Chapter 9 Crazy-ness

"WHAT?" I snapped. I didn't mean to take it out on Edward, but I was in a bad mood. He just kept staring at me and staring at me; never taking his eyes off of me on the way to the hospital. "Sorry Edward, I didn't mean to snap at you. I have a short fuse right now," I apologized quickly when I saw the hurt flash across his eyes.

"It's okay. I'm just in shock right now. I can't believe you actually did that!" His tone wasn't one of scolding, but in awe. I smiled and a blush appeared on my cheeks.

"UGHHHH," Tanya moaned from the backseat.

"SHUT UP!" I spat. I turned the radio up louder to drown out her sounds of pain. Like I really care?

"It's about to be a girl fight," start to blast through the speakers.

"Sorry, you missed it," I muttered under my breath and Edward chuckled. I changed stations.

"You wanna piece of me?" was on the next station.

"Already had some, don't think she liked it too much," Edward started to chuckle again.

"In every circle of friends there is a whore," at this me and Edward both burst out laughing uncontrollably.

"We know who that is," I smirked and looked in the rearview mirror at Tanya. I decided to leave it at Newport Living by Cute is What We Aim For just to torture Tanya.

"You were a sell-out but you couldn't even do that right," I started to sing along. We pulled into the hospital parking lot shortly after. I jumped out and Edward was already helping Tanya out of the car. He left her to fend for herself walking into the emergency wing. I felt him slip his hand into mine and I smiled at him. We reached the receptionist desk.

"Hello… oh my!" the receptionist exclaimed when she caught sight of us; me with a bloody lip and Tanya with a broken nose. "What happened darlings?" I read her name tag, Katy.

"Hi Katy, um, we got into a little jam. And well, you can see the outcome of that," her eyes finished examining us and then rested her eyes on Edward. I don't really blame her though. Edward was like my own personal Adonis; simply a god. "I think she has a broken nose and I just split my lip."

"Oh, uh, feel these out," Katy handed me forms but never took her eyes off of Edward who was completely oblivious. "Return them here and then a doctor will be with you soon."

"Thank you," I sneered and yanked out the forms from her hand. NO ONE stares at my man like that! Geez, I was in a pissy mood today.

"Come on Bella," Edward placed a hand on my back and steered me to the chairs. I sat in one and he set in one next to me. Tanya sat a few seats away filling out her own forms. I started to fill my own out and laid them where Katy had instructed me to place them. I noticed how pretty she was when I went up to drop them off. She had blonde curls and crystal blue eyes. Her tan looked real and her scrubs were fitting to her form. I sighed as I sat down. Why did Edward want a Plain Jane like me? Bella Swan! How dare you! Grow some balls and get over it. Edward is with you right now. Not her or anyone else. He tells you every day how beautiful you are. Accept it. I did need to muster up some confidence. I was beautiful. I was beautiful. I was beautiful. I was beautiful. There, I think that should carry me out for a while. I chuckled internally at my mental ramblings. I was surprised Edward hadn't found me crazy yet. I leaned against his side and he wrapped an arm around me. That was when I noticed what he was wearing. Some time one our way out he had thrown on a shirt, but he was still in my silk pajamas.

I started to laugh out loud and several people in the waiting room turned curiously towards us. When they recessed what I was having hysterics about they, too, laughed. Edward glanced down and chuckled.

"You know, I think I am going to have to keep these," I raised an eyebrow at him, repressing a giggle. "They are very comfortable. And I just LOVE the color," his voice turned mocking and feminine. I bit my lip, trying to help be serious. The people around us laughed even louder. Tanya looked like she was trying to keep from doubling over laughing.

"I agree. Pink is your signature color," I let my voice go country as I quoted Steel Magnolias. I absolutely LOVED that movie.

"Bells, are you going to make an armadillo cake when we get home? With red velvet cake?" Edward's lips turned into a pout and I had to cough to cover the laugh that was threatening to escape.

"You know it! With the one of a kind icing?" I continued the Steel Magnolias' references.

"OF COURSE, it wouldn't be the same! Now, do we need to get Tanya some orange juice?" Tanya's laughing ceased at this comment. Edward was referring to when Julia Roberts' character had a panic attack and was forced to chug down a ton of orange juice. I couldn't contain my laughter anymore with the look on her face; it was priceless.

"Isabella Swan and Tanya Denali," a doctor called from the door. We stood and made our way to the back rooms. Edward followed behind me with a reassuring hand on the small of my back. The simplest of touches conveyed our feelings more than yelling it out to the world. "Please, have a seat," the doctor gestured towards the two chairs and hospital bed. I quickly sat next to Edward in the chair and left Tanya to sit on the bed. I had too many past visits to the emergency room. I thought it would be good to sit this one out. Especially since my injury was nothing compared to Tanya's. No thanks to me…

"Now, what exactly happened?" I quickly checked his name tag, Dr. Hanley.

Tanya was about to recount the story, but I cut her off with a hateful glance. That seemed to shut her up…

"We got into a little scuffle, but I don't want to go into details. Tanya got me in the lip and I got her in the nose," I left the story short so we could get out of here quicker. I had to get to work in a few hours. I was currently working at the high school as a substitute. I had to get there by 1 and it was 11.

