Chapter seven

Hey guys!! You have no clue how sorry I am to have kept you waiting so long! I had writer's block for the absolute longest time. It was sickening. Haha. Well, here is chapter seven. I hope that it is okay. Let me know please. Especially for this chapter if you could. I'm not sure how well it turned out. Once again, my deepest apologies for making you wait so loooonnnnnnggggg! Hope you guys like it!

~Elle

Light was shining through my eyelids. I had been lying awake for several minutes without opening my eyes. I sensed that Edward was not in my room. I sat up and looked around. It was a rare sunny day in forks. I decided that I was going to quickly get dressed before Edward came back from wherever he went to. I lifted my shirt above my head and unclasped my bra. I slid my pants and my underwear off. Quickly closing the drapes to my windows, I preceded to dress for the day. I ran a hand through my hair and felt the greasiness. Yuck! I grabbed a towel and ran to the bathroom.

I jumped out of the shower and placed the towel around my body. I ran back into my room and dropped the towel and began to look for something to wear. I knew the blue shirt that I wanted to wear was in my closet so I turned towards my closet and Edward was standing there in my room. As fast as I saw him, he was gone out the window.

I gasped. "Edward!" I quickly wrapped the towel around me again and ran to the window. "Edward!" I called out to him, sticking my head out the window. I looked down and he was standing there.

"Bella," he called up to me softly. I had to strain to hear. I pulled my head back in the window to pull my hair back quickly, it was hanging in my face and I couldn't see properly. I turned back to my window and Edward was perched there.

"Bella, get dressed quickly and come down stairs. We have to get to school. After school, we are going to come straight back here, and we have to pack your bags. Charlie wants you to stay at our house until this killer is found." He was about to walk out of my bedroom door when I called out his name.

"Edward, wait," he turned slowly on the spot to face me again. His eyes swept down my body quickly and then came back to my face. Butterflies erupted in my stomach, but I ignored them. "What about that sub? He said that I have a detention after school today." I clutched the towel to my body while waiting for his answer.

"You don't have to worry about him. He is being taken care of as we speak. He won't even be there first period. We should just be having a study hall for today. Now, get dressed and come downstairs." He walked out of my room before I could say anything else. I once again dropped the towel and searched for some clothes. I was wondering what I was going to wear since I had already worn all the clothes that I had brought with me. I didn't think to pack much but two outfits. I was just about to open my door to ask Edward what I should do when it burst open and a small something burst in. Once again, I quickly grabbed up my towel to cover myself.

"Bella! I brought you clothes I saw that you would need clothes days ago! I went out and bought you some! I know that you won't like them because they are not your style, but you will learn to love them! We'll start off with something that will cover you until you can heal properly. Oh! You poor dear!" she came over and pulled me into a gentle hug. How could something so small have so much energy? I only just noticed the bags that were sitting on the ground behind her.

"I'm Alice, I know that we haven't been properly introduced. We will be the best of friends though, I just know it. I have a power kinda like Edward. I can see the future while he can read minds! Isn't it great?!" She began to rummage through some of the bags and pulling out some clothes: a pair of fashionable jeans, a light blue tank top and a dark blue cardigan. She went through another bag and pulled out a pair of panties and a bra. Then what she said sank into my mind.

"You can see the future?" I asked her, tilting my head and thinking. "EDWARD CAN READ MINDS??!! HE CAN READ MY MIND!!?" I was shouting at her. I didn't even care that hurt her feelings or if Edward could hear me. Which he undoubtedly could since he was a vampire… Edward was a vampire. I just remembered that.

"Alice, you're a vampire??"

"Of course I am sill- wait a minute! I saw that he was going to tell you that we were, and you were okay with it. He did, didn't he?"

"He told me that he was a vampire."

"Never mind that! Here!" she threw the clothes at me, "put these on and let's get to school!" she was about to leave when her eyes glazed over and she looked off into the distance.

"EDWARD!" she screamed for him. He was there less than a second later.

"Alice, no! We can't go to school then."

"We have to. You saw what would happen if we don't go. He will come here; both of them will come here!"

"That is what we want Alice! We want them to come here so that they can be arrested! We aren't going to school. That's it. Bella," his eyes softened when he turned to look at me, and so did his voice. "Bella, put the clothes on and let Alice pack you up some things to take to our house." With that, he walked out of my room.

