SIX

I suddenly started sobbing.

Yeah, of course no tears.

"No, you are right. I dosound like a totally heartbreaker, but I did not have a choice, I—"

What could I tell her?

I didn't have a possible excuse but thankfully Jasper appeared being her and put a hand on her shoulder. She instantly collapsed. Of course Jasper caught her before she touched the floor.

Just like he had done to me when we were in that hotel in Phoenix and I was stressing out.

I didn't stop to say thanks, I saw Edward, Kate and Alice were coming and I got into the car.

I drove to forks and when I finally made it, it was late night.

I didn't know if I had been driving fast or slow or were I was going, I only knew I made it and that my father was in the house I was looking at (my old house, my home in Forks) and that I missed him.

I had parked the car some blocks away and thanking that the trees covered me, I got near enough to the house to be able to hear my dad talking to someone on the phone.

"Yes, I know it had passed a week…" a pause "Yes, yes, of course I know that! But please, there's got to be something you can do. I am sure he's with this Cullen boy, Edward…"

I sighed. I was trying to see him, but it was too dangerous.

"You need to understand that Bella would never run away! She was upset with her boyfriend but she would never do this to me!"

Those words broke my unbeating heart. How could I be this cold? How could I abandon him and hope he forgets me from one day to the other?

It was obvious he would go mad, but what could I do?

Nothing. A little voice said in my head. And it was true, I couldn't do a thing.

I ran for the car to weep alone until I got to the house where I could ask Edward to forgive me for hurting him and try to make a new life, but as I started to run, it started raining softly.

Still, not wanting to ruin the make up Alice so carefully had put on me this morning, I put the hood of my pink sweater.

Of course I was dressed to a runway; I had pink stilettos and a white pleated skirt.

I didn't like it, of course I would feel more confident with some jeans and a big sweater, but Alice had sworn to me that if I didn't dress as she ordered me, she would not speak to me again.

Yeah, a little dramatic, but I loved her and I knew dressing me up made her happy.

I was amused when I discovered I could walk in stilettos without falling on my face (and these stilettos were particularly high).

"Bella?" a voice said.

I looked up, astonished, but ready to run if it was someone I knew.

It was Jacob.

He was huge. "Jake?" I said.

"What— what are you…?" it seemed he couldn't find the words to ask me why I was here.

He was next to Kate's Lamborghini so I couldn't make a run for it, he was in the middle.

"I know, Charlie thinks I ran away" I could hear the pain in my voice.

"What I want you to understand is that I had no choice, I swear Jacob."

I didn't know him too much, but that time on the beach had told me he was a good kid, his dad and Charlie were good friends— if they still were — and he wasn't looking at me like I had done a bad thing, just like he was bewildered to see me.

"I— okay, tell me why, then. Because Charlie's shattered, he barely goes fishing, he goes to work like a zombie, and that's only what my father knows. He blames the Cullens… he… he told me Edward must have killed you, you know, he still thinks they are vampires" he found that funny, but I made a face.

"Sorry, Jake, I have to go…"

"So soon? I mean, did you go to see Charlie?"

I couldn't understand how he didn't find anything wrong with me, and then I realized I had the hood on and he couldn't see my eyes and my skin.

"No, it's better this way, he… I can't come back…" I sighed "This was a mistake, I was mad… I shouldn't have come here… he told me, he told me it was dangerous to come back and now you saw me and you are going to tell Charlie and it is going to be more difficult to him now" I was sobbing now tearless.

"No, no, Bella, I won't. Just... tell me... why? Why did you run away? Is it Cullen?"

"Why don't we get in the car and go somewhere else" I proposed, knowing I wasn't answering his question as I also knew he wasn't going to buy it, he was going to ask again.

As I got into the car I saw he was with his mouth open.

"This… is your car now?" he said.

"Nope, it's Kate's," I smiled shyly "too much?"

"For you, yes."

When he got into the car, he tied his dark long hair in a low ponytail.

"And what does exactly means "for you, yes"?" I asked a little pissed off.

"No, don't get it wrong, I meant that you are not into expensive cars, right? The bigger and stronger the best" he smiled "wasn't that kind of your motto?"

I laughed and realized my mistake.

My soft voice muffled by the rain and the wind may have sounded normal, but here in the car, my laughter sounded like bells, and saying it simple, it sounded wrong.

"Bella? What… your voice, your face, your clothes and your eyes… what happened to you?" he talked softly, trying hard not to make me angry.

"It is why I left Charlie…" I said as I pressed hard the accelerator.

"Why, an extreme makeover? I can't see it" he looked at me with his deep brown eyes "I can't see why, sorry."

"You are asking for forgiveness when I am the one doing everything wrong!" my mood was weird today.

"Sorry?"

"Jake! Can't you see? I have to go, it's wrong… this… all… I shouldn't have come."

"Why? Why do you keep telling that?" he was anxious now.

"Because I — I…" I knew that if I wanted him to leave and not tell anyone he had seen me, I had to lie and I had better lie him with a good credible lie 'cause Jacob is not dumb and he wasn't going to eat up the first thing that came into my mind that was telling him I had married Edward and I was pregnant.

Of course he would or run to tell Charlie to get me into a cell until I realized how stupid I was or he would shout at me and leave hurt and possibly tell Billy who would tell Charlie who would find me even in the end of the earth to get me into a cell, so the options were, to wait until Charlie came to get me into a cell for life or get into one myself.

There was no way I was going to do that.

A few seconds have passed and I was driving directly to La Push, so I could drop him and run if I had to, (well not really, I just didn't like to be so close to Charlie and as I didn't know too many people in La Push, it was perfect).

I was almost there, because I was driving fast.

"Tell me, Bella, What's wrong?"

I stopped the car dead on the side of the road so fast Jacob almost hits his forehead against the windshield. Lucky him, he had put his seatbelt.

I hadn't but I didn't budge from my seat. Damn vampire powers, they made me look less human.

I turned to look at Jacob and saw he was open-mouthed and wide-eyed.

"Sorry," I offered as an apology.

"Jake, well… I…"

I didn't want to lie to him, but I couldn't quite tell him the truth, so I did what I could and told him half truths… Okay, half truths are as good as lies (or half lies if you want) but, it was the closer to the truth that he would ever get out of me and it was a lot…

[Ooh, I know! This chapter is really short but it is because this chapter was longer and I had to cut it and now the rest is part of chapter seven, did anyone understood what I said? Okay,,,

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