I do not own Twilight, I'm far too normal (or weird, depends on how you look at it...) to own it, it all belongs to Stephenie Meyer!

In a matter of minutes, I had lost everything, my world. Now she was gone, and I couldn't help but feel the emptiness inside me.

I love you, Bella. I swear I'll fix this.

That was rough...

Thing to do now is try and forget it...

I guess I don't quite mean that. It's not a thing you can forget.

Maybe not even a thing you want to forget...

Life's like that sometimes...

Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out,

life will just haul off and knock him flat,

slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted.

But it's not all like that.

A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford

to waste the good part frettin' about the bad.

That makes it all bad...

Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another.

But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help.

When you start lookin' around

for something good to take the place of the bad,

as a general rule you can find it.

~From the movie Old Yeller

Edward Cullen

''And then I noticed her standing behind me. She saw everything, Em! She saw Tanya kissing me, and I am positive she took it the wrong way. She thinks I cheated on her, like that could ever be possible, like I could do that, but she believed it and then she ran! She ran without letting me explain anything to her.''

''Where do you think she went to?''

I shrugged and Emmett put a comforting hand on my shoulder, trying to comfort me, and we both knew it was useless. Nothing can comfort me right now, except Bella's warm embrace and her words, assuring me she forgave me for everything. With all the questions that they were asking, I felt like I was being interviewed for a crime scene or something along those lines.

''I have no idea! She ran out the door...and...and I...I don't...''

''Edward, calm down, okay? This is all just a big misunderstanding, but things will get cleared up, don't worry,'' Alice's voice, for once, was calming and reassuring but that didn't help the emotions that were coursing through me at the moment. I knew that I wasn't the only one worried to death about Bella, all of us were, but I just felt incredibly guilty and mad about it, and I couldn't help but feel like this was my fault, even though if I really looked into it, I hadn't done anything wrong at all. This was all so confusing! I pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to calm said emotions so I wouldn't end up crying in front of everyone like I so wanted to at the moment.

''Do you think we should contact the police about this?'' I suggested anything will be better than just sitting here in a mall bench outside.

Emmett gave me a confused look and I sighed as I started to explain. ''Well, you already called your home phone, and your mom said that Bella hadn't been there since she left with you guys earlier today. We don't have the slightest idea to where she might be at the moment, how about if something happened to her? Oh God, I would never be able to live with myself if she ends up hurt...'' I trailed off in horror as I contemplated what could happen.

''Bella is a big girl now, she will know what to do,'' Alice reminded me and I just nodded not wanting to argue with her.

I wasn't sure what happened really that made everything this wrong. Earlier today, I had just been trying to go to Bella, to find her in the ocean of people and stores, but somehow it all resulted into this. What was really strange was how Bella saw only the assault; there really was no other word for it, and nothing else. Not the way Tanya kept annoying me or how she literally pushed herself against me, no all she saw was the ending. Then, there was the whole Tanya disappearing after I had ran after Bella, Rose and the rest of the girls had seen her leave with a rather triumphant expression on her face.

I ran a hand through my already messy hair, and tried to no avail; understand the way things turned out. Questions were swimming in my already confused mind that I had no answer to. Why was Bella outside, when she was supposed to be inside the store, searching for the perfect dress for the event? Where was Bella at this moment? Did she walk home or did she order a taxi? Was she hurt? Did she hate me now? Why where there only six of us here?

''Where is Alec?'' I asked, just noticing that someone was missing. No wonder why there wasn't any annoying rambling or anything along those lines.

''Wasn't he with you guys?'' Jane asked looking completely thrown off track while looking around searching for the missing Alec.

''No, he left us while we were busy with other stuff,'' Jasper answered.

I frowned. Where was Alec when everything went from perfect to disastrous, he wasn't with us, so where had he been? Where was he now? Did he, in any way plan this? Did Alec have something to do with this? No, I really couldn't figure out how, even though he had left there was no way he would have set this up, right?

If I didn't believe that Alec had nothing to do with what happened, then why was something inside me telling me I was wrong?

Bella Swan

I wasn't sure how long I had been here in this park bench. Quite some time I'd say if my soaked clothes were anything to count the time with. If someone were to ask me why I was perched in a park bench and not at home like I should be, I wouldn't be able to answer.

My phone was still somewhere in the muddy forest floor somewhere, since I didn't bother to pick it up after Jacob's call. Yes, it was stupid to be phone-less when you had no idea where you were, but after the call I just couldn't pick it up from the floor. I wasn't even positive it will work anyway after being thrown in the mud.

The call. It was funny how everything went back to that. I looked around, refusing at the moment to focus my thoughts in things like that. Plus, it would be a pretty good idea to figure out where I was. I didn't know the time, but I was sure it wasn't early. The sky had turned to an orange-ish-pink or yellow color, so my only guess would be that it was twilight.

