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Chapter 9

"I hate you!" Bella shouted.

"Bella..." I pleaded.

"Get in the closet," Bella shouted, as reached into her bag and retracted the pepper spray which Charlie had given her.

"Bella be reasonable," my heart was pounding, Bella was terrifying. There was a serious chance one of us was going to get hurt here.

"You need to go back and everything will be normal," her eyes were wide, the bags underneath indicated how little she had been sleeping.

I nodded, "You're right," I took a deep breath, there was no point in disagreeing with her, from her perspective I had completely ruined her life. I turned and pulled open the closet door open; as soon as I stepped inside I knew I'd made a terrible decision. I heard Bella push the door shut. Then there was a rattle and a bang. I closed my eyes. Several minutes passed where my eyelids nervously flickered until I gained the courage and attempted to open the door.

"Bella?" I asked. "I don't think it's worked, Bella?" There was an overwhelming silence. The door would not open. "Help?" I shouted, reaching for the door handle I tried to rattle the door open. All my efforts were wasted as there was barely any movement. I stopped. What had she done? Where was I? I might be back home in England or was I still in Forks. Or worse still I might be stuck between the two. "Bella, please? Anyone?" There was a thud. "Hello?"

"One minute Laura," It was Edward.

"Edward!" I reached for the door handle again. "I'm in the closet." The door opened a little light streamed on my face as I launched myself at my saviour.

"Laura," his arms wrapped around me and I instantly regretted my decision to throw myself at him, I was going to have bruises in the morning. His skin didn't soften on impact.

"What happened?" Edward asked.

"Bella decided it was time that I went back home," I took a step backwards.

"What? Why would she do that?"

"So that things could return to normal, I guess,"

"This is normality," Edward growled

"Leave it," I placed my hand on his shoulder and was alarmed how easily my touch calmed him. "For me? If we make a fuss Bella might tell Charlie something, something about how I'm not supposed to be here,"

"I suppose, if that's what you want?"

"It is?"

"Ok, then do one thing for me?"

"Anything," I breathed, I desperately wanted that crooked smile.

"I want to show you somewhere."

I desperately tried to avoid it, but eventually Edward took me to the meadow. The one place that was truly Edward and Bella and now I was destroying that too.

"Do you miss back home?" Edward asked gently stroking the side of my face, his touch instantly distracting me from my inner turmoil.

"I've tried not to ponder on it too much," I answered him honestly. "Although it does worry me,"

"Worries you?"

"Whether what I am doing here affects anything back at home," I replied.

"Sorry to probe you with questions. I just get curious about what you're thinking. It frustrates me a little that your mind is closed,"

"It's understandable. I'm exactly the same," I glanced across at him, my eyes focusing on his topaz ones.

"I'm wandering what I'd have done if you hadn't have entered my world," his words hung there heavy, the atmosphere tense.

"Met Bella, proposed to Bella," I whispered continuing to stare at the sky, the sky blurred temporarily as my eyes watered up with the words I had just spoken.

"Laura," suddenly he grabbed me, pulling me into his arms. "You are the one I have met, you are the one..."

"That you want to marry?" I asked giggling, breaking the tense atmosphere.

"Yes. Eventually..." He whispered and then paused for thought. "How will I ask your father for permission though?"

"Looks like I'll have to test that closet out some more," I answered him slightly sarcastically.

"No!" His eyes were angry. "You have to promise me that you're going to keep away from that closet."

"I promise," I replied desperately not wanting to hurt him anymore.

"I'm also worried though," he confessed. "About these Nomads," his eyes were intense.

"James, the tracker, he is linked to Alice," I confessed, I felt I needed to provide Edward with some more information. "He was the one that wanted to bite her in the Asylum."

"Oh..."

"I wish I could get you a copy of the Twilight books,"

"I don't think I'd feel comfortable reading them," Edward confessed.

"No," I whispered.

"How many were there?" He asked.

"Four. I only read three," I revealed, although I seriously thought I'd already told him all this.

"You mean you don't know how this is all going to end?" Edward asked, his voice was tense.

"I know it was controversial the decisions that the author made in the final book," I answered.

"Laura, this is serious,"

"I'm sorry,"

"It's not your fault. I just don't think I could lose you now I've got you. I don't think I could cope," He took a deep breath, which I knew was completely unnecessary for him. "Before you, Laura, my life was like a..."

"...moonless night," I whispered as his face formed a brief frown and then a smile, both expressions as beautiful as the next.

"I need to think of some new lines," he laughed.

"No, I like it. It gives me the upper hand, I'm almost the mind reader," he reached across and gently began toying with strands of my hair. For several seconds there was blissful silence. "I need to be heading back," I explained. "Charlie will start to panic if I'm gone too long."

"I have something in common with him," Edward grinned and helped me to his feet.

"I miss you too,"

"My life would be empty without you," as he spoke those golden words my mind drifted towards New Moon. I wouldn't let it happen, things wouldn't get that far. We could never be apart for that long. Edward wouldn't cope and neither would I. "Now lets get you back to Charlie."

The sky was beginning to darken when Edward pulled his Volvo up outside Charlie's house.

"Charlie's home. I might cook for him tonight," I muse out loud and realised that Edward was smirking.

"Such human thoughts," Edward replied.

"You wanted to know my thoughts. I'm sorry if they're too mundane for you," I stuck my tongue out. "My stomach always comes first," I joked.

"Charlie's seems a little anxious. His thoughts are a little torn. He wants you home, cooking should help to calm him," Edward added as I stepped out of the car.

"See you tomorrow Edward," I turned and he was in front of me, reaching down he wrapped his arms around me as our heads got closer our lips pressed together. With his heavenly scent and the teasingly cold temperature of his lips I was instantly lost. My thoughts incomprehensible, I forgot where I was and who I was until Edward took a step backwards.

"Go and cook for Charlie," his whispered. "See you tomorrow Laura,"

I shook myself togheter and marched towards the house. I yanked open the door and as soon as I shouted my hello to Charlie I knew something was wrong.

"Laura? Bella?" Charlie appeared in the doorway.

"Just me," I smiled placing my school bag on the floor. I heard Edward's Volvo pull away.

"Is Bella not with you?"

"No," I shook my head. Charlie look frantic he marched back into the living room towards the phone. "I haven't seen her for a few hours, why?"

"Laura, I think she's gone," Charlie collapsed on the sofa.

Any theories as to what might have happenned to Bella?