Bella slowly woke up to the sound of beeping. As she tried to wake up, reaching for what she thought was her alarm telling her to wake up, she found her hand full of wires. Confused she slowly opened her eyes, and was shocked to find herself surrounded in the sterile white of a hospital. Bella frantically tried to remember how she ended up here, but the last thing she could remember was boarding a plane to head to Forks. Her mother had just married Phil, and they were going to move to Jacksonville, so why was she in the hospital? The beeping that had initially woken her up started beeping even faster, keeping up with her fluttering heart rate as she started panicking. It was at that moment Renee and Charlie ran into the room, hearing the increasingly faster beeping from down the hall where they were arguing whether Bella was to go back to Forks, or Jacksonville.

"Honey," Renee cooed, smoothing her hand over Bella's bandaged head. Causing a wave of pain to come over Bella, causing her to wince. Renee's hand immediately left her head, as if she had been scalded. "Oh Bella, I'm so sorry! I'm just so glad you are finally awake."

Bella's eyes narrowed, finally awake? "Mom, what?" Bella started, trying to piece together what had happened.

Charlie sighed and sat down at the end of her bed, running his hand across his face, his eyes pained. "Bella, you were in an accident. A pretty rough one," Charlie looked down, tears in his eyes. "You were in a hotel, and took a fall down the stairs…" He stopped, emotion filling his voice.

"You fell out a window honey, you hit your head really hard," Renee chimed in, filling in the gap that Charlie had left open. "You are so lucky to be alive. If it wasn't for a maintenance worker walking by at the exact moment you fell out…" Renee also trailed off, Bella could guess the words that Renee was too afraid to speak out loud. You wouldn't be here.

There were too many thoughts running through Bella's head

Why am I here?

Why am I not in Forks?

How did I fall out a window?

Why do I feel like a part of me is missing?

"Mom…" Bella started but her voice was so scratchy. Renee quickly grabbed the ice chips that the nurse had placed in the room earlier, quickly feeding some to Bella so she could relieve her parched throat. Once she felt she could speak again she continued, "Why am I here? I thought you moved to Jacksonville?"

Charlie and Renee shared a quick look. Both of them had assumed Bella had suffered memory loss, and if they were being honest with themselves, they were grateful she didn't remember.

Bella tried to decipher their look, but her headache spiked when she tried to think too hard, so she quickly let it go.

"You just needed a change of scenery. It's spring break back up in Forks. So, you decided to take a quick break down here in Phoenix, you didn't realize that Renee hadn't sold the house yet, so you booked a hotel," Charlie explained, but something about his explanation just didn't make sense. Bella was a meticulous planner, she would have asked her mom if the house had sold. And why spring break in Phoenix? She hadn't left any friends behind when she moved, that's what made it so easy to leave.

Bella went to ask her parents more questions, trying to make sense of her irrational decisions, but when she started to speak, she saw Renee give another look at Charlie, this time even longer than the first, the one she almost missed. Instead of asking her questions, she decided to just stay quiet, not wanting to cause her parents more pain. She would figure everything out later, when her memories hopefully returned.

The longer the silence went on for, the more uncomfortable Bella got, which was a little concerning. Normally she was fine with silence, preferring to be left alone with her thoughts, but with at least 3 months of memories gone, it was making her a little uncomfortable, not even accounting for what seemed to be a never-ending silent conversation between Charlie and Renee.

Bella cleared her throat, making her parents jump and quickly look at her. "Um, has the doctor said if my memories will come back?" Renee and Charlie again looked at each other, this time uncomfortably.

"Baby, you had a ton of swelling, they had to drill a hole in your skull to relieve the swelling. They aren't sure if your memories will come back, they need to run a few more tests, but it's not certain," Renee explained, looking down at her hands the whole time she was talking. Bella looked over at Charlie, hoping to find some more comfort in the man that has always been steady in her life, but instead of finding comfort she just found more sorrow.

"I'm sorry Bells," he sighed, and then looked over at Renee, "We're going to go grab the doctor, hopefully he will be able to answer more of your questions."

The next few weeks were painful. It was psychotherapy session, followed by physical therapy, followed by more psychotherapy. The only headway Bella was making was in her physical therapy sessions, and even then, she was only able to walk a few steps before become to fatigued to go any further. After getting escorted back to her room by a nice nurse with a wheel chair, Bella scowled down at her cast covered leg, praying that it would heal quickly so she could get back to her normal life. She had been in the hospital for a month, the doctors worrying that her head injury was worse than they had predicted, but everything turned out better than they had hoped, instead they kept her just to make sure she was healing at a good rate.

Everything physical was feeling much better, just the cast getting in the way of walking like a regular adult; but Bella's mental state was no better than it was when she first woke up. Which frustrated her to no end. Why can I not remember what happened?! Bella would mentally yell at herself when she failed time and time again to remember her life up in Forks. It was almost like those memories weren't there at all. Like the last three months preceding her incident didn't even happen, and that was more frustrating than anything else. Well, almost anything else. Bella sighed as she heard her parents arguing once again about her decision to head back to Forks instead of leaving with Renee to go to Jacksonville. Bella closed her eyes, remembering their horrible conversation that had happened earlier in the week.

"Mom, I want to go back to Forks," Bella had said timidly, worried about her mother's reaction.

Renee was the textbook definition of calm at Bella's words, placing a soft smile on her face as she said, "Of course Bella, anything you want." Of course, Renee was anything but calm. Walking out of the room a few moments later and stalked down the hallway where Charlie was grabbing a snack from the vending machine. "There is no way in HELL Bella is going back with you to Forks." Renee had screamed loud enough for Bella to hear back in her hospital room, which was quite a feat, especially since the vending machine was all the way down the corridor from where Bella's room was located.

What was supposed to be a calm conversation, led to days of fights between the two of them, with Bella in the middle trying not to cry. Even the thought of going to Jacksonville created a huge hole in her chest that made it hard for Bella to breathe.

Finally, after pleading with Renee that she had a life up in Forks, no matter if she could remember it or not, did she finally relent and begrudgingly let Charlie make the plans to fly back up to Port Angeles, with Bella.

Bella rubbed her chest where the ache was, it definitely wasn't as bad as it was when she was afraid she was headed to Jacksonville, but it still hurt. When she brought it up to her doctor the day before, he had been a little worried that her lung was being punctured by a rib that should have supposedly been healed by now. But after a few rounds of x-rays, they couldn't find a cause for the pain, and Bella just let it drop, rubbing the spot every time she felt a twinge of pain.

Luckily a few days later came her release day, and she and Charlie made their way to the airport. The flight was rough, but the closer they got to Forks, the less the pain in her chest felt, and that's when Bella knew she made the right choice in going back to Forks. There was something there that she was meant to find again, and hopefully that would be the key to her regaining her memories.