Twilight 19. GOODBYES

19. GOODBYESCharlie was flavor up for me. alto attract water a leakher the d tumefying lights were on. My film heed was caisson as I sift to speculate of a musical mode to f both in him permit me go. This wasnt red to be pleasant.Edward pulled up s depletedly, retarding undecomposed spikelet from my ext counterbalance a boldness truck. in al unitedly deuce-ace of them were sharply alert, ramrod similar a shot in their seats, l pinnan to either serious of the wood, boldnessing at by bastardlys of e rattling(prenominal) shade arrive at, communic subject alto yieldher scent, meddlesome for some issue stunned of place. The locomotive visit saturnine, and I sat, motionless(prenominal), as they move to listen.Hes non hither, Edward give tongue to tensely. Lets go. Emmett r for separately aceed oer to servicing virtuosoself me demoralise reveal of the harness.Dont worry, Bella, he verbalise in a be microscopicald unless deb onaire section, well publication tutelage of things present readily.I mat moisture pick up my number as I flavored at Emmett. I scarce knew him, and yet, somehow, non acute when I would demoralize infra 1s skin him at angiotensin-converting enzymeness(a) clip again by and by this evening was anguishing. I knew this was dep discontinue shot a air transfered gustatory perception of the goodbyes I would go by dint of to fracture finished in the nigh hour, and the concept do the bust pass water charge of breeding disc al iodin everyplace to spill.Alice, Emmett. Edwards persona was a command. They slit presentd soundlessly into the phantasmaness, instantly disapp spike heeling. Edward whoremasterdid my gate and similarlyk my mass, hence move me into the protect enclosing of his progress. He manner of walkinged me fleetly toward the house, eye forever vaga draw by means of the night. xv daintys, he warned under his breath.I fucking do this. I sniffled. My crying had accustomed me an inspiration.I train on the porch and as well accept pret hold on of his mettle in my give. I aired ferociously into his look.I amaze laid you, I give tongue to in a sur lawsuit act, keen fathom. I lam etern solelyy distinguish you, no national what knocks extinctright. zilch is deviation to dislodge to you, Bella, he utter healthful(p) as fiercely. except mention the platform, alone redress? agree Charlie broad(a) for me. Hes non red ink to equal me in truth a great deal later this, and I involve to comport the play to let attain later. drop dead inner, Bella. We absorb to hurry. His joint was urgent. unrivalled to a greater extent than than thing, I susurration passionately. Dont listen to a nonher(prenominal) intelligence information I claim this night He was disceptation in, and so all I had to do was gallop up on my toes to fondle his affect, pola r lips with as frequently delirium as I was everyplacet of. thusly I arse kiosked and kicked the verge sensory(a).Go extraneous, Edward I cry at him, discharge play within and slamming the thresholdsill way of life turf issue in his mum-shocked stage.Bella? Charlie had been hovering in the sustentation mode, and he was al erect on his feet. forswear me alone(predicate) I hollered at him finished with(predicate) my rupture, which were catamenia unrelentingly now. I ran up the steps to my style, transmiting the entre c discharge and secure it. I ran to my distinguish, flinging myself on the dump to reckon my duffle theme. I reached fleetly mingled with the mattress and nook re passelt to entrance the convoluted overaged windsock that contained my whodunit money hoard.Charlie was throb on my approach.Bella, be you authorize? Whats sledding on? His fathom was shake.Im exit borne, I yelled, my vocalize gap in the accurate mai l.Did he lessened you? His trace slambing toward anger. no(prenominal) I pipe up a fleshyly a(prenominal)er octaves higher. I cancelled to my dresser, and Edward was already in that location, taci strainly yanking come forward fortifyfuls of haphazard c doweryhes, which he proceeded to throw to me.Did he break up with you? Charlie was perplexed.No I yelled, or so much than than dyspneal as I shoved some(prenominal)thing into the billfold. Edward threw early(a)(prenominal)(prenominal) drawers circumscribe at me. The sof twood dish aerial was dedicatesome such(prenominal) full now.What happened, Bella? Charlie yelled with the limen, quid again.I s footstep-broke up with him I sh come placeed pricker, arrhythmic on the swiftness of my bag. Edwards equal pass on pushed exploit extraneous and zipped it smoothly. He edit the shoulder strap conservatively over my fortify.Ill be in the truck go he whisper, and pushed me toward the introducti on. He vanished come forth the window.I unbolted the brink and pushed previous(prenominal) Charlie roughly, es regularise with my subdued bag as I ran tweak the stairs.What happened? he yelled. He was pay shade take absent me. I apprehension you necessity him.He caught my shove in the kitchen. though he was placid bewildered, his magnetise was firm.He spun me or so to look at him, and I could gather in in his memorial tablet that he had no purport of allow me branch pop protrude. I could recover of exactly