Isabella 'Bella' Marie Rickman: I'm Still Standing

Part 12

The next morning, Alan woke up and headed downstairs to start breakfast for himself and Bella.

Ten minutes later, he called up to Bella. He got no answer, so he headed upstairs and knocked on her door. Still no answer. He opened the door to see an empty room. The bed was still made like it wasn't slept in at all. Alan looked to see some of her drawers are open and her dance bag was gone.

He ran back down the stairs to see that Bella's coat, shoes and keys had gone.

"Where is she?" Alan asked himself and got his phone out and started to call his daughter.

"Hey. You have reached Bella, don't leave a message as I won't pick it up. I am not reachable at all so don't bother. I don't want to be found either." The voicemail had changed to what it was before.

Alan hung up and then went onto the 'Find my Iphone' app to see if he could find out where Bella was. He clicked on Bella's phone to be told that it wasn't searchable and has been turned off from the app.

"Oh Bella, where are you?" Alan started to cry.

He called Michael and Sophie to see if she had gone to their home.

"No, she's not here sir. What's going on?" Sophie asked.

"I think that she has run away from me."

"We will start calling around some of her friends to see if she is with any of them." Sophie told him.

"I will call Tom to see if she has made her way to him."

The frantic calls to Bella's friends to see if she had contacted any of them. They all came back to say that they hadn't heard from Bella at all since the accident.

Alan had not a clue where she would go. It was then that he decided to call the police and get them to help find her.

The police were around within 10 minutes after he had made the call.

They got descriptions of Bella, a recent photo of her so they knew what she looked like. The police left the house and started their search for Isabella.

Bella had managed to go to a friend that her dad didn't know of. It was a friend from her dance class. She had told them that she was upset with her dad that she didn't want to be there with him anymore and that he cared more about his work than his own family.

Charlotte's parents were in the right frame of mind and asked that they were to call him to let him know that she was safe. Bella told them not to bother as he didn't care. But Bella would be so wrong.

Alan was so distraught about Bella running away that he didn't turn up the next day for filming. He was currently sat on his sofa drinking a cup of cold coffee that he had been nursing for a few hours.

Michael and Sophie were with him, but they were in the kitchen trying to call everyone that they knew to see if Bella was with any of them.

They called Charlotte's home to get her mum Samantha on the phone.

"Bella is here with us. She doesn't want her dad to know that she's safe and that she's staying with us. Bella mentioned that he didn't care about her and that all he cared about was his work and that he never makes anytime for her anymore." Samantha told Michael over the phone.

"Is Bella there with you at this moment?" Michael asked.

"Yes she's in the living room. Give me a moment and I will put her on the phone." Samantha put the phone on hold and then went into the living room and handed the phone after putting the line back off hold.

"Hello Michael." Bella said quietly.

"Ella why have you done this? Your dad is frantically worried about you. He's called the police and everything." Michael covered Bella's name so that Alan didn't hear that he was on the phone to Bella.

"He doesn't care anymore. All he cares about his career and his fans. I don't want to be there with him anymore. He won't even come to my first Dance Recital, because he has a contract, and he has to be there at the red carpet for Chamber of Secrets. Plus, Tom won't be able to come either. I don't want to be with him anymore." Bella was crying.

"Oh Ella. Please darling, can I get Sophie to pick you up and you can come back to ours and talk to us about it?"

"Yeah, you can send Sophie, but I don't want to come back home for a while. You can tell dad that I am with you and to call off the police."

Bella passed on the address of Charlotte's home and Sophie went and picked up the car keys and headed out.

"Sir, you need to call off the police. Me and Sophie have found Bella." Michael told Alan.

"You have found her? Where is she? Please I need to see my daughter." Alan asked of his driver.

"Sophie has gone to pick her up. She doesn't want to see you for a while. Please respect her wishes. She has been fragile since the accident. She just wants to talk to Sophie first." Michael explained to Alan.

"Any reason why?"

"She is saying that you don't make time for her anymore that all you think about is you career and your fans more than her. Plus, you won't make the time to go and see her Dance Recital, even though you have a red-carpet event that night. It's since you told her that you were busy that night, it looks like it driven her to the edge and that's why she had run away."