"Okay then, let's check your vitals," Dr. Hanley made his way over to Tanya after taking a few notes. I waited patiently while he checked on her. He sent her to radiology so she could get an X-Ray. He had just got done taping up my lip when Tanya came back into the room. We waited for radiology to send the X-Ray back. There was a knock at the door and a nurse handed the doctor a few sheets of transparent papers. He lit up the table and stuck the X-rays up. Her nose was definitely broken. "As you can see here," he motioned to the crook where glasses would rest, "it was a clean break across here. There are a few splintered pieces through out here," he pointed to where a bump usually was. "Other than that, you were pretty lucky, it looks like if Isabella had moved her knuckle a centimeter it would have been shattered; which would take a long time to heal."

"So what are you going to do to it now?" Tanya asked in a worried voice.

"I'm sorry to say that we are going to have to set it. That procedure is very painful and you will have to wait till after the procedure to take pain medication, which will take a few minutes to set in. That is, unless you want to leave it crooked forever?" Dr. Hanley added quickly.

"NO! Set it, please," Tanya grimaced at the thought of having a deformed nose.

"Do you want your friends here?" Dr. Hanley glanced at us under his glasses.

"Sure, just do it now before I psych myself out."

"Okay, be still," he took a few steps to her and placed his hands on her face. I turned my face away and Edward pulled me to his lap and I hid my face into his shoulder. He rubbed my back in soothing circles. That's when I heard it. It was a loud snapping noise. I heard Tanya's cries and wails shortly after the pop. I cringed into Edward's side and he lifted me up and carried me out of the room. We waited for several minutes in the sitting area. I had witnessed several dislocations and breaks, but I have never been able to get over the noises of it popping back into place. It was so…

"Hey, you ready to go?" Edward whispered into my ear. I nodded my head into his chest and he stood. I felt silly for letting him carry me. So I made him put me down when he stood. I cleared my head and took in my surroundings. Tanya was now with us. Her eyes were red and her nose was bandaged up and covered. Good, I did not need to see the ugly bruising that would for sure be there. We made our way out to the parking lot and I let Edward drive. I rolled my window down as soon as we got in the car. I turned the radio up to drown out Tanya's complaints once again. Soothing tunes of Matt Nathanson's Come on Get Higher drifted through the car. I was surprised when we pulled into the garage not more than a few short minutes later.

"Thank you," I said when Edward opened my door for me. We walked to the house hand in hand with Tanya following behind. When we stepped inside, everyone was waiting for us in the living room.

"OH BELLA! Are you okay?" Esme's motherly personality was alarmed as she ran to me and pulled me into a tight hug. I mentally laughed that she was worried about me when Tanya was the one with a broken nose.

"I'm fine Esme," I assured her. She pulled away and checked me up and down. Esme paused at my lip and made a 'tsk tsk' noise.

"I don't call that fine," she argued.

"Have you seen Tanya?" I asked with a smirk. Esme's eyes moved over to Tanya who was standing in the entry way to the living room with an ice pack to her nose. Esme shrugged and went back to fussing over me. I raised an eyebrow and she just winked. I smiled and turned to see everyone staring from me to Tanya and back again. Alice gave me an impressed look, Jasper put up his thumbs, Rosalie was just beaming, and Emmett looked like he was about to fall over laughing at any minute. I noticed Carlisle was in the living room looking better. This brought me to think what Tanya was going to tell Edward this morning. "Tanya, this morning, before we got into a fight, what were you going to tell Edward?"

She scoffed. "Now you want to know?"

"Well, yeah. If it was so important you had to call me a slut," I saw a few faces turn to mock horror and look between us.

Tanya just smirked some more. "Look, I was going to tell Edward that his father, the one I am looking after, is getting a lot better. Edward said to keep him updated on his progress and I came up there to tell him Carlisle did his morning routines by himself without having to take a break."

"Really?! That is wonderful dad!" Edward exclaimed running to his father. I smiled at the two and turned back to Tanya.

"Thank you," I mouthed. She just nodded her head and headed for her room. Bitch, I thought as she sauntered away.

"So, who is up for a game of hide-n-seek?" Emmett spouted randomly.

"What?" I voiced what most of the room was probably thinking.

"Well, I was wanting to play it this morning, but everyone was so worked up about you. SO I want to play hide-n-seek," Emmett shrugged like it was a 'duh' thing.

"I have to go to work Em," I told him honestly.

"Oh yeah, well when you get off?" He asked hopefully.

"Promise."

A/N I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE forgive me! I was getting on here to update when I said I would, but my Microsoft Word Trial expired. So I had to wait on my mom to buy me the program. But she hasn't had the money to in the past few weeks. Well, she gave me the idea to look up some free downloads on the internet; something I hadn't thought of! Well I found this Microsoft Word that might expire after 60 days or something… But I will have the program by then hopefully. Again, I'm sorry. I know you don't want to hear excuses, but it's the TRUTH! Please forgive. I know this wasn't a great chapter. But it was a fluff chapter that I had written out while waiting. Tomorrow I have a game, unless it is canceled, I will be updating my other story LOVE BITES. PLEASE FORGIVE ME!? Thanks.HH