We both turned our heads when there was a low groan from the bed.

BPOV

It hurt everywhere. I could not even breathe without hurting. I slowly opened my eyes in case such action would hurt too. My mom's worried face towered over me, mumbling about something that I could not catch. "What happened?" I cracked. My voice came out coarse and slurred. It was so exhausting to utter these two words that I had to take a few shallow breaths to regain my strength. "Your motorcycle crashed head on to a tree and you fell off. You hit your head pretty hard and broke a few ribs. You have been in a coma for three days now. How do yo u feel?" "Fine, just weak" I lied. I looked around with my eyes; my head was hurting so much that I dare not move. Who was standing behind my mom? Was it my dad? No, this guy was much taller and younger. I tried to focus but it took a while for the vision to become clear enough for me to recognize the face – a pale, beautiful and somewhat worried face. "Edward?" His family had been moved out of Forks a few months ago. What was he doing here?

"Hi, Bella." Had I imagined the pain therein? We didn't even talk in school. We were not even causal acquaintance although there were times when I dreamt about him of being more than that. It's so strange that I could feel his pain like my own at this moment.

"You are back."

"Yes" He looked away.

"Dr. Cullen moved back to Forks?" That was the only reason that my muddled mind could come up with.

"….We don't know for sure yet." Several emotions went through his perfect features – surprise, shock and naked pain. I must have imagined the last one.

So, it must be Dr. Cullen's wife could not get used to the city life at L.A. then. I could feel the pain and fatigue was descending on me again.

"Thanks for visiting me, it's so thoughtful. Welcome back to Forks." I tried to prolong the conversation and wanted to ask why he was present in my room, but my body was too weak and my world went black once again.

EPOV

Bella lapsed into an exhausted sleep. I was stunned by Bella's response to my presence. The room was silent with just the beeping of the machines and the heartbeats of the two human.

"It didn't seem right, her head must have been damaged somehow, I have to see the doctor right now" Bella's mom rushed out of the room without even waiting for my response. Yes, her responses were all wrong. Instead of throwing out her grieves and anguish for my return, she treated me as if we were no more than a stranger. There was something terribly wrong with Bella. I jumped out of the window and sat on the tree opposite. I immediately rang Carlisle. He picked up the phone after the first pause. "I am on my way already. Alice told me the emergency. I will be there in three minutes and you better wait for me at the entrance."

I jumped off the tree and sat on the bench at the entrance and waited for these three agonizing three minutes to pass. My mind and body was oblivious to the surrounding thoughts and people. I could think of one thing and one thing only - what if Bella didn't remember me and there was not a single slide of memory of my love to her left in her whole human life. I thought I was in hell in the past few months. It was pure purgatory now. The absolute erasure of my life from her memory was a last straw that broke my back. I put my head into my hands and let the pain wash over me, let it throw me into a sea of despair. I didn't know whether I still had any strength left to fight against the odds and surface again.