Ok, so this chapter might upset some, but I promise, she will NOT be getting back with Edward. Promise. Scratch that, PINKY promise.
Also, I haven't really mentioned Bella going to school before, but she IS in school. And to clarify, I'm changing Jacob's age :) He is a Junior, 17. Bella is a Senior, 18. Sorry for not mentioning that earlier! Thanks for the reviews- looking forward to getting some more!
Chapter 10 – While You Were Sleeping
Everything was a blur. The pain was bewildering, and the shouts were making it worse. And everything was going so fast. One second I was in Sam and Emily's front yard, trying to stop a fight. Then, I was being rushed down the hallway of a hospital, everyone yelling that I needed help and asking questions. I was frankly too tired and in too much pain to care. I just wanted it to stop. I wanted to scream, but it hurt to move my mouth. The pain started at my forehead. It trailed around my left eye, on the very left edge of my nose, and then across and beside my mouth.
And it felt like someone was constantly pouring pounds of salt into my wounds, making them sting and burn like the bonfires at La Push. I was going to die, for the millionth time this week. Damn. I went swimming in my mind, looking for a place to rest. Maybe if I went to sleep, it wouldn't hurt so badly. I was being shifted around, causing the salt sensation to grow. My mind enveloped itself around me, and eventually, the screaming, the noise, the pain, turned into sleep.
When I woke up, there was a crowd of people around me. I was sore around my face when I opened my eyes. There were five chairs scattered about the room, each holding a different person. Jacob was in the one closest to me, his mouth gaping open with a slight drool. I mentally laughed at how ridiculously cute he looked. Edward was on the other side of my hospital bed, but a little farther away than Jacob was. In the corner, a sleeping Sam and Charlie were sitting together, their chairs a few inches apart. Someone had to keep the camp and wolf feud down. Lastly, behind Edward's seat, Alice was sitting with her head bent so I couldn't see her face, just like Edward. I was staring at all of them, wondering what had happened, when I remembered that vampires didn't sleep.
"Alice?" I said quietly, but not quietly enough. Both hers and Edwards heads shot up, looking at me.
"Go back to sleep, Bella. Everyone else is." Edward looked at my face, while I looked at the ceiling. I knew if I looked into his gorgeous eyes, the anger would fade, just like it had at Emily's.
"Alice," I looked at her eyes instead. She had done nothing to me. "What happened? Please explain." My mouth was sore, and every time I opened it to talk, I felt a slight tugging.
I reached up to touch my swollen lips, which I discovered where stitched in three places. I moved my hand over to the side of my face, which was bandaged. Moving my fingers up, I noticed the whole left side of my face was wrapped in thick gauze and binding. I was a freaking mummy. I closed my mouth, not wanting to feel the tugging anymore.
The vampires sensed my hesitation and pain. They looked at each other, and went back to looking at their laps. This was just like Emily. I was going to have less scars than her, but scars at the least. I wondered if Jacob or Edward had done this to me, or both. I looked at Jacob. Whatever he was dreaming about caused his face to tense and bunch up in areas, and I turned back to Edward.
"Can you tell me what he is dreaming about, please?" I pleaded with my eyes, hoping he would tell. He closed his eyes, knitting his brows. Then he spoke very quietly, not wanting to wake anyone.
"He's dreaming about you." Edward briefly breathed in through his nose, making his nostrils flare. "About what it was like when I…left you. How torn apart you were. How he doesn't want you to come back to me, for fear that I might leave you again, making you act like the living dead again." Waves of pain shot over not only my face, but my entire body. The bed shook slightly.
"Oh." I couldn't think of anything to say.
"Bella, I know now wasn't the best time, but I was…worried. If I had known what I put you through, I would have killed myself anyway. Only a truly horrid person could ever do that to someone." I stuck out my hospital gown clad arm and reached for his hand.
"And Isabella, I have waited for you for over a century. I will never, ever leave you again. I will stay with you forever." Forever, I thought, bringing back the memories before the tragic leave. Tears began to silently fall down, while I fell into another deep slumber with Edward's words in my head and his hand in mine.
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