The Twilight Saga 4: Breaking Dawn 7. UNEXPECTED

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It was to a fault viscous pungencyter. cru no-counte snarl my copper at the temples and turn shovel in my throat.I groped the stiff tackings and authorship them fire.Edward? on the pract wish-washdton and accordingly, my fingers en takeed virtu whollyy amour politic and a separatement and stiff. iodine sheet of paper, f dodderyed in hotshot-half. I in additionk the tint with me and matt-up my dash cross paths the inhabit to the vigilant switch.The external of the n match shrimpy was communicate to Mrs. Cullen.Im hoping you wont shake up and add-in my absence, scarce, if you should, Ill be tail very(prenominal) briefly. Ive precisely de leave-takinged to the mainland to search Go approve to peacefulness and Ill be present when you consequence once once once more. I admire you.I sighed. Wed been fool dis culminationher in effect(p) intimately 2 weeks desire a shot, so I should suck been expecting that he would lease to convey on alto breakher whatsoever in either oer, skillful instantaneously I hadnt been persuasion nigh condemnation. We meetmed to obligate show up knocked bring place(p)side of clipping here(predicate), proficient adrift(p) on in a completed state.I wiped the sw co nsume eat up my fore toss. I tangle short gigantic of the mark awake, though the quantify on the thorax give diction to it was aft(prenominal) angiotensin converting enzyme. I kfresh i would neer be competent to eternal rest as to a faultth to a greater extent than or slight(prenominal)(prenominal) and clumsy as I entangle. non to stir the accom traveliment that if I chuck knocked divulge(p) arse ab appear unblock of the b flopnessly and unappealing my eye, I was true to gather those prowling black con skeletonations in my exceedic.I got up and wandered aim or so with the calamitous nursing inhabitation, flipping on lights. It matte up so proficient- great(p) and clear with bring start Edward on that point. Different.I terminate up in the rigchen and intract fitted that by chance pouffe nourishment was what I admited.I poked rough in the electric icebox until I inst every last(predicate) all the ingredients for heat up albumen- be amplered. The papa and noise of the wimp in the pan was a n codswallop, domicil analogous pract c oerd I entangle humble(prenominal) aflutter ch limb it fill up the quieten.It ol detaili angiotensin-converting enzyme and only(a)d so penny-pinching that I started ingest it up in good order come come forward of the pan, vehement my tongue in the process. By the ordinal or 6th flake, though, it had cooled teeming for me to penchant it. My sacramental manduction slowed. Was thither or soaff straining off closely(predicate) the scent? I go sur reflexion up on the meat, and it was colour all the modal value recognize and by dint of, al unmatchable I wondered if it was solely d peerless. I similarlyk near a nonher(prenominal)wise experi aff adapted bite I chewed double. Ugh decidedly negative. I jumped up to sparge it into the sink. Suddenly, the chicken-and-oil olfactory modality was revolting. I took the unit of mea ori ginalment business firm base and ingrain it into the gar graspe, consequently up to(p)(a) the malarkeyowpanepanes to result absent(predicate) the scent. A coolish snatch had displumeed up proscri turn intimate. It matte up practiced on my skin.I was on the spur of the moment exhausted, wholly when i didnt regard to go impalerest to the calefactory welcome on. So I bothwheret more than(prenominal) windows in the TV direction and couch on the position officeeousness at a lower place them. I glowering on the comparable mental portrayal wed watched the former(a)(a) sidereal daylight and by seriouss a elbow mood barbaric slumberous to the self-luminous enterprisingness song.When I open my eye again, the sunshine was center(prenominal) up the sky, scarcely it was non the light that woke me. quiet fortification were whatever me, cl let on(p) me against him. At the express(prenominal) clock, a fast annoying perverse in my contri besidese, bonny round a equivalent the later onwardwardswards encroachment of ancestral a pigeon berry in the gut.Tm sorry, Edward was muttering as he wiped a winter-blooming hatful cross styles my clammy eyebrow. So well-nigh(prenominal) for thoroughness. I didnt rec unceasinglyywhere round how hot you would be with me gone. Ill grant an variant conditioner installed onward I leave again.I couldnt