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LAST ON SILENCE-
He nodded too, "Yes. So you will go in, but don't do it right away… Charlie will wonder why you came back. You need to lay low, not acting suspicious. Take the journal after a day or two, or when he calms down, and don't leave. You'll take it to school, stick it in Edward's backpack that he'll leave next to your locker, and he'll bring it home. Don't contact him, don't answer questions. When Charlie asks you questions, well… what's going to happen is I am going to come with you."
"Huh?" Everyone said in unison, "You're coming with us?"
"Well, yes, Bella. I am going to deliver you to the doorstep, and Edward will be there too, I'll say you guys wanted to run away together, and apologize. I'll be staying with Edward."
We blinked. "Okay…" I said, still trying to process this.
"I think he'll believe it too. He knew about my cru-"I was about to say, my crush on Edward, but stopped. "My… uh… well, never mind, he'll believe us."
Alice caught my slip, looking at me incredulously and snickering.
Edward looked confused, like he was trying to figure it out, and I could tell Esme knew by the knowing look on her face and Carlisle didn't even focus on it.
I blushed.
"So when should we be going?" I asked, trying to change the topic of conversation.
Carlisle nodded to himself, "Tomorrow, if that's alright with you."
CURRENTLY ON SILENCE-
My breath hitched. Tomorrow. It was like a gush of unexpected icy air coming at you with full force once you opened a door in the dead of midnight.
I gulped. I would see Charlie tomorrow. I would have to play nice and pretend like I wasn't going to be going behind his back tomorrow.
I'd have to lie. I detested lying… I had to do it enough, besides, I was apparently horrible at it since Edward found out my best kept secret with little observation.
And Charlie was a cop… he'd see right through me. He was a cop… so he'd know when people were lying, he interrogated them daily.
My clammy hands started to shake in my lap.
"Unless you don't want to do this, Bella. Carlisle , look at her, she won't be able to do this physically or emotionally." I heard Edward voice his opinion. He was obviously hoping that my nervousness would work in his favor and I'd back out last minute.
I shook myself out of it. "No, no, just some last minute jitters… it'd happen with anyone, really." I said, dismissing Edward's needless concern.
Carlisle nodded, "I agree, if you weren't nervous I'd have you evaluated…"
I smiled slightly, "Well, the point is that it will pass over."
Edward grumbled something about this being a horrible idea.
My inner voice favored his opinion, but I wasn't about to let him know that.
"So, I'll arrange for the plane tickets into Forks?" Carlisle asked.
Edward nodded, reluctant, "I guess. Get three. I want Alice and Esme out of this, if we can at least spare them the worry." He said, stressing their names to put emphasis on the fact that he thought this was wrong.
Alice made a face, but when she got that she needed to stay here and emotionally help Esme through this, she didn't say anything.
Carlisle nodded once more, "I couldn't agree with you more, son. I'll try to get a flight for early tomorrow so that when we get to Edward's house, we can go over the game plan."
We nodded in agreement with his reasoning. Well… everyone excepting Edward, who didn't do anything.
BASBASBASBAS
"It'll be okay, love." Edward said shortly after we departed from the living room.
We had spent all morning and most of the afternoon away discussing the game plan. I knew we wouldn't need to go over it tomorrow, but it was nice to have the assurance that I knew what was going to happen and exactly what I was supposed to do.
I sighed, and he brushed some hair from my face.
"I mean, I don't support any of your decisions in the last day or two, but I support you, and you'll be fine. All you do is go in and get out and try to make as little trouble as possible. This goes to court and Charlie gets jailed for life. It'll go so smoothly."
And I knew Edward was right. We had a lot of evidence, including this journal. I knew he wasn't trying to tell me he was okay with this, he was trying to make sure that if I was going to do this, I would be completely certain of it.
"I know, Edward… I just don't want to fuck up." I said, biting my lip.
His eyebrow shot up at my choice of words and I shrugged, "I hang out with you too much."
"I disagree." He winked as he put a couple more of his shirts into his suitcase.
I smiled and rolled my eyes.
"Hey guys?" Alice said from the hallway.
"Yeah?" Edward and I answered in unison, both of us ready to answer.
"Uh, actually, namely Bella?"
I opened the door, she sounded kind of impatient.
She looked amused. She looked up at me from her fingernails.
"What's wrong, Al?" Edward and I said together again. I smiled.
She shot him a look that said 'go away or I'll kill you'.
He held his hands up. "I leave in peace."
Once he was gone, Alice sat on the adjoined beds. She looked down at them and shot me a questioning look, but didn't push it when I shrugged, trying to dismiss it.
