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-Chapter 2-
Edward's POV
I turned the corner and nearly hit a pole.
I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing or where I was going. I was supposed to be going to school. I didn't bother taking my Volvo. My mind isn't in good condition to drive, I'll just end up running into a pole and killing myself.
I looked up at the pole I nearly smacked into and it looked like all the other lamp posts in the entire city. Covered with the only Missin Person's poster of the only girl that has ever gone missing in this little town of Forks. The picture of her near a beach in Phoenix wearing a white tank top and faded jean short shorts with her brilliant smile that catches your eyes. Her hair blowing in the wind. A waved of greif and hopelessness washed over me and I had to remind myself to stay positive.
'We're going to find her. She's somewhere. She's still alive... she's still alive,' I chanted over and over in my mind.
I nearly tripped over a crack in the side walk if it weren't for Alice who caught me by my elbow.
"Woah, Eddie. Be careful where you walk, you're gonna kill yourself!" Alice teased directing me in the exact direction of the school.
"Thanks, Ali. I think I can handle myself from here," I reassured her, shaking off her tense grip on me.
And there we were. In front of the school we attending. It was a fairly small school. Trees basically covered 75% of their grounds. There were approximately three hundred students and everyone basically already knew each other very well.
We approached the doors to the school when Lauren popped out of no where and started chatting away. Lauren Mallory was on the cheerleading squad and she is exactly what you think she is. Snobby, arrogant, stuck up and outright rude! She was the exact opposite of Bella. She was also one of the bitches who told my sister that she wasn't good enough to be a model.
"Oh hey, Edward!" She said flirtatiously.
I mentally rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Hey, Lauren," I greeted in a tired matter.
"What's up?" She asked cheerily.
"Nothing you need to know about," I muttered. Alice clung to my arm and waited patiently for me to finish my conversation with Lauren. But I knew this conversation was no where near finished.
"Ooh, is this about Bella?" She asked sourly.
"Do you know what happened to her?" I asked hopefully, my defense mode started to kick in.
"No," She sighed mockingly.
"Oh," I looked away from her and down the hallway, where I was now walking towards. Alice followed closely behind, scurrying because she couldn't keep up with my accelerating pace.
"Slow down!" She called to me, clutching at her pink binder.
I looked back at her and noticed that Lauren was frowning in my direction, picking at her neatly manicured neon yellow nails. I ignored her dirty looks and turned my direction to my heavy-breathing sister.
"Jeez Edward!" She smacked my shoulder. "Why are you in such a rush? The bell doesn't ring for another twenty minutes!"
"Sorry, Alice," I apologized quietly.
She sighed and shook her head.
"Edward, lighten up," She told me. I couldn't look at her because I knew exactly why she told me that. I've been moping and mourning about Bella.
I missed her to death and I keep on wishing that she is alright wherever she is. After talking to Charlie last week, I was feeling a little hopeful. Charlie put out a couple of alerts, Bella was all over the news and we even got one tip.
A woman taking a midnight walk with her pet golden retriever saw a young woman, with the same description as Bella, was seen walking down an otherwise vacant road just two blocks away from OUR house.
After hearing that woman report that in, I felt really empty inside. She was so, so close. And she didn't make it. It's been nearly a week and no one has heard from her. I was beyond worried. I was frantic, panicked, scared, frightened, terrified, sad, hopeless, lost... name it. I was that. I was nothing without her, my best friend. My other half...
My soul-mate.
Every night for the past week we sent out search parties, including ourselves, to search every part of Forks and every city around that. And every night, the search parties would decrease in size... There were still a lot of people looking for her, maybe fifty people, but it felt like everyone was losing hope.
The sad part was that it has only been one week.
"Alice," I wailed.
"Don't start, Edward, don't you dare start," Alice jabbed a finger into my chest. "Don't you lose hope yourself," It was like she knew what I was thinking!
"But Alice," She slapped my face, snapping me out of my miserable thoughts.
"No buts, let's get to class," She stirred me into Trig. Alice was promoted a grade higher for Trig among many other classes because she's a very good student and an over acheiver.
I sat down and waited for the rest of the day to end.
