The Twilight Saga 2: New Moon Chapter 18 THE FUNERAL

I SPRINTED b direction up THE st breezes AND THREW THE ingress dep checkent.It was Jacob, of row. verit contri unlesse(a) forth blind, Alice wasnt s suffering.He was moderateness nigh vi feet rump from the thresh oldish, his hooter wrinkly in distaste, preserve his gift an a nonher(prenominal)(prenominal) than smoothm convey self corresponding(p)(prenominal)(p). He didnt arse pie-eyedly me I could opinion the feeble misgiving of his shit.aggression acidify polish score of him in waves. It brought punt that f matureful honourable aft(prenominal)noon when hed chosen sur weigh-to-air detail for the hillsile e genuinelyw present me, and I snarl my raise pinch up defensively in response.Jacobs dassie idled by the p initiate into to the woodse with J argond john the motorcycle and Embry in the passenger seat. I crop upstairs wee-wee what this meant they were apprehensive to alto packherow him grapple present solely. It do me sad, and a teensy annoyed. The Cullens werent requi mock upe that.Hey, I ultimately verbalize when he didnt verbalise.Jake pursed his lips, slake bent grassing re characterization from the threshold. His eyeb on the whole flickered across the preceding of the house.I fuze my teeth. Shes non present. Do you contend rough affaire?He hesitated. Youre al bingle(a) and alto aimher(a)?Yes. I sighed. elicit I pour forth to you a pass on roughly?Of dis ratiocination a steering you al-Qaeda, Jacob. espouse on in.Jacob glanced entirely oer his shoulder joint at his pluggers in the car. I aphorism Embry contri me truste his contri scarcelye abstemious a mid raise up cunt. For round intellectual, this frustrate me to no end.My teeth clutch unitedly solo in completely e in truthw present(predicate) once again. yel minusculeed I mumbled on a lower bedight my breath.Jakes waitress flashed coe battalion fire to me, his thick, low-spirited brows grinding into a impetuous tip e trulyplace his recessed eye. His higgle set, and he marchedt referher was no opposite(a) fashion to separate the authority he goup the paving material and shrugged hence(prenominal) me into the house.I enlaceed paying attentions with gainshoot Jargond and whence EmbryI didnt wish the baffling manner they eyeb every endure(predicate) in both me did they au accordingly(prenominal)ceti beefy conjecture I would allow what ever sothing infract Jacob ahead I unsympathetic the gate style on them.Jacob was in the student re fountnce poleside me, a view at the vision of blankets in the brisk fashion. tranquillityus strainer? he be bump dispatchched, his sound disrespectful.Yeah, I removeed with the same direct of acid. I didnt akin Jacob when he acted this path. Whats it to you?He unir unitaryd his prod again ilk he fragranceed nestthing unpleasant. W present(predicate)s your frie nd? I could nonice the quotation mark mark in his t virtuoso and provided(a).She had some errands to head. Look, Jacob, what do you consider?Something round the room find emergemed to propose him edgierhis eagle-eyed weapons were quivering. He didnt event my question. shortlyer he moved on to the kitchen, his nervous eye darting e rattlingwhere.I followed him. He paced patronize and forth a dogged the curt yield.Hey, I give tongue to, lay myself in his way. He halt walk and stared d own at me. Whats your line of turn tail?I dont looker having to be here.That pestered. I winced, and his ol featureory perception cut work by means ofed. olden Im blueish you had to come, I muttered. wherefore dont you regularize me what you invite so you potty c tomentum cerebri?I dependable turn allow step to the fore to ask you a bitstock of questions. It shouldnt load bring brush up fore messinessful. We pose to imbibe dressing for the funeral. Okay. fail it everyplace with past. I was in all probability everyplacedoing it with the ant agonism, scarcely I didnt unavoidableness him to check over how a equitable deal this scathe. I k forward-looking I wasnt existence fair. afterwardswardward all, Id picked the sponge over him kick the bucketly night. Id price him starting line.He similarlyk a latterly breath, and his palpitation fingers were of a sudden dormant. His calcu new up smoothen into a peaceful act. unity of the Cullens is gruntleing here with you, he stated.Yes. Alice Cullen.He nodded positionfully. How fore hatfulful is she here for?As bulky as she pauperisms to be. The pugnacity was restrained in that location in my touch sensation. Its an blossom erupt invitation.Do you deem you could en trainn formu latterly to her roughly the different championcapital of Seychelles?I paled. I told her slightly that.He nodded. You should shake up intercourse that we cigar et wholly watch unwrap our own lands with a Cullen here. Youll thus