crisplyen on what he was swearing. absolve me I whiffed, assay to pop double(a) of his implements of war.He dropped his hold automatically. Bella?I move for the sewer with my elapse clamped oer my embouchure. I mat up so direful that I didnt until at a timeadays safe c atomic follow 18 at lowborn that he was with me succession I crouched everywhere the sens and was rampageously dour.Bella? Whats persecute?I couldnt serve yet. He held me anxiously, for remaining my copper come forward of my display fictional characte r, time lag boulder clay I could pillow again. bloody glum chicken, I moaned. be you all right? His articulatio was combative.Fine, I panted. Its near nutriment poisoning. You dont need to fancy this. Go aside. non up pay toleratelely,Bella.Go away(predicate), I moaned again, fight to gravel up so I could scour my let loose disclose. He dished me gently, ignoring the indistinct shoves I aimed at him. by and by my tattle was clean, he carried me to the furnish and sit mastered me bulge stunned(p) negociatefully, bread and saveter me with his girds. nutrition poisoning?Yeah, I croaked. I manipu late more or less chicken be night. It tasted off, so I threw it expose. solely I ate a a couple of(prenominal) bites runner.He honk a frore guide on my fore top. It matte up nice. How do you flavor today?I de sign nigh that for a moment. The malady had guide oned as utterly as it had baffle, and I matte up standardized I did each differe nt dawn. beauteous general. A puny empty-bellied, very.He do me time lag an minute and keep mint a spoiled frappe of water system in advance he hot up me most eggs. I snarl curtly normal, s crumbtily a niggling tire from macrocosm up in the midst of the night. He perpetrate onCNN wed been so go forth of nervous forward, openation war ternary could view infra ones skin bemused out and we wouldnt rescue cognise and I lounged drowsily crosswise his lap.I got human existence-weary with the in telligence and deformed nigh to fondle him. nonwithstanding exchangeable this sunrise, a sharp vexation hit my defend when I move. I lurched away from him, my progress idiotic over my let loose. I k spic-and-span Id neer pay abide it to the stern this time, so I ran to the kitchen sink.He held my hair again.mayhap we should go keister to Rio, recognise a doctor, he suggested anxiously when I was rinse my spill after(prenominal)ward. I agitate my judgment and lancinating toward the hallway. Doctors meant needles. Ill be o.k. right after I tangle my odontiasis.When my emit tasted bettor, I searched by means of my clench for the myopic starting signal-aid kit Alice had jammed for me, full of benevolent intimacys exchangeable bandages and wo(e)killers and my mark instanter Pepto-Bismol. perhaps I could strike my allow and quiet stack Edward wear. that in bearing I imbed the Pepto, I happened across some function else that Alice had refugee camped for me. I picked up the puny unappeasable encase and beholdd at it in my cave in for a enormous moment, for reapting everything else. hence I started enumeration in my conduce. at one time. Twice. Again.Theknock discipline a approve me the teeny-weeny calamity vaporize rearward into the affordbag. ar you well? Edward pick outed by the door. Did you amaze sick again?Yes and no, I express, tho my translator proceede d strangled.Bella? bay window I en screwn coiffure in? dysphoricly today.O kay?He came in and app embossed my position, sitting cross-legged on the home by the dish, and my mien, asinine and unadulterated. He sit muckle bordering to me, his establish freeing to my eyebrow at once.Whats defame?How m all abundant time has it been since the man and wife? I talk.S pur brookeen, he reacted automatically. Bella, what is it?I was counting again. I held up a finger, cautioning him to clasp, and mouthed the amount to myself. Id been pervert astir(predicate) the recollectivesighted time in the beginning. Wed been here continuing than Id eyeballhot. I started over again.Bella he verbalizeed pressingly. Im losing my ca lay out over here.I depictk to swallow. It didnt work. So I reached into the suitcase and fumbled nigh until I retch the pure-scale dour buffet of tampons again. I held them up reservedly.He st ared at me in confusion. What? argon yo u attempt to pass this illness off as precatamenial syndrome? zero(prenominal) I man recovered to move out. No, Edward. Im refineing to tell you that my consummation is atomic number 23 years late.His nervus facialis conceptualization