I'm Sorry: Chapter 7
AN: My two favorite stories that I've read in the last 24 hours are Forbidden by Twilightx28 and Tastes Like Suicide by Zombie's Run This Town (who was also the inspiration for this story so yeah she's awesome)! CHECK THOSE STORIES OUT PLZ!! Alright now go read the chapter, people!
BPOV:
"I know, Rosalie. I forgive you. Wait…are all the rest of you here, too?" I asked, the excitement in my voice rising. How could I be excited to find out if the rest of my ex's-"family" was dead like his "sister"? It was kind of messed up. When I looked up into Rosalie's oddly colored violet eyes, she nodded and I pulled away.
"Even Carlisle and Esme?" I asked in a shocked whisper.
"Bella, you don't understand how much it tore our family up when we left Forks…especially Edward and Alice. Emmett wasn't his same prank-playing self and Jasper blamed himself for losing control. Esme was heartbroken and almost never spoke, and the same with Carlisle. I was different too, and I'm not trying to make a pun when I say this but, you were the life of our family. You brightened our existences in ways that were thought impossible and when we left you behind, we weren't the same as any time before, we were hollow shells of what we used to be even before we met you. Because our dead hearts were broken. Everyone is here." Rosalie explained. I blinked back tears as did she.
I turned around to look at Natalye and Christa who were staring at Rosalie and me with worried expressions. I grinned encouragingly and waved them over. They relaxed a bit and walked over to us immediately.
"Natalye, Christa, this is Rosalie McCarty. Rose this is Natalye, my guardian, and Christa, her other patients. They have been great friends to me so far. Oh and Natalye has a sister but she left earlier to get her patients. I guess it is coincidence that you arrived on the same day; her name is Sarah." Rosalie gave me a knowing look before saying,
"Oh her, she's our guardian! I guess it isn't too big of a coincidence after all, huh?" She laughed as Christa and I blinked surprised. Natalye looked at the floor guiltily. OH. MY. GOD. She knew?! She knew and she didn't tell me?!
"Natalye! You KNEW and you never said anything? WHY?" I hissed. Before Natalye could answer, Christa said,
"It's the rules, Bella. She wasn't allowed to tell. She's never allowed to tell anything about the patient stuff of another guardian. It is strictly confidential and besides, you really shouldn't care. At least you're gonna get your guy." And she winked. I rolled my eyes and put my palm to my forehead in embarrassment. Did Chris have to say that in front of his sister. Rose burst into laughter and placed her warm hand on my shoulder.
"Ohmygoodness! *laugh* She's…*laugh* talking about…*laugh* Edward, isn't she? Haha!" she said between her laughs. I blushed deeply and shot daggers at Christa who was starting to crack up as she looked back at me. Then her eyes suddenly flickered to Rosalie and her jaw dropped.
"Damn girl, you got some pretty eyes! I've never seen people with purple colored eyes. That's awesome!" she said.
Rosalie flashed her a grin and said, "Thanks. And I have a feeling that you and I are going to get along great. Did you know you are a very random person?" Christa nodded with laughter. With that, I decided to join in, but Natalye did too and at the same time, we chirped,
"Did you know that she only gets worse?" And then we started laughing and I high-fived her to show that I'd forgiven her. Then, Sarah walked back in and saw us and she made a beeline for us as we waved.
"Hey guys," she said and she turned to Rose, "I thought I might find you here with Bella, but I checked the China Ocean too, just in case. I was gonna say let's have some food but I've already had my share of fro-yo today. Why don't you order something, Rosalie?"
"Okay, I should. I'm absolutely starving now and all I've done since I've gotten here is talked." Rose said and with that she winked at me a strode over to the counter and Cole took her order.
After she had come back with her small mocha in a waffle cone with hot fudge on top and was about to say something when a shrill alarm started going off on Cole's, Natalye's, Sarah's, and many other guardians' phones and they swiftly looked at them.