She sighed. "You wanna go for a tampon run? Somehow I ran out…"
I smiled. "Guilty."
She laughed.
"Then come replenish with me!"
I rolled my eyes at her lame-ness, but went along with her anyways with a smile on m face.
BASBASBASBAS
"Are you sure you don't want a cart?" I asked, more than amused at her.
She shook her head 'no', but I could barely catch the movement. The girl was carrying 7 large boxes of tampons.
Like the size you get if you're going into hiding for 7 years… but multiply that by 7.
It was kind of amusing, how she insisted she just had to carry all of them… something about proving she was strong enough…
I groaned, I mean, tampons were light, but she could hardly see and would surly crash into-
All of the boxes fell to the floor as Alice colliding with someone I hadn't seen coming.
I looked up to see a guy about twice Alice 's height, blond hair, blue eyes.
All of them fell and… you know how most girls just would have been embarrassed that a guy had just witnessed a tampon run? Not Alice Cullen.
She stormed up to him with more venom than I'd ever seen on her face.
I could see it in his eyes, he was trying to be respectful by hiding his amusement as he looked down at her.
"Who the hell do you think you are! So you think that you can just waltz up in here and crash into anyone you would like to? I obviously had impaired vision, and apart from the fact that someone," she looked at me, "should've told me that you were coming, you were only carrying," she looked down to see him carrying a bag of chips and some salsa, "two items? You have no excuse to just-"
He cut her off by lightly grabbing her hand and kissing it, he stared at her, wide eyed.
"I deeply apologize, miss, for inconveniencing you." He said, his lips still grazing her tiny hand and giving her a burning look.
This guy was effectively dazzling her pants off. She didn't, or couldn't, say anything.
He looked at her again, the amusement more evident.
"My name is Jasper Whitlock," he said in a southern accent, "and if I may be allowed, may I ask what your name is? It'd be quite a pity if you said no, I rarely see beauty like yours. Never, I'd venture." He enquired.
She was smiling like a fool. "I-I… uh… well… my name…"
I tried not to burst out laughing. He quirked an eyebrow, questioning her inability to talk, considering how much she'd talked in the last minute.
"Her name is Alice Cullen." I cut in.
He turned to me now, shooting me a friendly smile.
"I'm Jasper." He said, introducing himself in a completely separate way with me. I was fine with that though, I had my eyes set on someone else.
"Bella." I offered, and he'd nodded politely before setting his eyes on Alice again.
And they just walked right out of the store, hand in hands, eyes locked.
Chips, salsa, and tampons forgotten.
I groaned, giving the small audience a fake smile before bending down to grab two of her monstrous boxes.
BASBASBASBAS
"Uh… yeah, Edward? I think Alice fell in love. Can you come pick me up?" I asked.
And no, driving home with Edward with two gigantic boxes of tampons was not ideal, but it was better than walking, considering Alice had the keys to the also forgotten car.
I almost heard him frowning. "That doesn't make sense, Alice doesn't believe in love and she'd never leave you at a grocery store this late…"
"Well, she's a believer now and how did you know I was at a grocery store?" I asked.
He chuckled, "Well, my guess was either a chocolate run, or a tampon run, and I guess I chose correctly, guessing that both of those are located at the grocery store. Cue blush." He said and I heard his smirk.
Sure enough, I blushed at that moment.
"I'm coming, stay near the entrance, okay?"
"Sure." I said.
"So who in this guy?" Edward asked, going into brotherly mode; I heard keys in the ignition.
I laughed, "Well, this guy, about twice Alice 's height, crashes into her while she is carrying enough tampons to last anyone a lifetime. She gives him the what for, and then he just waits and then charms her to death and they left."
"Do you know his name?" He sounded worried.
"Um… Jasper Whitlock? If I remember correctly." I said.
I heard a sigh of relief, "Good then, I've known Jasper a while, and I trust him enough…"
"Well, I'm glad, but could you get here soon? I hate being alone in the dark."
I almost heard him speed up.
"You ready?" Carlisle asked, counting the three bags and carry on's that we were taking with us.
I nodded. So did Edward.
It was currently 2 am… when Carlisle said early, he meant early.
"Okay… the flight leaves at 5 so we should get going, the airport's about 40 minutes away."
Because, heaven forbid, we'd run out of time.
I was too tired to function, so along with carrying both his bag and mine, he held me up with his other arm and nearly carried me to the car.
The drive didn't take that long, and after handing over our bags, checking through security, and skipping past the overcrowded Starbucks to go to a more obscure coffee shop a couple of feet away, it was 3:30.
When we got to our gate, it was 3:40.
