Chapter 2
I lay in the meadow, curled in my ball wet from the rain and wet from blood loss, going in and out of consciousness. I heard my phone ring a number of times, but I didn't answer it, then it died. I stayed this way for what seems years, but was probably more days or even just hours…
"SAM!" I heard a man yell, before the movement of air next to me and someone crouched next to me. "Bells?" the voice whispered caringly. I blinked a couple of times as the voice hid in a shadow in front of the sun before he came into perspective.
"Jake?" I croaked, my throat thick from the screaming and crying, Jacob Black my brothers best friend crouched next to me.
"Oh Bells, what happened? The chief has been worried sick about you." Jacob said concernedly.
"I…I… I need to go to hospital, how long have I been out for? I need to see Edward!" I said stuttering, the cold stabbing me as I regained my senses.
"Bella…" Jacob started before he was interrupted.
"Jacob? Have you found her? Is she okay" Sam Uley, my dad's deputy from the station panted before coming into view. "Oh Bella!" he exclaimed when he lay eyes on me, before muttering something into a walkie-talkie and sauntering closer to me. "Medics are on their way." he said before crouching to my level.
I looked back at Jacob questioningly, "Bells, it's been three days, three days since anyone saw you…" Jacob stated to my unanswered earlier question.
Both Sam and Jacob looked at each other and didn't say another word until the paramedics arrived and loaded me into the ambulance. The ride to the hospital was uneventful and soon I fell asleep.
Beep Beep beep
"…It appears until recently Isabella was pregnant, I assume miscarriage caused the unfortunate loss due to the amount of blood we found and because her haemoglobin is quite low, Dr Cullen, I am removing her from the care of gynaecology…" a female voice said whisperingly to her colleague.
"Thank you, Dr Denali." Dr Carlisle Cullen said.
As I slowly came around to the sounds of beeping and Edward's father and another doctor chatting about my condition did reality hit. Carlisle knew about the baby. Edward and I were dead.
"Carlisle?" I whisper as his colleague leaves; his eyes flick up from the tablet where he is probably reading my information and he looks at me. For the first time in the years I've known him, it looked like he didn't know what to say.
"How are you Bella?" He asked as he strode towards me, putting the tablet under his arm and rubbing alcohol gel into his hands.
"I've seen better days…" I croaked, my throat still raw from the happenings of the last few days.
"Yes, well getting hypothermia wasn't the smartest of plans, now was it?" he asked with amusement, I knew he was trying to avoid the elephant in the room.
"I guess" I muttered, I didn't want to do this, I didn't want to tell Edwards father that four days ago I was about to kill his grandchild and in doing so I had destroyed his son, but then that I had changed my mind but his son didn't want to hear it. No, I did not want to be speaking to Carlisle Cullen at all in that moment.
"Bella, what happened?" he asked quietly, "is this why Edward has locked himself in his room, why Esme and I can hear crying and things breaking? Because you had a miscarriage?" Carlisle asked confused, I chuckled unemotionally, before telling him everything that had transpired up until I was found in the meadow hours ago. "I must talk some sense into that boy." Carlisle muttered after a few moments of silence. "I'm Sorry Bella about what happened and I'm sorry about Edward" he said kindly.
"Carlisle please don't, please don't tell Edward; I'd rather he looked at me as a disappointment then as a failure" I said sadly. Carlisle nodded sadly, before leaving my room.
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I was discharged a few days later and went back to school within the following week, but it sucked. Edward ignored me as did his twin sister and my best friend Alice. Every-time I tried to talk to him, he scowled and walked away; Alice was no better.
Two weeks after the incident in the meadow, I had had enough. Edward wouldn't look at me, wouldn't talk to me, instead he scowled and sat with Jasper his best friend and Alice's boyfriend. With my new-found courage, I needed to sort this, I needed my best friends to help me get through my hurt.
I walked over to their table and the entire cafeteria went quiet, luckily it was only Junior lunchtime. " Edward? Can we please talk… you need to know something." I started saying before being cut off.
"No! No Bella, I need to know shit, it's not like you care what I think anyway!" Edward roared, "you're just a bitch who doesn't care about anyone else's feelings or wants except your own. So, no I won't talk to you, not now, not ever!" he said as he pushed his chair away from the table, stood up and bashed past me as he made his way towards the exit.
"I couldn't do it!" I scream as he reaches the door, he stops mid stride before shaking it off and continuing out the door. I run after him, but he is gone. I don't dare go back into the cafeteria. Instead I walk to the nurse's office and get a slip to leave earlier for not feeling well and drive myself home.
Once I am home, I decide that I can't stay here, that I need a break… or just something away from dreary gray Forks. I get out my phone and message my mom Renee.
Bella: Hey mom, is it alright if I come and visit for a few days? :)
The reply isn't instant, though I knew it wouldn't be, so I sit on my bed and look at the photo hanging on the adjacent wall of Edward and me. Why did this have to happen?
Renee: Heya baby girl, sure! I'd love to see my favourite eldest daughter! Xx
I chuckle at my mom's comment about being her favourite eldest daughter, my six-year-old half-sister would not be impressed by that statement otherwise!
Bella: Nice Save ;) I'm Vicki would kill you if she saw that :P Awesome, I will book my flights and will send you the details xx
I click my phone close and open up the internet browser on my computer, five minutes later I have a return ticket to Florida to see my mom, my sister and my step-dad Phil, but mostly my ticket to get away from Forks and Edward.
Two hours later, I have made dad his dinner and left a note explaining that I needed a break to feel better and that I was going to visit mom. As I pull into the small Forks airport to take flight to Seattle, before boarding a longer flight to Florida the past month hits me like a tonne of bricks. In one moment Edward and I were planning our future the next it is ripped away by nature and ineffective contraception.
End of Chapter 2