Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, although it would be nice to say it was mine.
Chapter One: The Beach
I was so excited to finally get to go out with Edward and his family again. The last time we all got to go out was well, I don't quite remember but I'm guessing it was a while back. Edward wouldn't tell me where we were going but I trusted him with every cell in my body.
"Bella c'mon stop daydreaming we need to get you something perfect." Alice grumbled from behind me.
I turned around and walked slowly over to her. "I wasn't daydreaming." I said pushing through a rack of clothes. I pulled out a thick rain jacket and handed it to Alice.
"What are you thinking Bella? We need something that's light and breezy."
I didn't understand exactly what she meant but I was guessing that we were going somewhere that didn't need heavy clothing.
"Where exactly are we going, Alice?" I asked pushing aside a fluffy snow coat.
"Edward didn't tell you?" She asked putting about five blouses over her arm.
I shook my head and followed her to the next rack.
"Well that's strange. We're going to the beach." She said, smiling at me.
"The beach?" I asked, sort of stunned. It was summer time but the beach that the Cullen's were aloud to go to was at least a couple hours away from here and it didn't look too sunny.
"Yes, the beach. Do you have a problem with that?" She asked putting two pairs of bikini's over her arm again.
"Well no. But it looks like it's going to rain." I said following her once again to another rack.
She shook her head and soon started giggling quietly to herself. "Bella, do you remember what I can do?"
At first I was kind of puzzled but soon came to realize that she could see the future. "Oh, right. I'm sorry it slipped my mind."
"No need to apologize. C'mon let's go try these on, they expect us back in about half an hour."
I moaned and followed her to the dressing rooms.
When we exited the store I was compelety dazed as to what had happened, again, for the millionth time in a matter of two weeks.
Alice only made me try on sixteen outfits today. Not counting the ten bikini's she picked out for me. We ended up buying everything she had draped over her pale arm. The cost was, of course, overwhelming for me to see, but I didn't want to argue with her today. I wanted to go to Edward and get on with this day, I was so excited. I hadn't seen Edward swim before and I wanted to see his skills in the water.
"Bella, hurry!" Edward yelled from outside the bathroom.
"Edward, you rush me anymore and I will personally go up to Mike and ask him out."
Threatening him with Mike always worked, but in this case his nerves were way stretched their normal stretching limit.
"Not this time, Bella. Their all waiting for us and I'm sick of hearing Rosalie grumble about you."
I sighed and checked myself once again before stepping out into Edward's room.
I was wearing short swim shorts and a loose fitting pink t-shirt. I had the bikini that Alice picked out for me on. It was the best one I thought she picked out, out of all the ones she had gotten for me.
I picked up my bag of belongings and followed Edward out of his room. We were on our way to the one place that I was excited to go to.
The only beach I could remember going to in Washington was the beaches in La Push. Other then the mile long beaches I haven't stepped foot in any other mass of water, besides my bathtub.
Throughout the three hour long car ride, that was supposedly six hours for a normal driving person, the Cullen's talked about many interesting topics, such as Europe, which Edward had visited about two times. About Rosalie's shampoo and how it made her hair seem dry and cropped in places. And about how Alice made that face while she was having a vision.
I listened the whole ride over and thought it was quite interesting to listen to vampires talk about things that haven't been broughten up for a while, I heard.
Along the lines of the third hour I had fallen asleep in Edward's arms. It wasn't my fault he always seemed like a perfect human bed.
Unfourtuntely, I wasn't having such a good dream.
"Bella, get out of here!" My angel yelled from a distance. I couldn't see him, I couldn't see anything but myself and a pool of blood surrounding me. When I tried to yell to him that I was surely going to be sick, I had no voice. I tried moving then but realized I was being sucked into the puddle of blood.
Deeper and deeper I sank into the thick red blood. Then soon I was engulfed and everything around me was red. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't scream, I couldn't move. I tried to kick but my body defied me. Every part of my, already weak, body defied me and didn't listen to my commands to be with Edward again.
