The Weekend:
This weekend it was strange and awkward, Bella and I didn't talk about what happened. Well, she told me what she saw and her opinions, but honestly I didn't know what I saw. I still haven't completely absorbed everything nor do I want too. This event has made me go insane. I don't know what is real or what is fake. I still have nightmares of what could have been if Edward didn't save me. Yet I feel some sort of anger towards him and I don't want too. He saved my life I should be thankful and I am not. I am the worst.
Sunday was a bad day, all day I was in bed not feeling well. My stomach has been hurting a lot lately and I don't know why. Bella was keeping me company in bed the whole day. We were being bums which were alright with me. We listen to music, ate in bed, and we talked about everything and anything. It was as if we were little kids once again, hiding up in my room whenever she would come over.
School: Stomach Pain
Monday morning came and I was dreading it. I wasn't feeling all too well, my stomach was once again hurting me and the most of all I didn't want to be surrounded by people. I didn't want to go and have people treat me like I am broken, no I am not broken I am just... not sure yet but surely not broken.
Bella and I pulled in the parking lot in our usual spot. Coming out of her truck, Bella checks the Cullens who as usual were already staring at us. However this time their stares were intense, almost as if they were afraid of something, or of someone. The bell rang and I turn to Bella.
"See you after school?" I asked her, she looks at Edward and then at me, smiling briefly.
"Yeah see you later, cuz"
As I started to walk towards the school, the Cullens kept their eyes focused on me. I could feel their eyes following my every move, in a way it was creepy. During the day I was trying to avoid Rosalie and Emmett. It worked until lunchtime where we all had it together. Since I was the only one from my group who didn't go to the field trip, I was left all alone.
When three periods ended and we were going into our fourth period, Emmett manages to stop me in the hallway. He stood in front of me not letting me leave his side nor did we talk. It was dead silent, I saw Rosalie a few steps behind Emmett. My heart was beating like crazy, my hands were beginning to sweat and my stomach wasn't helping with this situation.
"You're angry," Emmett suddenly said. I look up at him, shocked, why would he say that? However, he was already staring down at me looking rather sad.
"But I don't know why? Are you mad at Edward for saving you?" He asked seriously. I looked at him angrily, how dare he say that? Yes, it was somewhat true but why would he say that in front of me. Right to my face why would... how could he? I knew it was true, that I was sort of mad at Edward but I wasn't going to accept it nor will I say it out loud.
I stepped back, angry at him. Emmett frowns.
"You, Mr. Cullen do not know me. So don't you come to me and act like you do," I said with eyes welling up. Emmett steps close but I stopped him.
"I don't even know you. I don't know who you are or what-"
I stopped myself. I saw Emmett stiff, still frowning. I didn't understand why I was acting this way, I'm never rude. Emmett hasn't done anything bad towards me and yet here I was behaving rudely toward him and his family.
I didn't say anything but moved past Emmett and Rosalie. I went to my fourth-period class with a lot of questions and no damn bloody answers to any of them.
Lunchtime;
I was walking to the cafeteria when out of the nowhere my stomach began to hurt like hell. I back to the wall, slowly going down while hugging myself, suddenly I felt more pain. There was no one around so I couldn't call for help and I didn't want to scream like a crazy person. So I stayed there on the ground breathing heavily hugging my stomach.
After a few minutes when the pain went away I got up slowly. I stood there for a few more seconds before I went to the restroom a few doors down. I went in and fixed myself before anyone could question me. Once I fixed myself I went to the cafeteria.
I notice that every time I would slightly turn on my left side, I felt a burning sensation. I manage to sit down without any problems. I sat down alone since my friends weren't here. The one thing I was thinking, only two more classes until it's all over.
However, as I was sitting down the pain was returning. Breathing deeply I tried to calm myself, hoping that will make the pain go away. I placed my head on the table so people wouldn't see my pain face. Feeling eyes on me I looked up and saw Emmett and Rosalie staring at me. Their expression was one I was expecting at all. They were staring at me concerned, worried and slightly... scared? I gave them my best smile I could possibly come up with, trying to reassure them that I was fine. However, it didn't do any good but the opposite.
All of a sudden, the pain increased making me whimpering. Thinking this is a good time to head to the nurse's office. I got up and it wasn't long before everything became dizzy and the last thing I saw was me falling down.
Emmett POV:
Today MaryAnne has been acting strangely, she been avoiding us life the black plague. I understand why she would but I didn't want her to leave us. I liked her, she was the only one that didn't see us differently. During lunch, she was late and she's never late, well not this late. It was almost halfway through lunch and she hasn't entered the cafeteria. When she finally did she wasn't looking so well. She was paler than usual and it looked like she had been crying. While she walks she slightly cringe when stepping on her left side. She made her way towards her table but slow, too slow for her normal speed. Something isn't right here, I can tell something is wrong.