Cole yelled, "Every guardian is needed immediately. I will stay here with the patients already present. There is already two guards in each of the patient quarters' for safety. They have located James Wilcox and you need to get him to the Hellevator now, so GO!" All 6 of the guardians plus Natty and Sarah shot out of the door quickly. There were many people looking confused at the outburst, including the three of us, so I sat down at the table nearest to Cole as he guarded the door.
"Cole, what's going on? Who is James Wilcox?" I asked, wondering if it could possibly be the James that I had encountered before…no that couldn't be.
Rosalie growled and said grimly, "I think I have a pretty good idea."
Cole nodded, he too was acting stiff and grim, and he started to explain.
"James Wilcox came here last spring, and he'd been a vampire. He'd done so much evil in all his 349 years of life that he'd been sentenced to go straight to Hell. He couldn't makeup for his actions and he was never even assigned a guardian. He immediately knew what was to become of him so he ran away, evading any contact with anyone. No one other than him, God and his angels, Satan and his other demon minions, and the people I'm sure he tortured knows exactly what he's done. Now that he's finally been spotted, the guardians have been told to herd him and drag his sorry ass to the Hellevator." It was exactly as I had thought.
Suddenly I noticed that I was crying as I said, "James…he has to be captured. My family were the ones who ridded the world of him… because he tried to kill me. He almost succeeded, because he did… bite me but…E-Edward…sucked the venom out." I showed Cole the scar on my hand and he grimaced.
"And you can't forget that he also went after Alice and he was the whole reason she had to be changed too, remember?" Rose reminded me, and then we both winced at our words.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Bells, is that asshole the one you told me about? Oh HELL NO, his ass better get caught and somebody kick it all the way to the Hellevator!" Christa said, finally getting what we were talking about.
Suddenly we heard a scream as Alice ran out of our building past the guards and saw James, looking similar to his vampire self with long dirty blond hair and evil hazel eyes, running from a group of guardians, with Natalye and Sarah hot on his tail. He saw Alice as she fought past the guards to get to…well I don't know what exactly she was trying to get to, but it must have been us. James swerved right as Alice squeezed her tiny body past the guards and seized her with an evil cry: "Mary!"
Rosalie and I stood up at the same time in a whirl of panic. Cole, who was watching too, said in disbelief,
"What the hell is that tiny girl doing? She's going to get hurt…OH MY GOD, HE'S GOT HER!" Rosalie and I tried to make him move so we could get to her, but he didn't budge.
"No you guys have to stay in here, it's too dangerous!" he yelled.
"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT, THAT'S MY SISTER SO MOVE ASSHOLE!" Rosalie yelled, but I was one step ahead of her. I grabbed one of stools from the table we'd previously been sitting at and threw it through the glass. We jumped through and everyone outside had frozen at the crash, including James. The stool, amazingly, was still flying through the air as Rosalie and I jumped through the shards. James's and Alice's eyes widened as the stool flew toward them and the guardians gasped as it hit…
(HAHA MY FIRST HUMONGOUS CLIFFY!!! JK, it's not over, so read on dears!)
both of them. The guardians took action and were dragging James away to wherever the Hellevator was I suppose but I didn't care. There was only one thing on my mind as I raced to where she was, with Rose at my side. Alice. Sarah beat me there by one second and soon we were all kneeling at her side.
"Oh my God, I haven't even spoken a word to her and I've already hurt my best friend." I sobbed. Rosalie was looking her over with a withering expression on her face. Natalye came up behind me and put a comforting hand on my back. I jumped at the contact, because I wasn't expecting it.
"She's going to be fine, Bella." she whispered. I still didn't look at her. I looked at Alice who had passed out from the contact of the stool.
