Here's number 3! Thank you all for your support.. :)
Bella POV...
The Cullen and I stared at each other while the others sobbed. Wasn't I supposed to be a ghost? Why is this Cullen staring at me like they can see me? I slowly stood up and her eyes followed my movements.
"Can you see me?" I asked her. She nodded slowly.
"Can you hear me?" I asked. It was a dumb question, I know. She nodded again. She taped her mate on the chest, trying to get his attention.
"What?" He asked her. His voice rough and sad.
"I see her." She stated. Everyone instantly stopped sobbing and stared at her.
"What are you talking about?" Her mate asked.
"Bella, she's standing right there." She said pointing to me. She hadn't taken her eyes off me since she first looked at me.
"Stop it. Bella is dead and in Forks." Carlisle said sadly.
"No, she's right there!" She yelled at Carlisle.
"Knock it off!" Esme yelled.
"I'm not kidding." Rose said in a pleading voice. Yes, Rosalie Hale may be the only person on this Earth who can see me.
"Rosalie Hale! Knock off this sick joke! There is no one standing right there!" Carlisle yelled. I had never seen him so mad and sad.
"It's not a joke!" Rose sobbed. Jasper walked closer to me and stepped right on top of me. It tickled to have someone walk through me.
"Where is she standing? Here?" He asked.
"Yes! Move! You're on top of her!" Rose yelled. She launched herself at us and knock Jasper out of my 'body'. They fell to the floor and then Rose stood up.
"You okay?" She asked me.
"Yeah, Rose, I'm fine. Being a ghost has some advantages." I said.
"A ghost." Rose whispered thoughtfully.
"Rosalie get out of here! I will not have you making this worse than it already is! Go hunting and think about the pain you are causing us by pretending Bella is here!" Esme yelled. I had never seen Esme yell, period. Honestly the sight was scary. Rose's face fell as she realized they really thought she was joking.
"You believe me don't you?" Rose asked Emmett. He shook his head slowly.
"Rosey, this isn't funny." He said gently. Rose looked to Alice pleadingly. Alice shook her head. Rose took one last look at everybody before she bolted out of the room. She ran out the back door and slammed it behind her. I ran to the door and decided to try something.
I grabbed the handle and turned it. It turned smoothly and I pulled the door open. All the Cullen's watched 'me' open the door and then shut it behind me. I ran after Rose. I ran faster than a human but not as fast as a vampire.
"ROSE!" I yelled several times as I ran. I finally stopped running and yelling when I found her sitting up in a tree. I jumped up the tree and sat next to her as she sobbed.
"Bella, why don't they understand?" She sobbed. I laid my arm on her shoulder and sighed.
"They can't see me so they don't understand." I said. "Nobody can see me." I added just above a whisper.
"I can see you." She whispered. She laid her arm on my shoulders. I could feel her ice-cold skin but it wasn't like a physical contact thing. More like my hallucination Edward, I could barely feel his hand on my cheek. Must be a ghost thing. We were both silent as the light rain fell down on us - well, through me.
"Where are we?" I asked her.
"Somewhere in Canada. I wasn't really paying attention on our way here. Just one of our many houses." She said. "How did you find us?" She asked.
"I don't know really. One minute I was laying a beach of one of the Hawaii islands next thing I know I'm laying in the forest felling like someone was crying over me." I said.
"You were in Hawaii?" She asked. And after that she continued to ask questions. About what I'd been up to since they left. Why I jumped. And more.
"Wait, why did you feel so empty? After we left I mean." Rose asked after a minute of silence.
"Ed-Edward he, he said..." I couldn't say it.
"What did he tell you? Do I need to rip him up for something he said? I will, I'm sure you know that. What did he say when he left?" Rose asked. She seemed slightly protective. I smiled at that thought. It only took me dying for Rose to open up.