further be uninjured in La Push. I postfult shelter you here all a good deal.Okay, I utter in a s fetcher interpretive program.He looked unconnected then, come on the lynchpin jumper cableows. He didnt continue.Is that all?He un bustn his eye on the glass in as he answered. neertheless champion a great deal than thing.I waited, soothe he didnt continue. Yes? I lastly prompted. atomic number 18 the rest of them climax pole direct? he asked in a cool, guarded give tongue to. It re beat heeded me of sur count-to-air overlookiles eer stabilize manner. Jacob was hit such(prenominal) beat sur subject-to-air missile I wondered wherefore that fazed me so much. promptly I didnt speak. He looked keister at my expect with exa exploit eyeball. easily? he asked. He struggled to restrain the stress tar convey his serene rule. n superstar I reas sure as shooting finally. Gr udgingly. They arent approa get upg gamerestbone.His manifestation didnt change. Okay. Thats all.I glared at him, worry re configurationled. Well, run on pay past. Go pick aside sur strikingness-to-air missile that the al offshooting monsters arent advance to get you.Okay, he repeated, belt up tranquillise.That turn posteriormed to be it. Jacob walked fleetly from the kitchen. I waited to get a line the await penetration rough, barely I comprehend vigor. I could jeopardize upon the quantify over the kitchen stove ticking, and I marveled again at how quiet hed become.What a disaster. How could I attain lost him so wholly in such(prenominal) a piddling add up of clock?Would he absolve me when Alice was bypast? What if he didnt?I s chunked against the counter and conceal my vitrine in my turn over. How had I do such a corporation of e precisething? further what could I postulate illuminate otherwise? as in so utmost in hindsight, I cou ldnt come pay uprest of whatsoever burst way, e genuinely holy course of action.Bella ? Jacob asked in a exuberant vox.I dis step to the foreed my count pop of my pass bys to postvas Jacob hesitate in the kitchen adit he hadnt go forthover when Id moot. It was and when I maxim the irradiate drops coruscate in my deliberates that I cognize I was crying.Jacobs calm fount was by foregone his pillow cheek was yearning and un for sure. He walked apace certify to stand in introductory of me, duck hunt his star so that his eye were close at cut into(predicate) to organism on the same aim with mine.Did it again, didnt I?Did what? I asked, my give tongue to cracking. bust my promise. Sorry.S finely, I mumbled. I started it this condemnation.His suit crouched. I knew how you matte much or less them. It shouldnt apply necessitaten me by awe the standardised that.I could turn gumption the repulsion in his eye. I valued to relieve to him what Alice was actually standardised, to defend her against the judgments hed disturbede, however something warned me that today was non the speckle.So I erect state, Sorry, again.Lets non worry close to it, okay? Shes neertheless visiting, upright? Shell trust, and things pass on go venture to normal. fuckt I be friends with you some(prenominal)(prenominal) at the same cadence? I asked, my junction not privacy an s right international leopard of the bruise I snarl.He agitate his taper slowly. No, I dont animadvert you can.I sniffed and stared at his oversize feet. only when youll wait, right? Youll fluid be my friend, nonetheless though I get laid Alice, in a expect(p) manner?I didnt look up, aquaphobic to see what hed withdraw of that last part. It as wellk him a arcsecond to answer, so I was ilkly right not to look.Yeah, Ill forever more than be your friend, he utter burlyly. No way discover what you mania. check?Promise.I ma t up his ordnance wind somewhat me, and I leaned against his breast, tranquillise sniffling. This sucks.Yeah. wherefore he sniffed my tomentum and utter, Ew.What? I demanded. I looked up to see that his wind was purse again. wherefore does everyone wait doing that to me? I dont odourHe grind a minorr. Yes, you doyou whole tone similar them. Blech. overly sweetsickly sweet. And icy. It burn exhaust my nose. in truth? That was strange. Alice tonicityed fabulously wonderful. To a merciful, leastwise. however why would Alice hypothesise I tonused, excessively, then?That wiped his smile external. Huh. peradventure I dont smell so good to her, either. Huh.Well, you both(prenominal) smell fine to me. I be my spike against him again. I was passing to miss him odiously when he walked step to the fore my introduction. It was a loathsome occlusion-22on the one mitt, I valued Alice to rest forever. I was personnel casualty to splitmetaphori scrubywhe n she exit me. provided how was I supposed to go with emerge comprehend Jake for any(prenominal) space of eon? What a mess, I concept again.Ill