Chapter 2: New beginings
I woke to the sound of a constant bleeping and just blurred white in front of my eyes. Then I peered down at my arms and realised that I was in a hospital. I could hear the nurses rushing around, catering for all the patients needs. I could smell the antibacterial cleaning fluid. As my vision came back into focus I saw, Sat on the visitor's chair, was a doctor. Not just your average doctor. This doctor had an inhumanly beauty. He was sat with a blue file resting in his chalk white hands. His amber eyes glanced up at me when a yawn escaped my lips.
"I see you're awake again Miss Elizabeth." His voice was smoother than the smoothest of pebbles.
"Just call me Bess, please." I said back stunned by his friendly,warm tone."So why am I in here? What happened? Where are my parents?"
"I shall answer your questions in the order asked. You are here because you were knocked unconscious during a car accident, an animal ran out in front of your car and the car swerved into a nearby tree and your parents are-" he hesitated "they didn't make it." The tears broke lose from whatever was holing them back before.
"No, it can't be true. Please tell me it's not true!" I yelled so loud that anyone in the adjacent corridors must've thought I was a mental patient. I looked up at his Amber eyes through the tears that clouded my vision. They were very truthful. "No." I whispered. I didn't believe it. I didn't know what would happen to me now.
" You will be living with your uncle, as you are under 18, until someone volenteers to look after you for a couple of years." He said it as though he knew what I was going to say. Did my facial expression make it so obvious? " You will be discharged tomorrow morning as you have no physical or, visibly, mental injuries." He advised me to get some rest as he left and that is exactly what I did.
I woke from my dreamless sleep to see Charlie sat on the visitors chair that the beautiful doctor Sat in the night before.
"Hey!" He said in a bit of a sad tone.
"Hi," I scrutinized his expression. It was sad and lonely and was a perfect illustration of how I felt "are we ready to go?" I asked him trying to sound as concerned as I actually was. Wordless he stood and held his hand out to help me up. I felt sorry for him, he had just lost his brother that he hadn't seen for 16 years. Then, I pulled myself up using his sturdy arm for a grip. I was wobbly standing up and wondered how long was I out? We walked to the squad car in silence then he made the first attempt of conversation,
" You've grown since I last saw you!" Duh! I was a only baby back then. The last time I'd seen him was the day I was born. He had never been able to come to Phoenix or for us to come up here. Until now. We passed an old looking building that Charlie told me was where I would be going to school. Eventually, we arrived at his house. The one bathroomed, two story house that Bella warned me about in our emails. I was going to be sleeping in Bella's room for the time being. Charlie had already unpacked all my cases and explained to me where everything was.
Time passed quickly and soon enough it was night. I said sleep well to Charlie and went to bed...