"First he told me he was no good for me. Then he said he didn't want me to come with him. I begged him not to do this and then he told me..." I bit my trembling lip and held back my non-existent tears.
"It's okay. Shhh." Rose said as she wrapped me in a hug. It seemed like she was the only thing that couldn't just go through me.
"He told me I was no good for him." I whispered.
"HE SAID WHAT?!" She yelled rather loudly.
"He told me I was no good for him." I whispered again. She jumped out of the tree and ran back the way we came.
"Rose!" I yelled. I jumped down and ran after her. I quickly caught up with her but I was still a good 10 feet behind her. She ran into the house and up the small staircase.
"Rose?" Emmett asked. He followed her and I up the stairs. She was violently throwing clothes into a hiking backpack.
"Where are you going?" Emmett and I asked at the same time.
"To beat Edward's sorry ass. He's gonna wish he was never created. Never born. He is gonna wish he never left you." Rose said to me. She never once looked at Emmett.
"Who are you talking to? Why are you going to beat Edward? Rosey, answer me." Emmett said. By now the family was standing in the doorway staring at her. And blocking her only exit.
"I am talking to Bella. I am going to beat Edward because he said things that are so not true to her when he left." Rose said finally looking at Emmett.
"Rose." Carlisle warned.
"NO! I can see Bella. I can talk to her. There is no stopping me now. If you don't believe me fine. I will find a way to beat Edward, make you believe and help Bella." Rose said, her voice full of authority.
"Help me, why?" I asked. She looked from her family to me.
"Bella, you can't stay a ghost forever." She said.
"I guess your right." I laughed.
"Move please." Rose said to her family. They didn't move.
"Rose, you can't do this. It will crush Edward." Alice said.
"Good, now move." Rose said. Clearly not caring. They still didn't move.
"Whatever. Don't move." Rose said. She headed to the small-ish window and jumped through the glass. She landed on the ground with a soft thud.
"Bella, you coming?" She called up to me.
"I'll catch up." I called out. I walked over to the window and leaned out.
"Alright suit yourself." She said then bolted into the forest. Now, how do I talk to the Cullen's without Rose here? I got an idea and walked over to Rose's desk. I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. They 'floated' and everyone gasped. I wrote on the paper.
You need to believe Rose. I wrote. I walked closer to the Cullen's and held the paper up. The gasped at the 'floating' paper.
"Rose, it's time to knock this off." Carlisle called out.
Rose is telling the truth. She can see me. I wrote. I held it back out to them and they gasped again.
"Bella?" Esme asked.
Yes, Esme? I held it back out. This time only Esme gasped.
"What happened to you?" She asked.
I jumped off the cliff for cliff-diving on the Rez but the current was too strong. I hit the ocean floor and drowned. Jacob Black pulled my body to the shore but I stayed on the ocean floor. Then hallucination Edward showed up and told me I had two choices. Go to the bright white light or go to my body. I didn't like the choices. One I die and the other I live without you guys. I swam away from Forks, Jacob, my body, and hallucination Edward. I suppose you could say I'm defying life and death. I wrote and held it out for them to read. Emmett laughed a little, I assumed at my defying life and death comment.
"How is this possible?" Carlisle asked.
Sounds like a job for Detective Carlisle Cullen. Now, I've got to catch up to Rose. I'll see you guys soon. I wrote. I laid the paper and pen on the floor and jumped out the window. Instead of hitting the dirt I hit tile. I looked around, confused.
"Welcome to Santiago, Chile" Read a near by sign. Chile? Why am I in Chile?
Oh, well. I thought. I walked over to a near-by chair in the waiting area and leaned back in the chair. It may be a while until Rose gets here. If she is coming here.
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17 hours...
I have been in this airport for 17 hours. It seemed to take forever because I have recently found out that I can't sleep. I have ventured around the airport. Even where I may not be allowed. But who cares. I'm a ghost. I wandered over to the big board of flights. I stared at it wondering.
