Ch10 Aftermath

Bella's POV.

The house was oddly quiet, when Edward and I walked in last night. … Well, I guess it was earlier this morning. I can't believe we stayed out all night. I've never done anything like this before and if I was being honestly, I never would have if it wasn't Edward. I'd do anything, go anywhere for Edward … just to be around him for a little longer. I had suck a wonderful time yesterday and I still can't believe that I'm in love with him. When we got back to his place, Edward walked me upstairs and straight to bed. We were both very happy but very tired and in need of a good nights sleep. Edward hugged me before rushing off to bed and I went in to crash, I slept really well. Not a single nightmare.

"Morning, Beautiful." Edward's voice called from the hall as I heard a light knock on the door. "Are you awake yet?"

"Morning!" I called back with a smile that he couldn't see through the closed door, I rushed to open it and greet him.

"Ok, well its about noon and no one is home." Edward stated simply as we walked hand in hand down stairs. "Do you want some breakfast or would you like to go to eat?"

"We can cook here if you'd like." I answered back. "Where do you think everyone is at? … I know Emmett and Rose are gone."

Edward shrugged. "I guess they all stayed out late, Mom and Dad probably took the time alone for a date night or something." Edward said as we walked past the living room into the kitchen.

"Ok, so what are we cooking?" I asked hoping he wouldn't catch what I said and do that thing he always does.

"Oh no you don't." Edward said, crushing my hopes. "YOU are going to go sit down over there, please while I cook."

I sighed but did as he asked. "Ok, fine. What are you cooking then?" I asked as I went to go sit over by the counter.

"Anything you want." Edward said smiling at me. "I can make you breakfast or lunch stuff, or even both?"

"Yum, … Surprise me!" I said eagerly.

He chuckled and went straight to work. "I'll do my best."

Edward was a wonderful cook so I knew whatever he brought me would be amazing. He rarely ever let me get away with doing anything for myself. I can't imagine what if would have been like if I had been dating him this whole time. … I shutter to think about all the things he probably would have done. I'd probably never get to do anything, ever for myself. But here's a question, Are we dating now? We never really said that last night, we found out that we were in love but we didn't talk about what that meant. I guess we could still talk about that now but I don't want to be the one to bring that kind of topic up. I guess it doesn't matter as long as I know he loves me and that I love him. … Edward seemed so happy this morning, he was nothing but smiles as he cooked and when he came back to sit and eat across from me, he took my hand and I smiled back at him. He was so adorable when he smiled.

"That was so great Edward!" I told him honestly.

"I'm glad you liked it Bella." Edward said with a smile. "Bella, … I wanted to ask you a ques…" He was starting to say but the ringing of his cell phone had cut him off. "Hello, … Alice, where have you…? I see. You should have called me sooner Alice. …. Well, you still should have called. … Ok, see you soon."

"What was that all about?" I asked once he hung up the phone, he didn't look very happy anymore and I was worried.

"We have to meet Alice and the others at the hospital." Edward said grimly. "Jacob and Tanya had both gotten into two different fights after we had left."

"WHAT?" I asked surprised, why didn't anyone call before?

"They seem to be alright. Alice said that the other's got most of the damages but we should still head over there to find out what really happened. I'm sorry but it seems like things will have to wait." Edward said and his eye brows creased.

"You can still ask me your question on the way to the hospital." I said trying to save somewhat of his happiness.

"It will probably be best to wait and find out what happened." Edward said but he grinned down at me when he stood and took my hand to lead me to the car.

We both were rather quiet in the car ride up to the hospital. It wasn't an uncomfortable silence but it wasn't much fun either. Edward had something he wanted to ask me but for some reason he wanted to wait to see how the others were before he asked. I was starting to worry what he could want to ask and why it had to wait but I was trying my hardest to be patient. It was just a little hard.

"Ok, so what happened Alice." Edward asked as soon as we found Alice and the others, even Emmett and Rose were here.

"Well after you left, Tanya and Jacob were having a good time and all but then Jacob over heard Mike say something about Bella. Jacob was not very happy about whatever Mike said and he stormed over and started telling him off." Alice started explaining.

"YEAH, It was so cool!" Emmet blurted out.

"Emm, Shut up." Alice said. "Anyway, so then Mike said some stuff back and I turned just in time to see Mike PUSH Jacob. Well, Jacob pushed back and Mike flew back like, really hard. He got back up and tried rushing Jacob but he wasn't strong enough and so the other boys, Eric and Tyler came over to help Mike." Alice was telling us, I was cringing the whole time. "Jacob was doing really well considering there was three to one. Tanya was stunned to see what all had just happened but then Jessica said something about Bella … called her a bitch really. Tanya said that she shouldn't say stuff like that but then Jessica said 'well why not, she's a slut and she ran off with your date last night.' Tanya was not happy after that and she shoved Jessica into some guy. Needless to say, they got into another fight." Alice continued and she seemed to still be feeling the excitement from the fights.

"Alice, that's so crazy. Why didn't anyone call us?" I asked still trying to imagine these big fights at that kind of dance.

"You should have at least called when you got them all to the hospital." Edward said, agreeing with me.

"Well, I would have but you two just needed a night to yourselves and I didn't want to ruin that." Alice explained.

"Alice, these are our friends and the needed us." I said sharply, she should have known better; Alice should have known to call us.

"Now we have to go in there and talk to them." Edward said and his tone took on a sullen note. "I have to talk to Tanya."

"And I should go in to talk to Jacob." I said softly, after all it was my fault that everyone was fighting in the first place.

"Its not your fault Bella. Stop that." Alice and Edward both said together, while looking at me.

"How do the two of you DO THAT?" I asked confused.

