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A/N – Okay, guys, like I said before, I'm going on holiday this week so this will probably be the last episode until, um. . .Saturday the 10th April, but if I do magically find wireless internet anywhere, I'll upload early. Anyway, I hope you guys have a great Easter Break, bye byes!

Chapter 20

Paul's POV:

The drive to Sam's place took about fifteen minutes. It wouldn't have taken that long to run there, but I couldn't exactly take Louise that way, could I?

As the car drove up the driveway, Emily came out of the house, and waved excitedly towards Louise.

We climbed out of the car and Emily ran over to Louise, before hugging her and asking how she was.

"I'm great thanks. Still kinda in shock, though."

"So you should be!" Emily replied, "Twins, wow, that's gonna be a handful. Anyway, come on in, Sam's just putting the kettle on."

We walked into their small yet modern cottage and Louise and I sat on the small sofa, holding hands.

When Emily came through she was carrying two mugs. She sat them down in front of us, and Sam came through carrying two more, for Emily and him.

"So, you guys thought of any names yet?" Emily asked eagerly.

"You're so nosey, love. Louise has only been pregnant for what, two months?" Everyone laughed, but Louise answered Emily's question.

"Well, I like the name Jane, but you don't do you Paul?" I shuddered. Every time Louise suggested the name Jane I'd had a horrible vision of that Italian bloodsucker girl.

"Eh, no, not really. I just think it's a little. . .old sounding." That was an okay excuse. "We both like Lily though, don't we?" I smiled at Louise.

"Aw, that's sweet, I like Lily." Emily smiled in approval.

"And we haven't even thought about boys names yet, have we babe?" I smiled at my Louise, she was so perfect, and beautiful, even with her small but noticeable bump on her stomach.

"I know, we'll need to start thinking." She bit her lip nervously, but I laughed, wanting to ease her nerves.

"It's fine, sweetheart, we have months to decide." I kissed her forehead and as I moved away I saw her gorgeously breathtaking smile.

Alice's POV:

Today Bella was better.

And worse.

She was walking around with the tiniest hint of a smile on her face, but all of us could see through it. She was putting on a show for Renesmee, despite Renesmee being worse than Bella had been yesterday.

The phone call to Edward had broken her little heart. The one person in the world who she'd always trusted and looked up to had crushed her, and not even Bella's see-through smile could help that.

We sat for hours with the cartoons channel on, but it was obvious that Renesmee wasn't watching it. None of us were. We were all pretending to though. Every time Spongebob Squarepants did or said something remotely funny, Esme would look at Renesmee and say something like 'Oh, what a silly sponge!' or 'Imagine that Renesmee, they're going jelly-fishing!' Renesmee just stared at her with a blank expression.

When it got to 3 o'clock, Jacob stood up off of the couch.

"Hey, Renesmee, do you want to go down to the beach at La Push?" He tried to sound enthusiastic, but Renesmee gave him the same, lifeless expression that she'd given Esme.

"No thank you." She curled further into Bella's lap.

"Are you sure? I'll buy you an ice cream?" Okay, the dog was getting desperate now.

"You should go sweetie." Bella spoke up, "Get some fresh air, and find some nice shells." Bella smiled a slightly more convincing smile.

"But I'll miss you." Renesmee whined.

"I'll still be here when you get back." Bella patted her daughter's hair, smoothing out the waving curls.

"Do you promise?" The little girl stared into her mums' eyes. Bella nodded.

"Go have fun, Princess." Renesmee looked up at Jacob, before hopping off of the sofa and taking Jacob's hand.

"Let's go then" Jacob said as he opened the front door.

* * *

As soon as Jacob's car could no longer be heard driving towards La Push, Bella' face dropped and she began spiralling back into the catatonic, depressed mode she had been in yesterday.

"We're never going to find him, are we? We're going to keep living and suffering while Heather gets away with this." Her words were getting faster and faster and it was becoming hard to understand her.

"No, Bella calm down, it will be fine." I spoke in as soothing a voice as I could. I glared at Jasper, signalling him to send Bella calming emotions, but he shook his head. Damn. She must have her shield up.

Emmett's POV:

"No! I can't calm down. Everyone says that everything will be fine, but everything CAN'T be fine without Edward! It can't!"

I spoke out then, in a loud, authority filled voice. "We are going to find him. We are, Bella."

"NO WE'RE NOT! They could be anywhere in the world by now. If I had been thinking, at the time, I could have followed them. When he left I should have followed them! I'm so stupid!" She screamed in rage, angry at herself.

"No you're not stupid Bella. You were upset. We all were. Don't blame this on yourself." Esme stroked Bella's arm as she spoke to her.

"I will blame it on myself, hell; I might as well not be alive right now. I know! I'll go to Italy! Beg the Volturi to kill me. At least then I'll be out of the way. At least then Heather will get what she wants! No one loves me any more so I'm better off dead!"

"That's not true. We all love you, don't be so-" I was about to tell Bella to stop being so pessimistic, but Rosalie interrupted me, her eyebrows raised and her eyes wide with excitement.

"Bella, you're a genius!!!"

Rosalie's POV:

". . .at least then Heather will get what she wants! No one loves me any more so I'm better off dead!"

After Bella's rant, Emmett started telling Bella that we all loved her, but I wasn't listening. What Bella had said had given me an idea. YES! Why hadn't we thought of this before?

"Bella, you're a genius!!!"

Six sets of eyes questioned my sanity.

"What the hell are you on, Rosalie?! Bella is not going to the Volturi! Have you lost your mind?!?" Alice squealed across the living room at me. Why did no one else understand what I meant?

"Alice, calm down. I never meant that." I rolled my eyes at her. Had she honestly thought that I'd wanted Bella to go and die?

"Then what did you mean?" She sneered at me.

"We need to go to the Volturi."

Emmett raised one eyebrow at me.

"Oh, come on! Do I need to spell it out for you guys! I thought at least you; Carlisle would know what I was getting at!" He shook his head at me.

"Sorry Rosalie, I'm as lost as everyone else!" He shook his head again.

"Demetri is a tracker. He could find Edward."

Everyone gasped as they understood what I meant.

Yeah, and I was blonde?