Our flight left at 5.
Once we sat down, I fell asleep.
BASBASBASBAS
"Bella, wake up, love…" I felt something shaking my shoulder.
I opened my eyes slightly to see Edward's silhouette above me, encouraging my body to sit up.
I did, and heard the flight attendants calling our group.
I held my arms up and he chuckled before lifting me, "You aren't much of a morning person, are you?" He asked and I shook my head.
The plane was nice enough. The three hour flight would be fine.
Much better than driving went… but I'd never regret any of the moments I'd spent with Edward so I pushed that thought away.
As soon as my seat was buckled, I fell asleep again.
BASBASABASBAS
I yawned, mashing my lips together.
"Are you finally awake?" Edward asked from next to me, amused.
I smiled lazily. I like sleep.
Such intelligent thoughts.
"Yeah, what time is it?" I asked.
"7:30. we should be landing in around a half hour." He smiled at me.
"Okay… where's Carlisle ?" I asked, looking around but not seeing him.
"A row in front of us." I looked and saw that he was right.
But everything looked black, I looked at Edward again, "But… why is it so dark in here? Shouldn't planes have more light in them? We should really say-"
Edward laughed, pointing to my eyes, where I felt and saw a pair of sunglasses.
I scrunched my nose, "When did I put these on?" I asked.
"When we left the house, because somebody would most likely recognize you."
I nodded.
He rolled his eyes, "You're incredibly unobservant in the mornings…"
I smiled, "Well, it's before 8 o clocks… can you really blame me?"
The only response he made was a smile. He passed me a bag of chips and I took one.
The rest of the plane ride was surprisingly fast. We landed with ease on the runway and bought a rental car.
I sat in the back while Edward and Carlisle took the front. The back was too tiny for them to be able to fit inside of it.
We drove to Edward's house in silence.
I let a smile grace my face when it came into view.
When we stepped inside and put our bags down, Edward's phone rang.
When he opened the phone and put it to his ear, his eyes widened.
"Yeah… I know I should've told you… I'm sorry!" He was cut off by a woman screaming on the other end.
"I'm sorry, mom, I-" he was cut off again.
Huh… Esme didn't seem like the yelling type.
He sighed, "Hand me to dad then, I know, I-"
I was confused. Carlisle was right next to me.
I heard a male voice on the other end.
"Yeah, it completely slipped my mind, dad…"
I looked to Carlisle , who mouthed 'Emmett and Rosalie'.
I looked away, I remembered when Edward talked about them. They raised him… had he not told them that he hadn't kidnapped me?
Edward handed the phone to me, rolling his eyes.
"Emmett and Rosalie saw the news and when I didn't call them about this, they think I kidnapped you and don't believe me."
I grabbed the phone away.
"Uh… hello?" I said.
"What happened? Is this Bella?" A voice said; I assumed it was Rosalie.
"Yes…" I said.
A male voice spoke this time, "What happened?" He seemed more laid back than Rosalie.
I looked at Edward, "Uh… well, Edward didn't do anything I didn't want him to do… I've never been kidnapped…"
Rosalie spoke. "Oh… okay…"
I handed the phone back to Edward.
He rolled his eyes again, "Oh, its fine… I should've clued you in anyways. But you should know, if anyone asks, we ran away together and that is all you know." He said.
"Just trust me, we'll call you every day. Yeah. I promise. I love you guys. Yeah," he suddenly looked embarrassed, "I'll bring Bella to meet you soon…"
He snapped the phone shut and cleared his throat.
He took all of the bags and brought them upstairs.
Carlisle smiled at me, "He likes you, Bella… a lot."
I coughed, looking at him, red faced.
"Um… no he doesn't, as a friend, yeah-"
He cut me off while rolling his eyes, "You'll see."
Edward came back down and smiled at me.
"Does anyone want anything to drink?" He asked.
Carlisle and I both said water and Edward went to get some.
He came back and handed us the water.
"So. Is everyone clear about the game plan?"
We nodded.
BASBASBASBAS
"Are you sure you want to do this, Bella? Because we can stop and just go back… it won't be impos-"
"Edward, stop," I said, shaking my head, "I'm doing this."
Carlisle nodded, agreeing with me. "Edward, we're already five minutes away from the house, we're not backing out now."
Edward glared out of the windshield. I bounced my knee up and down.
My eyes widened as Carlisle pulled up to the house. We were here.
Edward opened my door and helped me out and we walked shakily to the door.
I brought my hand up and knocked.
The door opened, and there I saw Charlie, his murderous glare focused directly at me, but I knew he had seen Carlisle and Edward.
"Isabella."
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