Hahahhah I'm so mean. I wrote 'world's shortest chapter' and left a cliffhanger. Sop, yesterday I went to Warped Tour, the one in Pomona. It was amazing. I have a sore throat and I almost passed out. No joke. I couldn't breathe, I got lightheaded, and stuff. Don't ever suffer from heat exhaustion, its insanely scary. You don't want to go through that. But overall, it was fun. I hung out at the MySpace tent a lot. And I got a really good picture of one of the hottest front men ever (John O'Callaghan) grinding his butt. Sexy. Alright, I'm going to stop before I drool and digress. OHH I got the coolest sunglasses too, they're closed shutter shades. Like their shutter shades, but they have lens's behind them. And it's yellow! And a free fan cause I picked up trash at the MySpace tent.
So, this chapter is in Edward POV. For those who thought Bella was going to be changed, NO! I imagined her changing to be…romantic. I mean, this is a big sacrifice, and, I was thinking candles and roses and etc. LOL. I'm a sucker for major fluff. So, now you kind of know what's coming up, but things are subject to change! So, to make up for writing you all such a short chapter, I'll write for most of today. The other times, I'll be on Neopets playing the ACIII because I want 150 points.
Edward Cullen (is sexy!) POV. Italics are what's being said in people's head.
I quietly paced in the waiting room outside of the recovery room. I thought about what had happened today. How Bella was angry as she stormed out of the hospital. How my family told me to let her vent since she was angry and then go apologize. I waited a good fifteen minutes, counting down to the very last second and almost ran out when I saw no Bella. I called her name, and I ran back in and got everyone else. Alice thought Bella was just going to wait outside for me, and she probably didn't because she saw that I wasn't behind her. Now she's in emergency surgery. I sat in a chair, and pushed my face into my hands. I would be sobbing if I could. I bit my lip and pinched my temples. Esme and Alice's hands reached out and rubbed my back.
"She's going to be okay Edward. I just saw it." Alice comforted. I saw it too, but it was still my fault. If I had fought for her when Lilly called her father about the STD, if only I had followed her outside, she wouldn't be almost dead, if only.
Did I deserve to be with her? I've cost her life far too many times. Does she think it was worth it, that danger comes from everywhere because of me. Is this love? It was so difficult to find her, Alice's vision were dark, and filled with the same people. Bella couldn't decide which street to take and by the time we got it right, she'd changed streets again. I couldn't hold myself when we had found her. Covered in blood, clothes ripped, and men hovering over her. I would've slaughtered them all, one by one, with the most painful deaths. I looked around the waiting room. Alice and Esme at my sides, Rosalie and Emmett talking to police officers the hospital had called when Bella came in. Carlisle, inside, saving her. It was times like these I wish I could not be seventeen and in there saving her myself. It had been an hour and a half since I entered the hospital with Bella bleeding over me. Esme and Alice left briefly to bring us all a change of clothes.
Rosalie and Emmett walked towards me, and pointed at the officer who beckoned his hand to me. I walked to him glumly, and prepared myself to be interrogated. Emmett walked passed me, this guy is a total jack off.
"Alright, Mr. Cullen. I am Officer Smith. You are the husband, I assume?" All these kids, so young looking and getting married already. Rosalie and Emmett Cullen, Alice and Jasper Cullen, who raises their children to get married out of high school? I heard in his head. "So, you found your wife. Do you remember people there? Did you catch any names, or see anything distinct?"
"There was a guy name Joe." I recalled, with my advance hearing, I heard people chanting Joe, and seeing the slimy skunk bag hovering over my angel, seeing his knife stabbing into her.
"I see." Officer Smith nodded. He continued to ask me what had happened what had happened before, when we were looking for her, and how we found her. I repeated the whole story to perfection as Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper, had told it. Same exact story, all of them. It's like they can hear each other or read minds. Crazy family. Incredibly good looking too, all of them. Especially that Rosalie girl, mm, I would play police officer with her any day. She could be a model.
It was already midnight when I finished talking. Officer Smith called Esme over. I heard him, Pretty lady. Is she married? He glanced at her left hand damn. She is. Whoever has her got himself a nice one. I sat back down and buried my face into my hands. My poor beloved Bella. She was in here because of me. Me. Half an hour had passed after my talk with Officer Smith. Carlisle came into a room, "Edward, she's in recovery. But you're going to have to wait till she wakes up to go see her." I racked through my mind remembering medical school and how long it took for a person to wake up from anesthesia. It had to be another half hour till she did. I looked at the clock, 12:33AM. He walked past me, "She's going to be fine. Don't worry. Everything went perfect. We stopped the bleeding before she clotted or her body shut down. We had blood transfers most of the time. She's going to make it." I relaxed a little after the last sentence, but automatically pinched my temples harder.
"Edward, are you okay?" Rosalie asked. I didn't answer, she continued. "She's going to be fine. Emmett didn't stop asking the nurse for the minute by minute on the surgery." It was an attempt to cheer me up.
"Yeah, bro, we don't want to lose her as much as you do. She's family, and we know how much she means to you." Emmett piped in.
The minutes passed by. Not even Jasper could help. I could feel his waves of calmness being sent to me, but it didn't work.
This was my fault. Now even my family was worried. How much grief could I cause for one day? Bella is broken because of me; my family was distressed over what had happened, what I had caused. My fault. I was hurting the ones close to me, even more, I was hurting Bella. I thought about what to do. I promised I would stay with her until she didn't want to. Was it best to leave? No. I remember her stories, how she had felt when I had left her, torn apart, a zombie, she described.
