Chapter 4.

The Dark Night

William finally pulled his lips up to mine. His lips were velvety smooth just like his voice. I have never felt this way before. I started backing away to the nearest tree, but he followed my steps while keeping my lips with his.

I felt his cool warm breath on my face. I was leaning on a tree, and his arms were wrapped around me. This felt so good. Just this moment I forgot about everything else. I forgot the world. I forgot where I was.

I forgot about Jacob, Charlie, mom, dad..everyone. I forgot where I was. This feeling was so..free. Free from all your troubles. I never felt so good. It felt good while the goodness lasted.

"Stay away from her!"

I heard father's rough angry voice as he started glaring at William.

"Who are you?" William said smoothly.

Suddenly, I remembered. I remembered everything. I remembered that William was the bad guy. I remembered Jacob and felt a lump in my throat. I cheated. I cheated on the person I loved. I cheated on Jacob.

What was I even doing here? I remembered that, too. I was here because Charlie died. Charlie, my grandfather, dead. I had to squint my eyes to keep the tears from coming out.

Unthinkingly, I just hugged William and started getting his jacket wet.

"What are you doing, Renesmee?" father said angrily.

"You didn't answer my question." William said as he wrapped his arms around me once more.

"I'm her father."

"Oh. Sorry." said William. He immediatly released me.

I ran to my dad and started getting his jacket wet, too.

"Then who are you? More importantly, what did you do to her?" my father said as he gave me a tight hug.

"I didn't do anything! I was trying to help her out. Oh, and my name is William. William Humphrey. I am from California. I am 17, and I was just looking for a mate, and I my senses just led me here." William said.

"You mean helping her out by kissing her?" My dad said angrily.

"Dad..It's okay." I said assuringly.

"No it's not! He was charming you!" My dad said quickly.

"I swear I didn't. What she felt was what she felt about me." William said pointing at himself.

"Why you little lia-"

Rosalie, mother, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper came flying out of the trees like ballerinas.

Mother stepped out and said, "What is going on?"

I looked at her and was shocked. I was staring at her. She had a tired look on her face. Full of sadness and paleness.

"Mom. Are you okay?" I asked worringly as I stepped toward her to take her hand.

"No, i'm not!" She said as she quicky moved her hand out of my reach.

"Renesmee, i'm not okay! Charlie died, you went missing, and so did Jacob! Because he kidnapped him!" my mother said as she pointed accusingly at William.

"Mom, William couldn't have done it. Did you?" I asked William.

"I did not! I don't even know this Jason guy." he said.

"It's JACOB! You MORON! I HATE YOU!" mother said as she took a step forward William. Rosalie, Emmett, and father held her back as she bared her teeth.

"Woah..Woah..Hey there, I didn't do it! I swear! Why would I even kidnap him? I don't know him!" William said as he threw his hands up defending himself.

"Did he do it, Edward?" Alice asked my dad. The mind-reader.

"Well.." My dad stared at William for a few seconds, then turned to Alice and said, "No, he didn't. He's telling the truth."

Mother gave a little growl then pushed all the hands on her off. She took a step toward me and said, "We will talk about this later." with a serious look on her face. Then she came running into the woods.

"Look, I just want to help you guys.." William said assuringly.

"What are you even doing here?" Rosalie asked.

"Yeah, what are you doing here?" Emmett said as he crossed is arms.

William gave a big sigh and said, "Well, I started going to high school here."

"I think they know that, William." I said.

"Anyway, I have a twin brother who just went missing. I wanted to track him down, but I had no leads. He just dissapeared out of nowhere."

"I thought you said you were looking for a mate." My dad said.

"I am." He said as he looked at me. "While searching for my lost brother."

"Wait. What if the person who took your brother took Jacob, too?" Alice said.

"I don't know. Mayb-"

My dad stopped talking and looked to the sky. It was getting unnormally cloudy. It was getting dark. The clouds were moving quickly huddling together like a sandwich over the sun.

I heard a loud screeching sound and then covered my ears. Then a bolt of lightning hit the ground next to Emmett. Emmett jumped and collapsed to the ground. Rosalie ran to his side worringly.

They were talking to each other but I couldn't make out what they were saying because the wind was too noisy.

"What's happening?" William yelled at the top his lungs. He took a few steps back and slowly dropped the ground and put his hands over his ears.

After a while, I did the same thing.

In a few seconds, it started raining violently. It was so hard that I couldn't see anything with all the water in my eyes. The clothing on my torso started getting heavier, and heavier. I started rubbing my eyes and reaching out for something to support.

I heard someone screaming over the loud rain, thunder, and wind, but I couldn't tell who it was. I quickly rolled myself into a ball on the forest floor like I did last night. What the heck was going on? Who was doing this? Why would there be a storm in the middle of spring?

This was not nature doing its work. It was something else. Something else unnatural. I hugged my knees tightly until I felt an arm around me. I touched the cold hand. I looked up. It was William. His hair was blowing all over his face.

He was soaking wet and so was I. He tightly put an arm around me and I put my arms around him. It was freezing. Even for a vampire, because I felt William shaking. I tried to see if everyone was still there.

The trees were dancing violently.

"What's going on?" I yelled to William.

"What?" He mouthed.

"What's going on?" I yelled even louder.

"I don't know!" he said loudly, and then holding me tighter.

