"I thought you would be here" With a turn of the head Carlisle felt a sharp breath entering his none existent lungs as Alice made her way over to him. "Everyone is worried about you"

"Your all vampires, I should be much easier to find"

"But I'm the only one who was willing to disturb your alone time to bring you home" She had the usual Smile spread across her soft face as she took a seat beside him. "And besides, they didn't want to go looking across the top of every tree in the forest just to find you and get yelled at"

"You should know I wouldn't yell at you" He turned away, gazing back into the dark forest and seeing the river not too far off.

"We usually do, but Esme has never left before now" He did his best to look away from Alice, so she wouldn't see his hurt, but she only showed up on his other side. "we know that one hurt you Carlisle. Don't try to hide it from us, please"

"It's my problem Alice. It seems to be my fault she left"

"It is not your fault Carlisle, it was just her choice. She's giving up so much for nothing"

"Not in her eyes. This guy must have…really dazzled her"

Alice took hold of Carlisle's are and pulled him to his feet, looking around through the trees before turning back to him "let's go for a run"

"Alice…"

"Please Carlisle"

Well, He never could say no to her. "Alright, but then we go back home?"

"Anything you want" She only had to give his arm one more tug before he followed her through the trees. Once in a while he would hit a branch, or something bigger, but then of course he never really felt pain.

"Alice are we going any where in particular?"

"Not really" She laughed.

After a few minutes of jumping through trees, and then running on the ground Carlisle found himself standing right beside his car. "we're here already?"

"Yes we are, but you won't be going home"

"Alice…"

"I know I promised, but your about to get a call" Well, she was always right, and usually on time. When Carlisle's phone rang he pulled it out of his pocket and took a quick look at the caller ID.

"the hospital?" he whispered before flipping the phone open and putting it up against his ear "Dr. Cullen…yes…alright…I'll be right there" closing the phone he put it back in his pocket and sighed. "I'll see you at home?"

"Of course you will" she Smiled, wrapping her arms around his waist in a strong hug before running off towards her porch and climbing in.

Carlisle let himself smile a bit as he crawled into the drivers seat of his Mercedes and started it up. He took one last look over at Alice as she drove off into the highway, and he soon followed on the way back to town.