My Midnight Sun- Balancing- Part 1

I didn’t go back to hear the conversations in Bella’s house. I didn’t lurk in the shadows, waiting to see how the elder would slander me. In truth, I was afraid of what I might do. And what I might do would not to help my standing with Charlie.
Why Charlie’s intentions bothered me so much was a mystery, even to me. I turned it over and over again in my mind all the way home. Because honestly, I’d come close to doing things to Bella that some people would say is even worse than using her. Killing her… for example.
Which reminded me… I had other things to worry about. Like Saturday. Like being alone with Bella, knowing that no one in the entire universe knew where she would be. No one human, anyway.
Another reminder… I needed to see Alice. I needed to see her visions of Saturday. To tell the truth, I wasn’t entirely sure I wouldn’t just snap if I were alone with Bella for that long. And I didn’t want to risk it if there was any chance I might slip.
Dead. Or a vampire. Alice’s two, very unacceptable endings. Neither would happen to Bella. Ever. Unwilling to look too far into the future, however—as doing so did nothing for me but bring up far too many troubling questions—I would just be sure that, in the very least, neither of them would happen on Saturday.