A/N: Hey y'all! I'm really excited, I've been working on this new fic called Lesson In Leaving, I haven't started posting it yet but when I do I'll have some chapters already started so there won't be any long delays like there were for this story. I might even wait until I finish it to start posting because then I won't have to worry about that at all. Idk, I'll have to think about it. I probably won't start posting until KITF is finished though, cause otherwise I'll never finish. I think I'm going to try to tie things up in the next few chapters, but I'm not sure how well that would work out because I had quite a few more plans for this story. I could also use some feedback if ya don't mind, too. I'm really trying not to cut this story off because that would make me mad if I was readin a story and it was just cut off, but I think that my plans just got a lot simpler. I really don't know what to do. Anyways, now you're up to date and that's all I've really got. Happy Readings!

Chapter Eleven: Road Trip

When I read this I started to cry. Jake wrapped his arms around me and read the letter. His grip tightened around me and he held me, letting me cry for what felt like hours. I finally found it in me to stop and I just stayed clinging onto Jake. I finally pulled away and looked up at him.

"We need to find him."

"I don't know if that's the best idea, Bells"

"We have to Jake. He could get hurt!"

He laughed. "Bella, do you know what that guy does for a living? He beats the crap out of over muscled, over trained , over drugged guys. Did you know he's undefeated? This will be a walk in the park for him. If anything James is the one you shoul be worried about. I've seen this guy fight Bells. He can be totally brutal."

"I won't let him do that Jake. He'd kill James. It's not like he can come back after that. Hell, he probably can't go back to fighting after that. I won't let him throw away what he's got because of me. I am going to stop him. The only question here, Jake, is if you will help me."

He looked at me and sighed, knowing he wouldn't be able to stop me if he tried. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I'm in Bells. We just need to figure out a cover to get you away from Charlie without a search party being sent after you."

"Road trip? Our last bit of time together before school starts to get intense?" I offered.

"Hmm, maybe. I was thinking more along the lines of visiting your mom though. She'd be more likely to let us road trip, plus we could talk to Sam to see where James is. Edward probably already got that info by now."

"She's in Florida though. We need to be closer to Phoenix."

"Visiting the old neighborhood?"

"Not sure if he's gonna buy that. But maybe if we mix some of them together we could get something good enough to pass."

"What do you have in mind?"

"Visiting the old neighborhood and visiting my mom, cause I'm not sure if he know's she's out of town. And a side road trip to California."
"Alright let's see if that'll pass. I think Billy should be home any minute, let's plan for some dinner or something tomorrow with all four of us and we can bribe them with food."

"Good idea. Just remember to leave them enough to feel bribeable."

"Hey it's not my fault that i'm so hungry all of the time. I am an active growing boy!"

"Yeah, yeah, just make sure they get their food before you get yours."

The plan was going well. I had made Billy's and Charlie's favorie dishes and hey got to watch a killer football game. I nodded my go ahead to Jake and we moved in for the kill. We sat on the couch looking at our fathers until we had their attention.

Charlie sighed. "Okay you two, get it overwith, I know you've just been buttering us up to ask us something."
"Is it working?" I asked, smiling.

"Yes."

"Good." I knew better than to think Charlie was oblivious, he was an officer for Pete's sake, but I was pretty impressed that he could read me so well.

"We wanted to go to Phoenix." Jake stated, cutting to the chase.

"Isn't your mother out of town? Jacksonville, right?" Charlie questioned, I think that was a subtle lead up to a big fat no, but I was not going to give up that easily.

"Yeah, but we kind of wanted to go visit my old neighborhood and maybe take a trip down to California. Besides, we'd be able to stay at mom's house, I still have a key, and Jake would be there to keep me safe and out of trouble." I countered.

Charlie sihed again before looking at Billy, who seemed fine with letting his son go running off to Phoenix and California with me. Charlie looked back at me. "How long?"

"A week, we'd be back by next Saturday."

"Okay, you can go."

"Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!"

The next day we were headed off to Port Angeles. Jake said he didn't trust the truck to make it all the way to Phoenix alive, so we were catching a flight out and getting a rental car when we got there. Thank god for my college fund.

The trip itself was fairly uneventful. I wish I could say that some more catastrophic things happened and it was the strangest trip I'd ever been on. But the only thing that was even noteable was the damn stewardess who kept asking Jake if he wanted to join the mile high club... while he was holding my hand. Slut. I mean, I know we're just friends and all, but would it be that hard to believe that Jake and I could be together? Aparently so, because here comes another stewardess, and she has that same cougar prowling look on her face.

This was going to be a long plane ride if this kept up.

"Hi, is there anything I can do for you?" She greeted with an overly cheery smile and a long gaze at Jake. Which stopped at his hand which was firmly clasping mine. Her smile faltered a bit but when she looked up again her smile was back in place.

"No thank you we're fine." Jake responded. But this time, instead of just walking away, she turned to me.

"How about you?" she asked. I would have thought she was asking me if I would join her for some rondevouz in the bathroom had her expression been anything but that of pure innocence that she had. And not the fake innocence either.

"I, um, er, no, no thank you."

As soon as she walked away Jake started laughing.

"Looks like she stunned you with her beauty there huh Bells?"

"Shut up." i growled, "I was just shocked that she took the time to look at me after having ogled you like some peice of meat. I was just shocked. I think I like that one, she was very un-rude."

"Don't you mean polite?" Jake chuckled.

"No, the other girls were polite, this one was... nice... respectful. Not like those other girls."

He shruged it off and we continued our trip in silence. But in my mind things were going haywire. I was worried and shocked and angry. How could he think that this was a solution? We needed to find him before he did something stupid. And that may not be very long.

We arrived at the Phoenix airport at about three in the afternoon. We said our thanks and tried to ignore the disappointed looks on the faces of the stewardesses. When we got to baggage claim Jake took our bags and we headed over to the rental car pick up station. When we got to the desk, it was being manned by a very formal looking man in his late twenties.

"Hello, I called in yesterday to reserve a rental car. It should be under Swan."

"Ah yes. The blue Subaru Baja. Please just sign here Miss Swan, and your car will be pulled around immediately."

"Thank you." I said. I signed the papers and turned to Jake.

"A Subaru Baja?" I asked. He was the one who made the reservations dur to my utter lack of knowledge when it came to cars.

"It's a really cool all wheel drive truck. A step up from your little hunk of junk."
"Hey! I like that car! No making fun of the truck."

"Oh, but you'll love this one."

I watched at the guy pulled around in an ice clue truk with silver accenting the doors and bumpers. Despite being a truck it was a four door, five seater, but was not massive like other trucks with that much room. It was absolutely beautiful.

"Wow, good choice Jake." I stated in awe. I was definately never going to look at my truck the same.

"I knew you'd like it." he laughed.

After all the paper work and everything was situated we headed out.

"So where are we going first?" Jake asked, eying the McDonalds we just passed.

"We need to check out the old studio first. Let's see if we can get any information on James' whereabouts. That will make it easier to find Edward."

"Then can we eat?" He pouted, dramatically clutching his stomach. I laughed.

"Yes, then we can eat."

A/N: Alrighty y'all. This story will be winding down soon, I'm thinking around five more chapters left. In a way I'm kind of glad, because I would have accomplished the completion of my first story. But then again, that means that it's over.

Okay so if you haven't noticed I have stopped begging for reviews because I realized that it was pretty pathetic, but that doesn't mean that I don't want reviews. I mean you're reading a 'book' for free, don't you think you could pay in reviews? haha okay so that was my attempt to get reviews and I won't get any worse than that. Uuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm.... i think that's it.

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