I had never felt such earth shattering grief in my life, which only made me feel worse: Shouldn't losing Charlie be the worst? But the truth was..it wasn't. And I felt ashamed because of that. Would Charlie have been disappointed in me for not bouncing back after Caius like I had with Edward?
Losing Charlie was a devastating blow, but a manageable one. Losing Caius was like having my chest hammered on, and it only got worse when I thought about him. Which was often.
I felt helpless, not in control of my feelings: bursting in to tears at random, feeling on top of the earth, then feeling like I was at the bottom of the earth. Mood swings. Great fun, right? Not.
Because of this Jazz, Em, Rose, And Ally had decided to come and visit me sooner then expected. And once they learned of the situation with Victoria they refused to leave, and set up camp at my house. Which I learned-when I returned- was quite empty except for my stuff. Angela had moved in with Jacob while I was gone. Which was quite depressing until I realized I couldn't control my emotions and then I became very grateful that someone wasn't here to witness it. That was until my home got overrun with vampires, and I couldn't breath without then hearing me.
Not to mention the fact that they were constantly talking to quiet for me to hear and 95 percent of it was about me. I was sure.
Which is what Emmett and Rose were doing at this particular moment. Alice and Jazz had left to 'change' or so they said.
Sighing at there non-vocalizing I stood and headed for the fridge. Alice had confiscated my beer, and coffee saying they were bad for my skin. As if I cared! Needless to say me and Alice were not the best of friends at the moment.
Grabbing my coke which-thankfully- Alice had not thrown out or we would be having problems.
Looking at my phone on the counter, I contemplated calling Angela to cancel going to the florist or to just suck it up and get out of my temporarily depression to make her happy.
Of course the latter won out,
"She's so lucky I love her," I muttered mournfully.
"Who? Alice?" Emmett asked as he entered the kitchen, Rose close behind him.
"No, she's lucky Jasper is here." I grinned slightly. Emmett let out a booming laughter, while Rose just rolled her eyes and sat down at the kitchen table.
"Who's lucky then?" Inquired Rose.
"Angela," I said before taking a swig of my soda.
"Don't wanna go huh?"
"Not particularly."
"But your'll go anyway." She stated.
"True," I said sighing as I exited the kitchen, and made my way upstairs to change out of my pajama's. Yes, I am seriously that lazy; up at 11am and still not dressed.
Throwing on a pair of skinny jeans, a plain long sleeved button up tunic, and a pair of yellow flats. Pulling my hair into a pony tail I stood in front of the mirror inspecting myself.
I had bags under my eyes. I mean my bags had bags! Nightmares had started tormenting me once again, Alice thought it was being back home. But I knew better, it was because he was gone. I mean a girl can only be dumped by vampires so many times.
"Okay, I'll be back later." I announced as I walked towards the door.
"See ya!" Emmett called from the couch.
"Bye, Rose." I said as I grabbed my keys and tote bag.
"Bye, Bella. Have fun." She said not looking up from her magazine.
"I'm sure I won't." I muttered as I opened the door.
Quickly climbing into my truck to get out of the rain, I started driving in the general direction of La Push.
When I got their things couldn't have been more hectic. Angela was having a panic attack because Paul accidentally poured punch down her wedding dress when she had brought it down to show me, Jacob had walked in two minutes after while Angela was screaming bloody murder, and then he wanted to murder Paul, then Sam had to try an convince them to calm down because Paul was getting mad too, and to top it all of Emily was having baby sickness and kept throwing up so not only did that stress Sam out even more, but everyone was hungry. And this all happened in the first five minutes of me entering the house.
"Jake, you need to calm down." I tried to reason with him.
"No! I'm tired of being calm, look what he did to Ang's dress!" He roared.
"It's not like I did it on purpose! You people swear like I make mistakes just to annoy you!" Fired back Paul in a voice just as loud.
"Well maybe you do!"
"Well maybe you should shut up!" and back in fourth they went.
Trusting Sam to get them under control I went to go and calm Angela down.
"Angela, breath. breath. It's just a dress, we'll get you another one!" I tried to reason. Bad idea.
