A/N: Thank you to all who reviewed. I'm glad you all liked the last chapter. I had a hard time writing it and I wasn't sure if it would be received well, but I'm glad I was wrong. Thank you for supporting this story so much. Well, enough with the gratitude and on with the story.
Disclaimer: If I owned Twilight, Bella and Alice would have been together.
(APOV)
My family was frozen in shock as we waited to see what Bella would do. I knew there was a high chance of her attacking Edward. I just hoped for the family's sake that she didn't kill him. I wasn't too happy with him at the moment, but he was still my brother. Esme and Carlisle would be devastated if she killed him.
We all saw Bella smirk at him, she was pinning him against the wall by his throat.
"Hello Edward. How have you and your distractions been?" She asked in a sickly sweet voice. Distractions? What is she talking about? Her grip tightens and cracks appear in Edward's marble skin as he winces in pain.
She leans in to whisper in his ear, "Oh I'm sorry. Did that hurt? Good." She slams his head through the wall.
"You're hard headed, who would have thought?" She laughs darkly as I let a small smile slip onto my face at her words. Edward can be very hard headed.
"Bella love? What is wrong with you?" I think Eddie just made a mistake, judging by the way Bella's eyes seem to darken even further. She tackles him through the window next to the wall she just put his head through. The family finally breaks free from their shock to follow them outside. The scene we come upon would have been funny if the situation wasn't so serious.
Bella was straddling Edward with her legs pinning his arms to his sides. As Esme, the last one to come outside, joins us Bella's hand once again wraps around Edward's throat.
"You don't have the right to call me that anymore. You don't even deserve to be able to talk to me, Edward." Her voice is coated with rage. Remind me to never get on her bad side.
Edward was now gasping for unneeded breath as she tightens her hold around his neck.
"If you ever even look at me the wrong way again, I won't hesitate to kill you. Do we have an understanding?" Edward got one arm free and attempted to push her off of him, but her newborn strength prevented this. I knew I had to stop her before she killed him. I was the only one not frozen in shock once again. I flashed over to stand behind Bella before laying my hand on her shoulder. I knew I made a big mistake by touching her as soon as I felt her body stiffen. She rolled off of Edward and away from the family as a deep growl rumbled from her chest, her sharp venom coated teeth bared. She was warning us not to come any closer. We understood, we would not try to get any closer until she calmed down some. I tried to keep the hurt look off my face, but I'm not sure how well I did.
"Why am I here? I'm a vampire now so you all decide to care. That's a fucking joke. I loved you all, I trusted each and every one of you." She looked into each of our eyes. I don't know what she saw, but it seemed to make her even angrier. This isn't going to be good, I thought.
"I'm surprised you even have the balls to look me in the eye. You want me around now that I'm like you. Well I have news for you; I don't want to be around you. I would rather spend eternity alone than with any one of you Cullens. You claimed to love and care about me, but then you all just left without a fucking backwards glance. You don't even deserve to look at me after what you did. You all fail at not being a monster by the way. Except for you Rosalie. You never lied and pretended to like me. You made sure I knew that I wasn't really a part of this family from the beginning. At least you were honest. You're only Cullen I have any shred of respect for. The rest of you are the worst kind of monster. You don't physically kill people, instead you kill them on the inside so they have to live everyday with the pain. So they have to walk around pretending they're not falling apart at the seams…" She trailed off as if it was too hard for her to continue. How could we be so stupid?
"Bella." My voice held so many emotions. Pain, hurt, regret, but most of all love. She didn't turn to face me though.
"No! You don't get to just worm your way into my life again! I won't let you! You don't deserve it!" She shouted at us as she backed into the forest. We all tried to follow, but hit an invisible wall.
"Bella! Wait! Please!" I shouted at her, trying to get her to turn around and come back.
"Bells! Don't go!" Emmett yelled. Instead of his usual joyful boom, his tone was laced with pain and regret. He had missed his little sister so much. We all knew he wanted his Bella Bear back.
