldn't be a match to the strength of a vampire.

"Nothing. Just mistaken identity I guess." I grumbled. I started for the parking lot when a random thought came to me. "By the way David, is it?" Demetri nodded but I continued since it didn't matter to me what his name was. "What's her last name?" Looking back I could see Brianna looking at me, her lips never moved, and he never looked at her.

"Johnston. Why?" I thought if he would hesitate I could catch them in a lie. Maybe expose them for what they were? But were they? They were humans that heard about their friend and drove out here for the memorial. I thought I had smelled a faint tint of vampire on Brianna, but the "Bella" scent was much more overpowering. Maybe he was a vampire? But even that didn't make sense. All three of them were tan, and neither of them had red or black eyes. It was frustrating trying to make sense of nonsense.

"Hmph," I didn't want to deal with it anymore so I just ran. I contemplated on going to the meadow, but without her, it was empty to me. Instead, I ran home and up to my room. I found my Debussy CD and turned the volume to the max. I laid on the floor and tried to soak the music in so I didn't have to think.

I was midway through the CD when I heard Carlisle knocking on the door, but when I didn't answer, he poked his head in anyway.

There was no need to shout, he knew I would hear him. "Edward, the guests are starting to arrive, so turn the music off and join us." 'Don't be rude' he thought. But then I could hear how guilty he felt that he had to think that. Of course out of all his family members I'd be the one that was hurting the most. 'If she's alive son, we'll find her.'

I wanted to believe him, even though there was a part of me that did. But logically it seemed impossible. He closed the door and I could hear his footsteps going down the hall and towards the steps. I turned the music down, but I didn't feel like being with a whole lot of people right away, so I just stayed in my room and read some of my journals from when I was first changed. The mood of them were too dark, the kind of mood I felt in now.

After thirty minutes of reading, I decided enough time had passed and I'd join the masses for an appearance at least. Once the media frenzy in town died down, I'd be making my way to Italy. I told Bella once before that I'd have the Volturi kill me when death finally claimed her. I prayed there was a heaven and we'd be together again.

I made my way down the steps, and briefly caught a glimpse of two of Bella's friends from Phoenix talking with Alice, Angela, and Ben. Brianna was cradled in David's frame, and was about to turn her head in my direction, so I looked away and walked towards the kitchen with Esme and Carmen. Esme was pleased that I wanted to help her out a bit instead of wallowing in my room. At least I'm moving about she thought to herself. I could hear the sadness of her thoughts, and it pained me to think what my leaving would do to her.

"Edward, could you be a dear, and serve some of our guests some punch?" She asked me, but she was really telling me to since she shoved a tray of punch cups in my hands. I laughed thinking that she really didn't have to ask me to do anything. I would have done anything for her.

I walked around the different rooms of the house, offering the vile drink that humans loved. I thanked those who were thinking how sorry they felt for me, knowing I loved Bella more than anyone in Forks, with the exception of her father.

I'd finish with the punch, save for the last one, and I was headed for the kitchen to get a refill from Esme when I saw Brianna coming out of the bathroom. Without realizing it, my body flowed directly in front of her. "I'm sorry about earlier. I was, no, am in love with Bella and I was a little distraught. I apologize. You just remind me so much of her." I blurted out.

I appreciated the fact that she looked like she understood what I was going through. "It's okay. Umm grief tends to drive people crazy I guess. People used to ask us if we were twins, even though we had different color hair and eyes. But I think that even if we looked exactly alike, people would still be able to tell the difference between us. I was the sporty one and she liked to read. Some even said we sounded alike."

While she looked down, maybe thinking of the time she had with Bella, I did several different things simultaneously.

I looked her over again, and she looked like Bella, and regardless of the explanation that she just gave me, there was something that was off. Her eyes were red, as if she had been crying, but that was the only sign that was visible.

I tried screening her mind again, but it was just the same nothing that I heard when I tried reading her mind earlier.

Next her scent, was unmistakably Bella's. The only difference was that it wasn't as strong. In fact it was how I would have imagined Bella to smell like if she was changed into one of us.

I also noticed that I didn't hear a heartbeat. Was she a vampire after all? But she looked human?

She couldn't be Bella.

"Can I offer you anything?" I blurted and handed her the last cup on my tray.

Brianna looked at it and willingly took the cup from my hands. "Yes, actually, this is fine." She quickly drank the punch and didn't flinch. Gosh, I didn't realize how parched I was. Crying must do that to you." I watched her as she grabbed a pig-in-a-blanket, and pop it in her mouth.

