Chapter Fourteen

Irreplaceable

DPOV

I wonder if Bella actually listened to me and went home. Nah I doubt it. I wasn't surprised when I saw the car parked where I had parked this morning. I wonder where she was if she did stay or maybe she's running a little late because of her leg. No, she didn't even have to attend the last hour class because she had gym.

Where the hell could she be? Maybe she is in the bathroom still puking her guts out. I really don't want to see that sight. I shivered at the thought of that but then what if she's dehydrated by now because she couldn't stop. Oh great now I'm going to have to check every bathroom to find her.

I turned around and almost crashed into Lily who was standing right behind me. I was able to stop myself before crashing onto her.

"Shit, sorry." I tried walking around her but before I could get too far she called my name.

"Derrick?" That was weird I thought she was ignoring me.

"Yes." I didn't turn around right away but I knew that I couldn't talk to her without looking at her that would be impolite. Why did my grandma have to teach me good manners? I shook my head from my thoughts and turned to her.

"My brother took your sister home because of a Biology accident." I couldn't help but smile. I knew she wouldn't listen. I looked at her for the first time in so long and wondered how I had been able to ignore her. Her beauty still surprised me. Stop it Derrick you idiot, don't think like that.

"Your sister gave him these." She said as she stretched her hand out and showed me the keys to the Audi. "He couldn't give them to you because he had to see something about an assignment for the last class he missed." I made myself look away and then I turned to the keys which were in her hand. I took them away from her hand making sure that we had no contact so that it wouldn't be harder to ignore her later.

"Thanks." After I had the keys in my hand I started heading to the Audi but her voice stopped me.

"I'm sorry." I turned around confused. We looked at each other for a minute before she turned around and started walking. I shook my head before I started to think something that I didn't want to.

EPOV

When it was around midnight I got out of the house but not before being stopped by Alice. She glared at me and I looked at her tiredly.

"Yes, Alice?"

'Why are you doing this to me?' She asked while pouting.

"Alice, please, not right now." She knew that I really wanted to see Bella again and that I wasn't in the mood to talk right now about their friendship.

'But Edward, I already miss my best friend.'

"You miss, Alice you don't know anything about her." You don't even know if she's going to accept any of us right away, why are you doing this?

'I know that one day I'm going to love her Edward, and I really want to get started on our friendship. Besides, if you let me talk to her I'll help you out so that your relationship develops faster.' She grinned at me when my expression changed. But then I became serious I didn't even know if she was going to run away from me when she found the truth out and if that didn't I knew that telling her how I felt about her would.

"No." I said and made my way around her to get out of the house.

'You will let me talk to her and if you don't I'll do it with our without your permission.' I growled but then pretended I didn't listen to her. There was no way that she would actually go on with her threat and if she tried I would stop her.

When I was outside her house I went to the door and opened it. As soon as I was inside I closed the door and ran at full speed to her room without making a sound. Derrick was asleep and the door to his room was open but Bella had her room door closed. I opened it and was thankful that the door didn't make any sounds.

The first thing I noticed was that her scent was strong and that I had to be careful if I didn't want to hurt her. Then I saw that her covers were on the ground and that she was turning and tossing around. I thought that she was probably having a nightmare. I got closer and noticed that she had something around her right leg. She was wearing shorts so I was able to see that her legs were mostly covered in bruises as so were her arms. She had a white bandage around her left upper arm and the look on her face told me that she was in pain and that she was afraid.

I wondered for a minute if she knew I was here, but her breathing told me that she was asleep. I could see goose bumps on her arms so I picked the covers from the ground and covered her.

"Dad…be careful…dad." I was surprised to find out that she talked in her sleep.

When four o'clock came she was finally able to sleep peacefully. I would have loved to know what she had been dreaming but instead of dwelling on that fact I got out of her house before Derrick or herself woke up. I ran home thinking about how I could get her to tell me what she had been dreaming about. When I got to my house and I stepped inside Lily was in the living room.

"Did you enjoy your time?" She turned around in the couch and looked at me. I smiled.

"Of course I did." She only laughed and turned back around to the TV.

'Rosalie's pissed.' I laughed and rolled my eyes.

'Tell me something new.' The vision that she showed me made me freeze on my way up the stairs; Rosalie was planning on destroying my Vanquish. After a moment I shrugged my shoulders. 'It's just a toy; it's replaceable, as long as she doesn't mess with Bella everything's fine.'

'Yes, because Bella is irreplaceable.'

'Exactly,'