MaryAnne slowly sits down and breathes deeply. I watch closely as MaryAnne puts her head down and you could see her shoulders shake. A few minutes later, MaryAnne looks up with teary waters. She tries to get up but MaryAnne falls to the ground hitting her head on the floor.
And that's when hell breaks loose. Rosalie and I rushed over to MaryAnne as the students call for help. Without even thinking I picked up MaryAnne off the ground and began to walk to our car. Once I head the car, I placed MaryAnne on my lap. Rose turns on the car. Since we had Rosalie's car we speed down the roads. Rose was going way over the speed limit. I checked on MaryAnne and her temperature skyrocket,
"She's burning up. Rose drive faster" I screamed at my girlfriend, I was scared of my new friend's health. Not even caring for the speed limit, Rose went 150 mph. Once we were here in the hospital parking lot, Rose didn't park the car she pulled up at the entrance and I rushed inside screaming like a wild man.
"HELP! SOMEONE HELP! CARLISLE! WHERE'S CARLISLE?" I screamed out, Carlisle came from the corner running towards us. I handed him MaryAnne...
"What happened?" He screamed at us, looking rather angry and worried.
"Don't know she fainted in school," Rosalie said, however, Carlisle didn't pay attention to her.
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEONE GET ME A DAMN BED!" Carlisle yelled out and just like that the employees got to work. We watched Carlisle wheeled MaryAnne down the hall. Since we couldn't do anything for right now we all went to sit down. Rosalie went to contact Chief Swan and tell him what happened. She also went to call Alice and the other, letting them know what was happening. Not even ten minutes passed by, Chief Swan came rushing in. Looking around scared,
"Chief Swan," I said walking towards him, he turns to me and starts to walk.
"Hello, my name is Emmett Cullen. I was the one who brought MaryAnne here"
"What happened?"
Rosalie comes in and spoke up.
"MaryAnne fainted during lunch time and hit her head on the floor. My father, Dr. Cullen is with her right now," Chief Swan looks relieved to hear that,
"Good, good... she's in good hands then"
Chief Swan goes to sit down, waiting for any news. Ten more minutes, Bella, Alice, Jasper, and Edward all come rushing in looking scared and worried. Bella comes straight to us,
"What the hell happened? Is she okay? Where is she? Where's MARYANNE?" Bella comes demanding answers, she was already crying. Chief Swan goes to her and hugs her and she hugs back. After a few seconds, she pulls away and stared at us.
"MaryAnne fainted"
"If she just fainted than why are we still here waiting for some news?" Jasper asked slightly confused and angry, Bella nods.
"She hit her head when she fell down," Bella covers her mouth so she wouldn't make any noise. We all stood there, wondering what is wrong with her. Suddenly Bella gasped and looks at her father.
"Her stomach," She said making us all confused. What does that have to do with the situation?
"She has been complaining that her stomach has been hurting lately," Bella said making sense.
"Yeah, before she fainted she was holding her stomach," Rose said coming into the discussion. Bella looks at her warily then looks at her father. Chief Swan sighs,
"Don't worry Dr. Cullen's with her," Chief Swan said trying to make Bella feel better. She nods and takes her father to sit down. We all followed suit and sat down. We waited for any kind of news regarding MaryAnne.
At that moment, time itself became our worst enemy. Seconds became minutes, minutes became hours and hours felt like days. We all waited for hours in this damn lobby without any information about her. Was she okay, what the hell happen and what in the world is taking Carlisle so damn long?
I looked over at Bella and her father, Bella was trying not to close her eyes. She looked drained from all the crying from earlier and I knew she cared about MaryAnne as much as MaryAnne cares for Bella. Chief Swan, well he didn't look so well. He hasn't taken his eyes away from those double doors they took MaryAnne. I didn't know what was going in his mind but I knew it wasn't anything good.
"Amelia, please. I beg of you don't take her so soon," I heard chief Swan whispered. My siblings and I turned to each other. I knew they heard him. We knew little about the Swan's sibling. There are whispers about what happened to MaryAnne's parents. We heard that her parents were some kind of a power couple here in Forks, the perfect couple. Her mother, Amelia and Chief Swan were adopted siblings but acted like real siblings. And from what I heard they were inseparable when they were younger, however, they haven't talked for a long time. Apparently, a few years ago Chief Swan and Amelia had a nasty fight and well, haven't talked since then. No one knows exactly what it was about but it ruined their relationship. I don't know understand how MaryAnne can be so happy going, with everything that has happened to her. She lost not one but both parents lost everything once again, moved to a small town, almost died three days ago and yet she acts like nothing is wrong.
If there is actually a god out there, please hear me. Help her, protect her, heal her, she doesn't deserve this... not again.
As if my prayers were answered, Carlisle comes out and walks towards us. Seeing Carlisle Chief Swan quickly got up and walks to him. We followed right behind. Carlisle sighs and turns to Chief Swan. Sensing that Chief Swan wasn't feeling any better with the silence, Carlisle spoke up.
