A/N: thanks to all of you who helped me out during the process of writing this chapter, it has made it a lot easier to continue the story.
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For her never ending help and advice to writing this chapter.
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On with the show, Enjoy…
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The last couple of days had been hectic, at best.
Edward and I were flat out preparing for the car wash, and the principle losing all his filing had proved to be more of a problem then anticipated.
We had spent three whole days, just getting supplies and banners and such out. It had proved to be one of the most leadership challenging event I had ever done, though a great experience none the less.
The Car wash was scheduled for tomorrow, and I was at Edwards, attempting to do homework.
When I had told Charlie about Edward and I, he had been, less than ecstatic, yet did not seem thoroughly disappointed.
Edward would pick me up every morning and drop me back off after school every day, except today.
Today, Edward and I had gone straight to his house, where I felt nothing but 100% welcome at all times.
His parents, Esme and Carlisle, are amazingly sweet, and showed nothing but support towards mine and Edwards relationship.
Which is currently displayed in the fact that we are up in his room, alone, with the attempt to do homework.
Charlie had been less than thrilled at my proposal to stay at Edwards tonight, but his plan to keep me away was not as flawless as he thought, when Alice sashayed her way in. Charlie had always been a bit of a push over when Alice was around. I don't know why but he had taken an immediate liking to her.
"oh Charlie, who dressed you this morning? That shirt is disgusting, not form fitting at all." Alice would say as she walked in the door and looked at him in his uniform.
"ah Alice, this is my work uniform, I don't have a choice but to wear it." he said with a light laugh, yet a little freaked out about how the first thing she ever did was judge his clothing.
As much as I would like to think that I was staying at the Cullen's house because my parent were all accepting in mine and Edwards relationship, I am no moron. I know I was there to get a head start on tomorrows Car wash.
Alice had volunteered to help, along with Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett. They were all coming along to help wash the cars.
Mike Newton, Jessica Stanley, Angela Webber, Ben Cheney and many more, have also offered to hep, along with the ever feral Lauren.
Lauren had done nothing but get up in my face and torture me with her feralness for two weeks now, it was well know with all the juniors that she had only offered to help because it gave her an opportunity to flaunt herself in front of Edward .
I shudder at the thought of seeing her in a skimpy bikini. Well that is what I had been hearing around school, only the usual gossip.
The whole family was sitting around the kitchen tale eating the world best lasagne I had, had in a long time.
"Esme, this is delicious, you are a wonderful cook." I said holding back a groan as I scooped in the next mouthful.
Esme say the expression on my face as I scooped it in and laughed heartily.
"well thank you Isabella, that means a lot." she said laughing again.
"no please, call me Bella." I said with a smile.
"well then, thank you Bella" she said smiling again and emphasizing my shortened name.
It was about ten o'clock and I was in Edwards room, re-enacting our first kiss, when there was a knock on the door.
"Bella, Edward , its Alice, stop what you are or are not doing, I am coming in, and if I see skin again, I will scream, you have ten seconds." she said in a very threatening tone.
Edward chuckled, but climbed off me and pulled his shirt, as I pulled mine down a little.
Alice came storming in two seconds later, with a big grin on her face.
"thank you, I appreciate it very much." she said with a massive grin on her face.
"now Bella, we have to wake up at six tomorrow morning, so I need to get out of my brothers room and into mine pronto." I sighed and got up off of Edwards bed.
I threw him an apologetic look as I was pushed out the door, by a very strong pixie, all the while Edward nearly doubled over in laughter.
When I made it back to her room I walked in complaining all the while her giggling to herself.
"why could you have not given us like five more minutes? Or better yet, ten, missing ten minutes of sleep is not a lot." I said walking into her room backwards, my back to whatever was in her room.
"Alice interrupt you make out session with Edward ? Bells?" the person said laughing, andI came face to face with the one and only Rosalie, I breathed a sigh of relief when I knew it was her, and nodded glumly.
"don't worry, she interrupted me and Emmett as well." I shook my head with a disgusted look on my face.
"please rose, I don't want to know about you do and don't do with my brother." and she just laughed.
I went and sat down on alices bed and stared at her.
"what?!" Alice half squealed.
"don't what me, what are we doing here?" I said harshly. Rosalie nodded.
"we are going to bed because we have to get up early. And don't worry, the boy are doing the same thing." I looked at her slightly bewildered.
"Emmett and Jasper made there way into Eddie's room while you were complaining.
I nodded, happy to know that I wasn't alone in my misery, I had Rose.
We went to bed around 11, after talking about what we were going to wear tomorrow, it being a sunny 80 degrees.
I had decided on a pair of jean shorts, my 'bite me' T-Shirt and a pair of flip flops.
Rosalie and Alice had rolled their eyes at my overly 'boring' and 'casual' get up, I payed them no mind.
We woke up the next morning, six o'clock on the dot.
I scowled at Alice as I pulled on my short and t-shirt, making my way down the stairs to the kitchen.
When I got there I saw Edward wrapped in an apron saying 'kiss the cook' so that's exactly what I did.
"what was that for?" he asked in bewilderment.
I poked him in the chest right where it said 'kiss' and he laughed seeing what I was pointing at. He leaned over to me, right below my ear and kissed his way up to my earlobe, grabbing it with his teeth and baiting it.
I slapped him on the chest.
"what was that for?"
He laughed and poked me in the chest, I returned the laugh and walked around the bench and took the spatula and flipped a pancake.
"ah, ah, ahh." Edward said shaking his index finger at me in an left to right motion.
