"Vic- Victoria" my breathing was coming in gasps and my eyes were bugged out of their sockets. I felt dizzy the air around me going fuzzy as I felt myself sway forward. Edwards strong arms grabbed me a pulled me to his chest stroking my hair,
"I knew I shouldn't have told you. Bella I'm sorry" I couldn't even speak, my breath hitching in my parched throat. Why? Why did bad things always happen to me?
"Bella" Edwards butterscotch eyes were filled with sorrow as he met my chocolate ones,
"I will never let anything hurt you again. I promise" I didn't have the mental stability to argue with him. To tell him that nothing could ever hurt me as much as he did. I just lay there protected by his secure arms.
Terrifying thought flooded my mind. Victoria standing beside a pile of smouldering, sweet, familiar smelling ashes, her teeth bared in a fierce smile her red black eyes glistening with thirst.
"What, where-she. Ho-" my bottom lip was wobbling with such prowess I couldn't even string my words together as tears popped from my eyes wide eyes,
"Shh Bella you'll be safe. She can't touch you. Not while I'm here"
"And how do I know you'll always be here. You've done it before you can do again. How do I know that you'll not run off at the last minute? How do I know that you'll protect me and it will not be you hurting me again?" I pulled back my voice shaking uncontrollably, sobs braking between my weak words.
"Because no matter what I said in the woods. I am unconditionally and irrevocably in love with you, Bella" I gasped at the words. They were my words and this shocked me knocking the breath from my lungs.
He reached up his hand and brushed a long, brown strand of hair off my tear stained face. I looked straight into his eyes. As his cold finger caressed my skin all thoughts of Victoria and her plot to kill me flushed from my mind. I just wanted to lean in and press my lips to his. I breathed deeply loving the way his scent caressed my nostrils. I just wanted him. I felt myself leaning closer into him,
"Bella?" I snapped out of it. I shook my head slightly, Stupid, dazzling, vampire.
I couldn't concentrate for the rest of the school day. Terrifying thoughts of Victoria swamped my mind. Edward had point blank refused to leave me alone. He said that he had been tailing me since he found out I was here. He said it was the day the attacks started…
We had organised that I would invite Alice to stay, as he new he would not be welcome in my home, so that she could protect me at night.
Alice was sat at the end of my bed idly playing with a loose strand of fabric attached to my bed sheets as I walked into the room. Her head snapped up and she beamed at me, "I really am glad yo-" she broke off her eyes glazing over and a dreamy expression crossing her features. She was having a vision and judging by the large crease between her tiny eyebrows it wasn't a good one.
She gasped heavily her eyes popping open and her mouth falling ajar, "she's coming" I knew what that meant. Victoria.
I was sat in the passenger seat of Alice's bright yellow Porsche, zooming through the wet streets towards out destination. And my salvation. The rain thundered against the windows while Alice spoke comforting words that I was to numb to hear. I barely even noticed her shooting round near hair pin bends at break neck speed. I couldn't care, the only emotion, sense, feeling I had in my body was pure unrivalled terror.
Alice had said Victoria was coming and we all new who for. Me.
We turned round one last sharp bend onto a familiar gravel driveway, its large iron gates swinging open for us. Alice got out of the car, looked directly at the house a serious look on her tiny face, then ran to my side of the car opening the door as 7 vampires materialized around us. As Alice's cold hands lifted me gently from the car rounds of anxious questions were spat at her,
"Are you sure it was her?" jasper questioned a look of pure hatred on his usually beautiful features,
"Were there any others?" Emmett asked giving me a week almost reassuring smile his eyes never leaving the surrounding forest,
"When will she come?" Esme's loving face was transfixed with mine the worry only a mother can possess swimming in her eyes,
"Is there anything we can do?" Roberts's voice called from the back of the group his face twisted like he was trying to figure something out. Alice didn't answer she just shook her head and pointed to the house as if to say 'inside'.
Edward didn't say anything or apparently hear anything as his eyes watched me like I was a bomb about to go off at any second. The Cullens all made to move forward but my legs wouldn't move for the fear. I felt them wobble and crumble as I slipped to the ground.
Before my body could touch the hard gravel Edwards secure arms wrapped themselves around me and hoisted me to his chest,
"It's okay Bella you're safe" his topaz eyes, so filled with fear, met mine and I saw no hint of a lie in them. I nodded weakly as he carried me towards the great house.
"We don't have much time. Literally a day maybe less" I was still scooped up in Edwards arms sat whilst he sat on the couch arguing over my future with the rest of his family,
"We still need to get her as far away as possible" Edward repeated himself looking sternly at Edward,
"Victoria is coming from all sides even if you manage by some miracle to avoid her and her newborns how are we supposed to fight them off with just the 7 of us?" Alice actually stamped her foot when she said this. Every one was looking at everyone else trying to make up a plan but nothing seemed to be materializing. Out of the corner of my fuzzy eyes I saw Edwards head turned towards a very pensive Robert,
"I think its time you all found out why Edward and I know each other" Robert started as the coven all turned to face him, "and… the gift that I posses"
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