"So you were the boyfriend?" She asked me and swallowing at the same time. Her question brought me out of my thoughts.

"Yes. My name is Edward Cullen. I believe you met my sister, Alice."

"I did. She's very nice. Can I ask you something personal?"

"You can, but you may not get an answer." I was slightly intrigued at the thought of what question could be so personal. Without knowing what her thoughts were, I almost hoped that this would be good. I smiled reassuringly, careful not to show too much teeth.

"When I called Bella, to wish her a happy belated birthday, she mentioned that things between the two of you were strained. Was it something she did?"

Her question took me aback. I never thought that Bella had realized that there was something wrong. It was now starting to make sense. If Bella thought that there was something going on within our relationship, it made it easier for her to believe that I fell out of love with her. That it would be so easy for me to move on. Bella was never able to see herself clearly, and this time it only added to her devastation.

"Why would you ask that?"

"I'm just trying to understand my friend before she left, or disappeared. I used to be able to know when something was wrong with her, and vice versa. But ever since she moved, I only knew what she told me. We told each other everything, but lately it was if she was keeping a secret from me."

"You're boyfriend is on the way." I said, hoping the subject would change. I watched David, stomping his way over towards me and Brianna, but then instantly he changed his gait, and gracefully walked to our spot.

"Edward, this is David. David, Edward. Edward was Bella's boyfriend." Brianna did the formal introduction. Not knowing that it wasn't needed. I have the ability to remember so many things at the same time, and remembering names is inconsequential.

"Yeah, sorry about earlier, we definitely got off on the wrong foot." I was glad that the subject was finally off of me, and hoped that it would stay that way.

"Whatever, dude, I'm over it." David said rather rudely, though I couldn't blame him, no guy would be okay if the saw their girlfriend being attacked. "Bree, Corin is back from gassing the truck up, you ready to head back?"

"Yeah," she looked back at me, and I envisioned brown eyes looking at me, and blue. "I just want to say bye Mrs. Dwyer and tell her about some of the stuff I have of Bella's. I'll meet you in the car okay?" I blocked out the sight of David kissing her on her forehead, it was just something I didn't want to see. I couldn't stop the correlation of similarities between Bella and Brianna, when all of a sudden a random thought violated my head.

"I hope Bella is really done with this clown." At first I thought it was Mike but the tenor of the voices didn't match. But it did match David's. But why was he talking about Bella like he knew where she was? I tried to read deeper into his mind, but I was shut out.

Another thing that I was beginning to process, Corin was what he called the other friend that went to gas up the car, but wasn't her name Cayla? I couldn't remember a time that she wasn't mentioned as anything other than Cayla.

I was becoming proud of the fact that I was processing this overload of information very calmly. Before I forced everyone to leave, Alice complained that I overreacted too quickly without thinking things through properly. Well now that I was thinking, I was positive that David had Bella, or knew where she was.

"Well Edward, it was nice meeting you." She called back as she waved. I continued to watch her as she said goodbye to Renee, and Chief Swan. She also hugged Phil, but what shocked me the most was the lingering hug she gave Esme. For someone who never knew Esme and in fact only just met her today, briefly, she seemed too attached.

Puzzle pieces started fitting together in my head, but there was still the nagging feeling that she looked human. More human than even Bella did sometimes.

Brianna made her way to the truck and she got into the passenger seat. From the window of the house, without being seen, I watched the trio as they piled into the car. "Demetri, hurry up and get me out of this town," were the exact words that I heard come out of Brianna's mouth.

I couldn't let them out of my sights, they might lead me back to Bella, one way or the other. Once they were down the driveway a bit, I ran out the house. There wasn't anytime to tell anyone where I was going, though I was sure that Alice would see it soon enough.

I ran along the van in the woods, careful that I wouldn't be seen by anyone in the vehicle or any hikers. Knowing that I was possibly close to where Bella was distracting me at how far I was running from the house. Before I knew it, the car stopped alongside the road, maybe twenty miles away from Forks.

Brianna suddenly got out of the truck and started throwing up some food. I stepped a little too close way from the woods, and David, or Demetri noticed me. "Damn, we got company."

Brianna looked back at them, then looked at me. She held her gaze for what seemed like an eternity, until the truck peeled away. Leaving her. On the side of the road. With me.