His pale golden brown hair was soaked with rain. I saw him take a sharp glance at a moving figure yards from a tree. He was trying to stare at it, but the rain was soaking his face. He quickly looked away, rubbed his face and then tried to see if the strange figure was still there.

Hours seemed to pass by. Nothing changed. It was still windy, rainy, and cold. I slowly drifted away. Tired of the coldness and motion. I shut my eyes and stopped trying to see if everyone was still there. I fell asleep.

The clouds were spreading apart, and the sun was beginning to show. It was good to feel the warm sunlight on my face. We sat through the furious storm all night, and now it's morning. My body was lying lazily in William's arms.

I opened my eyes and saw William's head leaning on mine. I looked around and saw father holding onto a tree protectively. He was wet, too. But who wasn't?

When the sun shined brighter, he blinked his eyes and let go of the tree which collapsed the opposite direction when he let go. He took a sharp glace at the destroyed tree and then causually walked away from it.

I looked around for Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice. I saw Rosalie, and Emmett's back leaning furiously on a tree. Rosalie's hand was on top of Emmett's chest and wrapped around the other side of the tree.

When the sun shone on her eyes, she blocked the light and finally stepped out.

"Hey, are you guys okay?" I asked, still yelling I realized.

"Yeah, we're fine." Rosalie said as she was picking off leaves in her hair.

Emmett looked around and said, "Hey, where's Alice?"

We all started looking around and calling her name.

"I was just holding her! I heard her scream last night, but I thought she was just afraid! I didn't notice she was gone until now!" Rosalie said.

"It means she was here, but she was.. taken by someone." my dad said.

"She did get kidnapped. I saw a dark figure last night." William said.

"I did, too." I said.

"I wonder how the others are doing." Emmett said.

"Bella." My dad said as he looked to the side.

"She was in the forest. She could've gone missing, too." My dad said.

"Dad, let's not go to jumping to conlusions." I said quickly. I put my hand on his shoulder, but then he raced into the dark ruined woods, followed by Rosalie and Emmett.

I sighed and faced the confused William. He was looking straight ahead of where father took off.

"Are you..are you human?" he asked as he looked dazely at me.

"Well...no..i'm half-human." I said shakily.

"What? How?" He asked as he gazed at me with moist looking eyes.

I touched my palms with him and told him everything from the start. He stared at blankly for a moment when I was "telling" him how I came about. After a couple of minutes, he quickly blinked and stared down at me.

"Wow. What a story." He said as he looked deep into my eyes with interest.

"I didn't know you have a boyfriend." William said as he released my hand.

"How could you not know? I was holding hands with him at lunch." I said.

"You were? Well, I just assumed that you guys were friends because I sensed rivalry in the past because he was a werewolf."

"How did you know about that?" I asked.

"Well it's my power. I can look into the past of other people's life, including mine." he said.

"Oh. Why did you ask if I was a human?"

"I could smell the blood in your veins." He said quickly and silently. He took a step backward.

After a while he said, "I'm sorry I have intruded your life. I shouldn't have kissed you like that. I'm very, truly sorry. I understand that you have no interest in me, and I would also understand that you would never like to see me again."

William turned around facing the woods with a hurt look on his face. He was about to charge into the woods, but I immediatly ran to his side and stopped him.

"You don't have to leave. We can use your help." I said keeping my hand on his shoulder.

"Are you sure? I don't want to come between you and that werewolf." He said sulkingly.

"It's okay. Please stay." I said leaning up to him. Breathing on him. Our lips were inches apart. I was wondering why I was doing this again.

"Fine." He said quickly and leaned backward. "Just be careful. I have to take care of a few duties, and with that "kidnapper" on the loose, I want you to be safe. Please head back to Carlisle's when i'm gone." he said.

"Consider it done." I said. I gave him a tight hug and then dashed into the woods on the way to the large house. Right now I was confused. I loved Jacob, but I had these mixed feelings for William, too. What am I talking about?

I only knew the guy for a day. But I have never felt this way before. Jacob. Oh shoot, I forgot! He went missing. He could be hurt! I ran faster just thinking about it. Oh no. How could I let him go off like that?

I told Jacob to stalk William and he was kidnapped by some random person. Of course William didn't do it according to father, but someone else did. Who else could've been with Jacob before he was kidnapped? Leah and Seth.

He said that Leah and Seth were going to help him. I stopped in front of the house. I was a few feet away from the door. Either I listen to William and go into the house for protection, or investigate.

I looked the opposite direction towards the forest. I stopped. I just frooze. I closed my eyes, and listened. I tried to hear the sound of a werewolf. I tried to see if I can hear either Leah or Seth. I heard beyond the woods.

I heard the rustling of leaves, a spider feeding on a fly, and a deer drinking some water from the river. I kept listening and listening. After a few moments, I finally heard it. The faint voices of Leah and Seth arguing.

It was very disturbing to hear them argue like this.

"My fault? How is it my fault? You were the one talking to him!"

"You were the one that ran away! It is your fault he's missing. Alice and Jacob would be safe right now if it weren't for you!"

"What are you talking about? All I did follow directions! Your blaming me for everything! What about you, Leah? All you did was trot around lazily doing absolutely nothing! You were even complaining to him!" I never heard Seth speak so viciously.

He would barely hurt a fly, and here he was. Making rude remarks to his sister.

I immediatly opened my eyes and ran toward the bickering voices. The nearer I got, the louder the voices were.