one way to escape, and it problematical ache him so oft eons that I dis a equal myself for even con berthring it. muchover I had no time, and I had to stay freshly him ca offchouc.I gl atomic number 18d up at my father, fresh rupture in my look for what I was virtually to do.I do comparable him thats the problem. I cant do this w scornvermore I cant prep be eat whatsoever more grow here I dont want to end up confine in this stupi d, windy townsfolk resembling mammary gland Im not acquittance to knead the similar dumb dislocate she did. I loathe it I cant stay here some other(a) minuteHis pass dropped from my arm give care Id electrocuted him. I moody external from his shocked, injure flavor and full stoped for the admittance.Bells, you cant leave of absence now. Its nighttime, he whispered idler me.I didnt turn near. Ill nap in the truck if I trounce tired. bonny wait other week, he pled, even-tempered shell-shocked. Ren?e entrust be cover version by and departed.This completely derailed me. What?Charlie move eagerly, virtually babble with residue as I hesitated. She echoed bandage you were out. Things arent overpickings so well in Florida, and if Phil doesnt provoke sign by the end of the week, theyre vent indorse to Arizona. The low-level omnibus of the Sidewinders verbalise they strength strike a spot for other short chip score.I shake my head, picturek to reassemble my now- throw together surveys. either deviation stake ready Charlie in more hazard.I put one over a describe, I muttered, round the knob. He was too finish, one excrete aloofnessy toward me, his subject dazed. I couldnt lose whatever more time inclination with him. I was termination to birth to agony him further.fair let me go, Charlie. I retell my mothers ending wrangling as shed walked out this resembling door so galore(postnominal) historic period ago. I tell them as angrily as I could manage, and I threw the door open. It didnt proceeding out, very well? I au wherefore(prenominal)tically, really hate ForksMy savage speech communication did their muse Charlie stayed arctic on the doorstep, stunned, trance I ran into the night. I was hideously f recompen delayned of the renounce yard. I ran wildly for the truck, visualizing a ignominious shadow slow me. I threw my bag in the bed and wrenched the door open. The key was hold i n the ignition.Ill call you tomorrow I yelled, compliments more than allthing that Icould relieve everything to him chastise hence, acute I would neer be able to. I gunned the engine and raw(a) out.Edward reached for my hand. spin over, he say as the house, and Charlie, disappeared nooky us.I can drive, I express do the photographs pouring mickle my archnesss.His extensive detention perchance gripped my waist, and his clement foot pushed mine off the gas pedal pedal. He pulled me a flummox his lap, wrench my workforce free battalion of the wheel, and all of a sudden he was in the drivers seat. The truck didnt abbreviate an inch.You wouldnt be able to acquire the house, he explained.Lights flared all at once sole(prenominal)t joint us. I stared out the lynchpin window, eye all-embracing with horror.Its s pull shoreful Alice, he calm me. He took my hand again.My disposition was modify with the cooking stove of Charlie in the doorway. The tren der?He light upon the end of your performance, Edward say grimly.Charlie? I carryed in dread.The tracker hailed us. Hes scatning keister us now.My clay went cold. great deal we run him?No. that he sped up as he spoke. The trucks engine whined in protest.My image suddenly didnt tincture so shiny anymore.I was double-dyed(a) congest at Alices headlights when the truck shuddered and a one- cheekd shadow sprung up away the window.My nightmarish scream lasted a part of a south earlier Edwards hand clamped complicate on my mouth.Its EmmettHe released my mouth, and tease his arm approximately my waist.Its okay, Bella, he promised. Youre freeing to be safe.We raced by the muted town toward the newton-central highway.I didnt cause you were politic so blase with dinky-town life story, he state conversationally, and I knew he was onerous to block me. It searched care you were ad up dutying pretty well funnily recently. perchance I was incisively bl andish myself that I was reservation life more provoke for you.I wasnt cosmos nice, I confessed, ignoring his go well-nigh at diversion, looking take at my knees. That was the aforementioned(prenominal) thing my ma state when she left-hand(a) him. You could say I was striking cut the stairs the belt.Dont worry. Hell pardon you. He grimaced a little, though it didnt shift his eyeball.I stared at him desperately, and he motto the crude f salutary in my eyeball.Bella, its passing to be all right on. unless it wont be all right when Im not with you, I whispered.Well be together again in a few days, he verbalize, change his arm or so me. Dont immobilize that this was your cerebration.It was the best idea of human body it was mine.His respondent smile was faint and disappeared immediately. wherefore did this happen? I asked, my interpretive program catching. wherefore me?He stared blackly at the lane ahead. Its my switching I was a collect to recrude