"No she's not, you're just saying that," I whimpered. She turned my face around to look at her and said firmly,
"Listen to me, Bella. Alice Hale is going to be fine. If something drastic ever threatens the health of a patient, a guardian can heal them. Sarah's doing that now. Look Alice is already conscious and alert…" she trailed off because I wrenched my face around and out of her hands so I could look at Alice. Sure enough, she was awake. She looked different because she was blushing and had bottle green eyes but other than that she still looked exactly like my best friend. Rosalie was already hugging her and I scooted closer to them.
"Bella!" she squealed, letting go of Rosalie. I opened my arms widely and she grinned as widely as me and hugged me tighter than ever.
"Oh my god, I have missed you so much, Bella. You know I still love you, right?" she whispered. I felt wetness on my shoulder and realized we both had happy tears streaming down my face.
"You wouldn't be here if you didn't, Ali," I whispered back. She squeezed me tighter and laughed. She pulled away and scrutinized my outfit. She was wearing black, too and Rosalie was too but I hadn't noticed before. Alice smiled in approval.
"I love your outfit, even though I know you didn't pick it out. I already figured out that no one ever picks out their own outfits here or buys them, but at least we never wear them more than once." she chirped. To the waiting crowd of guardians, I stood up and pulled her up with me. I clasped her hand and punched our hands in the hair and announced, shaking with silent laughter,
"SHE'S OKAY…if Alice Hale has the energy to talk about clothes then she is completely and totally fine!" Everyone laughed a bit and then dispersed and then Cole and Christa came running toward us, full speed. Christa's face was glazed with worry and Cole looked utterly pissed, especially at me. Oh shit…here it comes. I sighed as they reached us and I peered up at Cole and looked quickly back down again, chewing my lower lip.
"Uh…sorry 'bout the window and uh…for not listening to you, but seriously Alice is my sister, I couldn't let James hurt her…" I trailed off as I heard his familiar scream as it got fainter and fainter until it stopped. Whoa. I think my ears just witnessed someone going to Hell.
"Why does no one ever listen to me?! EVER?!" Cole said angrily.
"Because one: you're a pushover, and two: usually whatever the person or people have to do is more important on their list of priorities than listening to you." Sarah said simply.
"Why do you always have to be such a smartass Sarah?" Cole sighed.
She shrugged and said blandly, "It's just my thing." We all laughed silently except Cole, who glared at us. He turned on his heel and as he walked through the door of his shop, we flicked his hand up and the window repaired itself. Now that was beyond cool.
"I don't see why he nags us more than a great-grandmother should about everything we he can fix it himself." Christa muttered, shaking her head after Cole.
"Wow, Christa! That's the first time I've ever heard you complain about something and not have a single cuss word in the same sentence." As we all laughed, Christa proceeded to show Natalye her "special finger" and we laughed harder.
"So Bella, this is the one that used to dress you up? Alice?" Christa asked. I nodded and Alice stared at Christa, wide-eyed.
"Sorry, I've just heard a lot about you. I'm Christa, that's Natalye and Bella and I are both her patients. Natalye is also Sarah's sister." Christa explained.
"Oh cool, it's a pleasure to meet you Christa. Hey Bella did you know that I can't have visions anymore?" Alice said.
"What? You don't have visions anymore? Why?" I asked.
"Because I turned COMPLETELY human." she said perkily. Ohh. I nodded.
"Hey guys, what's been going on? I heard screaming…wait is that…BELLA!" As I heard the familiar voice, I turned around at the sound of my name to face…
Ok now THAT was my first really big cliffy! HAHA! I need reviews, and please more than 5 this time!!! Dedicated to all of my best friends! Shout out to…(see first AN for more details) Zombie's Run This Town, her story is amazing and it is almost over *tears* so go check it out (as I said earlier). I will update when I have more than 5 reviews! Pinky swear! ~I'mEdWaRd'SlAtUaCaNtAnTe :)
PS: I don't own the idea for the Hellevator, that belongs to the movie Toothless starring Kirsti Ali (before she was a fat ass). JK, I love Kirsti Ali cuz she's hilarious!