"Another one? I loved this one! It took me a month to find the one I wanted! And I don't have the money to just buy another one!" Okay, know she looked like she was going to faint. Her hands were shaking, her left eye twitching, and her eyes were leaking lakes.
"Ang, you gotta calm down. Come on..breath." I said as I started taking deep breaths with her.
"Okay, come on. We have to go to the florist and I'll think of something for your dress." I had-of course- already thought of something, but she didn't need to know that.
"Your right, yeah your right." She said almost mechanically as she picked the dress up and disappeared upstairs.
"Know you two need to knock it the hell off! Your upsetting Angela, so if you want to fight go out into the woods and get if over with! Otherwise shut up and sit down!" I whisper-yelled.
"But-" they started.
"Butt's are for sitting on, know shut up!" I said quickly as Angela started to make her way back down the stairs.
"Ready to go?" I asked.
"Hmm," She said.
"Let's get going then." I smiled.
"Sorry for overreacting." She said shyly turning towards Paul.
"My fault, I'll make it up to you." He said nodding at her.
"It's fine," She said quietly as she turned and followed me out.
"Well..that was interesting." I commented as we climbed into my car.
"It always is," She said shaking her head, a small smile gracing my friends lips.
"Hey, don't worry about! I'll get you a new dress and I am sure you will love it!"
"I don't know what your going to do, but I'm sure I'll love it." She said smiling at me.
"Hey, Ang?"
"Yep?"
"I love you, and no matter what Jacob says your my best friend." I said flashing her my smile, a smile even Sulpicia would be proud of.
"Ah, Bella! I love you too!" She said giving me a one armed hug.
"Okay, okay get off me! Your'll get us in a car accident!" I laughed.
"Radio?" She asked she sat back in her seat.
"Radio." I confirmed.
Sitting forward she started flipping through stations until she landed on one that was playing What Makes You Beautiful -One Direction.
And then we started singing, and singing loud and out of tune.
"What makes you beautiful!" We practically screamed, laughing.
"Okay, okay calm..down." I said laughing when the song changed.
"Buzz kill." She said smiling at me.
"Ah, Ang I'm hurt."
"I'm sure." She said smirking.
"Angela Weber! Did you just smirk? My god you hang around me to much!" And we both fell into a fit of giggles.
Soon are giggle fest was interrupted by the chirping of my phone.
"Hey, will you check my phone?" I asked as I turned back to the phone.
"It says 'Hold on. I'm coming.'? whatever that means?" She said her eyebrow raised.
"What's the number?" I asked frowning.
"Unknown."
"Okay, stalker-ville." We said at the same time.
"Jinx!" We called again, "Double jinx!" We laughed forgetting about the strange text and we started blasting the music again this time to Call Me Maybe.
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Entering the florist I was assaulted with the smells of so many flowers, it was like bed, bath and body works on crack. In fact I was sure I would lose my nose just from smelling so much.
"Okay, Bells. I have the flowers picked out I just have to put in the order for them to be shipped to your house." She said.
"Okay, have fun?" I said awkwardly. She laughed before going to talk to the woman behind the desk who was smiling just a light to big for my liking. I'm turning into Sulpicia. Crap. Shaking my head to get rid of the disturbing thoughts, I started walking around the small shop. I saw some weird plants, and some ordinary looking flowers. I didn't see anything that I really like until I got to a red and white rose bouquets. I then decided if I ever got married those were what I was having. Not that I would ever get married at the rate I was going.
"You ready, Bella?" Asked Angela as she appeared at my side.
"Yep, but I don't want to go home." I really, really didn't want to go home.
"Well where do you want to go?"
"How bout the mall?"
"Hey, Alice? I need a favor." I said as she picked up the phone.
"I know, I saw. I've already started designing it." She answered, I could hear the smirk in her voice.
"Okay, oh seer." I laughed.
"Bye, Bella. Angela will be back from the bathroom in twenty seven seconds oh, and buy the green ones." She said before the line went dead.
Closing the phone before Ang could see I went back to drinking my milk shake.
