Previously
We were about to jump when…
"Bella don't!"
BPOV
I ignored him and jumped with Alice and Rose. The drop was exactly how I imagined it. An adrenaline rush. All you could feel was the wind rushing through your hair and the splat of the water underneath your legs. Only I didn't feel a splash. I felt a big crack in my back, against a rock. I screamed, and I bet you could hear it underneath the water. I struggled around in the water, but I couldn't move. My back hurt way too much. It felt like I was underneath the water for hours. I finally felt someone grab my arm and pull me out of the water.
"Come on, Bella. Breath." Someone was whispering. Something came down on my lips and pushed air into me. "No, no, no, Bella. You have to wake up." I coughed up tons of water and opened my eyes. I was staring into my favorite pair of emerald eyes. His eyes were teary. It looked like he was crying. His hair was wet, and his chest was bare.
"Oh my, Bella. I am so sorry." He said, a tear ran down his cheek.
"My back." Was all I was able to choke out. My throat was on fire. I must've swallowed a lot of salt water. My back was killing me. I couldn't move, at all.
"Hold on, baby. I'm going to flip you over, it may hurt a little." Edward murmured to me. He turned me on my stomach, and my back hurt a little less.
"Oh crap." I heard Edward whisper under his breath. "Honey, I'm going to pick you up and your back is going to hurt a lot." He didn't wait for me to respond. He lifted me up in his arms. I moaned. My back hurt like hell.
"What happened?" I heard Alice scream at Edward.
"You weren't paying any attention to her when you guys were jumping, and she hit her back on the rocks. You guys were having to much fun with your boyfriends." He said, with an annoyed tone. Alice didn't answer.
"Help me get her in the car, so we can take her to the hospital." Edward told someone. I closed my eyes and leaned against Edwards chest.
"Here, Edward, take keys. I'll stay in the back with Bella." I heard a jingling sound as Alice passed Edward the keys to the convertible.
"Alice…" I said rolling over onto my side, with my eyes still closed. "What… what happened?" I whispered, I hope she could hear me because I did not want to repeat it, my throat hurt so bad.
"You hit your back, Bella. We're getting you to the hospital. We're almost there, don't worry." Alice said in a frantic voice. I wasn't the one worrying she was. I felt the car stop and the door open. My favorite pair of arms, lifted me up, and into the hospital. I heard people yelling at each other to get me a gurney. I tuned all of them out. All I wanted to do was lay down and die. It hurt so bad. The last thing I remember was a bright light above my head go on.
EPOV
I never should've yelled at her. I never should've told her what to do. If I hadn't she wouldn't have hit her back on the rock. And if she still did hit her back, I would've been right there with her, stopping her from falling deeper into the ocean. It was all my fault.
I've been at the hospital for 3 hours. All 5 of us have been sitting, more like pacing, in the waiting room. We had to have been driving the other people waiting in the waiting room crazy.
"Any news?" Jasper asked me, as him and Alice got back from the food court. They both had a little bag of chips. Alice had Doritos and Jasper had regular potato chips.
"Not yet." Emmett answered for me when I didn't answer. I couldn't answer. I couldn't stop thinking about what was happening behind those big black doors. We waited another hour, sitting there pacing, or in my case, head in my hands, very close to tears. Then finally the doctor came out.
"Which one of you are here for Isabella Swan?"
All 5 of us jumped up from our chairs and nearly sprinted over to where the doctor was standing. "Me." We all said in unison.
"Well, Bella is still asleep. But the surgery went fine. She had multiple little rocks in her back. She will have to wear a brace on her back for a couple weeks. She will be awake shortly, then you can visit her." The doctor said and left us alone.
"At least, she's alive." Rose spoke up.
"She's not going to be to happy that she has to wear that brace." Emmett said, and sat down. The doctor came out about 20 minutes later.
"Excuse me?" he said, interrupting our boring game of cards. Everyone looked up at him.
"She's awake. But only one of you can visit her at a time."
"I'll go." Alice and I said at the same time.
"I'm her best friend. I should be able to go first." She pouted.
"I'm her boyfriend. I'm pretty sure boyfriend beats best friend." I told her standing up.
"How about you play rock, paper, scissors?" Jasper suggested. I put my fist on my other hand.
"Rock, paper, scissors." Alice and I said in unison. I had rock, and of course Alice had to have paper.
"Ha!" Alice yelled at me and skipped over to the doctor. I sulked back to my seat and slouched down.
"You know that Alice never loses." Rose said taking the seat next to mine.
"I should have thought of that before I played her in a match of rock, paper, scissors." I said, still mad at Alice. But more mad at myself. 10 minutes later Alice came skipping back, with a huge grin on her face.
"She's been asking for you." Was all Alice said.
I jumped out of my chair and almost sprinted down the hall to her room. I opened the door slowly and was preparing for the worst. My Bella looked pretty much the same. She had no cuts on her face, it didn't look like she has been beaten up, at all. But I knew that underneath those plain, white sheets, was so much worse then what I was seeing. I made my over to her bed without a word. She didn't speak either. We just stared at each other. I sat down on a chair that was right by the bed, and held her hand that was resting at her side.
"Bella, I am so sorry. I never should've told you what to do. It was very, very rude of me. If I hadn't said it, you wouldn't be in here. You wouldn't have to wear a brace. And most of all, you wouldn't be mad at me." I finished my speech. During the whole thing I was looking into her beautiful big brown eyes. At the end I looked down at our intertwined hands.
"Edward?" I didn't answer, I just kept looking down at our hands. "Look at me." She said and put her hand on my cheek. "I'm not mad at you." I looked up at her with a confused and happy expression. "I'm sorry, Edward. I never should have freaked out on you like this. And no this is not your fault. If I had listened to you, I would never been in this hard bed, and no way to move. If I listened to you, I wouldn't have a huge hole in my back, and a hole in my heart for hurting you." I don't know how this woman does it but she just gets more and more incredible by the second. I smiled at her, my famous crooked smile, and she smiled back. I got up from my chair and pressed my lips to her forehead.
"You know I love you, right?"
"I know." Was all she said, before she drifted off into a deep sleep.