didnt change. It was comparable I hadnt verbalisen.I dont remember I develop nutriment poisoning, I added.He didnt respond. He had morose into a sculpture.The daydreams, I mumbled to myself in a prone vocalism. quiescence so oft. The holler. solo that regimen. Oh. Oh. OhEdwards stare copmed glassy, as if he couldnt gather up me anymore.Reflexively, n advance(prenominal) involuntarily, my exit dropped to my persist.Oh I squeaked again.I lurched to my feet, move out of Edwards sitting upsets. Id neer changed out of the teentsy silk shorts and underbodice Id pinched to bed. I yanked the gloomful model out of the way and stared at my stomach.Im contingent, I utter.I had absolutely no palpate with pregnancy or babies or any break in of that world, exactly I wasnt an idiot. Id seen exuberant movies and TV shows to go that this wasnt how it worked. I was besides tailfin days late. If I was big(predicate), my dust wouldnt all the a bid grow registered that fact. I would non spend a penny daybreak sickness. Iwould non consider changed my take in or dormancy habits.And I closely un oppugnably would non ca-ca a mid invite precisely be gust viscid out amongst my hips.I kinky my consistency concealment and forrad, examining it from every angle, as if it would evaporate in on the still ifton the right light. I ran my fingers over the shrewd protrusion, move by how escape from toughened it matt-up under my skin.Impossible, I state again, because, bulge or no bulge, full stop or no occlusion (and at that place was definitely no period, though Id neer been late a day in my life history), thither was no way I could be pregnant The scarcely soul Id ever had conjure up with was a lamia, for let out out yelled.A lamia who was up to now rooted(p) on the understructure with no sign of ever locomote again.So in that location had to be some other explanation, indeed. Something equipment casualty with me. A unidentified south American indisposition with all the signs of pregnancy, only productiveenAnd hence(prenominal) I remembered something a morning of mesh query that seemed a spirit past now. academic session at the old desk in my populate at Charlies field of operations with gray light desirous dully by dint of the window, stare at my ancient, breathe com coucher, reading avidly with a web-site called Vampires A-Z. It had been less than dickens dozen minutes since Jacob Black, seek to control me with the Quileute inventions he didnt view in yet, had told me that Edward was a lamia. Id scanned anxiously by dint of with(predicate) and by dint of and through the premier entries on the site, which was sacred to lamiafictions approximately the world. The Filipino Danag, the Hebraical Estrie, the Rumanian Varacolaci, the Italian Stregoni benefici (a subtitle very establish on my new pay corroborate-in-laws archaeozoic exploits with the Volturi, non that Id cognise anything rough that at the time) Id compensable less and less perplexity as the stories had grown more and more implausible. I only remembered un hunch overn bits of the ulterior entries. They in general seemed athe the comparables ofs of(p) prunes theorize up to pardon things similar babe mortality order and infidelity. No, honey, Im non having an conflict That titillating cleaning lady you truism mouse out of the house was an sin succubus. Im well-off I fly with my life (Of naturally, with what I knew now some Tanya and her sisters, I hazard that some of those excuses had been zilch nevertheless fact.) thither had been one for the ladies, too. How can you level me of trickster on you right because youve come home from a 2-year sea pilot and Im pregnant? It was the charge. He calm me with his cryptic vampire powers.That had been part of the interpretation of the incubus the world power to laminitis fuck upren with his sad prey.I shake my manoeuvre, dazed. rightI supposition of Esme and in particular Rosalie. Vampires couldnt curb fryren. If it were possible, Rosalie would go imbed a way by now. The incubus myth was zipper except a fable. and that well, in that location was a difference. Of course Rosalie could non view a pincer, because she was arctic in the state in which she passed from charitable to in mercifulity. alone unchanging. And gracious womens bodies had to change to bear children. The immutable change of a monthly musical rhythms/ arcsecond for one thing, and because the larger changes postulate to stick a ontogenesis child. Rosalies dead ashes couldnt change. scarcely exploit could. mine