Lies, Secrets and blood.
"Did anybody get hit!?"
"Bella Swan and Edward Cullen were over there!"
"Somebody help Tyler!"
"Somebody call 911! " The human's, panicking voices surrounded us.
"Is Tyler okay?" I asked Edward. "Can you hear him?"
"Bella, breath." He told me, his breath blowing on my face. "He's fine, he'll be fine, the only thing you need to worry about is horrible lying skills." He smiled, half joking, half serious and I stuck out my tongue at him.
The van moved an inch on two. I could hear a siren in the distance followed by commands from the paramedics and police.
"I lie all the time." I reminded him. I lied to you a few seconds ago when I told you I hate you."
"Bella, no one ever believes you when you lie." He pointed out.
"I could lie if I really wanted to."
The van moved another inch or two.
"You need to have some faith in me." I said trying to fake annoyance but the amusement in my voice betrayed me.
"I have complete and total faith in you." He disagreed.
"Then prove it." I requested.
"And how would I do that Love?"
Love. He started calling me Love after our trip to the meadow last week. It was a very simple nickname, very straightforward, but that was one of the reasons I loved it so much. Love, as inpassionate feelings of affection. Love, the way I felt about him. Love, something worth dying for. Love, the reason we exist. A simple name with a complicated definition that you needed to experience to understand.
"Bella," Edward called, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Huh, Oh sorry, I zoned out." I explained.
The van moved at least a foot this time, enough for the humans to reach the two of us.
Everyone was panicking, no one owns standing still. The paramedics were trying to get to Tyler. Rose and Alice appeared to be freaking out. Their acting skills were phenomenal. I couldn't see Jasper and Emmett anywhere I could've sworn I saw them with the girls a few minutes ago, and I heard Emmett laughing too. It just didn't make any sense. Maybe they left and I just imagined the laughter. The only people I could see were the police, teachers, paramedics, and students.
They were pointing, talking on their phones, others that just arrived were asking their friends what they missed.
It was loud, lit rather loud. My ears hurt. A lot.
Two of the parametrics rushed forward to 'pull us out'.
Edward helped me climb over him and I couldn't help but feel self-conscious of the fact that my tank top under my unzipped sweatshirt slipping lower on my chest as I climbed over his face. I knew he was a perfect gentleman, but still. This was one of those many times I was grateful vampires can't blush. Attend one of the rare times I was thankful Edward couldn't hear my thoughts.
Once I was out a parametric pulled me over to an ambulance and immediately began asking me questions. 'What happened?' 'Did I hit my head?' 'Did I get hurt.'
I told him I twisted my uncle when Edward pulled me down and that it hurt a little bit, but I was used to lot, I trip a lot. Knowing that it was half true made it easier for me to lie.
They had Edward out and brought him into the ambulance with me and began asking him the same questions. The whole time he answered them I watched the other paramedics load Tyler into the other ambulance.
He was cut up rather bad. He was covered in Blood. He was almost impossible to recognize. His face, his knee, and the front of his shirt were drenched in dark red. He smelled incredible, but not enough to bother me.
I laid my head on Edward's shoulder, trying to look a bit peaky, like I almost got hit by a car. He wrapped his around my waist and pulled me against his chest, stroking my arm and brushing my hair out of my face, as if comforting me.
I tried to block out all the surrounding noise and listen to his breathing, it always had a calming effect on me, but he wasn't breathing.
His chest was rising and falling, but he wasn't inhaling any ar into his lungs.
'Edward?' He smiled at me to show he was answering, but continued to answer the paramedic's questions.
'Are you okay, I mean the blood, is it bearable?' He nodded his head,
'Yes.' The motion would've been unnoticeable to a human.
'What about Rose and Alice, how are they?' I waited for an answer for a minute, before I was smart enough to think 'Oh right you can't answer that. Um…Can Rose and Alice bare it?'
At the same time the paramedic askedEdward if his wrist hurt.
"Kind of," He answered, squeezing my arm to show he was answering my questions, and faking minor injury simultaneously.
"You two aren't beat up that bad, but you should probely get an ×-ray on your ankle," He told me, his eyes never left my face as he spoke, and Edward's arm tightened around me again. "And you Mr. Cullen should get your arm checked out. You guys are extremely lucky, that van should've crushed the two of you." "Yeah, lucky that Edward pulled us out Of the way." My tone was slightly mocking, only Edward would notice. He shrugged.
"It was just instinct," He insisted, and it was true. It was instinct to keep, the fact that we aren't human a secret.
The paramedic closed the door behind us.
"You know talking to you with humans in the room would be so much easier if Icould read your mind." I mumbled as the ambulance pulled out of the school parking lot.