I was sinking deeper and deeper into the blood. I wanted to scream, I wanted to move, I wanted to breathe. It felt like someone was holding on to my throat.
"Bella?" I heard my angel call for me.
Didn't he see I was suffocating.
"Bella!" He screamed this time. I could feel my face getting cold.
Somoeone help my breathe!
"Carlisle pull over, she's not breathing." He instructed.
I was sinking deeper. Could they get me before I was completely gone. Then I realized something, it was a dream.
Just wake up, Bella. It's just a dream. You're not really suffocating. No one is hurting you. Breathe, breathe, BREATHE!
I took a deep breathe and noticed immediately after I opened my eyes that Carlisle was doing CPR on me. He stopped when he noticed my eyes open.
"Bella, are you alright?" He asked.
I nodded and tried to get up when I noticed a slight pain in my chest I put my hand over it and sank back into, what now was the seat of their van that they had rented.
"I'm sorry, I might have bruised a couple of ribs. At least nothing's broken." He fake smiled and looked over at Edward, who was looking at me with so much worry and fear that I couldn't bare to look at him anymore. I turned my head when my eyes met his and realized that everyone was outside except Carlisle, Edward and I.
"What happened?" I asked, finally after staring up at the ceiling.
Carlisle got up and stepped out of the car. "I have no idea, we were driving one minute and the next Edward was screaming to me that you weren't breathing."
"That is so weird." I thought.
"Very weird. I've never seen anything like that. Did you faint or were you sleeping, like I think you were?"
I thought about my dream and realization dawned on me. "I dreampt that I was drowing," I stopped and looked at Edward. "In blood."
He winced and pulled me into his lap, holding me close he kept repeating my name over and over again into my hair.
Bella, Bella, Bella, Bella.
"Edward what is it?" I asked looking up at him.
He shook his head and everyone started climding into the van.
"Bella, are you sure you're alright. We can turn around and go home if you don't feel up to it." Esme asked from the passenger seat.
I shook my head when I heard Rosalie grunt.
I almost died and she still insist on making me feel unwelcomed.
"Rosalie, just stop it, okay. Just stop!" Edward growled.
I was surprised to hear this from him. I didn't think grunting was that bad. But I soon came to think that maybe it was something she had said in her mind.
"Let's just please get on with this beach trip, I want to go swimming." Jasper whined. I saw from the corner of my eye that Alice had just nudged him in the ribs. He winced with pain and his eyes shot to me. I smiled, as did he when he saw me.
"Bella, are you up to the beach still?" Edward asked, pure worry in his eyes.
I nodded. "Of course, I don't want to ruin a perfect day just cause I happened to stop breathing in the middle of a terrible dream." I said.
I could tell I had pushed that button and decided to stop.
"Alright then. On we go." Carlisle said enthusiastically.
We drove for the remaining half an hour to our destination. Edward kept slapping my face when I closed my eyes. Which happened to bother me more then it was bothering him to have to stoop down that low to keep me awake.
"We're here!" Alice shouted as we rounded a corner then finally came to a stop in front of the most beautiful beach I have ever seen.
The water was turqouise and looked most appealing to dive into. The sand was white and looked so pure. There were quite a few big waves, but nothing I couldn't handle.
Edward had his arm wrapped around my waist while he hopped down from the van. He helped me down after Rosalie slipped in front me. Edward growled at her when she did. A smile, an evil smile, was planted on her face when he did so.
"C'mon Bella! The water's great!" Alice exclaimed splashing Jasper, who was slowly getting in and jumping over the waves that was crashing against the shore line. I was about to run to her when Edward got hold of my arm and pulled me around to face him. We were inches from eachother then he took my lips into his.
"I thought I lost you, you know." He breathed into my neck. I wrapped my arms around his neck and smiled.
"Don't worry. I'm alright. Everything's fine, I'm fine, your fine, everyone's fine." I said into his neck.
I felt his light laugh and he let me go. "Go, I'll be in soon." He said walking back and over to Carlisle.