"She just came out of surgery-"
"What the hell you mean, surgery?" Chief Swan shouts.
"Charlie, MaryAnne has an inflamed appendix-"
It was as if someone slapped Chief Swan across the face. Bella cried some more, leaning on Edward.
"She g-going to be o-okay?" He asked, his eyes were welling up.
"Yes, we manage to get take out the appendix before it burst"
Chief Swan nods and looks over Carlisle's shoulder.
"I'm afraid you cannot see her now"
"What?" Bella shouted Carlisle looks at her with a sad look.
"I'm sorry but she needs to recover, however, you can come back tomorrow"
Bella shakes her head and looks at her father,
"No dad we can't. MaryAnne is going to need us when she wakes up. She's going to need us!"
She turns to Carlisle,
"She can't stand the hospital. If she wakes up and doesn't know any faces she doesn't recognize she'll have a full-on panic attack. It happened before and it was bad, we... I can't let that happened"
I frowned, MaryAnne gets panic attacks? Charlie sighs and looks at Bella then at Carlisle. Carlisle was having an inner battle with himself,
"I'll stay the night"
We all look at Bella, who looks determined,
"Sorry, Dr. Cullen but we're MaryAnne's family, she's all we have left and I won't leave her here all by herself. She wouldn't do that with either of us. So I'm staying," Bella said putting her foot down, Carlisle smiled at her,
"Of course you wouldn't. But I'm afraid you'll have to be 18 years or older to stay for the night. Hospital rules"
Bella looks angry, she was about to say something until Rosalie speaks up.
"I'm 18, I can stay," She said making everyone stare at her, surprised. Carlisle sighs and was about to deny it.
"Rosalie-"
"Please, Dr. Cullen let her stay. MaryAnne knows Rosalie, trust me it's better if she wakes up knowing someone than a complete stranger. And besides, MaryAnne likes her," Bella speaks up completely surprise us. She's taking Rosalie side even though how she behaviors towards her. Carlisle turns to Chief Swan,
"Are you okay with that?"
Chief Swan turns to look at Rosalie, who nods, he then turns to Bella. She looks at him and nods. Chief Swan sighs and turns to Carlisle, nodding.
"Only if you're okay with it, Dr. Cullen," Carlisle smiles and nods,
"That's fine. I shouldn't be doing this but, you can see her for a little while," Carlisle said but Chief Swan shook his head and we frown. He turns to us,
"You guys can go in and see her. You're here friends right?"
We smiled at him, we really appreciate it. We nod and followed Carlisle to her room. On our way there, Carlisle wasn't looking so well.
"You okay?" I asked he turns to me with dark golden eyes.
"I'll be okay," He said as we entered MaryAnne's room. It was strange seeing her like this, normally she's like Alice, all happy and smiling or she's like Rose, with a bitch-face. And now she's on this hospital bed looking so miserable. Carlisle walks to her and gently moves a piece of her hair back. He laughs softly but bitterly.
"We're here once again," he whispers. After a few seconds, he turns and stares at us. I felt bad for the both of them, is life ever going to be fair for them?
"She's beautiful isn't she?" Carlisle said sadly smiling,
"Yeah, very beautiful," Rosalie said. Carlisle turns to MaryAnne once again and stares at her for a few more seconds. He then turns to us and sighs.
"I have other patients tonight but I'll come and check on her constantly. Rose, you know what to do, call me if anything happens. I won't be too far from here okay." Rosalie nods fulling understanding. Carlisle turns to MaryAnne and sighs,
"You'll be okay," He whispers to her. With one last look, we walked out. We headed toward the lobby where Bella and Chief Swan were waiting. Chief Swan walks towards us, stops and looks at me.
"I heard what you did for my MaryAnne..."
Chief Swan stretches out his hand out for me. I grabbed it and Chief Swan places his other hand on top of mine.
"You saved her life, she would have been in more trouble if you didn't take action right away," His hold tightens a little.
"Thank you, son" I stared at him, touched that he would call me that. Having his approval meant a lot especially coming from MaryAnne's family.
"My pleasure, sir. Like Bella said, MaryAnne would have done the same," Chief Swan laughs while he pulls his hands away.
"Yeah, she would... just like her mother," He sighs and looks behind me. Chief Swan clears his throat,
"If you excuse me, I gotta go see my little girl"
We moved to the side and let Chief Swan passed. Bella steps close and stares at me with a smile,
"Thank you, Emmett. Thank you so much," She said before she follows her father to Maryanne's room. We watched them go, no one said anything. I mean how what can you say? MaryAnne has a family who really cares for her. I should feel glad yet I can't help feeling sad.
"Let's go home, Esme is waiting for us," Alice said, pulling me away from my sad thoughts. I look at her and nod. With one last look, I glance at MaryAnne's way and leave. Wondering, will she ever know? And if she does, will she ever be the same again?