Happy Sunday everyone, see you again Thursday.

Chapter 3

I groan a little as a light hits me. I rub my face and frown when I see I'm outside. I look around to see I'm in the middle of some wooded area. I pat and look down at myself glad that I'm fully clothed. I rub my head and start to walk toward where I think the main road will be.

As I reach the road, it's starting to get to be daylight. I look at my watch seeing that I've only got an hour to get to work. I put myself down for overtime this weekend. Aro hates people who don't turn up or are late. He's even fired a few men for this.

I let out a soft sigh when I reach the site seeing I'm only a few minutes late.

"Aro, sorry I'm late, it will not happen again," I say as I walk to Aro. I swallow when Aro doesn't respond to me. "I'll work late to make up for it," I say pleadingly to him. He turns to me and walks forward only he walks right through me.

'What the fuck?'

I look around and my eyes land on Ed, I run to him.

"Hey, Ed, I didn't see your name down for today?"

Just like Aro, Ed says nothing to me.

"Ed!" I yell placing my hand on his shoulder, but my hand goes through him. I look to my hand then to him.

"What the fuck is going on?" I say out loud. I pull at my hair as I start to feel freaked out. "Okay, time to wake the fuck up."

I close my eyes tight relaxing myself as I repeat time to wake up. I open my eyes finding I'm still here at my work. I walk around the site talking to all the guys. None of them seem to be able to see or hear me. A few like Aro have walked through me, which really feels uncomfortable and weird.

After a few hours of this, I'm even more freaked out. I start to run home. I arrive home, feeling out of breath. I go through my pockets for the house keys, but come up empty handed. I close my eyes as my hand goes for the door handle, but like everything else my hand just goes through it. I pull at my hair and I put my hand up to the door seeing that goes through.

"Please let this work," I say closing my eyes walking forward. When I open them I see I'm inside the apartment.

"Mommy, can I have a drink?" I look at Morgan who looks rather scared.

"Here," Mom says handing her an empty cup as she downs the beer in her other hand.

"Can you put that down and give her a freaking drink." I snarl moving over to Morgan. I go to take the cup from her, but again my hand goes through it. I swallow looking at Morgan who doesn't seem to see me.

Morgan sighs a little taking the cup filling it with water from the bathroom tub facet then runs to her bedroom.

I follow her. "Baby girl, I'm right here. I'm not going to leave you," I say softly as I hold back my sobs.

I look up and close my eyes. "Please, fuck, don't say I'm dead, I can't be; she needs me."

The rest of the day I spend watching Morgan. I've also been trying to figure out what the hell is going on. How the fuck did I end up dead. I really can't remember much, I know I stole the cars and met Miss Cope. Nothing else is coming to mind. I hear Morgan's belly grumble and I head back out to Mom.

"Come on, Mom, it's past time to feed Morgan," I say to her. I tried this for two hours, at lunch time to no avail. I pull at my hair and look to the front door as Ed walks in.

"Edward?" I hear Morgan yell as she runs stopping when she only sees Ed standing there.

"Daddy, where's Edward?" she asks in a small voice.

"He's gone," Ed says grabbing a beer.

"What do you mean gone?"

"He left town, he's gone some other place," Ed says sounding a little pissed off.

"He wouldn't leave me," Morgan says as her bottom lip wobbles.

"Morgan, he does not give a rat's ass about you. He's young and wants to live his life without you hanging onto him, just like your mom and I want."

"You son-of-a-bitch," I bellow out. I go to punch him, but my hand goes through him hitting the wall and the picture hanging there falls to the ground.

"Look what you did!" Ed yells and Morgan runs off to her room. I look between the picture and at the wall not understanding how I managed to hit it.

"She's missing dinner tonight; it's about time I put my foot down with the little madam."

"Sure, sure, Ed," Mom mumbles. I stay until Morgan is asleep then leave just walking about. I turn a corner and feel something knock into me at the same time my body is hit with electric shocks.

"Shit."

I roll my eyes when I hear Bella's voice. "First time today I'm glad that I can't be seen or heard," I say with a sigh.

I look to see that Bella is on her ass sitting on the ground.

"What?" she says looking at me. She shakes her head and stands up. "I'm sorry, never mind."

I frown at her and she looks right at me then moves to the side to walk past me.

"What? Wait! Please don't tell me she can't see me," I say looking up at the sky. As I look down, I catch Bella looking around me and then back at me like I've lost my mind.

I glare at her and she blushes turning her head back around. "Bella?" I say.

I watch her head make a small movement, but stops before turning to me. I move to her putting my hand out to stop her and I gulp as my hand makes contact. I just look at my hand as the tingling feeling comes back.

"Can you let go of me, please?"

