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Carlisle had been searching for Edward for hours, but had lost his scent. Where could he be. Alice and Jasper had gone back to Forks, while Emmet and Rosalie went on ahead to see if they could pick up his scent. He and Esme were attempting to follow his scent.

"No luck," said Esme from a nearby tree, "I can't smell him anywhere.

"Then he must be somewhere around here." Carlisle replied. He was very worried about Edward. He could vividly see Edward face when he realised he had killed Bella, in his head. Although Edward wasn't actually his son, he had known him so long that he loved him like one.

"Where could he be," said Carlisle to himself.

They traced their steps back until they got to Edwards scent and listened. Esme thought she could hear the faint sound of a woman's voice.

"This way," she said, indicating with her hand. Silently they worked their way through the trees, until they came upon a clearing. Edward was sitting against a tree, still looking wretched, while a strange looking girl was standing in the shadows by some trees talking to him, with an unreadable expression on her face.

"You can't help me," Edward screamed, and still this strange woman's expression remained the same. Who was she? Why was she so interested in Edward?

"I know you're there," she said, keeping her eyes set on Edward, "Why don't you come out instead of hiding in those bushes"

Edward looked around at their place of concealment, with a look of both surprise and anger.

"What are you doing here," He demanded, "I wanted to be on my own"

"We're worried about you ..." Esme started, but one look at his livid face soon stopped an y words she was going to say.

"Why can't you just leave me alone, I'm a disgrace to the family, and to bella" he said this last bit quietly. And then the strange girl did something that none of them had expected. She walked over to where Edward was sitting with his face buried in his hands, and sat beside him. She whispered something in his ear and he looked up at the sky with a curious look that they had never seen before. It scared them.

"Edward," Carlisle said cautiously, but Edward didn't look round, he just carried on staring, never changing his expression. It was unsettling to see him so lost.

Esme turned her attention to the woman whose expression had finally changed to one of triumph. There was something about her. Esme had the strangest feeling that this woman and her beauty's arrival at this time was not a coincidence, and she fully intended to find out what was going on.

She finally turned her attention to them.

"Go home," she told them, "Edward will be fine here, and I'll know if you start spying on us again,"

She didn't bother keeping the menace out of her voice when she said the last part. Edward had still not looked down or changed his expression. What was going on? How were they ever going to find out?

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