23 years ago

"Is this the best we can do" Rosalie complained?"

"Yes Rosalie, this is the best we can do. If you have any better solutions I would love to hear them." Jasper snapped back. It was strange to hear Jasper talk this way, but we had all been getting on each others nerves lately.

"This will work great. Good job Jasper" I said stepping in between Jasper and Rosalie's stare down. "I am going to check out the rest of the house, want to come with Rosalie?" I didn't give her much of a choice I grabbed her arm and drug her down the short hallway.

"This place is disgusting, how are we supposed to live like this?"

"We don't really have a choice, but we will figure something out." I put my arm around my sister's shoulder and gave her a hug. She only let me hug her for a moment before shrugging me off and walking into the closest room. I had learned over the last few years that Rosalie was not cold hearted she just did not like to appear weak.

I walked into the room across from the one that Rosalie had walked into. It was small with only one window in the far right corner. The room was furnished with a dresser with a mirror over it; there was also a black couch up against the wall. I would have to remember to thank Jasper for that.

We had spent the last four years searching for our family with no avail. After Rosalie had changed me we had spent 3 days in a shabby hotel paid for with the cash Jasper had on him. After my transformation had finished Jasper had taken me hunting. That first hunt had not been what I had expected. I had always dreamt that Edward would have taken me.

I had found a dear easily enough, now that my senses were heightened and that I was not clumsy anymore. I had killed the dear and drained it off its blood before I had even realized what I had done. It had seemed like the most natural thing to do, but I had still cried tearlessly after I was done feeding.

"What is wrong" Jasper had asked me exuding calm onto me.

"This is not how I imagined it. I wanted Edward to change me, I wanted him to take me on my first hunt, but now I have no idea where he is, if he is even alive."

Jasper put his arms around me and pulled me to his chest. I closed my eyes and could almost pretend that I was in Edward's arms. Jasper had that same sweat smell and his chest was cold and hard like Edward's but no matter how much I wanted to pretend it was him I knew it was Jasper.

"So what do we do now" I asked after I had calmed down.

"We will search for our family, but we are going to have to go into hiding."

"What if they are looking for us, how will they find us if we are in hiding."

"We will leave them clues everywhere we go, clues that only they will understand. But we have to survive also, so Rosalie has gone to the bank to withdraw as much money as they will let her. After that we can no longer use any credit cards, our cell phones, or anything else that can be tracked."

I could not believe that this was happening. Edward and I had been happy. Our relationship had been stronger than ever. He had promised me that we would spend eternity together, that nothing would tear us apart, and in one day all our plans had been destroyed. I looked at Jasper and could tell that he was feeling my pain. It was not fair of me to make him feel my emotions on top of his. I knew he was worried about Alice.

"Let's get going than." I told him giving him a true smile and taking his hand and pulling him back to our hotel room.

We spent the next four years looking. We went to all of the places they had lived in the last 100 years. Every home that we went to was burned down. It was like the Volturi were always one step ahead of us. We would leave little clues everywhere we went to let our loved ones know we had been there incase they came there. After four years of searching we had found nothing. Not one clue and our outlook on ever finding them were becoming less and less good.

"They would not want us to go on like this." I finally said one day. We were standing in the ashes of the house that Esme had fixed up twenty years ago in New Hampshire. It had been our last hope, and now we found it burned down just like the rest of our hopes.

"And what would you have us do" Rosalie snapped. "Just have us stop looking for them."

"No, I will always keep looking for Edward" I responded softly. "But they would not want us to spend eternity looking for them. They would not want us to keep getting crushed every time we have an ounce of hope." I was so sick of feeling helpless and lost; I could not do this anymore, at least not constantly. "We need to settle down somewhere, we can keep looking for them, but we have to keep living."

"Bella just incase you have forgotten we live for ever" Rosalie was now just being bitchy. I could not blame her, but I didn't feel like dealing with it right now.

"You know what I mean Rosalie" I yelled at here. "This is not living. Traveling from place to place looking for something we know we will not find. We have been living out of our car only stopping to hunt. I can't do it anymore I just can't." By this time I was shaking, but not because I was upset.

Jasper put his arm around me and I could feel a sense of calm envelope me. "She is right Rosalie; we can't keep on like this. I miss Alice just as much as you miss Emmett. Plus if we stop moving maybe they will have a chance of finding us."

That seemed to make sense to Rosalie because she finally sighed and asked "So what shall we do than."

We sat there in silence for a long time, each of us thinking of the best plan of action. Finally Jasper came up with the most reasonable answer. "We will go to college. I will go to law school. I suppose I can forge the paper work so it looks like I just got my masters in pre law so I can jump into law school."

"I can go into engineering. I can learn how to build the motor of a car." Rosalie said sarcastically but I knew she liked Jaspers idea. "What about you Bella."

"I think I would like the idea of majoring in literature." I had not read a book in over four years and I had to admit I missed it.

We had all applied to Harvard and with Jaspers amazing forging skills we had all been accepted. Because school was so much, and because the only money we had was from what we had been able to withdraw four years ago we had had little funds left over to buy the first house we would have in the last four years.

Jasper had taken on the responsibility of finding us a house and furnishing it. It was as small three bedroom two bath house. It had a small living room and a kitchen with rusty appliances; luckily we would not be using that room.

"Bella lets go shopping, I have not really been shopping in for ever" Rosalie said sauntering into my room and gracefully sitting down on my couch.

"With what money, I know how you like to shop and we are pretty much broke from tuition and this house, good thing we don't need to shop for food."

"Oh we can figure something out. Stores let you get credit cards we can just put it on them, and sense we trying to come out of hiding who cares if they can be tracked"

"You have to pay credit cards back Rosalie" I was becoming suspicious if she really had no concept of how money worked.

"Well you can get a job then" She said with an evil smile.

"There is no way I am getting a job to pay of your credit cards" I said throwing a pillow at her. "If I get a job so are you"

"Actually we are all getting jobs" Jasper said coming into my room and plopping down on the other end of my couch.

"Oh is that so and how am I supposed to do my homework if I have a job." I could tell she just did not like the idea of having a job. I have to admit, if you told me four years ago that Rosalie would get a job I would have laughed hysterically.

"You can do your homework at night when normal people sleep, but I doubt that you will have trouble with your homework in the first place." Rosalie just glared at my reasoning. "Now are we going to go shopping or what?" I really was looking forward to doing something normal for once.

Now I know that this chapter was a little blah but it had to be put in but I promise next chapter will be good, full of some unexpected events!!! Well please Review, it really helps