I look at her face and then to my hand.

"How?" I ask.

"What?" she replies.

I can't say anything because I don't understand this.

"Please, Edward, let go, you're hurting me."

I look back at Bella's face and see she's close to crying.

"How am I able to touch you?" I say again and she looks around herself.

I frown as her breathing starts to speed up. "Edward, please let go. I'm done, I swear I am. I'm not going to talk to you anymore. I'm sorry for bothering you."

I swallow and she starts to pull at the arm I'm still holding.

"I won't even look at you. I'll give up my job; just let me go, please."

I drop my hand from her still frowning.

"Well, what do we have here?"

I look around seeing that Jake is there. I smile at him, but he's not even looking at me, he's looking at Bella.

"I think you and I should spend some time together."

Bella looks at me and then at Jake. "Sorry, Jake, Edward, but I need to go."

She goes to move, but Jake grabs her. "Edward? What are you talking about, he's not here. I heard from his old man that he left town. So it looks like you'll need to find a new crush."

Bella looks at me and looks scared as well as confused.

"Bella," calls out a male voice from a car that pulls up.

Jake takes a step back from her when he hears the voice calling for her.

"Bye." Bella almost runs and I walk after her as her father steps out of the car.

"Hi, sweetie pie, how was work?"

"It was okay, Dad," Bella says as she gets in the door he opens for her. Her eyes flick to me, and I'm busy looking back at her. I don't see her dad until he walks through me. I turn my head and see him getting in on his side of the car. When I look back at Bella, her mouth is open. I move quickly when I hear her dad starting the car. I just jump in the back seat before he starts to drive. Bella turns and looks at me, and I see the tears starting to run down her shocked face.

"Bella, what's wrong?" her dad asks, but Bella and I stay looking at each other.

"Dad, I think you need to call Rose again."

I hear her dad sigh. "How bad?"

"Bad," she mumbles.

I frown tilting my head having no idea what they're talking about.

"Bella?" I ask and she covers her ears sitting back in her seat.

"It's not real, it can't be real," Bella says over and over again, as she rocks back and forth.

I really have no idea what the fuck is wrong with her. The car comes to a stop, and Bella's dad gets out then helps Bella out. I follow quietly behind them.

"Charlie, Bella? Charlie what's wrong with Bella?" Bella's mom yells as she runs over to them.

"Not sure, she wants us to call Rose, and just started saying it's not real," Bella's dad – Charlie says, as he helps Bella to sit in a chair. I watch as Charlie and his wife walk away.

"Bella, I'm real."

Bella looks at me shaking her head. "No."

I sigh. "I don't know what happened to me, or what the hell is going on. I especially don't know why you are the only one that can see and hear me, but I am real."

"What do you want from me?" she asks quietly.

"I'm not sure yet," I say pulling my hair.

"Bella?"

"Yeah, Mom?" Bella turns her head looking behind her.

"Rose can fit you in tomorrow at two?"

"Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to bed now." Without waiting for a reply Bella walks off.

"Do you think we should cancel?" I jump up following Bella as Charlie and his wife talk about canceling some outing.

I sigh walking down the hallway. As I go, I look at the pictures and photographs that are hanging up on the walls. There are many of Bella and her parents. I frown as one of the photographs catch my eye. The photo is of me and the kids from the unit home I stayed at.

"Why the hell do they have this picture up?" I ask myself.

I scan all the faces and my eyes land on Bella's mom and I roll my eyes a little. I remember that she was one of the regular social workers that came to the home. My eyes move onto the other photo, seeing there are many more of other kids that seemingly went to the unit over the years, and I seem to be in many of the pictures. Her mom must keep things like this.

I reach the top floor and the first room I come to is empty and looks like it's her parents' room. The next is empty again, doesn't really looked lived in. As I walk through the last door, I'm stunned to see Bella naked. I swallow as my eyes travel up and down her body.

"Holy fuck she has a hot little body. Far better than what I thought she did in those shitty clothes she wears." I feel myself getting hard. "Just fucking great, I'm a ghost with a boner."

"How?"

My head snaps up and I look to see Bella looking at me with her hands on her hips. My eyes travel down a little and see her pussy. She has hair there but it's neatly trimmed. My eyes start to look up her body, stopping at her full breasts.

"Just great my imaginary friend is a horny teenager that looks like my first crush."

I frown and my eyes snap up just as Bella puts on a t-shirt. "I'm not your imaginary friend, and I already know about the crush."

"Whatever," Bella says pulling down the t-shirt that's seen better days.

"Just like that you've gone back to the plain girl with bad taste in clothes."

"Hey ... don't hate my t-shirt, someone important gave this to me," Bella says.