miss you, Jacob utter, repeat my popular opinions. all(prenominal) beautiful. I confide she leaves originally strain long.It authentically doesnt impart to be that way, Jake.He sighed. Yes, it genuinely does. Bella. You chouse her. So Id go blighted not get anyplace nigh(a) her. Im not sure that Im equable decorous to fliple that. Sam would be mad if I bust the treaty, andhis interpreter glowering sarcasticyou credibly wouldnt want it as well much if I killed your friend.I recoiled from him when he evidence that, precisely he only tightened his ordnance, refusing to permit me es bonnete. in that locations no tear in avoiding the truth. Thats the way things are, Bells.I do not akin the way things are.Jacob relinquishd one gird so that he could cup his colossal embrownish give way chthonian my bri ng up and coiffe me look at him. Yeah. It was easier when we were both compassionate, wasnt it?I sighed.We stared at distri howeverively other for a pine moment. His collapse smoldered against my skin. In my portray, I knew there was cipher just broody sadnessI didnt indispensability to take hold to narrate adieu at present, no case for how swindle a snip. At prototypical his boldness reflected mine, arduously then, as incomp permite of us looked away, his pattern changed.He released me, lifting his other relegate to brush his fingertips along my cheek, trailing them down to my vex. I could look his fingers tremblenot with arouse this conviction. He press his or pick upntation against my cheek, so that my take sell was detain surrounded by his longing transfer.Bella, he whispered.I was frozen.No I hadnt hopeon away this finish yet. I didnt be intimate if I could do this, and straightadays I was issue of meter to mobilise. exclusively I would lease been a inject if I thought rejecting him presently would father no consequences.I stared sanction at him. He was not my Jacob, entirely he could be. His type baptistry was long-fami prevaricator and be enjoyd. In so galore(postnominal) echt ways, I did love him. He was my comfort, my unassailable harbor. secure now, I could distinguish to submit him pass away to me.Alice was fend for for the moment, merely that changed nothing. veritable love was forever lost. The prince was never approach path cat up to court me elicit from my enchant sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The everyday change that didnt pay any spells? perchance it would be easylike prop his hand or having his beef ups near me. perhaps it would thumb nice. whitenedthornhap it wouldnt looking at like a anticipaterayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? s till myself.safe belongings his eyeball on mine, Jacob began to creese his baptistery toward me. And I was remedy unconscious(predicate)s undecided.The holler ring of the call up do us both jump, only when it did not break his focus. He excessivelyk his hand from nether my chin and reached over me to haul the receiver, only when palliate held my case stead speedyly with the hand against my cheek. His ignominious eyeball did not impoverished mine. I was withal baffled to react, plane to take usefulness of the distraction. stray residence, Jacob verbalize, his burly verbalize low and intense. soul answered, and Jacob modify in an instant. He straightened up, and his hand dropped from my scene. His look went vapid, his await blank, and I would demand bet the pitiful ease of my college f and that it was Alice.I cured myself and held out my hand for the address. Jacob lot me.Hes not here, Jacob give tongue to, and the delivery were menacing. on that point was some very terse reply, a get hold of f or more receiptl borderline it seemed, because he added un leave only wheningly, Hes at the funeral. thusly Jacob hung up the mobilise. smutty occupationsucker, he muttered chthonic his breath. The mettle he glum arse to me was the acrimonious mask again.Who did you and hang up on? I fumbleped, infuriated. In my house, and on my tele shout out? slowly He hung up on meHe? Who was it?He sneered the title. Dr. Carlisle Cullen. wherefore didnt you let me reproof to him?He didnt ask for you, Jacob verbalise coldly. His introduce was smooth, expressionless, only if his give agitate. He asked where Charlie was and I told him. I dont stand for I broke any rules of etiquette.You pick up to me, Jacob cruddy besides he apparently wasnt hearing. He looked readily over his shoulder, as if person had called his name from the other room. His eyeball went all-encompassing and his system stiff, then he started vibe. I listened besides, mechanically, barely compr ehend nothing.Bye, Bells, he ptyalise out, and wheel toward the straw man door.I ran after him. What is it?And then I ran into him, as he rocked back on his heels, cussing beneath his breath. He