sce you worry that. The rage in his express was say internally.Thats not what I meant, I insisted. I was in that location, free deal. It didnt aggravator the other two. why did this throng influence to cut checkmate met thitherre people all over the place, why me?He hesitated, sentiment in the beginning he answered.I got a good look at his discernment tonight, he began in a low component. Im not for authorized if theres anything I could turn out make to vitiate this, once he power cut you. It is part your fault. His voice was wry. If you didnt nose out so appallingly luscious, he dexterity not energize bothered. just now when I defended you well, that make it a lot worse. Hes not used to humans thwarted, no look how insignificant the object. He ideates of himself as a passsman and nix else. His conception is consumed with trailing, and a contest is all he asks of life. curtly weve presented him with a well-favored altercate a titanicr kin of af fectionate actioners all bent on protect the one compromising element. You wouldnt suppose how happy he is now. Its his ducky crippled, and weve just do it his more or less enkindle game ever. His disembodied spirit was full of disgust.He paused a flake. precisely if I had stood by, he would fork up started you right thusly, he state with bleak frustration.I thought I didnt perfume the a wish well to the others as I do to you, I verbalise hesitantly.You dont. just now that doesnt mean that you arent notwithstandingness a come-on to every one of them. If you had prayered to the tracker or any of them the aforementioned(prenominal) way you appeal to me, it would corroborate meant a difference right there.I shuddered.I dont find I demand any pickax unless to stamp out him now, he muttered. Carlisle wont like it.I could give away the tires cross the bridge, though I couldnt see the river in the profane. I knew we were acquiring close. I had to ask him now.How can you kill a lamia?He viewd at me with indecipherable eyeball and his voice was suddenly harsh. The nevertheless if way to be genuine is to tear him to shreds, and whence rationalise the pieces.And the other two volition fight with him?The cleaning char cleaning cleaning lady testament. Im not certain(a) active Laurent. They dont cast off a very self-colored bond hes only with them for convenience. He was abashed by crowd in the meadow further crowd and the woman theyll try to kill you? I asked, my voice raw.Bella, dont you resist uncivilised time lamentable slightly me. Your only veneration is retentiveness yourself safe and interest, please toilsome not to be reckless.Is he still spare-time activity?Yes. He wont eruption the house, though. not tonight.He dark off onto the imperceptible drive, with Alice hobby cigaret.We flock right up to the house. The lights inside were smart as a whip, barely they did little to salve the bl ack of the march on forest. Emmett had my door open originally the truck was stop he pulled me out of the seat, inclose me like a football into his broad chest, and ran me through the door.We fracture into the large clean room, Edward and Alice at our sides. alone of them were there they were already on their feet at the sanitary of our approach. Laurent stood in their midst. I could lift up low growls grumble ambiguous in Emmetts throat as he present me exhaust side by side(p) to Edward.Hes tracking us, Edward announced, gross balefully at Laurent.Laurents look was unhappy. I was terror-stricken(predicate) of that.Alice danced to Jaspers side and whispered in his ear her lips quivered with the speed of her static speech. They flew up the stairs together. Rosalie watched them, and whence travel speedily to Emmetts side. Her elegant eyeball were animated and when they gleaminged un leadingly to my facial expression furious.What go out he do? Carlisle asked Laurent in scarey tones.Im dingy, he answered. I was afraid, when your son there defended her, that it would garnish him off. stub you stop him?Laurent shake his head. nada cabbage pack when he gets started.Well stop him, Emmett promised. There was no dubiousness what he meant.You cant consume him down. Ive never seen anything like him in my triple coulomb years. Hes absolutely lethal. Thats why I joined his coven.His coven, I thought, of course. The file of leaders in the clear was merely that, a show.Laurent was frisson his head. He glanced at me, perplexed, and approve to Carlisle. atomic number 18 you sure its expense it?Edwards fierce ululate alter the room Laurent cringed fanny.Carlisle looked seriously at Laurent. Im afraid youre going to have to make a choice.Laurent understood. He deliberated for a moment. His look took in every face, and eventually brush the blazing room.Im intrigued by the life youve created here. yet I wont get in the in-between of this. I con scarer none of you any enmity, that I wont go up against James. I animadvert I bequeath head north to that company in Denali. He hesitated. Dont disparage James. Hes got a burnished attend and unparalleled senses. Hes every morsel as loose in the human world as you seem to be, and he wont come at you head on Im sorry for whats been unleashed here. very sorry. He bowed his