"Sorry I took so long!" She said as she plopped down into the seat beside me.
"No problem, I ordered for you. Chocolate shake is fine right?" I asked.
"Yep, you know me so well!" She cheered.
"Well you know me. Oh and by the way I got your dress situation figured out." I said as I started drinking again.
"Really?" She asked surprised.
"Hmm." I said not stopping from my drink.
"Care to elaborate?" She asked, laughing at me.
"Nope." I said as I stood to put my now empty drink in the garbage.
"Come on." She said standing also and leading the way to payless. Where we would spend the next thirty minutes shopping and I would find the perfect pair of green mary jane heels.
"You ready to go home?" I asked as we exited the shoe store.
"I think so." She said nodding.
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"Hey, Ang?" I asked.
"Yeah?"
"Do you mind if I just drop you off?"
"No. But can I ask why?" She questioned sitting up.
"I think... I want to go visit my dad." I said.
"Oh, okay then. You sure you don't want company?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure."
"Okay, then. I guess I'll talk to you later." She said as the pulled in front of the house.
"Okay, see you!" I said as she got out of the car. She waved back before entering the house.
Pulling out of the driveway I started in the general direction of the grave yard. Soon, then I remembered it taking I was there. Taking a deep breath I stepped out of the car and quickly hugged myself because not only was it slightly windy, but grave yards had always given me chills.
"Hey, dad." I greeted as I came to stand in front of his tombstone.
"So, I'm back from Italy. It's beautiful there. I think you would have liked it." I said as I sat down next to his grave. "I met someone there, I think you would have liked him. He's a good man." Okay, now I was getting a bit emotional. Damn. "Everyone say's hi-" I was caught off by a sudden excruiating pain in my head, someone was pulling my hair.
Trying to through off whoever it was I grabbed there hand which was interlocked with my hair. The first thing I realized was it was a woman's hand, the second; it was ice cold. I felt my blood go the same temperature, my knees go weak, and my vision blurred.
"Victoria." I choked. So this was how I was going to die.
"You remember me? How sweet." She mocked putting her face next to mine.
"What do you want?" But I already knew.
She let out a laugh, that resembled nails on a chalk board.
"You got James killed, and know I'm going to..kill you." She giggled. I flinched. During this exchange I tried to slowly lower my hands so I could throw her, but she grabbed my hands just before I could.
"I've seen what you can do, it's impressive. Very impressive. But not enough." With that she drop my hair, and grabbed both of my wrists. And that's when I felt the most pain I had ever felt in my life- besides perhaps when her mate had decided to play the torture game.
I felt my hands go limp, as she squeezed my wrists and all that could be heard was my harsh cries and the crack so of(most likely) all the bones in my wrists.
If I could hold on till Alice saw, I would be fine. She would tell Jasper. Jazz and Emmett would save me. They had to.
I didn't scream as she picked me up and started running. I knew it wouldn't help. There's no way it could. No one would hear me. Better to save my voice.
My instincts had kicked in, and I was only functioning on the basics. I wasn't trying to see where we were going, I was trying to figure out how I was going to live. About five minutes later we slowed and a brown van came into view.
"No..no, no!" I screeched. They would never find me if there was no scent!
"Yes, yes, Yes!" She said gleefully.
Once we got to the back of the van she opened it and throw me in.
"ugh." I complained as I hit my head.
I was getting a headache and black spots in my vision.
"Night, night Bella." She said closing the doors.
That's when I realized there were no seats in the back. I watched her climb into the front and start the van.
"No," I said as my vision failed and I fell hard onto the floor of the van. Her laugh echoing as I succumbed to the darkness along with the thought; Alice can't see her because she's with me. And with that the lights went out and Victoria pulled out into a street leaving the tire tracts behind.
A/N: I cannot thank you guys enough for you continued support and helpful reviews! I love reviews! They bright my whole day and I just love 'em! So I'm really excited about this chapter because I have had it planned since the beginning! and it fit into the story perfectly something I was a little afraid would no be so. Anyway I will try to upload as soon as possible! Tell me what you think! Love Ya! -Monet