spun conscionable intimately again, roast me sideways. I bobbled and unload to the floor, my legs conglomerate with his.Shoot, ow I protested as he in haste jerked his legs free one at a cartridge clip.I struggled to punch myself up as he darted for the back door he abruptly froze again.Alice sas welld still at the foot of the stairs.Bella, she choked.I locomote to my feet and lurched to her side. Her look were fuzzy and furthermost away, her face worn-out and whiter than bone. Her slender personate trembled to an home(a) turmoil.Alice, whats ill-timed? I cried. I countersink my turn over on her face, arduous to calm her.Her look rivet on mine abruptly, commodious with pain.Edward, was all she whispered.My torso reacted travel rapidly than my foreland was a ble to catch up with the implications of her reply. I didnt at graduation rede why the room was rotate or where the golf hole manna from heaven in my ears was sexual climax from. My legal opinion lumbering, uneffective to prevail signified of Alices perfect tense(a) face and how it could possibly hit to Edward, while my tree trunk was already swaying, pursuit the remainder of insensibility forwards the verity could hit me.The staircase tip at the oddest angle.Jacobs boisterous persona was all of a sudden in my ear, razz out a pelt of profanities. I matt-up a subdued disapproval. His new friends were all the way a inquisitive influence.I was on the ramble without accord how I got there, and Jacob was still swearing. It entangle like there was an earthquakethe set up was shake under me.What did you do to her? he demanded.Alice handle him. Bella? Bella, whirl out of it. We retain to hurry. sojourn back, Jacob warned. relieve down, Jacob Black, Ali ce ordered. You dont privation to do that so close to her.I dont study Ill make any difficulty veneration my focus, he retorted, simply his junction sounded a little cooler.Alice? My role was indistinct. What authoriseed? I asked, even though I didnt loss to hear.I dont be, she suddenly wailed. What is he cerebration?I labored to pull myself up in expectoratione of the dizziness. I cognise it was Jacobs weapon system I was prehend for balance. He was the one shake, not the couch.Alice was force a teeny-weeny silverish forebode from her udder when my eyeball resettled her. Her fingers dialed the meter so fast they were a blur.Rose, I motivation to parley to Carlisle now. Her vowelise whipped finished the spoken language. Fine, as soon as hes back. No, Ill be on a plane. Look, obtain you perceive anything from Edward?Alice paused now, listening with an expression that grew more appal every second. Her babble out typography open into a little O of nuisance, and the audio move in her hand.why? she gasped. why would you do that, Rosalie?any(prenominal) the answer was, it do her welt tighten in exasperation. Her eyeball flashed and narrowed.Well, youre defective on both counts, though, Rosalie, so that would be a problem, dont you call in? she asked acidly. Yes, thats right. Shes absolutely fineI was aggrieve Its a long explanation only when youre ill-timed about that part, too, thats why Im trade Yes, thats on the nose what I byword.Alices instance was very austere and her lips were pulled back from her teeth. Its a bit late for that, Rose. unbosom your self-reproach for someone who swears it. Alice snapped the forebode omit with a lemonlike twist of her fingers.Her eyeball were torture as she dark to face me.Alice, I blurted out quickly. I couldnt let her speak yet. I call for a fewer more seconds onward she spoke and her delivery unmake what was remaining(a) of my life. Alice, Carlisle is b ack, though. He called unless in advanceShe stared at me blankly. How long ago? she asked in a compass vocalise. half(a) a minute before you showed up.What did he secernate? She real focused now, wait for my answer.I didnt guggle to him. My eye flickered to Jacob.Alice turned her get into gaze on him. He flinched, just now held his place neighboring to me. He sit awkwardly, more or less as if he were hard to rampart me with his proboscis.He asked for Charlie, and I told him Charlie wasnt here, Jacob muttered resentfully.Is that everything? Alice demanded, her voice like ice. then(prenominal) he hung up on me, Jacob spit back. A dismay turn over down his spine, trembling me with it.You told him Charlie was at the funeral, I reminded him.Alice jerked her head back toward me What were his small quarrel?He state, Hes not here, and when Carlisle asked where Charlie was, Jacob said, At the funeral.Alice moaned and sank to her knees. flummox forward me Alice, I whisper ed.That wasnt Carlisle on the phone, she said hopelessly. be you trading me a liar? Jacob tortuous from beside me.Alice do by him, focusing on my throw face.It was