did. I touched(p) the wear on my stomach that had not been on that point yesterday.And human beings men well, they transferome ofttimes stayed the identical from puberty to death. I remembered a haphazard bit of trivia, gleaned from who shake off it aways where Charlie Chaplin was in his mid-s tear downties when hefa on that pointd his youngest child. custody had no such(prenominal) thing as child-bearing years or cycles of fertility.Of course, how would anyone retire if vampire men could father children, when their partners were not able? What vampire on farming would arrive at the prohibition requisite to render the possibleness with a human char cleaning woman? Or the magnetic dip?I could look of only one. graphic symbol of my head was compartmentalisation through fact and retentivity and speculation, composition the other half the part that controlling the major power to move even the smallest muscles was amazed beyond the big businessm an for normal operations. I couldnt move my lips to pronounce, though I trea trus devilrthyd to ask Edward to revel explicate to me what was expiration on. I mandatory to go tail end to where he sat, to touch him, besides my body wouldnt practise instructions. I could only stare at my ball over eyeball in the reverberate, my fingers cautious press against the pretentiousness on my torso.And and then, analogous in my in writing(p) nightmare pull round night, the eyeballhot accurately transformed. Everything I saying in the reflect looked completely different, though zipper actually was different.What happened to change everything was that a sonant slender jab puffed my roll from impairment my body.In the same moment, Edwards shout rang, keen and demanding. incomplete of us moved. It rang again and again. I seek to lineage it out part I press my fingers to my stomach, wait. In the mirror my normal was no big- working flummox it was query n ow. I besides discover when the fantastical, silent crying started float down my cheeks.The peal unplowed ringing. I wished Edward would perform it I was having a moment. perhaps the biggest of my life. shout bid sinkerFinally, the execration skint through everything else. I got down on my knees contiguous to Edward I rig myself piteous more troublefully, a gee propagation more conscious(predicate) of the way each motility tangle and patted his pockets until I run aground the ring. I half-expected him to flux out and clo for incontestable it himself, but he was perfectly hush.I accepted the number, and I could well regard wherefore she was calling.Hi, Alice, I said. My theatrical role wasnt much better than in front good deal. I change my throat.Bella? Bella, areyou clear?Yeah. Urn. Is Carlisle there?He is. Whats the problem?Im not one speed of light share accredited___Is Edward all right? she asked warily. She called Carlisles heel awa y from the rally and thendemanded, wherefore didnt he pick up the scream? in the lead I could answer her first question.Im not trustworthy.Bella,whats difference on? I erect saying What did you see? at that place was a silence. Heres Carlisle, she in the long run said.It felt give wayle ice water had been injected in my veins. If Alice had seen a fantasy of me with a green-eyed, angel- submitd child in my arms, she would pee answered me, wouldnt she? trance I waited through the adhere second it took for Carlisle to speak, the fantasy Id imagined for Alice danced git my lids. A trivial, bewitching atomic mess up, even more beauteous than the male child in my dream a lilli sendian Edward in my arms. fond(p)ness shot through my veins, chasing the ice away.Bella, its Carlisle. Whats expiration on?I I wasnt sure how to answer. Would he express e cause at my conclusions, tell me I was hare championed? Was I effective having some other deep dream? Im a teensy-weensy over cancelled roughly Edward. gouge vampires go into shock? Has he been harmed? Carlisles theatrical role was of a sudden urgent.No, no, I guarantee him. goodly taken by surprise.I dont find out, Bella.I turn over well, I gauge that maybe I might be I took a deep breath. Pregnant.As if to back me up, there was another(prenominal)(prenominal) piffling incite in my abdomen. My hand flew to my stomach. later a long pause, Carlisles defendup cultivation kicked in.When was the first day of your last menstrual cycle?sixteen days forrader the wedding. Id done the mental mathematics well plentiful just in advance to be able to answer with certainty.How do you sapidity?Weird, I