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-Chapter 22-
Alice's POV
When Emmett pulled up in front of his massive house, I was amazed. It was so beautiful! Way more attractive than mine and Edwards. It was beautiful; it looked like something out of a magazine. And what really got my attention was the ocean! His backyard balcony overlooks the ocean and the sun was setting.
The clouds were a variety of different colours; from pink, to orange, to yellow, to blue, to purple and a gentle mauve. The sun was halfway down the horizon and I was amazed as it reflected off the gentle blue water.
Vancouver was a beautiful place.
"Come in, you guys." Emmett smiled, holding the door open to his front house.
Inside was magnificent. The interior looked like it would have cost a fortune to pay for! Brownish, tan coloured furniture with a furry white carpet and wooden floors. It was like an old log home, cozy and warm. The lighting was perfect, dimmed to a light honey colour.
"Holy shit." Jasper swore when he entered the room. Emmett let out a low chuckle as well as Edward. Bella came trotting behind them, looking as tired as ever. She gazed away from them and walked her all the way to one of the leather couches. I shot Edward a look.
"She's exhausted." He shrugged.
I walked over to her and sat at the foot of the couch. She looked at me.
"You're still wearing the makeup." She remarked, with a smirk.
"Yeah, you know, never really had time to clean it off." I replied, tiredly rubbing the side of my face.
"Thank you." She whispered almost so low that I could barely hear her.
"For what?" I asked.
"Giving me hope." She sat up straight. The guys noticed this and was about to walk over but I stopped them with a deathly glare towards them.
"Hope?" I cocked my head to the side, looking into her deep chocolate brown eyes.
"Hope." She nodded. "Alice, if you weren't with me yesterday and it had been someone else; I would have probably killed myself. I couldn't bear to live with myself if I married someone I didn't want to. I couldn't live with myself knowing that I married someone I didn't really love and that Edward and I would never be able to get married or have a relationship."
My eyes were dwelling up with tears as I realized that I was the one to give her hope to carry on with her life. I didn't realize I had that much on an impact on Bella.
"Bella..." I gave her a hug and then I pulled away. It was an emotional moment, Bella also started crying.
"What's with all the crying?" Emmett bounced into the room.
I smiled at Emmett's obliviousness and Bella whiped away her tears with the cuff of her sleeve.
"It's nothing, we're just happy that we're allsafe." Bella hiccupped.
Suddenly, a horrifying thought crossed my mind. What about Carlisle?
"Emmett!" A panicked tone rose in my voice.
"What's wrong?" He halted.
"Remember when you came into that room where I was helping Bella get ready?" From the corner of my eye, I saw Bella cringe as the memory played in her mind.
"Yeah, clearly, why?" He frowned.
"You said Charlie was going to arrive within five minutes if we didn't leave at that very instant, am I wrong?" I questioned him. He seemed to understand what I was trying to say, but he didn't know what my point was.
"So?" He cocked his head to the side. Bella averted her eyes to me, a confused emotion in her eyes.
"Dr. Cullen dragged Charlie out of his house when I knocked him out." I stared deeply into his eyes.
He roared with laughter. "You knocked the Chief of Police out?"
"Shut up for a minute, Emmett. Just listen right now." I looked at him seriously. He raised his hands as a defense mechanism, signalling for me that I could speak.
"Okay, okay." He mumbled, trying to choke back some laughter. I rolled my eyes.
"Dr. Cullen?" Bella asked. "Isn't that your last name, Alice?"
"Yeah. I just found out he is Edward and my's biological father." I shrugged, remembering the way he said it to me.
It looked like Bella was about to interject something but I cut her off.
"Hush." I held up a finger to silence her. "Dr. Cullen would have brought Charlie straight to his house for further examination to protect Charlie's reputation as a respectable man of Forks. If Dr. Cullen was to bring Charlie to the hospital for a check up, they would have to fill out paper work to explain what they were there for, am I correct?"
Bella and Emmett nodded in unison.
"Right. And my father would never want to ruin someone's reputation if he had to write how Charlie got his injury. My father's not a liar, thus, he would not write a lie on a sheet. But since he is, after all, a doctor himself, he could bring Charlie back to his house for further examination - which I am positive he did. My father's car wasn't on the Swan's property when I left the house but the police cruiser was. That could only mean that Charlie was with my father the entire time because my dad wouldn't just leave him there, I know that."
"Oh my god." Emmett finally understood what I meant.
"That means that..." Bella began to say.
"That Charlie escaped Carlisle." Emmett finished her sentence.
"But how could he do that?" Bella looked up at me.
"I don't know. And I'm fearing the worst." I whispered.
"My dad would kill him." Bella said softly.
"I'm not so sure about that, remember, he held me at gun point and attempted to shoot me." I winced at my own words, realizing that I was actually held at gun point and if I hadn't fended for myself, I would have died right then and there. I felt a surge of self-confidence run through me.
Bella looked down, ashamed.
"It's okay, Bella." I touched her shoulder.
"I couldn't believe he'd do all this. Just for money and reputation." Bella looked like she was about to cry.
"Don't cry, it happens to the best of us." Emmett murmured.
A flow of silence filled the room and we heard Jasper and Edward talk upstairs about some nonsense.
"Hey, Emmett?" I exclaimed.