-Later on-
"You have to stay positive, Edward," My sister shouted at me, slamming the front door of our house and she tossed the house keys in the glass bowl.
I spun around and wildly stare at her.
"I'm trying," I growled at her.
"Yeah? Well try harder," She spat in my face before running up the stairs to her bedroom.
I can't believe she thinks that I was giving up. Giving up on finding my best friend! How could she think that? Yeah, sure, I was feeling a little bummed out but I was determined. Determined to find the girl I've been in love with since we met in kindergarden. Determined to bring her back and keep her safe if it meant I had to give up everything that I loved. And lastly, I was determined to profess my love to her because I just couldn't take it anymore.
But now everyone's getting to me! In gym class, Tyler Crowley told me asked me what she would do if she were found dead. I nearly knocked the poor guy out. I left the class and tried to clear up my mind but the question kept repeating in my head.
What if Bella was found dead?
I had to yell at myself to keep calm and stop thinking such thoughts. But it kept crawling back into my mind...
I sighed as I sat in front of the blank TV and waited until... I don't know. Until something happened. I didn't have the energy to go out or talk to some of my other friends. But I didn't want to talk to any of them right now!
Just then, my cell phone rang. I pulled it out of my pocket and groaned. Lauren Mallory. I didn't want to be rude so I answered her call.
"Hey, Edward," She giggled.
"Hello," I replied unamused.
"Um, I was just wondering if you would want to, uh, hang out sometime?" She asked nervously.
"I'm kind of busy," I muttered lamely.
She gave me an annoyed huff of breath as a response. "Are you still worrying about Bella?"
"Why do you care?" I retorted.
"You are always with her, Edward. And I know she had gone missing, the tragedy, but you have to go live a little now that she's gone!" I could not believe what I was hearing. She was treating Bella's disappearance like she was just a cheerio that fell on the floor!
"She is not gone," I spat through my clenched teeth.
"Woah. You are getting a little defensive there, Eddie. You know I was only kidding," She laughed.
"You're treating Bella's disappearance like it's nothing, Lauren. You think this is funny? What if you were missing and people were cheering and throwing parties and joking around because you are gone? How would that make you feel?" I was livid now.
"Whatever," I could imagine Lauren rolling her eyes at my tone.
"Don't call me again," I hung up on her. Then I heard a loud and dramatic clapping from behind me and it made me jump.
"God, Alice, you're going to give me a heart attack!" I gripped my chest.
"Bra-vo," She split the word into two. "What was that about anyway?"
"She treated Bella's disappearance like it was nothing. She even had the nerve to ask me out and to 'live a little' no that she's gone," I replied snarkily.
"That little skank!" Alice swore.
"I'm going to head to my room," I ignored her previous comment.
Alice looked over me for a few long seconds and then nodded her head and she headed towards the couch with a magazine she had stuck between her underarm and flipped it open to a page with Kate Moss on it. Then I fleed to my room.
I paced the length of my room over and over. My eyes scanning back to the picture on my night stand with me and Bella in it.
Bella, where could you be?
I hadn't realized my window was opened until a gust of wind blew the curtains in my face and I shivered. I stood up and closed the window and right then, my cell phone rang. I made sure to check the caller before picking up, in case it was Lauren again but it read Anonymous Caller.
Curiously, I answered.
"Hello?" I called.
"Edward Cullen," The voice greeted me, you could tell they were trying to mask their voice with a British accent.
"This is he, how may I be of your service?" I asked.
"It seems you are in quite a predicament," The caller mused.
"What are you talking about? Who is this?" I frowned.
"You're best friend, the love of your life is missing, what are you going to do?" It asked.
"What have you done to her?" I roared into the phone.
"Go to the payphone in Port Angeles's busy street tomorrow night at seven. Be there, or your little friend gets it," Then the line went dead.
Bella's alive. That person has her. I need to get her. If he did so little than touch her...
"Edward?" Alice knocked on my door. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, Ali, I'm fine!" I called out to her. There was no way in the world would I let my little sister know about this. I couldn't endanger her either.
"Okay!" I heard her running back down the stairs and flicking on the television.
I waited a few more seconds to make sure that she wasn't around and then started to think.
Bella's still out there.
Somewhere.
I just have to find her.