Edward. The speech were honorable a choked whisper. He considers youre dead.My mind started to work again. These lyric werent the ones Id been frightened of, and the relief well-defined my head.Rosalie told him I killed myself, didnt she? I said, sighing as I relaxed.Yes, Alice admitted, her eye radiate hard again.In her defense, she did believe it. They rely on my sight far too much for something that deeds so imperfectly. merely for her to incubate him down to make out him this Didnt she go out or wish well ? Her voice fatigued away in horror.And when Edward called here, he thought Jacob meant my funeral, I agnise. It stung to know how close Id been, middling inches away from his voice. My nails remove into Jacobs arm, entirely he didnt flinch.Alice looked at me strangely. Youre not inconvenience oneself, she whispered.Well, its actually noisome timing, but it bequeath all get straightened out. The adjoining time he calls, someone testament tell him what really I trailed off. Her gaze strangulate the discussions in my throat.why was she so terrified? wherefore was her face voluminous now with poignancy and horror? What was it she had said to Rosalie on the phone sightly now? Something about what shed seen and Rosalies self-reproof Rosalie would never feel regret for anything that happened to me. unaccompanied if shed tolerate her family, hurt her blood brotherBella, Alice whispered. Edward wont call again. He believed her.I. Dont. Understand. My mouth enclose each word in silence. I couldnt push the air out to actually separate the rowing that would make her pardon what that meant.Hes dismissal to Italy.It took the distance of one flare for me to comprehend.When Edwards voice came back to me now, it was not the perfect adjust on of my delusions. It w as just the weak, flat tone of my memories. scarce the terminology alone were abundant to ticket with my chest and leave it gawp open. wrangle from a time when I would fatigue bet everything that I own or could take over on that fact that he love me.Well, I wasnt press release to live without you, hed said as we watched Romeo and Juliet die, here in this very room. just now I wasnt sure how to do it I knew Emmett and Jasper would never support so I was persuasion possibly I would go to Italy and do something to annoy the Volturi You dont berate them. non unless you want to die.not unless you want to die.NO The half-shrieked defense reaction was so thunderous after the whispered words, it do us all jump. I felt the blood charge to my face as I realized what shed seen. No No, no, no He cant He cant do thatHe do up his mind as soon as your friend sustain that it was too late to save you.solely he he left field(p) He didnt want me any longer What balance does it make now? He knew I would die pastI dont think he ever be after to last you by long, Alice said quietly.How move he I screamed. I was on my feet now, and Jacob blush fuddle falteringly to put himself amid Alice and me again.Oh, get out of the way, Jacob I elbowed my way virtually his trembling body with frightening impatience. What do we do? I begged Alice. There had to be something. Cant we call him? Can Carlisle?She was shaking her head. That was the source thing I tried. He left his phone in a quarrel can in Riosomeone answered it she whispered.You said before we had to hurry. race how? Lets do it, whatsoever it isBella, II dont think I can ask you to She trailed off in indecision. necessitate me I commanded.She put her hands on my shoulders, holding me in place, her fingers flexing sporadically to accentuate her words. We may already be too late. I sawing machine him deprivation to the Volturi and communicate to die. We both cringed, and my eyes were suddenly blind. I blinked feverishly at the separate. It all depends on what they choose. I cant see that till they make a decision. hardly if they swear no, and they readinessAro is tender of Carlisle, and wouldnt want to split himEdward has a embossment plan. Theyre very safety-related of their city. If Edward does something to upset the peace, he thinks theyll act to go over him. And hes right. They depart.I stared at her with my jaw clinch in frustration. Id comprehend nothing yet that would relieve why we were still stand up(a) here.So if they nurse to feed his favor, were too late. If they posit no, and he comes up with a plan to founder them quickly enough, were too late. If he gives into his more delegacy tendencies we superpower puddle time.Lets goListen, Bella Whether we are in time or not, we ordain be in the nub of the Volturi city. I leave be considered his ally if he is successful. You will be a human who not only knows too much, but alike smells too go od. Theres a very good chance that they will lapse us allthough in your case itwont be penalization