"Yeah?" He looked out he window with the view of the ocean and city lights.
"Where's Rosalie right now?" I asked.
A huge smile lit up his face.
"She's here." He stood up.
"In this house?" I gaped.
"Her room is downstairs, she knows we're here, I called her before we arrived. I'm surprised she didn't come up to say hi but then again, she's really shy." He chuckled.
I started to let the excitement overwhelm the feeling of nervousness and fear.
"What will we do about Dr. Cullen, Ali?" Bella whispered into my ear.
"Let's meet Rosalie first and then tell the boys, we'll sort this out." I reassured her. She nodded once.
Emmett led us down to the basement. The basement matched to rest of the house. It was extravagant. With the wooden floors, sweet little flower pots on one corner of the basement and softly lit pot lights. I loved it immediately.
"Man, I love Vancouver." I said generally.
"So do I." Bella agreed.
We made our way to one of the wooden doors and Emmett knocked lightly.
"Hello? Emmett?" A shy voice called.
"It's me, Rosy." I started to feel very excited. "I have a couple of people I would love for you to meet."
"Okay, come in." She invited.
Once the door opened, I fell in love with her room instantly. A huge king sized bed was propped in the middle of the room. There was a brown wooly carpet in the shape of a circle at the foot of her bed. Zebra printed single-seat chairs were propped up against a window. Even if it was the basement, Rosalie still had a view of the city lights and the beautiful waters of the Pacific Ocean. Her curtains were black and white, matching the printed chairs. Her closet doors were mirrors and she had a flat screen TV propped up on one of the walls, facing the bed.
And she was watching America's Next Top Model.
"Hi." Rosalie greeted. She looked to be a few years older than us, maybe twenty one. She had golden ringlettes cascading down her back. She had the prettiest blue eyes and pink lips. She definitely had amazing style, too. She wore a floral printed skirt with a chiffon shirt tucked in. She had a brown buckled belt to wrap around her waist and a silver heart-shaped locket around her neck.
"Hey! My name's Alice." I greeted.
"I'm Bella." Bella smiled.
"You guys can interact with each other while I go see what's up with Jasper and Edward." Emmett left the room.
As soon as Rosalie invited us to sit on her bed with her, I immediately knew that I was absolutely going to love this girl.
Edward's POV
"This place is fucking awesome." Jasper laughed. And I had to agree with him.
This house was freaking fantastic. Emmett's room had a fuseball table and his own soda fountain. A goddamn soda fountain! With sixteen different flavours. I swear, I never wanted to leave this place. His TV was probably the most impressive part of his entire room. It was a whopping 80" flatscreen that hung on the wall. Like, holy fuck! It was like being at a movie theaters!
Emmett even had his own personal balcony. His view was incredible, like all the other views of his house. It was of the ocean and the city lights. Vancouver was definitely a marvelous place to be.
"Hey guys." Emmett saluted, taking a glass and pouring himself a cup of Sprite from his soda fountain.
"Fuck, Emmett. I love it here." Jasper opened the sliding doors to the balcony and took a step outside.
"I know." Emmett said triumphantly. I noticed that he also looked worried.
"Where is Alice and Bella?" I asked.
"Downstairs with Rosalie." He replied.
"She's here?" I questionned.
"Yeah, she'll come up later. Hey, um, there's something I should probably let you guys know. The girls were probably going to tell you, but I figured that they would forget, so here I go." He set his cup down and started to explain to us.
At first, it didn't really make any sense. But as Emmett kept on putting two plus two together, it was coming together. He made a terrific point. And damn, Alice was a good investigator. She picked up every detail.
"What the fuck are we going to do?" I cursed.
"Whatever the hell we can do." He replied lamely. "Did you know that that doctor was your father?"
I was taken aback by his sudden question.
"Yeah, Alice told me when we were at the hospital. I'm still have a hard time dealing with this information." I frowned, hating the fact that he was alive the entire time but didn't even bother to tell us that he existed.
"Better late than never." Emmett shrugged. He made a good point, too.
"We have to go back and help the doctor then." Jasper inputed.
"We can't go back! You know that!" I looked at him incredulously.
"But it's your father, Edward! Don't you want to help him?" He looked at me like I was an idiot and maybe I was but I knew for a fact that we couldn't go back. The entire police department of Olympia and Port Angeles would be all over us by now. Not to mention, we still had an registered Missing Person along with us. If we go back, we'll be swarmed and we wouldn't be able to escape.
"I want to, Jazz, but I can't. And you know why? Because I have to protect the family I have with me right now." I challenged.
"But-" Emmett cut Jasper off.
"Bella's with us." He gazed at Jasper for a moment.
"So?" Jasper's voice rose an octave high.
"She's a Missing Person in Forks, they'll think we kidnapped her despite Bella's protests. They will think that we made Bella say that we aren't over blackmail or something." Emmett said.
"Well fuck." Jasper said, stumped.
"Let's go out into the city." I suggested.
They both looked at me like I was an idiot.
"To do what?" They said in unison.
"We have to get some personal hygiene shit and clothes. We better do that now." I shrugged.
"Aren't the stores closed by eight?" Jasper asked.
"Not tonight, it's Friday. So, nine thirty." Emmett got up to get his glass of Sprite.
"Get the girls, we're going,"