When I woke up the next day, I felt off, to put it simply. Not only was I taller, I knew something was going to happen. It felt sort of like cramps. This thing was biting at my gut and a constant buzz at the back of my head seriously put me on the brink of hysteria. It was annoying the fuck out of me.
I took the longest shower possible that I could without being late for school and dressed as slowly as possible. I was numb; I was lethargic; I was dull and I was tired.
I stood in the background, watching the Cullens that showed up to school today, and Bella. Between me and Alice, there were a mass of texts back and forth the entire day. If I wanted to pay attention to school from the beginning, I really couldn't now from what Alice was telling me.
She was seeing many, many instances where the Cullens, Bella, and I would end up unhappy and miserable. The one thing that remained the constant was that Edward was leaving Bella.
Can you say "Predicted"? One more thing she said was for me to watch over Bella and that she'd be in contact with me as much as she can. This serious Alice was really scaring me. What the fuck is Edward doing…
With Alice and Jasper in Alaska, Edward frozen over, Bella moping because of Edward, and me in tune to all of this, the day was shitty. So, I sent texts to all of my Vampires' cells.
~ If I'm needed, call me. Keep me in touch with whatever happens please, it's just too moody right around you guys right now. LOL~
I'm sure I'll get my ass kicked later on for the flippancy, but right now, I'm supposed to be happy because life is definitely too short.
So like hell, I'm going to be caught up in the mood and sit around and mope like all the rest.
My phone rang at the fucking dead of night and I groaned, reached over and picked up.
My voiced murmured, " Alyson's phone here, please leave a message after the tone and she will be sure to answer whatever question you have at a godly hour, unlike this one for sure. Please call in the next 10 hours…."
"Ahahahhahahahha, you're so cute, Aly. We're at the airport. We finished and at the last minute we're hopping a plane that is heading to Port Angeles! Would you do us a huuuuge favor and pick us up honey?"
I sighed, turned over to look at the clock.
3:15 flashed to 3:16... AM.
"Okay….what time is the plane landing?" I rubbed sleep out of my eyes and put on my glasses, slowly heaving myself out of bed.
"Around 5:30 AM sweety! Thank you so very much! We'll be sure to put 2,000 dollars in your account cause we woke you up. Hehe. Love you sweety, and see you at the airport."
"Mhmm" I sighed and hung up, dressing in my fur coat and pulling on some jeans over pajamas. I slip into some boots, while brushing my teeth and getting ready for an hour and a half drive to Port Angeles.
I made sure to bring my ipod and a converter to blast music for the long drive.
Once I pulled into a parking lot near the airport, I sent a text to Ma, telling her to call me to wake me up once they land, and then I proceed to pass out for 30 minutes.
I awaken with a start when my loud ring tone blares through the soft music, I sleepily hit the Open call button and I groggily answer the phone.
"Alyson at your service?"
"Hey hun! We're at the baggage claim right now, we're at the first set of double doors that are automatic."
"Okay, Dad, be right there."
I hang up and start the car.
The sky was dark, yet the airport was super bright and had me more awake and bothered by its noise. I followed the directions that Dad gave me and waited by that specific doors for only a few minutes until a knock on the windshield ordered me to pop open the trunk.
Sighing, I did as ordered and left the car in idle while slipping to the back seat where I expertly maneuvered myself around a tight seatbelt and was laying down, stretched out as far as my legs could go to cover the entire backseat.
"Hey Aly, are you hungry? I sure the hell am, and we're going to a McDonalds right now. That airplane food was shitty disgusting. Blegh." Mom slipped into the passengers' seat and patted my head.
"Hello to you too! Hehe, sure, I can use a smoothie or something. Not that hungry at all."
Dad started driving after packing up everything in the trunk. " Awesome, I want at least 2 Big Mac's" He grinned, fist bumped my shoulder and I fist bumped his back.
"Glad to have you guys back in the Green World of Forks." I snicker sarcastically. "Who fucked up their lives to have you fly over there for free?"
" Some Senator that decided to cut off the fundings to some research project, and shit. Too many details that could get us killed, but anyways, that's the basics. Fucker really had to relocate and everything, stupid idiot. But anyways, honey, how have you been? Any boys I should know about? I heard about this Cullen boy that's been getting cozy with you? Should I go over to his parents' house and have a little talk with them?"
