Chapter Four
Please don't leave me.
BPOV
It had been 2 years since the tragic death of both my parents. Making me an orphan, I suppose.
I live in the same apartment as a girl called Jess. She's real annoying. But nothing I can't handle.
My close friends the Cullen's are now my life. I've become so attuned to having them around. They were my only reason for living at the moment.
It was a Saturday morning. Fresh with lawn icing and misty fog outside, when a soft knock was trilled at the door of the Cullen's house, which I'd spent the night at.
Everyone except Edward and Alice were out. Don't ask me where.
I walked still sleepy to the door only to pull it back and see a beauty before me. She had strawberry blonde hair and pale skin, just like my family the Cullen's, as well as golden eyes.
Was she some family member stopping in?
"Hello, can I help you?"I said, sleep still in my voice.
"Umm."She looked at me confused but continued.
"I need to speak with Edward." She practically demanded.
Just then Alice came fluttering in "Who is it bel..." Her words trailed off and her eyes became wide as she saw the figure before me.
"Tanya." She said sharply.
"Hahah, well Alice, That's no way to talk to your brother's girlfriend, now is it."
My jaw hit the floor.
.Hell.
Just then Edward came charging down the stairs in vampire speed, the light shining through the door ricocheting off his glittering skin.
"Tanya, what the heck in the lord's name are you doing here. You don't understand what no is I take it. You will not be my girlfriend; the only girl I could care for in that manor is right next to me"
He placed his arm around my waste and I smiled.
"I'm sorry that it's not what you would like from me, but I don't want you, please understand."
"She's just a human."Tanya scowled, glaring at me.
"I bet you can't even kiss her."
"That's it Tanya" Alice interrupted.
"Let's get this straight. Your little obsession with my brother, it is to stop or I, myself will personally rip your head from your shoulders and be the reason for you to seise to exist. Do I make myself clear? Don't for one second think this is a bluff. You are really pissing me off woman."
Alice glared evilly at Tanya.
Tanya smirked before turning to stare at me and say "What if your little toy were no longer sold, then you'd be forced to by the next best thing".
"Ergh, you really think Bella will be out of our site long enough for you to get your greasy little paws on, think again. We'll protect her with everything we've got."Alice stated finally, seeming a bit proud of herself."
"And by the way, indeed we can kiss, and it the best thing ever."
Edward remarked, slowly pulling my lips to his.
A growl rumbled from within Tanya's chest.
"Just you wait you little weak human; you'll get what's coming to you."
She threatened before she turned and run away through the shrubbery at vampire speed.
"Umm, ok, no need for a coffee hit now, think I'm awake" I said in a mocking tone.
"I'm sorry."Edward began,
"Before I even knew you, my family and I attended a high school in Alaska. There we met another coven of vampires, calling themselves the Denali coven. Tanya, of course, was a member of the group. Ever since we met, she's been following me places and saying I'm hers, it's almost like in her sick twisted head I'm her Romeo. To be honest I'm scared of what she could potentially do to this family. She's very manipulative and though we've never admitted this to Tanya, but for some reason, she's able to hide certain things from us in her mind, though I believe she doesn't know she is able to, cause there are some things she's though that I know she wouldn't want others to know. " He said knowingly.
"It'll be fine" I said and we left it at that.
And with that, I raised my finger to stop his lips; they were so sexy, that thoroughly ending the conversation.
And we never would of had to think of Tanya again until Five weeks later something happened that ruined me for the second time.
.........Five weeks later........
EPOV
"Alice." I called.
I could smell something odd, like a vampire scent, only covered up by a distorting other scent that made it unrecognisable. Garlic maybe.
"What is it?" She said skipping down the stairs to stop in front of me.
Before I even had to say anything Alice said "What is that god awful smell".
"Has Emmett been wearing that stupid Halloween vampire costume and the garlic accessories again, that's sooo not funny, just because he thinks it's cool to cover his scent and all..." She trailed off into visions that I also saw through her thoughts and we both gasped.
"No. She didn't."
We both let our jaws hit the ground.
Her plan was evilly, obsessively wrong and warped in many ways.
And it worked.
How the heck could we let this happen?
I searched the perimeter of our towns mind span looking for Tanya's thoughts and there they were. I found out all that she had planned and all that she would do. Just because she was obsessing over me.
TPOV
It was strange, sneaky of me to have snuck into the Cullen's house, but I knew this would distract their thoughts. The smell was putrid enough that it would cover my tracks; they'd never know it was me.