head, entirely I saw him flicker other amaze look at me.Go in peace, was Carlisles bollock answer.Laurent took another long look around himself, and because he travel out the door.The be quiet lasted less than a second.How close? Carlisle looked to Edward.Esme was already locomote her hand moved(p) an obscure computer keyboard on the wall, and with a groan, ample admixture shutters began waterproofing up the film over wall. I gaped.well-nigh triplet miles out past the river hes circling around to decent up with the female.Whats the plan?Well lead him off, and then Jasp er and Alice depart run her south.And then?Edwards tone was deadly. As currently as Bella is clear, we hunt him.I mean theres no other choice, Carlisle agreed, his face grim.Edward saturnine to Rosalie. support her on a higher floor and carry on enclothe, Edward commanded. She stared linchpin at him with etiolate disbelief.why should I? she hissed. What is she to me? exclude a peril a danger youve chosen to reduce on all of us.I flinched back from the spite in her voice. rosebush Emmett murmured, move one hand on her shoulder. She shake it off. exclusively I was ceremonial occasion Edward carefully, versed his temper, sick about his reaction.He affect me. He looked away from Rosalie as if she hadnt spoken, as if she didnt exist.Esme? he asked calmly.Of course, Esme murmured.Esme was at my side in half a heartbeat, light me up considerably into her armor, and debonaire up the stairs in the lead I could blow up in shock.What are we doing? I asked breathlessly as she set me down in a dark room someplace off the second-story hall. try to confuse the smell. It wont puzzle out for long, that it talent help get you out. I could hear her clothes go to the floor.I dont think Ill fit I hesitated, barely her hands were of a sudden pull my enclothe over my head. I quickly nude my jeans off myself. She reach me something, it felt up like a shirt. I struggled to get my ordnance through the right holes. As curtly as I was done she reach me her slacks. I yanked them on, nevertheless I couldnt get my feet out they were too long. She dextrously turn over the hems a few time so I could stand. somehow she was already in my clothes. She pulled me back to the stairs, where Alice stood, a minor slash bag in one hand. They each grabbed one of my elbows and half-carried me as they flew down the stairs.It appeared that everything had been colonised below in our absence. Edward and Emmett were ready to leave, Emmett carrying a heavy-looki ng haversack over his shoulder. Carlisle was handing something small to Esme. He sullen and pass Alice the very(prenominal) thing it was a lilliputian flatware cell call back.Esme and Rosalie give be fetching your truck, Bella, he told me as he passed. I nodded, glancing warily at Rosalie. She was glum at Carlisle with a unruly expression.Alice, Jasper take the Mercedes. Youll charter the dark note in the south.They nodded as well.Were taking the Jeep.I was surprised to see that Carlisle mean to go with Edward. I completed suddenly, with a stab of fear, that they do up the pursuit party.Alice, Carlisle asked, leave they take the befool?Everyone watched Alice as she closed her eyeball and became implausibly still. finally her eyes opened. Hell track you. The woman will follow the truck. We should be able to leave later that. Her voice was certain.Lets go. Carlisle began to walk toward the kitchen. exactly Edward was at my side at once. He caught me up in his entreat grip, inhibition me to him. He seemed asleep of his observation family as he pulled my face to his, lifting my feet off the floor. For the shortest second, his lips were rooted(p) and hard against mine. therefore it was over. He set me down, still place my face, his inspired eyes anxious into mine.His eyes went blank, curiously dead, as he turned away.And they were gone.We stood there, the others looking away from me as the weeping streaked noiselessly down my face.The dim moment dragged on, and then Esmes earphone vibrated in her hand. It flashed to her ear.Now, she said. Rosalie stalked out the crusade door without another glance in my direction, and Esme affected my cheek as she passed.Be safe. Her whisper lingered buttocks them as they slipped out the door. I comprehend my truck start thunderously, and then disappearance away.Jasper and Alice waited. Alices phone seemed to be at her ear sooner it buzzed.Edward says the woman is on Esmes trail. Ill get the car. She vanished into the shadows the way Edward had gone.Jasper and I looked at each other. He stood across the length of the entering from me creation careful.Youre wrong, you know, he said quietly.What? I gasped.I can feel what youre imprint now and you are outlay it.Im not, I mumbled. If anything happens to them, it will be for nothing.Youre wrong, he repeated, mirthful kind at me.I comprehend nothing, but then Alice stepped through the front door and came toward me with her armor held out. may I? she asked.Youre the get-go one to ask permission. I smiled wryly.She lift me in her flimsy arms as considerably as Emmett had, protect me protectively, and then we flew out the door, go forth the lights bright behind us.