Tough day for me today. So it's not gonna be all 'happy-writing' today. Last week, we found out that my grand mother has got to have bypass surgery (I don't really know if that's how you say it in English..but it's a thing with her nerves and her heart) and today my grandfather went to the doctor who told him that something's seriously wrong with his heart and he's got to have heart surgery as well, but a little more dangerous than my grandmother.So…here I am with my story called "Hearts Stop Beating"….okay. I really shouldn't be whining like this over here. I'm just going to write now, and hope you like it. Thank you guys for reading, and for the lovely reviews. Hug.

Chapter 9 – The gun it makes you look nicer in a bad way

Though the tears almost really blinded me now I still had not crashed my car and myself to a tree. The road to our house seemed longer by the minute. I was cold, although I never was. I was dizzy and nauseous. But most of all I was heartbroken and terrified. I was freaking out, clearly. I was breathing fast, way too fast and I could feel that I didn't get enough air. The space around my heart was itchy, as if there were little feathers all around it. It was a painful itch. It was like there was air pushing against my heart, trying to crush it. It made me breath even faster and I started to hyperventilate and cry at the same time. I heard someone, or something I my head. But I tried to ignore it, until I noticed it was Edward. I looked around as if he was talking to me and was right here. It was a ridiculous reaction.

Calm down Jules, I'm right here you know that. I'll never leave you. Calm down, just take the wheel and breath Jules.

When his voice triggered the tears and breathing ever more I started to panic about me sitting in a car, driving all by myself. That's when I saw him. My guardian angel, he always had been. Since the day we were born. The silver Volvo was driving way faster than me and I could hear him hit the breaks. I stopped met car on the other side of the road, unable to move after it. When I saw him, Carlisle and Jasper get out of the car I opened my door and tried to walk. I didn't know how I did it but crying as hard as I would ever have done in my life I stumbled towards my brothers and father. Too scared to look around. Edward and Carlisle caught me when I almost fell and Jasper was clearly trying to calm me down. It didn't work as much as he wanted but I was starting to breath more calmly and the tears came by themselves, without the gasping for air and the sobbing.

"Sweetheart are you alright?" I heard Carlisle's voice, he'd been dying to ask me this question for the past five minutes now but he wanted me to calm down first.

"Cal-eb" I stuttered still trying to control myself.
"We know.." Edward said while stroking my hair, I was on my knees on the side of the road in front of half my family, crying. Although I was surrounded by three strong vampires, my family, I was still scared.

"Alice just saw what happened.." Jasper explained.

"And I could feel how upset you got.." Edward told me. I thanked whatever god listened for my special twin-bond with Edward. He understood how I felt. And he also understood that I didn't want him to go to Caleb's house right now.

"Emmett wanted to come..to teach the kid a lesson.." Jasper started, my eyes turned big but he continued "But we told Rosalie to keep him home." There was a little smile on his face. I could imagine how disappointed Emmett was, and how Rosalie ordered him to stay, and it would be funny if I didn't feel as broken as I did. I started to cry again and Carlisle lifted me up by my arms and pulled me into an embrace. It calmed me down more than Jasper's attempt. I allowed myself to cry a little more.

"Daddy.." I cried. It was now I felt how much I loved my family and how much I needed them.

"It's going to be alright." He whispered. He was thinking about Esme, who was upset and worried about me. And that he should take me home as soon as possible. Esme had always seen me as her youngest daughter, although you could barely say so. I was the needy one, the weak one, the one who needed her most. Edward was strong, and so where the others.

"Edward.." Carlisle said calm and he turned to Edward, leaving me to Jasper for the moment. Carlisle asked Edward to take me home, so that he and Jasper could have a word with Caleb.

"No!" I cried out. I looked at Jasper in panic and he tried to calm me down again, I forgot how I felt but I knew what I was thinking.

"No please don't." I asked. "They'll kill you!" Carlisle looked at me, his eyes soft and caring.

"Okay. Let's get you home." He said slowly. Jasper walked me to the car and after I got in he squeezed my hand once and walked up to my car to drive it home. Edward was driving the Volvo, I could see his hands grab the wheel a little too hard, his knuckled turned white. I could hear him think.

Damn the boy for hurting you Juliette. I'll kill them before they get a chance to come near you, or anyone of our family for that matter.

I closed my eyes, trying to keep the tears from falling, this time permanently. After which I stared out of the window.

Don't Edward. Please don't.

When we got home I slowly walked by Carlisle's side. He opened the door for me and I walked in our living room. Esme, Alice, Emmett and Rosalie sat on the couch waiting for me. Esme's face was worried, Alice's even worse, Emmett looked angry and Rosalie empathetic. She knew what it was like to be hurt by the one you're supposedly loved.

I didn't say anything, because I couldn't. Edward explained the situation, and that I needed to be alone according to my thoughts. I walked to the other side of the room, where the glass wall was and sat down on a little off-white sofa to stare out of the window.

It took eight hours for me to move again. And this only was because Edward asked me to look at him. I looked at him, he went over for a quick visit at Bella's but was back before I knew it. There was no time for me anymore, not now. His face woke me up out of my numb dream. I started to panic again as Edward called for Jasper but I shook my head, I didn't need Jasper's help. I crawled towards Edward and searched for protection of my brother.

"I'm hear." He whispered.

"I'm so sorry." I whispered back.

"Don't be sorry. It's not your fault." He paused and I knew he knew why I apologized. "Don't be ridiculous Juliette." He said a bit angry but in a good way "If anyone put us in danger it would be Caleb himself, not you. You didn't know, it's okay. I didn't know either. I should've..but his thoughts…it's like he experienced it before..you know, people trying to read his mind. He was thinking about other things, it didn't even appear for a second that.." he stopped talking. "He will never hurt you Jules. Carlisle and I think you shouldn't be alone for a while…so there will always be someone near, so you won't get scared, is that okay with you?" he asked cautiously. I nodded, digging my fingers in his arm as I tried to fight the tears.

"I got you something.." he said and he pushed me away from him to reach out for a little package rapped in gold paper with black ribbon.

"That has to be the first time I wrapped something up myself. But I think I did quite a good job." I could smile a little as I took the gift. I opened it slowly. It was a CD of a young artist, a girl of about twenty. I recognized the picture immediately. But I didn't know Edward knew I wanted this CD.

"I heard you play one of her songs on the piano, and sing to it. So I assumed you'd like it. I wanted to hide it between your CD's as a surprise, but I think now's a better time."

"Thank you so much Ed."

"You're welcome. Now try and calm down a little, Alice's trying to keep an eye on that Caleb" I didn't like the way he said That Caleb because somewhere I was still wondering if some of it could have been true, if Caleb wasn't lying after all, at least not entirely. "So you'll be safe. If there's anything you need.."

"I know." I said.

"And I know you hope he wasn't lying, about the fact that he loves you…but Jules..please be careful." He said and then he walked away.