Personal Narrative: Alice's Journey

Alice’s visions continue, and she sees James in Bella’s mother’s house. This terrifies Bella, and she doesn’t know what to do. Her plans are to go to the airport to meet Edward, but then she receives a phone call from James. He explains that he doesn’t need to hurt her mother if she meets him alone in her mother’s home, without her friends. She agrees, and leaves Edward a note asking him not to go after James for killing her. She hopes the letter makes it to him somehow. Carefully, Bella gets away from the Cullens and grabs a cab to her mother’s house. Bella gets back on the phone with James, who directs her to her old ballet studio. Bella arrives hearing the sound of her mother’s cries, only to realize it was a recording from a home video taken when she
He has a plan to videotape Bella’s demise, and send it to Edward. He hopes the video will make Edward want to hunt him down. James attacks Bella by throwing her against a mirror and breaking her leg. Bella thinks she’s dead and, when she hears Edward’s voice, she believes he’s an angel. Carlisle is there trying to control her bleeding when Edward realizes James has bitten her hand. The pain is excruciating as the venom passes throughout her body. Carlisle tells Edward he can stop her from becoming a vampire if he sucks the venom from her blood. Bella wakes up in the hospital to find she’s battered, but alive. Edward is by her side explaining that her mother is there. The Cullens told her she fell down two flights of stairs and through a window. Edward then says Bella would be safer without him in her life any longer. Bella outwardly opposes his words and asks him never to leave her. He assures her that he doesn’t have the strength to stay away. Bella asks Edward why he sucked the venom from her blood, and didn’t allow her to become a vampire. He says he will always be against the idea of her ever becoming a vampire because isn’t forever