The Unexpected Lovers

Chapter 7

Bella's POV

The ride was boring watching as the landscape changed, and it was depressing watching Alice and Jasper hold hands and smile at each other as if we weren't being hunted.

I glared at there intertwined hands. Why can't I have that? Why couldn't I be with Esme? Edward is not my mate, he is sweet, but it is hard to pretend when every time he kisses me it feels as if I am betraying my Esme.

I eventually drifted off into a slumber and in my dreams I dreamt that all of this was over, I was hold Esme and she was beaming at me, we confessed our love and kissed.

I awoke unhappily from my dream as Alice hugged me, I was about to question her when I realized there were tears leaking out of my eyes, and a sharp pain in my chest probably caused by my mating pull.

I saw Jasper wince and put his hand over his heart, he looked at me and sent me calmness and he got out of the car and went into the motel while Alice comforted me.

"It is going to be ok Bella, it's ok honey," she whispered.

I whimpered and hid my face in her neck, "I want my mate," I croaked.

"It'll be ok," Alice whispered, "you'll be with her someday."

She calmed me and brought me to our room where Jasper looked at me with sympathy.

I winced as another stab went through my heart.

I went to my room and passed out.

The following days were stressful and tense to say the least, Alice never said much, she watched the future constantly, and Jasper well..... let's say that he winced every other minute as a stab him my heart, but it wasn't always that.

I was worried for all of them, how were they? Did the tracker go for Charlie? Why haven't they called?

Soon after a freak out of mine Alice had a vision of my living room here in Phoenix, and also my ballet studio, when I pointed this out they gave each other a worried glance.

Later in the day Edward called me, I was genuinely happy because I could at least have some news.

The tracker had figured it out, after Rosalie rubbed a tree the wrong way and gotten her own scent on it.

He was coming for me, to hide me in Vancouver, and Esme and Rosalie stayed to protect Charlie from the woman who apparently was in no rush to leave.

I wanted Esme, I wish she and I could go into hiding, to be able to spend weeks maybe months with her would be lovely.

I hung up with Edward and sadly went to my bed,  I drifted off into a nightmare where the family was dead around me, Esme being the closest to me, her eyes wide her mouth open in a silent scream.

A wave of people advanced on me, all of them wearing cloaks ranging from light gray to black, the one in the middle wearing a black cloak laughed in a high pitch, like a child. Then, faster than I could blink, he lunged to tear out my throat.

I awoke screaming and Alice ran to my side and comforted me as I sobbed.

I awoke a second time later on, from a now dreamless sleep,  I laid there staring at the ceiling, pain filling my chest.

Esme.... the body looked so real, I felt a bigger stab in my chest and I clutched it, trying to stop my pain.

It was then, as I lay there, tears in my eyes that my phone started blaring a ringtone.

I picked up and looked at the called ID I almost dropped it out of shock. Home calling...

I answer and heard my mom frantically yelling my name, but then sounded like someone took the phone and I heard a deep voice, the voice of the tracker.

"Forks High School doesn't protect its student privacy very well...."