"Maybe you can." He pointed out. I rolled my eyes.
"When I told you to have Faith in me I didn't mean you had to tell me I could do the impossible." I elaborated.
"I was being serious." He clarified.
"You were?"
"Yes, I was, think about it, if you can move your shield so that your thoughts are in our minds maybe you can do the opposite."
"Huh, I never thought about it that way. I guess, it makes sense, but it seems... I don't know, unfair?"
"Unfair?"
"Well, yeah, I mean wouldn't it make be unfair if I had three abilities? I have my layer that blocks my thoughts and lets me protect others, the one that lets me share them, reading minds would put me at three, doesn't that seem like to much, too many?" I insisted.
"No, not really." He disagreed and I raised my eyebrows skeptically. "Bella, hear me out," I sighed and he looked at me from underneath his incredibly long eyelashes, and his eyes Were like pools of liquid gold. I could feel my willpower fading.
"You are such a cheater." I crossed my arms over my chest. "Go ahead, I'm listening."
"Well, I think your abilities are all are because of your shield, which is one thing, so technicaly, you only have one ability." He concluded. "You know, If the humans could hear us they'd send us to the local asylum." I whispered.
"That's already happened to Alice and Emmett." He informed me. "Oh my gosh, are you serious?"
"Yes, I am." He promised grinning.
"Tell me what happened, please?"
"I will, later."
"Why not now?"
"Didn't you have a question for me?" He reminded me.
"What are you-oh yeah," I remembered. "Where are Emmett and Jasper?" I asked with curiosity and fear.
What if he doesn't know where they are? It's probably nothing. Then why am I nervous? Oh god, I'm arguing with myself. I have official lost-it.
`"Bella, they're fine." He tried to sooth me.
"Where are they?" I repeated.
"Well, by now they're at least halfway to Canada." He replied deep in thought.
"Canada!?" I screamed, before realizing there were humans four feet away "Canada?! "I whispered. "Why the Hell are they going to Canada?"
"Bella, breath. I took a breath and let it out in a fith of a second and tried to wait patiently for his answer, tried being the key word.
"Well?"
"Alice had a vision of the crash about a second before it happened. She didn't have more than five seconds to warn us, but she had enough time to warn Jasper." He explained.
"I'm confused. What does Jasper have to do with this?" I asked.
"Jasper is the most sensitive to human blood. Alice had vision of everybody two seconds after the crash and Emmett had Jasper pinned to the ground one second, the next, well..." He trailed off. "Anyway she told him to run and Emmett went with him."
"Because of Tyler's blood?" I asked "Is he okay?"
"He's fine, hey just give them a few hours and they'll be home." "Okay."
"Bella, Alice is right, you worry too much."
"I worry because I care and-oh we're here."
"Bella, it's fine, we've had to fake injury before." He assured me, sensing my fear.
"What happened?"
"I'll tell you late I promise."
"I won't forget." I told him.
"I have faith if that.
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"Bella, try to remember you're not confessing to a murder." Edward reminded me. "What do you have to worry about? Carlisle will come in fake a medical report a then we can go home. Easy as loosing an arm wrestling match to Emmett."
I giggled and kissed his cheek.
"What was that for?" He asked.
"Because you made me stop freaking out, made me laugh, and I love you." I explained.
"I love you too." He pressed his lips to mine and the thought in my head went out the window. All that mattered was him, and how amazing his tongue felt in my mouth.
I slipped my arms, around his neck and tangled my fingers in his,
"Ehem." We pulled away so fast I almost fell on the floor. The speaker didn't look up from the clipboard in his hands as he spoke. When he spoke the tone of his voice was serious, but the smile on his face told me he wasn't mad.
"This is a hospital, not an empty meadow, one of your cars, or a bedroom with a locked door."
'Where have we locked it?' I pushed the thought into Edward's mind and he chuckled.
"If you two could refrain from public affection until you two are at one of those locations, or even just off the hospital property I would greatly appreciate it."
"Yes Uncle Carlisle" I replied sounding like a human child caught with their hand in the cookie jar before dinner.
He came over and sat on the hospital bed width us.
"Alice told me everything, what injuries do you lot-feel like faking for the next few days"
"I faked a twisted ankle," I told him. "and Edward faked a sprained wrist, I think." Edward nodded his head silently, conforming my theory. "Okay then, Bella you should wear a brace on your ankle in front of the humans for a few days, Edward same thing for you....And Bella?" "Yeah, Uncle C? "I asked
"Try to stumble a bit okay?" He told
"Yeah." I mumbled.
"More then normal." I glared at him, but he smiled at me and Edward chuckled beside us.