"I am so tired."
"Bella, just hold on a minute!" Alice was beginning to get annoyed. She chattered to Jasper on the phone, getting information about when they would be home, and if they had a good time. Something wasn't right about the way she talked to him.
I had agreed to go to the Cullen's house while Edward hunted because of the look Alice gave me; her pout was equivalent to a small child's. I dragged my feet upstairs to the third level, then to the end of the long hallway. The walk up to Edward's bedroom was always a challenge. I sigh as I fell onto the giant, golden bed in the middle of the room. Alice skipped into the room, my clean pajamas in hand.
"Here," she sighed, handing me the garmentss and rolling her eyes.
"Don't be like that Alice, all I want to do is sleep. I agreed to sleepover again, but I didn't volunteer myself for sleep deprevation."
"Could we at least watch a movie?" She asked, staring intently, waiting for my answer.
"Well, I think you know as well as I that I will fall asleep almost immediately." I looked at her skeptically, but smiled slightly, to keep it light.
"So?"
I rolled my eyes and made an exasperated sound, then lifted my self to my feet and began to stumble outy of the room.
"Yay! I will go set up downstairs," and she ran ahead of me, no doubt in the front room in no less that 3 seconds.
I trudged down the stairs, slumping my shoulders slightly with each step I took. I thought about how anxious I was without Edward here with me, and how he would be home in about a half an hour with the rest of his family.
It only took about three seconds altogether to slip on one of the steps, catch myself on my left hand, and slide down two more steps. I felt an odd numbing sensation in my wrist, followed by a deadening throb of the bone inside of it.
I looked at it for a second, the pain literally giving me a stomach ache. It was a little crooked, and when I tried to move it, pain shot up my arm and through my fingertips.
I screamed.
Alice was there immediately, and she tooks my wrists in her fingertips gently as a few silent tears escaped. She looked at me sympathetically, the way a sister would look at another sister. We practiaclly were sisters. Then she clicked her tongue.
"Really, Bella? I leave for 20 seconds and you break your wrist?" There was a bit of humor in her voice, as well as concern. But I couldn't see her face, her head was bent over my arm, turning to slighty to examined the swelling.
I chuckled, it was a little funny.
"Come on," she said, and she helped me up and into Carlisle's office.
I blushed. I was ashamed of my frailty.
"You really think it's broken?" I asked. I knew it was, I recognized the odd numb feeling, like an electric shock, and then the instant throbbing. I recognized the shoting pain through the pains, and the way it didn't feel like it was moving, the way of how the only thing I could feel was the pain, and nothing else, yet everything was funtioning normally.
"Yeah, I do. What happened? Did you catch yourself on it?"
I nodded, a few silent tears fell from my face onto the desk, I wiped them away quickly.
"When it happened, did it go numb for a second before it started hurting?" She looked at my like I knew what that meant, which I did, it happened when I punched Jacob in the face.
"Yeah." I sighed.
She smiled at me, as if to congradulate me on my knowlegde.
She flipped open her cell phone, and her fingers blurred across the keypad, her eyes still on me. She was calling Carlisle for instructions. I felt sorry for interupting his hunting trip with Esme. Sometimes they liked to hunt alone, like they were going out to dinner like a human couple.
"Hey, get me Edward,"she said,stikll watching me, "Hello?. . .Um, yes. . .She broke her wrist. . .yes. . .she tripped on the stairs" —a faint laugh from her and the otherside of the phone broke out for a small moment— "Yeah, I am going to call Carlisle as soon as this conversation is over. . .Yes, that's how she described it. . . No . . . I know I should put ice on it and give her some medicine, what else should I do . . . Okay. . .Yeah."—s slightly terrified look flash across her face, along with pain, concern, and something else I couldn't identify—" What?! What do you mean? That's not possible. . .Well what are we supposed to do? We can't just"—her face went reluctantly serene as Edward interupted her, she looked at me for a split second, then at my wrist, making it seem like that was what she was thinking about. I could see through that. – " Right, yeah, well, here she is." She held out the phone to me.
I gulped and took the device reluctantly.
"Hello?" I asked into the phone. I could hear Emmett and Jasper booming laughter in the background. Something was off though, in the sound there still wasn't much happiness, even for Emmett and Jasper. There was clearly something wrong.