I laid down for bed, waiting for sleep to pull me under. Drowning had taken a lot out of me. Even after sleeping on Jacob's couch for most of the day I realized how exhausted I was as my head hit the pillow. While I tried to fall asleep, I involuntarily thought about my day; mostly the idiotic jump off the cliff. How it felt to have the cool, brisk air under my body as I plummeted toward the water, how the jump its self made my heart skip a beat. Then the smooth satiny clearness of Edward's voice.
Edward. Edward, Edward, Edward. Then a thought jumped into my mind that hadn't occurred to me in the seven months of his absents. I missed Edward. This made the hole all but set on fire with pain. I didn't care much. This pain was miniscule in comparison to the pain it was causing me to be without him. I wanted him back, badly.
Something strange and unexpected happened then. I heard Edward's silky smooth voice Bella The voice said shyly. Yes Edward I answered in my head. Then I heard nothing. I opened my eyes in surprised. Usually Edward's voice had some reason to talk to me.
In even more shock, I saw Edward in the frame of my window; if vampires could cry, then he would be, judging the expression on his face. Right now I didn't care if I were insane, or dreaming, or dead after all. It was Edward. Looking too beautiful for words in the moonlight.
The tears already streaming down my face increased. If I was crazy, I was going to get my money's worth, so I ran up to my window and pounced. Edward and I fell to the ground with a loud thud. Maybe I was crazy. In all the time I had known Edward he had never fallen or anything like that. It could have been a dream or death too; I wasn't in pain right now. Not the hole or the hundred foot fall hurt. But as my breath came back into my lungs I realized I was not dreaming, dead, or insane.
Edward was really here. I could smell hi's sweet, delicious scent. I had never been able to duplicate it. Death wasn't possible any more because I could feel the rawness of my throat caused by the salt water I had nearly drown in today. and death couldn't be this painful
"Edward!" I said, still sobbing and panting. "Edward, Edward, Edward, Edward,"
The hole did not explode with pain the way I expected it to, it was like as soon as Edward had returned he brought my inners back with him.
"Bella?" the satin soft voice said, confused.
I didn't say anything, hoping it would cause him to talk, and right now I was enjoying breathing again.
"Bella are you okay?" Edward said, sitting up a bit to make sure I wasn't broken in anyway.
"Better than okay" I said pulling myself back into the space he had made between us.
"How I've missed you Bella love," he said "I cannot live without you. You are my life. You are my soul. I was idiotic and wrong and-."
I pulled myself up to his lips to kiss him. The last seven months didn't matter. All that mattered was Edward was back and I was whole again