Chapter 6:
I slowly open my eyes and I realize Emmett still has me in his arms. He must have felt me move because he clutches me a little tighter. I look up to him and smile.
"Welcome back, sleepy head," he smiles.
I stretch myself out. I look around and notice Rose is looking at my paintings. She touches each gently with her fingers as if feeling the strokes. Then she turns and smiles to me. I smile back. "How long was I out?" I ask Emmett.
"A day and a half," Emmett answers and he looks toward the window that is revealing the rainy daylight. That isn't good, vampires never really slept and I had slept for a day and a half. Something must have been wrong with me.
"You didn't have to stay," I say.
"I promised you I wasn't going to let anyone get to you. I wasn't going to risk breaking my promise." He says and a smile is drawn on his face. I hug him again and then pull away when I hear the door open.
"What about school?" I ask Emmett before looking to catch Jasper and Alice walking toward me. Jasper has his arm around her waist. Alice seems to be checking to make sure I'm up. Then I watch as she gets out of Jasper's arms for seconds and she dances to the door. "Esme! She's up!" Alice chimes. Esme is up in seconds and she rushes to my side taking me in a warm embrace.
"Everyone else went." Emmett answers and Esme pulls away but sits on a stool right by my side on the hammock. "Carlisle called the school and said we were sick." I nod understandingly.
"Carlisle said he wants to see you as soon as you wake up." Esme informs me.
I nod and I get up from the hammock. They all seem to have been worrying about me being light headed because when I stood they all went to a ready position to catch me. I giggle a little. "I'm fine. I'm just going to change and then I'm going to leave," I say walking to my dresser to pick out some clothes. I notice there are clothes that aren't mine in them. I turn to look at Alice and she has a sheepish little smile on her face. I pull up a modern, blue, flowy tank top and I wave it at Alice. "What is this?" I ask her and everyone laughs a little.
"I went shopping," she looks down, "I thought it would look great on you." She smiles suddenly not ashamed anymore. She dances over to me. "It would go great with these destroyed jeans," She lifts up a pair of new jeans she must have bought me. "And with this leather jacket," she says and raises up a chocolate colored leather jacket with her other hand. I look at her not having much effort to fight her off right now. "I tend to shop when I'm nervous." She smiles a little and everyone chuckles. I slowly take the jeans and the leather jacket, sighing. Everyone laughs. "Okay, you guys need to get out, I need to change." I say and they all smile and leave. I notice Rose wasn't with them. She disappeared. "Emmett!" I call and he stops at the door and turns to me. "Where's Rose?"
"She went out for a walk or something." He smiles and shrugs then pulls the door closed behind him. I change, brush my crazy hair, and I look to my hammock where I see a pair of ballet flats sitting. Alice must have snuck those over there. They are chocolate brown like the jacket. I sigh and put them on. I grab my bag and I go to the deck and I jump down and I run to the hospital.
When I get there Tyler is walking out and he almost bumps into me but misses me by inches.
"Tyler?" I ask and he looks up to me. He is looking a little down. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, you didn't hear?" He says and I shake my head. "I had an accident, my van slipped on ice, I hit Bella's truck and I almost killed her."
"Was she between your van and the truck?" I ask and he nods. "Then how did it not kill her?" I ask not quite understanding. Everything points to her being squished between the two.
He shrugs his shoulders. "She told your dad that Edward had saved her. She wasn't even bleeding or anything. He must have slid her under the cars or something." He says and I suddenly understand. Of course she didn't get squished, Edward wouldn't allow that. Edward wasn't normal circumstances, I hadn't calculated an obsessed vampire into the mix. "Her dad swears that he's taking my license." Tyler says and looks down.
I place my hand on his arm. "Bella probably wouldn't let that happen." I say and he nods a little. "I do have to go see my dad. I'll talk to you later." I walk into the hospital. I go past the front desk. "Hey Carmen! I'm going to see my dad, he's expecting me." I tell the secretary as I continue walking.
