The phone vibrated twice.
"Yes," she said, glancing at me. She listened to its continued vibrations for a long moment.
"I just saw him." She described again the vision she'd seen. "Whatever made him get on that plane... it was leading him to those rooms." She paused. "Yes," Alice said into the phone, and then she spoke to me. "Bella?"
She held the phone out toward me. I ran to it.
"Hello?" I breathed.
The phone vibrated against my ear.
"Oh, FREDWARD! I was so WORRIED!" I didn't even know where to begin telling him about my frustrations: the hours spent memorizing hotel furniture, Jasper's cruel barbs, and the constant anguish...!
The phone vibrated again, faster and then slower. I got the sense that Fredward was saying something about how annoyed he was that I was worrying. I decided to ignore it.
"Where are you?"
More vibrations. I didn't really understand how these new cellular phones worked, how you were supposed to converse. They weren't like any other phone I'd ever used before. It was as if I could feel Fredward's words in my cells, and the more I used it, the clearer those words got...
"...We're outside of Vancouver, Bella. That's in Canada. I'm sorry. We've lost him." Fredward was breathing hard between sentences. "He seems suspicious of us. I think he knows I can read his mind, but he's gone now. It looks like he got on a plane, although I'm not positive. It could have been an airbus. We think he's heading back to Forks to start over." I could hear Alice breathing behind me.
"I know. Alice saw that he got away."
"You don't have to worry, though. You don't have to worry about anything but yourself. I told you not to. You just have to stay there with Casper and Alice, okay? You just have to stay there and eat cheeseburgers and let me love you. Do you understand?"
I felt like Nancy Drew getting shoved aside by the Hardy Boys.
"I'll be fine," I lied. "Is Esme with Charlie?"
"Yes—the female has been in town. She went to the house, but while Charlie was at work. She hasn't gone near

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