"I'm making you breakfast this morning, you work too hard." he said pushing me over to a chair at the dining table.
Five minutes later, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper all made their way down to the kitchen. They took one look at Edward and all cracked up, ranging from Alice's quiet giggle, to Emmett's booming howl.
Breakfast passed with a blur, me not really paying attention to what was happening.
"are you okay Bella?" jasper asked.
I looked up to see that everyone was looking at me with bemused expressions.
"yeah im fine, I just have this feeling that something bad is going to happen today." everyone was still looking at me though I was going a little kooky, well everyone except Alice and Edward.
Edwards expression was mainly because he was being the concerned boyfriend, but alices were not.
"you know what? I have been having a similar feeling, does it feel like something id going to be reappearing or reoccurring, something like that? She asked me.
I just nodded my head.
"do you think I has anything to do with that stalker?" Rosalie asked.
"no I don't think so, I think we scared him off with the talk around the police and such." Jasper said.
"its probably nothing" I said disregarding it, and getting up to go and rinse my plate off.
Half an hour later we were pulling up into my driveway, I had to get some things that I had left in my room that we needed for the day.
"hey Bells, what are you doing here, I thought that you were supposed to be at that car wash fundraiser thing." Charlie said when he saw me open the door.
"yeah dad I am, I just forgot the change box on my desk, ill only be two seconds." and with that I ran up the stairs and grabbed the change box, and sprinted back down.
As I went for the door, Charlie called me back.
"hey Bells, this came for you in the mail, I thought you might want I don't know." I grabbed the letter
"thanks dad, sorry I really have to go, love you" and with that I ran down to Edwards car the letter I my hand.
Five minutes later we pulled into the forks high school parking lot, and there were already four cars there.
We pulled up next to Angela and Ben and got out.
I walked over to them with Edward at my side, no matter how real the smile on my face may have been, there seemed to be something constantly eating at my insides.
It may have been to do with the feeling I kept getting that something bad was going to happen, but I couldn't be sure so I ignored it.
Two hours later and about a quarters of the way through the car wash, I still had that feeling.
Alice was walking over to me, clearly having seen the expression of concentrated concern on my face.
"still got that feeling?" she asked, putting an arm around my shoulders.
I nodded, letting her know that I had not gone away.
"I do to." I looked up a little shocked and I saw her glum face and knew it was something big.
From the time I was here and from the very first moment I knew Alice, I knew that you never bet against her.
She was always right, and she had, had these feelings before, they always turned out to be something worth knowing about before hand.
The thing that struck me was the fact that we had all disregarded her feeling this morning, yet here I am, like any other day, questioning it, seeing if it fits into any other piece of life to complete the puzzle.
Then I remembered, the letter.
It was probably nothing, but when Charlie handed over that letter, it felt as though there were a thousand words burning deep into my conscience.
She seemed to see the look of recognition on my face when I looked up.
"Bella, what is it?"
"I-I Charlie gave me a letter when I dropped by, it came in the mail, and when I grabbed it, I got a strange feeling about what was inside it was not going to be something nice."
She looked at me with horror in her eyes, and an expression that yelled 'get that letter now!' so that is exactly what I did.
I ran to the car and grabbed the letter from the glove box, and held it out to Alice.
"no Bella, you read it, it is addressed to you." all I did was nod.
I tore the edge of the envelope, just as Edward and the rest of the gang approached.
"what going on?" Emmett asked I a carefree voice.
"Bella had another feeling, and she told me about how it got stronger when she had the envelope I her hands. So she is reading it." Alice said quietly as I began to unfold the note.
Everyone was quiet as I read.
Bella my love,
I was just writing to tell you just how beautiful you really are. You don't see your self from the angle I do.
I shuddered at the thought of who this was, and them talking about seeing me from angles that I couldn't, it was creepy, and I was honestly getting a little disturbed. But I read on.
Its purely….. Magical. We WILL spend more time together, if it the last thing I do, I wont let anything get in my way.
This guy was trying to sound like some sort of hopeless romantic, yet he was sounding creepier and creepier by the minute.
I see us in it for the long run. I am willing to do ANYTHING to get you to love me. ANYTHING. We belong together.
My hands were starting to shake as things started to fall into place. This was ll making sense now, this message was the one thing that the stalker had been waiting for me to read, and without a doubt, he was watching me read it right now.
I don't want you to be upset Bella dear, I want you to be happy, like your mother would have been, if she had listened to me, but I guess now you will have to pay the price, isn't that right?
I was shaking so hard that I was having trouble reading, what had he done to my mother.
It's a shame, I would have loved for her to live, she could've had a great life, but now by passing on the right, by…. Expiring, she has given you a wonderful opportunities to live a wholesome full, and rich life, with me.
I was shaking violently, and tears were running down my face, I knew that this was bad, he had killed my mother, because she had not wanted to do whatever with him so he moved along the family tree, that explains why I hadn't heard from her in a while, since I moved here to be precise.
You want that don't you Bella? I mean I would hate for anyone else to get hurt.
But hey, it is your decision, and remember, all decisions impact the future in some way or another.
The future is in your hands
I love you
Your ONE TRUE love. Xxxxx
He was going to hurt my other friends and family until I complied? I was beyond sadness and tears now, now I was enraged.
"WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS? HE DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TREAT ME OR MY MOTHER OR ANYONE IN MY FAMILY LIKE THAT!!" I screamed pacing around in a circle, but at quickly as the rage came, it went, and sadness and grief returned in its place once again.
My mother was dead.