I just about fell out the car laughing my ass off. " Oh my god! NOO!, Hahaa, me and Cullen are not together. We're best friends and he already has a girlfriend." I snicker quietly, shaking my head.
"Best friends, hmm? You know me and Madre over here were best friends for years before finding out that we liked each other, and it has been bliss and ecstasy ever since that day.." Dad looked over to Mom with a certain glint in his eye and she smirked right back at him pointing to the dashboard.
"Eyes on the road buddy."
" Meowr, yes ma'm" He winks and turns he eyes to turn into the parking lot of a Mickie D's.
Twenty minutes later, I had actually gotten a sandwich and was happily eating it in the car with laughter coming from the front seat.
Seeing my family meant the world to me, and had shielded me from the emotional dealings of the Cullens. I was happy and excited and upbeat.
The hair on the back of my neck stood up. As I glanced up towards the front windshield, I saw a flash of red and a flash of yellow before a car smashed into the driver's side of my Toyota at top speed.
Before any of us could scream or yell, the car flipped over several times, glass breaking all over the place, scratching me, imbedding into my skin, and metal crunching. I released a loud sob as I realized that the metal on the driver's side was totaled, around my leg and that I couldn't move it at all.. I couldn't even feel it..
I was jerked all over the place, head slamming into the window, but other than that, the seatbelt and the fact my leg was jammed saved me from flying out the car as it rolled. Then, the passenger's side flung itself into a cement block and I cry out , ducking down as far as I could, bending in half and hold onto my head as tears started running down my face, breathe wheezing in and out of my mouth, and heart pounding as disbelief settled inside me.
There was a sudden silence and a quick moment of conscious loss before my mind shocked itself back into working order, and I let out a loud sob. No, no, god no…
I couldn't see anything, I had to shut one eye or risk getting blood in it, and the car looked so bad from the inside.
This isn't happening… no, not now…
"MOM, DAD!" I screamed, and couldn't see a thing. I sobbed trying to pull myself up to the middle console, and I just couldn't. I really couldn't … it just hurt so bad: my head, my leg, and there was blood, just so much blood. I let out another sob and searched for my phone, my hands oddly steady as I dialed 991.
My chests heave as one eye becomes blinded by blood and I choke out. " PLEASE help! There's.. There's been a terrible accident.." I sob again, trying to wipe the blood and tears away from my face.
"Okay, young lady, please calm down and tell me at what intersection if you can."
"I can't see.. There's blood all over the place. I know we passed a McDonalds."
"Okay, young lady, what's your name and will you please stay on the phone with us? A squad has been sent out and will be there momentarily."
"I'm Alyson Porter. I'm 16 years old and I live in Forks, Washington…" I leave off beginning to gasp as lights flash in my eyes. Blue, red, and white lights. " There's an ambulance here. Oh god, I can't move my leg. Please help…" I drop the phone and scream for the EMT's.
"HURRY! My parents first! Please, let them be okay, please. Oh my god, I can't lose them.. Oh my god.." I start sobbing uncontrollably when I notice that the guy can't open the door.
The car itself was probably totaled, I know the inside was fucked up. The side where my leg was pinned was pinched inward, the metal badly scrunched and folded. The windshield was spider webbed horribly, the other side of the car was just as pinched and crushed as the one I was pinned to and the back windshield, the back wind shield was gone. All windows were completely decimated and the frame for those windows were nonexistent. I saw that they could only get us out through the driver's side.
They brought the Jaws of Life to pry open the driver's side door and I cover my face in my hands.
My mom said that when they had to get the Jaws that the accident was very serious.
I was watching barely keeping myself from screaming in hysteria as they glanced at me quickly before cutting the driver's door out and pulling a badly bleeding Dad and Mom out of the car.
A horrible feeling flashed through me and my eyes widen as Mom's eyes open briefly and mouthed the words that set me out right sobbing.
I plastered myself to the broken door and start balling and reaching for my mom. They were working on creating an opening so they could cut away the metal that was pinning my leg. I watched the EMT's pronounce my parents dead; the checking of the vein in the neck and the shaking of their heads tipping me off. Tears dripped down my face as I heard what they said.
"Father, dead on impact it looks like, rigor has already set in."
"Mother, looks to be dead from head trauma."
I broke down, sobs shaking my body as tears continued to run and run down my cheeks.
I started screaming and thrashing when I felt the metal dig into my leg harder and instantly the pressure stopped.
I quieted, an EMT climbing into the car to check my vitals and then to run the diagnostic on my leg still pinned to the metal.