No matter what we did we couldn't get passed the wall. By the time we were able to get passed the wall, we knew we had no hope of finding Bella. Everyone was in their own little world as we made our way back inside. I looked around at my family.
Esme was sobbing quietly into Carlisle's shoulder as he held her. His own face showing pain. Emmett looked as if he would be crying were he human. Rose looked torn between respect and hurt. She had come to love Bella just as much as the rest of us, even if she never showed it. Bella was her little sister just as much as she was Emmett's and Jasper's. Jasper was trying his hardest not to succumb to everyone's emotions. He could feel everything we were.
I was overcome with anger as I looked towards Edward. He looked confused and hurt. This is all his fault! We left Bella, because he wanted us to. As he read my thoughts his eyes darkened and he growled.
"We left to protect her Alice." He growled at me.
"Well, that didn't work now did it?" I growled right back at him. "She still became a vampire, and now she thinks we don't care about her. We should have been there for her Edward! She needed us and we weren't there. No wonder she hates us. It's all your fault!" I crouched, ready to spring at him. He crouched down as well, waiting for me to attack. Jasper suddenly sent a strong wave of calm through the room. I saw Esme throw him a grateful glance before turning to Edward and me as we straightened ourselves out of our crouches.
"We shouldn't fight among ourselves. This isn't just Edward's fault Alice. It's all of ours. We all left." She tried to reason with me.
"I didn't want to leave Esme. I was forced to. I was outvoted, remember? It was his idea to begin with. I tried to tell him that it wasn't a good idea, but he's the golden boy of the family. He can do no wrong. What Edward wants, Edward gets." I replied never taking my eyes off of the golden boy. He growled at my thoughts. "If you don't like what I'm thinking, then stay out of my head." I snarled.
"Alice is right. We all left, because Edward wanted us to. We left behind a sister, a daughter. How could we be so cruel? Bella was right. We are the worst kind of monsters." Emmett mumbled.
We all stared at him. Emmett never showed this level of pain before. He usually tried to lighten the mood regardless of how he felt. Rosalie snuggled into Emmett's side as they sat on the loveseat. Emmett buried his face in his hands as if weeping.
"I agree with Esme. We are all at fault here. I know that it was originally Edward's idea to leave, but we all went along with it." Carlisle tried to ease the tension we could all feel building.
"Bullshit Carlisle. I didn't go along with it. Emmett sure as hell didn't go along with it. We were forced to leave. We were outvoted, as I said before. Look at what that decision has done to our family! This family hasn't been the same since we left Bella." I once again look at Edward as Bella's words floated through my head. "I will never forgive you for making us leave."
"You're only upset because Bella isn't in love with you. She will never be with you. She's not a freaky dyke like you. Bella is MINE! She will come to her senses soon enough and realize that we belong together." He snarled at me. I flinched as if he had hit me.
"Edward!" Esme and Carlisle yelled at the same time. While Jasper worked at getting everyone calmed down, Rose surprised me. She flashed in front of Edward and slapped him straight across the face.
"If I ever hear you say anything like that to Alice again, I will not hesitate to castrate you." She spoke in a venom coated whisper. "Do you understand?"
Emmett came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"He's not worth it Rosie. Come let's go hunt." They disappeared out the back door.
"I agree with Rose. If you ever say anything to Alice like that again, I will hurt you. Do you understand?" Jasper looked Edward straight in the eye so he could see the truth in his words. Edward reluctantly nodded.
"Are you okay Ali?" He asked as he turned towards me.
"Yeah Jazz. I'm fine." I smiled weakly.
"Well I'm going to join Em and Rose." Just like that he was gone as well. Edward didn't say another word as he left to go who knows where. I raced up the stairs to my room. I walked over to the window wall and stared out into the night. I pressed my hands to the glass.
Bella, my love, where are you?
A/N: Well, chapter 4 is done. What did you think? Like it? Love it? Hate it? Review and let me know. Thanks.
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