I stop when I see Carlisle, Rose and Edward having a discussion in the hallway. So that's where Rose went. There's no doubt she is as upset as I am about Edward saving Bella, maybe even more. Carlisle looks to another corridor and I notice Bella trying to listen in.
"Maybe we should move this to my office," Carlisle says and everyone seems to notice Bella now. Edward nods but he walks over to Bella. I show myself and I rush to Carlisle's side. I make sure Edward gets a glimpse of me and I glare at him. Carlisle takes me in a gentle embrace and kisses the top of my head. "It's good to see you are doing better," he whispers as he pulls away. I smile and Rose and I walk with him to his office. I turn back to see Edward in a serious conversation with Bella. And he had called me irresponsible? He could have blown everything, he still could blow everything.
When we get to his office and he closes the door. I slouch into one of his chairs and I face Rose and Carlisle. Rose starts to speak quickly. "Carlisle he could have blown everything! He stopped a car from hitting a human; he left a huge dent in the van. What he did was irresponsible and he needs to stop being so… involved with this human. It could get us all killed." Rose says and Carlisle nods.
"Edward is handling it Rosalie." Carlisle says.
"Handling it?" Rose sounds like she couldn't believe it. "That human saw what he is capable of. It is only a matter of time before she tells the whole town and we are getting hunted again. They don't care that we only eat animals, they will see us as monsters and huge rewards will be given just to have our heads or to watch us turn to ash." I cringe at her words. I hear the door open and close but I know Rose doesn't, she is too caught up. "The whole town is going to know because Edward can't let his precious human get a little hurt."
"She's not going to tell anyone," Edward's voice comes into the conversation. I look to him and he looks exhausted. He joins Carlisle and Rose, standing and makes it a triangle. "And she could have died. What was I to do? Let her!" He spits the last words to Rose and I cringe again. Rose doesn't fall back though.
"What is a puny human to our whole race Edward?" Rose glares at him and moves closer. "You might have ruined everything. And how can you know that she won't? Because she has told you? Ha! Now you are taking the word of a human." Rose seems to get even more upset. "We might as well just leave now. I mean Edward could stay because we all know he can't be without his human but we can leave before Edward's obsession gets us killed."
I am shocked that Carlisle let it get this far, usually he stopped fights; I guess he thought it was best to get everything out in the open. I had decided not to join in. I didn't feel like speaking, especially not to Edward, about this subject. I agreed with Rose, what he did was irresponsible even if it was to save a life. But instead of voicing my opinion, as Rose has done, I've cowered into this chair watching my family.
"She was sincere Rose." Edward says. "I know you can't ever trust anyone, but she was and I would never risk our family's safety."
"Well you already have." Rose bites back. "Look at Annabeth Edward!" She raises her voice and I shrink more in the chair. Why did she have to point me out? I was fine just being invisible. Edward looks to me but doesn't meet my eyes. "She is fine, if you were wondering. I mean, I'm not sure you were, seeing as you didn't check on her once, and you spent your time obsessing over some human." Rose bites and Edward finally meets my eyes.
"Enough!" Carlisle declares. "Rose, enough." Thank you Carlisle! "Edward did what he thought was right at the time. He would never risk our family's safety purposely. Edward didn't see Annabeth because he probably didn't want to disturb her and probably had something on his mind. Now, we will finish this discussion at home, with everyone. Rose, you can leave now."
She turns on her heel and walks out of the room annoyed. The door opens again. "Dr. Carlisle, Mr. Swan would like you to sign off on Bella's release. It will only take a moment." Some guy I've never seen before says.
Carlisle smiles. "I'll be right there." The man leaves and Carlisle turns to me. "You two don't leave," he eyes me and Edward then he walks out.
I sink into the chair more. I bend my knees to my chest and wrap my arms around them. Edward sits in the chair beside me. Time moves slowly, just waiting for him to speak to me. I'm always waiting.