"We can read you, that's all." They both said.

"Well, its creepy. SO stop it ok." I said stubbornly,

"Ok, well let just ok." Edward said. "Can we go see them?"

"Dad said its ok for then to have visitors but only one person at a time ok." Alice said as she ran off to go find Jasper, she told us the room numbers and then she was gone.

Jacob was on one end of the long hall way and Tanya was on the other side. Somewhere in the middle were the rest of them, Mike, Eric, Tyler and Jessica. Edward and I really didn't want to see any of them but if we came across them along the way, we'd both go in and check on them. It wouldn't be fun but we'd still do so. However, we did want to find Jacob and Tanya but since they were so far apart and they could only have one visitor at a time, Edward and I separated and started walking to find our friend. It was a little harder than it should have been to see Edward walking away from me like this, it reminded me of that nightmare I had once. I didn't like it but for some reason, I couldn't look away until I couldn't see him anymore. The halls were crowded, full of nurses and doctors and other random people. Once Edward was out of site I started looking for Jacob's room. Luckily, I didn't see any of the others along the way and I found Jake easily enough. Alice had been right, he didn't look all that beaten up and I was happy to see that.

"BELLS!" Jake said as soon as I walked in.

"Hi, Jake. Are you alright?" I asked softly as I walked closer to the hospital bed he was laying in, I hate hospitals. "Why did you get into a fight like that, it wasn't very smart?"

"Ahh, Come on. I'm not even hurt." Jake said with a chuckle. "Besides, that Mike guys deserved what he got, they all did."

"Yeah, maybe … but you still shouldn't have fought with him." I said stubbornly and Jake just smiled brightly at me.

"You don't like hospitals, do you Bells?" Jacob asked.

"Nope, not really." I said simply. "How could you tell?"

He chuckled again. "Its ok. I guess I'm just used to being here. Dirk bikes and cliff diving … you get to know your doc a lot when you're a young teenaged boy." Jake said with a laugh.

"Yeah, I guess you would." I said and I couldn't help but to laugh with him, Jake was good at that. "Hey, Jake. What happened?"

"I over heard that blond idiot talking about you." Jacob said simply but his eyes narrowed when he was talking about Mike. "He said some stuff that I didn't agree with and I told him so. Mike then decided to argue with me and one thing lead to another. Before I knew it, Mike was on the ground that these other two guys were coming to help the little punk. I took them all on and they still couldn't defeat me." Jake sounded very pleased with himself.

"You should have been fighting with anyone, and especially not over something like me." I told him simply.

"Well, I wasn't going to just let him get away with talking about you like that. He didn't know anything about you." Jacob said stubbornly. "Besides, that little stalker needed a good reality check and I'm pretty sure they all got one."

"This isn't a joke, Jake." I said strongly. "You could have gotten really hurt and all because of me. That's not something I like very much so be serious, please. I mean, you barely even know me!"

"Yeah, but you're still my friend Bells." Jacob said simply as if that was good enough to explain himself. "I still care about you and it feels like we've been friends forever, doesn't it?"

"Yes, but that's not my point." I told him. "You could have been really hurt and it would be all my fault."

"No it wouldn't. You weren't even there, Bella." Jacob said.

"Yes it would be." I argued. "You were fighting because Mike said something that you didn't like, about me. There for, you were fighting because of me; my fault."

"Sure, sure Bells." Jake said simply with a small smile. "What ever you say. But I still don't see the big deal. I mean, I'm not even hurt. Not a scratch, the only reason I'm still here is because Alice threatened my car if I didn't come here."

"Well, I'm glad she did then. How do you know you're not hurt? You couldn't have fought three guys and not have gotten hit at least a couple times." I told him back. "Jake you really need to be more careful and I don't care if he was talking about me or not, you shouldn't have fought any of them."

"Ok, I'm sorry I worried you then." Jake said and it sounded sincere. "SO, how did things go with Edward? Did you all have a night time wherever it was that you ran off to?"

"Yeah, I had to hunt him down after you scared and pissed him off." I told him with a slight glare, he just smiled. "I told him that I was in love with him and then he took me out the park. It was a place we all went to hang out at, we stayed and talked for hours."

"Sounds like you had a great night." Jake said with a smile. "I'm glad to hear that things worked out with him."

"Thanks Jake." I said and it seemed to me, like something in the air had changed; it was thicker somehow and I didn't know why.

Shortly after I noticed the change in the air, a nurse walked in to check on Jake. She said hello to me and got straight to work, asking him questions and checking things around the bed. I didn't want to pay too much attention because there were bound to be things that I didn't want to see. I mostly stood around looking out at the sky, it was a cloudy day but the sun was kind of shining. As the nurse was finishing I heard Jacob chuckle and turned to see him watching me. He thought it was funny, how much I hated these hospitals but I didn't. I hate them and I'm a klutz to I was here a lot. At least this hospital had Dr Cullen, he was the best and I'd always felt safer with him on call. That however, does not mean I like the hospital or needles any more than when he's not but he defiantly helps make things better. I left Jake to rest, shortly after the nurse was finished with her rounds in the room and he finished laughing at me for not liking this horrible place. I went back out into the hall way and found that no one else was out there, no one I knew anyway. It was bringing back that heavy feeling the air had from before and I certainly didn't enjoy it very much. I was starting to wonder where everyone else was, I knew Edward was with Tanya and Alice ran off to find Jasper somewhere else. So that just left, Carlisle, who was most likely working, Esme was mostly volunteering somewhere in the hospital and so where was Emmett and Rose. Alice had said that they were here somewhere or did they leave some time before Edward and I got back here. I guess it really doesn't matter, since they aren't here right now. I found a chair along the wall and sat down to wait until someone came.