Once I left the house I made my way to Edwards disgusting, boy steeling, human's apartment. In my pocket I held a syringe of Methamphetamine, a drug that if taken in high dosages could be lethal, and this dose wasn't small let me tell you. I picked this particular drug because although I'd loved to have just slipped little rat poison into something of hers, it'd kill her, and I just wanted to shock Edward, let him know what he's dealing with. That way his little human can live in heartache whilst I take the ultimate prize. Edward. He'll see her for how week she really is.
It was a piece of cake to simply walk through her apartment and even easier to plant the drug within an apple which I knew Bella would be sure to eat. Smart me has been watching her, seeing what she does, and apple is part of her daily diet. Her little friend doesn't touch them. Revenge is sweet.
I thought impressed with myself.
BPOV
I walked into my little apartment room I shared with jess, it was nothing compared to the Cullen's house, but it was all I could expect, or afford for that matter.
"Bella?"
"Yeah jess, it's just me."
"Oh, Bella, I missed you, I haven't seen you for ages."
"Jess it's only been six hours." I laughed
"Well, so what, it sucks when I haven't got someone to talk to, I go crazy" She said with certainty.
I laughed and she did too.
"Awh jess, I'll always be here for you."
Even though she was extremely annoying at times I liked her.
She came over and gave me a hug, then walked over to the counter and grabbed her handbag.
"Oh, are you going out."I said with a tinge of disappointment filling my voice.
"Uh, yeah, sorry, Mike asked me out on a date, I am sooo excited, I mean like, Jesus about time, is he stupid, I've liked him for age's, maybe my love vibes are up to shit." She said, clearly over her D.N.M moment.
"Go, go and canoodle with your mike, before I go crazy for you."I said giggling - I seemed to do that allot.
"I'm going I'm going, Byee, ily B"
"Ily J." Then the door closed with a thud, leaving me in the startlingly silenced house, by myself.
I walked into my small room and picked up my iPod, placing it into the speaker dock and selected a song called I made it-Kevin Ruldolf & Lil Wayne.
It made me happy.
I bopped around the house whilst the words...
"I look up to the sky,
And Know the World is mine,
I've known it all my life,
I made it, I made it!
I used to dream about, the life I'm living now,
I know that there's no doubt.
I made it, I made it!"
Bounced off the walls, maybe a little too loud, but I don care, I was having a moment.
I'm hungry, I thought, I was starting to get that annoying little stomach ache.
The song had now switched to Drop the world by Lil Wayne, wow another good song.
"I got ice in my veins, blood in my eyes,
Hate in my heart, love in my mind,
I seen nights full of pain, days of the same,
You keep the sunshine, save me the rain,
I search but never find, hurt but never cry,
I work and forever try, but I'm cursed, so never mind,
And it's worse, but better times seem further and beyond,
The top gets higher the more that I climb."
I sang along as I walked into the kitchen in search of a snack.
I looked in the fridge, but nothing was appealing, actually I don't think I was edible either, Jesus jess.
Then I went over to the fruit basket and grabbed the apple that was there. This'll do.
I took a big bite, then skipped back into my room.
It was within the next half hour that energy hit me like a truck. I was bouncing off the walls, it was great. I took one more bite from my half eaten apple and flung it at the bin, I didn't seem to be hungry at the moment, in fact I didn't really have room for feeling any emotion in the state I was in. If I didn't know any better id have thought I'd taken something.
Then something went off, I stared sweating profusely, like I'd been running for three hours straight, and getting real dizzy, I felt like I was being spun and flung everywhere, then my toe caught and I fell over on my rooms rug and hit my head on my wall unit, but I laughed, why did I laugh, it hurt so bad.
I slowly rose onto my arms and legs, trying to crawl to something I could support myself on, but I couldn't do it, I fell back over and laid flat on the floor, then I took one last sharp breath and everything went black as I fell into a deep peaceful silence. Though I could still hear a soft frantic thump which I believe was my own heart, and I possibly could have noticed the sound of hurried voices right before I slipped into the dark, but I wasn't certain.
EPOV
"Bella!" I screamed franticly.
"This is not good Edward, I can't see her future." Alice said sounding as if she were about to cry.
"It's flashing, wait it's flashing." She then said sounding a tiny bit more less stressed out.
I could hear Omarion-Speedin' pumping from outside her apartment.
This hurt; I couldn't lose her, not now.
