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  llowing the
  path farther into the es of the forest. before i could get too
  panicky, though, i began to glimpse some opehrough the webbed
  brahen i could hear a g o, and i was
  free, charlie's law in frohe house beg
  me, promising warmth and dry socks.
  it was just baside. i went upstairs and got dressed
  for the day, jeans and a t-shirt, siaying indoors. it didn't
  take too much effort to trate on my task for the day, a paper on
  macbeth that was due wednesday. i settled into outlining a rough draft
  tedly, more serehan i'd felt since… well, sihursday
  afternoon, if i was bei.
  that had always been my way, though. making des ainful
  part for me, the part i ago ohe deade, i
  simply follh — usually with relief that the ade.
  sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my dee to
  forks. but it was still better thaling with the alternatives.
  this de was ridiculously easy to live with. dangerously easy.
  and so the day was quiet, productive — i finished my paper befht.
  charlie e with a large d i made a meo pick up
  a book of recipes for fish while i was i week. the chills
  that flashed up my spihought of that trip were no
  different than the ones i'd felt before i'd taken my walk with jacob
  black. they should be different, i thought. i should be afraid — i knew i
  should be, but i 't feel the right kind of fear.
  i slept dreamlessly that ed from beginning my day so early,
  and sleeping so poorly the night before. i woke, for the see
  sing in forks, tht yellow light of a sunny day. i
  skipped to the window, stuhere was hardly a
  the sky, ahere were just fleecy little white puffs that
  't possibly be g any raihe window — surprised
  whely, without stiot havi in who
  knows how many years — ahe relatively dry air. it was
  nearly warm and hardly windy at all. my blood was ele my veins.
  charlie was finishi wheairs, and he picked up
  on my mood immediately.
  ”,” he ented.
  ”yes,” i agreed with a grin.
  he smiled back, his brown eyes g around the edges. when charlie
  smiled, it was easier to see why he and my mother had jumped too quickly
  into an early marriage. most of the young romantic he'd been in those
  days had faded before i'd known him, as the curly brown hair — the same
  color, if exture, as mine — had dwindled, sl
  more ahe shiny skin of his forehead. but when he smiled i
  could see a little of the man who had run away with renée when she was
  just two years older than i was now.
  i ate breakfast cheerily, watg the dust m in the
  sunlight that streamed in the badow. charlie called out a goodbye,
  ahe cruiser pull away from the house. i hesitated on my way
  out the door, hand on my rai would be temptio leave
  it home. with a sigh, i folded it over my arm ao the
  brightest light i'd seen in months.
  by dint of much elbow grease, i was able to get both windows iruck
  almost pletely rolled down. i was o oo school; i
  hadn't evehe y hurry to get outside. i parked and
  headed toward the seldom-used pi the south side of the
  cafeteria. the beill a little damp, so i sat o,
  glad to have a use for it. my homework was do of a slow
  social life — but there were a few trig problems i wasn't sure i had
  right. i took out my book industriously, but halfway thr
  the first problem i was daydreaming, watg the sunlight play on the
  red-barked trees. i sketattentively along the margins of my
  homework. after a few minutes, i suddenly realized i'd drawn five pairs
  of dark eyes staring out of the page at me. i scrubbed them out with the
  eraser.
  ”bella!” i heard someone d it sounded like mike.
  i looked arouhat the school had bee populated while i'd
  been sitting