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Chapter 10

Chapter 9

"Gone where?" The stupidity of my question made it echo around the room as the atmosphere suddenly frosted over. Charlie was getting paler.

"I know things were bad recently," Charlie whispered.

"It's my fault," I patted him on the back. "I shouldn't have got with Edward," I shook my head, Charlie was in pieces. I had caused all of this.

"Has she taken the truck?"

"Yes," Charlie nodded. "She left a note, saying she was bored and loads of awful things about Forks. The exact things her mother told me."

"Leave it to me," I whispered I stepped back outside the house and ran in the direction of where I thought Bella would be. The field where Cullen's should be playing baseball tonight.

It was a long distance and it wasn't long before my run had become a slow walk, my side was aching and the mud made my steps heavy. "BELLA!" The little air I was managing to intake I was wasting on yelling. Where was she? Why did she insist on doing such ridiculous and dangerous things? Why did I insist on trying to put it right?

Eventually I managed to make it to the clearing; her figure was clearly distinguishable sitting in the middle of the grass. "Bella," she didn't even turn to look at me. Was I too late? With the last final burst of energy I made it to her. A twitch of her eyes made me realise that she was alive. However, that burst of positivity was vanished when I realised she was bleeding. I grabbed a tissue out of my pocket and desperately pressed it against her hand.

"Come on Bella we need to get out of here," I was suddenly conscious that since I'd left the house the temperature had dropped considerably and clouds were forming in the sky. The storm was coming and so were they. "Bella," I shook her shoulders, "This is serious!" I grabbed her upper arms and pulled her reluctantly to her feet. She was dangerously cold and hadn't eaten for most of the day, so she gave little resistance. I finally located the truck near a mud track to our left. "Not much further," I heaved.

There was a crack of thunder and that was when I heard the voice.

"What do we have here?" The voice was as sinister as I knew the man would be, or was that just my imagination.

"Now now James, don't play with your food," Laurent responded. My worst fear was confirmed, they'd found us.

"James, Laurent Victoria," Bella reeled off beside me. Oh great! Suddenly the idiot had energy to identify who was about to kill us.

"Who do we have here?" Victoria asked taking a step forward.

"We were just leaving," I stuttered.

"Laura, Bella!" another voice entered the equation as Edward, Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, Carlisle and Esme appeared behind the truck.

"This just gets more interesting," Victoria growled taking a step forward.

"Leave them," Edward ordered launching himself protectively in front of Bella and I. "They're with us."

"Now I'm curious," Laurent spoke.

"Perhaps if you come back with us, the girls can go home," Carlisle responded walking to the front, Jasper was at his side.

Laurent agreed and within seconds Bella and I were back in the truck with Edward driving and Emmett riding in the Jeep behind.

"Why didn't you ring me Laura?" Edward asked, his eyes solely focused on the road.

"I wanted to sort things by myself, for Charlie,"

"You thought wrong," Edward answered.

"Just take us home," I ordered. When we finally arrived outside the house, there was a collection of cars already there. "Looks like Charlie organised a search party," I replied taking a glance at Bella who was anxiously biting her lip.

"Look I'm not going in Laura. I won't be welcome," Edward explained. "Emmett is going to stay nearby. I'm going to head back home to check how the rest are dealing with the nomads. They're going to need me to know what they're thinking; I'm going to send Rosalie down here to be with Emmett."

"Ok," I suddenly felt a bit unnerved by the fact that Edward leaving but I nodded nonetheless. He knew best and Bella was already heading towards the house, I jogged to catch up with her.

"Bella!" Charlie was thundering down the steps and pulled her into a hug. "We were just about to come looking for you!"

"She went for a walk," I explained noticing that half of La Push was standing in the doorway, the reason why Edward wouldn't have been welcome.

"You're home now," Charlie took her inside and I was briefly forgotten, however, realising that there may be a vampire watching I took shelter in the house. Within minutes of getting inside Bella was fidgeting and Charlie realised that she didn't want the attention. "Why don't you go to bed? You look tired and you're very cold," Bella mutely nodded. "Do you want to make her some food to take up?" Charlie asked me. I bit my tongue and also nodded.

"Sure!" I grinned and launched into the kitchen. I hadn't been preparing the food for long when I sensed someone behind me.

"What's the deal with you and Cullen?"

"Edward," I added turning to face Jacob. He mumbled a yes. "We're close," I hinted.

"I guess so since his brother's outside," Jacob indicated towards Emmett who appeared to be talking on his phone.

"So observant Jake," I snapped loading a tray with food for Bella, before turning and walking out of the kitchen. I wasn't in the mood for pointless rivalries. I tiptoed up the stairs taking care not to spill any food and finally reached Bella's door. I knocked. No response. "Bella?" No answer. "Oh..." I kicked open the door and found her room empty. "This girl is going to kill me," I muttered. I discarded the tray and raced to the window and saw the truck pulling away. Without pausing for thought I bounded downstairs and grabbed Charlie's car keys and was in hot pursuit. I knew where she was going this time. A certain ballet studio to wait for a certain vampire to bite her.

What has Bella done?