New dawn -book 1

17. Confession

We got into my car and started to drive down to Jake's house. I couldnt delay the conversation any further," This is the wrong time to do this, but, Josh I'm going to tell you something that you might not want to hear." He looked confused." I got a phone call on my birthday from what I think is the voulturi. And they have Matty hostage."

"Wait, what? But he died?" He stuttered.

" I heard his voice on the phone." I explained.

" ok, how long do we have?" He asked.

"Erm, six moths from the 15th December."

" Have you told anyone else?"

"No, why would I ?"

"Ok, but we have to get him as soon as possible." He grimaced. It took us ten minutes to reach Jake's shed, I grabbed the spares keys out of my car's glove compartment and unlocked the shed. I pulled the dust cover of the car to reveal a shiny and improved volkswagen beetle. I grabbed the beetle's car keys off one of the shelves and turned it in the ignition. I headed back up to Charlie's house while Josh followed behind in my car. I made sure to park the car further down the street so there was no rising suspicions.

"Finally!" Charlie exclaimed when me and Josh walked in.

"We weren't that long!" I insisted.

"I know I was only Joking," Charlie laughed." Now who wants to go first?"

" I will," I said grabbing an envelope out of my coat pocket and handing it to Bella and Edward.

"What's this?" Bella asked whilst opening the envelope and revealing three tickets to Brazil. " Brazil?"

" Alice. I thought you would enjoy a family holiday, maybe go visit some friends." I winked, thinking of the story Edward told me of three extraordinary vampires from the Amazon coven called Zafrina, Senna and Kachiri. Edward smiled and Bella reached out and hugged me, I tried not to complain as her arms were crushing me. She quickly released me after she realised, I started to stop breathing. Then I gave Josh and Jake their presents; it was two tickets to the Seattle Seahawks game. We all pitched in to Charlie and Sue's 5 day fishing trip. Finally it was time to give Seth his present, I grabbed his hand and took him outside. " I can't believe you got me this, I love it, thank you." He said whilst hugging me,"Do you want to go for a ride?"

" sure," I said jumping into the passenger seat. We drove down to La Push beach and sat in the beetle watching the snow flakes fall. Finally, Seth reached into his pocket and reveal a little black box. "What's this?" I said whilst opening the mysterious box. But then I suddenly stop once it was open, my heart started racing and I almost stopped breathing, I was gasping for air. In the box was a sliver ring with diamonds encrusted on it and in the middle sparkling blue topaz-my birthstone. "Seth, is this an en...." I murmured

" No, Charlie would kill me," he interrupted. " It's a promise ring that I will love you forever." I picked up the ring out the box and in tiny lettering the word 'forever' was engraved into the inside of the ring. He took it out of my hand and placed it on my middle finger. I kissed him with more love than before. It was the perfect Christmas. I rested my head on his shoulder as we watched the snow started to stick. We drove back to Charlie's after about twenty minutes.

The next day Charlie was working so I drove to Josh's apartment in Port Angeles in hope to book us a flight to Italy. " we'll book the same time Charlie goes away as Bella and Edward." I suggested.

" Is that why you booked them both at the same time?" Josh asked.

" Yes ,we needed nobody to find out." I explained.

" But what about Seth?"

"I'll tell him...eventually." I worried.