I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT OR ITS CHARACTERS.. UNFORTUNATELY

The next day came too early. The sun was already shining through the living room window. I layed on my air mattress and took some deep breaths to calm the all too familiar pain in my chest. As it finally subsides, I get up and realize its too quiet upsatirs. I look out the window and notice my dad's truck was gone. So I head to the kitchen to get some juice and notice the note from Charlie.

Bells,

Went to the store to get more paint and replacements for the broken floor slats. I'll be back soon.

Dad

As I'm getting my juice I look around the kitchen. My mom painted this kitchen when they were first married trying to make it brighter in here. It wasn't bad just old. Definitely time to change it.

Thinking of mom I head upstairs to get ready for the new day. On my way to the shower, I grab some clothes out of my closet and as I'm turning around I trip over the broken slats sending the juice and clothes flying in every direction. Sigh, why me? I wondered...again. I run to the linen closet to grab some towels and start cleaning up my mess. Ugh, how far did this stuff go?

I didn't hear Charlie come into the room. "Bells...?" He was looking at me and shaking his head.

"I know dad...Bella strikes again." I say cutting him off.

"Well it's a good thing I was planning on replacing both slats before we put down the new carpet." He tells me as he is laughing.

I just give him a dirty look and gather my clothes and stomp off to the bathroom. I took a really long shower using up all of the hot water. I'm feeling good about this redecoration, wiping out memories of him from my room. Amber eyes flashed before my eyes. NO! Don't think of him. Don't open that door again.

I quickly get out of the shower and get dressed, brush my hair and pull it up into a pony tail.

"Bells?"

"Coming dad." I say as I walk into the room.

He was on the floor in my closet pulling up the second slat.

"What is this box?" He asks as he pulls it out of the floor. It isn't very big. It's long and about 3 inches high. I've never seen it before.

"Let me see it please." I say as I reach for the box and then dad hands it to me. It's dusty. So I get a towel and wipe it clean and sit on the floor, and as I open the box, I'm not sure how long I sat there just staring. I think Dad started to worry when he saw the tears in my eyes.

"Bella. Whats wrong honey?" He asks anxiously trying to pick up the box to see whats inside. "NO!" I said as I snatched the box from him. A picture falls out and lands by his feet. As he bent down to pick it up, he saw who it was. He handed it to me and said, "I need to get some stuff out the truck and shed. I'll be back in 15 minutes" and he walked out.

I took the box to my bed and started to go through it. All of my pictures of Edward, Alice, Jasper and the rest of the family were there. The only picture missing was my favorite one of Edward and I looking at each and hugging. I look through the stack twice but isn't there. I found all my birthday presents (still wrapped) from his family. My heart starts to squeeze and my hands are shaking as I pick up the CD he made me. I could feel the tears pouring down my cheeks as I stare at it. I long to play the CD and curl in my bed and pretend he is with me, holding me telling me he loves me. "Get a grip!" I scold myself. I start to put the stuff back when I see something else at the bottem of the box. I pick up a piece of folded paper. I have to blink a few times to read it.

I LIED.

Thats all, just those two words in Edward's hand writing. I think I read it ten times. Lied about what? About loving me? He already told me he was over me. Did he lie when he said he didn't want me anymore? Or did he mean he didn't get rid of my stuff. Obviously not. I'm holding it now. By now, the dull ache in my chest is raging fire and I can't breathe. I drop the stuff in the box and jump off the bed. I race downstairs without tripping and fly out the front door.

I could hear my dad yelling for me but I keep going. I ended up far back in the woods behind the house where I found a log and I just sat there, rocking back and forth, my thoughts racing and my heart pounding. Slowly I begin to calm down and take deep breaths. So many thoughts are swirling around my head but I tell myself not to dwell on them. I continued to sit there when I heard it. It sounded like a branch snapping when you step on it. My head snaps up, I can feel eyes on me. Someone else is here. "RUN BELLA!" I snap my head around to see who said that but I don't see anyone. I start walking fast back the way I came when I see something on path before me. Was that there before? As I get closer I can see its a hand held mirror. When I pick it up I notice its shattered, but what shocks me the most is that its mine and it has my name on it. Didn't I leave this in Pheonix? How did it get here? I decided I don't want to be out here anymore and ran home.

At the edge of the woods I turn around and see a flash of red running back the way I had just come from. I stumble backwards but catch myself and turn and hurry home.

As I walk in the house I call for my dad. "Up here, I'm almost done." he calls down the stairs. I enter the room and he asks me if I feel better. I'm not sure what to say. "Bella, talk to me." He turns to look at me. "I went into the woods and found this on the ground. I left this mirror at moms and I thought I heard someone say my name." I don't want to worry him so I leave out the details and feelings of not being alone. He looks at me with an expression I've never seen before and says "Stay out of the woods. Dangerous things are in there." Chills go down my spine. Edward once said almost the same thing to me. Could Charlie know about the Cullens and the wolves? Impossible. He is friends with Billy and Jacob. I know Billy would never tell him that Jacob is a wolf. It's a tribal secret. I only found out by the clues Jake gave me. I realize my dad is still staring at me so I tell him I'm going to get something to drink.

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