I sat in a bench that faced the kid's playground, where some kids still played with their mothers by their side even though it was still raining, not as bad as it had been, though. The park was surrounded by trees, not an unusual thing in Washington, but it gave it a creepy sight. Huh, maybe I matched the park; after all, I was the one in a park bench, arms wrapped around my torso, completely soaked, with tears trialing down my already red cheeks. What a sight I must be.

I shook my head, how could I be worried about my looks when the single most important person in my world deceived me. I trusted Edward to an immense level, but he didn't seem to care about that when he kissed that girl.

I just sat there and stared at nothing in particular as I thought about today's events, when something suddenly came to mind. How had Jacob known about this? He had said that Edward had been part of the plan, but how had he called in the most 'perfect' timing, just when Edward deceived me.

I was contemplating this, when a heard a familiar voice yell my name. I looked up from where I had been staring at the floor, to find Jasper staring down at me with a sad expression.

''Bella.'' This time, he wasn't calling my name, he was acknowledged that he found me.

''What are you doing here?'' I asked him, noticing how my voice cracked after the hours (maybe longer?) of crying. After the question was out of my mouth, I realized that it might have sounded rude so I gave Jasper an apologetic smile, but he just sighed and sat down next to me wrapping his arms around me in a brotherly way. I leaned into the warmth of his embrace.

''You know, I could have asked you the same thing.''

I just shrugged, not wanting to talk about it.

''Why are you here?'' I asked again. How had he found me? Was there anyone else with him? I wanted to kick myself when I caught myself hopping that Edward was with him, just hidden somewhere at the moment.

I felt Jasper shrug and I heard his sigh. ''Well, we are all looking for you,'' he informed me in a quiet voice as I simply nodded wondering who he meant by 'we'. Did he mean everyone, or everyone, but Edward.

We simply sat there, staring off into the distance, when he broke the silence. ''Are you feeling okay?'' he asked.

I felt more tears trial down my cheeks as I heard my broken voice. ''Of course I'm not okay. The person that meant the most to me lied to me, I trusted him. Oh God, I trusted him so much Jasper, but he ruined that. He ruined everything, even after I trusted him enough to tell him all my secrets.'' I shook my head in disbelief.

Jasper shook his head. ''Bella, you have everything wrong. Edward never-''

''Just because he is your brother, it doesn't mean that you can defend him,'' I pointed out.

''I was merely speaking the truth.''

I shook my head in anger. ''And what will you know about this, huh? You weren't there when I saw him kissing that blond chic.''

''No I wasn't,'' he allowed. ''But I did see him after it, when he looked like someone ran over his puppy.''

''Not a bad idea,'' I whispered unfortunately loud enough for Jasper to hear.

''He doesn't have a dog.''

''I never said anything,'' I partially lied. ''Plus it wasn't running over puppies what we were talking about.

''Well, you won't listen anyway,'' Jasper said and I turned to look at him with cold eyes.

''Jasper, I don't know what he told you, or what he made you believe, but I'm not blind, I know what I saw, okay? Please respect that,'' I pleaded.

He nodded after a moment of thought, and I was just about to thank him when I yawned loudly. Jasper looked at me with a sad expression, but stood up pulling me with him.

''C'mon, let's get you home before you freeze to death and Ed- before Emmett kills me.''

I didn't bother saying anything, and then I remembered something. ''How will you get me home? There are only two cars, and I guess that you walked here?''

''Yep, but I can call them to, first of all tell them I found you and to ask for a ride home.''

I nodded and he called all of them to assure them that I was okay and that I just had been at the park. I didn't even bother explaining to Jasper why I hadn't answered my phone when everybody had called me. There was no use.

When both cars pulled up in front of Jasper and I, I didn't even bother paying any attention to the driver of the Volvo, even though I could feel his green eyes on me, afraid that I would tear into pieces, and climbed into Emmett's car, where I was greeted with Jane's and Alice's warm embraces and the car's peaceful silence.

How will I get through this? It surprisingly, didn't bother me that I didn't have an answer.

I'm so sorry for the long time between updates, but my mom grounded me and took my computer away, and I just got it back two days ago. So yeah, I know this chapter is short, but I agree with my beta that it has some info, and it's a filler chapter. Don't worry, all the drama will be over in about 3 chapters.

Also, if you read any one of my other stories; A Blizzard Will Bring Us Together, Can I Forgive You?, From Geeks to Beauties. I'm focusing in this story right now, and I have some chapters for all the stories that I just have to send to my beta. I'm hopping to finish all the stories by the end of the summer.

And I went to see Eclipse for the first time today, my friends and I have been planning to go for a while, but we went today, and it rocked! It was better than the other two movies in my opinion!

Thanks for reading and please review!