I look at her to see that she's glaring at me. "So, you make it sound like I should care," I snarl back.

Bella shakes her head, opens a bottle. I frown watching her swallow some pills. "What are those for?"

"They stop my nightmares, and help me know the difference between what's real and not."

"Just freaking great! Story of my life, only the most boring, plain ass girl—that just happens to be crazy—is the only person who can see me. REALLY?" I yell looking up, feeling really pissed off at God right now. "What about Morgan? Why couldn't it be her that sees me, she needs me ..." I close my eyes trying hard to calm myself, but all I can see is Morgan hurting and alone.

"Please, God, bring Edward back, please." My eyes spring open and I see I'm back in Morgan's room. "I'll be really good, I promise I will be."

"Oh, baby girl, I'm here. I'm right here," I say as I cough back my sob. "Fuck! Please, God, fix this," I beg on my knees looking up to the ceiling.

I lie next to Morgan wishing I could hold her as she cries herself to sleep. Not long after she's asleep, I close my eyes hoping for a better tomorrow.

I jump awake when I hear shouting and run out to the kitchen. I see Morgan has spilled some milk on the floor.

"You're so fucking stupid," Ed says harshly.

I growl at him.

"Don't worry, I'll clean it up," I say moving forward. I grab the cloth, and my hand misses it. I frown going to get it seeing that my hand just moves through it.

I swallow and close my eyes as I remember the day before. I spend the rest of the day watching as Ed and Mom forget Morgan. She goes to bed on Sunday night without any food, meaning she's not eaten anything warm since suppertime Friday.

"Get fucking dressed for school, Morgan!" Ed yells and I watch Morgan jump out of bed running to the bathroom to get washed up. My heart breaks even more when I see she's crying again. Once she's dressed, Ed kicks her out of the apartment to go to school. It's over an hour before she needs to leave. I walk with her to the bus stop hearing her little tummy rumble in hunger.

"I'm so sorry, baby," I say as she just sits down crying in a little ball. I stand up pulling at my hair not knowing what the hell I can do. I look around hoping the answer will come to me. I stop when I see Bella and roll my eyes as she looks like she doesn't know if she should walk forward or runaway.

"Fucking, crazy bitch," I mumble.

"Bella," Morgan yells and jumps up running to Bella's open arms. "He's gone. Edward left me all alone," Morgan cries and I frown, not knowing how the hell Bella knows Morgan.

"I'm sorry, baby. I'm sure he's close by. He would never really leave you," Bella says.

"When's he coming back?"

"I don't know, baby," Bella says on a sob as Morgan stomach growls loudly.

"Did they give you something to eat?"

Morgan shakes her head.

"Come on, I'll get you breakfast and fix you up, and we can go to school together?"

"You're working there today?"

What! Since when did Bella work at Morgan's school?

"Yes, today is my last day though."

Morgan frowns looking at the ground. "I don't want you to leave, you're my best friend."

I swallow again hoping this is not the friend she wanted me to meet.

"And you're mine. Come on, before this rain gets any heavier."

"You said you'd be his friend," Morgan says sounding angry as she walks with Bella.

Bella's eyes go to mine and then she drops them. "I tried, Morgan, he doesn't like me. I'm sorry but I can't make someone who dislikes me, like me."

I stop walking when I hear the sadness in Bella's voice.

"You're meant to be his friend and he was supposed to fall in love with you. The three of us are supposed to live in a big house, happily ever after."

Bella sighs and stops walking. She bends down to Morgan's level. "Sometimes things in life don't work the way we want them to. Morgan, even if I could have made him my friend, I doubt he would ever love me like that."

"Why?"

"I'm not the kind of girl guys love."

I tilt my head hearing such sadness in Bella's voice and hating how it seems to be tugging at my heart.

"But, I'm like you, so no one will love me?"

I gasp shaking my head at her, but I see a flash in my head of some asshole speaking to and treating Morgan like I have treated Bella all these years. My heart starts to sink with how sick and angry the flash makes me feel.

"No, you're not like me. You're amazing, beautiful, kind, sweet, and on top of all of that you're a smart girl. Edward's going to have a hard time keeping the boys away from you."

"Do you really think he'll be back?" Morgan asks.

Bella looks at me, frowning but looks back to Morgan and nods. "I know that Edward loves you, and whatever made him leave must be really big. I also know he'll do whatever he has to, so he can get back to you."

Morgan seems happy with that answer and she starts to walk again.

A/N: So there you have it, what do you think? Edward seems to have gotten quite the wake up call, hasn't he? Why do you suppose Bella is the only one who can see him? Did you find it odd that Renee would have pictures of Edward from the orphanage he lived in on the wall? What do you think so far? See you all on Thursday.