I merely kicked her front door with my foot and it went falling to the ground.
"Bella, Bella, where are you, Bella please."I yelled for her.
"Bella." I whispered as I found her. This broke me in two; there she was still on the ground, a single blood stain on the carpet next to her head, her face emotionless and paler than usual, though she was slippery with sweat.
"No, Bella, no please, you can't." I cried as I ran vampire speed to her still body.
Alice was frozen still behind with me, one hand clamped over her open mouth and her legs shaking.
"Alice, call Carlisle."I yelled over my shoulder.
Alice snapped out of her daze at my words and within a fifth of a second she'd dialled Carlisle's number and was holding the phone to her ear, biting her finger nails and pacing in circles.
I lowered my head to Bella's slowly rising chest, she was still breathing, and this was a start, though her pulse was practically one conjoined beat it was going so fast.
I thought it was only best to leave her still until Carlisle arrived.
"Carlisle, Carlisle, oh my god, please, it's Bella, you've got to get to her apartment now, she's bad, she's real bad, god you've got to help her, Tanya was here, she blocked us from her thoughts and spoiled an apple Bella ate with heavy doses of methamphetamines, she's not moving Carlisle god, she's so still." Alice paused from her flooding of words to listen to Carlisle.
"Yes, her heart is still beating, but very fast, too fast."Alice replied.
"Ok, see you soon."Alice said sharply and flipped her phone closed.
"Bella, it's ok, you're going to be fine, just hold on love."I barely whispered.
A wet tear filled my eyes and spilled over, dropping down and landing on the hand of Bella's I was holding onto.
"Wow, I thought vampires couldn't cry."I said in a clogged voice, sniffling from my nose.
"Me too."Alice said, I looked up at her to see her red raw eyes and tear streaked face,
"I guess Bella has altered us so completely that if we feel enough emotion we can cry real tears also." Alice replied, then added,
"Edward, Bella's going to be alright, I can see it."
I saw through Alice's thoughts Bella awaking, her beautiful chocolate kiss eyes fluttering open and I listened to her heart beat at a steady rate. Everything was going to be ok.
"Oh Bella." I said kissing her forehead, her cheek and her hand profusely.
"Alice come here."I said and when she was next to me I wrapped my free arm around her shoulder and let her lean her head against my arm.
"It's all going to be fine", I said mostly to myself, Then I stood up in one jerked movement just as Carlisle came bolting in through the wrecked door and to Bella's side.
He began to work on her straight away, implanting tubes into her nose, mouth and wrist, as well as checking her pupils and pulse.
I walked over to the corner of the small room and turned the un-needed music off, then flipped up my phone to call jazz.
"Are you all ok?"Jasper said firstly.
"For Bella, I think so. But there's one thing I want to ask of you, catch Tanya and kill her, destroy her before I get to her, because I will go to all lengths to make it torture for her. And I don't want to make myself out to be a monster."I said honestly.
"We can do that for you. Just be there for Bella for us in the meantime, when were done we'll be there." he said before hanging up.
"I walked back over to Carlisle, Alice and my Bella, who was now, hooked up to a heart monitor and had a small see through squared machine connected to the thick clear tube that was going down her throat.
Before I was to ask what it was, Carlisle said,
"Edward, push her stomach for me please."
"Like this?" I asked I was softly pumping Bella's stomach.
"A tad harder, and faster, no one is around you can go faster than usual."
I did as he said.
"Perfect."
He then went over to the machine attached to the tube and switched it on.
After a second stuff started syphoning through the tube. What the hell. Then I realised that it was taking out all that Bella had eaten recently to try and dispose of the chemical making her so sick.
My pumping was helping it get hold of it all the gastric fluids, so I continued. I was helping, that's all I could do.
Within the next 20 seconds Carlisle switched off the machine and got me to slightly raise Bella's head to remove the tube before he replaced it with an oxygen mask.
We were all silent except for when carlisles ked us to help with anything.
Alice was so silent I almost forget she was there.
I looked behind my shoulder to see her huddled in the corner her head on her kneecaps rocking back and forth.
I looked back in front of me only to see Carlisle nod towards Alice.
"She'll be fine now, I'm just going to put her in bed, go be with Alice for a moment."
I nodded briskly and shot over to Alice's side and pulled her up into my arms.
For the first time in over 100 years both me and Alice cried in each other's hold, cries of both horror and relief, Alice for her best friend and sister and I for my reason of existence, my Bella.