"Sweety, sweety, please calm down.. Okay they're working on your leg, to be completely honest we're losing options on what to do to get you free.
I stared at her, completely terrified, before nodding mutely and laying back on the backseat.
After completely removing the driver's door, steering wheel, and front seat, they were able to cut the metal down to just before it pinches onto my leg, and that took a complete 1 hour.
The EMT was by my side, calming me down when I felt the metal pinch viciously into my leg several times. The EMT already had a neck brace on me, and was continuously taking vitals, almost desperately.
With sudden, mind numbing pain, and a loud scream, I felt fresh air on my leg, and cheers erupt from ..bystanders and the crew? A firefighter, carefully removed the metal from around my leg, or what once was my leg.
The EMT by my side shouted several things, and everyone shaped up into action immediate.
I was carefully handled out of the car, the faithful EMT by my side actually forcing me to look away from my parents' bodies under a sheet as a male one had lifted me out of the car.
My leg… looked awful. It felt broken, and it felt as if the top layer of skin was scraped off.
In all honestly it looked better than it felt, slightly. Skin was definitely broken and missing in some places, and yeah. I'll leave it at that.
My throat was sore and throbbing by the time they got me onto a stretcher. It was when they touched the leg that I let out a shriek, and jerking my leg from the touch as I try and cradle it. They carefully placed my body in the correct position, and continued assessing me, shining lights in my face, wiping away blood that crusted over my eye to shine a light in that eye and everything else.
The head wound was still bleeding, and the eye quickly became covered again.
Although I was in a daze, I remained conscious while being driven to the hospital, hearing their whispered conversation.
"How in the hell did she survive with minor injuries? The car is totaled, and doesn't even look like a car anymore. Even the drunk driver of the other car is dead… lord help this poor girl, she survived an impossible and fatal accident…"
I just stare up at the ceiling, tears slowly making their ways down my cheeks as I stare reality in the face.. My parents… are gone.
Hours later, I found myself laying down in a white bed, staring up at a white ceiling.
My leg was broken in four different places, and fractured all the way to the knee. They put at least 10 metal pins in the bone and had me in a cast all the way to the thigh. I had stitches in my head, right above the temple, and my face was clean of all the blood. They had me on light meds, and an IV.
Other then that, I could go 24 hours after the emergency operation.
Tears flooded my vision as I let out an anguished cry: the funerals for my parents would be held where they married. They told me it was in Savannah, Georgia.
I would make arrangements immediately, tomorrow.
Right now all I wanted to do was sleep for days. And wake up 1 year ago…
And you know, the saying that everything happens in not just ones or twos, or somethings? I thought that was the end.
My phone rang and I picked it up:
"Alyson… this is Edward. Just calling you to say that we can never be friends again, I've hurt Bella and by being friends with you that would put Bella in danger. I am dangerous to her. I can't live with the fact that she'd be in danger as long as I'm around her. I am deleting your number from all of our cell phones and we will remove ourselves from your existence entirely. I wish you good fortune in your future endeavors. Goodbye."
He hung up. And I let my phone fall to the bed.
My heart shattered. As if it wasn't in a good state before his call.
After a few minutes of complete silence, the busy signal started to emit from my phone, and I ripe the heart monitor off, and IV drip out, not caring at all. Alarms and beeps rang throughout the room and I fall onto my hands and knees screaming into the floor, my face pressed into it as I shamelessly let out all my frustrations, sadness, grief, and anger.
Somebody wordlessly turned off the machines, and sat on the floor, hugging me and I, not caring who it was, hugged them back with all my strength as I wail and bawl into the person's shoulder.
I cry all of it out: The fact that my parents were dead. The fact that my other set of parents were leaving, going out of my life for all of eternity till the day I die, my family leaving, my best friend eradicating himself from my life, forcing the severance of this bond.
The most heartbreaking thing that got me sobbing, was that Edward was severing the tie between him and me just because Bella would be in so called danger.
I felt as if my hole world imploded. I felt as if I, myself, have imploded, leaving everything out of place.
My heart felt literally to be in pieces as Edward's last words shoved themselves into my mind, renewing my anguish and causing me to cry harder into the person's shoulder.
We can never be friends again…
Okay…. I had to stop several times to try not to cry. I did let a few tears slip. Dear god…the pain Alyson has to go through…
Let me know about your thoughts please.
