Chapter 5

Love Always has a Way

I sat on the roof above my dorm room with a piece of paper with my plan on it. Okay, so far there was no plan. I was the worst leader ever. Really! All I knew was those little magick-wannabes were in for hell on the 11th.

Now all I needed was a plan to back that statement up. But how to do that? With what, over a thousand vampires to get them the hell out of here, rally up an army to kick Alex out of rule, make peace with the mortals, find some place to keep the vampires at bay, if I'm lucky avert the human drinkers to animal, and find a happy ever after I've been searching for in the mix.

Oh this is gonna be fun.

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Edward Cullen was alone in the dorm he shared with his adoptive family. Everyone was downstairs, all trying to think up a plan to knock Alex's socks off. But Edward Cullen was in shock. He thought Bella Swan was long gone by now, 6 feet underground with a tomb over her head that said beloved wife of some Mike Newton type.

Never did he imagine her a vampire striving to break free from a madman trying to take over the world.

Not that he wasn't grateful she wasn't dead. It was just, he never thought in his wildest dreams. He never saw this one coming. Fate was so unpredictable. (A/N ha ha, Bella and Edward are so different in that way.)

Edward's train of thought was interrupted by three knocks at the door. Slowly he got up and swung the door open. Three girls swept past him, talking in a gibberish language he didn't understand. The girls were Emily, Blythe, and Jade.

Blythe perched herself on the arm of the couch while Emily and Jade squeezed into the same burgundy chair. They seemed completely absorbed in their conversation, like someone was supposed to be able to hang onto every word.

"He's not following any of this," Blythe pointed out, motioning towards Edward in English.

"Seriously? You must be kidding," Jade shot back, worry in her eyes.

"You didn't catch a word of all that, did you?" Emily asked him gently.

Edward was at a loss for words. His throat ran dry and didn't know how to nod properly so he just stared.

"Good God, he's gone into a comatose!" Jade shouted in alarm.

"Bells sure does know how to pick 'em," Blythe commented dryly.

"That conversation that you didn't get a lick of was basically down to: When are you planning to make Bella fall for you again?" Emily summarized.

"I mean, she's already head-over-heels, she doesn't need any help in that department," Blythe said.

"You just need to gain her trust back, you broke her to pieces when you left," Emily added.

"And we're going to have a serious talk about that. Why on this good green Earth did you do that?" Jade lectured. "You should have seen her, it was like she was waiting for someone to pull out a gun and end her misery! She was all ripped up. A huge hole where her heart was because you never returned it."

After Edward didn't answer again Blythe was too angry for words. "We're speaking plain English, aren't we? Or do you just not care?"

"What?" Edward came up with.

"Or do you not just care what you did to innocent little Bella Swan?" Jade screamed at him.

"When you left you might as well have put a gun to her head," Blythe yelled.

"What? Start from the beginning please," Edward said, trying to make sense of what they were saying.

"After you left Victoria changed us all, including Bella," Emily explained. "We all became friends and swore to tell each other everything. She told us about you. And how you both fell in love-"

"That was so sweet and romantic," Jade put in.

"And she also told us how you left her," Emily continued.

"How could you! That was a dumbass move," Blythe said.

"She had befriended Jacob Black who built her back up after you broke her," Emily said, moving through the story,

"When you left she felt no reason for living, she was a zombie just moving through her life like nothing mattered!" Jade added.

"That was until Jake brought her back to the realm of the living. But still, that was horrid," Blythe said.

"I don't really care if it was supposedly to protect her. Loving someone is giving them the ability to drop you. You dropped her into a vat of toxic waste!" Jade practically scolded him like a five year old child who got caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

"But, love always has a way," Emily interrupted. "And we're going to help love because we feel it's for a good cause. So, I repeat, how are you going to get Bella back?"

"How do you know I still love her? I could be over her by now," Edward fired back.

"Then why, pray tell, didn't you take your eyes off her for one second when she stepped into the room?

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"Okay, step one, rally up the rest of the vampires willing to stay behind and fight," I said to my group. "I'm going to go round up the troops. Any volunteers to come help?"

Our favorite pixy-like vampire hopped up. Of course. Of course!

Silently we made our way out of the room and out of the crawlspace. As I was walking stiffly ahead, trying to restrain myself from hugging her to death and beyond. I had missed my best friend. She hadn't even said goodbye, that's what hurt the most.

"Bella?" Alice whispered, timidly.

I stopped dead in my tracks, willing myself not to turn around. I let my longer, brown curls shade my face.

"Uh… I," Alice searched for words to say. "ImissedyouEdwardmadeusallmoveIwantedtosaygoodbyebuthewouldn'tletme… please forgive me. It was wrong, and bad, and I missed my best friend."

Alice never knew what hit her, I attacked my vampire friend from such a long time ago.

"Never leave like that ever again," I murmured into her shoulder.

"No worries, not ever."

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