Authors Note: Hello everyone! I have a very important announcement to make! Eshe Returned will be taking over this story! Yay! So every send your love to her and thank her because she rocks! :) So this is the little snippet that she wrote for me and it is based on Chapter 3 (so be sure to reread that or at least glance it over so you know whats going down).
Eshe Returned, you rock! :)
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"Bella, Alice had a vision of Victoria. She's back. She's back and she's going to try and kill you."
I knew as soon as I heard her phone drop that I'd done this wrong. She'd been so angry with me. I was worried she would hang up before I could get her my message, but I shouldn't have been so blunt, even though she has to know. I stare at the pay phone with the French words. Maybe I shouldn't have left, but she doesn't love me, and Alice…Alice ruined everything. What should I have done?
"What do you think you're doing, calling her!" A male voice yells into the phone, and I'm pretty sure it belongs to Jacob Black. If I could have leapt through the receiver to strangle him, I would have. He shouldn't be there; I shouldn't be here.
"I'm trying to protect my love," I shout it before I can think it through, and Jacob scratches at the wound: she doesn't love me.
"You made her nearly faint!" the words ring in my ears. My perfect hearing detects everything: his devotion, his care, his worry…and his criticism. Wasn't I just thinking the same thing? I shouldn't have been so blunt. I should have been more careful, but my Bella has always been so strong. Oh God, what did I do? The realization feels like two tons of vampire crashing into my chest. I broke Bella.
"Jacob, you've got to help her. You've got to help Bella."
As an afterthought, I try to add, "Victoria's back," but Jacob cuts me off before I can even begin.
He snarls and growls so low I'm sure only I can hear, "What do you think I've been doing…before you came back. You want me to help Bella…leave," and then he slams down the receiver, the line going hollow – solid-sound, solid-beep.
"I have…again," I whisper to the dead line.
I stand for hours before some wayward traveler dares approach me and ask if he could use the phone. I walk off. I keep going. I run for miles. Every time I start to head in the direction of Forks, I turn around, but like a magnet, I keep being drawn back toward it. Finally, my willpower wears down. I let myself run. I run until I arrive in Forks, but there is no Bella here. She isn't home. Charlie is out too. I stare at her empty house, and I know I can't leave her, empty, like her house. I have to try to fill her life again. I have to make up for my mistakes. I have to protect her. I don't have a choice. It's that or die, and I'm not ready to give up without a fight. I follow Bella's scent until it goes onto the reservation where I cannot follow.
I wait for several hours, and then I follow a softer thread of her scent, several days old. I follow it out to a cliff. "What were you doing here, Bella?" I ask the air.
The wind whispers past my ear, and I can almost hear it say to me, "You broke her. Your fault," over and over.
I stare over the edge. It would be a considerable drop for a human. The rocks and waves at the bottom are treacherous. I know what she was doing here, and it makes me sick. I wish I would break as easily as her if I threw myself off the cliff, as easily as I broke her. I looked at the waves below and took a carefully timed step off the edge, soaring into the water. I let the water buffet me for several minutes before swimming ashore.
"What happened up there?" I think as I stare back up at the cliff. She can't have jumped. She'd be dead. "Maybe she changed her mind," I muse aloud, but then I remember her face after I kissed her. "Or maybe someone came and forcibly removed her from the edge." I silently thank Jacob. Who else could it have been? He has been taking care of her while I've been gone, but I'm back. I need to take back over. I need her.
"She's so angry though," a voice in my head mocks.
Maybe I'm going insane because I answer back. "Well, I'll just have to make a plan."
Additional Authors Notes: Eshe Returned will be reposting my previous chapters with edits to them, including her own plot hints and such and adding them and making them work for her story. All reviews will be forwarded to her and she will be the one to respond. Please remember, I did not write this, I'm merely posting it as a little treat to entice you to continue reading it :)
THANK YOU ESHE RETURNED! YOU ROCK MY SOCKS OFF!
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