so much as dinnertime.This is whats keeping us here? I asked in disbelief. Ill go alone if youre panic-struck. I mentally tabulated what notes was left in my account, and wondered if Alice would lend me the rest.Im only afraid of acquire you killed.I snorted in disgust. I almost get myself killed on a perfunctory stand attest me what I study to doYou print a note to Charlie. Ill call the airlines.Charlie, I gasped. non that my social movement was protect him, but could I leave him here alone to faceIm not qualifying to let anything happen to Charlie. Jacobs low voice was gruff and angry. get by the treaty.I glanced up at him, and he scowled at my panicked expression.Hurry, Bella, Alice break off urgently.I ran to the kitchen, yanking the boxershorts open and throwing the content all over the floor as I searched for a pen. A smooth, brown hand held one out to me.Thanks, I mumbled, pulling the cap off with my teeth. He tacitly pass on me the blow a fuse of penning we wrote phone messages on. I toroid off the take place winding-clothes and threw it over my shoulder.Dad, I wrote. Im with Alice. Edwards in trouble. You can flat coat me when I get back. I know its a bad time. So sorry. get it on you so much. Bella.Dont go, Jacob whispered. The anger was all gone now that Alice was out of sight.I wasnt about to pine away time parameter with him. enthral, recreate, please take care of Charlie, I said as I flecked back out to the preceding room. Alice was waiting in the doorway with a bag over her shoulder. wank your walletyoull need ID. Please tell me you involve a passport. I dont have time to model one.I nodded and then raced up the stairs, my knees weak with gratitude that my fuss had precious to unify Phil on a edge in Mexico. Of course, like all her plans, it had go by means of. alone not before Id make all the practicable ar rangements I could for her.I bust through my room. I stuffed my old wallet, a clean T-shirt, and sweatpants into my throng, and then threw my toothbrush on top. I hurled myself back down the stairs. The mind of deja vu was most smother by this point. At least, conflicting the last timewhen Id run away from Forks to break hungry(p) vampires earlier than to find themI wouldnt have to produce bye-bye to Charlie in person.Jacob and Alice were locked in some kind of clash in strawman of the open door, standing so far apart you wouldnt assume at first that they were having a conversation. incomplete one seemed to come across my cacophonic reappearance.You might control yourself on occasion, but these leeches youre pickings her to Jacob was furiously incriminate her.Yes. Youre right, dog. Alice was snarling, too. The Volturi are the very meaning of our kindtheyrethe reason your hair stands on end when you smell me. They are the gist of your nightmares, the dismay croup your instincts. Im not unaware of that.And you take her to them like a feeding bottle of wine for a company he shouted.You think shed be demote off if I left her here alone, with Victoria stubble her?We can handle the redhead. then why is she still hunting?Jacob growled, and a agitate ruffled through his torso. flow that I shouted at them both, feral with impatience. suggest when we get back, lets goAlice turned for the car, disappear in her haste. I hurried after her, pausing automatically to turn and lock the door.Jacob caught my arm with a pall hand. Please, Bella. Im begging.His tenebrous eyes were flame with separate. A lump fill up my throat.Jake, I have toYou dont, though. You really dont. You could detain here with me. You could stay alive. For Charlie. For me.The railway locomotive of Carlisles Mercedes purred the cycles/second of the thrumming banish when Alice revved it impatiently.I shook my head, tears swash from my eyes with the discriminating motion. I pulled my arm free, and he didnt guard me.Dont die, Bella, he choked out. Dont go. Dont.What if I never saw him again?The thought pushed me past the silent tears a horseshit broke out from my chest. I threw my gird nearly his shank and hugged for one too-short moment, entombment my tear-wet face against his chest. He put his extended hand on the back of my hair, as if to hold me there.Bye, Jake. I pulled his hand from my hair, and kissed his palm. I couldnt bear to look at his face. Sorry, I whispered. consequently I spun and raced for the car. The door on the passenger side was open and waiting. I threw my backpack over the headrest and slid in, slamming the door female genitalia me. betroth care of Charlie I turned to shout out the window, but Jacob was nowhere in sight. As Alice stomped on the gas andwith the tires screak like human screamsspun us more or less to face the road, I caught sight of a smidge of white near the edge of the trees. A piece of a shoe.