"I guess I will give you some privacy to get dressed. Since you don't have much except what you brought and these clothes I just bought you. I'll take the bags back down and you just bring down whatever you brought with you."

I dropped the towel after she left and I was not going to pick it back up, no matter who came in the room. I quickly put the clothes on and no sooner was I done, Edward walked in my room.

"Bella, I know you must be frightened. Please look at me, Bella." I wouldn't look at him. I didn't want him to be able to read my mind I was thinking about safe things, but if he looked into my eyes then he would know anyway.

"Bella," he sighed and put his finger under my chin and lifted my head to look into his eyes, "Bella, what are you thinking?" he asked me quietly. His breath spanned over my face and I drank his delicious scent in.

"Wait," I mused, "I thought you could read minds."

"Everyone in the world's, but yours." He had a soft look in his eyes and then he backed away. He grabbed my hand and led me out of my room and down the stairs to a waiting Alice. We went outside and I locked the door behind me and we all piled into Edward's Volvo.

I sat in the front passenger seat while Edward drove and Alice sat in the back. I leaned my head against the window and thought about yesterday. How could so much happen in two days, three days? Is that all it had been. Only three days since I had ran away from my mother's house. It has only been three days since the last time that I was raped and that I finally told someone about what my step-father does to me. It just happened to be my father. Now there was a pack of vampires. Is that what you called them? I think that a coven would be better; I might have heard or read that somewhere. I heard someone's phone start to ring. It was just a simple ringing, no song. Edward picked it up. I turned to watch him as he talked on his phone.

His mouth was moving fast and soon he flipped his cell closed with a snap and looked over to Alice.

"Carlisle said that Charlie wants us to take Bella to the reservation. Someone called and asked to see Bella. He said that she will be safe there. Carlisle called ahead to their leader and is sending his son who does not have a prejudice for us…yet. We will meet him at the border and he will bring her back at eight tonight. Your escort's name is Jacob Black. I assume that you know him."

I was quietly thinking and not really listening to him. Jacob Black. He and I would sometimes play together during my summers here. He used to be so much fun. I wonder what he is like now.

"Bella!" Edward shouted at me. I looked at him

"Yes, Edward, I know who Jacob Black is. If Charlie thinks that I will be safe there, then I sure I will be. Why would any of them have a prejudice towards you and your family?" I was curious so I was now hyper aware of my surroundings and everything that they were saying.

Both Edward and Alice heaved a sigh. We are vampires, Bella. We only have one true enemy. A werewolf. When we first came to this region, we made a treaty with the werewolves that were in this region. We promised not to bite anyone and we divided the land. We are not allowed onto the reservation just in case. They are not allowed to give out our secrets to anyone but themselves in the pack. Not even the regular citizens of the reservation. Carlisle believes that the gene has gone and that they can no longer transform, but the treaty is in place."

I was thinking about all of this as Edward was slowing down. Off to the side of the road was a truck. Leaning against the truck was a boy of about sixteen that corresponded vaguely with my memories of Jacob Black. I got out of the car once it was stopped. Edward was by my side as humanly as possible. He did not want Jacob to know about him.

"Edward wh-?" he gently pulled me into his arms and hugged me. I sighed and leaned into his cold embrace.

"Be careful, Bella. You are more important to me and my family than you can imagine. Look after yourself. He said this to me. He put his cheek to my hair as I rested my head on his shoulder. To Jacob he said, "Jacob Black, I will be back at the border line to pick her up at eight o'clock. Do not be late or there will be hell to pay, I promise you that. She is in danger and Charlie and I would like to make sure she is with someone at all times. Take care of her."

He let go of me and I walked over to Jacob. He grabbed me up into a hug as soon as I was close enough. "I missed you, Bells!" he grinned and said as we hugged. He was warm compared to Edward. It was nice, but I found myself missing his cold touch.

"Bye, Bella!" Alice was out of the car and bouncing up and down waving to me.

"Bye, Alice!" I shouted back at her as I got into Jacob's truck.

Okay, so there it is! Like it, love it, hate it, it is what it is. Let me know if you could. Lots of love!!

~Elle