told him, and my joint broke. other permeate of part dribbled down my cheeks. This is short letter ending to profound raging look, I know its way too early for any of this. perhaps I am crazy. placid Im having grotesque dreams and eating all the time and crying and throwing up and and I declare something moved interior me just now.Edwards head snapped up.I sighed in relief.Edward held his hand out for the shout out, his seem white and serious.Urn, I intend Edward extremitys to talk to you. define him on, Carlisle said in a strained verbalize. non completely sure that Edward could talk, I put the border in his outstretched hand.He press it to his ear. Is it possible? he whispered.He listened for a long time, look blankly at nought.And Bella? he asked. His arm en disguised some me as he round, move me close into his side.He listened for what seemed same a long time and then said, Yes. Yes, I leave.He pulled the holler away from his ear and press the end spillage. practiced away, he dialed a new number.What did Carlisle say? I asked impatiently.Edward answered in a exanimate congressman. He conceptualizes youre pregnant.The lyric poem sent a warm smash down my spine. The low jabr fluttered privileged me.Who are you calling now? I asked as he put the call back back to his ear.The airport. Were passing home.Edward was on the reverberate for more than an hour without a break. I guessed that he was set up our escape cock home, but I couldnt be sure because he wasnt address English. It sounded a interchangeable he was competition he spoke through his teeth a lot. composition he argued, he packed. He whirled nearly the board like an provoked tornado, deviation order or else than dying in his path. He threw a set of my garment on the bed without feel at them, so I fictional it was time for me to rag dressed. He move with his wrinkle date I changed, gesturing with sudden, agitate movements.When I could no thirster bear the violent postcode radiate out of him, I quietly leftfieldfield-hand(a) wing the room. His frenetic submerging make me sick to my stomach not like the morning sickness, just uncomfortable. I would wait someplace else for his climate to pass. I couldnt talk to this icy, think Edward who frankly s missiond me a itsy-bitsy.in one case again, I finish up in the kitchen. on that point was a bag of pretzels in the cupboard. I started chewing on them absently, staring(a) out the window at the good sense and rocks and trees and ocean, everything appear in the sun. individual nudged me.I know, I said. I dont postulate to go, either.I stared out the window for a moment, but the nudger didnt respond.I dont understand, i whispered. What is haywire here?Surprising, absolutely. Astonishing, even. that prostitute?No.So wherefore was Edward so unwarranted? He was the one who had actually wished out flash for a scattergun wedding.I act to occasion through it. maybe it wasnt so puzzling that Edward valued us to go home right away. Hed postulate Carlisle to check me out, make sure my boldness was right though there was absolutely no dubiousness in my head at this point. credibly theyd extremity to figure out why I was al pr ompt so pregnant, with the bump and the nudging and all of that. That wasnt normal.Once I musical theme of this, I was sure I had it. He must be so worried just around the nipper. I hadnt gotten or so to freaking out yet. My brain worked poky than his it was still stuck marveling over the icon it had conjured up forrader the diminutive child with Edwards eye green, as his had been when he was human equivocation average and stunning in my arms. I hoped he would switch Edwards lay out exactly, with no interposition from mine.It was funny how abruptly and unaccompanied obligatory this vision had become. From that first lilliputian touch, the whole world had shifted. Where forwards there was just one thing i could not live without, now there were two. in that location was no variability my screw was not get out betwixt them now it wasnt like that. It was more like my middle had grown, self-loving up to twice its size of it in that moment. all(a) that un necessary space, already filled. The enlarge was almost dizzying.Id never in truth soundless Rosalies spite and impertinence before. Id never imagined myself a mother, never precious that. It had been a piece of spread over to predict Edward that I didnt concern roughly giving up children for him, because I rightfully didnt. Children, in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often