I waved at him when he turned around. I slowly took off my swim shorts and then off came my shirt. I laid my yellow tweety towel on the sand and took a seat and grabbed the sunscreen that was in my bag. Everyone watched as I put the sunscreen on my arms then my legs. When I reached my stomach I heard Edward growl in Emmett's direction.
"Hey, I didn't do anything." Was all he said.
I continued to slather the sunscreen over my stomach when I felt Edward wrap his arms around my waist.
"You're taking forever on purpose." He whispered into my ear.
I leaned against him and smiled up at the sky. The sun wasn't completely out, so it was safe for them to swim without causing attention to themselves. A small breeze blew through us at that moment and Edward hugged me tighter to him.
"Edward, stop hogging Bella." Alice screamed from the water.
I looked up to see her pretty far out, Jasper was doing laps around her. Emmett and Rosalie were on the sand doing things I really didn't want to add to my dictionary of thought.
"Are you going in?" I asked as I stood from my towel.
Edward was staring at me, his mouth open and I could have sworn I saw his eyes glisten.
"What?" I asked.
He snapped out of his trance and smiled. "You look beautiful."
I blushed and bent down to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you. Now answer my question."
He inhaled deeply before I stood again. "No, I'll come in later."
I shrugged. "Up to you."
And with that I ran into the ocean, diving face first as soon as I reached deep enough. Alice came swimming over to me as I came up. I pushed back my hair and blinked my eyes a few times before I spoke.
"The water feels so great." I exclaimed. Looking at Edward. He winked and laid down on my towel.
"Bella, you want to race?" Jasper asked.
"To where? It's all open water."
He laughed. "We can race to the shore."
"Oh, that's sounds fun." I said bobbing up and down.
"Only thing is, you have to use a wave to go in and it can't be the same wave as the other person."
I was confused then. "What if someone catches a wave that's ahead of the person their racing? How does that go? I think that's cheating."
Alice laughed and swam over to me. "Jasper made up that game the last time we came here. It works, so don't worry about the whole cheating thing." She said splashing water in my face.
I screamed and splashed some in hers. "Okay, still waiting here. Are you playing or not, Bella?"
I nodded and looked at Alice. "I'm out, sorry."
Jasper nodded.
I hadn't noticed earlier but the waves were starting to get bigger. I smiled at this, knowing I had a better chance of winning with the waves being so big.
We each took our spots and waited for the right wave.
"Careful, Bella. There are reef somewhere over there, so try not to get too much on that side. Alice is standing there so you'll know if you've gone too far that way."
I nodded and looked back. The perfect wave was coming my way. Jasper had an evil grin on his face.
He wanted that one too.
"It's mines Bella. You're going down!" He screamed as the wave got closer.
"In your dreams emo boy!" I screamed back. Alice burst out laughing and I took off when the wave came to me.
"Wait, Bella!" Alice cried.
Too late, I was already off. I kicked and paddled harder and harder. I was so close to the shore. A smile appeared on my lips then slowly faded as I realized I was being sucked under it. The wave crashed on me. Right before I heard Edward screaming my name. I couldn't hear him after that.
I went rolling and tumbling, rolling and tumbling. It wasn't like the blood pool. I could see everything that was going on. I rolled and tumbled, rolled and tumbled. When the rolling stopped I tried to find the surface but couldn't. I didn't know up from down, left from right. I was completely disoriented. Then I felt it.
At first I was being pulled deeper into the ocean and my lungs were screaming for air. I noticed then that I was near the reef, not cause I saw it but the pain that erupted in my foot made me scream. I was surprised when it came out pretty loud, being that I was under water and all.
I tried to push up with my free foot but couldn't. I started swallowing water then and soon I was out. Just like in the van.
I didn't remember anything after that moment. Until the dream crept up on me.
Just wake up, Bella. It's just a dream. You're not really suffocating. No one is hurting you. Breathe, breathe, BREATHE!
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Nikkah