I got up and paced the room. It was still twenty minutes till she would wake up. Rosalie was watching Emmett play a game on his cell phone, Alice and Jasper were deep in a conversation and Esme was helping Carlisle with Bella's medical documents. I sighed, Edward I heard Alice and stared at the painting above her to show I had heard her, Stop worrying. You're going to make Jasper provoke the Volturi himself if you make him suffer through this. You're not the only one who's distressed by this. Its bad enough we're in a hospital, other people are in agony too. And don't you dare even think about leaving. You know how heartbroken she was, this time might just push her off the edge.
"Edward?" I heard Esme speak. She was holding a large stuffed duck, with a bow. "I know it's customary for humans to give others in the hospital a stuffed animal or balloons or flowers as a 'get well' present. So I got this. You can give it to her. Carlisle estimating soon, and according to Alice, he's right. About another minute."
I took the duck, whispered a quiet 'thank you' and Carlisle approached me. Son, I know you think this is your fault. It's not. This could happen to anyone wandering in the bad side of any city. I've seen many cases similar to Bella's some worse than hers. I know how you are; just listen to her before you blame all this on yourself. It's all our faults, not just yours. You can go see her now.
I pushed the massive swinging doors, no one following me. I walked to the nurses' station, in front of the waiting room.
"Name, who are you hear to see?"
"Edward Cullen. I'm here to see my wife." She glanced up. Wife?! Isn't he a little young to be married. Well, he is married… "Just sign in and you can go in."
I walked in, and found her immediately. Her curtain half opened, I walked in and closed it. I touched her hand gently, wrinkling my nose from the transferred blood. She had tubes stuck in her nose, and an IV poking into the back of her hand. She stirred a little, and managed a small "Ow."
"Bella?" I whispered gently.
"Edward?" She moaned quietly. "Ow."
She opened her brown eyes and looked at me.
"Edward?" She asked again.
"I'm here Bella. I am so sorry. Do you still love me, after what had happened today?"
She was quiet, I stopped breathing, waiting for her answer.
"Edward." Bella murmured, "I had the most amazing dream." And smiled.
"Really?"
"Yes." And opened her eyes a little more. She stared at me with her wide eyes, "You were in it. It was amazing."
I smiled, she wasn't angry at me. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"Esme got you a stuffed duck. Would you like to name it?"
"Yeah. His name is Herbert." She stroked his head gently.
"I'm sorry for what happened, it was all my fault. I understand completely if you want to leave me, I won't stop you, but I will never stop loving you."
She struggled to prop herself upright. "Bella, you shouldn't do that. You're going to hurt yourself again."
"Edward, in case you haven't noticed, I'm in a hospital, if I hurt myself, I'm sure they'll fix me up again."
"Alright." I gave in. "But you're not angry right?"
"No. Just only about stupid Lilly. It could happen to anyone."
"But it's more likely to happen to you." I smiled, her heart and the machine beat rapidly.
"Very funny."
"How do you feel?"
"A little pain. But, I'm going to guess it's going to hurt even more later. And a little sleepy. The anathesia hasn't really worn off."
"You should sleep."
"But I want to tell you about my dream. It was amazing. I never thought people could dream when they're under the knife."
"Alright, tell me."
"Okay, but where's everyone else?"
"They're in the waiting room. They only let spouses or guardians in this late at night. And since we are married," I said fiddling with my mother ring she was wearing. "I am allowed." I moved the ring around her finger, "I never told you how happy my mother would be if she saw you wearing her ring. She would've loved you. Almost as much as I do."
She smiled, "I think I wouldv'e loved her too."
"I know." I beamed, "Now tell me about this dream."
"It was a beautiful dream. We were in our meadow. And it was spring time, and for some reason Alice was having allergies when we left her. From all the pollen and whatnot. Emmett had a weird obsession with apples that grew on trees. He wouldn't dare touch it if it wasn't on a tree. Rosalie was riding flying jackets. They were gray zip up hoodies, and they flew in the sky. And Jasper loved to burn things. Emmett got into a fight with him when he burned Emmett's apple tree."
"So, where's the beauty in it?" I asked. She yawned widely.
"We were in our meadow. And despite all the pandemonium around us, I only saw you. It was like how it always is everyday. How we're in our own bubble, despite the chaos we're surrounded by. It made me realize that, I only care for you. I only love you." She quietly said, fading into sleep.
"I love you, Bella Cullen."
"Mm, me too." And she locked her fingers into mine, holding Herbert the giant duck in her other arm. I hummed her lullaby, and she held on tighter, with a smile.
Without notice, "Can I have a kiss?"
I chuckled quietly, and touched her lips with mine.
"Good night my love." And I continued her lullaby.
Still, I imagined Bella's changing to be extravagant and amazingly romantic. Not some spur of the moment thing. I want her to live and be fully conscious for it! I hit six pages for this chapter. I hope this made you all happy especially with that tiny chapter that probably didn't qualify as a chapter HAH. But as for the dreams that Bella had, one of them I had before. When I got surgery, I had a dream about flying grey hoodie jackets. It was weird. I decided to incorporate in the story. Also, Herbert the stuffed duck. He's real too. I found him in this condo I moved into. He was in a closet and I was like "Okay, they left it here. He's mine now" and I named him Herbert. He was like my safety, cause it was a hard time when I moved. Lots of family drama whoo.
So his was in Edward's POV. What do you think should happen next?