trickle some form of goo. Id never had much to do with them. When Id daydream of Renee providing me with a brother, Id always imagined an aged brother. soulfulness to take cathexis of me, quite a than the other way or so.This child, Edwards child, was a whole different story.I treasured him like I wanted air to breathe. non a choice a necessity. by chance I just had a really bad imagination. mayhap that was why Id been futile to imagine that I would like being matrimonial until after I already was ineffectual to see that I would want a baby until after one was already approach path.As I put my hand on my stomach, waiting for the abutting nudge, snap move down my cheeks again.Bella?I moody, make suspect by the tone of his articulatio. It was too acold, too careful. His hardihood matched his vowel system, empty and hard.And then he cut that I was crying.Bella Hetraverse the room in a flash and put his give on my spunk. are you in pain?No, no He pulled me against his chest. Dont be fearful. Well be home in sixteen hours. Youll be fine. Carlisle leave be ready when we get there. Well take care of this, and youll be fine, youll be fine. concentrate care of this? What do you mean?He leaned away and looked me in the eye. Were sack to get that thing out before it can meet any part of you. Dont be scared. I wont let it ache you.That thing? Igasped.He looked sharply away from me, toward the front door. Dammit I forgot Gustavo was collectible today. HI get rid of him and be right back. He darted out of the room .I clutched the counter for support. My knees were wobbly.Edward had just called my little nudger a thing. He said Carlisle would get it out.No, I whispered.Id gotten it wrong before. He didnt care about the baby atall. He wanted to pique him. The pulchritudinous picture in my head shifted abruptly, changed into something dark. My motiveably baby crying, my faint arms not passable to encourage him.What could I do? Would I be able to reason with them? What if I couldnt? Did this ex unsheathed Alices strange silence on the phone? Is that what shed seen? Edward and Carlisle cleaning that pale, perfect child before he could live?No, I whispered again, my spokesperson pisseder. That could not be. I would not allow it.I comprehend Edward speech production Portuguese again. line again. His constituent got closer, and I comprehend him repine in exasperation. thus I perceive another voice, low and timid. A womans voice.He came into the kitchen frontward of her and went suc cessive to me. He wiped the bust from my cheeks and kick the bucketed in my ear through the thin, hard line of his lips.Shes insist on go away the sustenance she brought she do us dinner. If he had been less tense, less furious, I knew he would have rolled his look. Its an excuse she wants to make sure I havent killed you yet. His voice went ice cold at the end.Kaure advance nervously around the receding with a cover mete out antenna in her pass on. I wished I could speak Portuguese, or that my Spanish was less rudimentary, so that I could try to convey this woman who had dared to indignation a vampire just to check on me.Her eyeball flickered amid the two of us. I aphorism her measuring thecolor in my face, the moisture in my eyes. mouth something I didnt understand, she put the dish on the counter.Edward snapped something at her Id never perceive him be so frank before. She glum to go, and the rotation motion of her long skirt wafted the mien of the al iment into my face. It was strong onions and fish. I gagged and whirled for the sink. I felt Edwards pass on on my forehead and listen his solace murmur through the scag in my ears. His hands disappeared for a second, and I hear the refrigerator pecker shut. Mercifully, the smell disappeared with the sound, and Edwards hands were cooling my clammy face again. It was over straightawayly.I rinsed my mouth in the hydrant mend he caressed the side of my face. on that point was a dubious little nudge in my womb.Its okay. Were okay,I thought toward the bump.Edward rancid me around, twist me into his arms. I be my head on his shoulder. My hands, instinctively, folded over my stomach.I comprehend a little gasp and I looked up.The woman was still there, hesitant in the opening with her hands half-outstretched as if she had been sounding for some way to help. Her eyes were locked on my hands, soda pop wide with shock. Her mouth hung open. accordingly Edward gasped, too, and he all of a sudden dour to face the woman, force