EPOV
How did it happen? She promised. She promised she would take good care of herself. It was fortunate that Alice didn't listen to me and tap on Bella's future or otherwise….When did she learn to drive a motorcycle? She couldn't even walk straight on flat surface. Horrible thoughts went through my head as I raced back to my only place on earth that held my sanity. I left Bella alone so that she could have a happy and normal human life. It was this hope that got me through all the nightmares and heartburns in the last few months. What if she was not able to sustain a fruitful and happy life despite my absence? If she no longer existed in this world, what was I to be? There would be nothing to me in such non-purposeful existence? Maybe I should go to Italy so that my death wish could be granted.
I finally arrived at Forks – a place of my love and life. I can't wait to walk on human speed. I jumped from tree to tree and arrived at the entrance of the all too familiar hospital. Bella had been in it at least twice in the past year. I walked to the side entrance and jumped onto the second floor corridor of the hospital direct. The smell of blood and wounds was extremely potent but I was not even aware of my thirst. My eyes were locked on the immobile body lying on the bed inside the room of the Intensive Care Unit.
I silently slipped into the room. Her all too breakable body was tapped with many tubes and needles. She would have a fear arrest when she woke up. Bella's mom was sleeping on the coach, with lines of worries still itched on her face. I could hear the heartbeat of Bella. Although it was so light and fragile, it was the one single most wonderful sound in my world. I slowed my pace and went to have a closer look at my beautiful Bella. It'd been so long… how she could become so skinny in just a short time. She looked so sad and tired, as if she lost something vital to her existence. Was I wrong to leave her? Something so hurtful to us both couldn't be right. No, she was just human, her feelings would pass and she would recover and become life-embracing once again. Didn't Rosalie tell me that Bella was now getting along with Jacob and with time, she would be happy and complete soon. I should not be here to upset the progress made. I should leave before Bella woke up but she looked so fragile that there was every opportunity that I would lose her infinitely in any second. I persuaded myself to stay as it might be my one last time to look at her, to engrave her lovely features to my memory that would in doubt accompany me for the rest of my existence. It was comforting to know that such existence would not be long – less than one hundred years and only until Bella left this world on natural course.
"It's you, Edward!" Bella's mom exclaimed behind me. I was so absorbed in my watching Bella that I was not aware that she woke up. I stood up and turned my head. She was sitting on the coach, with fists clenched into tight balls. "Why are you here? Didn't you cause enough damage here? Why did you leave? Look at what you have done to Bella?"
"For her own good, I don't love her enough." I replied coldly to match the story previously told.
However, she must have seen something on my face that made her hesitate. She came in front of me and said softly "I don't know what happened between the two of you but Bella needs you here right now. Doc said that she was not hanging in as she should be. You will stay until she is good enough to ask you to leave." We both turned our heads when there was a low groan from the bed.