Is she on the flight from Florida? L.A? Lima? Peru?
I walked over to my chair and sat down. I shut my eyes in a desperate attempt to fall asleep. Which never came. Finally I heard familiar footsteps.
"Bella? How did you get here before me?" Rose asked quietly as she walked past me slowly. I got up and joined her.
"Ghost, remember? No need for planes. I actually got her 18 hours and... 23 minutes ago." I said.
"How? That's about the time I left the house." Rose said confused as we walked out of the airport into the dark night.
"Some ghost thing. I guess you could call it teleporting." I laughed. "Where are we going?" I asked.
"How did you know I was coming here? The Valdivian rainforest." Rose said.
"I didn't, I jumped out the window and landed in the airport instead of the yard. Is that where Edward is?" I asked sadly.
"As far as I know. He called a few weeks ago." Rose said. I just nodded. We continued into the night. We turned down a dark alley and I turned to Rose confused. She just smiled and ran, vampire fast down the alley. I quickly followed after her. Again I stayed about 10 feet behind her.
She slowed her pace as we ran. She ran at my pace but it was still blindingly fast. We got to the forest about 27 minutes later.
"What do you say we split up?" She asked.
"Sounds good. What if one of us finds Edward but we are on opposite sides of the forest?" I asked. She bit her lip thinking.
"I've got it. If you find Edward then you can teleport to me and you can run me to where he is. And if I find him then... I have no idea." She said. I laughed at her logic.
"Let's hope I find him then." I laughed.
"Yes, let's hope. See ya soon sis." Rose said then took off into the forest.
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I have covered several thousand square miles of forest with no sign of Edward. I haven't seen Rose since we parted ways which was about 8 hours ago.
Suddenly a blur of a figure ran past me. Followed by another. I quickly followed them.
"Edward, you have to listen to me!" Rose yelled.
"Rose how do I know if this is a sick joke?" Edward yelled back. They never slowed.
"It isn't." Rose whispered. She suddenly stopped running. I shot past her as Edward kept running. I walked up to Rose and smiled sadly.
"No one understands Bella." She whispered. "I may actually have a gift. And while I'm trying to help you no one else understands." She said. Edward was suddenly standing a few feet away from us. He was staring at Rose with a glassy look in his eyes.
"Edward?" Rose asked.
"Is that really her?" Edward whispered. Rose looked from me to him and back to me. Edward's eyes never lost that glassy look.
"What's he doing?" I asked Rose.
"He's reading my mind to see you." Rose said. I walked over to Edward and Rose's eyes followed me. To show Edward I suppose.
"Bella, is that really you?" He asked. He wasn't looking at me or Rose. He just stared off into space.
"More of less." I laughed. I suppose Rose thought that to him because he smiled a little.
"How did you end up like this?" Edward asked. I said out loud what I wanted him to know. And Rose replayed it for him. Edward's expression became sad and pained.
"If I had known this was going to happen I would have never left you." Edward said. This brought non-existent tears to my eyes.
"Edward, when you left did you really mean all those things you said?" I asked.
"No, it was stupid of me to lie to you but it was the only way you were going to let me go." Edward said quietly.
I could see tears welling up in his eyes. I knew they would never and could never fall and that saddened me. Tears are 1% salt water and 99% feelings. A single tear can say ten thousand words. I reached up and laid my hand on his cheek. He closed his eyes and leaned toward my hand. Which caused my hand to be in his cheek. I laughed a little then Rose and finally Edward.
"So do you believe me now?" Rose asked. Edward nodded and I let my hand fall off his cheek.
"Where do we go from here?" I asked. I sank to the forest floor and sat indian style. I felt like I couldn't stand. Like I was suddenly being pulled toward the ground by some invisible force. I suddenly felt like I couldn't breath. I was choking for air to fill my ghostly lungs.
"Bella, are you okay?" Rose asked she sank down next to me as I fell backward.
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