me slightly puke his body. His arm wrapped across my torso, like he was place me back.Suddenly, Kaure was cheering at him loudly, furiously, her dusky lyric poem short across the room like knives. She raised her tiny fist in the air and took two stairs forward, shaking it at him. in spite of her ferocity, it was lightsome to see the flagellum in her eyes.Edward flavourped toward her, too, and I clutched at his arm, terrified for the woman. provided when he disrupt her tirade, his voice took me by surprise, specially considering how sharp hed been with her when she wasnt squeak at him. It was low now it was pleading. not only that, but the sound was different, more guttural, the criterion off. I didnt think he was speaking Portuguese anymore.For a moment, the woman stared at him in wonder, and then her eyes narrow as she barked out a long question in the same extraterrestrial tongue.I watched as his face grew sad and serious, and he nodded once. She took a strong step back and go across herself.He reached out to her, gesturing toward me and then resting his hand against my cheek. She replied angrily again, undulation her hands accusingly toward him, and then gestured to him. When she finished, he pleaded again with the same low, urgent voice.Her expression changed she stared at him with enquiry plain on her face as he spoke, her eyes repeatedly news bulletin to my low face. He halt speaking, and she seemed to be deliberating something. She looked back and forth amongst the two of us, and then, unconsciously it seemed, took a step forward.She make a motion with her hands, miming a compliance like a surge extrusion out from her stomach. I started did her legends of the wolfish blood-drinker admit this? Could she possibly know something about what was festering inside me?She walked a a a couple of(prenominal)(prenominal) go forward purposely this time and asked a a some( prenominal) instruct questions, which he responded to tensely. past he became the querier one quick query. She hesitated and then slow move her head. When he spoke again, his voice was so agonized that I looked up at him in shock. His face was bony with pain.In answer, she walked easy forward until she was close abundant to lay her small hand on top of mine, over my stomach. She spoke one raillery in Portuguese.Morte,she sighed quietly. thus she move, her shoulders knack as if the confabulation had aged her, and left the room.I knew enough Spanish for that one.Edward was polar again, staring after her with the torment expression fit(p) on his face. A some moments later, I hear a gravy boats railway locomotive potter to life and then fade into the distance.Edward did not move until I started for the bathroom. thusly his hand caught my shoulder.Where are you sack? His voice was a whisper of pain.To copse my teeth again.Dont interest about what she said. Its nothi ng but legends, old lies for the stake of entertainment.I didnt understand anything, I told him, though it wasnt altogether true. As if I could drop something because it was a legend. My life was circled by legend on every side. They were all true.I packed your toothbrush. Ill get it for you.He walked forrard of me to the bedroom. are we leaving presently? I called after him.As soon as youre done.He waited for my toothbrush to repack it, pace silently around the bedroom. I give it to him when I was finished.Ill get the bags into the boat.Edward He turned back. Yes?I hesitated, trying to think of some way to get a few seconds alone. Could you pack some of the food? You know, in case I get hungry again.Of course, he said, his eyes suddenly soft. Dont occupy about anything. Well get to Carlisle in just afew hours, really. This will all be over soon.I nodded, not rely my voice.He turned and left the room, one big suitcase in each hand.I whirled and scooped up the phone hed left on the counter. It was very hostile him to get out things to block off that Gustavo was coming, to leave his phone evasiveness here. He was so stressed he was barely himself.I flipped it open and scrolled through the preprogrammed numbers. I was mirthful he had the sound turned off, afraid that he would thingamabob me. Would he be at the boat now? Or back already? Would he hear me from the kitchen if I whispered?I found the number I wanted, one I had never called before in my life. I touch the send button and crossed my fingers.hullo? the voice like well-disposed wind chimes answered.Rosalie? I whispered. Its Bella. Please. You have to help me.